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March 20 / 21, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Gay
Marriage: Sidestep on Freedom's Path
March 19, 2004
Jeffrey St. Clair
Zapatero
to Kerry: Back Off, Senator, Our Troops are Coming Home
Ann Harrison
So
Protesters, How Well Do You Know Your Rights?
William MacDougall
Fortress Britain's War on "Economic Migrants"
Greg Moses
Sold American: Cowboy Nation Gets Ready to Vote
Cynthia McKinney
Haiti and the Impotence of Black America: Roll Back This Coup,
Mr. Bush
Norman Solomon
Spinning the Past; Threatening the Future
John L. Hess
"Missing" Evidence and the NYTs
Vicente Navarro
The
End of Aznar, Bush's Best Friend
Website of the War
Naming the Dead
March 18, 2004
Gila Svirsky
Rachel
Corrie, One Year Later: She Never Lost Faith in Decency
Christopher Brauchli
Drilling a Hole in the Sanctions: How Halliburton Made $73 Million
from Saddam
William Kulin
Report from Iraq: Just Another Baghdad Car Bombing
Mike Whitney
Resistance: a Moral Imperative
Rep. Ron Paul
Broadcast Indecency Act: an Indecent Attack on the First Amendment
Josh Frank
The Nader Question
Jack Random
They Lied & They Lost: Madrid and the Lessons of Democracy
Greg Bates
What Makes a Nader Voter Tick? A Survey
Sam Hamod / Alfredo Reyes
Contempt of the World: Hastert, Bush and Cheney on Spain
Gary Leupp
The
Madrid Bombings: the Chickens Come Home to Roost
Website of the Day
Privatizing Armageddon: Buy Your Own Doomsday Key
March 17, 2004
Marjorie Cohn
Spain, the EU and the US: War on
Terror or Civil Liberties?
David MacMichael
Untruth
and Consequences
Michael Donnelly
Wear the Green, But Skip the Green Beer
Tom Stephens
"Steady Leadership": Let the Buyer Beware
Wayne Madsen
Sen. Kerry, Let Me Help You Out
Karyn Strickler
Who Owns the Sierra Club? Anonymous Donors and Rigged Elections
Peter Linebaugh
Bush:
Blanc Blanc
March 16, 2004
Lenni Brenner
James
Madison: the Anti-Clerical Father of the Bill of Rights
Scott Boehm
Madrid
Diary: How to Change World Order in Four Days
Alexander Lynch
From Franco to Aznar: the History
Behind the Spanish Elections
Sam Hamod and Alfredo
Reyes
The Truth About the Spanish Elections: Aznar Was Going Down Anyway
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
You Wouldn't Do a Dog This Way:
Executing David Clayton Hill
Mike Whitney
The Case for a Nuclear Iran
Robert Fisk
The Bloody Price of the "War
on Terror"
Bill Christison
The
Aftershocks from Madrid
CounterPunch Photo Wire
The Passion of St. Teresa
Website of the Day
Join the War on Art!
March 15, 2004
Harry Browne
Terror Nothing New to Europe
Mike Whitney
Justice
Not Murder: the Tragic Symmetry of Terrorism
Lidice Valenzuela
Haiti: a Coup without Consultation
Greg Moses
Lessons
from the Texas Primaries: Looking for a Coalition with Legs
Mickey Z.
Depraved Indifference: C-Sections, Patriarchy & Women's Health
Asaf Shtull-Trauring
AWOL
in New York: From Refusenik to Organizer
CounterPunch Wire
Gen. Gramajo Executed by Bees!
March 12 / 14, 2004
Gabriel Kolko
The
Coming Elections and the Future of American Global Power
Saul Landau
Oh, Jesus...It's the Movie!
William Blum
Neo-Con(tradictions)
William S. Lind
Why They Throw Rocks
Rahul Mahajan
The Meaning of Madrid: War on "Terrorism" Makes Us
All Less Safe
Neve Gordon
Demographic Wars
Kurt Nimmo
Kerry and the Progressive Interventionists
Mickey Z.
The "New" UN Blames the Poor
Mike Whitney
War Games: the American Media Leads the Charge
Helen Scott and Ashley
Smith
Aristide's Fall: What Led to the Coup?
Justin E.H. Smith
Loïc Wacquant: Against a Sociodicy
of the American Prison
Brandy Baker
Him Again? Al Gore Needs to Move On
Robin Philpot
Nobody Can Call It a "Plane Crash" Now: the Report
on the Assassination of Rwandan President Habyarimana
Mokhiber / Weissman
The Meat Monopoly Takes a Rare Pounding
Dave Zirin
She Turned Her Back on the War: an Interview with Toni Smith
Daniel Wolff
The Lord's Pier
March 11, 2004
Ron Jacobs
Bedtime
for Democracy
Bill Kauffman
Hey,
Ralph! Why Not Another Party of the People?
James Hollander
Slaughter
in Madrid: Consolidating an Ally?
Norman Solomon
They
Shoot Journalists, Don't They?
Patrick Gavin
The Salvation of Dan Quayle: Family Values Return
Becky Burgwin
You're
Messing with the Wrong Generation
John Sugg
The FBI is on My Trail
March 10, 2004
Hammond Guthrie
Read
This Book!: "Who the Hell is Stew Albert?"
Chris Floyd
Operation Enduring Sweatshop: Another
Bush Brings Hell to Haiti
Elizabeth Corrie
Remembering the Death of Rachel Corrie
Mike Whitney
US Press Torpedoes Aristide
M. Junaid Alam
An Anti-Civilizational War?
Bob Feldman
The Occupation of Haiti: Recalling 1915-1934
John L. Hess
An Overload of Crises
Gary Leupp
On Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi and the Uses of al-Qaeda "Links"
March 9, 2004
Greg Weiher
The
Zarqawi Gambit, Part 2
Ben Tripp
Word Up! Let's Have a Conversation
Tom Barry
Neo-Cons Target Syria
Sharon Smith
The Hypocrites in the Catholic Church
Robert Fisk
The Same Old Iraq
Doug Giebel
The Bush Strategy: Laughing All the Way
Ralph Nader
Pension Rights, the Trail of Broken Promises
Daniel Estulin
In Memory of Ricardo Ortega: a Great Journalist, Killed in Haiti
Dave Lindorff
Martha Stewart's Cloudy Day
Saul Landau
Will the Filthy Rich Dump Bush?
Website of the Day
Imperial Armies in the Garden
March 8, 2004
Amy Goodman
An
Interview with Aristide
Eric Ruder
An Interview
with Robert Fatton on the Coup in Haiti
Robert Jensen
The Presidential Library Terrorist
Connection
Mike Whitney
Expel the US from the Security Council
Jason Leopold
How Cheney Helped Cover Up Pakistan's
Nuclear Proliferation
Mazin Qumsiyeh
Why is Apartheid Touted as a Solution?
Kevin Alexander Gray
The Legacy of Strom Thurmond
Derek Seidman
Radical Continuity: an Interview with Paul Buhle
Steve Perry
Kerry Fiddles While He Could be Burning Bush
Website of the Day
Patriot
Act Game
March 6 / 7, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Understanding the World with
Paul Sweezy
Robert Pollin
Remembering Paul Sweezy
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Politics of Timber Theft
Tom Reeves
Bush's Mass Deportations: 63,000 and Counting
Charles Lewis
Who Mugged Howard Dean in Iowa:
Kerry, Torricelli and a Mysterious Frontgroup
Tom Jackson
My Breakfast with Sen. Judd Gregg
Kurt Nimmo
Is Venezuela Next?
Alan Cisco
A Report from Caracas
Jack Random
Haitian Democracy be Damned
Colin Piquette
Oh, Canada: the Coup Coalition
Lee Sustar
Labor's State of Emergency
William D. Hartung
Iraq and the Costs of War
David Sally
Rebuilding
Amérique
Mark Scaramella
When God Mooned Moses: Test Your Bible Knowledge
Mickey Z.
What We Can Learn from Ashcroft's Gallbladder
Ron Jacobs
Politics and Baseball
Dave Zirin
The Longest Jump: the Blackballing of Phil Shinnick
Poets' Basement
John Holt and Larry Kearney
Website of the Weekend
National Day of Action for Rachel Corrie
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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
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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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March 20 / 21, 2004
Kerry and Black America
Just
Another Stupid White Man
By JUSTIN FELUX
John Kerry says he wants to be America's second
"black president," but sadly, his record on issues
of racial justice makes him look more yellow than black. This
could spell trouble for the Democrats. In a recent editorial,
Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said, "There is no question
that the Democratic Party cannot win without the support of African
American voters in 2004." The black vote could make or break
the Democrats in critical battleground states such as Michigan
and Ohio. Black voters have been fiercely loyal to the Democratic
Party for the past several decades. Realizing that black voters
have essentially nowhere else to go, Democrats have started taking
the black vote for granted. While it is unlikely that black voters
will switch to the Republican side, turnout among black voters
may decrease if they feel the Democratic candidate doesn't understand
their problems. Bill Clinton made middle class white voters his
primary target during his first campaign and black voter turnout
dropped considerably.
Before he dropped out of the race and
endorsed Kerry, General Wesley Clark had been very critical of
statements Kerry once made about affirmative action. Kerry's
response was essentially to say, "I have been endorsed by
[black Congressman] Jim Clyburn." Kerry's website features
pictures taken at a cocktail party he attended with members of
the Congressional Black Caucus. Being endorsed by Jim Clyburn
and going to cocktail parties with black members of Congress
are fine things, but does Kerry really believe any of this will
inspire black voters to rally to his cause? It seems unlikely.
Kerry isn't half the panderer Bill Clinton was. Hell, he wasn't
even Jim Clyburn's first pick! Clyburn originally endorsed Dick
Gephardt and threw his support rather unenthusiastically to Kerry
after Gephardt dropped out of the race.
The aforementioned criticisms by General
Clark stemmed from a speech given by Kerry at Yale in 1992. In
the speech, Kerry waged a full-frontal assault on racial justice,
arguing that affirmative action and welfare created a "culture
of dependency" among blacks. He argued that the government
should focus on "law and order," "self-reliance,"
and "individual responsibility" rather than affirmative
action as a solution to ending racial inequality. He seemed particularly
concerned with the feelings and opinions of white people. He
said, "We cannot hope to make further racial progress when
whites believe that it is they and not blacks that suffer most
from racial discrimination." He sympathized with white people
"who feel alienated or abandoned by their government, that
we simply don't care about them." In addition to hanging
white America out to dry, the government has created a tangled
mass of affirmative action laws in which there "exists a
reality of reverse discrimination that actually engenders racism."
In order to further advance civil rights, Kerry argues, we must
regain white support and try to understand "the anger of
taxpayers who work hard to support their families and then find
themselves supporting generations of welfare families as well."
Apparently Kerry saw no irony in giving
this speech on an elite college campus before an audience which
undoubtedly consisted of rich white kids for the most part. Yale's
faculty is 2.8% black and 1.9% Hispanic. Fortunately, it seems
Yale has not been corrupted by the wave of "reverse discrimination"
that is sweeping the nation. Nor did Kerry seem to recognize
any irony in the fact while he lectures poor black people about
"self-reliance," Kerry has essentially never had to
do anything for himself. Kerry was born into an obscenely rich
family that would go on yachting trips with the Kennedys. Since
he became a politician his bank accounts have been generously
stocked by corporate lobbyists. He has also married some of the
richest women in the world, including his current wife, Teresa
Heinz. It's hard to imagine how such a person could even have
a concept of "self-reliance." John Kerry preaching
to poor people about self-reliance seems rather like a blind
person trying to teach people about the colors of the rainbow.
Irony aside, Kerry makes some pretty
outrageous claims here. Some have suggested Kerry's speech was
a political ploy designed to make himself appear more "moderate."
This would not be surprising. The Democratic Party has a long
and sad history of selling out its most vulnerable constituencies
for the sake of attracting white middle class voters. Single
mothers, blacks, immigrants, union members, and poor people are
all very familiar with this kind of cynical political "pragmatism"
often practiced by white liberals. However, I'm willing to assume
that Kerry really meant the things he said in his speech. If
that is the case, then he is utterly clueless about the reality
of racism in America. In fact, he buys into a worldview that
is so explicitly right-wing it ought to cast doubt on his ability
to tackle other social problems not related to race.
Kerry's speech represents a dramatic
capitulation to the "white backlash" against the gains
made by people of color during the civil rights era. Race relations
in America have been characterized by periods of progress and
backlash. After the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, America
had an opportunity to atone for the racial injustices of its
past. For a while, things seemed to be on the right track. During
Reconstruction the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed along
with a series of constitutional amendments designed to guarantee
blacks equal rights under the law. Some of the South's first
public schools were built during this time. Blacks made unprecedented
gains in employment. Hiram Revels became the first black member
of the U.S. Senate.
However, as blacks made gains, the white
majority became more and more nervous. That nervousness eventually
culminated in a full-fledged backlash against racial progress.
This period is often referred to as the "nadir" of
American race relations. Southerners called it the "Redemption."
Membership in the Ku Klux Klan soared to over 3 million at one
point. The courts began to chip away at the foundation of civil
rights with decisions such as <i>Plessy v. Ferguson</i>.
Blacks in the South were forced to work as sharecroppers, making
them anchored to the land with little or no prospects for social
mobility. Blacks in the North were excluded from the new industrial
economy and labor unions. Within a few short years white supremacy
had been restored in both the North and the South. The white
backlash turned back the clock on almost all the gains made by
blacks during Reconstruction.
A similar backlash befell the country
after the civil rights era. After years of black insurgency,
the movement won the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and
the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Affirmative Action was never developed
as a coherent policy. It evolved through a series of executive
orders, administrative decisions, and court rulings. At a time
when many in the movement were talking about a revolution and
radically redistributing wealth and power in the country, affirmative
action was seen as a very moderate and reformist policy. The
fact that it is now seen as such a controversial issue indicates
how successful the white backlash and the right-wing's exploitation
of it has been. As it was after the first backlash, the courts
have been chipping away at the gains made by the civil rights
movement. The focus and blame for racial inequality has shifted
from white racism to blacks themselves. We have even seen a return
of the pseudo-scientific racism that inspired the eugenics movement
with the publication and subsequent success of The Bell Curve.
In the typical cowardly tradition of
white liberalism, Kerry has in large part bought into the notion
that blacks themselves are responsible for their misery. While
he agrees that white racism still exists, he only makes a fleeting
mention of it before going on to attack black people. As part
of his solution, Kerry says we must focus on "law and order,"
and has called for a large increase in the number of police officers
on the beat. In reality, crime is a symptom of racial inequality,
not a cause of it. The first candidate to make "law and
order" a major campaign issue was Richard Nixon. The "law
and order" message was in response to a series of ghetto
uprisings that started in Detroit in 1967 and spread across the
country like wildfire. The "law and order" theme was
an integral part of the infamous and misleadingly-named "Southern
Strategy," which played upon the racial fears of the white
majority to win elections.
In other words, when a politician talks
about being "tough on crime," what he's really saying
is "If you vote for me, I'll put all those scary black people
in jail where you won't have to worry about them anymore."
Kerry says "we cannot equate fear of crime with racism,"
but that is precisely what it is in many cases. Violent crime
is usually associated with images of black males on TV news at
night. Never mind that white people are much more likely to be
attacked by another white person. Never mind that "white-collar"
crime costs the country far more than all the robberies and petty
thefts combined. While most white folks think of cops as "our"
upstanding "Boys in Blue" whose primary goal is to
keep "us" safe, to black people, cops are blackshirt
thugs that keep them relegated to a colonized status in their
own country. The word "order" can have very different
connotations depending on which side of that "order"
you're on. The only street that could use a few extra cops in
America is Wall Street, but don't expect Kerry to do anything
beyond a few token reforms to beef up law enforcement there.
Another response to the "race riots"
of the late 1960s was the Kerner Report, which famously stated
that "our nation is moving toward two societies, one black,
one white_separate and unequal." Far from blaming black
criminality, the report said that "white racism is essentially
responsible for the explosive mixture which has been accumulating
in our cities since the end o World War II." As a remedy
the report suggested more vigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination
laws and extending affirmative action. It also called for numerous
reforms in housing, education, and welfare. Nixon denounced the
report, saying it was too divisive: "What we need is more
talk about reconciliation, more about how we're going to work
together." Kerry made similar remarks when he said "we
must rebuild the consensus that brought us the civil rights movement
in the first place." In other words, the overriding concern
of white liberals is to avoid racial conflict rather than achieve
racial justice. Martin Luther King Jr. eloquently denounced this
kind of behavior in his famous letter from a Birmingham jail:
"I must confess that over the last
few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's
great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the
White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white
moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice;
who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension
to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly
says, 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree
with your methods of direct action'; who paternalistically feels
that he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who
lives by the myth of time and who constantly advised the Negro
to wait until a 'more convenient season.' Shallow understanding
from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding
from people of ill will."
In addition to the mistake of placing
"order" and "harmony" over equity and justice,
Kerry makes the mistake of treating racism as an attitude or
a psychological abberration of some kind when he says, "The
truth is that affirmative action has kept America thinking in
racial terms." Actually, racism has kept America thinking
in racial terms; not that people "thinking in racial terms"
is of any significance in the first place. The matters of importance
are the deep-seated inequalities embedded in the institutions
of American society, not the "terms" that people are
thinking in. People who adhere to this naive conception of racism
seem to believe that if black and white people get together,
hold hands, and sing "Kumbaya," all of our racial problems
will disappear. It's easy to understand why treating racism as
an attitude has so much appeal to white folks. It takes the focus
away from the vast array of privileges that we enjoy as a result
of the color of our skin. As Dr. King pointed out in that same
letter, "History is the long and tragic story of the fact
that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily."
So excuse me if I don't shed any tears
for the white people who feel like their government has "abandoned"
them. In reality, no group has received more support and subsidy
from the government than white people. After World War II white
people took billions of dollars in loans from the government
and used it to buy homes in the suburbs. Those loans were essentially
off limits to black people, and now that generation of white
folks is handing down trillions of dollars in government-created
wealth to their white progeny_and that is just one striking example.
Yet when the government steps in to help people of color, whites
recoil in horror, crying "reverse discrimination."
This isn't new. Right after the Civil War, President Andrew Johnson
complained that the 1866 Civil Rights Act was "made to operate
in favor of the colored race and against the white race."
In 1883, Supreme Court justice Joseph Bradley said it was "time
for the Negro to seize being the special favorite of the laws
and instead assume his place amongst all others in society."
This was only a few short years after chattel slavery had been
abolished.
Kerry criticizes the "culture of
dependency" he says exists in black America, echoing the
fears of Reconstruction critics who claimed blacks were becoming
"permanent wards of the state," as was the popular
phrase of the time. Presumably, he is talking about the number
of black people on welfare, even though most welfare recipients
are white. Kerry voted for Clinton's vicious welfare reform bill
in another of his cynical attempts to appear "moderate."
The "generations of welfare families" that Kerry talks
about are a virtual nonentity. Even before welfare reform, over
80% of all welfare recipients stayed on the program for 5 years
or less. There are "generations of welfare families"
that taxpayers ought to be concerned about, but their names aren't
Tamika and Latoya; their names are Rockefeller and Morgan. White-owned
corporations have been sucking away at the public trough much
longer and much harder than black single mothers ever have or
ever will, but again, don't expect Kerry to do anything serious
about it.
The lowest point in Kerry's speech is
when he stereotypes urban communities as having "a violent,
drug-ridden, rat-infested reality," without ever mentioning
how those conditions came to be. He apparently chalks it up to
the inability of black people to obey the law and stay off welfare.
He doesn't mention the fact that while the government was subsidizing
"white flight" to the suburbs, it was denying those
loans to black people. He doesn't mention the rampant "redlining"
of black communities or racist lending practices by banks that
saddled black people with crippling debt. He doesn't mention
the process of "urban renewal," and how it displaced
black residents and tore apart their communities to make way
for strip malls and highways designed to make it easier for white
folks to make it to the city from their new suburban homes. He
doesn't mention the rampant racial discrimination that goes on
to this day in the housing and banking industries that make it
nearly impossible for people of color to get out of the "ghetto"
even if they want to. As a result of these practices, whites
with only $13,000 in annual income are more likely to own their
own home than blacks who make $48,000 a year.
Then again, the fact that black people
are less likely to get those loans means that white people are
<i>more</i> likely to get them, which brings us back
to the question of white privilege. During the civil rights era,
white people were dragged kicking and screaming down the road
of racial progress by the black protest movement. There was no
"consensus" between whites and blacks that allowed
for progress to be made, as Kerry claims, and there never has
been. White people vigorously defend and justify their privileges
just as any privileged group would. Kerry's capitulation to the
white backlash and endorsement of "blaming the victim"
type explanations for racial inequity indicate that he would
not hesitate to turn back the clock on racial justice if the
political climate pushed him in that direction. While his campaign
platform says some promising things about supporting affirmative
action and low-cost housing initiatives, it is unclear from his
record and past statements that he understands why those things
are necessary, how necessary they are, or how sincere he is in
saying he supports them. Remember, this is the same Kerry who
criticizes the Iraq war, the Patriot act, and numerous other
things he actually supported in the past.
If Kerry needs proof that affirmative
action is not "reverse discrimination" and is actually
a measure designed to level a playing field that is tipped heavily
in favor of whites, here is a short (and by no means exhaustive)
list of studies for him to consider:
- A study by the National Bureau of Economic
Research indicated that after sending out 1,300 dummy resumes,
black-sounding names were 50 percent less likely to get a callback
than white-sounding names with comparable resumes.
- Devah Pager, a sociologist at Northwestern
University, conducted a study in Milwaukee which showed whites
with a criminal record were more likely to be hired for a job
than similarly qualified blacks with no criminal record.
- A recent study by the National Community
Reinvestment Coalition showed that subprime lending activity
typically increases in neighborhoods with greater numbers of
blacks, even when other factors such as income, creditworthiness
and housing are constant.
- According to a study by the Russell
Sage Foundation, blacks are 36-44 percent less likely to be hired
in white suburbs even if they search for work longer and more
aggressively and are equally qualified to their white counterparts.
- Estimates by the Urban Institute indicate
that blacks lose over $120 billion in wages due to labor market
discrimination every year.
- The Wall Street Journal has reported
that almost 70 percent of whites with poor credit are still able
to receive a mortgage loan whereas only 16 percent of blacks
with equally poor credit could do the same.
These are the facts that Kerry should
be talking about; not the fact that a bunch of over-privileged
white people feel neglected by their government. Those of us
with white skin are in no position to be complaining about racial
exclusion. We are all stockholders in a corporation called white
supremacy, and we profit from that investment on a daily basis.
We don't have to worry about being racially profiled by the cops
on the way to work and we don't have to worry about being denied
a promotion because of our skin color once we get there. Kerry's
overriding concern for harmony between the races echoes claims
by Southern segregationists that desegregation would only harm
black people by "increasing racial tension." Similar
arguments were made by advocates of slavery.
In other words, it doesn't matter how
much lip service Kerry gives to his alleged devotion to improving
the conditions of black people. Bill Clinton pandered to blacks
more than any president in American history and ended up doing
virtually nothing for them once in office. Black voters need
to hold Kerry's feet to the fire and force him to make a strong
commitment both to affirmative action and other measures that
are necessary to promote racial justice.
Justin Felux
can be contacted at: justins@alacrityisp.net.
Weekend
Edition Features for March 12 / 14, 2004
Gabriel Kolko
The
Coming Elections and the Future of American Global Power
Saul Landau
Oh, Jesus...It's the Movie!
William Blum
Neo-Con(tradictions)
William S. Lind
Why They Throw Rocks
Rahul Mahajan
The Meaning of Madrid: War on "Terrorism" Makes Us
All Less Safe
Neve Gordon
Demographic Wars
Kurt Nimmo
Kerry and the Progressive Interventionists
Mickey Z.
The "New" UN Blames the Poor
Mike Whitney
War Games: the American Media Leads the Charge
Helen Scott and Ashley
Smith
Aristide's Fall: What Led to the Coup?
Justin E.H. Smith
Loïc Wacquant: Against a Sociodicy
of the American Prison
Brandy Baker
Him Again? Al Gore Needs to Move On
Robin Philpot
Nobody Can Call It a "Plane Crash" Now: the Report
on the Assassination of Rwandan President Habyarimana
Mokhiber / Weissman
The Meat Monopoly Takes a Rare Pounding
Dave Zirin
She Turned Her Back on the War: an Interview with Toni Smith
Daniel Wolff
The Lord's Pier
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