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November
16, 2004
John
Ross
Bush in Rapture
November
15, 2004
Larry
Birns
A Resignation Without Meaning: Powell
and Latin America
Walt
Brasch
On the (Far) Right Hand of God
John
Pilger
The Greatest Political Scandal of
Our Time
John
Chuckman
Welcome to Ripley's Believe It or Not of Christianity
Francis
A. Boyle
Obliterating Fallujah: War Crime in Real Time
Georgy
/ Sengupta
Fallujah in Ruins: The Air is Polluted with the Stench of Death
Ralph
Nader
Voters v. Sports Fans
Neve
Gordon
The "No Partner" Myth
Donna
J. Volatile
So What Are You Going to Do About It?
Werther
On Reading the Duelfer Report
November
13 / 14, 2004
Alexander
Cockburn
"Let Them Drink Sand!"
David
Domke
Bush, God and the Election: a Theology
of War?
James
Petras
The Politics of Imperialism: Neoliberalism and Latin America
Carl
G. Estabrook
How to Stop the GWOT: "Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil!"
Stan
Goff
Torture and the Cinema
Dave
Lindorff
The Ruins of Fallujah
Mike
Whitney
Fallujah and the Erosion of American Power
Ron
Jacobs
Waiting for the Last War to End
Alan
Maass
The Rise and Fall of Gingrich: a Parable for Our Times
Lenni
Brenner
"Next"...a Prison Tale
Gary
Leupp
France's Little Vietnam: Imperialist France Destroys an African
Air Force
Jessica
Leight / Larry Birns
Haiti: the New Regime Shows Its Colors
Heather
Gray
Whistling Dixie: Bush's Reelection, a Perspective from the South
Jordan
Green
Ohio's Provisional Ballots: the State of Play
Robert
Fisk
Arafat Ruled by Emotion and Cronyism
Omar
Barghouti
The Death of Arafat and the Two-State SOlution
Fred
Gardner
Marijuana: an Election Scorecard
Christopher
Brauchli
When a POW Isn't a POW: the Other Torture Memo
Joanne
Mariner
A Preview of the Scalia Court
Dr.
Susan Block
Blue Values
Patrick
Timmons
Violence at the Ballot Box: the War on Gay Rights
Mickey
Z.
Rumor Club
Poets
Basement
Hasan, Albert, Kent, St. Clair
Website
of the Weekend
The Hand of God?
November
12, 2004
Forrest
Hylton / Sinclair Thomson
Insurgent Bolivia: the Roots of Rebellion
November
11, 2004
Peggy
Thomson
Encounters with Arafat
Joe
Bageant
Hung Over in the End Times: Heaven's
Foot Soldiers Escape the Dog Patch
Ben
Tripp
The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grief
Edwin
Krales
Cuba's Response to AIDS: a Model for
the Developing World
Jordan
Green
How They Tried to Suppress the Black
Vote in South Carolina
Gary
Leupp
Guzman's Fist
Mike
Whitney
Meet Your New AG: Alberto Torquemada
Sam
Bahour
Palestine is Bigger Than Arafat
Sylvia
Shihadeh and Robert Jensen
The Irony of Arafat
Russ
Wellen
Why Do They Laugh at Us?
Mark
Scaramella
Kerry's Enablers: the Clinton
Cult Factor
November
10, 2004
Joshua
Frank
The Bright Side of Bush's Reelection
Mickey
Z.
The Worst President Ever?: Bush +
Clinton = Bubya
Stan
Goff
Debating a Neo-Con
Mike
Whitney
Exit Ashcroft
Dave
Lindorff
Taking a Leak on the Bush Bulge
Ghada
Karmi
After Arafat
Fr.
Gerard Jean-Juste
Letter from a Haitian Jail
Rev.
Bob Jones, III
A Letter to President Bush: "God Has Granted America a Reprieve"
Bernestine
Singley
Tampa Vote: Dispatches from the Ground
Website
of the Day
Free Camilo Mejia
November
9, 2004
Meredeth
Kolodner
Rebuilding the Anti-War Movement
Saul
Landau
The Appeal of George W. Bush: a Mystery for the World to Solve
Brian
Cloughley
Diego Garcia and Freedom, Bush-Style
Charles
Glass
US is Failing the Test of History in
Iraq
Robert
Fisk
Arafat Died Years Ago
Paul
Craig Roberts
The American Century is Over
Adam
Federman
Witch Hunt at Columbia: Middle East Profs Smeared as Anti-Semites
M.
Junaid Alam
The Discredited Logic of ABB
Tony
Kevin
Fallujah and the Making of a War Crime
Pierre
Tristam
Zealots on the Mount: Get Voltaire on Speed Dial!
Patrick
Cockburn
Crushing Fallujah Will Not End the
Iraq War
Website
of the Day
Don't Blame the Voters!
November
8, 2004
Roger
Burbach
Out of the Ashes: Bush Win is a Defeat
for Democrats, Not the Left
Dave
Lindorff
Lessons from a Quagmire: Fallujah, the Hue of Iraq
Greg
Moses
After the Morning After: On the Homefront of the Civil War
Greg
Bates
Nader's Election Legacy: Something to Stand On
Michael
Donnelly
The Hit-and-Run Left: From ABB to CYA
Nick
Schwellenbach
Gutting FOIA: the Harm of Too Much Secrecy
Adam
Jones
Men vs. Civilians in Fallujah
Amelia
Peltz
Note from Palestine: This Is Not the Time for Despair
David
Swanson
The Media Black Out on Vote Fraud
Brian
Rainey
The Devil Made Them Do It? Elections, Religion and the American
People
Poets'
Basement
Albert, Landau, Hamod
Website
of the Day
A Report on the US Supply of Toxic Weapons to Iraq
November
6 / 7, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Don't
Say We Didn't Warn You
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Green Out
Carl
G. Estabrook
Who Killed Cock Robin?
Saul
Landau
Che: the Man and the Movie
Gary
Leupp
Let There Be Conflict!
Ben
Tripp
You Call This a Party?
Paul
Craig Roberts
The October Numbers: Continuing Stress on the Jobs Front
Jordan
Green
Heroin, Cocaine and Espanola, NM
Fred
Gardner
Haul of Justice
J.A.
Miller
Cults of the Jealous God: the Balfour Decision Reconsidered
Ramzy
Baroud
Life Without Arafat
Dave
Zirin
Out at the Ballgame: Pro Sports and the Gay Athelete
Ron
Jacobs
The Arrow on the Doorpost
Robert
Oscar Lopez
How White Liberals Became a New Racial Minority
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
The November Surprise
Dave
Lindorff
Silver Linings
Richard
Oxman
Invitation to the Bodily Snatched
John
Whitlow
Value Wars: the View from Lexington, Kentucky
Rahul
Mahajan
Fallujah and the Reality of War
Leila
Matsui
Political "Ju-On": Carrying a Grudge
November
5, 2004
David
Vest
The Not-Bush Brothers: a Fond Farewell
Elizabeth
Boylan
The Dems and Faith-Based Politics
Conn
Hallinan
War Crimes and Iraq
David
Zonsheine
Poetry and the Courage to Refuse
Cynthia
McKinney
It's a New Day!
Elaine
Cassel
Running from the Religious Right
Chris
Geovanis
First Protect Your Vote: Lessons for Democrats on Fixing Elections
from Chicago
Rob
Ritchie
Election 2004 by the Numbers
Jo
Guldi
The Beast of History is In
November
4, 2004
Sharon
Smith
The Self-Fulfilling Prophesy of Lesser-Evilism
CounterPunch
Wire
Bush Voters: 2000 v. 2004
Ben
Tripp
My Fellow Americans...Get Stuffed!
Michael
Donnelly
Why Not Blame Rosie?
Vijay
Prashad
An Election of Homophobia and Misogyny
Jules
Rabin
De Profundis: the Morning After
Robert
Jensen
Politics and Professions of Faith:
"Your Rich Men are Full of Violence"
Zoltan
Grossman
Blue State Secession: the Only Solution?
Jonah
Birch
1968 and Today
Dave
Lindorff
What Went Wrong?
Jack
McCarthy
I Knew It Was Over When Michael Moore Showed Up: He Was For Nader...Before
He Was Against Him
Donna
J. Volatile
Ahoy Kerrycrats! Welcome to Our Nightmare
Paul
Craig Roberts
The Bright Side of Black Tuesday
November
3, 2004
James
Hodge / Linda Cooper
The CIA and Abu Ghraib: 50 Years of
Training Torturers
Ann
Harrison
The Ghost Votes in the Machine: Voting Snafus Across the Nation
Greg
Moses
Blues for Fallujah
Anis
Memon
The Moral (Values) of This Election
Mickey
Z.
Post Mortem
Josh
Frank
The Dems Should be Ashamed
Chris
Floyd
No Ways Tired: Defeat, Dissent and the Bush Machine
spArk
Smoke Signals from Portland: Karmic Blowback and the Democrats
Friedrich
von Schiller
Folly, Thou Conquerest
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Democrats in End Time: Who to Blame
Now?
November
2, 2004
Gary
Leupp
Democratic Elections in Historical
Perspective: The Wrong Side Wins
Lance
Selfa
Selling the War on Terror
Laura
Carlsen
The US Elections and Latin America: Can the US Ever be a Good
Neighbor?
James
Davis
To Control the Event: Attention Bicyclists
Richard
Oxman
Getting Up with Osama
Dr.
Ira Kay
A Mental Map of the Bush Presidency
Jesse
Walker
Frankenstein v. Chucky: the Halloween Election
Thomas
C. Mountain
Election '24, Deja Vu?: LaFollette, Nader, & the "Most
Important Election of Our Lifetimes"
November
1, 2004
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
How Bush Was Offered Bin Laden and
Blew It
Dave
Lindorff
Bulgegate Confirmed; Press Yawns
Greg
Bates
Nader Voter Survey Results
Roger
Morris
Novel Politics: Only Fiction Can Do
This Election Justice
Diane
Christian
Death Tolls
Lenni
Brenner
Secularists Be Warned: Christlike Kerry Roams Spiritual Universe
Christopher
C. Conway
Can the Left Sink Any Lower?
Francis
Boyle
Legal Elites and the Iraq War: the Nazis Had Their Law Professors,
Too
Jason
Leopold
Rummy's Failed War Plan
Website
of the Day
Dylan Resurrects "Masters of War"
October
30 / 31, 2004
JoAnn
Wypijewski
The Long March and the Million Worker
March
Winslow
T. Wheeler
Spartacus Tells All
Bruce
Anderson
Notes from the Big Empty: When the Hippies Invaded NoCal
Vicente
Navarro
They Worked for Franco: How Sec. of State Cordell Hull and Nobel
Laureate Camilo Jose Cela Collaborated with the Fascist Regime
Robin
Blackburn
How Monica Lewinsky Saved Social Security
Greg
Bates
A Question of Character: What Makes Nader Tick?
Nancy
Welch
The American Health Care Crisis: an Interview with Dr. David
Himmelstein
William
Lind
Election Day: Which Menendez Brother Will You Vote For?
Brian
Cloughley
Uzbekistan and Bush Hypocrisies
Suzan
Mazur
Oops They Did It Again: the NYTs the Paper of Record and Rip-Offs
Greg
Moses
Standing at the Graves of Iraq
John
Chuckman
Osama's Endorsement
Richard
Oxman
Why Not Accept Osama's Offer?
Ken
Avidor
Landscape of Fear: When Ugly is Suspicious
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Bush, Ba'ath and Beyond
Hope
Bastian
Strangling Cuba's Economy
P.
Sainath
Tower of Gabble: Toward a Sustainable Rhetoric
Dave
Zirin
Bush League: Why MLB Owners Support the Prez
Jon
Swift
The Dry Drunk Thang: Put a Cork in It
Ron
Jacobs
The Joke's on Me: a Review of Bob Dylan's Chronicles Vol. 1
Alexander
Billet
Taking Theatre Back: Are the States Ready for "Stuff Happens"?
Poets'
Basement
Jones, Laymon, Norris, Ford and Albert
Website
of the Weekend
The Origins of Halloween
October
29, 2004
Harry
Browne
No Justice for Peace Activist in County
Clare
October
28, 2004
Forrest Hylton
"The Gas is Ours:" Bolivia's
Ghosts of October
Col. Dan Smith
Rebellion
in the Ranks
Alan Maass
Jon Stewart v. the Pundits
Ron Jacobs
Ecstasy
in Red Sox Nation
Alexander
Cockburn
Kerrycrats and the War
October
27, 2004
Jules
Rabin
Crammed with Distressful Politics
Dave
Lindorff
Bulgegate: the Lies Continue
Katherine
Van Tassel
On the Home Front: Both Parties
Ignore Working Parents
Jeffrey
St. Clair
The Bi-Partisan Politics of Oil
October 26,
2004
Brian Cloughley
Three
Weddings and Lots of Funerals: Atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan
William Blum
Fear
Factors
Lenni Brenner
The
1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Lessons for 2004
Ben Tripp
The
Chicken Salad Election
Fidel Castro
After the Fall
Greg Bates
The Nation's Flawed Calculus
Walter Brasch
Gag the Public: the War on Dissent
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
An Open Letter to Pat Buchanan
Mickey Z.
Rumble in the Jungle at 30: Ali, Foreman and the Congo
Amir Taheri
The Boom in Conspiracy Theories
Alexander Billet
Say It Ain't So, Bruce!: the Boss Endorses Kerry
Doug Giebel
The Religion of G.W. Bush
Kathleen Christison
Why
I Liked Thomas Friedman's Latest Column Before I Didn't
October 25,
2004
Ralph Nader
Letter
from a Minnesota Highway
Werther
West
Texas Wahabbism
Dave Zirin
Boston's Killer Cops: Death of a Fan
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: Oregon Revokes Dr. Leveque's License
Omar Barghouti
Executing Another Child in Rafah
William J. Nottingham
Lori Berenson's Story
John Chuckman
A Foolish Consistency
Uri Avnery
On
the Road to Civil War
October 22
/ 24, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
You
Can't Blame Nader for This
Rev. William Alberts
On Bended Knee: Faith-Based Deceptions
Willliam A.
Cook
Killing for Christ
Saul Landau
George W. Bush: a Man of His Words?
Bill Quigley
I Held the Bullet in My Palm: Masked Haitian Police Shoot Children
While Arresting Priest
Christopher Brauchli
Seal It With a Frown: What Compassionate Conservativism Really
Means
William S.
Lind
Fallujah and the Moral Level of War
Sharon Smith
Guilt Trippers for Kerry
Greg Bates
Kerrynomics: "Hurt the Ones Who Vote for Us"
Justin E.H. Smith
Is Lesser Evilism a Compromise with Evil?
Rebecca Evans
Tarnished Legacy: Pinochet and the Chilean Military
Mike Whitney
Al Hurra TV: the Second Invasion
M. Junaid Alam
Purchasing Individuality in America
David Krieger
Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Examining the Policies of Bush and
Kerry
David J. Ledermann
The Emperor's New Crumbs
Lawrence Reichard
Same Old FBI Story
Website of
the Weekend
Lie Girls: the Real Coalition of the Willling
October 21,
2004
Ben Tripp
The
Undecided Voter Examined
Joshua Frank
Kerry
and the Environment:
It's Not Easy Pretending to be Green
Stan Cox
What
the Left Doesn't Get About Small Businesses
Bill Martinez
State
Depart and Cuban Visas: Only Anti-Castro Agitators Need Apply
Mark Engler
The War and Globalization
Lina Britto
and Lucia Suarez
Bolivia:
a Year After the October Insurrection
Website of the Day
Two Pampered Children of Wealth
October 20,
2004
Yitzhak Laor
"Did
You Two Squabble?": a Bullet Fired for Every Palestinian
Child
Jason Leopold
Sinclair
Broadcasting's Air War: a Long History of Journalistic Deception
Jesse Sharkey
A
Teacher's Account of How Military Recruiters Prey on High School
Students
Col. Dan Smith
Choking
Free Speech About the Draft
Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
Using My Religion
David Vest
If
Bush Wins, Blame Me
Jack Random
The Jackson 17: Reflections on a Mutiny
Ron Jacobs
Time
to Kick It Up a Notch
James Brittain
Plan Patriota and the FARC: a Change in the Countryside?
Christopher
Dols
Bombing Madison: Michael Moore's Fright Fest
Dave Lindorff
First They Came for the Nurses...
Website of
the Day
Banana Republican Catalogue
October 19,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Party
Favors: the Political Business of Terry McAuliffe
Jeff Taylor
Confessions
of a Swing State Voter
Matt Vidal
American
Myopia: "More Money in Your Pocket"
Victor Kattan
"It's Not Who You're Against; It's Who You're For":
Palestine Takes Center Stage At Euro Social Forum
William Loren
Katz
What Goes Around Comes Around
Sean Carter
O'Reilly Should Shut Up About Extortion Claiims
CounterPunch Wire
Who's Really in Bed with Republican Funders: Kerry or Nader?
October 18,
2004
Saul Landau
Facts
and Lies; Slogans and Truth
Dave Lindorff
Bulletin
on the Bush Bulge
Diane Christian
Sheep
and Goats: On the Language of Goodness
Greg Bates / Dave Lindorff
Betting on War: a Wager on the Fallout of a Kerry Presidency
Uri Avnery
Ariel
Sharon's Philosophy
Peter LaVenia
Leaving the Greens So Soon? a Response to Josh Frank
Mike Whitney
O'Reilly at the Whipping Post
Elaine Cassel
The Other War: Civil Liberties Three Years After 9/11
October 16
/ 17, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
The
Free Speech Movement and Howard Stern
Leslie Brill
Unmerciful Judge, Merry Executioners: the Death Penalty as the
True Measure of Bush's Character
Jules Rabin
Reckoning Deaths in an Agitated World
Dave Lindorff
About the Bush Bulge: Was There a Pucker in That Jacket or Was
the President Just Glad to be There?
Peter Linebaugh
Judging Judges: a Few Pages from The Mirror of Justices
Gary Leupp
Iran and Syria: How to Effect Regime Change and Expand the Empire
M. Shahid Alam
America, Imagine This!
Ron Jacobs
Trying to Cross Lake Champlain
Fred Gardner
The Flu Vaccine Question: How Bush Blew It
Jenna Orkin
The Toxic Legacy of 9/11
Dave Zirin
Name the DC Baseball Team: Contest Results
David Hamilton
Alone and Exposed: Bush as a Strong Leader?
Ralph Nader
Criticizing Israel is Not Anti-Semitism
Doug Giebel
Thinking the Unthinkable
Mark Engler
Crimes in Freedom's Name: Dick Cheney's El Salvador
Derek Tyner
Blacks Didn't Get the Vote by Voting: an Interview With Clarence
Thomas on the Million Worker March
Evan Jones
Gimme That Ole Time Religion: Cash and "The Mind of the
South"
Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Klipschutz and Albert
Website of
the Weekend
No More Bush Girls
October 15,
2004
Paul Craig
Roberts
Where
Did These "Conservatives" Come From?: The Brownshirting
of America
Laura Carlsen
Wal-Mart
vs. the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon
Greg Bates
Empire of Insanity: Kerry's Iraq Troop Numbers
Michael Donnelly
News from a Swing State: Does Anyone Here Have a Spine?
Katherine Lahey
The Venezuelan "Threat": Why Do Kerry and Bush Fear
Hugo Chavez?
Robert Jensen
/ Pat Youngblood
Election Day Fears
Leah Caldwell
From
Supermax to Abu Ghraib: the Masterminds of Torture and Abuse
Website of
the Day
An Anti-Billionaire Policy? Why That Would Be Economic Racism
October 14,
2004
Darcy Richardson
The
Other Progressive Candidate: the Lonely Crusade of Walt Brown
Willliam A.
Cook
Turning
Myths into Truth
Laura Santina
Water, Women and War
Evelyn Pringle
Free Speech Banned by Big Pharma: What You Can't Say About Drug
Importation
Alan Farago
Lessons
from Nature
Rep. Maxine Waters
A Letter to Colin Powell on Haiti
Nicole Colson
Maimed
for Oil and Empire
October 13,
2004
Bishop Thomas
Gumbleton and Bill Quigley
Aftermath
of a Coup: The Other Disaster in Haiti
Sharon Smith
Barak
O-Bomb-a?: Democrats Target Iran
Christopher Brauchli
God and the Bush Administration
Mike Whitney
The Real Meaning of the Hamdi Case
Paul de Rooij
Amnesty
International: a False Beacon?
Website of
the Day
Operation
Truth
October 12,
2004
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
"Indian
Country"
Greg Bates
The Year of Voting Dangerously: a Survey Request of Nader Voters
in Swing States
Steven Conn
Progressives as Pawns: Kerry's War on Nader
Jason Leopold
Under Cheney, Halliburton Helped Saddam Siphon Billions from
UN Oil-for-Food Program
Security Scholars
for a Sensible Foreign Policy
Time for a Change of Course
Timothy J. Freeman
Dying for a Mistake
Pierre Tristam
Deconstructing Bush
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The 2nd Debate: the Blurring of Act and Audience
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
Israel as Sideshow
Website of the Day
John Kerry's Personal Off-Shore Tax Shelters
October 11,
2004
Robert Fisk
Iraq:
Unforgivable Betrayals and Broken Promises
Kevin Pina
The
Untold Story of Aristide's Departure from Haiti
Patrick Gavin
Rethinking
Columbus Day
Chris Floyd
Tribes with Flags in the New Afghanistan
Daniel Wolff
Radioactive Money: Entergy, Political Cash and America's Most
Dangerous Nuclear Plant
Walter Brasch
The Only Ones Who Believe Saddam Had WMDs are Bush, Cheney...and
40% of All Americans
Mike Whitney
The Phony Afghan Elections: Ballot of the Disappearing Ink
Ari Shavit
"He Talks to Condi Rice Every Day": an Interview with
Sharon's Lawyer
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
Debates and the Big Lie
Website of the Day
Dylan's Greatest Recording?
October 9 /
10, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
"There
Are No Innocents"
Paul de Rooij
Northern Ireland is Still the Issue: a Conversation with Gerry
Adams
M. Shahid Alam
Making Sense of Our Times
Laura Carlsen
Protest and Populism in Latin America
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: ASA Goes to Court
Col. Dan Smith
Bush's Credibility Gap
Paul Craig
Roberts
Faith-Based Economics
Greg Bates
What If Nader Critics Get What They Demand?
Joshua Frank
Cobb, the Greens and the Collapse of the Left
Felice Pace
Wilderness, Politics and the Oligarchy: How the Pew Charitable
Trust is Smothering the Grassroots Environmental Movement
Walter A. Davis
Of Pynchon, Thanatos and Depleted Uranium
William A.
Cook
The Agony of Colin Powell
Phyllis Pollack
Twas No Crank Call Love Affair: London Calling, 25 Years Later
Poets' Basement
Klipschutz, Albert, Ford
Website of the Weekend
Abu Ghraib: the Taguba Annexes
October 8,
2004
Jennifer Loewenstein
The
Israeli Invasion of Gaza
Moshe Adler
Edwards' Gambit: He Hoped No One Would Notice the Similarities
David Swanson
Media Blackout: Press Continues to Ignore Labor's Opposition
to Iraq War
Dave Zirin
CounterPunch Contest: Let's Name the New DC Baseball Team!
Rep. Ron Paul
The Draft is a Form of Slavery
William S. Lind
Keeping Our SA Up
Samar Assad
Kerry v. Bush: No Difference When It Comes to Israel / Palestine
Jim Ingalls
and Sonali Kolhatkar
The Elections in Afghanistan
October 7,
2004
Dave Lindorff
All
Out of Volunteers: A Draft is in the Air
Masha Hamilton
Fear in Kandahar
Christopher
Brauchli
Master of Corruption: the Ripening Scandals of Tom Delay
Jason Leopold
Is There Still Time to Impeach Bush?
Bruce K. Gagnon
Bombing the Panhandle: Fighting the Pentagon in Rural Florida
Meredith Kolodner
Where
is the Urgency?: The Anti-War Movement's Election Year Challenge
October 6,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
"Please,
Dude, Can I Take Them Out?": Targeting Civilians in Fallujah
Ron Jacobs
Going
Nuclear: the Ghost of Edward Teller Lives
Michael Colby
The National Flip-Flop: Suddenly Bush is Unfit to Lead?
Tarif Abboushi
More of the Same: Israel Wins the Debates
Matthew Behrens
Canadian Firms Profit from Iraqi Blood
Mike Whitney
Rethinking WMDs
John Pilger
Stealing Diego Garcia
Ben Tripp
Kerry's "Triumph"
Kevin McKiernan
Cheney's Poison Lab: Wrong Time, Wrong Target
Patrick Cockburn
Elections
Will Not End the Fighting in Iraq
Website of the Day
Is There an Islamic Problem?
October 5,
2004
Anthony Loewenstein
Rupert
Murdoch and the Marginals: "Personally Creating Outcomes"
Mark Clinton
and Tony Udell
The
Suicide of an Iraq War Veteran
Greg Bates
Trading
Idiots: an Open Letter to Eric Alterman
Dave Lindorff
What's
the Frequency, Karl?
Norm Dixon
Why Washington Won't Save Darfur Villagers
Larry Kearney
God Talk and Burning Children
Bill Linville
Dirty Politics in the Land of "Clean" Government
Gary Leupp
What
Edwards Should Ask Cheney
Website of
the Day
A Guide to Halliburton for Tonight's Debate
October 4,
2004
Diane Christian
The
Gates of Hell
Joshua Frank
An Interview with David Cobb
Doug Giebel
Incurious George: What If Bush Didn't Lie?
John Chuckman
Strange Victory: Sen. Obvious and the Pathetic Lump
Ramzy Baroud
Reverse the Picture: Anatomy of a Palestinian Outrage
Julia Stein
Remembering Mario Savio and the FSM
Sean Donahue
Outsourcing
Terror: Kerry and Special Forces
Website of
the Day
Mapping
Mt. St. Helens as She Rocks
October 2 /
3. 2004
Paul Wright
John
Kerry on Criminal Justice
Kathleen and Bill Christison
An Exchange with Israeli Historian Bennie Morris
Kathie Helmkamp
My Son Trent: a Marine Who Doesn't Want to Kill
Phillip Cryan
Indigenous Mobilization in Colombia
Lenni Brenner
The First Ex-Catholic Saint: Memories of Mario Savio
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: In Case You Missed "Montel"
Ron Jacobs
It Did Happen Here: When Neo-Nazis Terrorized Olympia
Ben Tripp
Sticker Shock
William S.
Lind
The Grand Illusion: Iraqi Security Forces
Dave Zirin
The Swindle of the Century: Baseball Comes to DC
Dave Lindorff
Lies from the Great Debate
Luscon Pierre-Charles
Haiti's Elections: a High-Tech Sham is Underway
Zoe Moskovitz
& Sasha Kramer
Separating Lies from Truth About Haiti
Nelson P. Valdes
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Bush in Rapture
The
Dia de los Muertos of the US Left
By
JOHN ROSS
Even as I sasheyed down 24th Street
with a hangman's noose around my neck and a crown of skulls adorning
my tonsure in the Mission barrio's 30th-odd Dias de los Muertos
procession, ABC-Disney was already calling Florida for Bush and
hope itself was busy dying. All of a sudden, this Aztec ritual
celebration of life, death, resuscitation, and death all over
again seemed the aptest metaphor for the calamity that was about
to engulf our nations.
By 4 AM the next morning, even
as the last ballots were being cast in Columbus Ohio, Bush had
surged to a purported three million plus lead in the popular
vote and Kerry was on the brink of conceding Ohio, ostensibly
to avoid another extended spasm of partisan malfeasance a la
2000 but bottom line, to save the empire from itself. I awoke
with the bitter bile of four more years on the tip of my tongue.
My inexplicable conviction that the Dems would score a landslide
knockout had shipwrecked on the smiley shores of Good Morning
America. Where had I gone so wrong?
I had just trekked the breadth
of the country from the Republican National Convention up and
down the eastern seaboard into the breadbasket of North America
and thence deep into the heart of Texas, a journey of 10,000
miles, had conversed and overheard conservation with and between
dozens and dozens of fellow passengers on Spaceship USA. Never
once had I met a professed Bushite or a "Values Voter"--do
you buy them by the pallet-load down at Wal-Mart?--or even, for
chrissakes, a supporter of their pinche war! Yet the results
would seem to shout out that there are 3,000,000 more of them
than us. But where do they live?
This is not a nation divided
geographically between bi-coastal blues and rock-solid reds everywhere
else but around the fringe of the Great Lakes (a map that looks
surprisingly like one of the slave and free states on the edge
of the Civil War), not a map split between global franchises
like Starbucks and Wal-Mart, or even rival religious fanatacims.
This is two nations, each claiming
to be the United States of North America. We cohabit the same
territory, sort of like Palestinians and Israelis. But more and
more, they are all around us now. We mingle with them at airports
and follow them on freeways. They have already moved in next
door,  perhaps into
our own homes incubating down in the basement like the pods in
"Invasion of the Body-Snatchers. They are coming in with
the fluoridation.
Make no mistake about it, comrades;
we now live under an evangelical theocracy. Those who are not
Born Again will soon get the death penalty. Those who are not
taken up in the Rapture will burn in the hellfires of Nuclear
Armageddon. I predict that within four more years, certain states
of a southern persuasion are going to enact laws making handling
snakes and speaking in tongues mandatory
The Great Satan Osama's apparition
on the eve of the election was positively biblical. Radiating
Koranic karma and old testament patriarchy, costumed in a golden
prayer shawl, his beard fulminating dire prophecy, Osama seemed
a paid political announcement for the End Time--although what
Bin Laden actually proposed (trading guarantees of your security
for our security) was an offer of peace and not the bloody Jihad
as Bush, Kerry, and their respective followers seemed to interpret
it.
>From the get-go, Al Qaeda
and its Jihadist associates currently starring in Iraq set the
agenda for this catastrophic election. The fear of God and the
God of Fear, theirs and ours, is at the root of the new crusade
that was the calling card of both candidates as Bush and Kerry
marched in lockstep towards destiny's precipice, whooping it
up about killing terrorists, pulverizing the infidels, and safeguarding
the Holy North American Empire.
We on whets left of the Left
who allowed ourselves to be duped by John Kerry into believing
that when he thundered that he would do a better job of winning
the war in Iraq, he really meant that he would end the occupation,
have only our own souls to flagellate. Suspended belief or cognitive
dissonance aside, we too were, as my old homeboy Saul Landau
chortled last week, "faith-based voters."
Besides Osama, whose Al Qaeda
subsid in Qatar long ago announced its endorsement of the incumbent's
re-election ("his stupidity and religious fundamentalism
will be beneficial to the Islamic Cause"), the Bushites
were sanctified by that astute Christian theologian Karl Rove.
Reverend Rove's strategy of piling up 11 anti-gay marriage initiatives
in mostly Bush states (although Prop I is alleged to have put
the President over the top in Ohio), encouraging a Christian
landslide that won his boss a popular majority and was God's
way of showing whose side He's really on. Winning the popular
vote was inimical to the Bush gang's strategy of re-occupying
the White House in the face of worldwide clamor for their eviction.
Indeed, it was the loss of the popular vote in 2000 that nearly
queered the deal to steal that election.
"Gay Marriage" is
only the tip of the Christian Succubus, a codeword for White
Born-Again America, a gateway drug to racial profiling, right-to-life,
kill all the raghead terrorists, and their fucking Rapture. Reverend
Rove hit the jackpot out there in Holy Roller land. Blaming it
all on Gavin Newsom is malignantly ingenuous.
Bush's re-election is going
to be understood by the rest of the world as a declaration of
war on their lives and their lands--although the fourth world
war has raged for a long time, up until now it has been a largely
undeclared one.
This time around, the U.S.
North American people are not getting off the hook so easily.
They will not be pardoned as they were back in 2000 when they
haplessly allowed Bush and his electoral goons to snatch the
vote in Florida and claim a mandate the rest of the world condemns
as fraudulently obtained. This time around, there are no nuances.
We are all complicit. Prepare yourself accordingly. If I were
you, Iâod stay out of big city skyscrapers for the next
four years.
The Declaration of World War
IV or Four More (or five more) Wars--Iran, Syria, North Korea,
Cuba, and Venezuela--is the price of Bush's re-election. If,
in fact, he was re-elected.
Start adding up the what about
and see what the sum total of stolen votes amounts to. What about
those 58,000 absent absentee ballots in Broward County Florida?
What about the long lines of early voters I saw in Austin and
San Antonio and El Paso, so long you had to make an appointment
to come back to cast your ballot? What about the long lines of
early voters in Florida, mostly Afro-Americans?
What about black voter suppression
in the South and Midwest, the leaflets stuffed into the mailboxes
in the Milwaukee projects warning black voters they could lose
their children if they voted under false pretenses or if they
were ever convicted of a felony? I'm old enough to remember Mississippi
Freedom Summer--how could I forget being chased all over that
lynch law state by armed peckerwoods? The Bushwas' black voter
suppression project of 2004 was how the Klan and the White Citizens
Council operated back then. The recent decision by the Justice
Department (now under the command of the first Mexican American
to call the Geneva Convention 'quaint') that only that agency
and not offended voters could bring voting rights suits. cuts
right to the quick of black voter suppression in 2004.
And what about Columbus Ohio
where tens of thousands of new voters were registered in the
inner city only to have their registrations declared invalid
by Elections Czar Ken Blackwell, this year's Katherine Harris,
because the forms were not on 24 weight bond paper? And what
about the switcheroo on polling places in the Ohio capital--so
few were set up in Afro-American neighborhoods that the avalanche
of expectant voters did not subside until long after midnight,
an unsubtle hint to folks of color that their suffrage wasn't
wanted there. How many went home without casting a ballot?
What about New Mexico, a hotly
contested state where Gore only beat Bush by 300 votes last time
around and now hundreds of ballots were "lost" in the
liberal enclave of Taos (Donald Rumsfeld has a home there) and
hundreds of voters not registered on the books voted in a nearby
conservative county? Sounds a lot like old Mexico flimflam to
me.
What about punch-card fraud,
electronic disenfranchisement, and "spoilage"? Indeed,
the confluence of all this Republican chicanery bears an impressive
resemblance to what the long ruling (seven decades) Institutional
Revolutionary Party (PRI) used to euphemize as electoral "alchemy."
And what about John Kerry throwing
in the towel in Ohio with a 156,000 provisional votes still to
be counted and Bush holding a 136,000-vote lead? Was the fix
in--again?
No one in his left mind is
going to believe these results. One panel of foreign experts
invited to observe the process by Global Exchange concluded that
the presidential elections of 2004 were less credible even than
those of Kazatzstan earlier this year.
Despite all the Internet chatter,
no one in my immediate circle is going to the mat for a duplicitous
fool like John Kerry who we willingly allowed to delude us into
voting up as an anti-war candidate. It would be embarrassing.
Instead, we should be rejoicing
that we are now unencumbered by deceiving Democrats. Now we can
once again say and do what we think without obtaining permits
from the Party with its absurd paranoia about tipping the election
to the Bushites. We are free to plot and pursue a Left-wing agenda
again without being spanked by the accursed liberal machine -
2004 was, as Jim Petris correctly testified, the most right-wing,
anti-labor election in decades, maybe centuries. With Sweeney
and his lambs laying down for the slaughter, the only mention
of "class" (as in "working class" or "
class struggle") in an economy that has lost more jobs than
under any president since the Great Depression was that of the
"middle" one.
What's left of the U.S. Left
has two obligations to the people of the world. One is to oppose
Washington's imperialist aggressions, and the other is to both
build an electoral alternative and an alternative to elections.
On the second score, the Left
flunked the 2004 urine test miserably. The Greens' "safe
states" strategy handed over all the political capital that
threat of a third party had accrued in 2000 when the Democrat
delusionally considered that Nader had stolen the election for
Bush. So long as they remained so deluded, a Green Nader candidacy--and
the promise of Nader to withdraw from the race in exchange for
an anti-war plank in the Party platform, was a hole card the
Greens backed down from playing--was the fix in again and again?
Although California was hardly
a swing state, there were no Green candidates on the ballot I
cast on Valencia Street in San Francisco this November 2nd--I
had to write in the only Green whose name the Bay Guardian knew
to exist in the neighborhood.
But elections are a poor criteria
by which to measure democracy, and an even worse weapon for effecting
meaningful change. Peace with justice does not come without outrage
and pain and vote taking is designed to drain the rage from political
movement.
For months, we abstained from
taking the streets--August 29th at the Republican National Convention
when a half million of us gave the Bushwas a humongous collective
finger, was a jubilant exception to this rule--cowed by the idiotic
logic that mass demonstrations would hurt Dean or Kerry or whatever
patsy the Dem candidate was going to be.
In Mexico, we have this word
"corraje"--it means both pissed off and courageous.
Now we must move back onto the public thoroughfares with renewed
corraje.
There may be no entity called
"The Movement" functioning in the U.S. of North America
these days but there is plenty of momentum and not all of it
eschews the creative re-arrangement of public and private property
as a weapon of resistance in the fourth world war. Frustration
with the electoral process always seems to breed such strategies.
During my coast-to-coast junket, I was often shadowed by survivors
of the Weather Underground touring with their movie. Their audiences
were always bigger and more enthusiastic than mine.
We have been at this juncture
before. Back in 1968 when, like now, both candidates wanted to
decimate the gooks, we ran a pig for president and declared war
on the farce of electoral politics. The biggest and toughest
mobilizations, the ones that brought the war back home, came
after the anti-war movement divorced itself from those still
wedded to the electoral option.
Whatever the true count was
November 2nd, we can be assured that we account for half of the
United States of North America. There are in fact two countries
out there, equal in mass and weight but not in spirit. Our United
States of North America is inclusive, multi-racial, multi-cultural,
pluri-lingual. We are diverse. We dance.
Their United States of North
America is a closed Christian Caucasian cell, one that would
exclude the Other, that loves the death penalty, and demands
divine retribution. Like Ashcroft, it canâot dance.
Our United States of North
America demands peace with justice, exudes solidarity, stands
resolutely with the earth, and resists the globalization of corporate
greed. Theirs is so inflated with neo-con, neo-imperialist helium
that it has drifted off the face of the planet. Our America is
determined to reattach it.
On election night 2004, I was
exactly where I needed to be, in the swirling midst of the Dias
de la Muerte procession in my old neighborhood of La Mision.
We marched that night as a community to remember those who have
sweetened the earth before us and to proclaim our freedom from
the death politics of The Bush people. The task right now remains
to build such communities of resistance everywhere in this land.
For the rest of the world, our success is a matter of life and
death. For us too, it is the only way we are going to survive
Bush's Rapture.
John Ross is the author of the instant cult
classic "Murdered
By Capitalism--A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the
U.S. Left".
Ross will speak at Evergreen
in Olympia Washington Nov. 19th, Laughing Horse Books in Portland
Nov. 22nd, and Simon Fraser University and the Vancouver Public
Library Nov. 25th-26th (if Canadian authorities choose to admit
him.) Ross will make a final offering at Cody's in Berkeley Nov.
30th before returning to Mexico.
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