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Coming in August! Dime's Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils Order Now! Today's Stories July 31, 2004 Alexander Cockburn Kerry: He's the (Any) One July 30, 2004 Kolhatkar / Ingalls Shattering Illusions: Kerry's Speech Tells Anti-War Activists They're Not Wanted Dave Lindorff Murder Not So Foul? Bruce Jackson Walt Whitman on the Sound of Wolf Blitzer's Voice Fidel Castro The Pathology of George W. Bush Maximilien Robespierre Memo to Kerry and Bush: Why They Resist Saul Landau Bush Charges Castro with Sex Tourism; JFK Rolls Over in His Grave Sex, Drugs & the Blues! Serpents in the Garden CounterPunch's Sizzling New Book on Culture and Sex is Now Available Click here to purchase   July 29, 2004 Cockburn / St. Clair Hail, the Conquering War Criminal: What Kerry Really Did in Vietnam Frank Bardacke What Michael Moore Left Out of F9/11 Tom Barry Shallow and Formulaic: Kerry's Latin America Plan Ron Jacobs Kerry and Lennon: Hawking the CounterCulture Robert Fisk The Unreported War Lichtman / Kellis-Borok What Kerry Must Do to Win (But Probably Won't) William S. Lind The 9/11 Commission Report: Cashing in on Failure CounterPunch Wire Doonesbury Onto John Kerry in 1971! Website of the Day Jabbing JibJab: Copyright Madness     July 28, 2004 Robert Fisk The Occupation at 114 Degrees: Baghdad is Swamped in the Smell of the Dead Kevin Mink Kerry's Misperception of Palestine Ray McGovern Israel and the Iraq War: How the 9/11 Report Soft-Pedals Root Causes United for Peace & Justice An Open Letter to John Kerry: Winter Soldiers and Summer Patriots Mike Ferner Vets Demand End to Occupation: "Pull the Troops or Face Impeachment Mvt." Imraan Siddiqi Turning Tricks with Ann Coulter Alexander Cockburn Candidate Kerry Website of the Day Iraq Vets Against the War July 27, 2004 Alexander Cockburn Why the Democrats Deserve Nader Dave Lindorff Back to the 19th Century: Globalization's Coming! Mike Whitney Control Room: Inside Al Jazeera Ali, Anderson, Bello, et al. If We Were Venezuelan, We'd Vote for Chavez Stefan Wray Texas Plan to Grab Los Alamos Takes Hold, as DOE Shuts Down Labs Louis Proyect Reflections on Nicaragua: First Came the Contra Butchers, Then the Sweatshops Rick Giombetti Faith in Freedom: the Challenge of Thomas Szasz Bill and Kathleen Christison The 9/11 Report and Its Weak-Kneed Consensus: Dogding Israel/Palestine; Blinkered on Causes of Terrorism     July 26, 2004 Todd Chretien Green Resistance: a Reply to Normon Solomon & Medea Benjamin Robert Fisk Terror by Video Richard Forno Security Theater in Boston: Security Expert Harrassed by DHS for Exposing Flaws at the Fleet Center Mitchel Cohen Report from a Boston Demo: Arresting the Curious Richard Moreno Rockers for Justice: an Interview with Tom Morello and Serj Tankian Alexander Cockburn Boston Awaits a Dead Party     July 24 / 25, 2004 Alexander Cockburn The Democrats and Their Conventions: Part One Dennis Hans Those 16 Words Still Smell, Mr. Bush Patrick Cockburn The Struggle for Iraq is Only Beginning Josh Frank The War Path of Unity: Dems Reject the Peace Movement Justin E.H. Smith Christianity and the Left: the Latin American Experience Tariq Ali What's at Stake in Venezuela Fred Gardner The Politics of Pot: Year of the Antagonist Mark Scaramella There's Dope and There's Dope Ron Jacobs The Weather Underground's Prairie Fire Statement...35 Years On     July 23, 2004 Lee Sustar Revolution in Nicaragua: 25 Years On Dave Lindorff Battle for NYC: Bush 1, Protesters 0 Saul Landau Zaniest President in US History: Bush Beats Reagan Mike Whitney The 9/11 Whitewash: Blaming No One Mickey Z Get On the Bus: 150 Years After Elizabeth Jennings Gary Leupp The 9/11 Commission and the Looming War on Iran   July 22, 2004 M. Junaid Alam Ten Ways to Build a Better Democrat Brian McKinlay Rusted On Down Under: Howard, Bush and Sharon Jason Leopold Cheney Lobbied for Easing of Sanctions on Terrorist Regimes While CEO of Halliburton Chris Floyd Mob Rule: Ripping the Lid Off of America's Pious Myths Uri Avnery Chirac v. Sharon   July 21, 2004 Paula J. Caplan The Emotional Casualities of War: Psychologists Can't Heal All the Damage Joshua Frank Nader Sleeping with the Enemy? Let's be Fair Ron Jacobs American Exceptionalism Reza Ghorashi The Elections, Iran and al-Qaeda Amy Martin Will Congress Rearm the Guatemalan Generals? John Ross Bush May Lose, But His Wars Will Go On and On   July 20, 2004 Stan Cox The Bush / Kerry War Ticket Chris Randolph An Open Letter to Dr. Ehrenreich: It's Over, Barb! Forrest Hylton The Ghosts of Gonismo: "Popular Patricipation" and Bolivia's Gas Referendum Mark Scaramella It's Official! Mendocino County is Crazier and Fatter Than the Rest of California Sam Bahour The World is Knocking on Israel's Door George Reiter A Defense of David Cobb John Ross Burying Iraq, Burying Bush John L. Hess Girlie Stuff: Media Tolerance of Arnold & Co. Website of the Day This Land is Your Land     July 19, 2004 Uri Avnery Marie and the Ghosts: the Hoax of Paris Col. Dan Smith What Has Been Accomplished? Mike Whitney Allawi: Our Puppet with a Pistol Karyn Strickler Just Marriage, Not Gay Marriage Robert Fisk The Crisis of Information in Baghdad David Swanson Media Blackout of US Labor Opposition to Iraq War Jennifer van Bergen The Death of the Great Writ of Liberty   July 17 / 18, 2004 Gary Leupp Apocalypse Now: Why the Book of Revelations is Must Reading Ghada Karmi Vanishing the Palestinians Lenni Brenner When Cattle Unite, Lions Go Hungry: Notes for Ralph Nader Ben Tripp Man on a Bridge: a Ghost Story Brandy Baker What Would Elizabeth Cady Stanton Make of John Kerry? M. Shahid Alam Israel Builds Another Wall Sasan Fayazmanesh Nuclear Hypocrisy: Israel, Iran and the IAEA Patrick Bond The George Bush of Africa Fred Gardner Politics of Marijuana: Cannabiniod Therapuetics William Blum Bush and Thucydides Ben Terrall Carter and the Indonesia Elections: "I Don't See Anything Wrong with a General Running the Country" Tom Barry John Lehman on the War Path David Vest Dylan Without the Music Phyllis Pollack Return to Sin City: Keith Richards Does Gram Parsons Ron Jacobs Smearing Muhammad Ali: Bob Feller Strikes Out Joshua Frank Kerry to Edwards: "Let's Lose!" David Nally A Call for Sudan: Our Georgraphical Blindspot Toni Solo Bolivia's Gas Referendum Landau, Hassan, Prashad & Lindorff Three Reviews of Moore's F911 Poets's Basement Ford, Smith and Albert     July 16, 2004 Dave Zirin Adonal Foyle: Master of the Lefty Lay-Up Shervan Sardar Dershowitz, the ICJ and Jim Crow Laws Ron Jacobs The Lil' Engine That Couldn't: Kucinich Surrenders on Anti-War Plank Robert Fisk Iraq, According to Edgar Allen Poe: Coffin Bombs in Baghdad Greg Moses The Forts of Iraq Mickey Z. Ad Infinitum?: Presidential Campaigns in the Age of TV Dan Bacher A Landmark Win for Salmon and the Tribes Dave Lindorff The Mumia Case: Support from NAACP, But a Movement in Shambles Paul McGeough Did Allawi Shoot Inmates in Cold Blood? Website of the Day 10 Reasons to Fire Bush (and 9 Reasons Kerry Won't Be Any Better)     July 15, 2004 Heather Williams McMissing the Point: Supersize Me Crashes on Its Message Werther Iraq: Follow the Money Tom Crumpacker The Birds of Guantanamo Brian Cloughley What Does the Bush Regime Object To? Bill Christison Reorganize the CIA? Of Course, But...   July 14, 2004 Jeffrey St. Clair Chronicle of a Nomination Foretold: the Green Deceivers Neve Gordon Of Socrates and the Apartheid Wall Diane Christian The Priesthood of Death Stefan Wray Who Benefits from Missing Data at Los Alamos Nuclear Lab? Josh Frank The Nader / Dean Debate Conn Hallinan Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Bring My Brother Home!: Class, War and Education Website of the Day Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of US Empire     July 13, 2004 Ray McGovern The CIA and Iraq: an Intelligence Debacle...and Worse Mark Donham The Sierra Club's Inexplicable Treatment of Cynthia McKinney Ben Tripp Politus Interruptis: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Electorates? Mark Gaffney Slipping Towards Armageddon: Israel in Iraq Dave Lindorff Osama Wins! Election Postponed! Chris White Double Think: the Bedrock of Marine Indoctrination     July 10 / 12, 2004 Kathleen Christison The Problem with Neutrality Between Palestinians and Israel Janine Pommy Vega Trail of the Comet: a Gathering of the World's Poets Against War Sherry Wolf From Maverick to Party Attack Dog: Howard Dean Gay-Bashes Nader Saul Landau and Farrah Hassen A Transfer of Power, Sort Of Michael Donnelly How to Steal an Election: the Green Version, 2004 Stanton / Madsen Iraq Survey Group: Rumsfeld's al-Qaeda? Richard Lichtman The End of Innocence: Reflections on American Pathology Gila Svirsky Thank You, Your Honors: a Legal Blow to the Wall Kurt Nimmo Clinton's Life Toni Solo Empire-Speak: What Roger Noriega Really Means Ron Jacobs The Black Panthers and the Rest Camelo Ruiz Marrero Gene Warfare in Oaxaca: Genetic Mutation of Mexican Maize Omar Barghouti Wither the Empire: Rise of a Global Resistance Poets' Basement Curtis and Albert   July 9, 2004 Dave Zirin Carlos Delgado on Deck: Blue Jays Slugger Stands Up Against War Justin Delacour Wishing Kerry Would Shut Up About Latin America Robert Fisk Iraq in Reverse: Martial Laws Fuel Insurgency Boris Kagarlitsky Two Congresses and a Funeral William S. Lind The October Surprises Sibel Edmonds Our Broken System: John Ashcroft's War on Truth Ron Jacobs Reading Tea Leaves: What Vietnam Tells Us About Iraq's Future Gary Leupp The Lie That Will Not Die: Cheney and the Iraq/al-Qaeda Link   July 8, 2004 Niranjan Ramakrishnan The Inexplicable John McCain Toufic Haddad Protesting Israel's Apartheid Wall: a Letter from the Hunger Strikers' Tent Dave Lindorff Liberation as Martial Law Joshua Frank The Fall: How Beltway Dems Sank Howard Dean Christopher Brauchli Bush & Cheney Play the Hitler Card James Petras The Truth About Jimmy Carter   July 7, 2004 John Chuckman Kerry's BBQ: a Deafening Silence of Meaning Virginia Tilley A Line in the Sand: Azmi Bishara's Hunger Strike Susan Martinez A Letter to Bill Cosby Mickey Z Elie Wiesel's Strange Parade Michael Donnelly Our Own Private Wilderness: Trusting the Land in the Inland Empire Sean Donahue Boston Social Forum: the Dems aren't the Only Show in Beantown Diane Christian Sovereignty and Freedom in Iraq   July 6, 2004 Lisa Viscidi Fleeing Guatemala: Central Americans Risk Lives to Reach El Norte Marc Norton The Felonious Five Ride Again: the Supreme Court and Enemy Combatants James Brooks Chemical Warfare on the West Bank? Ray McGovern Porter Goss as CIA Director? William Cook Legacy of Deceit: If Dante Knew of Bush and the Neo-Cons...   July 5, 2004 Forrest Hylton US Imperialism in Latin America: Sept. 11, July 4 and Systematic Torture Chris White A Former Marine Sgt. on the Meaning of Independence Day Joe Bageant Cranky Reflections on the 4th of July Robert Jensen Stupid White Movie: What Michael Moore Misses About the Empire Kathy Kelly "Two Days an' a Wake-Up"   July 3 / 4, 2004 Elaine Cassel Bush's Police State and Independence Day Stan Goff ABC of Opportunism: "Progressive" Latin American Leaders Support the Coup in Haiti Snehal Shingavi "We Want Real Justice for Bhopal": Two Survivors Speak Out Bruce Anderson The Cheney-Leahy Metaphor and the Greens Sharon Smith Twilight of the Greens: the Chokehold of "Anybody But Bush" Josh Frank Ralph Nader's Revolt: an Interview with Greg Bates Robert Fisk Pentagon Tried to Censor Saddam's Hearing Joe Bageant Sons of a Laboring God: Leftnecks Unite! Brian Cloughley Fortress Bush and the One Law Doctrine Justin Delacour The Anti-Chavez Echo Chamber: Venezuela's Media Tycoons William S. Lind Saudi Spillover Linda S. Heard A Joke Called "Justice" Greg Moses "It's Illegal, But It's Our Right": Korean Labor Won't Back Down Ron Jacobs "Ain't You Proud to be White on Independence Day?" Toni Solo Weary of Indigenous Resistances? Just Pretend They're Not There Dan Nagengast Chicken Manure as Cattle Food: Safe, But Do We Want to Eat It? Stew Albert Brando, a Personal Recollection Dave Zirin From the Black Panthers to Sacheen Littlefeather: a Eulogy for Our Brando Patrick W. 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July 31, 2004 How Big Pharma Bilks the Elderly The Real Drug Culture By MICHAEL DONNELLY Usually it goes right in the recycling. But, this letter from AARP got my attention. It announced a workshop titled, "Reduce Your Prescription Drug Costs in Three Easy Steps." AARP reports the astonishing fact that in 2002, over 75% of Americans age 45+ take an average of four prescription drugs per day. I'm 55 and do not use any prescription drugs. Even though I'm the one in four that does not, I am also the trustee and general caretaker for my 88-year-old in-laws. They have a laundry list of medical conditions and the concomitant list of medications. My father-in-law's monthly medication bill alone has approached $1000 at times. Since he is a retired Colonel and a stock market expert (before dementia set in), the resources are there for us. But, as I read the invite, I kept being shocked awake on an issue I hadn't really thought of much before. What do the majority of poor elderly do, anyway? Paying for their prescriptions was a problem for 71% of people over 65, according to the AARP survey. In Oregon, the state health plan spent some $288 million on prescription drugs in the 2001-2003 biennium, compared to $189 million in 1999-2001. This was for people not covered by regular insurance. It comes out of general tax revenues. And, even if you have insurance, it means higher premiums. My friends and I like to joke about all the "Jerry Garcia Memorial Retirement Centers" that will be springing up in the next couple decades. (Actually, we take it quite seriously because of the potential environmental impacts.) But, all this AARP info came as a reality check on just what that future might really entail. So, I decided to go to the workshop and find out what was up. Some of it was obvious, like the fact that older people are more likely to use prescription drugs than younger people; some not as obvious, such as women are more likely to use prescription medications than men. Twenty-five per cent of folks have not filled a doctor's prescription in the past two years due to cost. And, many have stopped taking prescriptions due to side effects or finding no measurable effect at all. Over a third of folks don't even tell their physicians about all the medications they take; and far less than that ask for generic meds. In fact, a quarter responded that they think that generics are of poorer quality and over 40 per cent think generics are "less effective." Yet, AARP has released a study showing that, as the baby boomers enter the age of daily users, prescription drug prices have consistently increased at a rate over three times that of inflation -- from an increase of 4.1% in 2000 to one of 6.9% in 2003. Inflation actually decreased from 2.3% to 2.0% in 2003. Medicare "Improvement" On December 8, 2003, President George W. Bush signed into law the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003. Democrat Senate stalwarts Leahy, Murray, Cantwell, Feingold, Boxer, Feinstein, Daschle, Wyden, Schumer, Biden, Reid, Baucus, Kennedy...joined the Republicans and voted FOR MMA. A handful of Senate Democrats opposed MMA, including Clinton, Byrd, Harkin, Levin and John Edwards. John Kerry was a no show and did not even make his position known, as he has also failed to do on most impacting legislation the past two years. Here's how it "works": If all one has is Medicare -- the nation's health care system for people over 65 and some younger folks with disabilities--you must pay for the first $250 dollars of medications per year. After that 25% of drug costs, up to $2250 total, are borne by the user--a cost of over $500. Then it really gets arcane. From $2250 up to $5100, the person pays it all--which means up to $3600 out-of-pocket on that $5100 total. Over $5100 is considered a "Catastrophic Benefit" and one "only" has to pay 5% out-of-pocket on top of the original $3600. Then there is something called a Medicare-approved Drug Discount Card--err, make that "cards." Part of the 2003 legislation was that drug manufacturers could issue their own discount cards. Yet, here's the kicker: one has to choose their card from among many BEFORE one knows just what the discount is OR just what drugs it covers. And, once the blind choice is made, there is no option for reconsideration. You can only have one Medicare-approved card at a time. You won't even know in advance if your pharmacy even accepts the card! And, the drug companies can change what drugs are covered, and the price, on a weekly basis. Las Vegas should have it so easy. To top it off, even if one figures it out and gets properly enrolled with the right card (48% admit they cannot begin to figure it out); the discount card program ends in January 2006. Then, a new program called the Medicare Drug Benefit (Part D) kicks in, requiring another round of trying to figure out what's gong on, how to enroll, what drugs are covered--things the many users of these drugs are limited in doing in the first place. Educating Consumers We all saw the shocking events at the Super Bowl -- no, not Janet's adorned boob -- the endless ads for Cialis, Viagra and Levitra. The makers of these sexual performance drugs collectively spent over $265 million to advertise them in just the first five months of this year alone; something the companies disingenuously call "educating consumers." (Consumers would be better off being educated about the risk of sudden cadiac arrest that has been noted in the erectile enhancement drug's standard doasge use. In an analysis of 1,473 major adverse events recorded in reports about Viagra to the FDA, 522 people died, most of them from cardiovascular causes.) On top of this, in the same five months, Bristol-Myers Squibb shelled out $35 million to promote (er, educate) Plavix, a blood thinner. The price of Plavix rose over 7.9% during the same time period. The company also spent $7.2 million to promote Pravachol, a cholesterol-lowering drug. That one rose in price by 7%. Merck spent $24 million to advertise another cholesterol drug, Zocor, which has risen in price by 26% since 1999. It's the same across the board: the number one med used by people over 50 is Fosamax (Merck)--up 4.9% since last year--ad budget a modest $12 million. Number two Lipitor (Pfizer) is up 4.6% on an ad budget of $67 million. Plavix (number three) is up that 7.9%. And, so on down the line. Those Three "Easy" Steps AARP was in total collusion with Big Pharma in the run up to the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act. AARP even has its own Discount Card in the mix. Though I got quite an education in the predatory nature of Big Pharma, in the end I did not get much help and I'm sure from the questions that most of the older folks at the seminar were thoroughly confused. In the end, all AARP could offer was this (the vaunted three easy steps): Ask your Doctor and Pharmacist: 1) Is there more than one prescription drug that can be used to treat my condition? 2) If so, how do they compare in safety and effectiveness? 3) How do they compare in cost? There you have it. Armed with such stellar advice we can all look forward to aging gracefully in modernized Medicare America. Just make sure you have the right card. Don't get me wrong. Generics ARE the way to go. Anone can see that. recently the quinolone antibiotic Cipro (ciprofloxacin hydrochloride). Bayer AG's drug is most used for Inhalation Anthrax, but also used for some tough cases such as hospital acquired pneumonia and urinary tract infections, was selling for over $250 per prescription. Just a few weeks ago, the generic version became available for just $5--a savings of 5000%. A Tardy Congressional Response Some in Congress are already coming to their senses, perhaps bothered by their 2003 MMA giveaway to companies that prey on the elderly and infirm. S. 2328 has been introduced, sponsored by Senators Dorgan (D-ND) and Snowe (R-ME). This bill, co-sponsored by Senators McCain, Clinton, Lott and Stabenow, would allow consumers to buy their prescription drugs from Canada. Of course, people already do this and Big Pharma has taken note and is restricting supplies to Canadian pharmacies which have drug prices controlled by the government. Ultimately, Congress will have to also institute price controls in order to take on the voracious practices of Big Pharma and do something as millions age. I await the day when legions, who came of age in the 60s, mount Capitol Hill in wheelchairs and walkers. Taking on this wing of conscienceless capitalism will be perhaps the final, and most personal, life and death issue the Baby Boomers will face. MICHAEL DONNELLY lives in Salem, OR where he cares for his in-laws. His father-in-law flew 25 daytime bombing missions over Germany in W.W.II. He is a contributor to CounterPunch's new book on the 2004 elections, A Dime's Worth of Difference. He can be reached at pahtoo@aol.com Weekend Edition Features for July 10 / 12, 2004 Kathleen Christison The Problem with Neutrality Between Palestinians and Israel Janine Pommy Vega Trail of the Comet: a Gathering of the World's Poets Against War Sherry Wolf From Maverick to Party Attack Dog: Howard Dean Gay-Bashes Nader Saul Landau and Farrah Hassen A Transfer of Power, Sort Of Michael Donnelly How to Steal an Election: the Green Version, 2004 Stanton / Madsen Iraq Survey Group: Rumsfeld's al-Qaeda? 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