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October
31, 2003
Patrick
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Baghdad
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30, 2003
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Hylton
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Insurrection and National Revolution in Bolivia
Eric Ruder
"We Have to Speak Out!": Marching with the Military
Families
Dave Lindorff
Big
Lies and Little Lies: The Meaning of "Mission Accomplished"
Philip
Adams
"Everyone is Running Scared": Denigrating Critics of
Israel
Sean Donahue
Howard Dean: a Hawk in a Dove's Cloak
Robert
Jensen
Big Houses & Global Justice: A Moral Level of Consumption?
Alexander
Cockburn
Paul
Krugman: Part of the Problem
October
29, 2003
Chris
Floyd
Thieves
Like Us: Cheney's Backdoor to Halliburton
Robert Fisk
Iraq Guerrillas Adopt a New Strategy: Copy the Americans
Rick Giombetti
Let
Them Eat Prozac: an Interview with David Healy
The Intelligence
Squad
Dark
Forces? The Military Steps Up Recruiting of Blacks
Elaine
Cassel
Prosecutors
as Therapists, Phantoms as Terrorists
Marie Trigona
Argentina's War on the Unemployed Workers Movement
Gary Leupp
Every
Day, One KIA: On the Iraq War Casualty Figures
October
28, 2003
Rich Gibson
The
Politics of an Inferno: Notes on Hellfire 2003
Uri Avnery
Incident
in Gaza
Diane
Christian
Wishing
Death
Robert
Fisk
Eyewitness
in Iraq: "They're Getting Better"
Toni Solo
Authentic Americans and John Negroponte
Jason
Leopold
Halliburton in Iran
Shrireen Parsons
When T-shirts are Verboten
Chris
White
9/11
in Context: a Marine Veteran's Perspective
October 27, 2003
William
A. Cook
Ministers
of War: Criminals of the Cloth
David
Lindorff
The
Times, Dupes and the Pulitzer
Elaine
Cassel
Antonin
Scalia's Contemptus Mundi
Robert
Fisk
Occupational Schizophrenia
John Chuckman
Banging Your Head into Walls
Seth Sandronsky
Snoops R Us
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
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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
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I
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15, 2003
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General and the Governor: Two Measures of American Desperation
Forrest
Hylton
Dispatch
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Brian
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Those
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Uri Avnery
Three
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October 14, 2003
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The
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What the "Fighting Sioux" Tells Us About White People
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October 31, 2003
The GOP's Racist Trifecta
The
Party of Lincoln is Now the Party of Bilbo and Barnett
By WAYNE MADSEN
The Republican Party, which has adopted the "4
R's" of neo-conservative undemocratic political action --
refusal (to vote), recount, redistricting, and recall -- is attempting
to stage yet three more gubernatorial coups in November's off-year
elections -- Kentucky and Mississippi on November 4 and Louisiana
on November 15. A trifecta win for the GOP will put yet another
racist stamp of approval on the Republican Party, the so-called
"party of Lincoln."
In Kentucky, GOP intimidators (officially
known as "challengers") will be posted at 59 polling
places in African-American precincts in Louisville. Because the
governor's race between Democratic Attorney General Ben Chandler
and Christian fundamentalist-backed Republican Ernie Fletcher
is close, the GOP plans to challenge the credentials of African-American
voters. During the Florida presidential recount in Miami-Dade
county, we all witnessed what the Karl Rove-inspired process
of intimidation can do to affect the  democratic
process. In Miami, GOP thugs and shouters managed to disrupt
the recount process in the same manner that imported white "challengers"
plan to upset the voting process in Louisville by refusing African-Americans
access to the polls. It should also be remembered that Jeb Bush's
Florida State Police hindered African American access to polling
places in some of the more rural parts of the state.
In light of such Jim Crow tactics by
the Republicans in Kentucky, Democratic Governor Paul Patton
might want to think about stationing plainclothes state law enforcement
officers at Louisville's African-American polling places to eject
any Republican "challengers" who get out of line. The
Democrats, a party that abides by a tenet of intimidation-free
voting, will not be using challengers in any of Kentucky's polling
places.
In Mississippi, former Republican National
Committee chairman Haley Barbour, who has spent the last few
years lobbying for George W. Bush's corporate pals in Washington,
DC, is challenging incumbent Democrat Ronnie Musgrove for governor.
Although Musgrove is a conservative Democrat who has received
the backing of the National Rifle Association, Barbour has not
missed any chance to inject race into the election.
Barbour has courted the openly racist
Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), an offshoot from the
Ku Klux Klan-aligned White Citizens Councils of the segregation-era
South. Barbour's photo with CCC leaders appears on the group's
web site. Barbour has not asked the group to remove it. The racist
CCC advocates establishing a "Congoid" nation of African-Americans
in select southern states and a Latino nation of Hispanic-Americans
in the southwest. The rest of the United States would be a Nordic-Aryan
nation of whites. The CCC also attacks "liberal Jews"
like Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan, leaders of the women's'
rights movement.
Barbour has also been playing the Confederate
flag card. Musgrove favors a referendum on whether to remove
the symbol from the Mississippi while Barbour appeals to the
racist redneck element in Mississippi that wants to keep the
"Stars and Bars" flying high in the state. Barbour,
a racist throwback who a few years ago admitted he didn't know
how to use the Internet or a computer, is out of step with younger
people in Mississippi. A few years ago, the students, faculty,
and staff of the University of Mississippi agreed to drop the
Confederate flag as Ole Miss's symbol and recently they sent
packing the "Colonel Reb" mascot from university sporting
events. Barbour, a modern version of past racist Mississippi
politicians like Theodore J. Bilbo and Ross Barnett, threatens
to undo all of Mississippi's recent advances in race relations.
Barbour's racist campaign, which is not
unlike that of one-time Louisiana's GOP gubernatorial candidate,
Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, has not been condemned by national
Republican leaders, many of whom condemned Duke's campaign and
endorsed his Democratic opponent. At a rally for Barbour, Vice
President Dick Cheney had this to say about the GOP candidate:
"We are proud to know your next governor, and we are proud
of the campaign he has run: positive, hopeful, and optimistic."
Louisiana, Democratic Lt. Gov. Kathleen
Blanco, a conservative Democrat, is slightly trailing Bush's
former Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Bobby
Jindal, a 32-year-old son of immigrants from India. As Louisiana's
secretary of Health and Hospitals, Jindal slashed $400 million
from the department's budget, a move that severely impacted poor
African-Americans and whites in the state. However, it was such
slashing and burning of social programs that brought Jindal to
the attention of the Bush administration, which was quick to
appoint him as a deputy to Health and Human Services Secretary
Tommy Thompson, the infamous welfare slash and burner from Wisconsin.
Although race plays less of a factor
in Louisiana's election than it does in Mississippi and Kentucky,
there is a slight element of racism in the contest. Although
Jindal, a Rhodes scholar, is backed by mostly wealthy and pro-business
country club whites and Indian-Americans, there is nary an African-American
present at any Jindal campaign functions, while Blanco has amassed
a traditional cross-section of support from African-Americans,
Cajuns, Hispanics, and gays and lesbians in the Bayou State.
Jindal has gone out of his way to promote the "defense of
marriage" act and other anti-gay measures.
Coming on the heels of the travesty of
the recall election in California, where Nazi and Hitler admirer
Arnold Schwarzenegger catered to the anti-immigrant fears of
California whites, a trifecta gubernatorial win for the GOP will
further encourage the xenophobes, racists, and Christian fundamentalists
who have seized control of the party of Lincoln. Post-election
victory visits by Fletcher, Barbour, and Jindal to the White
House and GOP-controlled Congress will be as stomach-wrenching
as the scenes of Schwarzenegger parading around Washington while
his home state was being ravaged by catastrophic firestorms and
ousted Governor Gray Davis was left to confront the emergency.
The voters of Kentucky, Mississippi,
and Louisiana have a chance to send a message to the GOP racists.
They should cast aside threats of intimidation and phony corporate-inspired
polls and cast their vote against those who would return this
country to segregation and bigotry. And theer is a clear message
for the Democratic Party is these GOP tactics. It's time to fight
back and not be shy about it. As said about the KKK in the movie,
"Mississippi Burning, "these people crawled out of
the sewer".....maybe the gutter is where we ought to be"
in order to confront them.
Wayne Madsen
is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and columnist.
He wrote the introduction to Forbidden
Truth. He is the co-author, with John Stanton, of "America's
Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II."
Madsen can be reached at: WMadsen777@aol.com
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Saul Landau
Should Limbaugh Do Time?
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