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March 17, 2004
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
March 11, 2004
Ron Jacobs
Bedtime
for Democracy
Bill Kauffman
Hey,
Ralph! Why Not Another Party of the People?
James Hollander
Slaughter
in Madrid: Consolidating an Ally?
Norman Solomon
They
Shoot Journalists, Don't They?
Patrick Gavin
The Salvation of Dan Quayle: Family Values Return
Becky Burgwin
You're
Messing with the Wrong Generation
John Sugg
The FBI is on My Trail
March 10, 2004
Hammond Guthrie
Read
This Book!: "Who the Hell is Stew Albert?"
Chris Floyd
Operation Enduring Sweatshop: Another
Bush Brings Hell to Haiti
Elizabeth Corrie
Remembering the Death of Rachel Corrie
Mike Whitney
US Press Torpedoes Aristide
M. Junaid Alam
An Anti-Civilizational War?
Bob Feldman
The Occupation of Haiti: Recalling 1915-1934
John L. Hess
An Overload of Crises
Gary Leupp
On Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi and the Uses of al-Qaeda "Links"
March 9, 2004
Greg Weiher
The
Zarqawi Gambit, Part 2
Ben Tripp
Word Up! Let's Have a Conversation
Tom Barry
Neo-Cons Target Syria
Sharon Smith
The Hypocrites in the Catholic Church
Robert Fisk
The Same Old Iraq
Doug Giebel
The Bush Strategy: Laughing All the Way
Ralph Nader
Pension Rights, the Trail of Broken Promises
Daniel Estulin
In Memory of Ricardo Ortega: a Great Journalist, Killed in Haiti
Dave Lindorff
Martha Stewart's Cloudy Day
Saul Landau
Will the Filthy Rich Dump Bush?
Website of the Day
Imperial Armies in the Garden
March 8, 2004
Amy Goodman
An
Interview with Aristide
Eric Ruder
An Interview
with Robert Fatton on the Coup in Haiti
Robert Jensen
The Presidential Library Terrorist
Connection
Mike Whitney
Expel the US from the Security Council
Jason Leopold
How Cheney Helped Cover Up Pakistan's
Nuclear Proliferation
Mazin Qumsiyeh
Why is Apartheid Touted as a Solution?
Kevin Alexander Gray
The Legacy of Strom Thurmond
Derek Seidman
Radical Continuity: an Interview with Paul Buhle
Steve Perry
Kerry Fiddles While He Could be Burning Bush
Website of the Day
Patriot
Act Game
March 6 / 7, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Understanding the World with
Paul Sweezy
Robert Pollin
Remembering Paul Sweezy
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Politics of Timber Theft
Tom Reeves
Bush's Mass Deportations: 63,000 and Counting
Charles Lewis
Who Mugged Howard Dean in Iowa:
Kerry, Torricelli and a Mysterious Frontgroup
Tom Jackson
My Breakfast with Sen. Judd Gregg
Kurt Nimmo
Is Venezuela Next?
Alan Cisco
A Report from Caracas
Jack Random
Haitian Democracy be Damned
Colin Piquette
Oh, Canada: the Coup Coalition
Lee Sustar
Labor's State of Emergency
William D. Hartung
Iraq and the Costs of War
David Sally
Rebuilding
Amérique
Mark Scaramella
When God Mooned Moses: Test Your Bible Knowledge
Mickey Z.
What We Can Learn from Ashcroft's Gallbladder
Ron Jacobs
Politics and Baseball
Dave Zirin
The Longest Jump: the Blackballing of Phil Shinnick
Poets' Basement
John Holt and Larry Kearney
Website of the Weekend
National Day of Action for Rachel Corrie
March 5, 2004
Chris Floyd
Uncle
Sugar: How the WMD Scam Put Money in Bush Family Pockets
Ron Jacobs
Chaos
Reigns: Haiti and Iraq
Lisa Viscidi
Guatemalan
Refugees: a Difficult Return
Yves Engler
Canada and the Coup in Haiti
Mike Legro
Those Bush Ads: Some Dead Bodies Are Worth More Than Others
Javier Armas
A Night of Inspiration: Oakland Benefit for Grocery Workers Strike
Bennett Hoffman
"Who Cares About Haiti, Anyway?"
Bill Christison
Faltering Neo-Cons Still Dangerous
Website of the Day
Haiti Support Group
March 4, 2004
Diane Christian
Sex
and Ideals
Sen. Robert Byrd
Stop the Stonewalling, Mr. President: Fairy Tales, Bush and the
9/11 Commission
Norman Solomon
Assuming the Right to Intervene: The US Press and Haiti
Jack Brown
A Fragrant Saga of Mexico's Greens
Hal Cranmer
The
John Kerry Experience
David Lindorff
Greenspan's Pension
Sam Smith
The Election is Over, We Lost
Christopher Brauchli
Goin'
to the Chapel: The Gay and the Dead
Brian D. Barry
The "Perfect" World of E-Voting: A Computer Scientist
Reports from the Polling Booth
Richard Oxman
Arsonists for Haiti?
Peter Phillips
Haitian
Fantasies: Mainstream Media Fails Itself, Again
Tariq Ali
Notes on Anti-Semitism, Zionism and
Palestine
Website of the Day
What If Boeing Ads Told the Truth?
March 3, 2004
Heather Williams / Karl
Laraque
Marines
Retake Haiti
Jack McCarthy
Guy's
Our Guy: "I am the Chief. My Hero is Pinochet."
Robert Sandels
The
Purloined Label: The Struggle Over the Havana Club Trademark
Juliana Fredman / James Davis
Israeli Organized Crime
JG
The Yuppie Silence on Haiti
Emilio Sardi
The
Colombia/US Free Trade Deal: It's About More Than Trade
Alan Farago
Swimming in Sewage
Mike Whitney
"Blood
Will Have Blood": 143 Murdered in Liberated Iraq
CounterPunch Wire
Nader's Legislative Record in the 1960s
Steve Perry
Kerry
Advisory: Remember Lena Guerrero
Nelson George/ Marcus Miller
Miles Davis & Hip Hop: a Conversation
Website of the Day
$10,000 Is Yours for the Taking: The USS Liberty Challenge
March 2, 2004
William Blum
If Kerry's
the Answer, What's the Question?
Conn Hallinan
Haiti:
the Dangerous Muddle
JoAnn Wypijewski
The Bravo
H-Bomb Test: One WMD They Couldn't Hide
Mike Whitney
Regime Change in Haiti: the Bush Dominos Keep Falling
Ra Ravishankar
Afghanistan, the Liberation That Isn't: an Interview with Mariam
from RAWA
Dan Bacher
Merle Haggard & the Politics of Salmon: "Clearcutting
is Rape"
Greg Moses
Oscar White
Brandy Baker
Mel Gibson's Minstrelsy Show
Little Tucker Carlson
What I Did on My Vacation
Robert Fisk
All This
Talk of Civil War, Now This
Merle Haggard
Kern River
Website of the Day
Rebel Edit
March 1, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Morris
Thanks War Criminal in Front of Billions
Richard Oxman
Oscar's
Obit: Thanking Bob McNamara
Elaine Cassel
Writing and Reading as "Terrorism"
Mickey Z
Thomas Friedman's Education
Mike Whitney
George Will and Anti-Semitism: a Cul-de-Sac of Prejudice
Heather Williams
Haiti
as Target Practice: How the US Press Missed the Story
Cathy Crosson
Chanson d'amour haïtienne
Website of the Day
God Hates Shrimp
February 28 / 29, 2004
Stephen Green
Serving
Two Flags: Neo-Cons, Israel and the Bush Team
Gary Leupp
Another Senseless Bush Battle: Defining and Protecting Marriage
William A. Cook
Israel:
America's Albatross
Ron Jacobs
Kucinich: Good Fight; Wrong Battlefield
Ben Tripp
A Nosegay of Posies: Queer Weddings at Last!
Leilla Matsui
Dances with Crucifixes
Mike Whitney
Dismantle
the Military Goliath
Yoel Marcus
Down and Out in the Hague
Uri Avnery
The Dancing Bear
Linda S. Heard
Britons and Americans Condemned to a Hobson's Choice
Al Krebs
Unmasking a Secret American Empire: Land, Water & Cotton
Stan Cox
Life (Pat. Pend.): Genetic Commandeering
JG
The Haiti Boomerang: "After The Looting & Pillaging,
Your Hunger Will Remain"
Rick Giombetti
Censorship at the Seattle P-I on Forced Psychiatry
Keith Hoeller
The Bankruptcy of Mental Health Insurance Parity
Dave Zirin
Colorado Football: Buffalo Swill
NADERAMA
Alan Maass
Nader and the Politics of Lesser
Evils
Michael Donnelly
Regime
Rotation: Anybody But Bush...Again?
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Exeunt Serenaders; Enter Nader
Doug Giebel
So Nader's Running? Get Over It
Bruce Jackson
An Open Letter to Naderites
CounterPunch Wire
Stalinists for Kerry! and Other Roars from the Crowd
Poets' Basement
Davies, Scarr, Kearney & Albert
February 27, 2004
Thomas C. Mountain
A
White Jesus During Black History Month?
Laura Carlsen
Americans
Abroad: Bush is Persona Non Grata
John B. Anderson
Nader's Campaign Brings Back Memories: Creating an Open Electoral
Process
Jason Leopold
Spying
on Kofi Annan
John Chuckman
Nader,
Risk and Hope
Standard Schaefer
An
Interview with Michael Hudson on Putin's Russia
Ray McGovern
Punished
for Honest Intelligence
Saul Landau
The
Haiti Redux
Website of the Day
Bush: Why I'm Running for Re-election
February 26, 2004
Brandy Baker
Is Nader
on to Something?
Jacques Kinau
AEI
to Colombia: "Can't Give You Anything But Guns, Baby"
Norman Solomon
Bugging Kofi Annan: UN Spying
and the Evasions of US Journalism
Greg Weiher
A Purloined Letter: the Zarqawi Gambit
Walt Brasch
Janet Jackson, Bush & No. 542: There are No Halftime Shows
in War
Shadi Hamid
The Music World Explodes in Anger
Norman Madarasz
As Canadian as Corruption
Chris Floyd
Bullets and Ballots
Virginia Tilly
The
Deeper Meaning of the Wall
Amy Goodman / Jeremy
Scahill
Haiti's
Lawyer Says US is Arming Haiti's Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries
Website of the Day
Clear Channel Sucks
February 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
the Mob! Bush, Gay Marriage and the Constitution
Douglas O'Hara
The
Merchants of Fear: Smearing Nader
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
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Israel's Apartheid Wall on Trial
at The Hague
Kurt Nimmo
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US Soldier Seeks Refugee Status in Canada
Al Krebs
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St.
Patrick's Day Edition
March 17, 2004
"Steady Leadership"
Let
the Buyer Beware
By TOM STEPHENS
In early March the Bush/Cheney administration
rolled out new campaign ads. Most public controversy focused
on their cynical use of images from the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
for partisan political purposes. But to some extent that misses
the point. The ads praise the "steady leadership"
of George W. Bush. In November Bush will face the voters in
a referendum on his leadership. The "steady leadership"
theme invites an evaluation.
Focusing on the hypocritical use of 9/11
imagery allows the Bush gang to avoid something they cannot honestly
run on: their record. The lies this administration tells about
its brand of "leadership" are numerous and persistent.
It spin-doctors everything to divide-and-conquer. Amending
the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Feloniously "outing"
an undercover CIA agent. Praising the "outsourcing"
of jobs to foreign countries. Several best-selling books have
tried to come to grips with the Bush/Cheney team's pattern of
mendacity-as-public-policy, in service of the rich. Beginning
to lose control over how their efforts are reported in the corporate
media, they recently tried to suggest in an official economic
report that loss of US manufacturing jobs isn't so bad, if you
just consider jobs in the fast food industry as "manufacturing"
hamburgers! This first crop of campaign ads is an attempt to
regain control and positive associations that have been slipping
away from Bush's handlers for the last several months.
"Steady Leadership"
Confronts the Reality Gap
The Bush pirates' looting of the economy
and bankrupting of state and local governments, combined with
their bedrock dishonesty, is a massive subject. For now I want
to focus on the choice facing the nation in only eight months,
by limiting the inquiry. One interesting period would be three
months between the end of July and the end of October 2003, ending
almost exactly one full year before the US electorate will go
to the polls. This was when the Bush/Cheney team adjusted their
single biggest initiative, "Operation Iraqi Freedom,"
to the brutal realities of the occupation of Iraq. It has recently
been observed that George W. Bush's much-discussed "credibility
gap" is more like a "reality gap." This was
never clearer than during the events connecting Iraq, Washington,
and Crawford, Texas in late summer and fall of 2003.
On July 29, in the face of steadily mounting
casualties in Iraq, Bush left Washington for his annual extended
Texas vacation. He reportedly claimed that "Iraq was growing
more secure by the day." Even by the amazing standards
of incredulity established by the Bush/Cheney team, this would
prove to be a major whopper.
Events proceeded rapidly. The month
of August saw one deadly bombing after another: at the Jordanian
embassy, UN headquarters and a major police station in Baghdad,
and massive carnage at the Tomb of Ali in Najaf (to mention only
the four biggest massacres during this period). US corporate
media propaganda about plans for "transfer of sovereignty"
and "democracy," in the face of such nightmarish, bloody
atrocities, occurring almost daily throughout Iraq, defied linguistic
or ideological spin. The Bush/Cheney regime resorted to over-the-top
rhetoric. News reports of their line on August 25, 2003 transcended
satire: "From Baghdad to the White House, administration
spokesmen went to elaborate lengths to argue that the presence
of terrorists in Iraq was somehow a positive development."
This blatant attempt to turn reality
on its head ushered in a period of newly critical reporting and
commentary, the first public test since the 9/11 tragedy of what
had passed for leadership by the Bush/Cheney team. Stink bombs
started to go off in the US corporate media in September 2003.
On September 4 the New York Times reported that "Top White
House officials personally approved the evacuation of dozens
of influential Saudis, including relatives of Osama bin Laden
from the US in the days just after" 9/11, when most flights
were grounded. Four days later Bush asked Congress for $87 billion
to pay for his Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns. The second anniversary
of 9/11 was followed by the emergence of the Valerie Plame affair
into public consciousness, and its bizarre return to the back
burner. It still simmers there today, along with the story about
smuggling bin Laden family members out of the US, and many other
Bush scandals. The Nation magazine's David Corn (author of The
Lies of George W. Bush) came out with a scoop. Administration
officials who sought to punish CIA agent Valerie Plame's husband,
former ambassador Joseph Wilson, for publicly disclosing that
Bush lied about Iraqi attempts to obtain enriched uranium from
Africa, by revealing her undercover work, probably committed
a felony. Such stories nourished a slightly more critical corporate
mass media focus on Bush's credibility problems, which hasn't
really let up ever since. Along with the administration's continuing
attempts to stonewall investigations, into the lack of weapons
of mass destruction in Iraq, and into the 9/11 disaster itself,
this new-found spirit of journalistic integrity provided the
media context for the "steady leadership" ads in March
2004.
Bush was publicly unfazed, advancing
even further into the Big Muddy with the same bland obliviousness
he demonstrates in his brief speaking parts for the new ads.
On October 10, exactly six months after Baghdad had fallen to
US troops, Bush said that the situation in Iraq is "a lot
better than you probably think." Four days later Bush
defended himself and his team against accusations that he had
lost control of Iraq policy, claiming that "the person in
charge is me." But hopefully at least one quote will not
turn out to be a lie: "If the people don't think I'm doing
my job, they'll find somebody else."
The rest of the month of October 2003
provided no relief. On October 26 a missile struck the Al-Rasheed
Hotel, where deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz, principal
architect of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," was staying
at the time. On the next day, the beginning of Ramadan, four
coordinated suicide bombings in Baghdad killed around 40, and
injured more than 400 people. Bush's crackpot optimism for public
consumption was unflagging. He insisted the US was making progress
in Iraq, arguing vacuously that "American successes are
actually spurring the violence by making insurgents more desperate."
The Real Issue
Bush's calculated exploitation of the
9/11 disaster is neither surprising, nor the biggest weakness
in his case for election, this time without the aid of a judicial
coup. The issue is not John Kerry's lukewarm record or unappealing
personality either. The issue is what a democracy does about
dangerous, dishonest, and perhaps even borderline psychotic leaders
who abuse power, in ways that threaten continued viability of
that democracy. Focusing primarily on their propaganda styles
and bad taste lets them off the hook for what they are doing
to the US and the world, in the name of "We the People."
The essential reality behind Bush's brand
of "steady leadership" was recently described by two
especially keen observers: Indian activist and author Arundhati
Roy, and Assistant UN Secretary General Hans Von Sponeck, in
their initial reactions to Bush's 2004 "State of the Union"
(SOTU) speech. Such international opinion has sometimes differed
substantially from how Bush's scripted ramblings play to potential
voters at home. But this time polling data indicated that the
US public received Bush's January 2004 SOTU no more warmly than
they had his $87 billion Iraq fiasco speech about four months
earlier.
Hans Von Sponeck: "My immediate
reaction is that there is a truly frightening disconnect between
rhetoric of president Bush and the reality, as it exists, as
we see it, as you know it, as we know it in Europe, as the Iraqis
know it, the reality outside the White House. I would say that
president Bush's assessment of that reality is really deeply,
deeply flawed. One is presented with facts which really are
fantasies. Very, very dangerous fantasies. One wonders whether
there is an element of psychosis here in the White House."
Arundhati Roy: "[W]e used the word
'psychosis' to describe what's going on: it is not the lies,
the quality of the lies that has become so insulting, it really
is beyond argument now, you know, it's really beyond being able
to say anything, because the description of the kind of world
that president Bush is proposing in America sounds like a nightmare,
tracking terrorist threats, bombing airline passengers, homeland
security department patrolling. Doesn't it sound Orwellian and
doesn't it sound like something that people should run a mile
from? It sounds like he's trying to recreate Afghanistan with
the Taliban there, you know, like this kind of religious right
wing sentiment that's overtaking everything in the world today."
Along with the oft-noted influence of
religious fundamentalism on what is sometimes referred to as
George W. Bush's "thinking," and the unbridgeable gap
between his rhetoric and reality, there is the dramatic difference
between the pious words and venal actions of leading figures
in his administration. As an illustrative example of this administration's
acts of "steady leadership," it's hard to improve on
the saga of Halliburton Corporation and its swollen corporate/military
welfare subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root (better known as
"Burn & Loot" to Vietnam-era GIs). Dick Cheney's
former employer has grown unimaginably wealthy on no-bid contracts
to supply the US military with everything it needs in the imperial
killing fields. The casualness of the corporate war profiteering
is breathtaking. An anonymous businessman with close ties to
the administration told a reporter from The New Yorker magazine:
"It's like Russia. This is how corruption is done these
days. It's not about bribes. You just tell your friends to
get access. Cheney doesn't call the Defense Department and tell
them, 'Pick Halliburton.' It's just having dinner with the right
people."
Rep. Henry Waxman of California, quoted
in the same New Yorker magazine piece, put it most succinctly
when he said "the war is being used by people close to the
Bush Administration to make money for themselves." There
you have it. At last a clear, simple and compelling explanation
for the Bush/Cheney administration's willful blindness and continuous
mendacity in the face of catastrophes of its own creation. "Steady
leadership" means corporate piracy, pathological lies, psychotic
detachment from reality, economic injustice, cover-ups, fantasies
of power, and of course ruthless mass killing to get whatever
they want from the least among us. The "messianic incompetence"
of a miserable failure at everything, except taking money from
his corporate fat cat financial backers. It's how corruption
is done these days. Let the buyer beware.
"Disillusioned words like bullets
bark
As human Gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without lookin' too far
That not much is really sacred
"Advertising signs that con
You into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on all around you
"Old lady judges watch people in
pairs
Limited in sex they dare
To push fake morals insult and stare
While money doesn't talk it swears
Obscenity who really cares
Propaganda all is phony"
Bob Dylan
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
Tom Stephens
is a lawyer in Detroit, Michigan. He can be reached at lebensbaum4@earthlink.
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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
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Daniel Wolff
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