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December 30, 2003
Jeffrey St. Clair
Hard
Time on the Killing Floor: Inside Big Meat
December 29, 2003
Mark Hand
The Washington
Post in the Dock?
David Lindorff
The
Bush Election Strategy
Phillip Cryan
Interested Blindness: Media Omissions in Colombia's War
Richard Trainor
Catellus Development: the Next Octopus?
Uri Avnery
Israel's
Conscientious Objectors
December 27 / 28, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
A
Journey Into Rupert Murdoch's Soul
Kathy Kelly
Christmas Day in Baghdad: A Better World
Saul Landau
Iraq
at the End of the Year
Dave Zirin
A Linebacker for Peace & Justice: an Interview with David
Meggysey
Robert Fisk
Iraq
Through the American Looking Glass
Scott Burchill
The Bad Guys We Once Thought Good: Where Are They Now?
Chris Floyd
Bush's Iraq Plan is Right on Course: Saddam 2.0
Brian J. Foley
Don't Tread on Me: Act Now to Save the Constitution
Seth Sandronsky
Feedlot Sweatshops: Mad Cows and the Market
Susan Davis
Lord
of the (Cash Register) Rings
Ron Jacobs
Cratched Does California
Adam Engel
Crumblecake and Fish
Norman Solomon
The Unpardonable Lenny Bruce
Poets' Basement
Cullen and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Activism Through Music
December 26, 2003
Gary Leupp
Bush
Doings: Doing the Language
December 25, 2003
Diane Christian
The
Christmas Story
Elaine Cassel
This
Christmas, the World is Too Much With Us
Susan Davis
Jinglebells, Hold the Schlock
Kristen Ess
Bethlehem Celebrates Christmas, While Rafah Counts the Dead
Francis Boyle
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
Alexander Cockburn
The
Magnificient 9
Guthrie / Albert
Another Colorful Season
December 24, 2003
M. Shahid Alam
The Semantics
of Empire
William S. Lind
Marley's
List for Santa in Wartime
Josh Frank
Iraqi
Oil: First Come, First Serve
Cpt. Paul Watson
The
Mad Cowboy Was Right
Robert Lopez
Nuance
and Innuendo in the War on Iraq
December 23, 2003
Brian J. Foley
Duck
and Cover-up
Will Youmans
Sharon's
Ultimatum
Michael Donnelly
Here
They Come Again: Another Big Green Fiasco
Uri Avnery
Sharon's
Speech: the Decoded Version
December 22, 2003
Jeffrey St. Clair
Pray
to Play: Bush's Faith-Based National Parks
Patrick Gavin
What Would Lincoln Do?
Marjorie Cohn
How to
Try Saddam: Searching for a Just Venue
Kathy Kelly
The
Two Troublemakers: "Guilty of Being Palestinians in Iraq"
December 20 / 21, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
How
to Kill Saddam
Saul Landau
Bush Tries Farce as Cuba Policy
Rafael Hernandez
Empire and Resistance: an Interview with Tariq Ali
David Vest
Our Ass and Saddam's Hole
Kurt Nimmo
Bush
Gets Serious About Killing Iraqis
Greg Weiher
Lessons from the Israeli School on How to Win Friends in the
Islamic World
Christopher Brauchli
Arrest, Smear, Slink Away: Dr. Lee and Cpt. Yee
Carol Norris
Cheers of a Clown: Saddam and the Gloating Bush
Bruce Jackson
The Nameless and the Detained: Bush's Disappeared
Juliana Fredman
A Sealed Laboratory of Repression
Mickey Z.
Holiday Spirit at the UN
Ron Jacobs
In the Wake of Rebellion: The Prisoner's Rights Movement and
Latino Prisoners
Josh Frank
Sen. Max Baucus: the Slick Swindler
John L. Hess
Slow Train to the Plane
Adam Engel
Black is Indeed Beautiful
Ben Tripp
The Relevance of Art in Times of Crisis
Michael Neumann
Rhythm and Race
Poets' Basement
Cullen, Engel, Albert & Guthrie
December 19, 2003
Elaine Cassel
Courts
Rebuke Bush for Trampling the Constitution
Robert Fisk
Raid
on Fantasyville: Shooting Samarra's Schoolboys in the Back
Zoltan Grossman
The
Occupation Has Failed to "Capture" the Loyalty of Iraqis
Mike Whitney
Bush's
Afghan Highway to Nowhere
Harold Gould
Has the Radical Arab Strategy Really Worked?
Gary Leupp
The
Neocon's Dream Memo
December 18, 2003
Ann Harrison
A
Landmark Victory for Medical Pot
John L. Hess
Catfish
Blues: The SOB's from Out of Town
Karyn Strickler
Ebola
is Good for You!
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Duryodhana
Dies
Harry Browne
Hail
Jim Hickey, the "Irish Hero" of the Colonial Occupation
of Iraq
Hammond Guthrie
Captured in Abasement
December 17, 2003
Robert Fisk
Saddam's
Cold Comforts
Gideon Levy
"Don't
Even Think About the Children"
Marjorie Cohn
The Fortuitous
Arrest of Saddam: a Pyrrhic Victory?
Andrew Cockburn
Saddam's
Last Act
December 16, 2003
Robert Fisk
Getting
Saddam...15 Years Too Late
Mahajan / Jensen
Saddam
in Irons: The Hard Truths Remain
John Halle
Matt
Gonzalez and Me
Josh Frank
The
Democrats and Saddam
Tariq Ali
Saddam
on Parade: the New Model of Imperialism
December 15, 2003
Robert Fisk
The Capture
of Saddam Won't Stop the Guerrilla War
Dave Lindorff
The
Saddam Dilemma
Abu Spinoza
Blowback on the Stand: The Trial of Saddam Hussein
Norman Solomon
For
Telling the Truth: the Strange Case of Katharine Gun
Patrick Cockburn
The
Capture of Saddam
Stew Albert
Joy to the World
December 13 / 14, 2003
Bill and Kathleen Christison
Chickenhearts
at Notre Dame: the Pervasive Fear of Talking About the Israeli
Connection
Stan Goff
Jessica Lynch, Plural
Tariq Ali
The Same Old Racket in Iraq
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Map is not the Territory
Marty Bender / Stan Cox
Dr. Atkins vs. the Planet
Christopher Brauchli
Mercury Rising: the EPA's Presents to Industry
Gary Leupp
On Marriage in "Recorded History", an Open Letter to
Gov. Mitt Romney
Sasan Fayazmanesh
The Saga of Iran's Alleged WMD
Larry Everest
Saddam, Oil and Empire: Supply v. Demand
William S. Lind
How to Fight a 4th Generation War
Fran Shor
From Vietnam to Iraq: Counterinsurgency and Insurgency
Ron Jacobs
Child Abuse as Public Policy
Omar Barghouti
Relative Humanity and a Just Peace in the Middle East
Adam Engel
Pretty Damn Evil: an Interview with Ed Herman
Kristin Van Tassel
Breastfeeding Compromised
Ben Tripp
On Getting Stabbed
Susan Davis
"The Secret Lives of Dentists", a Review
Dave Zirin
Does Dylan Still Matter? an Interview with Mike Marqusee
Norman Madarasz
Searching for the Barbarians
Poets' Basement
Guthrie and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Dean on Race
December 12, 2003
Josh Frank
Halliburton,
Timber and Dean
Chris Floyd
The
Inhuman Stain
Dave Lindorff
Infanticide
as Liberation: Hiding the Dead Babies
Benjamin Dangl
Another Two Worlds Are Possible?
Jean-Paul Barrois
Two States or One? an Interview with Sami Al-Deeb on the Geneva
Accords
David Vest
Bush
Drops the Mask: They Died for Halliburton
December 11, 2003
Siegfried Sassoon
A
Soldier's Declaration Against War
Douglas Valentine
Preemptive
Manhunting: the CIA's New Assassination Program
John Chuckman
The Parable of Samarra
Peter Phillips
US Hypocrisy on War Crimes: Corp Media Goes Along for the Ride
James M. Carter
The
Merchants of Blood: War Profiteering from Vietnam to Iraq
December 10, 2003
Kurt Nimmo
The
War According to Newt Gingrich
Pat Youngblood / Robert
Jensen
Workers
Rights are Human Rights
Jeff Guntzel
On Killing Children
CounterPunch Wire
Ashcroft Threatens to Subpoena Journalist's Notes in Stewart
Case
Dave Lindorff
Gore's
Judas Kiss
December 9, 2003
Michael Donnelly
A
Gentle Warrior Passes: Craig Beneville's Quiet Thunder
Chris White
A Glitch
in the Matrix: Where is East Timor Today?
Abu Spinoza
The Occupation Concertina: Pentagon Punishes Iraqis Israeli Style
Laura Carlsen
The FTAA: a Broken Consensus
Richard Trainor
Process and Profits: the California Bullet Train, Then and Now
Josh Frank
Politicians as Usual: Gore Dean and the Greens
Ron Jacobs
Remembering
John Lennon
December 8, 2003
Newton Garver
Bolivia
at a Crossroads
John Borowski
The
Fall of a Forest Defender: the Exemplary Life of Craig Beneville
William Blum
Anti-Empire
Report: Revised Inspirations for War
Tess Harper
When Christians Kill
Thom Rutledge
My Next Step
Carol Wolman, MD
Nuclear
Terror and Psychic Numbing
Michael Neumann
Ignatieff:
Apostle of He-manitariansim
Website of the Day
Bust Bob Novak
December 6 / 7, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
The
UN: Should Be Late; Never Was Great
CounterPunch Special
Toronto Globe and Mail Kills Review of "The Politics of
Anti-Semitism"
Vicente Navarro
Salvador Dali, Fascist
Saul Landau
"Reality
Media": Michael Jackson, Bush and Iraq
Ben Tripp
How Bush Can Still Win
Gary Leupp
On Purchasing Syrian Beer
Ron Jacobs
Are We Doing Body Counts, Now?
Larry Everest
Oil, Power and Empire
Lee Sustar
Defying the Police State in Miami
Jacob Levich
When NGOs Attack: Implications for the Coup in Georgia
Toni Solo
Game Playing by Free Trade Rules: the Results from Indonesia
and Dominican Republic
Mark Scaramella
How to Fix the World Bank
Bruce Anderson
The San Francisco Mayor's Race
Brian Cloughley
Shredding the Owner's Manual: the Hollow Charter of the UN
Adam Engel
A Conversation with Tim Wise
Neve Gordon
Fuad and Ezra: an Update on Gays Under the Occupation
Kurt Nimmo
Bush Gives "Freedom" Medal to Robert Bartley
Tom Stephens
Justice Takes a Holiday
Susan Davis
Avast, Me Hearties! a Review of Disney's "Pirates of the
Caribbean"
Jeffrey St. Clair
A
Natural Eye: the Photography of Brett Weston
Mickey Z.
Press Box Red
Poets' Basement
Greeder, Orloski, Albert
T-shirt of the Weekend
Got Santorum?
December 5, 2003
Jeremy Scahill
Bremer
of the Tigris
Jeremy Brecher
Amistad
Revisited at Guantanamo?
Norman Solomon
Dean
and the Corp Media Machine
Norman Madarasz
France
Starts Facing Up to Anti-Muslim Discrimination
Pablo Mukherjee
Afghanistan:
the Road Back
December 4, 2003
M. Junaid Alam
Image
and Reality: an Interview with Norman Finkelstein
Adam Engel
Republican
Chris Floyd
Naked Gun: Sex, Blood and the FBI
Adam Federman
The US Footprint in Central Asia
Gary Leupp
The
Fall of Shevardnadze
Guthrie / Albert
RIP Clark Kerr
December 3, 2003
Stan Goff
Feeling
More Secure Yet?: Bush, Security, Energy & Money
Joanne Mariner
Profit Margins and Mortality Rates
George Bisharat
Who Caused the Palestinian Diaspora?
Mickey Z.
Tear Down That Wal-Mart
John Stanton
Bush Post-2004: a Nightmare Scenario
Harry Browne
Shannon
Warport: "No More Business as Usual"
December 2, 2003
Matt Vidal
Denial
and Deception: Before and Beyond Iraqi Freedom
Benjamin Dangl
An Interview with Evo Morales on the Colonization of the Americas
Sam Bahour
Can It Ever Really End?
Norman Solomon
That
Pew Poll on "Trade" Doesn't Pass the Sniff Test
Josh Frank
Trade
War Fears
Andrew Cockburn
Tired,
Terrified, Trigger-Happy
December 1, 2003
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Unholy
Alliances: Zionism, US Imperialism and Islamic Fundamentalism
Dave Lindorff
Bush's
Baghdad Pitstop: Memories of LBJ in Vietnam
Harry Browne
Democracy Delayed in Northern Ireland
Wayne Madsen
Wagging the Media
Herman Benson
The New Unity Partnership for Labor: Bureaucratizing to Organize?
Gilad Atzmon
About
"World Peace"
Bill Christison
US
Foreign Policy and Intelligence: Monstrous Messes
November 29 / 30, 2003
Peter Linebaugh
On
the Anniversary of the Death of Wolfe Tone
Gary Leupp
Politicizing War on Fox News: a Tale of Two Memos
Saul Landau
Lying and Cheating:
Bush's New Political Math
Michael Adler
Inside a Miami Jail: One Activist's Narrative
Anthony Arnove
"They Put the Lie to Their Own Propaganda": an Interview
with John Pilger
Greg Weiher
Why Bush Needs Osama and Saddam
Stephen Banko, III
A Soldier's Dream
Forrest Hylton
Empire and Revolution in Bolivia
Toni Solo
The "Free Trade" History Eraser
Ben Terrall
Don't Think Twice: Bush Does Bali
Standard Schaefer
Unions
are the Answer to Supermarkets Woes
Richard Trainor
The Political Economy of Earthquakes: a Journey Across the Bay
Bridge
Mark Gaffney
US Congress Does Israel's Bidding, Again
Adam Engel
The System Really Works
Dave Lindorff
They, the Jury: How the System Rigs the Jury Pool
Susan Davis
Framing the Friedmans
Neve Gordon
Arundhati Roy's Complaint for Peace
Mitchel Cohen
Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
Ben Tripp
Capture Me, Daddy
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November 28, 2003
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Worse Than Crimes
David Vest
Turkey
Potemkin
Robert Jensen / Sam Husseini
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Wayne Madsen
Wag
the Turkey
Harold Gould
Suicide as WMD? Emile Durkheim Revisited
Gabriel Kolko
Vietnam
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November 27, 2003
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Al Krebs
Food as Corporate WMD
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December
30, 2003
Hard Time on the Killing
Floor
Inside
Big Meat
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
(The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey
St. Clair's new book, Been
Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: the Politics of Nature,
published by Common Courage.)
All is not right at the IBP Inc. plant in Pasco,
Washington, one of the nation's biggest slaugherhouses. According
to workers, meat at the plant is routinely contaminated with
cattle feces because workers on the processing line are not give
enough time to wash their hands. Under pressure from aggressive
plant managers, meat that falls on the floor, which is often
littered with meat byproducts and entrails, is often immediately
placed back on the line without being cleansed. Cutting tools
and conveyor belts, workers tell CounterPunch, are also
regularly coated with pus from abscesses and tumors that haven't
been properly cut out of the meat. Meat cutters at the plant
also told me that often cows are not rendered unconscious before
being sent down the line. Instead, workers say they often hear
cows frantically mooing as they are skinned and dismembered alive.
All of these problems are a function
of the excessive speed of the meat processing line, a complex
and dangerous network of conveyor belts and overhead chains and
hooks. "They keep that line moving as fast as possible and
they don't want it stopped
for any reason," an IBP worker told us. "They don't
care about the cows or the cow shit on the meat. They've got
quotas to meet." IBP plants, workers say, aren't slaughterhouses
so much as meat factories.
Workers say that IBP doesn't give them
adequate breaks and cheats them out of pay for the 30 minutes
a day it takes to put on and remove the protective clothing,
glasses and gloves they must wear to work the cutting line. According
to union shop steward Maria Martinez, many workers are often
denied bathroom breaks, forcing them to urinate in their pants
so they won't fall behind.
The workers know that when they fall
behind they risk being fired. Early in the morning on June 4
2000, IBP managers yanked a meat cutter of the cutting line,
saying that he wasn't keeping up with the flow of the meat. When
his fellow workers saw him be taken away, twenty of them followed
him to the plant manager's office. Many of them carried their
knives with them. The production line came to a halt.
The workers told the manager that all
of them were having problems doing their jobs safely because
the pace of the line was too fast. "The velocity of the
machines was so fast, we couldn't work properly,:" said
Malquiadez Perez, another shop steward. But the manager's didn't
want to hear any of this. They told the meat cutters that they
had 60 seconds to return to their places on the line or they
would be fired on the spot.
Maria Martinez, an organizer with the
TDU, told the IBP managers that the group would go back to work
if all of them could return, including the meat cutter who had
been fired for not keeping up with the pace of the line. The
manager told Martinez no, demanded that they workers turn over
their knives and told them they were fired.
This action led 800 other workers at
the plant to walk off the job as well, carrying their knives
with them. The action effectively shut down the slaughterhouse.
On June 8, the union voted to go on strike.
The strike was settled on July 7, when
after heavy-handed tactics from James Hoffa's national office
of the Teamster, workers narrowly approved a new contract on
a 276-258 vote. Under the terms of the deal, union members will
be given a say in the composition of the plant's safety committee
and wages for most workers will be increased by $1.32 an hour.
But many union leaders opposed the contract, saying it failed
to address the key issues that prompted the walk out.
"This strike was never about money,"
says Maria Martinez. "It was about worker safety and consumer
protection. And we didn't get what we were fighting for."
However, the issue is not over yet. In
response to letter from Martinez and others, the USDA's Food
Safety and Inspection Service has opened a probe of IBP for possible
violations of worker safety, meat quality and animal cruelty
laws. The Humane Slaughter Act of 1958, for example, prohibits
companies from butchering animals while they are conscious.
For its part, IBP denies all the charges
against it. The Dakota Dunes, South Dakota-based company says
that it recently installed a "steam vacuum system"
that will "sanitize" the meat even if it becomes contaminated
by feces and pus on the line. IBP claims that the June 4 walkout
was a set up and had nothing to do with the dismissal of the
meat cutter. Company spokesman Gary Mickelson says that the IBP
security people had "picked up rumors the night before that
the workers were planning an action the next day." Mickelson
says the entire affair "was staged by the union."
But this is far from the first time the
$13 billion company has been accused of shoddy practices and
worker safety violations. Indeed, since it's founding in 1960
(then called Iowa Beef Packers), the company has gained a reputation
as being fiercely anti-worker and for being quick to call in
scabs and violent strikebreakers. In the early, 1969 the company's
confrontations with its workers reached a bloody crescendo when
it closed down three Iowa plants, increased automation and tried
to bust the United Food and Commercial Workers when it demanded
a 20 cents an hour pay raise for workers. The following year
the Federal Trace Commission hit the company with an anti-trust
suit, which prohibited IBP from acquiring any new plants in South
Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa or Nebraska. As a result, IBP invested
in the Pasco plant in Washington and several others in the Pacific
Northwest and Texas.
In 1972, IBP's founder and former CEO,
Currier Holman, was convicted of paying a New York mob boss $1
million to insure that unions would disrupt the distribution
of IBP meat on the east coast. More investigations for monopolistic
practices followed, even after the company was acquired by Armand
Hammer's Occidental Petroleum in 1981. In 1985, OSHA hit IBP
with a then-record $2.6 million fine for manipulating data on
the high rate of worker injuries at its plants. Of particular
concern for OSHA was the design of IBP's cutting machines, which
caused repetitive motion disorders in hundreds of IBP workers.
After Hammer died in 1990, IBP was spun
off in a public stock offering. Today, Archer-Daniels-Midland
is the IBP's biggest shareholder, owning more than 14 percent
of the company. This didn't change the company's practices much.
Although IBP executives appeared at a press conference with Clinton
administration officials in 1996 denouncing the practice of hiring
illegal foreign workers, a few months later the company was busted
for employing 64 undocumented meat cutters at its huge pork plant
in Storm Lake, Nebraska. But the firm's cozy relationship with
high level figures in Congress and the Clinton administration
probably save it from prosecution. The IBP board hosts the dreadful
Wendy Gramm and JoAnn Smith, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
for Meat Inspection during the Bush presidency. Gramm and Smith
are handsomely compensated at the tune of $30,000 for a week's
worth of work for the company.
Although IBP claims that it pays its
meat cutters for a full day's work, factory workers say that
they must come in a 5:30 each morning to begin sharpening their
knives and putting on the cumbersome gear, about a half an hour
before the meat line cranks up. At the end of the day, another
half-hour is spent cleaning up the workstations, gear and knives.
Workers say they are not compensated for this time nor are they
given two 10-minute breaks required by federal law for laborers
who work more than an eight-hour day. IBP calculates the "official"
workday at 7 hours and 56 minutes and claims it is only required
to give the workers one 15-minute break and a half-hour lunch
break in the grueling day. In 1997, the Tenth Circuit Court in
suit brought by workers at a different plant ruled that IBP was
required to pay workers at that plant for the time spent putting
on and off the cutting gear and preparing the knives and workstations.
A similar suit was recently filed against IBP's Pasco factory.
Allegations about contaminated meat coming
from IBP plants has put the company on the defensive and has
prompted it to invest heavily a new PR campaign disguised as
a "food safety initiative." On May 17, IBP spent $150,000
to start up the "Safeguarding Our Last Links Campaign",
which will be run the Food Marketing Institute, the meat industry's
trade association. The Last Links campaign will not focus on
the growing crisis of e.coli contamination in meat plants, but
on teaching consumers how to keep meat "safely" stored
in refrigerators and how to clean countertops and silverware.
The campaign, IBP's CEO Robert Peterson said, is designed to
"help consumers learn safe food handling practices."
Of course, this might be a tough sell,
coming from a company whose workers say they are forced to urinate
in their pants on the factory floor as they butcher live cows
and put meat coated with pus and feces on the packaging line.
Spokane, 2000.
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Dave Zirin
A Linebacker for Peace & Justice: an Interview with David
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Robert Fisk
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Scott Burchill
The Bad Guys We Once Thought Good: Where Are They Now?
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Bush's Iraq Plan is Right on Course: Saddam 2.0
Brian J. Foley
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Susan Davis
Lord
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Cratched Does California
Adam Engel
Crumblecake and Fish
Norman Solomon
The Unpardonable Lenny Bruce
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