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July
24 / 25, 2004
Alexander
Cockburn
The Democrats and Their Conventions:
Part One
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
Sex,
Drugs & the Blues!
Serpents in the Garden
CounterPunch's Sizzling
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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)
| Weekend
Edition
July 24 / 25, 2004
The War
Path of Unity
Democrats
Reject Peace Movement
By
JOSHUA FRANK
It
is sad indeed, but it was inevitable: Dennis Kucinich, the feisty
progressive from Ohio who has been running (dragging lately) for
the Democratic nomination for president has decided to roll over
and play dead for Senator John Kerry. "Unity is essential to
bring change in November," announced Kucinich on July 22. "Unity
is essential to repair America. Unity is essential to set America
on a new path."
It
is confusing to say the least as to what this “new path”
mantra is all about. It was just last week that Kucinich delegates
failed (they never had a chance in hell to begin with) to make “immediate
troop withdrawal from Iraq” a central plank in Kerry’s
narrow platform. As promised, Kerry will put more troops in Iraq,
call on NATO to intervene, and essentially be a more kick-ass administrator
of Bush’s egregious foreign policy then the necons are.
Kucinich
is now the second Democratic nominee for president that has abandoned
his antiwar base, and allowed his candidacy to be absorbed back
into the dank establishment sponge. Howard Dean did it months ago,
and now embarrassingly touts the new Democratic line of “unity
at all costs.”
"In
the end, it is Generation Dean voting for John Kerry for president
of the United States that is going to send George Bush back to Texas
where he belongs," Dean growled back in late March.
And
it is only a matter of weeks before Kucinich, like Howie, begs his
former supporters not to succumb to Ralph Nader’s tempting
antiwar lure. ”I intend [to] reach out on behalf of the Kerry-Edwards
ticket to unite our Party with all those who may have felt left
out,” Kucinich contends. “I will let them know that
the time has come to unite in a common effort for change which is
essential, not only for America but for the world."
MoveOn,
the liberal online advocacy group has also been asking their members,
who overwhelming opposed the Iraq war, to give cash and time to
the Kerry campaign. Following the release of Michael Moore’s
Fahrenheit 9-11 they sent an email plea to their constituents. “This
is the moment for us to send Kerry a powerful message, one he'll
want to hear. The more we show Kerry that real people with strong,
progressive values are key to his success, the more strongly he'll
fight for our values as President … it's an especially good
time to reinforce that we value this kind of leadership from John
Kerry. Help send this message now by giving to his campaign through
the link below.”
When
I emailed MoveOn staffer Noah Whiner about what role his organization
will play if Kerry is victorious, he responded, “It's a big
question and I don't think anyone can answer it unless it becomes
a reality. It will take time and member input to find that new role.
MoveOn will certainly continue to work on the issues our members
care about, no matter who is elected.”
So
I emailed Noah back and asked him whether MoveOn would be as hard
on the Kerry administration as they have Bush, for Kerry will certainly
continue the illegal Iraq occupation. He failed to reply however,
which is telling.
Like
Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich, MoveOn has alienated its antiwar
base, and continued functioning under the illusion that their progressively
garnered PAC funds can influence John Kerry or any of the other
New Democratic elite. It is a futile effort. If we’ve learned
anything this election season, it is that Washington Democrats will
not tolerate any dissent within their party ranks.
Democratic
Leadership Council stalwarts, Al From and Bruce Reed, who praised
Bush’s war and continue to tout its success, wrote in the
July issue of Blueprint magazine. “In the 1990s, Bill Clinton
showed Americans once and for all that Democrats could make the
economy grow again, make government work again, and make America
safe again. As a tough-minded internationalist and decorated war
hero, Kerry has a chance to make his own mark, and complete the
transformation of the Democratic Party as the one Americans can
trust to make the nation stronger both at home and abroad.”
From
and Reed failed to recognize that Bin Laden was responsible for
the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, which was carried out
by the same ring of thugs that hit the USS Cole in October 2000,
as well as the horrific attacks in September of 2001. The hijackings
in 2001 were being planned well before Al Gore’s loss in 2000.
According to Clinton’s Iraq adviser in 1993, Laurie Mylrone,
Clinton himself responded to the first attack on the WTC by bombing
Babylon. "He said publicly that the U.S. strike on Iraqi intelligence
headquarters was retaliation for Saddam's attempt to kill [ex-president]
George Bush," NewsMax reported Mylroie as saying in October
2002. "[But] he also meant it for the Trade Center bombing.”
"Clinton
believed that the attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters would
deter Saddam from all future strikes against the United States,"
she insisted. "It was hopelessly naïve."
America
safe again? From and Reed must be hallucinating. Unfortunately these
are the same cretins that control the Democratic platform. They
dictate what is or is not acceptable discourse within the party.
Being antiwar is certainly not acceptable. Hence why you won’t
hear John Kerry spin even the faintest peace rhetoric during his
speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
It
doesn’t matter how many Deans, or Kuicnichs run within the
party to shake it from the inside out. It doens't matter how many
MoveOn members donate money to the Kerry campaign. Because in the
end such reformers are left with no candidate, no money, no hope,
and certainly -- no unity.
Joshua Frank, a contributor to CounterPunch's forthcoming
book, A
Dime's Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils,
is putting the finishing touches on Left
Out: How Liberals did Bush's Work for Him, to be published by
Common Courage Press. He welcomes comments at frank_joshua@hotmail.com.
Weekend Edition 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
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