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Bush's
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Rouind Up the Usual Suspects: the Iman Ali Mosque Bombing
Robert Jensen / Rahul Mahajan
Iraqi Liberation, Bush Style
Elaine Cassel
Innocent But Guilty: When Prosecutors are Dead Wrong
Jason Leopold
Ghosts
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Dave Lindorff
Dems in 2004: Perfect Storm or Same Old Doldrums?
Paul de Rooij
Predictable
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Gary Leupp
Mel Gibson's Christ on Trial
William S. Lind
Send the Neocons to Baghdad
Augustin Velloso
Aznar: Spain's Super Lackey
Jorge Mariscal
The Smearing of Cruz Bustamante
John Ross
A NAFTA for Energy? The US Looks to Suck Up Mexico's Power
Mickey Z.
War is a Racket: The Wisdom of Gen. Smedley Butler
Elaine Cassel
Ashcroft's Traveling Patriot Show Isn't Winning Many Converts
Stan Cox
Pirates of the Caribbean: the WTO Comes to Cancun
Tom and Judy Turnipseed
Take Back Your Time Day
Adam Engel
The Red Badge of Knowledge: a Review of TDY
Adam Engel
An Eye on Intelligence: an Interview with Douglas Valentine
Susan Davis
Northfork,
an Accidental Review
Nicholas Rowe
Dance
and the Occupation
Mark Zepezauer
Operation
Candor
Poets' Basement
Albert, Guthrie and Hamod
Website of the Weekend
Downhill
Battle
August 29, 2003
Lenni Brenner
God
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Brian Cloughley
When in Doubt, Lie Your Head Off
Alice Slater
Bush Nuclear Policy is a Recipe for National Insecurity
David Krieger
What Victory?
Marjorie Cohn
The Thin Blue Line: How the US Occupation of Iraq Imperils International
Law
Richard Glen Boire
Saying Yes to Drugs!
Bister, Estrin and Jacobs
Howard Dean, the Progressive Anti-War Candidate? Some Vermonters
Give Their Views
Website of the Day
DirtyBush
August 28, 2003
Gilad Atzmon
The
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David Vest
Moore's
Monument: Cement Shoes for the Constitution
David Lindorff
Shooting Ali in the Back: Why the Pacification is Doomed
Chris Floyd
Cheap Thrills: Bush Lies to Push His War
Wayne Madsen
Restoring the Good, Old Term "Bum"
Elaine Cassel
Not Clueless in Chicago
Stan Goff
Nukes in the Dark
Tariq Ali
Occupied
Iraq Will Never Know Peace
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Behold, My Package
Website of the Day
Palestinian
Artists
August 27, 2003
Bruce Jackson
Little
Deaths: Hiding the Body Count in Iraq
John Feffer
Nuances and North Korea: Six Countries in Search of a Solution
Dave Riley
an Interview with Tariq Ali on the Iraq War
Lacey Phillabaum
Bush's Holy War in the Forests
Steve Niva
Israel's
Assassination Policy: the Trigger for Suicide Bombings?
Website of the Day
The Dean Deception
August 26, 2003
Robert Fisk
Smearing the Dead
David Lindorff
The
Great Oil Gouge: Burning Up that Tax Rebate
Sarmad S. Ali
Baghdad is Deadlier Than Ever: the View of an Iraqi Coroner
Christopher Brauchli
Bush Administration Equates Medical Pot Smokers with Segregationists
Juliana Fredman
Collective Punishment on the West Bank: Dialysis, Checkpoints
and a Palestinian Madonna
Larry Siems
Ghosts of Regime Changes Past in Guatemala
Elaine Cassel
Onward, Ashcroft Soldiers!
Saul Landau
Bush:
a Modern Ahab or a Toy Action Figure?
Congratulations
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August 25, 2003
Kurt Nimmo
Israeli Outlaws in America
David Bacon
In Iraq, Labor Protest is a Crime
Thomas P. Healy
The Govs Come to Indy: Corps Welcome; Citizens Locked Out
Norman Madarasz
In an Elephant's Whirl: the US/Canada Relationship After the
Iraq Invasion
Salvador Peralta
The Politics of Focus Groups
Jack McCarthy
Who Killed Jancita Eagle Deer?
Uri Avnery
A Drug
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August 23/24, 2003
Forrest Hylton
Rumsfeld
Does Bogota
Robert Fisk
The Cemetery at Basra
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for
Sanity
Insults to Intelligence
Andrew C. Long
Exile on Bliss Street: The Terrorist Threat and the English Professor
Jeremy Bigwood
The Toxic War on Drugs: Monsanto Weedkiller Linked to Powerful
Fungus
Jeffrey St. Clair
Forest
or Against Us: the Bush Doctor Calls on Oregon
Cynthia McKinney
Bring the Troops Home, Now!
David Krieger
So Many Deaths, So Few Answers: Approaching the Second Anniversary
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Julie Hilden
A Constitutional Right to be a Human Shield
Dave Lindorff
Marketplace
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Catherine Dong
Kucinich and FirstEnergy
José Tirado
History Hurts: Why Let the Dems Repeat It?
Ron Jacobs
Springsteen's America
Gavin Keeney
The Infernal Machine
Adam Engel
A Fan's Notations
William Mandel
Five Great Indie Films
Walt Brasch
An American Frog Fable
Poets' Basement
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August 22, 2003
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Post-Sandinista
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John Chuckman
George Will: the Marquis of Mendacity
Richard Thieme
Operation Paperclip Revisited
Chris Floyd
Dubya Indemnity: Bush Barons Beyond the Reach of Law?
Issam Nashashibi
Palestinians
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Mary Walworth
Other People's Kids
Ron Jacobs
The
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August 21, 2003
Robert Fisk
The US
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Virginia Tilley
The Quisling Policies of the UN in Iraq: Toward a Permanent War?
Rep. Henry Waxman
Bush Owes the Public Some Serious Answers on Iraq
Ben Terrall
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Elaine Cassel
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Christopher Brauchli
Getting Gouged by Banks
Marjorie Cohn
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September
3, 2003
Clowns and Lion Tamers
A
Hip Hop Perspective on the Cali Recall
By DAVEY D
So by now everyone knows what's been taking place
in the Golden State with regards to our Governor, Gray Davis
and the historic Recall Battle. Let's make no mistake, for the
most part it's been a 3 ring circus orchestrated and manipulated
by the same group of folks who enjoyed stealing our votes in
Florida during the 2000 election. With that being said, let's
also make no mistake about how most folks in Cali feel about
Governor Davis. He's a slime bag and most of what is going on
in Cali is really his own doing.
Davis is the type of politician who over
the years has developed an all too commonplace strategy to win
elections. He goes out of his way to turn people off and make
himself and the entire political process extremely unattractive.
The way this works is in a state that has more than 40 million
people, it becomes very expensive to run a campaign. So what
one does is try to identify small pockets of people who you feel
are likely to go to the polls and super serve them while simultaneously
ignoring or marginalizing larger segments of the population.
In Davis' case he's gone out of his way
to endear himself to labor unions which are voting against the
recall, certain big money special interest groups like the prison
guards union [which is the most powerful union in the state]
and law enforcement [Remember this is same governor who unceremoniously
shot down the Driving While Black legislation a couple of years
back].
On the flipside Davis is notorious for
ignoring and shuffling off other constituents. He's the guy who
won't show up for debates and would not do interviews with many
in the independent, black and people of color press. I've heard
story after story from community groups, organizations and independent
media outlets that could never get as much as a press release
from Davis. He hardly reached out to younger voters [18-34] who
ironically are being noted as the major constituents in the Golden
State who can flip this election on it's ear if they go to the
polls on October 7th.
When Davis came to 'the hood' or barrio
it was usually to do a quick photo op at a local church and then
he'd bounce and return 4 years later when he was seeking new
votes. For many, Davis is misleading because he would support
some of the major issues like Affirmative Action. He was against
the notorious anti-immigration bill Prop 187. He did a lot of
things that won the support of labor. But then you turn around
and this same guy would be for the death penalty. Over the years
he garnered a 'bad' reputation for denying all sorts of non violent
offenders parole. He's was down to give all sorts of money to
law enforcement and prisons while letting school's suffer. And
that's just the tip of the iceberg. What really got people up
in arms was the fact that many saw him as being too slow to move
during the energy crisis where Cali got royally screwed by these
big energy companies, many of whom donated handsomely to his
campaign [Gas is damn near 3 dollars a gallon in some places].
Gas Bills and electric bills have tripled. To top it all off,
in an effort to reduce the states 38 billion dollar debt, he
went out and tripled vehicle license renewal fees.
During the last gubernatorial election
which was 8 months ago, Davis pulled a fast one when it looked
like former LA Mayor Richard Riordan was going to give him a
major challenge. Riordan is a moderate Republican and was well
liked by a lot of folks. So what Davis did, was he started running
ads dissing Riordan and supporting his ultra conservative opponent
Bill Simon. He did it in such a way that most people thought
the ads were actually being run by Bill Simon. Homeboy spent
millions of dollars on these ads with the end result being the
far right-wing Republican taking Riordan out the race. Davis
figured if he manipulated the race and ran against an ultra conservative,
he would have a better chance than if he ran up against a moderate
Republican like Riordan. For the most part even though Davis
is a Democrat he acts like a Republican so most voters would've
probably voted for Riordan.
So while Davis was manipulating the Republican
primary races, at the same time he continued using his strategy
of 'Turning Off' voters by being elusive and unresponsive to
large groups of people. This strategy resulted in California
having one of the lowest voter turnouts in its electoral history.
Something like 30% bothered going to the polls. It was really
bad and really ugly. Voters hated Davis and they hated the ultra-conservative
Bill Simon even more so they didn't bother going to the polls
to vote for either man. Davis barely won the election. For the
most part, this is how Davis seemed to like things. As I said
before he doesn't seem to want large numbers of people coming
to the polls. By keeping them away he doesn't have to be accountable
to them or spend a lot of money trying to reach out to them.
Now this is where all this came back
to bite Davis in the ass. Because of last election's record low
voter turn out, the amount of signatures needed to qualify for
a recall was also low. The number of signatures needed to recall
an elected official is calculated on a percentage of the number
of folks who voted in the last election. The ultra conservatives
understood this and put together a strategy where they paid a
bunch of people to collect the necessary signatures for a recall
and played up the fact that no one likes Gray Davis. The end
result is now we have this recall with 134 candidates ranging
from actor Gary Coleman of Different Strokes, Larry Flint, publisher
of Hustler Magazine, former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth,
syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington and the Terminator Arnold
Schwarzenegger running for office. It's been a serious 3 ring
circus complete with clowns and lion tamers.
THE TERMINATOR AND
HIS CREW
With the Cali recall in full effect,
the main face that most of the world has seen belongs to actor
Arnold Schwarzenegger. People like his accent, they like his
movies and he comes across as a fun loving, charming guy. I run
into all sorts of people who don't follow politics but want a
change in California really bad. Many of them are totally gung-ho
that Arnold is running. There's a sense that come October 7th
there are going to be a lot of first time voters.
Those of us who follow things a bit more
closely say; DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE. Arnold is sham. Behind the
engaging smile is a serious team of former politicians backing
him who don't play. They're hardcore, take no prisoners cats
who have a long track record of taking us down the wrong path.
Arnold is basically the happy face that we'll see in front of
those dark clouds. Among Arnold's cronies is former Secretary
of State George Schultz who he just added to be part of his economic
recovery team.
Schultz served under Ronald Regan and
is part of the conservative think tank, the Hoover Institute
which supplies all types of advisors to the white house. Say
what you want, but with Schultz on board, George W and all his
buddies can't be too far away. For starters, Schultz used to
run Bechtel and now sits on their board. This is the same Bechtel
company that is cleaning up left and right with nice contract
after contract as a result of our recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Also on board, chairing Arnold's campaign
is former California Governor Pete Wilson who routinely gets
praised by the far right for smashing on the Latino community
because he staunchly supported Prop 187 [Anti-Immigration Bill]
and Prop 225 [The English only initiative]. Wilson gets praised
for helping end Affirmative Action on the UC Campus and later
for backing Prop 209 which ended affirmative action in the state.
As one ultra right-wing conservative
columnist, David Horowitz wrote; Wilson should be praised for
his stance and for being unapologetic. He notes that Wilson was
standing on high moral ground when he took those positions and
that Arnold, who also supported Prop 187, will stand to gain
greatly with Wilson in his corner. On a side note, Pete was one
of the architects behind California's notorious Juvenile crime
bill Prop 21.
In a state that is mostly minority, Wilson
was seen in many conservative sectors as this governor who managed
to keep black and brown folks in line by helping get these troubling
bills passed into law. Despite all his talk about being independent
and being his own man, Arnold Schwarzenegger is ultimately going
to be answering to his team of backers. The entire scenario seems
eerily similar to George W bringing all his father's [Bush sr]
old cronies and advisors to the table. If all goes according
to plan, Arnold will be the engaging, smiling mouthpiece for
a well heeled team of ultra conservative right wingers and their
agenda.
UNCLE TOM WARD CONNERLY
One thing to note is that Arnold seems
to be playing up his personality as opposed to laying down his
position on key issues. I personally have made it a point to
call his campaign office everyday before my radio show to see
if he has taken a position on Prop 54 which is a controversial,
sinister measure being pushed by 'Uncle Tom' Ward Connerly. Prop
54 if it passes would prohibit the state of California from collecting
any sort of racial data to see if there are any systematic patterns
of discrimination based upon race.
Prior to the recall this was one of the
most talked about issues in the state. It's all but disappeared
once the recall came around. Hardly any major media outlets have
spoken on this initiative which quietly got moved up in the election
cycle and got added to the October 7th ballot. Connerly who claims
he wants a colorblind society and hence wants to do away with
anything pertaining to race, seems to be doing the bidding of
his old boss Pete Wilson.
Connerly doesn't want the police to collect
data to see if there's any truth to the 'Driving while Black
or Brown' accusations. He doesn't want data collected to see
if there's a pattern of abuse based around race. He feels such
things are based on individual scenarios and not systemic racism.
Connerly doesn't want racial data collected
to see if there's housing discrimination or educational discrimination
around race. In other words, now that Prop 209 is in effect,
he wants to make a law that would make it illegal for California
universities or state contractors to collect any data to see
how Prop 209 impacted certain racial groups.
However, despite all this colorblind
talk, Connerly stops short when it comes to prison and law enforcement.
Here, Connerly states that it's perfectly ok in his 'colorblind'
society to separate prisoners by race. Connerly says that because
the California penal system is racially charged with race riots
occurring all the time, it's important that folks who are incarcerated
be separated by race. Of course Connerly never addresses the
issue of prison guards deliberately playing racial groups off
one another to keep everything is disarray. And of course Connerly,
naively thinks that in a state that has the highest prison population
in the country, that once people get released that all that racial
baggage will magically disappear and everyone will come out and
suddenly be colorblind.
This important issue, Prop 54 is one
that 'Arnold the Terminator' has been avoiding like the plague.
I've called his office at least 6 times asking what Arnold's
position was on this initiative and each time his people referred
me to his website <www.joinarnold.com> where he has no
stated position. He has a lot of information on other things
including his support of the death penalty and his support of
three strike law, but nothing on Prop 54.
On one particular show last week, I called
all the leading candidates and checked their websites. Schwarzenegger
and Gary Coleman were the only one's with no answer, Coleman's
people tried to clown while Schwarzenegger press secretary kept
me on hold for 20 minutes and then finally told me that Arnold's
position on these issues will be on the site shortly. That was
more than a week ago and still no information.
I was pretty blunt with the press secretary
and told her that it was disappointing that a guy who claims
that California needs strong, decisive leadership was waffling
on what is actually the most important issue on the ballot. Prop
54 will have long lasting implications should it pass and sadly,
the guy with the nice smile, tough demeanor and action packed
movies is running scared like Vanilla Ice at a Suge Knight house
party. I guess his boss, oops I mean advisors, Pete Wilson and
George Schultz haven't told him which way to stand on this issue.
I guess the best thing to do is call the white house to find
out what Arnold's position is on Prop 54. Maybe I can find out
from Bush and his boss Dick Cheney then I can call Arnold's campaign
office and tell him which way he'll be standing on the issue
because he obviously isn't speaking for himself.
WHO WILL COURT THE HIP HOP VOTE?
The thing that everyone is watching and
waiting to see is whether or not Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamonte
who is currently beating Arnold in the polls, is a Latino version
of Gray Davis. Folks don't seem to be overly thrilled with him
despite the fact that he could be the state's first Latino Governor.
Others are waiting to see whether or not progressive candidates
like Arianna Huffington or the Green Party's Peter Camejo have
any sort of serious chance to win.
As I noted earlier, the turning point
to this recall election is the young Hip Hop generation who have
a sizeable population in the state. It's been mentioned time
and time again in the mainstream press. With that in mind, it
will be interesting to see which candidate actively goes out
to court them. Thus far I haven't seen a whole lot of movement.
For example, there have been two Raider home games and a couple
of 49er home games which drew tens of thousands of people. I
saw none of the candidates or their volunteers at the game or
the tailgate parties.
Last week Grambling State played San
Jose State and all sorts of folks were in town. There were tens
of thousands of people [mostly black and brown] in the San Jose
area. Still no sign of the candidates. This past Labor Day Weekend,
UC Berkeley had it's opening game where an estimated 30 thousand
people were on hand and again no sign of the recall candidates
or their volunteers.
What you did see was, as tens of thousands
of people poured out of the Cal Berkeley stadium's two main exits
were dozens of people handing out flyers to promote upcoming
concerts, night clubs and movies. The Oakland Tribune newspaper
was out earlier handing out placards that said 'Go Bears' on
one side and the Tribune advertisement on the other side. One
has to wonder, why hadn't any of the candidates or their volunteers
who say they want more young people to come out, not on hand
to hand out to do the same.
Call me naA've, but if you have 20-50
thousand people showing up at a venue doesn't it make sense to
go out and try and holler at them? If Gray Davis is really serious
about trying to save his job, shouldn't he have been rolling
through the parking lot of one of these football stadiums wearing
your favorite team's jersey trying to get your vote? Shouldn't
a candidate like Cruz Bustamonte or his volunteers have been
out on Telegraph Avenue, which is the main street leading up
to the campus, engaging those thousands of people.
A quick walk down to Berkeley's Telegraph
Avenue shows not only thousands of people on the streets but
dozens of booths with local merchants selling everything from
mix tapes to jewelry. Well known graph writer Reefa 1 mans a
popular booth in front of Rasputin's Record store. He had noted
that he was doing a brisk business selling customized hats as
well as giving out lots of literature of his 'lessons', which
give break downs on US propaganda and other 'political' issues.
He noted that he had not seen any recall candidates on the popular
strip, but then again he wasn't all that surprised. Reefa 1 shared
the same sentiments that were expressed by the two dozen or so
people I had interviewed earlier which is none of these candidates
are really serious about trying to reach the people and get them
substantially involved in this recall election. Unless there's
a lot of press on hand where candidates can get a quick 30 second
sound bite then they aren't really trying to bother with folks.
The fact that you didn't even see some of the 'progressive candidates'
out there meeting and greeting people and lacing them up with
information about the recall underscored his point. Folks aren't
all that serious. It's either that or they simply aren't in touch
with the community. Reefa 1 concluded by noting that getting
a booth is not that hard and that it would cost folks less then
300 bucks for the year. Why hadn't anyone involved in the recall
taken advantage of that is the 64 thousand dollar question.
An even bigger miss took place this past
weekend at the Art and Soul Festival in Oakland that attracted
close to a 100 thousand people. There were free concerts from
Ziggy Marley and Pete Escovito as well as local artists. Again
no recall candidates in site. The only folks out there hustling
and trying to connect with folks was the folks helping out the
presidential campaign for Dennis Kucinich. One of their volunteers
had expressed surprise that more people involved in the recall
had not come to this heavily attended event. It wasn't like they
weren't in the Bay Area. For example, Governor Gray Davis and
Cruz Bustamonte attended a labor rally in nearby San Francisco
and Pleasanton which that had a fraction of the people of Oakland's
Art & Soul festival. If neither one of them couldn't make
it where were their campaign volunteers?
Over the past couple of weeks there have
been several big concerts, in the Bay Area including a Tony Toni
Tone reunion and the Sprite remix tour with De La Soul and Talib
Kweli. Busta Rhymes, Goapele, Kid Capri, Rodney & Joe Cooley,
Young MC, The Breakastra and Das Efx also swung through the Bay
Area to do shows at smaller, yet packed venues and night clubs.
Again, not one candidate and their volunteers have bothered to
go out, pass out flyers at the conclusion of these outings. Doesn't
it make sense to hit these crowds where the average age is over
21?
When I leave a venue I see all sorts
of street team promoters giving me flyers to the next big event.
I get free cds and occasionally free drinks from a soft drink
company. There are folks handing out flyers telling me when E-40's
new album is coming out. There are folks handing out info telling
me which radio station to listen to, but there's no information
being handed out about who stands or who we should be seriously
considering in the upcoming historic recall election. Why is
that?
As the election draws closer. It will
be interesting to see if I can get a 'NO on Prop 54' flyer when
I leave a packed concert venue in LA or San Fran? Will I hear
their commercials during the Sway & King Tech Wake Up Show
which are heard up and down the state? Will I see them trying
to engage me during tv shows like Rap City or Comic View on BET?
Will I hear them being shouted out in a Mixtape? Will I see wrapped
van or a huge Ill Trendz street team billboard with the picture
and message of a candidate serious about trying to reach the
young Hip Hop Voter? Will they even try and get an endorsement
from icons and major players within that community? Maybe all
the parties involve have the same plan when it comes to youth/
Hip Hop vote. Keep them away from the polls and build more prisons.
As we come upon the seventh year that
marks the death of 2Pac, I wish more folks would follow his lead.
A couple of months before he died he, Snoop Dogg and MC Hammer
held a press conference where he talked about taking his 6 million
fans and turning them into a powerful voting block that would
essentially chin check politicians who didn't properly deal with
them. We need more Hip Hoppers to stop chin checking [feuding]
with each other and start kicking up dust around this election.
Cali's a strange place and there's still
time to get things crackin'. We're on the verge of making history,
hopefully Cali Hip Hop's Hip Hop community will be a part of
it. Trust me folks if this recall goes through and Arnold wins,
expect a recall in your city and state real soon.
Weekend
Edition Features for August 30 / Sept. 1, 2003
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Handmaiden
in Babylon: Annan, Vieiera de Mello and the Decline and Fall
of the UN
Saul Landau
Schwarzenegger
and Cuban Migration
Standard Schaefer
Who
Benefited from the Tech Bubble: an Interview with Michael Hudson
Gary Leupp
Mel Gibson's Christ on Trial
William S. Lind
Send the Neocons to Baghdad
Augustin Velloso
Aznar: Spain's Super Lackey
Jorge Mariscal
The Smearing of Cruz Bustamante
John Ross
A NAFTA for Energy? The US Looks to Suck Up Mexico's Power
Mickey Z.
War is a Racket: The Wisdom of Gen. Smedley Butler
Elaine Cassel
Ashcroft's Traveling Patriot Show Isn't Winning Many Converts
Stan Cox
Pirates of the Caribbean: the WTO Comes to Cancun
Tom and Judy Turnipseed
Take Back Your Time Day
Adam Engel
The Red Badge of Knowledge: a Review of TDY
Adam Engel
An Eye on Intelligence: an Interview with Douglas Valentine
Susan Davis
Northfork,
an Accidental Review
Nicholas Rowe
Dance
and the Occupation
Mark Zepezauer
Operation
Candor
Poets' Basement
Albert, Guthrie and Hamod
Website of the Weekend
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