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Now Available from CounterPunch for Only $11.50 (S/H Included) Today's Stories February 14/15, 2004 Stan Goff Beloved Haiti February 13, 2004 Alan Maass Kevin Cooper's Fight to Live Karyn Strickler McCarthyism in the Sierra Club Annie Higgins On a Street in America Adam Federman Democratic Snipers Target Nader Mike Whitney George W. Faces the Nation Brian Cloughley Our Imperial Leader Has Spoken Website of the Day Lying Action Figure Doll   February 12, 2004 Ray McGovern George Tenet's Spin Cycle Robert Jensen Bush's Nuclear Hypocrisy Saul Landau Elegy to the Salton Sea   February 11, 2004 Cockburn / St. Clair Hail, Kerry: Senator Facing-Both-Ways Steve Perry Bush v. Bush?   February 10, 2004 Kurt Nimmo Inquisition in Iowa Ron Jacobs Politics and the Beatles: Don't You Know You Can Count Me Out (In) Elizabeth Schulte The Many Faces of John Kerry Mickey Z Meet the Oxmans: "The Rich Shouldn't Sleep at Night Either"   February 9, 2004 Michael Donnelly Will Skull and Bones Really Change CEOs? Inside John Kerry's Closet Chris Floyd Smells Like Team Spirit: the Bush B-Boys Replay Their Greatest Hits Bill Christison What's Wrong with the CIA? Dr. Susan Block Janet Jackson's Mammary Moment: Boob Tube Super Bowl   February 7/8, 2004 Kathleen Christison Offending Valerie: Dealing with Jewish Self-Absorption Jeff Ballinger No Sweat Shopping Dave Lindorff Spray and Pray in Iraq: a Marine in Transit Alexander Cockburn McNamara: the Sequel February 6, 2004 Ron Jacobs Are the Kurds in the Way? Joanne Mariner Anita Bryant's Legacy Saul Landau Happiness and Botox Kurt Nimmo Horror Non-fiction: A How-To Guide from Perle and Frum Niranjan Ramakrishnan The Real Intelligence Failure: Our Own     February 5, 2004 Benjamin Shepard Turning NYC into a Patriot Act Free Zone Khury Petersen-Smith A Report from Occupied Iraq: "We Don't Want Army USA" Mokhiber / Weissman The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003 Teresa Josette The Exeuctioner's Pslam? Christian Nation? Yeah, Right David Krieger Why Dr. King's Message on Vietnam is Relevant to Iraq Christopher Brauchli Monkey Business: Of Recess and Evolution in Georgia Schools Norman Solomon The Deadly Lies of Reliable Sources Cockburn / St. Clair Presenting President Edwards!     February 4, 2004 Brian McKinlay Bush's Australian Deputy: Howard's Last Round Up? Mark Gaffney Ariel Sharon's Favorite Senator: Ron Wyden and Israel Judith Brown Palestine and the Media Frederick B. Hudson Moseley-Braun and the Butcher: Campaign for Justice or Big Oil's Junta? Kurt Nimmo Bush's Independent Commission: Exonerating the Spooks M. Junaid Alam Philly School Workers Fight for Fair Contract Fran Shor Whose Boob Tube? Kevin Cooper This is Not My Execution and I Will Not Claim It     February 3, 2004 Alan Maass The Dems' New Mantra: What They Really Mean by "Electability" Nick Halfinger How the Other Half Lives: Embedded in Iraq Rahul Mahajan Our True Intelligence Failure Neve Gordon The Only Democracy in the Middle East? Laura Carlsen Mexico: Two Anniversaries; Two Futures Terry Lodge An Open Letter to Michael Powell from the Boobs & Body Parts Fairness Campaign Hammond Guthrie Investigating the Meaningless Website of the Day Waging Peace     February 2, 2004 Gary Leupp The Buddhist Nun in Tom Ridge's Jail Justin E.H. Smith The Manners of Their Deaths: Capital Punishment in a Smoke-Free Environment Tom Wright The Prosecution of Captain Yee Winslow Wheeler Inside the Bush Defense Budget Lee Ballinger Janet Jackson's Naked Truth Leonard Pitts, Jr For Blacks, the Game of Justice is Rigged Jeffrey St. Clair The Hollow Candidate: The Trouble with Howard Dean Website of the Day Resistance: In the Eye of the American Hegemon   Jan. 31 / Feb 1, 2004 Paul de Rooij For Whom the Death Tolls: Deliberate Undercounting of Coalition Fatalities Bernard Chazelle Bush's Desolate Imperium Jack Heyman Bushfires on the Docks Christopher Reed Broken Ballots Michael Donnelly An Urgent Plea to Progressives: Don't Give in to Fear Rob Eshelman The Subtle War Lee Sustar Palestine and the Anti-War Movement George Bisharat Right of Return Ray McGovern Nothing to Preempt Brian Cloughley Enron's Beady-Eyed Sharks Conn Hallinan Nepal, Bush & Real WMDs Kurt Nimmo The Murderous Lies of the Neo-Cons Phillip Cryan Media at the Monterrey Summit Christopher Brauchli A Speech for Those Who Don't Read John Holt War in the Great White North Mickey Z. Clueless in America: When Mikey Met Wesley Mark Scaramella The High Cost of Throwing Away the Key Tariq Ali Farewell, Munif Ben Tripp Waiter! The Reality Check, Please Poets' Basement LaMorticella, Guthrie, Thomas and Albert   January 30, 2004 Saul Landau Cuba High on Neo-Con Hit List Michael Donnelly Bush's Second Front: The War in the Woods Elaine Cassel Worse Than Jacko: Child Abuse at Gitmo David Vest More Halliburton News, Brought to You by Halliburton Mike Whitney The Kay Report: Still Defending Aggression David Miller The Hutton Whitewash Sam Husseini How Many People Must Die Because of This "Mistake", Senator Kerry? January 29, 2004 Patricia Nelson Limerick John Ehrlichman, Environmentalist Ron Jacobs Homeland Security and "Legalized" Immigration Rahul Mahajan New Hampshire v. Iraq Greg Weiher Bush Calls for Preemptive Strike on Moon and Mars Norman Solomon The State of the Media Union Cockburn / St. Clair Does NH Mean Anything?   January 28, 2004 Kathy Kelly Bearing Witness Against Teachers of Torture and Assassination                       Hot Stories Alexander Cockburn Behold, the Head of a Neo-Con! Subcomandante Marcos The Death Train of the WTO Norman Finkelstein Hitchens as Model Apostate Steve Niva Israel's Assassination Policy: the Trigger for Suicide Bombings? Dardagan, Slobodo and Williams CounterPunch Exclusive: 20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians Steve J.B. Prison Bitch Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber True Lies: the Use of Propaganda in the Iraq War Wendell Berry Small Destructions Add Up CounterPunch Wire WMD: Who Said What When Cindy Corrie A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter I Can't Hear From Gore Vidal The Erosion of the American Dream Francis Boyle Impeach Bush: A Draft Resolution Click Here for More Stories.     Subscribe Online Search CounterPunch

Weekend Edition February 14 / 15, 2004 dancing nowhere By John Holt the great american pastime crashing head on where the front is obvious not running down buffalo not looking for images in ice water or wandering after scapegoat seasons a lot of green thunderbirds discarded and smashed along dusty roadsides dead men gasping with whitewashed education draining from torn ears could not bank on truth reservations were not honored around chinookville sliding along on fusel oil and ancient dreams kicked aside by forgotten collisions with rotted pickups the breeze drinks it all bone dry John Holt has been called the Hunter Thompson of Montana. He is the author of numerous books, including the gripping novel Hunted, and Coyote Nowhere: In Search of America's Lost Frontier. He lives in Livingston, Montana and can be reached at: jholt@msn.net   Punk By Barbara LaMorticella Black boots steel toes studs and armbands The boy in the library has made himself into a porcupine-- he comes covered in spikes. If it's whack or be whacked, everybody wants to be a whacker! Oh baby, Oh 21st century... He walks by sucking on a binkie he carries on a chain around his neck. Barbara LaMorticella is a poet living in Portland, Oregon, and with Walt Curtis co-hosts a poetry program Monday nights at 10 PM on KBOO radio, 90.7 FM Portland, where she will interview CounterPuncher David Vest on February 16. She can be reached at: barbala@teleport.com   Eviction Year Crisis By Hammond Guthrie Undersecretaries hunt for big game to rewrite the present for a precedent incumbently crouching in a blind syntax designed for embedding innuendoes Yesterday's white ricin scare wasn't lethal enough to matter, though someone would have stood by to hold your hand in case you died Timing the security alert is crucial for measuring the inherent gravity of paranoid messages diverting the wayward attention spans of potentially right wing voters After all, this might just be an eviction year Hammond Guthrie is the author of AsEverWas: Memoirs of a Beat Survivor. He is the editor of the great online journal The 3rd Page. He can be reached at: writenow@spiritone.com © 2004--Hammond Guthrie   (Un)Intelligence Conundrum By Mort Subiet Intelligence that can't be intelligently evaluated in afterthought might have been intelligently spliced together in 'aforethought irretrospectively' speaking of intelligence that can't be found. © 2004--Mort Subiet   Seems Like Old Times By Stew Albert The wheels of justice turn slowly but they eventually run over radicals. One unheralded feature of the Bush regime is its digging up ancient cases against activists a left over SLA bank robbery a Grand Jury in Frisco looking at lefties and ancestral bombings And now opening grandly on Page One of the Times the government attempting to nail killers of Anna Mae Aquash the murder only happened in 1975 on the Pine Ridge rez which I visited a year later hearing endless daily gossip about the case. Anna May was killed by the FBI was pregnant and killed by a lover was a government agent executed by AIM was drunk and died from exposure. Ms Aquash died a thousand different deaths. In those days gossip was the primary work product of the Pine Ridge rez and now the Feds are adding another death to Anna May's endless record. She was killed by AIM because she heard one of its leaders Leonard Peltier boasting about blasting two FBI agents. Peltier lives in prison anyway on top of his private mountain of boundless gossip. In the Ashcroft era capital cases against leftists and their like can be made up only out of hot air and bullshit. The Bushies dream is to not to just rule the known world but to have their armed detachments conquering worn out raisins in the sun of history makings them a province of New Empire. Stew Albert runs the Yippie Reading Room. His memoir, Who the Hell is Stew Albert?, is now available at independent bookstores or from Red Hen Press. For a personally autographed copy, please send a check or money order for $22 (includes s&h) to Stew Albert, Who The Hell. PO Box 13161, Portland OR 97213-0161. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com Weekend Edition Features for February 1, 2004 Paul de Rooij For Whom the Death Tolls: Deliberate Undercounting of Coalition Fatalities Bernard Chazelle Bush's Desolate Imperium Jack Heyman Bushfires on the Docks Christopher Reed Broken Ballots Michael Donnelly An Urgent Plea to Progressives: Don't Give in to Fear Rob Eshelman The Subtle War Lee Sustar Palestine and the Anti-War Movement George Bisharat Right of Return Ray McGovern Nothing to Preempt Brian Cloughley Enron's Beady-Eyed Sharks Conn Hallinan Nepal, Bush & Real WMDs Kurt Nimmo The Murderous Lies of the Neo-Cons Phillip Cryan Media at the Monterrey Summit Christopher Brauchli A Speech for Those Who Don't Read John Holt War in the Great White North Mickey Z. Clueless in America: When Mikey Met Wesley Mark Scaramella The High Cost of Throwing Away the Key Tariq Ali Farewell, Munif Ben Tripp Waiter! The Reality Check, Please Poets' Basement LaMorticella, Guthrie, Thomas and Albert Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /