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February 28 / 29, 2004
Stephen Green
Serving Two Flags: Neo-Cons, Israel
and the Bush Team
Mike Whitney
Dismantle
the Military Goliath
February 27, 2004
Thomas C. Mountain
A
White Jesus During Black History Month?
Laura Carlsen
Americans
Abroad: Bush is Persona Non Grata
John B. Anderson
Nader's Campaign Brings Back Memories: Creating an Open Electoral
Process
Jason Leopold
Spying
on Kofi Annan
John Chuckman
Nader,
Risk and Hope
Standard Schaefer
An
Interview with Michael Hudson on Putin's Russia
Ray McGovern
Punished
for Honest Intelligence
Saul Landau
The
Haiti Redux
Website of the Day
Bush: Why I'm Running for Re-election
February 26, 2004
Brandy Baker
Is Nader
on to Something?
Jacques Kinau
AEI
to Colombia: "Can't Give You Anything But Guns, Baby"
Norman Solomon
Bugging Kofi Annan: UN Spying
and the Evasions of US Journalism
Greg Weiher
A Purloined Letter: the Zarqawi Gambit
Walt Brasch
Janet Jackson, Bush & No. 542: There are No Halftime Shows
in War
Shadi Hamid
The Music World Explodes in Anger
Norman Madarasz
As Canadian as Corruption
Chris Floyd
Bullets and Ballots
Virginia Tilly
The
Deeper Meaning of the Wall
Amy Goodman / Jeremy
Scahill
Haiti's
Lawyer Says US is Arming Haiti's Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries
Website of the Day
Clear Channel Sucks
February 25, 2004
Dr. Susan Block
Saddam's
Sex Therapist and the Rape of Free Speech
Bruce Anderson
Treacherous Bastards: The Greens and the Dems and Nader
Ron Jacobs
Our Power is on the Streets and
in Our Hearts
Mike Whitney
Bush
and Gay America: the Politics of Duplicity
Sam Husseini
Jesus in 100 Words
John L. Hess
Kick Off or Flub?
Sam Hamod
Bush's Newest Red Herring
Cockburn / St. Clair
Winning
with Nader
Website of the Day
VotePact
February 24, 2004
Ralph Nader
Why
I'm Running for President
Greg Moses
Rally
the Mob! Bush, Gay Marriage and the Constitution
Douglas O'Hara
The
Merchants of Fear: Smearing Nader
Phillip Cryan
Frozen in Time: The WSJ's Paranoid
Lens on Latin America
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
at The Hague
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
Attack, The Passion, Rabbi Lerner and the Gospels
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
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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
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The
Erosion of the American Dream
Francis Boyle
Impeach
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February 28 / 29, 2004
So Nader's Running?
Get
Over It
By DOUG GIEBEL
Tottering from past defeats, liberals and progressives
are wasting breath and time whining over Ralph Nader's return
to the presidential campaign. Apparently these grumblers were
hoping this time around for a free ride, banking on some Messiah
to appear and topple the Bushvolk without distraction, much as
George W. Bush has been elevated throughout his own political
career. Well, Nader is running. Get over it and move on. "Life,"
as somebody said, "is not fair." Grandma told us, "When
you're given lemons, make lemonade."
Damage was done when the over-the-hill
Democratic "establishment" piled on Howard Dean to
take him down. Fortunately, Dean is still willing to work for
the common goal: defeating Bush in 2004. Instead of bashing Nader
for his chutzpah or his "ego," Kerry, Edwards, Kucinich
and Sharpton should bring both Dean and Nader into a strategy
aimed not at bashing one another, but at campaigning in unison
for that goal. Only one person can hold the title President of
the United States, but that person won't get there on his own.
What these guys need is a Vince Lombardi to knock their inflated
heads together and shout, "It's the TEAMWORK, stupid!"
If, after the garbage pile of lies, evasions
and idiotic programs perpetrated by Bush Administration arrogance,
the Democrats can't get their act together and defeat Republicans,
they don't deserve to win. After all, it's not only about regaining
the White House, it's about electing a people-friendly Congress,
too. Given a bit more time, the Bushvolk should defeat themselves,
but it won't happen if the Democrats (and the Greens and in Nader's
case the Independents) don't find seeking the common good more
important than self-righteous vanity.
Recently, thanks to Democracy, Now, I
listened again to the passionate speech John Kerry gave before
that Senate committee in 1971. It is still impressively moving.
Now, after having served in the Senate for many years, Kerry
has become "senatized," his speeches are stilted, the
sincerity, daring and passion bleached out. American ears are
not made of tin. Given the ongoing abuses of Republican zealots,
even many Republicans will accept a Democrat who speaks sincerely
from the heart and not with an eye to contributors and lobbyists.
Big money may be pouring into the Bush campaign's coffers, but
money can't buy The People's House if the people say, "No
sale."
Ralph Nader has much to contribute in
the dialog of Bush v. America. So does Howard Dean. So do all
the candidates, including those now out of the race: Dick Gephardt,
Carol Moseley Braun, even Joe Lieberman, who often seems more
like a Republican than anything else. Let them stow their egos
until after the election while they work together, stumping the
nation to restore common sense to politics and Washington.
A word or two about Al Gore. One reason
Gore didn't attract even more support during his run for the
presidency was his inner conflict over how to present himself
to voters. Recently, freed from campaigning and the fear of losing,
Al Gore has given a series of speeches that are frank, amusing,
spirited and "real." His recent "lecture"
on the subject of Global Warming sponsored by <MoveOn.org>
was a brilliant tour-de-force that deserves to be seen by all
Americans. Democrats must make good use of the New Al Gore, just
as they must take advantage of the talents of Nader, Dean and
the others. Even Bill Clinton has a future, if he can dampen
his enthusiasm for behind-the-scenes manipulation and realize
New Democrats have had their season in the sun.
In earlier Counterpunch articles, I outlined
the Bush "plan" to end "America as we know it"
(September 12, 2003) and the neo-conservative desire to appropriate
Iraq and build permanent bases there at an unknown cost in dollars
and lives. (January 6, 2004). Both subjects must be brought to
the attention of voters, and so must the documentation of Bushvolk
lies, manipulations, the devaluation of civil and human rights.
Who better to inform the nation about corporate abuses than Ralph
Nader? Who better to challenge the neo-conning of America over
war in Iraq than Howard Dean?
Even as they weep crocodile tears about
9/11, Republican fanatics are planning to use their New York
convention to capitalize on the tragedy. President Bush is stonewalling
the commission he reluctantly created to investigate what happened
on that fateful day. If President Bush tries to halt the commission's
work before it has finished, commission members should press
forward regardless, independently. "Truth" is becoming
the central issue in the upcoming election: truth about Iraq,
truth about jobs, truth about the economy, truth about George
W. Bush and his supporters.
It matters little if George W. Bush served
in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War. What matters
is whether the administration is covering up the truth about
why a young man trained as a fighter pilot suddenly stopped flying
and refused to take the requisite physical.
It doesn't matter as much that the newly-elected
Bush Administration turned a blind-eye to an impending terrorist
attack as it does to know whether administration insiders expected
and possibly welcomed a "small" attack so it could
be used as an excuse to go after Saddam Hussein, the better to
establish a permanent U.S. military presence in the heart of
the roiling Middle East. Was "the unexpected" in this
scenario the size of the attack, rather than that it happened?
Richard Perle, neo-conservative insider and advisor, recently
interviewed on KGO Radio in San Francisco, said he thought about
and discussed a possible new attack on the World Trade Center
back in 1998.
Hubris may finally bring down the House
of Bush. By welcoming Ralph Nader and the other campaigners on
board, by freeing themselves from the bonds of fear and the shackles
imposed when trying to please everyone at the expense of honesty,
Democrats can avoid having their own hubristic impulses take
them down.
If Nader is the lemon, make some lemonade.
Doug Giebel is
a writer who lives in Big Sandy, Montana. He may be reached at:
dougcatz@ttc-cmc.net
Weekend
Edition Features for 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
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