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CounterPunch's Scorching New Book on a Decade of War Order Now / Available in April   Today's Stories April 1, 2004 Laura Flanders Elaine Chao: a First Daughter for the First Son March 31, 2004 M. Junaid Alam Israel: Suicide Nation? John L. Hess Condi Under Oath: But What About the NYTs Reporters? Fernando Suarez del Solar A Year Since My Son's Death in Iraq Sofia Perez Spain's U-Turn on Iraq is Real Democracy in Action David Vest Stick 'Em Up: Put Cheney and Bush Under Oath Tanya Reinhart As in Tiannamen Square: Justice and the Yassin Assassination Mike Whitney Time to Dump the Pledge Donald Kaul Martha Stewart's Lesson: Never Talk to the FBI Milt Bearden Mired in the Tracks of Alexander the Great Marjorie Cohn The Illegal Coup in Haiti: How the Kidnapping of Aristide Violated US and International Law Website of the Day New Pentagon Papers Dropped at DC Starbucks   March 30, 2004 William S. Lind An Occurrence in Pakistan: the Battle That Wasn't Ron Jacobs Assassinations, Hate Mail & Justice Mickey Z. Tommy Boy Friedman Does "Imagine" Neve Gordon Strategic Motives of the Yassin Assassination Mark Scaramella The Founding Scam: Insider Trading is the American Way John Chuckman The Countessa of Empire: Condi Rice's Idea of Democracy Greg Moses Live from Pasadena: Silhouettes of New Order Rai O'Brien What Kind of Democracy to Expect if the Opposition Takes Power in Venezuela Bill Christison The 9/11 Commission: Dangerous Harbinger for the Future Website of the Day Ghost Town: Riding Through Chernobyl March 29, 2004 John Maxwell Crisis in the Caribbean: a Miasma Foretold J. Michael Springmann Email Spying & Attorney Client Privilege Robert Fisk / Severin Carrell Coalition of the Mercenaries The Black Commentator Haiti's Troika of Terror Doug Giebel Candide in the Wilderness: How Bush Policy Was Made David Krieger The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Bargain Mike Whitney Rejecting the Language of Terrorism Richard Oxman The Pitts: a 9/11 Burrow of an American Family Kim Scipes The AFL-CIO in Venezuela: Deja Vu All Over Again Michael Donnelly End Game for Northwest Forests Norman Solomon The Media Politics of 9/11 Kathy Kelly Last Lines Before Vanishing Website of the Day Swans: Can Money Buy Everything?   March 27 / 28, 2004 Jeffrey St. Clair Empire of the Locusts Gary Leupp The Yassin Assassination: Prelude to an Attack on Syria William A. Cook The Yassin Assassination: a Monstrous Insanity Blessed by the US Faheem Hussain Some Thoughts on Waziristan: Once and Always a Colonial Army Elaine Cassel Is Playing Paintball Terrorism? Larry Birns / Jessica Leight Disturbing Signals: Kerry and Latin America John Ross Bush Tells the World: "Drop Dead" John Eskow A Memo to Karl Rove from the Hollywood Caucus Alan Maass Who Are the Real Terrorists? Dave Lindorff Spineless of US Journalists Joe Bageant Howling in the Belly of the Confederacy Dave Zirin Reasonable Doubt: Why Barry Bonds is Not on Steroids Craig Waggoner Who Would Mel's Jesus Nuke? The Kerry Quandry Joel Wendland Marxists for Kerry Josh Frank Scary, Scary John Kerry Matt Vidal Spoilers, Electability and the Poverty of American Democracy Poets' Basement LaMorticella, Hamod, Guthrie, Davies and Albert Website of the Weekend Say a Little Prayer   March 26, 2004 Christopher Brauchli There's a Chill Over the Country Robert Fisk The Man Who Knew Too Much: the Ordeal of Mordechai Vanunu Joe DeRaymond Democracy in El Salvador? Think Again Mike Whitney Lessons on Apartheid from Ariel Sharon Mickey Z. Somalia and Iraq: Looking Back and Ahead Chris Floyd The Pentagon Archipelago CounterPunch Photo Wire Cheney's Close Shave? John Breneman Bush's Comic Bomb Website of the Day Dick is a Killer   March 25, 2004 Lee Sustar Who is to Blame for Lost Jobs? Standard Schaefer An Interview with Michael Hudson on Offshore Banking Centers Roger Burbach Lula vs. the IMF: Brazil Begins to Throw Off the Austerity Planners Jimmer Endres Elections Without Politics: The Military Budget Is Not an "Issue" Larry Tuttle Acting in Your Name: Identity Theft and Public Interest Groups Toni Solo Misreporting Venezuela Dan Bacher A Memorial Wall for Iraq War's Dead and Wounded Saul Landau Is Venezuela Next? Website of the Day The Spiral Railway   March 24, 2004 Gary Leupp General Musharraf's IOU Richard Oxman Shakespeare for Kerry William Lind The Beginning of Phase Three: 4G Warfare Hits Iraq Rep. Ron Paul Iraq One Year Later Michael Dempsey Killing Rachel Corrie Again Alan Farago The Bad Math of Mercury: Bush's War on the Unborn Benjamin Dangl and April Howard Media in Cuba John L. Hess No Lie Left Behind: Judy Miller Does Dick Clarke Greg Weiher Two Cheers for Dems: "We're Not as Bad as George" Eva Golinger An Open Letter to John Kerry on Venezuela Grayson Childs Where's Cynthia McKinney? Steve Niva Israel's Assassinations will Only Fuel More Suicide Bombings Website of the Day The Bushiad and the Idiossey   March 23, 2004 Phillip Cryan The Drug War's Next Casualty: Colombia's National Parks Ron Jacobs They Shoot Men in Wheelchairs, Too? Dave Lindorff A Spanish Parallel: Scare Tactics and Elections Mike Whitney Richard Clarke and Teflon George Brian McKinlay Bush's Lil' Buddy in Trouble: John Howard Starts to Wobble JG Driving Mr. Koon: "Jim Crow Lives Next Door" Phyllis Pollack Gettin' Jigga with Metallica: the Battle Over the Double Black CD Ahmed Bouzid Sharon's One-Way Track Sean Carter The G-Word Goes to Court: One Nation Under [Your Logo Here] M. Shahid Alam World's Greatest Country: Do the Facts Lie   March 22, 2004 Mazin Qumsiyeh On Extrajudicial Executions Uri Avnery The Assassination of Sheikh Yassin is Worse Than a Crime Gilad Atzmon Sharon's Rampage Mike Whitney Guilty Until Proven Innocent: the Story of Captain James Yee Jason Leopold Firm With Ties to Cheney Faces Criminal Indictment in Cal Energy Scam Greg Moses Stop Walling and Stalling: a Report from Houston's Peace March Phil Gasper San Francisco: 25,000 March for an End to the Occupation Lenni Brenner Report from NYC: Old and Young Parade for Peace Julian Borger The Clarke Revelations Steve Perry Karl Rove's Moment Website of the Day Enviros Against War     March 20 / 21, 2004 Alexander Cockburn Gay Marriage: Sidestep on Freedom's Path Jeffrey St. Clair Intolerable Opinions in an Age of Shock and Awe: What Would Lilburne Do? Ted Honderich Tony Blair's Moral Responsibility for Atrocities Saul Landau / Farrah Hassen The Plot Against Syria: an Irresponsibility Act Gary Leupp On Viewing "The Passion of the Christ" William A. Cook Fence, Barrier, Wall Phil Gasper Bush v. Bush-lite: Chomsky's Lesser Evilism Ron Jacobs Fox News and the Masters of War John Stanton Which Way John Kerry? The Senator's Inner Nixon Justin Felux Kerry and Black America: Just Another Stupid White Man Mike Whitney Greenspan's Treason: Swindling Posterity Augustin Velloso Avoiding Osama's Abyss Lawrence Magnuson Eyes Wide Open: Is Spain Caving in to Terrorism? Kathy Kelly Getting Together to Defeat Terrorism Tracy McLellan Scalia & Cheney: Happiness is a Warm Gun Kurt Nimmo Emma Goldman for President! Luis J. Rodriguez The Redemptive Power of Art: It's Not a Frill Mickey Z The Michael Moore Diet Jackie Corr When Harry Truman Stopped in Butte Niranjan Ramakrishnan The Great Trial of 1922: Gandhi's Vision of Responsibility Poets' Basement Stew Albert & JD Curtis Website of the Weekend Virtual World Election   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. 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April 1, 2004 Elaine Chao: Livin' the American Dream First Daughter for the First Son By LAURA FLANDERS The following is an excerpt from the book, BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species, by Laura Flanders (Verso.) When it comes to one's personal history, it sometimes suits a politician for the public to know very little. Better yet for the public, the media, and fellow politicians to know little, but assume much. Such has been the happy fate of Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. ''Elaine Chao believes deeply in the American dream because she has lived it,'' effused George W. Bush when he announced her nomination to his cabinet in 2001. ''Her successful life gives eloquent testimony to the virtues of hard work and perseverance and to the unending promise of this great country.'' The Organization of Chinese Americans welcomed the first Asian American to hold a cabinet position. Chao, they said, would help the Bush administration ''represent the diversity of the nation.'' Union leaders John Sweeney and Morton Bahr supported Chao because they'd worked with her when she ran the charity United Way. Conservatives in the Bush administration were reassured because Chao stood a good chance of getting an easy ride from labor. And Chao's colleagues in the right-wing Heritage Foundation were delighted, for reasons they kept all to themselves. As far as the members of the Senate health, education, labor, and pensions committee were concerned, one of the best things about Elaine Chao was that she was relatively unknown. Chao is married to a powerful GOP fundraiser, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Decorum would rule out any tough questioning of this nominee in the Senate chamber-and outside it, Chao had a powerful personal story, and that's about all the public would hear. Ironically, while the Bush administration opposes affirmative action, and claims that every appointee is named on his or her merits alone, Chao's merits, as laid out by Bush, and then by senator after senator at her confirmation hearing, had very little to do with her experience as a banker, a GOP fundraiser, and corporate bureaucrat, and everything to do with her gender and race. What qualified Chao to oversee 125 million workers, 10 million employers and the enforcement of 180 federal laws? The Senate's confirmation committee never asked. It was enough that Chao had, as one senator put it, this ''compelling'' and ''poignant'' personal story. Even if no one knew what it was. But it's not strictly true that nothing has been written by or about Chao; it is rather that the same thing has been said and written about her, again and again and again. ''Elaine Chao began her life in this country with nothing,'' wrote the Christian Science Monitor in 1997. Her family came to America with ''little more than the clothes on their backs,'' declared the Heritage Foundation in 1999. ''The rigors of assimilation still seem fresh in Chao's mind,'' wrote the Los Angeles Times in a 1992 piece; ''her hard-driven father. . . helped her get by.'' With her mother, father, and two sisters sitting behind her in the Dirksen Office Building, Chao beamed a loving look her family's way, thanked the committee for their welcome, and noted the auspiciousness of the occasion. It was Chinese New Year, she pointed out. It was indeed: the beginning of the year of the snake. Elaine Chao was born in Taiwan in 1953, to a family who fled from Shanghai after the Chinese revolution in 1949. These were difficult years for Chinese anti-communists, but Elaine's father, James, had had the luck not only to attend one of his country's finest universities with Jiang Zemin, the future leader of the People's Republic, but also to fall in with the immensely powerful Shanghai-born family the Tungs, who shifted their operations to Taiwan for a time. The Tung dynasty is powerful in Chinese politics and business to this day. Hong Kong's first chief executive after reunification with mainland China was Tung Chee Hwa, the first child of the magnate Tung Chao Yung, in whose Maritime Trust company James Chao got his start. James Chao married into another powerful family: the Hsus (pronounced ''shoe''). His wife's family would later operate a shipping empire in Hong Kong. Did James Chao arrive in the US with nothing? Quite possibly, but Chao had, as one who knows his history put it, ''access to plenty.'' Chao was connected to powerful families in Taiwan-the center of US­Sino relations during the embargo against mainland China-and in trade, connections translate into freight. James Chao came to the United States in 1958, an assistant in one of the Tungs' merchant-shipping outfits. At a time when immigration to the US by Chinese from anywhere in the world was strictly limited to 102 people a year (the quota for Britons was 65,000), and the FBI was aggressively pursuing potentially disloyal ''Red Chinese,'' James Chao was somehow able to navigate the system and, within three years, send for his wife and daughters. In 1964, James Chao founded his own shipping company, called Foremost, to carry goods between the US and Taiwan. It was a turbulent decade for traders. After years of isolation from post-revolution Beijing, the most ambitious men in Washington had their sights set on opening up US relations with mainland China, and Chao, with his personal and professional connections already established, was in a perfect place to take advantage. In 1971, Congress lifted the trade embargo on the People's Republic of China. A year later, President Nixon made his famous trip to Beijing, arranged by then foreign policy advisor Henry Kissinger. Former Congressman George Bush Sr. of Texas became the chief US liaison officer in the Chinese capital from 1974­75. Full diplomatic relations were established in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. The value of US trade with China grew, from some $95 million in 1972 to $120 billion in 2002, and the vast majority of all imports came by sea. The Chao family moved from the city to the suburbs, and a series of larger, more expensive homes. From Queens, they moved to Syosset, Long Island, and from there to Harrison, in New York's affluent Westchester County. Elaine, the eldest of six daughters, clearly had the coveted role of First Son. James Chao taught her plumbing, as well as house-painting. As she tells the story, one year the family painted their massive Westchester house themselves, ''even though the family could afford to hire painters.'' Another long summer project was to tar their long circular driveway. It is here, as Elaine Chao's up-by-the-bootstraps story turns to talk of circular driveways in Westchester, that one begins to get a sense of the quality of the bootstrap leather. There's nothing wrong with Chao's family's success. There are plenty of immigrants from every land who arrive in the United States with the right stuff, in the right circumstances to get ahead. The problem arises when Chao generalizes from her own experience to draw conclusions about the ''immigrant'' experience. Unlike many young Chinese immigrants, Chao had to beg her father to let her take a job after high school. In a 1996 interview, she said, ''I had to convince him that to be American I had to get a summer job.'' Whether her father, who ruled the household, was innately enlightened, or influenced by changing women's roles in the US, Elaine not only received permission to pursue a college education, but was permitted to leave home to study, put off marriage for decades, and was sent to one of America's very best schools-a proudly feminist institution at that-Mount Holyoke in leafy South Hadley, Massachusetts. Elaine Chao graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1975 with a BA in Economics and was immediately snapped up by Harvard Business School. From there, she worked for a spell at the Gulf Oil Corporation (which owned a Taiwan-based petrochemical subsidiary at the time), and at Citicorp, a massive international investment bank. Her area of expertise was shipping, her father's business. At Citicorp she became a loan specialist, working in the ship-financing department in New York City. In 1983, she applied to be one of thirteen White House Fellows, and was accepted, working as special assistant in the Office of Policy Development in the first administration of Ronald Reagan. George H.W. Bush named 150 Asians to positions in his administration, including Chao, whom he nominated to head the Peace Corps in 1991. At the Peace Corps, Chao oversaw the dispatch of the first American volunteers to the former Soviet Union. Headlines like this one (in Money) appeared in US financial magazines: "Want a capitalist job? Try going to Russia.'' The Corps offered American MBAs free language training, housing, healthcare, and a stipend to spend two years either teaching or ''developing small businesses'' in the former Soviet republics. US taxpayers, in effect, paid for a horde of bankers, stockbrokers, and experts in advertising, marketing and finance to get their foot in the door in the postcommunist states. ''Memories of living in a developing nation are part of who I am today and give me a profound understanding of the challenges of economic development,'' Chao told the press. What was needed in the former Soviet Union, she said, were ''managerial skills.'' What Russia really needed at the time were doctors and scientists and anyone who could have stopped an impending catastrophe. Life expectancy for men was plummeting (from 64 years in 1991 to 57 by '95). Infant mortality was rising by 15 percent a year. Fifty percent of all schoolchildren suffered chronic illness, and those rates were going up. Russians needed experts in heart disease, alcoholism, cancer, radiation poisoning, and wife abuse; what they got, courtesy of the Peace Corps, was a state-funded capitalist vanguard. The Corps was sending volunteers to China, too. In a controversial move, Bush's National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft had pushed Beijing to accept Peace Corps volunteers when he met the head of the People's Republic just three months after the massacre in Tiananmen Square. The Peace Corps concession was a sop to Scowcroft's critics-of whom there were many-who said he should never have gone to Beijing at all. Bush insisted it showed the power of what Reagan had once called ''positive engagement.'' Americans were not convinced. They had been glued to their television sets in June 1989 when student poets and others inspired by the opening up of politics in the Soviet Union gathered in a festive encampment in Beijing's central Tiananmen Square. The world watched, horrified, as army tanks rolled in and over the protestors, killing scores of nonviolent students and rounding up hundreds more for arrest. The public reaction to such scenes threw Washington politics into turmoil. This was hardly a matter on which Elaine Chao had no views. Chao's family's interests were directly tied to US relations (and trade) with China. In 1988, making a bet on the likely turn of the tide, James Chao moved his business from nationalist Taiwan to Hong Kong (which was due to revert from British hands to Chinese, in 1997). He renewed his ties with Beijing and his college chum, Jiang Zemin. According to research by John Judis of the New Republic, Chao contracted to build two ships with China's state-owned shipyard in Shanghai in these years, when Zemin was party secretary of Shanghai. After Zemin became the Chinese head of state, James Chao began visiting Beijing regularly-meeting with Zemin and the head of China Shipbuilding in August 1989, just three months after Tiananmen Square. In Sino­US relations, the Chaos straddled a critical world divide: father James took tea with the powerful in Beijing, and daughter Elaine went out for coffee with their Washington counterparts. It was around this time that Elaine met George W., or as she has referred to him, First Son. Laura Flanders is the host of "Your Call," heard weekdays on public radio, KALW 91.7 fm, in San Francisco and on the internet, and the author of "BUSHWOMEN; Tales of a Cynical Species" out now, from Verso Books. For information on Laura's national book tour, please visit www.lauraflanders.com. Weekend Edition Features for March 20 / 21, 2004 Jeffrey St. Clair Empire of the Locusts Gary Leupp The Yassin Assassination: Prelude to an Attack on Syria William A. Cook The Yassin Assassination: a Monstrous Insanity Blessed by the US Faheem Hussain Some Thoughts on Waziristan: Once and Always a Colonial Army Elaine Cassel Is Playing Paintball Terrorism? Larry Birns / Jessica Leight Disturbing Signals: Kerry and Latin America John Ross Bush Tells the World: "Drop Dead" John Eskow A Memo to Karl Rove from the Hollywood Caucus Alan Maass Who Are the Real Terrorists? 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