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Now Available from CounterPunch for Only $11.50 (S/H Included) Today's Stories March 6 / 7, 2004 Alexander Cockburn Understanding the World with Paul Sweezy   March 5, 2004 Chris Floyd Uncle Sugar: How the WMD Scam Put Money in Bush Family Pockets Ron Jacobs Chaos Reigns: Haiti and Iraq Lisa Viscidi Guatemalan Refugees: a Difficult Return Yves Engler Canada and the Coup in Haiti Mike Legro Those Bush Ads: Some Dead Bodies Are Worth More Than Others Javier Armas A Night of Inspiration: Oakland Benefit for Grocery Workers Strike Bennett Hoffman "Who Cares About Haiti, Anyway?" Bill Christison Faltering Neo-Cons Still Dangerous Website of the Day Haiti Support Group March 4, 2004 Diane Christian Sex and Ideals Sen. Robert Byrd Stop the Stonewalling, Mr. President: Fairy Tales, Bush and the 9/11 Commission Norman Solomon Assuming the Right to Intervene: The US Press and Haiti Jack Brown A Fragrant Saga of Mexico's Greens Hal Cranmer The John Kerry Experience David Lindorff Greenspan's Pension Sam Smith The Election is Over, We Lost Christopher Brauchli Goin' to the Chapel: The Gay and the Dead Brian D. Barry The "Perfect" World of E-Voting: A Computer Scientist Reports from the Polling Booth Richard Oxman Arsonists for Haiti? Peter Phillips Haitian Fantasies: Mainstream Media Fails Itself, Again Tariq Ali Notes on Anti-Semitism, Zionism and Palestine Website of the Day What If Boeing Ads Told the Truth?   March 3, 2004 Heather Williams / Karl Laraque Marines Retake Haiti Jack McCarthy Guy's Our Guy: "I am the Chief. My Hero is Pinochet." Robert Sandels The Purloined Label: The Struggle Over the Havana Club Trademark Juliana Fredman / James Davis Israeli Organized Crime JG The Yuppie Silence on Haiti Emilio Sardi The Colombia/US Free Trade Deal: It's About More Than Trade Alan Farago Swimming in Sewage Mike Whitney "Blood Will Have Blood": 143 Murdered in Liberated Iraq CounterPunch Wire Nader's Legislative Record in the 1960s Steve Perry Kerry Advisory: Remember Lena Guerrero Nelson George/ Marcus Miller Miles Davis & Hip Hop: a Conversation Website of the Day $10,000 Is Yours for the Taking: The USS Liberty Challenge   March 2, 2004 William Blum If Kerry's the Answer, What's the Question? Conn Hallinan Haiti: the Dangerous Muddle JoAnn Wypijewski The Bravo H-Bomb Test: One WMD They Couldn't Hide Mike Whitney Regime Change in Haiti: the Bush Dominos Keep Falling Ra Ravishankar Afghanistan, the Liberation That Isn't: an Interview with Mariam from RAWA Dan Bacher Merle Haggard & the Politics of Salmon: "Clearcutting is Rape" Greg Moses Oscar White Brandy Baker Mel Gibson's Minstrelsy Show Little Tucker Carlson What I Did on My Vacation Robert Fisk All This Talk of Civil War, Now This Merle Haggard Kern River Website of the Day Rebel Edit   March 1, 2004 Alexander Cockburn Morris Thanks War Criminal in Front of Billions Richard Oxman Oscar's Obit: Thanking Bob McNamara Elaine Cassel Writing and Reading as "Terrorism" Mickey Z Thomas Friedman's Education Mike Whitney George Will and Anti-Semitism: a Cul-de-Sac of Prejudice Heather Williams Haiti as Target Practice: How the US Press Missed the Story Cathy Crosson Chanson d'amour haïtienne Website of the Day God Hates Shrimp February 28 / 29, 2004 Stephen Green Serving Two Flags: Neo-Cons, Israel and the Bush Team Gary Leupp Another Senseless Bush Battle: Defining and Protecting Marriage William A. Cook Israel: America's Albatross Ron Jacobs Kucinich: Good Fight; Wrong Battlefield Ben Tripp A Nosegay of Posies: Queer Weddings at Last! Leilla Matsui Dances with Crucifixes Mike Whitney Dismantle the Military Goliath Yoel Marcus Down and Out in the Hague Uri Avnery The Dancing Bear Linda S. Heard Britons and Americans Condemned to a Hobson's Choice Al Krebs Unmasking a Secret American Empire: Land, Water & Cotton Stan Cox Life (Pat. Pend.): Genetic Commandeering JG The Haiti Boomerang: "After The Looting & Pillaging, Your Hunger Will Remain" Rick Giombetti Censorship at the Seattle P-I on Forced Psychiatry Keith Hoeller The Bankruptcy of Mental Health Insurance Parity Dave Zirin Colorado Football: Buffalo Swill NADERAMA Alan Maass Nader and the Politics of Lesser Evils Michael Donnelly Regime Rotation: Anybody But Bush...Again? Niranjan Ramakrishnan Exeunt Serenaders; Enter Nader Doug Giebel So Nader's Running? Get Over It Bruce Jackson An Open Letter to Naderites CounterPunch Wire Stalinists for Kerry! and Other Roars from the Crowd Poets' Basement Davies, Scarr, Kearney & Albert February 27, 2004 Thomas C. Mountain A White Jesus During Black History Month? Laura Carlsen Americans Abroad: Bush is Persona Non Grata John B. Anderson Nader's Campaign Brings Back Memories: Creating an Open Electoral Process Jason Leopold Spying on Kofi Annan John Chuckman Nader, Risk and Hope Standard Schaefer An Interview with Michael Hudson on Putin's Russia Ray McGovern Punished for Honest Intelligence Saul Landau The Haiti Redux Website of the Day Bush: Why I'm Running for Re-election   February 26, 2004 Brandy Baker Is Nader on to Something? Jacques Kinau AEI to Colombia: "Can't Give You Anything But Guns, Baby" Norman Solomon Bugging Kofi Annan: UN Spying and the Evasions of US Journalism Greg Weiher A Purloined Letter: the Zarqawi Gambit Walt Brasch Janet Jackson, Bush & No. 542: There are No Halftime Shows in War Shadi Hamid The Music World Explodes in Anger Norman Madarasz As Canadian as Corruption Chris Floyd Bullets and Ballots Virginia Tilly The Deeper Meaning of the Wall Amy Goodman / Jeremy Scahill Haiti's Lawyer Says US is Arming Haiti's Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries Website of the Day Clear Channel Sucks   February 23, 2004 Neve Gordon Israel's Apartheid Wall on Trial at The Hague Kurt Nimmo Richard Perle, Executioner: "Heads Should Roll" Jonathan Franklin US Soldier Seeks Refugee Status in Canada Al Krebs The Liberal "Intelligentsia" v. Nader Josh Frank Nader's Nadir? Not a Chance Bruce Jackson Nader, Another View: "He's as Evil as Bush" Gary Leupp A Misguided Attack, The Passion, Rabbi Lerner and the Gospels       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 Edtion March 6 / 7, 2004   acid rodeo By JOHN HOLT the first good day of spring in the rockies and we all got ripped on acid with whiskey chasers here and there some bands were playing at an abandoned rodeo arena and somehow we got there without hitting any hallucinations we each bought a pitcher and waded through the beer soaked dirt a few cops and thousands of people tripping their brains out under a clear sky things turned crazy as they always do even the mountains made a statement or so just to keep things in perspective the bands came and went and the crowd was gone the wind came up and blew away it was wild Doug Kershaw and topless women and a bass player hit in the face with a pitcher of beer never missing a beat when the music stopped we climbed in a pickup for the ride back to town four wheel drive this time over the top of a Cadillac roof crushed down we kept going to a bar late and fluorescent bright crambled eggs and fried brains shots of whiskey and another rodeo down the drain 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   Jesus, What Is It Now? By LARRY KEARNEY the goddamn sons of bitches lost everything. now get the fucking losers out of here. yeah you. pick the dead kid up and throw him over there. and get the goodamn tarp and cover him. you. do it in your head if you want. but get him the fuck. with his weak-ass father. out of here. and ball that old cunt's dress and burn it where they burn that stuff. down to the outskirts of town. where they burn that stuff. could I get comfortable here for a goddamn second? are there any of you know what's going on here? that I need to get comfortable so I can make the decisions which are a great and terrible responsibility for which I was born? I'm the one god picked and don't you goddamn forget it. could I get a goddamn fucking cheeseburger. you think I could get that? is that easy enough for you? a cheeseburger? mom? jesus. what is it now? Larry Kearney can be reached at: defoe43@earthlink.net Weekend Edition Features for February 28 / 29, 2004 Stephen Green Serving Two Flags: Neo-Cons, Israel and the Bush Team Gary Leupp Another Senseless Bush Battle: Defining and Protecting Marriage William A. Cook Israel: America's Albatross Ron Jacobs Kucinich: Good Fight; Wrong Battlefield Ben Tripp A Nosegay of Posies: Queer Weddings at Last! Leilla Matsui Dances with Crucifixes Mike Whitney Dismantle the Military Goliath Yoel Marcus Down and Out in the Hague Uri Avnery The Dancing Bear Linda S. Heard Britons and Americans Condemned to a Hobson's Choice Al Krebs Unmasking a Secret American Empire: Land, Water & Cotton Stan Cox Life (Pat. Pend.): Genetic Commandeering JG The Haiti Boomerang: "After The Looting & Pillaging, Your Hunger Will Remain" Rick Giombetti Censorship at the Seattle P-I on Forced Psychiatry Keith Hoeller The Bankruptcy of Mental Health Insurance Parity Dave Zirin Colorado Football: Buffalo Swill NADERAMA Alan Maass Nader and the Politics of Lesser Evils Michael Donnelly Regime Rotation: Anybody But Bush...Again? Niranjan Ramakrishnan Exeunt Serenaders; Enter Nader Doug Giebel So Nader's Running? Get Over It Bruce Jackson An Open Letter to Naderites CounterPunch Wire Stalinists for Kerry! and Other Roars from the Crowd Poets' Basement Davies, Scarr, Kearney & Albert Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /