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January 7, 2004
Ramon Ryan
Small
Victories and Long Struggles: the 10th Anniversary of the Zapatista
Uprising
January 6, 2004
Dave Lindorff
RNC
Plays the Hitler Card: MoveOn Shouldn't Apologize for Those Ads
Ron Jacobs
Drugs
in Uniform: Hashish and the War on Terrorism
Josh Frank
Coffee and State Authority in Colombia
Doug Giebel
Permanent Bases: Leave Iraq? Hell No, We Won't Go
John Chuckman
Sick Puppies: David Frum's New Neo-Con Manifesto
Rannie Amiri
The Politics of the Iranian Earthquake
John L. Hess
A Record
to Dissent From
Thacher Schmid
A Cheesehead's Musings on the Sunday NYT
David Price
"Like
Slaves": Anthropological Thoughts on Occupation
January 5, 2004
Al Krebs
How
Now Mad Cow!
Kathy Kelly
Squatting
in Baghdad's Bomb Craters
Jordy Cummings
The Dialectic of the Kristol Family: Putting the Neo in the Cons
Fran Shor
Mad Human Disease: Chewing the Fat Down on the Farm
Fidel Castro
"We Shall Overcome": On the 45th Anniversary of the
Cuban Revolution
Gary Leupp
North
Korea for Dummies
January 3 / 4, 2004
Brian Cloughley
Never
Mind the WMDs, Just Look at History
Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan
The Wrong War at the Wrong Time
William Cook
Failing to Respond to 9/11
Glen Martin
Jesus
vs. the Beast of the Apocalypse
Robert Fisk
Iraqi Humor Amid the Carnage
Ilan Pappe
The Geneva Bubble
Walter Davis
Robert Jay Lifton, or Nostalgia
Kurt Nimmo
Ashcroft vs. the Left
Mike Whitney
The Padilla Case
Steven Sherman
On Wallerstein's The Decline of American Power
Dave Lindorff
Bush's Taiwan Hypocrisy
William Blum
Codework Orange!
Mitchel Cohen
Learning from Che Guevara
Seth Sandronsky
Mad Cow and Main Street USA
Bruce Jackson
Conversations with Leslie Fiedler
Standard Schaefer
Poet Carl Rakosi Turns 100
Ron Jacobs
Sir Mick
Adam Engel
Hall of Hoaxes
Poets' Basement
Jones, Albert & Curtis
January 2, 2004
Stan Cox
Red Alert
2016
Dave Lindorff
Beef, the Meat of Republicans
Jackie Corr
Rule and Ruin: Wall Street and Montana
Norman Solomon
George Will's Ethics: None of Our Business?
David Vest
As the Top Wobbleth
January 1, 2004
Randall Robinson
Honor
Haiti, Honor Ourselves
David Krieger
Looking
Back on 2003
Robert Fisk
War Takes an Inhuman Twist: Roadkill Bombs
Stan Goff
War,
Race and Elections
Hammond Guthrie
2003 Almaniac
Website of the Day
Embody Bags
December 31, 2003
Ray McGovern
Don't
Be Fooled Again: This Isn't an Independent Investigation
Kurt Nimmo
Manufacturing Hysteria
Robert Fisk
The Occupation is Damned
Mike Whitney
Mad Cows and Downer George
Alexander Cockburn
A Great Year Ebbed, Another Ahead
December 30, 2003
Michael Neumann
Criticism
of Israel is Not Anti-Semitism
Annie Higgins
When
They Bombed the Hometown of the Virgin Mary
Alan Farago
Bush Bros. Wrecking Co.: Time Runs Out for the Everglades
Dan Bacher
Creatures from the Blacklight Lagoon: From Glofish to Frankenfish
Jeffrey St. Clair
Hard
Time on the Killing Floor: Inside Big Meat
Willie Nelson
Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth?
December 29, 2003
Mark Hand
The Washington
Post in the Dock?
David Lindorff
The
Bush Election Strategy
Phillip Cryan
Interested Blindness: Media Omissions in Colombia's War
Richard Trainor
Catellus Development: the Next Octopus?
Uri Avnery
Israel's
Conscientious Objectors
December 27 / 28, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
A
Journey Into Rupert Murdoch's Soul
Kathy Kelly
Christmas Day in Baghdad: A Better World
Saul Landau
Iraq
at the End of the Year
Dave Zirin
A Linebacker for Peace & Justice: an Interview with David
Meggysey
Robert Fisk
Iraq
Through the American Looking Glass
Scott Burchill
The Bad Guys We Once Thought Good: Where Are They Now?
Chris Floyd
Bush's Iraq Plan is Right on Course: Saddam 2.0
Brian J. Foley
Don't Tread on Me: Act Now to Save the Constitution
Seth Sandronsky
Feedlot Sweatshops: Mad Cows and the Market
Susan Davis
Lord
of the (Cash Register) Rings
Ron Jacobs
Cratched Does California
Adam Engel
Crumblecake and Fish
Norman Solomon
The Unpardonable Lenny Bruce
Poets' Basement
Cullen and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Activism Through Music
December 26, 2003
Gary Leupp
Bush
Doings: Doing the Language
December 25, 2003
Diane Christian
The
Christmas Story
Elaine Cassel
This
Christmas, the World is Too Much With Us
Susan Davis
Jinglebells, Hold the Schlock
Kristen Ess
Bethlehem Celebrates Christmas, While Rafah Counts the Dead
Francis Boyle
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
Alexander Cockburn
The
Magnificient 9
Guthrie / Albert
Another Colorful Season
December 24, 2003
M. Shahid Alam
The Semantics
of Empire
William S. Lind
Marley's
List for Santa in Wartime
Josh Frank
Iraqi
Oil: First Come, First Serve
Cpt. Paul Watson
The
Mad Cowboy Was Right
Robert Lopez
Nuance
and Innuendo in the War on Iraq
December 23, 2003
Brian J. Foley
Duck
and Cover-up
Will Youmans
Sharon's
Ultimatum
Michael Donnelly
Here
They Come Again: Another Big Green Fiasco
Uri Avnery
Sharon's
Speech: the Decoded Version
December 22, 2003
Jeffrey St. Clair
Pray
to Play: Bush's Faith-Based National Parks
Patrick Gavin
What Would Lincoln Do?
Marjorie Cohn
How to
Try Saddam: Searching for a Just Venue
Kathy Kelly
The
Two Troublemakers: "Guilty of Being Palestinians in Iraq"
December 20 / 21, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
How
to Kill Saddam
Saul Landau
Bush Tries Farce as Cuba Policy
Rafael Hernandez
Empire and Resistance: an Interview with Tariq Ali
David Vest
Our Ass and Saddam's Hole
Kurt Nimmo
Bush
Gets Serious About Killing Iraqis
Greg Weiher
Lessons from the Israeli School on How to Win Friends in the
Islamic World
Christopher Brauchli
Arrest, Smear, Slink Away: Dr. Lee and Cpt. Yee
Carol Norris
Cheers of a Clown: Saddam and the Gloating Bush
Bruce Jackson
The Nameless and the Detained: Bush's Disappeared
Juliana Fredman
A Sealed Laboratory of Repression
Mickey Z.
Holiday Spirit at the UN
Ron Jacobs
In the Wake of Rebellion: The Prisoner's Rights Movement and
Latino Prisoners
Josh Frank
Sen. Max Baucus: the Slick Swindler
John L. Hess
Slow Train to the Plane
Adam Engel
Black is Indeed Beautiful
Ben Tripp
The Relevance of Art in Times of Crisis
Michael Neumann
Rhythm and Race
Poets' Basement
Cullen, Engel, Albert & Guthrie
Hot Stories
Alexander Cockburn
Behold,
the Head of a Neo-Con!
Subcomandante Marcos
The
Death Train of the WTO
Norman Finkelstein
Hitchens
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Steve Niva
Israel's
Assassination Policy: the Trigger for Suicide Bombings?
Dardagan,
Slobodo and Williams
CounterPunch Exclusive:
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Steve
J.B.
Prison Bitch
Sheldon
Rampton and John Stauber
True Lies: the Use of Propaganda
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Wendell
Berry
Small Destructions Add Up
CounterPunch
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Cindy
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A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter
I Can't Hear From
Gore Vidal
The
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Francis Boyle
Impeach
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January
7, 2004
God Talk
Pat,
George and the Supreme Creator
By BOB BOLDT
I heard that God has told Pat Robertson George
W. Bush will be elected President in 2004. (See footnote #1.)
This certainly blows Al Gore's endorsement of Howard Dean out
of the water.
I am sorry to have missed the 700 Club
show that aired on Friday Jan. 2, 2004. Pat Robertson and Jerry
Falwell have been working pretty hard to live up to the high
standards of religious zealotry and freak show hustle pioneered
by Jim and Tammy Fay Bakker. I still don't think Pat and Jerry
are nearly as funny or as visual.
Nevertheless, I am delighted to hear
this news. I am certainly glad that Pat was so prompt with this
revelation from the Almighty. I was about to send my second campaign
contribution to Howard Dean. Now that I know the outcome, I can
save my money.
I can hardly believe it: God endorses
George W. Bush! Imagine: the Supreme Creator has seen fit to
come down to this insignificant little mud spot in the midst
of billions and billions of galaxies to once again intervene
on behalf of a corrupt and sinful bunch of ingrates to make His
will known to His humble servant, Pat Robertson. Praise be to
Pat.
According to my reading of history, this
has not happened since the Divine Right of Kings in Europe...old
Europe. Just imagine how embarrassed the rationalists and the
empiricists of The Enlightenment (not to mention Jefferson and
Franklin) would be if they knew that God would one day come down
and smite the unbelievers, the secular humanists, the Democrats,
the democrats, the fornicators and those of little faith.
Now that Pat has shown us the way, we
can stop wasting a lot of time fighting the administration policies
and get off the campaign trail. We don't even need to be upset
at George's lies, deceits, blunders and his retributions against
those who criticize him. All Bush has to do to win is keep up
his daily prayers to his God and his God will protect him and
smite his enemies.
Think of it: those of us who continue
to remain disloyal to our fearless leader are no longer just
unpatriotic, we are now ungodly. I suppose this would make the
Democrats not only pro-Saddam but pro-Satan.
Once in every generation a true prophet
moves in our midst and calls the powerful Godless hypocrites
(the left) to account for their sins. I'm sure Pat Robertson
must be such a man. Like John the Baptist of yore, God has chosen
humble Pat to point the way to the true savior of our political
system. George W. Bush is certainly the most Godly of all the
candidates. Has any other candidate claimed to have actually
talked to God the way our anointed leader has? (See footnote
#2.) Has any other statesman had the courage to stand up to the
homosexuals, the pagans and the abortionist's holocaust? What
Democrat questions the atheistic scientists who would have us
force the theory of evolution down the throats of innocent school
children, or have us accept the heresy of Global Warming.
This divine intervention in the otherwise
insipid life of George W. Bush explains a lot of things, everything
from the seemingly supernatural events surrounding his "election"
to the way he was able to turn the apparently tragic events surrounding
9-11 into the greatest personal and political triumph in United
States history. It is certainly enough to make an old atheist
like myself think twice before committing a sin against the state
or against this God-anointed leader.
I suppose this means that God will also
be helping John Ashcroft in his efforts to protect us from our
selves. Just think how much an all powerful, all seeing God could
help the CIA and the FBI root out terrorists, tax cheats, those
who don't pay their library fines or those with impure thoughts.
The implications are mind-boggling! This is a wake up call and
a clarion blast to a complacent, stiff-necked people: This nation
cannot stand, Pat!
Bob Boldt
can be reached at: bob@modern1tech.com
(Footnote #1) Pat Robertson: God told
me Bush will win Associated Press Jan. 2, 2004 12:43 PM NORFOLK,
Va.--Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Friday he believes
God has told him President Bush will be re-elected (sic) in a
"blowout" in November. "I think George Bush is
going to win in a walk," Robertson said on his "700
Club" program on the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting
Network, which he founded. "I really believe I'm hearing
from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004.
It's shaping up that way." Robertson told viewers he spent
several days in prayer at the end of 2003. "The Lord has
just blessed him," Robertson said of Bush. "I mean,
he could make terrible mistakes and comes out of it. It doesn't
make any difference what he does, good or bad, God picks him
up because he's a man of prayer and God's blessing him."
(Footnote #2) The Haaretz reporter, Arnon
Regular reported that Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Abu
Mazen, said that, when they met in Aqaba, President Bush had
told him this: " God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I
struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [
Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem
in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the
elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
Weekend
Edition Features for January 3 / 4, 2004
Brian Cloughley
Never
Mind the WMDs, Just Look at History
Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan
The Wrong War at the Wrong Time
William Cook
Failing to Respond to 9/11
Glen Martin
Jesus
vs. the Beast of the Apocalypse
Robert Fisk
Iraqi Humor Amid the Carnage
Ilan Pappe
The Geneva Bubble
Walter Davis
Robert Jay Lifton, or Nostalgia
Kurt Nimmo
Ashcroft vs. the Left
Mike Whitney
The Padilla Case
Steven Sherman
On Wallerstein's The Decline of American Power
Dave Lindorff
Bush's Taiwan Hypocrisy
William Blum
Codework Orange!
Mitchel Cohen
Learning from Che Guevara
Seth Sandronsky
Mad Cow and Main Street USA
Bruce Jackson
Conversations with Leslie Fiedler
Standard Schaefer
Poet Carl Rakosi Turns 100
Ron Jacobs
Sir Mick
Adam Engel
Hall of Hoaxes
Poets' Basement
Jones, Albert & Curtis
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