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October
18 / 19, 2003
Robert
Pollin
Clintonomics:
the Hollow Boom
October
17, 2003
Stan Goff
Piss
On My Leg: Perception Control and the Stage Management of War
Newton
Garver
Bolivia
in Turmoil
Standard
Schaefer
Grocery Unions Under Attack
Ben Terrall
The Ordeal of the Lockheed 52
Ron Jacobs
First Syria, Then Iran
David
Lindorff
Michael
Moore Proclaims Mumia Guilty
October
16, 2003
Marjorie
Cohn
Bush
Gunning for Regime Change in Cuba
Gary Leupp
"Getting Better" in Iraq
Norman
Solomon
The US Press and Israel: Brand Loyalty and the Absence of Remorse
Rush Limbaugh
The 10 Most Overrated Athletes of All Time
Lenni
Brenner
I
Didn't Meet Huey Newton. He Met Me
Website of the Day
Time Tested Books
October
15, 2003
Sunil
Sharma / Josh Frank
The
General and the Governor: Two Measures of American Desperation
Forrest
Hylton
Dispatch
from the Bolivian War: "Like Animals They Kill Us"
Brian
Cloughley
Those
Phony Letters: How Bush Uses GIs to Spread Propaganda About Iraq
Ahmad
Faruqui
Lessons
of the October War
Uri Avnery
Three
Days as a Living Shield
Website
of the Day
Rank and File: the New Unity Partnership Document
JoAnn
Wypijewski
The
New Unity Partnership:
A Manifest Destiny for Labor
October 14, 2003
Eric Ridenour
Qibya
& Sharon: Anniversary of a Massacre
Elaine
Cassel
The
Disgrace That is Guantanamo
Robert
Jensen
What the "Fighting Sioux" Tells Us About White People
David Lindorff
Talking Turkey About Iraq
Patrick
Cockburn
US Troops Bulldoze Crops
VIPS
One Person Can Make a Difference
Toni Solo
The CAFTA Thumbscrews
Peter
Linebaugh
"Remember
Orr!"
Website
of the Day
BRIDGES
October
11 / 13, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Kay's
Misleading Report; CIA/MI-6 Syrian Plot; Dershowitz Flaps Broken
Wings
Saul Landau
Contradictions: Pumping Empire and Losing Job Muscles
Phillip Cryan
The War on Human Rights in Colombia
Kurt Nimmo
Cuba and the "Necessary Viciousness" of the Bushites
Nelson P. Valdes
Traveling to Cuba: Where There's a Will, There's a Way
Lisa Viscidi
The Guatemalan Elections: Fraud, Intimidation and Indifference
Maria Trigona and Fabian
Pierucci
Allende Lives
Larry
Tuttle
States of Corruption
William A. Cook
Failing America
Brian
Cloughley
US Economic Space and New Zealand
Adrian Zupp
What Would Buddha Do? Why Won't the Dalai Lama Pick a Fight?
Merlin
Chowkwanyun
The Strange and Tragic Case of Sherman Marlin Austin
Ben Tripp
Screw You Right Back: CIA FU!
Lee Ballinger
Grits Ain't Groceries
Mickey Z.
Not All Italians Love Columbus
Bruce
Jackson
On Charles Burnett's "Warming By the Devil's Fire"
William Benzon
The Door is Open: Scorsese's Blues, 2
Adam Engel
The Eyes of Lora Shelley
Walt Brasch
Facing a McBlimp Attack
Poets'
Basement
Mickey Z, Albert, Kearney
October 10, 2003
John Chuckman
Schwarzenegger
and the Lottery Society
Toni Solo
Trashing
Free Software
Chris
Floyd
Body
Blow: Bush Joins the Worldwide War on Women
October
9, 2003
Jennifer
Loewenstein
Bombing
Syria
Ramzi
Kysia
Seeing
the Iraqi People
Fran Shor
Groping the Body Politic
Mark Hand
President Schwarzenegger?
Alexander
Cockburn
Welcome
to Arnold, King for a Day
Website of the Day
The Awful Truth about Wesley Clark
October
8, 2003
David
Lindorff
Schwarzenegger
and the Failure of the Centrist Dems
Ramzy
Baroud
Israel's
WMDs and the West's Double Standard
John Ross
Mexico
Tilts South
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Repub Guru Compares Taxes to the Holocaust
James
Bovard
The
Reagan Roadmap for Antiterrorism Disaster
Michael
Neumann
One
State or Two?
A False Dilemma
October
7, 2003
Uri Avnery
Slow-Motion
Ethnic Cleansing
Stan Goff
Lost in the Translation at Camp Delta
Ron Jacobs
Yom Kippurs, Past and Present
David
Lindorff
Coronado in Iraq
Rep. John Conyers, Jr.
Outing a CIA Operative? Why A Special Prosecutor is Required
Cynthia
McKinney
Who Are "We"?
Elaine Cassel
Shock and Awe in the Moussaoui Case
Walter
Lippman
Thoughts on the Cali Recall
Gary Leupp
Israel's
Attack on Syria: Who's on the Wrong Side of History, Now?
Website
of the Day
Cable News Gets in Touch With It's Inner Bigot
October
6, 2003
Robert
Fisk
US
Gave Israel Green Light for Raid on Syria
Forrest
Hylton
Upheaval
in Bolivia: Crisis and Opportunity
Benjamin Dangl
Divisions Deepen in Third Week of Bolivia's Gas War
Bridget
Gibson
Oh, Pioneers!: Bush's New Deal
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey
Wasserman
The Bush-Rove-Schwarzenegger Nazi Nexus
Nicole
Gamble
Rios Montt's Campaign Threatens Genocide Trials
JoAnn
Wypijewski
The
New Unity Partnership:
A Manifest Destiny for Labor
Website
of the Day
Guerrilla Funk
October
3 / 5, 2003
Tim Wise
The
Other Race Card: Rush and the Politics of White Resentment
Peter
Linebaugh
Rhymsters
and Revolutionaries: Joe Hill and the IWW
Gary Leupp
Occupation
as Rape-Marriage
Bruce
Jackson
Addio
Alle Armi
David Krieger
A Nuclear 9/11?
Ray McGovern
L'Affaire Wilsons: Wives are Now "Fair Game" in Bush's
War on Whistleblowers
Col. Dan Smith
Why Saddam Didn't Come Clean
Mickey
Z.
In Our Own Image: Teaching Iraq How to Deal with Protest
Roger Burbach
Bush Ideologues v. Big Oil in Iraq
John Chuckman
Wesley Clark is Not Cincinnatus
William S. Lind
Versailles on the Potomac
Glen T.
Martin
The Corruptions of Patriotism
Anat Yisraeli
Bereavement as Israeli Ethos
Wayne
Madsen
Can the Republicans Get Much Worse? Sure, They Can
M. Junaid Alam
The Racism Barrier
William
Benzon
Scorsese's Blues
Adam Engel
The Great American Writing Contest
Poets'
Basement
McNeill, Albert, Guthrie
October
2, 2003
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
What's
So Great About Gandhi, Anyway?
Amy Goodman
/ Jeremy Scahill
The
Ashcroft-Rove Connection
Doug Giebel
Kiss and Smear: Novak and the Valerie Plame Affair
Hamid
Dabashi
The Moment of Myth: Edward Said (1935-2003)
Elaine Cassel
Chicago Condemns Patriot Act
Saul Landau
Who
Got Us Into This Mess?
Website of the Day
Last Day to Save Beit Arabiya!
October 1, 2003
Joanne
Mariner
Married
with Children: the Supremes and Gay Families
Robert
Fisk
Oil,
War and Panic
Ron Jacobs
Xenophobia
as State Policy
Elaine
Cassel
The
Lamo Case: Secret Subpoenas and the Patriot Act
Shyam
Oberoi
Shooting
a Tiger
Toni Solo
Plan Condor, the Sequel?
Sean Donahue
Wesley
Clark and the "No Fly" List
Website of the Day
Downloader Legal Defense Fund
September
30, 2003
After
Dark
Arnold's
1977 Photo Shoot
Dave Lindorff
The
Poll of the Shirt: Bush Isn't Wearing Well
Tom Crumpacker
The
Cuba Fixation: Shaking Down American Travelers
Robert
Fisk
A
Lesson in Obfuscation
Charles
Sullivan
A
Message to Conservatives
Suren Pillay
Edward Said: a South African Perspective
Naeem
Mohaiemen
Said at Oberlin: Hysteria in the Face of Truth
Amy Goodman
/ Jeremy Scahill
Does
a Felon Rove the White House?
Website
of the Day
The Edward Said Page
September 29, 2003
Robert
Fisk
The
Myths of Western Intelligence Agencies
Iain A. Boal
Turn It Up: Pardon Mzwakhe Mbuli!
Lee Sustar
Paul
Krugman: the Last Liberal?
Wayne Madsen
General Envy? Think Shinseki, Not Clark
Benjamin
Dangl
Bolivia's Gas War
Uri Avnery
The
Magnificent 27
Pledge
Drive of the Day
Antiwar.com
September
26 / 28, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Alan
Dershowitz, Plagiarist
David Price
Teaching Suspicions
Saul Landau
Before the Era of Insecurity
Ron Jacobs
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and
the Patriot Act
Brian
Cloughley
The Strangeloves Win Again
Norman Solomon
Wesley and Me: a Real-Life Docudrama
Robert
Fisk
Bomb Shatters Media Illusions
M. Shahid Alam
A Muslim Sage Visits the USA
John Chuckman
American Psycho: Bush at the UN
Mark Schneider
International Direct Action
The Spanish Revolution to the Palestiniana Intifada
William
S. Lind
How $87 Billion Could Buy Some Real Security
Douglas Valentine
Gold Warriors: the Plundering of Asia
Chris
Floyd
Vanishing Act
Elaine Cassel
Play Cat and Moussaoui
Richard
Manning
A Conservatism that Once Conserved
George Naggiar
The Beautiful Mind of Edward Said
Omar Barghouti
Edward Said: a Corporeal Dream Not Yet Realized
Lenni Brenner
Palestine's Loss is America's Loss
Mickey
Z.
Edward Said: a Well-Reasoned Voice
Tanweer Akram
The Legacy of Edward Said
Adam Engel
War in the Smoking Room
Poets' Basement
Katz, Ford, Albert & Guthrie
Website
of the Weekend
Who the Hell is Stew Albert?
September
25, 2003
Edward
Said
Dignity,
Solidarity and the Penal Colony
Robert
Fisk
Fanning
the Flames of Hatred
Sarah
Ferguson
Wolfowitz at the New School
David
Krieger
The
Second Nuclear Age
Bill Glahn
RIAA Doublespeak
Al Krebs
ADM and the New York Times: Covering Up Corporate Crime
Michael
S. Ladah
The Obvious Solution: Give Iraq Back to the Arabs
Fran Shor
Arnold and Wesley
Mustafa
Barghouthi
Edward Said: a Monument to Justice and Human Rights
Alexander Cockburn
Edward Said: a Mighty and Passionate
Heart
Website
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Edward Said: a Lecture on the Tragedy of Palestine
The Great Alejandro Escavedo Needs Your Help!
September 24, 2003
Stan Goff
Generational
Casualties: the Toxic Legacy of the Iraq War
William
Blum
Grand Illusions About Wesley Clark
David
Vest
Politics
for Bookies
Jon Brown
Stealing Home: The Real Looting is About to Begin
Robert Fisk
Occupation and Censorship
Latino
Military Families
Bring Our Children Home Now!
Neve Gordon
Sharon's
Preemptive Zeal
Website
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Bands Against Bush
September
23, 2003
Bernardo
Issel
Dancing
with the Diva: Arianna and Streisand
Gary Leupp
To
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Gregory
Wilpert
An
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Steven
Higgs
Going to Jail for the Cause--Part 2: Charity Ryerson, Young and
Radical
Stan Cox
The Cheney Tapes: Can You Handle the Truth?
Robert
Fisk
Another Bloody Day in the Death of Iraq
William S. Lind
Learning from Uncle Abe: Sacking the Incompetent
Elaine
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First They Come for the Lawyers, Then the Ministers
Yigal
Bronner
The
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The
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Uri Avnery
The
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Alexander
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Lighten
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Return
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Saul Landau
Guillermo and Me
Phan Nguyen
Mother Jones Smears Rachel Corrie
Gila Svirsky
Sharon, With Eyes Wide Open
Gary Leupp
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October
18 / 19, 2003
Bolivian Govt. Falling Apart
The
Autumn of "El Gringo" Lozada?
By
BENJAMIN DANGL
After a more than a month of intense protests
against the exportation of Bolivia's gas to the US through a
Chilean port, many protesting sectors are focusing their demands
solely on the resignation of their president, Gonzalo Sánchez
de Lozada. Bolivia's president is currently left with support
from only one coalition party, MIR, the armed forces and the
US government.
Meanwhile, an increasing number of citizens
are taking to the streets, stating that as long as Sánchez
de Lozada remains in power, the protests, strikes and road blockades
rocking the country will continue. Bolivian and international
press report that Sánchez de Lozada will resign today.
The president has yet to confirm these reports.
On October 13, US government spokesman,
Richard Boucher, stated that the US government supports the presidency
of Sánchez de Lozada, The statement was made even as the
administration continues a campaign of excessive use of force
which has left over one hundred dead as a result of confrontations
between security forces and protesters in the last fourteen months.
This is a greater number of killings in any presidency, including
the years of military dictatorship.
Major Party Leader
Demands President's Resignation
Major parties and political leaders have
pulled out their support of Sanchez de Lozada, demanding the
resignation of the president as well.
At 10:30 a.m. October 17, Manfred Reyes
Villa, the leader of the New Republican Force (NFR) pulled out
of the coalition and demanded that the president resign. (Bolpress.com
10/17/03)
This is the most recent case where a major political leader in
the government has demanded the president's resignation.
On October 13, Vice President, Carlos
Mesa, pulled out his support and demanded that the president
resign.
Mesa commented on October 16, "You
have asked me if I am capable of killing, and my answer is no.
Nor will I be tomorrow." (Opinion, 10/17/03) He has further
separated himself from Sanchez de Lozada, as well as from radical
protesting sectors, presenting himself as viable middle of the
road option for a democratic transition to president.
Now that Reyes Villa has resigned, only one major coalition party
remains, MIR, led by Jaime Paz Zamora, who at this time is meeting
with members of his party to determine their next move. If MIR
were to withdraw from the coalition, it would increase the possibility
of Sánchez de Lozada's resignation.
Rumors have begun to circulate that the president may resign
soon. He is scheduled to give an address at 4pm today. Meanwhile
protests continue across the country.
"This cannot go on," Reyes
Villa said after demanding the president's resignation. "The
people of Bolivia do not believe in this government, we cannot
continue fighting in the streets like this. Now the three ministers
of the NFR have resigned." Reyes Villa said the transition
to a new president should follow the stipulations of the Bolivian
constitution.
The spokesman for the government, Mauricio
Antezana also resigned last night, although the new government
spokesman refuses to confirm that.
Congress members have been helicoptered
into La Paz. If sufficient quorum exists, Vice President Carlos
Mesa will initiate the first congressional session in over a
week. It is unclear what action, if any the legislature will
take.
Crackdown on Media
and Protesters
On October 15 a confrontation between
protesters and security forces produced three more deaths and
fifteen injuries in the town of Patacamaya, when the military
refused to allow miners to continue their march to La Paz. The
military received orders from the government to block the passage
of the miners and opened fire. (La Razón, 10/16/03)
The same day, there were reports of multiple
denunciations of security forces illegally entering people's
homes, supposedly looking for opposition leaders or proof of
subversive activities. In the city of El Alto, security forces
carried out a crackdown on protesters by reportedly arresting
people arbitrarily without any legal justification. (El Diario,
10/16/03)
At around 6 p.m. the same day, a group
of hooded men blew up the transmitter of Radio Pio XII, a progressive
radio station in Oruro, cutting off news reports regarding the
conflicts. That same day, numerous editions of Pulso, a progressive
weekly publication, and El Diario, a newspaper from the capital,
were stolen by unidentified groups of people in La Paz. Both
publications contained article critiquing the U.S. role in the
present conflict. Agents themselves also briefly detained journalist,
Alex Contreras, at the Santa Cruz Airports. They claimed to be
antinarcotics agents, but refused to show identification. They
searched and filmed all his belongings, including documents.
Sánchez de
Lozada's Story
Many Bolivians refer to Sánchez
de Lozada as "El Gringo." He studied at the University
of Chicago and speaks with a heavy American accent. Throughout
his recent year as president he has enacted neo-liberal reforms
encouraged by the US and the IMF, to boost the Bolivian economy.
These reforms have been largely unpopular with the Bolivian public.
His continued activities in the US-funded war on drugs have resulted
in enormous human rights violations and violence paired with
a lack of alternative development for coca farmers. In February
of 2003, Sánchez de Lozada's proposed income tax increase,
which was supported by the IMF, led to riots, which resulted
in 33 deaths and numerous injuries. Most recently, the president's
plan to export the nation's gas to the US through a Chilean port
has generated widespread discontent.
Bolivia's Gas War is the most recent case where the people of
a Latin American country have rejected neo liberal economic plans.
Larry Birns, Director of the Counsel of Hemispheric Affairs,
commented on the situation in Bolivia. "The promoters of
the privatization and the neoliberal model have said that everyone
will benefit, but what has happened is that there are winners
and losers, and that the losers are always the same; the poor."
(El Diario, 10/15/03)
President Says International
Terrorists Fund Opposition Movement
In a public address on October 13, Sánchez
de Lozada maintained that he was not going to step down as president,
and that he was going to preserve the democracy of the country
and not succumb to "a huge subversive project from outside
the nation, which is attempting to destroy Bolivian democracy."
Shortly thereafter, in an interview on CNN in Spanish, the president
was asked to specify about what international groups were against
him. He responded by saying that the Peruvian Shining Path (Sendero
Luminoso) and the Bolivian coca growers were plotting against
him and that Colombian terrorist groups are training the coca
growers in terrorist activities. He also noted that well-meaning
NGO's in Bolivia were funding these terrorist activities and
that Libya was also possibly against him because Evo Morales
had traveled there and had received a human rights prize from
the country. On October 16, the president further sustained that
protestors are "nacre-unionists, t hat wish to carry out
a coup in the nation. In essence, he has portrayed a significant
portion of the Bolivian population as criminals, refusing to
recognize their right to advocate their interests. He has also
repeatedly characterized himself as "the little Dutch Boy
holding his finger in the hole in the dike of democracy."
The president's comments linking popular
Bolivian protests to foreign terrorist groups prove either that
he is out of touch with the harsh reality facing Bolivia or that
he is simply misrepresenting the situation in order to justify
his excessive use of force to quell the unrest the country.
US Government Support
Sánchez de Lozada, who won the
presidential election a little over a year ago with less than
23 percent of the vote, now has next to no backing from the citizens
of Bolivia. However, the US government has pledged their support
of his presidency.
In a press statement on October 13, Richard
Boucher, US government spokesman, , said that, "The American
people and their government support Bolivia's democratically
elected president, Gonzalo Sanchez De Lozada, in his efforts
to build a more prosperous and just future for all Bolivians.
All of Bolivia's political leaders should publicly express their
support for democratic and constitutional order. The international
community and the United States will not tolerate any interruption
of constitutional order and will not support any regime that
results from undemocratic means."
On October 17, the U.S. announced that
it would evacuate its employees out of the country.
US Citizens Reject
US Government's Endorsement of Sanchez de Lozada
Though many nations around the world
have pledged their support of Sánchez de Lozada's presidency,
numerous individuals, besides those in the majority of the Bolivian
population, have demanded his resignation.
A petition recently went out to the US
ambassador in Bolivia where nearly two hundred American citizens
demanded the cessation of the US government's support of the
Bolivian President:
Unconditional support for the incumbent
president blocks the possibility of the president's resignation,
advocated by a significant portion of the population, and permitted
by the Bolivian constitution. Once again, the U.S. Government
is impeding peaceful conflict resolution through dialogue in
Bolivia, as it has done in the past in regard to U.S.-funded
forced coca eradication policy. As American citizens we call
on the U.S. government to cease intervention in the present conflict.
Bolivians must be allowed to determine their own political future,
free from U.S. pressure or sanctions, within the framework of
their own laws and constitution.
The Washington Office on Latin America
stated that the institution deplores "the Bolivian government's
decision to respond to popular protest by deploying the armed
forcesas Bolivians continue to exercise their democratic right
to peaceful protest, WOLA urges the Bolivian government to refrain
from responding with further use of violence." and "Urges
the Bush administration to offer its clear and firm support for
dialogue between the government and opposition forces that can
allow for a resolution of the crisis that is both peaceful and
constitutional."
Larry Birns, the Director of the Counsel
of Hemispheric Affairs, stated, "When the president has
only nine percent of the popularity, as is the case with Sánchez
de Lozada, he is a clear candidate for the people to demand his
renunciation. This was what the republicans demanded of their
ex governor in California, and they were successful." (El
Diario, 10/15/03)
If The President Resigns,
Vice President to Take Power
According to the Bolivian constitution,
if the president resigns, the vice president will become the
president.
Vice President Carlos Mesa, who on October
13 stopped supporting President Sánchez de Lozada and
demanded his resignation, said, "We cannot refuse to listen
to the voice of the people. We need to create a constitutional
succession en order to end the confrontations and violence that
the Bolivian people are living in now." (El Diario, 10/14/03)
However, opposition leaders, including Felipe Quispe and Evo
Morales, reject the idea of Mesa becoming the next president.
Morales stated, "I prefer that country
determines constitutional succession through consensus with the
social movements that are currently fighting (in the country).
Nevertheless, it would be an error in these moments to decide
who should be the next president." (La Razón, 10/14/03)
Many demand new presidential elections,
but congress has not passed a law that would allow a recall vote,
as they have been caught in a gridlock for months, arguing senselessly
over political appointments and, in the recent week, have not
even held session at all.
Armed Forces Continue
to Support "Government"
In order to remain in power, President
Sánchez de Lozada had relied to a great degree on the
Armed Forces to help defend his position.
However, one retired military colonel
recently demanded that all soldiers return to their barracks
and stop supporting the president. Mothers of military conscripts
demanded that their sons be sent back to the military bases because,
they did not send their children to carry out mandatory military
service so that they could shoot their fellow citizens.
When asked if the Armed Forces supported
the president specifically, the Commander of the Armed Forces
responded, in very nervous and vague terms, that the Armed Forces
will continue to defend the constitution and the government.
Protests Continue
Across Bolivia
Prominent political and social figures
including Ana Maria Romero de Campero, Ex-Human Rights Ombudsperson,
Sanchez Llorenti, Vice President of The Human Rights Assembly,
and Silvia Rivera, Bolivian anthropologist, have started a hunger
strike demanding the resignation of the president and the end
of excessive use of force against protesters by military and
police. There are now almost 50 groups across the nation.
Although Sánchez de Lozada told
the press that "only one percent of the population has protested,"
strikes, blockades and protests are raging across the country,
intensifying each minute. Groups throughout Bolivia are declaring
indefinite strikes until the president resigns. The current situation
indicates that the resignation of the president is the only immediate
solution to the violence wracking the country.
Benjamin Dangl works
for the Andean Information Network
in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He can be reached at: theupsidedownworld@yahoo.com
To receive AIN updates email : paz@albatros.cnb.net
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