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March 27 / 28, 2004
Jennifer Loewenstein
A Journey to Rafah
March 26, 2004
Christopher Brauchli
There's
a Chill Over the Country
Robert Fisk
The Man Who Knew Too Much: the Ordeal
of Mordechai Vanunu
Joe DeRaymond
Democracy in El Salvador? Think Again
Mike Whitney
Lessons on Apartheid from Ariel Sharon
Mickey Z.
Somalia and Iraq: Looking Back and Ahead
Chris Floyd
The Pentagon Archipelago
CounterPunch Photo Wire
Cheney's Close Shave?
John Breneman
Bush's Comic Bomb
Website of the Day
Dick
is a Killer
March 25, 2004
Lee Sustar
Who
is to Blame for Lost Jobs?
Standard Schaefer
An
Interview with Michael Hudson on Offshore Banking Centers
Roger Burbach
Lula vs. the IMF: Brazil Begins
to Throw Off the Austerity Planners
Jimmer Endres
Elections Without Politics: The Military Budget Is Not an "Issue"
Larry Tuttle
Acting in Your Name: Identity Theft and Public Interest Groups
Toni Solo
Misreporting Venezuela
Dan Bacher
A Memorial Wall for Iraq War's Dead and Wounded
Saul Landau
Is
Venezuela Next?
Website of the Day
The Spiral Railway
March 24, 2004
Gary Leupp
General
Musharraf's IOU
Richard Oxman
Shakespeare
for Kerry
William Lind
The Beginning
of Phase Three: 4G Warfare Hits Iraq
Rep. Ron Paul
Iraq One Year Later
Michael Dempsey
Killing Rachel Corrie Again
Alan Farago
The Bad Math of Mercury: Bush's War on the Unborn
Benjamin Dangl
and April Howard
Media
in Cuba
John L. Hess
No Lie Left Behind: Judy Miller Does Dick Clarke
Greg Weiher
Two Cheers for Dems: "We're Not as Bad as George"
Eva Golinger
An Open Letter to John Kerry on Venezuela
Grayson Childs
Where's Cynthia McKinney?
Steve Niva
Israel's Assassinations will Only
Fuel More Suicide Bombings
Website of the Day
The Bushiad and the Idiossey
March 23, 2004
Phillip Cryan
The
Drug War's Next Casualty: Colombia's National Parks
Ron Jacobs
They Shoot Men in Wheelchairs, Too?
Dave Lindorff
A Spanish Parallel: Scare Tactics and Elections
Mike Whitney
Richard Clarke and Teflon George
Brian McKinlay
Bush's Lil' Buddy in Trouble: John Howard Starts to Wobble
JG
Driving Mr. Koon: "Jim Crow Lives Next Door"
Phyllis Pollack
Gettin' Jigga with Metallica: the Battle Over the Double Black
CD
Ahmed Bouzid
Sharon's One-Way Track
Sean Carter
The G-Word Goes to Court: One Nation Under [Your Logo Here]
M. Shahid Alam
World's Greatest Country: Do the Facts Lie
March 22, 2004
Mazin Qumsiyeh
On Extrajudicial
Executions
Uri Avnery
The
Assassination of Sheikh Yassin is Worse Than a Crime
Gilad Atzmon
Sharon's Rampage
Mike Whitney
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: the Story of Captain James Yee
Jason Leopold
Firm With Ties to Cheney Faces Criminal Indictment in Cal Energy
Scam
Greg Moses
Stop
Walling and Stalling: a Report from Houston's Peace March
Phil Gasper
San Francisco: 25,000 March for an End to the Occupation
Lenni Brenner
Report
from NYC: Old and Young Parade for Peace
Julian Borger
The Clarke Revelations
Steve Perry
Karl Rove's Moment
Website of the Day
Enviros Against War
March 20 / 21, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Gay
Marriage: Sidestep on Freedom's Path
Jeffrey St. Clair
Intolerable Opinions in an Age of Shock and Awe: What Would Lilburne
Do?
Ted Honderich
Tony Blair's Moral Responsibility for Atrocities
Saul Landau / Farrah Hassen
The Plot Against Syria: an Irresponsibility Act
Gary Leupp
On Viewing "The Passion of the Christ"
William A. Cook
Fence, Barrier, Wall
Phil Gasper
Bush v. Bush-lite: Chomsky's Lesser Evilism
Ron Jacobs
Fox News and the Masters of War
John Stanton
Which Way John Kerry? The Senator's Inner Nixon
Justin Felux
Kerry and Black America: Just Another Stupid White Man
Mike Whitney
Greenspan's Treason: Swindling Posterity
Augustin Velloso
Avoiding Osama's Abyss
Lawrence Magnuson
Eyes Wide Open: Is Spain Caving in to Terrorism?
Kathy Kelly
Getting Together to Defeat Terrorism
Tracy McLellan
Scalia & Cheney: Happiness is a Warm Gun
Kurt Nimmo
Emma Goldman for President!
Luis J. Rodriguez
The Redemptive Power of Art: It's Not a Frill
Mickey Z
The Michael Moore Diet
Jackie Corr
When Harry Truman Stopped in Butte
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Great Trial of 1922: Gandhi's Vision of Responsibility
Poets' Basement
Stew Albert & JD Curtis
Website of the Weekend
Virtual World Election
March 19, 2004
Jeffrey St. Clair
Zapatero
to Kerry: Back Off, Senator, Our Troops are Coming Home
Ann Harrison
So
Protesters, How Well Do You Know Your Rights?
William MacDougall
Fortress Britain's War on "Economic Migrants"
Greg Moses
Sold American: Cowboy Nation Gets Ready to Vote
Cynthia McKinney
Haiti and the Impotence of Black America: Roll Back This Coup,
Mr. Bush
Norman Solomon
Spinning the Past; Threatening the Future
John L. Hess
"Missing" Evidence and the NYTs
Vicente Navarro
The
End of Aznar, Bush's Best Friend
Website of the War
Naming the Dead
March 18, 2004
Gila Svirsky
Rachel
Corrie, One Year Later: She Never Lost Faith in Decency
Christopher Brauchli
Drilling a Hole in the Sanctions: How Halliburton Made $73 Million
from Saddam
William Kulin
Report from Iraq: Just Another Baghdad Car Bombing
Mike Whitney
Resistance: a Moral Imperative
Rep. Ron Paul
Broadcast Indecency Act: an Indecent Attack on the First Amendment
Josh Frank
The Nader Question
Jack Random
They Lied & They Lost: Madrid and the Lessons of Democracy
Greg Bates
What Makes a Nader Voter Tick? A Survey
Sam Hamod / Alfredo Reyes
Contempt of the World: Hastert, Bush and Cheney on Spain
Gary Leupp
The
Madrid Bombings: the Chickens Come Home to Roost
Website of the Day
Privatizing Armageddon: Buy Your Own Doomsday Key
March 17, 2004
Marjorie Cohn
Spain, the EU and the US: War on
Terror or Civil Liberties?
David MacMichael
Untruth
and Consequences
Michael Donnelly
Wear the Green, But Skip the Green Beer
Tom Stephens
"Steady Leadership": Let the Buyer Beware
Wayne Madsen
Sen. Kerry, Let Me Help You Out
Karyn Strickler
Who Owns the Sierra Club? Anonymous Donors and Rigged Elections
Peter Linebaugh
Bush:
Blanc Blanc
March 16, 2004
Lenni Brenner
James
Madison: the Anti-Clerical Father of the Bill of Rights
Scott Boehm
Madrid
Diary: How to Change World Order in Four Days
Alexander Lynch
From Franco to Aznar: the History
Behind the Spanish Elections
Sam Hamod and Alfredo
Reyes
The Truth About the Spanish Elections: Aznar Was Going Down Anyway
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
You Wouldn't Do a Dog This Way:
Executing David Clayton Hill
Mike Whitney
The Case for a Nuclear Iran
Robert Fisk
The Bloody Price of the "War
on Terror"
Bill Christison
The
Aftershocks from Madrid
CounterPunch Photo Wire
The Passion of St. Teresa
Website of the Day
Join the War on Art!
March 15, 2004
Harry Browne
Terror Nothing New to Europe
Mike Whitney
Justice
Not Murder: the Tragic Symmetry of Terrorism
Lidice Valenzuela
Haiti: a Coup without Consultation
Greg Moses
Lessons
from the Texas Primaries: Looking for a Coalition with Legs
Mickey Z.
Depraved Indifference: C-Sections, Patriarchy & Women's Health
Asaf Shtull-Trauring
AWOL
in New York: From Refusenik to Organizer
CounterPunch Wire
Gen. Gramajo Executed by Bees!
March 12 / 14, 2004
Gabriel Kolko
The
Coming Elections and the Future of American Global Power
Saul Landau
Oh, Jesus...It's the Movie!
William Blum
Neo-Con(tradictions)
William S. Lind
Why They Throw Rocks
Rahul Mahajan
The Meaning of Madrid: War on "Terrorism" Makes Us
All Less Safe
Neve Gordon
Demographic Wars
Kurt Nimmo
Kerry and the Progressive Interventionists
Mickey Z.
The "New" UN Blames the Poor
Mike Whitney
War Games: the American Media Leads the Charge
Helen Scott and Ashley
Smith
Aristide's Fall: What Led to the Coup?
Justin E.H. Smith
Loïc Wacquant: Against a Sociodicy
of the American Prison
Brandy Baker
Him Again? Al Gore Needs to Move On
Robin Philpot
Nobody Can Call It a "Plane Crash" Now: the Report
on the Assassination of Rwandan President Habyarimana
Mokhiber / Weissman
The Meat Monopoly Takes a Rare Pounding
Dave Zirin
She Turned Her Back on the War: an Interview with Toni Smith
Daniel Wolff
The Lord's Pier
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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:
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Steve
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Prison Bitch
Sheldon
Rampton and John Stauber
True Lies: the Use of Propaganda
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Wendell
Berry
Small Destructions Add Up
CounterPunch
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WMD: Who Said What When
Cindy
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A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter
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Gore Vidal
The
Erosion of the American Dream
Francis Boyle
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Weekend
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March 27 / 28, 2004
Preventing Preventitive War
Bush
Tells the World to Drop Dead
By JOHN ROSS
Mexico City.
Just as the U.S.'s shadily-elected despot George
W. Bush turned a deaf ear to the most massive protests in the
history of the world-wide peace movement by bombing Baghdad one
year ago, the cowboy tyrant responded to multitudinous marches
March 20th in 60 countries and 300 cities around the globe against
the twin occupations of Iraq and Palestine by underwriting Israeli
butcher Ariel Sharon's pre-meditated murder of 67 year-old, wheelchair-bound,
and nearly-blind Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, spiritual leader of the
Islamic fundamentalist Hamas organization.
The euphemistically dubbed "selective
assassination" (there is always "collateral damage")
came not 48 hours after the planet had once again said no to
war, and represented an act of barbarity guaranteed to inflame
the heart of the Arab street and nurture fresh terrorist attacks
on Israel and western targets that will inevitably fill the gutters
once again with the blood of innocents.
Despite Bush's blind eye, the turn-out
for the March 20th "Marcha Contra La Mentira" (March
Against the Lie--237 of which leading up to the Iraqi invasion
were recently listed by a U.S. congressional panel) exceeded
the anti-war movement's expectations, mobilizing 1.2 million
souls (best estimate) from East Timor to Madrid and Manhattan
to Mexico City (where the usual wild-eyed mob torched the usual
Stars and Stripes before the usual U.S. fortress-like embassy
after a march marred by a shoving match between rival Lesbian
factions.)
North of the border, 150,000 total (not
the police count) snaked through the streets of San Francisco
and New York City, about a tenth of those who showed up February
15th 2003 on the eve of the Bush invasion but a solid outing
 nonetheless--if those who oppose the
Iraq blood-letting are not marching in the streets in the same
numbers as last year, it is anticipated that, much like the Spanish
electorate that overthrew Bush ally Jose Maria Aznar March 14th,
they will be marching to the voting booths with a vengeance next
November.
Meanwhile, humongous mobilizations in
Spain (200,000 alone in Barcelona) and Rome (low-end estimates
of 300,000) represented the most visible anti-war outbursts on
the European landmass since the war began.
Bush's disdain for such adverse public
input was as patently arrogant as ever, refusing to acknowledge
the protests even as he plotted his next "preventative"
strikes against those who dare to resist U.S. tyranny, a posture
that bore bloody fruit in the murder of Sheikh Yassin. Israel,
whose "right to defend itself from terrorism" Bush
so assiduously defends, has announced intentions to similarly
liquidate all remaining Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, in addition
to Palestinian Authority chieftain Yassir Arafat.
The great outpourings in Spain and Italy,
both partners in Bush's criminal coalition against the Iraqi
populous, are particularly pertinent to the White House's doctrine
of preventative war against any perceived challenge to the U.S.'s
continuing domination of the Planet Earth.
The March 11th coordinated Al Qaeda bombing
of five Madrid commuter trains that took 190 lives and wounded
1400, galvanized fury against Aznar for having embedded Spain
in the snakepit war in Iraq, an invasion and occupation opposed
by 90% of those who reside on the Iberian peninsula. By this
same token, nine out of each ten blood-smeared victims of the
Madrid bombings (many were not Spaniards at all but ill-paid
and ill-treated immigrant workers) were not in favor either of
the Bush-Aznar carnage in Iraq that ultimately maimed and murdered
them.
On election night, voters stood in the
rain outside Aznar's Popular Party (PP) headquarters silently
holding up damp newspaper photos of Blair, Bush and "Pepillo"
as he is derisively alluded to on his home turf, a graphic explanation
of why the rightists who were assured of victory just four mornings
before the election, were ultimately trounced. "No to the
War!" stickers slapped to the voting machines only rubbed
in the point.
Similarly, the heavy turnout in Rome
this past March 20th (organizers claim a million strong) was
directed at crypto-Duce Silvio Berusconi's shameless complicity
with Bush despite overwhelming opposition to the war in Italy.
By demanding withdrawal of 2600 Italian troops from Iraq, demonstrators
were staging a sort of "preventative strike" at Al
Qaeda's future plans against other Bush coalition partners--Bin
Laden's boys must surely have Italy well-fixed in their crosshairs.
The toppling of Aznar by the center-left
Spanish Socialist Workers' (sic) Party or PSOE, does not augur
well for Bush's aspirations to renew his lease on the White House
next November. Much as the War on Terrorism, 9/11, and the "liberation"
of Iraq form the pillars of Bush's re-election putsch, the PP's
persecution of Basque separatists was at the core of Aznar's
handpicked successor Mariano Rajoy's campaign to extend the right-wing
party's high-handed eight-year reign in the Palace of Monclova.
The pathologies of 9/11 and 3/11 are
rich in parallels. Aznar's obsession with pinning the bombings
on the Basques emulated Bush's mania to implicate Saddam Hussein
in the terror attacks on New York and Washington.
Even when it was perfectly obvious to
every TV news viewer around the world that the Madrid attacks
were the handy work of Al Qaeda, Aznar kept up a vitriolic drumbeat
accusing ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna) of the Madrid massacre.
Despite startling similarities to 9/11 (multiple teams, synchronized
strikes), Kabalistic evidence (the butchery took place precisely
911 days after 9/11), and the bald fact that in 30 years of bombing
Spanish officials, ETA has never pulled off a caper even remotely
as lethal, Aznar and the PP went into election day with the Lie
still on their lips, and the voters paid them back in spades
for seeking to conceal the repercussions of their involvement
in a brutal war that is being waged without their consent.
PSOE leader Jose Rodriguez Zapatero,
dubbed "Bambi" in the corrosive give and take of the
Spanish political class, made breaking with Bush, getting out
of Iraq, and rejoining Europe, the lynchpins of his party's campaign.
Not unexpectedly, Washington promptly declared preventative war
against Zapatero, endorsing Rajoy's candidacy as vital to Bush's
terror war, and backing up Aznar's scape-goating of ETA when
it knew full well that Al Qaeda was to blame for the Madrid debacle.
On the morning of the bombings, with
Aznar's PP enjoying a seemingly insurmountable seven point lead,
the New York Times, the U.S. "paper of record" which
of late has become more dangerously delusional than usual in
its defense of Yanqui ambitions the world over, ran a triumphal
puff piece ("Departing Bush Ally Hails An Ascendant Spain")
and the U.S. Congress voted to present the shifty-eyed former
Spanish premier with some sort of silver medal as recompense
for his heroic role in the White House terror war.
But Jose Rodriguez Zapotero is no radical--he
heads a party whose reputation for kleptocracy is equaled only
by Mexico's PRI and his knee-jerk reaction to the bombing of
Madrid was to point a finger at "ETA scum." Zapotero's
plan to withdraw 1300 Spanish troops from Iraq that has so excited
Washington is contingent upon the United Nations taking over
as fig leaf for the Yanquis in that benighted country when "power"
is officially handed over to a Washington-appointed interim "National
Council" June 30th and the new (interim) constitution, heatedly
opposed by the Shias, kicks in. But the UN is bombed and despised
by Iraqis for inflicting 12 years of devastating sanctions and
humiliating "inspections" upon their country and whether
or not Kofi Annan is willing to make the UN the U.S. fall guy
for another American miscalculation, remains dubious at this
stage of the game.
Despite Zapotero's Bambi-ness, the Bush
administration is trying to shoot him down even before he takes
office (literally, a 'preventative strike'), coloring him as
a coward who has thrown in the towel to terrorism. Democratic
Party hopeful John Kerry has loudly joined in this lynch-mob
chorus, urging Zapotero to stand fast in the War on Terror: "it
was a mistake to get into Iraq (note--Kerry voted to authorize
the war although he now claims he was duped by Bush's promises
of Weapons of Mass Destruction) but now that we are there, we
have a responsibility and a national interest to remain there."
Kerry's weasel words painfully echo Democratic Party rhetoric
throughout the Vietnam years, a war in which the candidate mowed
down many gooks and of which he later repented although now he
would just like to forget the whole episode.
Inside the U.S. bubble, despite their
ideological affinities, Bush wages a preventative war on his
rival, "defining" this neo-JFK as being soft on terrorism
while thumping his own toughness. The President, whose "bring
'em on" invitation to Al Qaeda summoned Bin Laden's evil
network to Iraq, has been eminently successful in promoting the
"terror" facet of the War on T, and is, of course,
endorsed for re-election by that noble aggregation--in a recent
communique published by a Dubai daily, the Abu Hafs Masri brigades,
said to be tight with Osama, called for four more years because
"Bush's stupidity and religious fanaticism" will benefit
Islamic interests.
Other accomplishments of Bush's terror
war: on the first anniversary of the "Shock and Awe"
show over Baghdad, the Iraqi Body Count web page listed more
than 10,600 civilians dead in the conflagration--the number is
certainly undercounted, the NGO notes. 657 coalition troops,
including 29 Mexicans, had given up their ghosts in pursuit of
WMDs that never existed and more than 3000 wounded, many rendered
legless by the relentless bombs of the Iraqi resistance, now
crowd U.S. military hospitals. The invading army is beset with
suicides, desertions, and aggrieved families in what appears
to be a heart-breakingly real life remake of the tragedy in Vietnam.
Add in the 190 dead in Madrid and hundreds, if not thousands
more, wherever the death train stops next and Bush's success
in promoting international terrorism has been a smashing success.
"You are either with us or with
the terrorists!" Bush's ignoble challenge to the world is
being revived for his re-election campaign. But even as he barks
these stirring words to 20,000 cheering GIs at the Fort Campbell
Kentucky Screaming Eagles headquarters, his vaunted coalition
is crumbling fast. It's not just the 1300 Spanish troops Zapotero
may or may not withdraw. Now Honduras is pulling its 370 soldier
contingent, Nicaragua can no longer pay for the 96 men and 19
women it sent to Iraq, and even Salvador's freshly-elected, rabidly
right-wing president Tony Saca doesn't think he will extend past
August. Ditto Poland's president Aleksander Kwasniewski, who
says he was deceived by Bush's lies in re the WMDs and now wants
early withdrawal. The right-wing Dutch government has expressed
similar dissatisfaction.
On the ground in Iraq, the ambiance has
suddenly gotten extremely dicey for the army of civilian contractors
expected to privatize the occupation after June 30th. London
Independent ace Robert Fisk has even taken to wearing an Arab
jalabah and kuffiyah soas to distinguish himself from the anglo
war profiteers looking to make a killing on the "New Iraq"
who are being blown away daily by the Iraqi resistance.
Sharon's Bush-endorsed assassination
of Hamas's Yassin will no doubt be avenged in Iraq in coming
days (the Grand Ayatollah Al-Sistani has expressed outrage) and
will only exacerbate Bush's torturous task in trying to wiggle
out of Iraq in time for the November election.
Putting a deranged Saddam on trial or
capturing Osama as a <U.S.-Pakistani> expeditionary force
failed to accomplish in their much-trumpeted spring offensive
cheer led by Colin Powell from the Paki side of that mountainous
border, will not resolve Bush's quandary. Cutting off Bin Laden's
head in classic boogeyman-theory-of history style, will have
little impact on Al Qaeda cells, which the Madrid bombings demonstrated
are now perfectly autonomous. Indeed, it may well be the subsequent
hijinks of these autonomous cells that will determine the outcome
of the U.S. election.
Beset with an escalating terror war that
he has provoked, skyrocketing gas prices at the pump, surging
unemployment, and a half-trillion USD budget deficit on the home
front, George W. Bush appears to be about to replicate the fate
of his pop as a one-time president of the U.S. But as a Kerry
presidency seems more and more a distinct possibility, the North
American anti-war movement is obliged to ask itself whether a
Democrat-controlled White House unchecked by viable opposition
to its left, is really in the interests of world peace? With
no third party to Mau Mau Kerry and the Dems into getting out
of Iraq in exchange for relinquishing crucial votes in key states,
JFK II is going to wage a mess of preventative wars "in
our name" when he settles into the oval office.
Vietnam, where John Kerry earned the
medals he once pretended to throw into the garbage (he only tossed
the ribbons), was a Democratic Party-inspired holocaust. The
Clinton-Wesley Clarke rain of death upon Kosovo, which last week
was the scene of renewed mayhem between Muslims and Serbs, was
hailed as the most deadly "precision" bombing "in
our name" in the annals of modern warfare.
While the shared Bush-Kerry doctrine
of "preventative war" (what we used to call Yanqui
aggression in a simpler day) has the world in an uproar, inside
the American bubble, the candidates cannot seem to hear the rising
choir of hatred for the way the U.S. does business beyond its
borders. Perhaps they have been deafened by the constant concussions
of their bombs.
U.S. preventative war is alive and kicking
in Latin America these days. Washington "prevented"
the constitutionally-elected president of Haiti from continuing
to be so by snatching him off to Africa, and now seeks to "prevent"
the constitutionally-elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez,
from similarly doing his job--in a venial bid to garner votes
from Miami's belligerent anti-Castro community, John Kerry recently
endorsed the "preventative" removal of Chavez who threatens
an oil cut-off in retaliation. Meanwhile, Lincoln Diaz Ballart,
leader of the "Gusano" bloc in the U.S. Congress, calls
for a "preventative" strike against Fidel Castro via
a Sharon-like "selective assassination."
Last year, the Bushites "prevented"
Evo Morales, a card-carrying Socialist and leader of the coca-growers
movement, from becoming president of Bolivia under threat of
invasion by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
On March 21st, the U.S. "prevented"
the Faribundo Marti Liberation Front's candidate, Schafik Handal
from winning the Salvadoran presidency when Bush's Latin American
hatchet man Otto Reich bluntly told national television audiences
in that dollarized, flea-sized nation whose economy is now entirely
dependent on remissions from the north, that Washington would
not tolerate a pal of Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez in power. A
bill to return 800,000 plus Salvadorans now living in the U.S.
should the FMLN have won the presidency was reportedly introduced
in congress. Reich's blessing of Arena party candidate Tony Saca
came on the eve of the 24th anniversary of that party's most
celebrated exploit, the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo
Romero in San Salvador's cathedral by Arena founder Roberto D'Aubuisson.
Preventing Bush's preventative war on
the known universe was the subtext of the March 20th marches
that girdled the globe. Although the protests had deep scratch,
those who took part should remember as they trade in their anti-war
signs and banners and march off to the polls in November that
separating Bush from the presidency is only half the job. So
long as the curse of U.S. preventative war hangs like an ominous
cloud over the Planet Earth, we have an obligation to stay in
the streets.
John Ross
will be traveling to Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador in mid-April
and is in need of on the ground transpo bucks The Blindman cheerfully
accepts contributions at 1030 Capp Street, San Francisco Ca.
94110.
Ross's "Murdered
by Capitalism: A Memoir of 150 Years of Life and Death on the
U.S. Left" (Nation Books) will be in your local independent
bookstore this May.
Weekend
Edition Features for March 20 / 21, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Gay
Marriage: Sidestep on Freedom's Path
Jeffrey St. Clair
Intolerable Opinions in an Age of Shock and Awe: What Would Lilburne
Do?
Ted Honderich
Tony Blair's Moral Responsibility for Atrocities
Saul Landau / Farrah Hassen
The Plot Against Syria: an Irresponsibility Act
Gary Leupp
On Viewing "The Passion of the Christ"
William A. Cook
Fence, Barrier, Wall
Phil Gasper
Bush v. Bush-lite: Chomsky's Lesser Evilism
Ron Jacobs
Fox News and the Masters of War
John Stanton
Which Way John Kerry? The Senator's Inner Nixon
Justin Felux
Kerry and Black America: Just Another Stupid White Man
Mike Whitney
Greenspan's Treason: Swindling Posterity
Augustin Velloso
Avoiding Osama's Abyss
Lawrence Magnuson
Eyes Wide Open: Is Spain Caving in to Terrorism?
Kathy Kelly
Getting Together to Defeat Terrorism
Tracy McLellan
Scalia & Cheney: Happiness is a Warm Gun
Kurt Nimmo
Emma Goldman for President!
Luis J. Rodriguez
The Redemptive Power of Art: It's Not a Frill
Mickey Z
The Michael Moore Diet
Jackie Corr
When Harry Truman Stopped in Butte
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Great Trial of 1922: Gandhi's Vision of Responsibility
Poets' Basement
Stew Albert & JD Curtis
Website of the Weekend
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