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July 11, 2002
David Krieger
Law vs.
Force
David Vest
Fountain
of Foo:
Strike Three Called
Irit Katriel
A Deep
Ideological Crisis
Richard Glen Boire
Dangerous
Lessons:
Public School Drug Testing
July 10, 2002
CounterPunch Wire
Third Party
Woes
South Carolina Denies Kevin Alexander Gray Ballot Status
Nassar Ibriham &
Majed Nassar
Bush's
Middle East Plan: Always Changing, Never Changing
Robert Fisk
Ain't That
America:
A Strange Kind of Freedom
Dave Marsh
The Return
of CREEP:
Record Cartel Accounting
Bernard Weiner
Hope and
Despair in
the Body Politic
Gary Leupp
European
Worries and
Bush's Terror War
July 9, 2002
St. Clair / Cockburn
The Atomic
Clock is Ticking:
All Roads Lead to Yucca Mtn.
Jack McCarthy
Florida:
a Terrorist Sanctuary for Bush's Bloody Pals?
Robert Fisk
How a Saudi
Billionaire
Does Beirut
Stanton and Madsen
God, Incorporated
Kurt Nimmo
IDF, Gangbanging
with Tanks
Bill Christison
Disastrous
Foreign Policies
of the US Part 3:
What Can We Do About It?
July 8, 2002
Rick Mercier
Yucca
Mountain Bound
Lev Grinberg
The
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Tariq Ali
How Bush
Used 9/11 to Remap the World
Lori Allen
The Tugs
of War:
Palestinian Life Under Curfew
July 7, 2002
Alexander Cockburn
White
House Crooks
July 6, 2002
Gavin Keeney
Loose
Lips:
Liberty, Democracy & Bush
Michael Neumann
What's
So Bad About Israel?
Steve Baughman
Ashcroft's
Vendetta:
Lynching John Lindh
July 5, 2002
Ahmad Faruqui
Bush Freezes Peace Process
Todd May
Independence
and Terrorism
Rahul Mahajan
Why I
Won't Celebrate the Fourth of July This Year
July 4, 2002
S. Brian Willson
What
the Flag Means to Me
Philip Farruggio
Independence Day and
the Working Poor
Tom Gorman
The Uncommon
Pledge
of Allegiance
Chris Floyd
Jungle
Fever:
Bush's Bolivian Mercenaries
July 3, 2002
Francis Boyle
The Death
of the Oslo Accords
Mokhiber / Weissman
Cracking
Down on Corp. Crime
Robert Jensen
Lynne
Cheney's Primer
Behzad Yaghmaian
An Alternative
to the G-8s Africa Initiative
Toward a Global AIDS Fund and a Living Wage
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Public
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July 2, 2002
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The Wedding
Was a Bomb
CounterPunch Wire
Trial of
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Edward Hammond
Bombing
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The Pentagon's Drug Warfare
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Ramallah
Occupied:
Uninvited Guests Become Neighbors
July 1, 2002
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Brazil's
Triumph
June 28/30, 2002
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The True Story of Resolution
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Bush's
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Taking
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Speech a Setback
for Peace
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v. The Constitution
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July
11, 2002
Fountain of Foo:
Strike Three
Called
by David Vest
It is finally clear what is going on. Everything
in the whole goddamn world is turning into a replay of the 2000
presidential election debacle in Florida. Think about it. First
there was Florida (Louisiana without the music), where the Smirk
came out of the Smoke and the Ignoramus prevailed over the Idiot,
who didn't even bother to protest the disenfranchisement of African-Americans,
many of whom tried to vote at polling places that were run like
sting operations. (It was easier to just blame it all on Ralph
Nader.)
Then it spread to France, where they
elected a guy nobody wanted, a man more than 80 per cent of the
voters had already rejected only weeks earlier. (They blamed
that on people who didn't even vote.)
Next thing we knew it was affecting our
corporations. They were eaten up with stupidity and disappeared
like a table devoured by termites in a cartoon. (Clinton's fault,
say right-wing commentators.)
Then it was the Church, which in the
midst of a horrifying pedophilia crisis offered up to the media
a cardinal who described the pope as a man who is "turned
on by children."
Now we have the All-Star Game, which
ended in a monumentally disastrous tie with the home-town folks
throwing garbage onto the field and howling for the hide of local
hero Bud Selig. Apparently these were the very fans who are to
blame for the whole mess, for insisting that all the players
be allowed to play.
Has baseball ever had a sadder season?
People stayed up all night changing the name of Enron Field to
Minute Maid Park. We lost Jack Buck and Darryl Kile. We can't
even bury Ted Williams right, and now this.
"A tie is like kissing your sister,"
the old saying goes. This was more like having to kiss Marge
Schotz on the morning after.
"Let them play!" screamed the
fans. I don't know what they were so upset about, beyond the
fact that they had paid money to see a ball game. Everybody knows
that the "achievements" of athletes pumped full of
steroids are meaningless anyway. All you have to do is look at
a photo of the last man to hit .400 and compare his body to almost
any body in the lineup in Milwaukee. Who cares if some guy on
dope hits 120 homers this year? They can't all be on steroids,
but how do we know that?
Dylan is right (again): Everything is
broken.
At least when the Supreme Court ordered
Florida to stop counting votes, they declared a winner. The All-Star
Game didn't even give us an MVP.
The image of Bud Selig throwing his hands
up in the air after huddling with Joe Torre and Bob Brenly will
linger for a long time. There was a day when decent people would
hand a guy like Selig a pistol and quietly close the door behind
them.
We worry about not having a real president
when this country can't even produce a real Commissioner of Baseball.
Come to think of it, maybe the total
collapse of everything didn't start in Florida. Maybe it started
when former Commissioner Fay Vincent was forced out by the owners.
Maybe that was the coup of historic proportions that all the
historians missed.
Commissioner of Baseball was the job
that George W. Bush says he originally wanted. If you think nothing
could have made baseball's current situation any worse, meditate
on that.
David Vest
writes the Rebel Angel column for CounterPunch. He is a poet
and piano-player for the Pacific Northwest's hottest blues band,
The Cannonballs.
He can be reached at: davidvest@springmail.com
Visit his website at http://www.rebelangel.com
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David Krieger
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Fountain
of Foo:
Strike Three Called
Irit Katriel
A Deep
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Lessons:
Public School Drug Testing
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