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October
27, 2003
Bill Kauffman
George
Bush, the Anti-Family President
October
25 / 26, 2003
Robert
Pollin
The
US Economy: Another Path is Possible
Jeffrey St. Clair
Outsourcing US Guided Missile Technology to China
James
Bunn
Plotting
Pre-emptive Strikes
Saul Landau
Should Limbaugh Do Time?
Ted Honderich
Palestinian Terrorism, Morality & Germany
Thomas Nagy
Saving the Army of Peace
Christopher
Brauchli
Between Bush and a Lobotomy: Killing Endangered Species for Profit
Laura Carlsen
Latin America's Archives of Terror
Diane
Christian
Evil Acts & Evil Actors
Muqtedar Khan
Lessons from the Imperial Adventure in Iraq
John Feffer
The Tug of War on the Korea Peninsula
Brian Cloughley
Iraq War Memories are Made of Lies
Benjamin
Dangl
and Kathryn Ledebur
An Uneasy Peace in Bolivia
Karyn
Strickler
Down
with Big Brother's Spying Eyes
Noah Leavitt
Legal Globalization
John Stanton
Hitler's Ghost Haunts America
Mickey
Z.
War of the Words
Adam Engel
Tractatus Ridiculous
Poets'
Basement
Curtis, Subiet and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Project Last Stand
October
24, 2003
Kurt Nimmo
Ashcroft's
War on Greenpeace
Lenni Brenner
The Demographics of American Jews
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Rockets,
Napalm, Torpedoes and Lies: the Attack on the USS Liberty Revisited
Sarah Weir
Cover-up of the Israeli Attack on the US Liberty
David
Krieger
WMD Found in DC: Bush is the Button
Mohammed Hakki
It's Palestine, Stupid!: Americans and the Middle East
Harry
Browne
Northern
Ireland: the Agreement that Wasn't
October
23, 2003
Diane
Christian
Ruthlessness
Kurt Nimmo
Criticizing Zionism
David Lindorff
A General Theory of Theology
Alan Maass
The Future of the Anti-War Movement
William
Blum
Imperial
Indifference
Stew Albert
A Memo
October
22, 2003
Wayne
Madsen
Religious
Insanity Runs Rampant
Ray McGovern
Holding
Leaders Accountable for Lies
Christopher
Brauchli
There's
No Civilizing the Death Penalty
Elaine
Cassel
Legislators
and Women's Bodies
Bill Glahn
RIAA
Watch: the New Morality of Capitalism
Anthony Arnove
An Interview with Tariq Ali
October 21, 2003
Uri Avnery
The
Beilin Agreement
Robert Jensen
The Fundamentalist General
David
Lindorff
War Dispatch from the NYT: God is on Our Side!
William S. Lind
Bremer is Deaf to History
Bridget
Gibson
Fatal Vision
Alan Haber
A Human Chain for Peace in Ann Arbor
Peter
Linebaugh
On the Bicentennial of the Hanging of Thomas Russell
October
20, 2003
Standard
Schaefer
Chile's
Failed Economy: an Interview with Michael Hudson
Chris
Floyd
Circus Maximus: Arnie, Enron and Bush Maul California
Mark Hand
Democrats Seek to Disappear Chomsky
& Nader
John &
Elaine Mellencamp
Peaceful
World
Elaine
Cassel
God's
General Unmuzzled
October
18 / 19, 2003
Robert
Pollin
Clintonomics:
the Hollow Boom
Gary Leupp
Israel, Syria and Stage Four in the Terror War
Saul Landau
Day of the Gropenfuhrer
Bruce Anderson
The California Recall
John Gershman
Bush in Asia: What a Difference a Decade Makes
Nelson P. Valdes
Bush, Electoral Politics and Cuba's "Illicit Sex Trade"
Kurt Nimmo
Shock Therapy and the Israeli Scenario
Tom Gorman
Al Franken and Al-Shifa
Brian
Cloughley
Public Propaganda and the Iraq War
Joanne Mariner
A New Way to Kill Tigers
Denise
Low
The Cancer of Sprawl
Mickey Z.
The Reverend of Doom
John Chuckman
US Missiles for Israeli Nukes?
George Naggiar
A Veto of Public Diplomacy
Alison
Weir
Death Threats in Berkeley
Benjamin Dangl
Bolivian Govt. Falling Apart
Ron Jacobs
The Politics of Bob Dylan
Fidel Castro
A Review of Garcia Marquez's Memoir
Adam Engel
I Hope My Corpse Gives You the Plague
Poets' Basement
Jones, Albert, Guthrie and Greeder
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
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Alexander Cockburn
Behold,
the Head of a Neo-Con!
Subcomandante Marcos
The
Death Train of the WTO
Norman Finkelstein
Hitchens
as Model Apostate
Steve Niva
Israel's
Assassination Policy: the Trigger for Suicide Bombings?
Dardagan,
Slobodo and Williams
CounterPunch Exclusive:
20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians
Steve
J.B.
Prison Bitch
Sheldon
Rampton and John Stauber
True Lies: the Use of Propaganda
in the Iraq War
Wendell
Berry
Small Destructions Add Up
CounterPunch
Wire
WMD: Who Said What When
Cindy
Corrie
A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter
I Can't Hear From
Gore Vidal
The
Erosion of the American Dream
Francis Boyle
Impeach
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October
27, 2003
The Justice of Intolerance
Antonin
Scalia's Contempus Mundi
By ELAINE CASSEL
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who has
been heard to say that he thinks he is too smart for the Court,
let fly his contempt for his colleagues last week. Speaking
of the court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which earlier
this year struck down Texas's homosexual sodomy law, he lambasted
the majority for twisting the Constitution to suit its liberal
agenda. Liberal? Souter, Ginsberg, and Stevens, yes. But Justices
Kennedy (who wrote the majority opinion), O'Connor, and Breyer?
When it suits him, Scalia calls himself
a "strict constructionist" of the U.S. Constitution.
For instance, the death penalty can never be cruel and unusual
punishment because the death penalty was in use when the Constitution
was drafted. Sodomy must be a crime today, because, he said
this week, it was a crime at the time of the country's founding.
Of course, the strict constructionist argument runs into trouble
when it meets modern technology. In a case decided a couple
of years ago, Scalia believed that the Constitution's ban on
unreasonable searches and seizures reached to heat-sensing technology
that detected the growth of marijuana plants in a house. How
could that be unconstitutional when heat-sensing technology
was not on the minds of the founding fathers?
According to news reports, Scalia, speaking
to the ultra-conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute,
read from the Lawrence opinion in mocking tones. Ironic, inasmuch
as the 50-year-old institute has says its mission is to "enhance
the rising generation's knowledge of our nation's founding principles
- limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility,
free enterprise and Judeo-Christian moral standards." The
organization, like its famed speaker, draws the line at your
individual liberty. They get theirs, you don't get yours if
it is contrary to theirs. And there is only one Judeo-Christian
moral standard--their own.
Scalia is not alone in his condemnation
of his colleagues on the high court. Clarence Thomas has repeatedly
talked about the cold and lonely place that is the Court. He
shows his contempt for oral arguments by generally refusing
to participate.
Why is it that the right, especially
the religious right, represented by the likes of Scalia on the
court, are so totally unaccepting of another's point of view?
Do they truly believe that they have all of the answers to all
legal, legislative, and social issues? This week I gave a legal
seminar to attorneys in a part of Virginia where Rev. Pat Robertson
seems to have a lock on "truth." A couple of religious
zealots in the seminar derided other attorneys who tried to
talk about life and death issues such abortion, end-of-life
treatment, stem cell research, and health care for all Americans.
We were supposed to be talking about legal conundrums and challenges.
But to some, there was nothing to discuss.
"God" decides who lives and dies, and even who is
fortunate enough to get health insurance. As one dissenting
lawyer said, "You mean your God? Then if we feel that 'our'
God acts on human events in a different way, we lose?"
While Scalia's remarks did not have a
religious context, they stem from his religious views that carry
bigotry and intolerance to the extreme. It is impossible for
Scalia to entertain rational debate and to interpret laws outside
the spin of his religiopolitical view of the world. He, not
his colleagues that carried the day in Lawrence v. Texas, should
be mocked and criticized. But they are more fair-minded, tolerant,
and judicious in manner and conduct and would not stoop to the
depths of Scalia's ill manners.
As jurists, the majority, and perhaps
even dissenters Rehnquist and Thomas (who do not, even in dissent,
engage in personal diatribe against their colleagues) looked
at the issue of the Texas law as they are supposed to--examining
it from historical, social, and legal perspectives. Justice
Kennedy's opinion is well-reasoned, thoughtfully argued, and
consistent with the equal protection clause's mandate that
extends the guarantees of the constitution to people that Scalia
hates.
Hateful, cruel, intolerant Scalia. Long
may he rant and spew his intolerance across the land. The more
Americans hear it, the more, I am convinced, they will reject
it.
Weekend
Edition Features for Oct. 18 / 19, 2003
Robert
Pollin
Clintonomics:
the Hollow Boom
Gary Leupp
Israel, Syria and Stage Four in the Terror War
Saul Landau
Day of the Gropenfuhrer
Bruce Anderson
The California Recall
John Gershman
Bush in Asia: What a Difference a Decade Makes
Nelson P. Valdes
Bush, Electoral Politics and Cuba's "Illicit Sex Trade"
Kurt Nimmo
Shock Therapy and the Israeli Scenario
Tom Gorman
Al Franken and Al-Shifa
Brian
Cloughley
Public Propaganda and the Iraq War
Joanne Mariner
A New Way to Kill Tigers
Denise
Low
The Cancer of Sprawl
Mickey Z.
The Reverend of Doom
John Chuckman
US Missiles for Israeli Nukes?
George Naggiar
A Veto of Public Diplomacy
Alison
Weir
Death Threats in Berkeley
Benjamin Dangl
Bolivian Govt. Falling Apart
Ron Jacobs
The Politics of Bob Dylan
Fidel Castro
A Review of Garcia Marquez's Memoir
Adam Engel
I Hope My Corpse Gives You the Plague
Poets' Basement
Jones, Albert, Guthrie and Greeder
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