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February 25, 2004
Sam Husseini
Jesus in 100 Words
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Winning with Nader
Website of the Day
VotePact
February 24, 2004
Ralph Nader
Why
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Greg Moses
Rally
the Mob! Bush, Gay Marriage and the Constitution
Douglas O'Hara
The
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Phillip Cryan
Frozen in Time: The WSJ's Paranoid
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David Lindorff
John Kerry's China Connection
Jason Leopold
Cheney's Shame: Halliburton Faces New Charges
Gary Younge
Haiti: Throttled by History
Kromm, Masri & Purohit
Why No Democracy in Iraq?
Steve Perry
Tangled Up in Red and Blue: Beware the Electoral College
February 23, 2004
Neve Gordon
Israel's Apartheid Wall on Trial
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Kurt Nimmo
Richard Perle, Executioner: "Heads Should Roll"
Jonathan Franklin
US Soldier Seeks Refugee Status in Canada
Al Krebs
The Liberal "Intelligentsia" v. Nader
Josh Frank
Nader's Nadir? Not a Chance
Bruce Jackson
Nader, Another View: "He's as Evil as Bush"
Gary Leupp
A Misguided
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February 20 / 22, 2004
Cockburn / St. Clair
Kerry:
He's Peaking Already!
Derek Seidman
Chasing
Judith Miller from the Stage: Watch Her Run!
Ghada Karmi
Sharon is not the Problem
Vanessa Jones
This Week in Redfern, a Boy Dies, Chased by Cops
Ben Granby
Anatomy of a Night Raid on Balad, Iraq
John Holt
An Air That Kills: Greed, Apathy, Dead People
Saul Landau
Entry from a White House Diary
Tom Jackson
Why They Couldn't Wait to Invade Iraq
Frederick B. Hudson
Slave Power and the Constitution: Jefferson, Slaves, Haiti and
Hypocrisy
Roger Burbach
Argentina Fights Back
Kate Doyle
Lessons on Justice from Guatemala
Mike Whitney
Operation Enduring Misery: the Afghanistan Debacle
Greg Moses
What Gives Texas A&M the Right to Trample the Civil Rights
Act?
David Krieger
US Elections: an Opportunity to Debate Nuclear Weapons
Sam Bahour
Palestinian Issue Riddles Bush's Budget
David Grenier
You Could Get 10 Years in Prison Just for Reading This
Charles Sullivan
Corporatism vs. Single Party Politics
Poet's Basement
Hilda White, Larry Kearney & Stew Albert
Website of the Weekend
The Rumsfeld Fighting Technique
February 19, 2004
Cecilie Surasky
Anti-Semitism
at the World Social Forum? That's Not What I Saw
Ray McGovern
Iraq
Hawks and Deceptive Intelligence: Did They Really Think They'd
Get Away With It?
Tariq Ali
How Far
Will Bush Go in Iraq?
Ralph Nader
Whither
the Nation?
Wayne Madsen
Would Kerry Purge the Neo-Cons?
Norman Solomon
The Collapse of Dean's Cyber-Bubble
Christopher Brauchli
Cheney, Halliburton and the NYT
Mike Whitney
Bush's Iraq Strategy: "I Hope They Kill Each Other"
Lewis Carroll
Bush the Mighty Helmsman from Yale
Website of the Day
Sex Toy Horoscope
February 18, 2004
William Wilgus
Bush:
AWOL and Dereliction of Duty
William Blum
Mush-Minded
Liberals
Dave Lindorff
Bush's China Syndrome
Greg Weiher
Why
is Kerry Getting a Pass?
Mike Griffin
Killing the Messenger: the AFL-CIO's Attack on Harry Kelber
Mark Hand
Kerry Tells Peace Movement to "Move On"
February 17, 2004
Mike Ferner
The
Countryside Murders in Iraq
Mokhiber / Weissman
Corporation
as Psychopath
Marjorie Cohn
DrakeGate:
a Victory for Free Speech
Kurt Nimmo
Bush's
Endgame: a Review of Chalmers Johnson's "Sorrows of Empire"
Greg Bates
Nader Ambush: a New Low for The
Nation
Ximena Ortiz
A Bush
Doctrine, of Sorts
Gary Leupp
Whatever Happened to Gen. Khazraji?
Sen. John Kerry
"The Cause of Israel is the Cause of America"
Steve Perry
Kerry
1, Drudge 0
February 16, 2004
James Johnston
Huddling
with the Cheeseheads in a NASCAR World
Sara Eltantawi
To
Wear the Hijab or Not
Bruce Anderson
Kevin
Cooper and the Midnight Needle
Elaine Cassel
Feds
on Campus: the Drake Subpoenas
Rahul Mahajan
Bush,
Is the Tide Finally Turning?
Kevin Cooper
The Ritual of Death
Stan Cox
Goodbye, Howard Dean
Larry David
My War
Steve Perry
Bush and the Guard: the Cover-Up's the Thing
Website of the Day
Prison Patriots: Help This Vital Film Get Made
February 14/15, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Milk Bars, Hollywood and the
March of Empires
Jeffrey St. Clair
Oil Grab in the Arctic
William A. Cook
Faith-Based Fanatics
Stan Goff
Beloved
Haiti
Dave Marsh / Lee Ballinger
Rock, Rap & the Election
Hughes / Weiher
Tupac, the Patriot Act and Me
Michael Colby
Bush v. Kerry: the Power Elite's Dream Ballot
Mickey Z.
Michael Moore's Lesser Party: the General and the Lieutenant
Josh Frank
Dean's Demise No Big Loss for the Left
Peter Wolson
The Politics of Narcissism
William James Martin
Clean Break with the Road Map
Daniel Estulin
Religious Extremism in Africa
Standard Schaefer
The Privatization of Culture: an Interview with Michael Hudson
Dave Zirin
Maurice Clarett Gets Off the Plantation
Tracy McLellan
Oprah's Birthday Greedfest
Poets' Basement
Holt, LaMorticella, Guthrie, Subiet and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Progressives Scorecard: Where Do the Dems Rank on the Issues
That Matter?
February 13, 2004
Alan Maass
Kevin
Cooper's Fight to Live
Karyn Strickler
McCarthyism in the Sierra Club
Annie Higgins
On
a Street in America
Adam Federman
Democratic Snipers Target Nader
Mike Whitney
George W. Faces the Nation
Brian Cloughley
Our Imperial Leader Has Spoken
Website of the Day
Lying Action Figure Doll
February 12, 2004
Ray McGovern
George
Tenet's Spin Cycle
Robert Jensen
Bush's
Nuclear Hypocrisy
Saul Landau
Elegy to the Salton Sea
February
11, 2004
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Hail, Kerry: Senator Facing-Both-Ways
Steve Perry
Bush
v. Bush?
February
10, 2004
Kurt
Nimmo
Inquisition in Iowa
Ron Jacobs
Politics and the Beatles: Don't
You Know You Can Count Me Out (In)
Elizabeth
Schulte
The Many Faces of John Kerry
Mickey
Z
Meet the Oxmans: "The Rich
Shouldn't Sleep at Night Either"
February
9, 2004
Michael
Donnelly
Will Skull and Bones Really Change
CEOs? Inside John Kerry's Closet
Chris Floyd
Smells Like Team Spirit: the Bush
B-Boys Replay Their Greatest Hits
Bill
Christison
What's Wrong with the CIA?
Dr. Susan
Block
Janet Jackson's Mammary Moment:
Boob Tube Super Bowl
February
7/8, 2004
Kathleen
Christison
Offending Valerie: Dealing with
Jewish Self-Absorption
Jeff Ballinger
No Sweat Shopping
Dave
Lindorff
Spray and Pray in Iraq: a Marine
in Transit
Alexander
Cockburn
McNamara: the Sequel
February
6, 2004
Ron
Jacobs
Are the Kurds in the Way?
Joanne
Mariner
Anita Bryant's Legacy
Saul
Landau
Happiness and Botox
Kurt Nimmo
Horror Non-fiction: A How-To Guide
from Perle and Frum
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
The Real Intelligence Failure:
Our Own
February
5, 2004
Benjamin
Shepard
Turning NYC into a Patriot Act Free
Zone
Khury
Petersen-Smith
A Report from Occupied Iraq: "We Don't Want Army USA"
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003
Teresa
Josette
The Exeuctioner's Pslam? Christian Nation? Yeah, Right
David Krieger
Why Dr. King's Message on Vietnam is Relevant to Iraq
Christopher
Brauchli
Monkey Business: Of Recess and Evolution in Georgia Schools
Norman
Solomon
The Deadly Lies of Reliable Sources
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Presenting President Edwards!
February
4, 2004
Brian
McKinlay
Bush's Australian Deputy: Howard's
Last Round Up?
Mark
Gaffney
Ariel Sharon's Favorite Senator: Ron Wyden and Israel
Judith
Brown
Palestine and the Media
Frederick
B. Hudson
Moseley-Braun and the Butcher: Campaign for Justice or Big Oil's
Junta?
Kurt Nimmo
Bush's Independent Commission: Exonerating
the Spooks
M.
Junaid Alam
Philly School Workers Fight for Fair Contract
Fran Shor
Whose Boob Tube?
Kevin
Cooper
This is Not My Execution and I Will Not Claim It
February
3, 2004
Alan
Maass
The
Dems' New Mantra: What They Really Mean by "Electability"
Nick
Halfinger
How the Other Half Lives: Embedded
in Iraq
Rahul
Mahajan
Our True Intelligence Failure
Neve Gordon
The Only Democracy in the Middle East?
Laura
Carlsen
Mexico: Two Anniversaries; Two Futures
Terry
Lodge
An Open Letter to Michael Powell from the Boobs & Body Parts
Fairness Campaign
Hammond
Guthrie
Investigating the Meaningless
Website
of the Day
Waging Peace
February
2, 2004
Gary
Leupp
The Buddhist Nun in Tom Ridge's Jail
Justin
E.H. Smith
The Manners of Their Deaths: Capital Punishment in a Smoke-Free
Environment
Tom
Wright
The Prosecution of Captain Yee
Winslow
Wheeler
Inside the Bush Defense Budget
Lee Ballinger
Janet Jackson's Naked Truth
Leonard
Pitts, Jr
For Blacks, the Game of Justice is
Rigged
Jeffrey
St. Clair
The Hollow Candidate:
The Trouble with Howard Dean
Website
of the Day
Resistance:
In the Eye of the American Hegemon
Jan. 31 / Feb 1, 2004
Paul
de Rooij
For Whom the Death Tolls: Deliberate
Undercounting of Coalition Fatalities
Bernard
Chazelle
Bush's Desolate Imperium
Jack
Heyman
Bushfires on the Docks
Christopher
Reed
Broken Ballots
Michael
Donnelly
An Urgent Plea to Progressives: Don't Give in to Fear
Rob Eshelman
The Subtle War
Lee
Sustar
Palestine and the Anti-War Movement
George
Bisharat
Right of Return
Ray
McGovern
Nothing to Preempt
Brian Cloughley
Enron's Beady-Eyed Sharks
Conn
Hallinan
Nepal, Bush & Real WMDs
Kurt Nimmo
The Murderous Lies of the Neo-Cons
Phillip
Cryan
Media at the Monterrey Summit
Christopher
Brauchli
A Speech for Those Who Don't Read
John
Holt
War in the Great White North
Mickey
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Clueless in America: When Mikey Met Wesley
Mark
Scaramella
The High Cost of Throwing Away the Key
Tariq Ali
Farewell, Munif
Ben
Tripp
Waiter! The Reality Check, Please
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January 30, 2004
Saul
Landau
Cuba High on Neo-Con Hit List
Michael
Donnelly
Bush's Second Front: The War in
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Elaine
Cassel
Worse Than Jacko: Child Abuse at Gitmo
David Vest
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The Kay Report: Still Defending Aggression
David
Miller
The Hutton Whitewash
Sam
Husseini
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January 29, 2004
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February
25, 2004
The Most Important
Thing to Remember
Our
Power is in the Streets and in Our Hearts
By RON JACOBS
(from a talk at a Burlington, Vermont
Town Meeting titled "Can We Vote to End The War?" Feb.
18, 2004)
I have never voted
in the general election for a presidential candidate from one
of the two major parties. The reason for this isn't because I
don't believe in electoral politics--in fact, I usually vote
for the various other offices on the ballot and make my mark
regarding bond issues and so on. No, the reason I haven't voted
for a presidential candidate is because there has never been
a mainstream candidate that expresses even half of what I believe
in. Unlike the mainstream media, I actually look at the substance
of the candidates' messages, not just the style that they deliver
them in.
This year a lot of my friends are in
the camp that would vote for Anyone-But-Bush. Because of my deep
disgust for Bush and his politics and style, I too am tempted
to jump on this bandwagon. After all, as everyone up here must
agree, it is essential not only to the country's future, but
to the world's, that the Bush administration lose their jobs.
Their plan for enriching themselves and their supporters through
war and more war is not a plan that I can even begin to consider,
mush less support. To be honest, I truly think they should be
in court defending themselves against the crimes they have committed,
but I can live with them being somewhere besides the White House
and its environs.
Where do the remaining candidates stand
on the war? Both Kerry and Edwards voted for the resolution that
sent US troops into Iraq. Hell, John Edwards even helped write
the resolution based on Cheney's lies. Kerry signed on to the
one that sent the military into Afghanistan-a war that isn't
about fighting terrorism as much as it is about revenge and empire.
Kucinich and Sharpton did not.
Since the war in Iraq was falsely declared
over, Kerry has tried to cloud over his support. Yet, if you
read his statements around this issue, you will find that his
argument isn't over the rightness or wrongness of the war, but
over how the war was waged. Of course, it is quite possible for
a candidate to change his mind-they are human after all-but one
has to wonder at the timing of Mr. Kerry's conversion. In fact,
the more important part of their position is what they think
should be done in Iraq and now and what would they do in the
future should a cry for war against another country arise.
John Kerry states in his campaign literature:
"We need the rest of the world to be involved in order to
reduce America's carrying all the risks and all the costs, in
order to reduce the targeting of American soldiers, and in order
to maximize our ability to wage the war on terror in that region
and elsewhere." It continues: "Senator Kerry supported
legislation authorizing the use of force if necessary to disarm
Iraq and remove the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's brutal and
aggressive regime, a position he has not waivered from."
In short, John Kerry only opposes the current war in Iraq because
he believes that Bush's unilateralist approach will make it more
difficult to fight America's other wars-in Afghanistan, Colombia,
and wherever else its corporate interests are threatened.
John Edwards not only co-wrote the resolution
that gave George Bush congressional permission to invade Iraq,
he continues to wholeheartedly support the effort. Furthermore,
he wants a larger military and more covert operations against
governments and organizations that oppose the US agenda for the
world. That means more Special Forces operations-operations that
are often nothing more than cold-blooded murders. In his literature
Edwards calls for an expansion of NATO and a renewed US resolve
to get rid of the current governments in Cuba, northern Korea,
and Middle Eastern countries other than Israel. He calls for
actions against those countries that hold political prisoners,
while simultaneously demanding greater restrictions on civil
liberties in the US and harsher penalties for those convicted
under various laws designed to curb dissent.
Kucinich also wants other governments
to give up their young people to corporate America's war in Iraq.
He would turn the chore over to the UN-in essence asking them
to be the Pentagon's accomplices in this crime against humanity.
I want a candidate who says the war and occupation are fundamentally
wrong, not one who merely wants to change its appearance. I want
a candidate who will end the PATRIOT Act, not just bits and pieces
of it. I haven't heard these statements yet from any of them.
And, if things continue as they have, I won't hear it.
All of these men are of the mind that
the US should finish what it started. Now, this is not merely
foolish, it's stupid. No matter what John Kerry or any other
politician says, there is no right way to do the wrong thing.
How many more people will have to die before the United States
realizes that it cannot win a war against the world. It can,
however, work to make a peace that works towards honestly resolving
many of the problems that create the situations that lead it
to war. First and foremost, that means that the US must stop
thinking that its power is deserved. It isn't. Just because it
is stronger than any of its potential opponents doesn't mean
it deserves to rule the world. Just because it is stronger doesn't
mean it should get its way at the world's expense.
I want peace and justice in the world.
That means that I want there to be a fairer distribution of the
world's wealth. I am appalled that men, women and children die
every day from hunger, disease and war. I am even further appalled
when I realize that the government in DC and the corporations
that it works for are directly responsible for those deaths.
And so are we in some way. It's not that we are bad people-although
some in the current regime are definitely not very nice, to say
the least-it's just that the nature of our system and its need
to continually take advantage of those who are weaker leads us
to make decisions and compromises that lessen and destroy the
lives of many who are less powerful. This is why we go to war
so often. John Kerry says as much in his new book.
None of the candidates are going to address
this. If they did, they would lose their media credibility and
perhaps even their life. Besides, it is not in their interest
to do so. John Kerry is a member of the Yale secret society known
for its connections to the US intelligence community, the corporate
world, and several other links to the tower of power in this
country. This is the same secret society that Papa and Baby Bush
belong to-Skull and Bones. John Edwards is no slouch, either.
He is a trial lawyer and former prosecutor. Like Bill Clinton,
he may have been born outside of America's ruling circles, but
he is doing whatever it takes to get in to them.
These guys are invested in this system!
They share the assumption that if the interests of corporate
America are threatened, then the American people are threatened
as individuals. This is not usually the case. Even the more left
candidates-Kucinich and Sharpton--don't challenge the fundamental
reality of corporate America, believing instead that this system
can be humane even though it requires war and empire to survive.
To address the basic inequities that this system needs to thrive
would be tantamount to calling for a revolution and, in the United
States of today, mainstream politicians just don't do that. After
all, it is that very system that keeps them employed, even when
they are out of politics.
That is one reason why there are no candidates
who are truly opposition candidates. They simply cannot run,
much less win, with the way the US system is constructed. If
you remember, last year on February 15-a year and three days
ago tonight-millions of people around the world marched in the
streets of their cities in opposition to the impending war on
Iraq. This included over a half a million people in New York
City alone, despite the sub-freezing temperatures and the refusal
of the city and its police department to issue a permit. This
day was the largest expression of antiwar feeling ever in the
history of the world. Yet, did it make a bit of a difference
to Washington? Hell no. Did it cause some of the Democratic candidates
to modify their support for Dubya's war of lies? Yes, but only
for the moment.
I want to remind my friends who plan
on voting for the Democratic candidate that democracy is not
at the ballot box alone, especially in this country and especially
after the 2000 election theft. No, real democracy is in the streets.
So, for those of you who are supporting a candidate, please remember
this and don't let yourself be convinced that you have done all
you can when Election Day is over. Equally important as after
the election is the campaign itself. We who oppose the war and
occupation must make it the major issue in this campaign.
To those on the left, let me assure you.
I am not becoming a Democrat. But I truly believe that the history
of the last fifty years in the US tells us that it is not repression
that breeds radical change, but hope. And, in the current political
reality of the US, it is the Democrats who bring hope to many
of the workers, and most of the poor, the young and the elderly;
women and people of color; and all the rest of this nation's
residents who are underrepresented in the halls of power. It
always proves to be a mostly misguided hope, for sure, but, like
it or not, this is history. If folks are arguing for a candidate,
it seems to me that this means they want to change their situation.
For us, it means that we should acknowledge this desire by moving
the conversation beyond the Democrats and beyond Election Day.
The conversation shouldn't be about elections, but about taking
back our country from the crooks and liars in both parties who
think it's there for the benefit of a relative few.
Just for a moment, I would like to revisit
the 2000 election. If you recall, George Bush did not win that
vote. His opponent did. What happened in the weeks following
Election Day 2000 is this: George Bush and his gang stole the
election. Plain and simple. And we let it happen. When elections
are stolen in most other countries, people protest in the streets.
But that didn't happen here. Why? Because we are trained to think
that our system is fair. That anyone can be president. Yet no
woman has ever been president. No African-American has ever been
president. Nope, nobody but white men has ever been president
of the US. Sure, some of them haven't been okay presidents, but
those are the facts. And, in the 20th century, they were all
pretty damn rich, besides. Judging from the current crop, that
last fact isn't going to change.
I have this recurring dream-it's a nightmare,
really-that a Democrat wins the election both by popular vote
and by electoral college in November, yet on the day after Inauguration
Day 2005, George W. Bush is still in the White House and a state
of martial law has been declared because Ashcroft has put the
nation in a Code Red Terror Alert. And nobody protests.
I hope this scenario is just a paranoid
fantasy and that George Bush is back in Texas for good in 2005.
But if his gang of thieves steal or otherwise ignore the results
of an opponent's victory, then we must be ready to put democracy
back where it truly belongs-in the streets!! And if a Democrat
does make it back to the White House, it is up to us to keep
him as honest as a politician can be by constantly reminding
him that real democracy isn't in the White House or Congress
or Wall Street, but amongst the people.
I can't say this enough. We must not
rest on our laurels.
To put it simply: a Democrat in the White
House is not a step forward, but it might very well give us a
few months to organize and pull America back from the abyss of
war and totalitarianism that George Bush and company have led
us into.
Let me leave you all with this thought:
The most important thing to remember is that our power is in
the streets and in our hearts, not in any candidate's pocket.
Let's keep it there!
Ron Jacobs
is author of The
Way the Wind Blew: a history of the Weather Underground,
which is being republished by Verso.
He can be reached at: rjacobs@zoo.uvm.edu
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Vanessa Jones
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Ben Granby
Anatomy of a Night Raid on Balad, Iraq
John Holt
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