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June 14, 2002
Mark Weisbrot
US Trade
Policy:
"Do as We Say, Not as We Did"
Starhawk
The Boy Who Kissed the Soldier
David Krieger
Farewell
to the ABM Treaty
Tom Turnipseed
The Fear Factor to Promote
War and Trample Truth
Steve Perry
How the
Bush Adminstration Buried Coleen Rowley
June 13, 2002
Linda Belanger
Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict:
The Story Behind the Headlines
Amira Hass
Indefinite
Siege
Mokhiber / Weissman
Time to Put Lives Over Patents
Robert Fisk
Bush's Weird
War
Stanton / Madsen
Democracy
in Crisis:
What is to be Done?
Roldan Tomasz Suárez
Venezuela:
Five Facts
About the Coup
June 12, 2002
Fran Shor
Dirty Bombs, Blowback
and Imperial Projections
Dave Marsh
Shelley
Stewart, Radio and the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement
Chris Floyd
Murder, Inc.
June 11, 2002
Omar Barghouti
On Dance, Identity and War
Robert Fisk
The Bush
Afghan Gang:
Murderers, Gangsters, Stooges
Minerva Wright
The Donkeys of the Holy Land
David Krieger
Stopping
a Nuclear War
in South Asia
June 10, 2002
Jeffrey St. Clair
Executioner's Last Songs
June 8/9, 2002
Gavin Keeney
Mademoiselle
M.
Or Getting Screwed in Paris
Susan Davis
Sleepless
in the Suburbs
Curing Insomnia: a new use for The Nation?
George Sunderland
"Send
in the Weekly
Standard": The Screaming Pundits Assault Corps
June 7, 2002
Michael Colby
Bush to the Nation:
You're All Cops Now
Tanweer Akram
Howard
Zinn's "Terrorism
and War": a review
David Krieger
New Security Challenges
Sam Bahour
The Palestinian
Intifada:
A Very American Struggle
Tom Turnipseed
A Crisis of Confidence
in US Leadership
June 6, 2002
Michael Colby
White House
vs. EPA:
Political Hot Air and
Global Warming
Ron Jacobs
The Indo-Pakistan Conflict:
It's Just a Shot Away
Francis Boyle
Take Sharon
to The Hague:
Prosecute Israeli War Crimes
at Jenin
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60 Minutes and President Chavez's
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Mark Weisbrot
Spying
and Lying:
The FBI's Shameful Past
June 5, 2002
Robert Fisk
Berlusconi the Censor
Danielle Brian
Nuclear
Plants and Terrorism
Ardeshir Cowasjee
For What Do We Fight?
George Monbiot
Kashmir
on the Brink
Michael Neumann
What is Antisemitism?
June 4, 2002
Dave Marsh
Bono the Useful Idiot
William Evan / Francis
Boyle
Kashmir:
Invoking Intl. Law to Avoid Nuclear War
Cockburn / St. Clair
The Future Wellstone Deserves
June 3, 2002
Ramdas / Makhijani
India,
Pakistan and Nukes:
A Road Map to Peace
Fran Shor
Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan
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June 15/16, 2002
Stand Up and Clap!
Have You Been Serviced?
by David Vest
The president has been talking about "service"
again. Urging his audience to "make a culture of service
a permanent part of American life," President Bush promised
graduates of Ohio State University this week that they "will
gain satisfaction that cannot be gained in any other way."
It was not the first promise the assembled
students, faculty and family members had heard.
Moments earlier, they had been promised
that anyone who demonstrated or heckled the commencement speaker
would be subject to expulsion or arrest -- and they had been
instructed to service the president with a "thunderous"
ovation.
Sounds like something an announcer in
China might say to a crowd of university students before bringing
out President Jiang Zemin to speak to them.
Perhaps the comparison is too harsh.
After all, Bush is uniquely qualified to lecture people about
service. His entire administration has been about service. He
learned a lot (as he would say) about service in his role as
a greeter at the Ball Park in Arlington, the only real job he
ever had before he met Ken Lay.
Soon after that fateful handshake he
was providing service to all kinds of people from his new home
in Austin.
He served the petrochemical industry
by letting polluters write environmental regulations (for starters).
Now he's in a position where he can really
service a lot of people. He can make Secretariat look like a
eunuch now.
Just look at his service to Enron. (You
do remember Enron, don't you? Haven't heard much about it lately?
That just shows how unobtrusive the service has been.)
He's ready to perform service for anyone
who wants to gouge, cut, dig, drill, rape and loot the American
landscape. The Afghan landscape, too -- don't forget that pipeline.
Nobody can say he hasn't done outstanding
service for the nuclear industry -- providing us all with an
opportunity to serve by standing at attention as deadly nuclear
waste rolls through our neighborhoods. (Remember not to heckle
or demonstrate, ok? Wouldn't want anyone to get held without
trial.)
This president is devoted to serving
all manner of special interests. (What makes them so "special"?
the service they get, of course!)
Of course, the president is only human.
His record of service is not flawless. Vietnam Vets of Alabama,
for example, put up a cash reward for anyone who can prove Bush
actually performed his military service in the state of Alabama,
as he claims to have done (Dubya's commanding officer says there's
no record he never showed up for duty). As far as I know, the
reward is still there for the taking.
No one's perfect. And lecturing students
about service is an improvement for Bush: in Texas he used to
lecture the poor about "responsibility."
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Mark Weisbrot
US Trade
Policy:
"Do as We Say, Not as We Did"
Starhawk
The
Boy Who Kissed the Soldier
David Krieger
Farewell
to the ABM Treaty
Tom Turnipseed
The Fear
Factor to Promote
War and Trample Truth
Steve Perry
How the Bush Adminstration Buried
Coleen Rowley
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