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March 6 / 7, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
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March 5, 2004
Chris Floyd
Uncle
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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
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Diane Christian
Sex
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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
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David Lindorff
Greenspan's Pension
Sam Smith
The Election is Over, We Lost
Christopher Brauchli
Goin'
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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
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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
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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 25, 2004
Dr. Susan Block
Saddam's
Sex Therapist and the Rape of Free Speech
Bruce Anderson
Treacherous Bastards: The Greens and the Dems and Nader
Ron Jacobs
Our Power is on the Streets and
in Our Hearts
Mike Whitney
Bush
and Gay America: the Politics of Duplicity
Sam Husseini
Jesus in 100 Words
John L. Hess
Kick Off or Flub?
Sam Hamod
Bush's Newest Red Herring
Cockburn / St. Clair
Winning
with Nader
Website of the Day
VotePact
February 24, 2004
Ralph Nader
Why
I'm Running for President
Greg Moses
Rally
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Douglas O'Hara
The
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Phillip Cryan
Frozen in Time: The WSJ's Paranoid
Lens on Latin America
David Lindorff
John Kerry's China Connection
Jason Leopold
Cheney's Shame: Halliburton Faces New Charges
Gary Younge
Haiti: Throttled by History
Kromm, Masri & Purohit
Why No Democracy in Iraq?
Steve Perry
Tangled Up in Red and Blue: Beware the Electoral College
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
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Kerry:
He's Peaking Already!
Derek Seidman
Chasing
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Ghada Karmi
Sharon is not the Problem
Vanessa Jones
This Week in Redfern, a Boy Dies, Chased by Cops
Ben Granby
Anatomy of a Night Raid on Balad, Iraq
John Holt
An Air That Kills: Greed, Apathy, Dead People
Saul Landau
Entry from a White House Diary
Tom Jackson
Why They Couldn't Wait to Invade Iraq
Frederick B. Hudson
Slave Power and the Constitution: Jefferson, Slaves, Haiti and
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Roger Burbach
Argentina Fights Back
Kate Doyle
Lessons on Justice from Guatemala
Mike Whitney
Operation Enduring Misery: the Afghanistan Debacle
Greg Moses
What Gives Texas A&M the Right to Trample the Civil Rights
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David Krieger
US Elections: an Opportunity to Debate Nuclear Weapons
Sam Bahour
Palestinian Issue Riddles Bush's Budget
David Grenier
You Could Get 10 Years in Prison Just for Reading This
Charles Sullivan
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February 19, 2004
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Ray McGovern
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Tariq Ali
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Ralph Nader
Whither
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Wayne Madsen
Would Kerry Purge the Neo-Cons?
Norman Solomon
The Collapse of Dean's Cyber-Bubble
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Cheney, Halliburton and the NYT
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Lewis Carroll
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Bush's China Syndrome
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Weekend
Edtion
March 6 / 7, 2004
A Fantasy
Rebuilding Amérique
By DAVID SALLY
With cannons saluting and formerly oppressed citizens
massed on the docks, Philadelphia welcomed the arrival of Lieutenant
General J'ai Garnir, the gouverneur temporaire d'Amérique,
as appointed by his majesty, King Louis XVI. Earlier, the statue
of George III that loomed for years over the harbor had been
pulled down with the help of the virile French troops, and the
local populace had beaten the former king's stone head with their
buckle-shoes and unbuttoned their breeches to show him their
derrières. (Apparently, shimmying your unclad
buttocks is the most grievous insult in the Puritan American
world.) As the assembled crowd chanted, "Non, George,
non! Oui, Louis, oui!" General Garnir disembarked and addressed
them,
"I bear greetings from his royal
majesty, the most Christian King! His Majesty has declared Opération
de Libération d'Amérique a Success. As he
himself told me, Mission Accomplie! It is his most heartfelt
Prayer and Desire to bring La Démocratie to the
people of America. Don't worry, be trés heureux,
because I don't rule anything. I'm the Coalition Facilitator
to establish a different Environment where you people can pull
Things together yourselves." Executing the commands of
Her Royal Highness, Queen Marie, the general had the troops distribute
hundreds of military rations. To the delight of the hungry crowd,
these meal packets included a powdered cake mix that many would
have prepared and enjoyed and even eaten had they had access
to potable water.
**************
Back across the Atlantic at the palace,
the Secrétaire de la Défense, Comte de Don
de Rhums-Champ, "Rhummy," was addressing the media
with regard to how long France would be in America, "It
depends on how this thing finissez. There are still pockets
of resistance in the Northern cities of New York and Boston.
We have reports of armed gangs of Tories piling into horse-drawn,
flat-bed carts with fixed-mount muskets, galloping through the
highways and byways and terrorizing the innocent citizens of
those towns. I assure you and them, we will deliver the coup
de grâce within the next several days.
"Our stay depends on how rapidly
this interim government evolves. It depends on how successful
external influences are in trying to change what's going on in
that country adversely. Am I talking to the Spanish in New Mexico?
You bet your sweet bippies. Les amis de nos amis sont nos
amis.
"What am I saying? There's so many
variables. C'est impossible. We have no desire to be
there for long periods. We simply don't. That's just a cold,
hard fact. C'est vrai."
**************
"I have returned home," Benjamin
Franklin declared today. This controversial septuagenarian has
spent much of the last decade abroad in Paris, and many local
Pilgrims disbelieve him when he claims, "I'm not a candidate
for any position in America, and I don't seek an office."
To those backers at le Départment de la Défense,
Franklin is an extremely competent and useful man who has lived
in France and understands the French. An advocate at a néo-conservateur
groupe de réflexion, Jean-Jacques Kristol, says, "He
has the potential to be one of the great American leaders of
the century." To detractors at le Départment
d'État, he's "one of those silk-suited, pocket-watch-carrying,
mistress-loving guys in Paris who happens to have caught lightning
in a bottle." Few local Colonials doubt that this former
Minister Plenipotentiary has the full backing of King Louis and
his key advisors within the French Government.
**************
With the sudden departure of the Monarchical
Guard, the most loyal troops of the deposed King George, the
rutted dirt lanes of American cities and villages are filled
with chaos. Throughout New England, French troops encircled
dairy farms, and throughout the South, they protected tobacco
fields, but all other shops, smithies, farmsteads, and plantations
were left to the mercy of the looting mobs. Much of what the
Colonies consider their most precious property has been plundered.
Comte Rhummy addressed the issue with fervor at le Pentagone:
"The images you are seeing on television
you are seeing encore et encore et encore, and it's the
same picture of some person walking out of some plantation with
a slave, and you see it twenty times, and you think, 'My goodness,
were there that many slaves? Is it possible that there were
that many slaves in the whole country?'
"It's en désordre.
And freedom's untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes
and commit crimes and do bad things. It is a fundamental misunderstanding
to see those images over and over and over again of some boy
walking out with a slave and say 'Oh mon Dieu you didn't
have a plan'-That's nonsense. Incroyable!"
**************
Quietly, last week the King recalled
General Garnir and replaced him with Viceroy Le Paul Abréger.
Versailles issued a statement acknowledging the personnel change
but stating that the only reason was to help the liberation go
even better than it already has-"Plus ça changeplus
c'est la même chose." In one of his first official
acts, Viceroy Abréger announced the arrest of Samuel Adams,
the self-proclaimed Mayor of Boston. The viceroy deemed the
action necessary because Adams was obstructing the French effort
to rebuild America and "was misrepresenting his authority
in the aftermath of the regime's defeat." He also commented
that Thomas Jefferson, the self-proclaimed Master of Monticello,
better "regardez votre derrière."
**************
The boy-king emerged today from the recesses
of the palace to hold his first press conference since the end
of the war. He came prepared with a list of friendly reporters
to call on, and media savants were atwitter about his
intentional violation of tradition as he did not tender the first
question to Madame Helen Thomas, the long-time royal reporter
for the A.P. The conference began instead with Cardinal d'Aride
praying an Ave Maria and a Pater Noster for the safety of French
troops. The king, famous for his malapropos "Louisms,"
was asked about the failure of French coalition forces to find
the promised WMDs:
"One thing's certainement,
George the Third no longer threatens Amérique with
weapons of Mass destruction. The evildoer tried to fool the
Vatican and did so for many years by hiding these weapons, by
secretly targeting semi-innocent priests, bishops, and cardinals,
and by slipping biological agents into smoking censers. Wherever
he happens to be, dead or alive, he can never threaten the Liturgy
and Holy Eucharist again."
The press conference ended with a direct
address from the most Christian King to the American people:
"Vous êtes libres. And liberté
is belle. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos
and order-order out of chaos. But we will."
**************
Franklin, whose peripatetic ways cause
his Ancien Régime supporters to call him affectionately,
Ça-là-bas, made the rounds of the Saturday
morning talk shows this week. Much of the questioning concerned
the problem presented by the overwhelming Protestant majority
in America and the role of the newly energized parsons, ministers,
secularists, and agnostics. Franklin pulled no punches: "There
is a role for American secular parties, for they have some constituencies.
But they are not going to be forcing any agenda or forcing an
'atheocracy' on the American people. We do not think that an
election, one election, should determine permanently the nature
of l'État d'Amérique."
Later, with a slap of his rostrum, Rhummy
echoed Franklin's sentiments, "If you're suggesting, how
would we feel about a Canadian-type government with very, very
few clerics running everything in the country, the answer is:
That isn't going to happen."
**************
Two hundred American delegates and representatives
from the French military, church, and throne gathered to begin
the formal rebuilding of Amérique through the drafting
of a constitution. In a spirit of openness and freedom and brotherhood,
many possible ideas were suggested and debated. James Madison
of Virginia proposed that the document should begin, "We
the people of the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, et
cetera, do ordain, declare and establish."
"Un instant! Un instant!"
Rhummy shouted, "Absent a dictator, absent the George Third
regime, our goal would be first to have a single country, not
have a country broken up into pieces! You can forget about this
states merde, you'll be one state and one state only."
Seeing the error of its ways, the convention unanimously concurred
and scrapped Madison's introduction, the country's tentative
name, the Senate, and Madison himself. (This notorious Virginian
was later hanged for his treasonous promotion of the Federaleen
movement.)
Conventioneers quickly agreed on the
structure of the other two branches of government-military tribunal
and royal administrative theocracy. They even found time to
include a Bill of Rights beginning with the famous First Amendment,
"Congress shall make a law respecting an establishment of
religion."
**************
A grand and glorious day to begin the
last decade of the 18th century! Benjamin Franklin was sworn
in as the first Governor of the United State of America. After
the sign of the cross and a Gloria and heartfelt thanks to the
King, the Governor declared, "In tendering this homage to
the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself
that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own. No people
can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which
conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United State."
Though the remainder of the gubernatorial homily was similarly
inspiring, there was one sour note: winging through the congregated
was a whispered rumor involving a Paris mob, an empty palace,
a fleeing most Christian king, an old jail cell, a tumbrel, and
a whetted chopping blade.
David Sally
teaches at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
He can be reached at: dfs12@cornell.edu
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