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Cockburn / St. Clair's Scorching New History of a Decade of War Now Available! Today's Stories June 12 / 13, 2004 Peter Linebaugh Remembering the Common Hood: Soweto and Runnymede June 11, 2004 Alexander Cockburn Reagan in Truth and Fiction Ron Jacobs Ray Charles' Legacy of Spirit Chris Floyd Funeral Games Steven Sherman How Reagan Destroyed the Democrats and Paved the Way for Clinton Mokhiber / Weissman Remembering Reagan Norman Solomon Media's Mourning in America Paul Alexander The Kerry Fantasies of Chalmers Johnson CounterPunch Wire The Terror Hour: Miami TV Station Invites Commandoes to Talk About Planned Attacks on Cuba     June 10, 2004 Noam Chomsky The Apotheosis of Reagan : Divinity Through Marketing Gary Leupp Bush, the Religious Scholar Patrick Cockburn The Iraqi Street Has Spoken: New Govt. Made Up of CIA Pawns Saul Landau Force-Feeding Lies About Free Trade Scott Evans Settling for the System: How Punkvoter.com Became Just Another Tool of the Democrats Jacob Levich John Kerry's World of Hurt: Senator Supports Beam Weapons Zeynep Toufe Reagan, Neo-Cons and the "Intelligence Failures" Nico Pitney Reform at Wal-Mart? Dave Zirin Son of a Reagan: What a Sporty 6-Year Old Saw at the Revolution Jack McCarthy Where Were You When Reagan Croaked? Gary Corseri Nouns That Should be Acronyms David Price Reagan and the Black Budget Website of the Day Inequality by the Numbers   June 9, 2004 Mustafa Barghouthi Israel's Common Use of Torture Must be Exposed Mike Whitney Alan Dershowitz, Still Defending Torture John Chuckman Why the CIA will Always be a Costly Flop Jim Tarbell / Roger Burbach Bush's Democratic Charade in Iraq Dave Lindorff Put Reagan on the $3 Bill Miguel D'Escoto Reagan was the Butcher of My People Becky Burgwin The Betrayal of Smarty Jones: Flogging a Natural Born Hero Patrick Cockburn The Rich Have Been Warned to Leave Baghdad   June 8, 2004 Jeffrey St. Clair The Nature of Ronald Reagan: Will the Earth Accept His Corpse? Dave Lindorff The March on Rumsfeld's House: Is the US Anti-War Movement Running Out of Steam? Phillip Cryan Torture, Bombings & the Press in Colombia Mark Zepezauer Getting Reagan Wrong Mickey Z. Reagan, Radicals and Repetitive Reactions John L. Hess Reagan and Bush in Normandy Alex Dawoody Reagan and Saddam: the Unholy Alliance Christopher Fons Reagan in a Word: Mean Niranjan Ramakrishnan Some Tenets are More Important Than Others Ahmed Bouzid Nothing New Under the Israeli Sun Michael Leon Bush the Narcissist   June 7, 2004 Jason Leopold New Enron Docs Show Lay and Skilling Knew of California Trading Schemes Patrick Cockburn The Baghdad Bombings: the Pattern of Attacks is Changing Dennis Hans From Afghanistan to El Salvador: Reagan's Dark Global Legacy Tracy McLellan Nader at the National Press Club: a Glimpse at a Different Kind of Politics Bill Blum The Myth of the Gipper: Reagan Didn't End the Cold War Ben Tripp What I Owe Reagan: the Brylcreemed Bullshitter Susan Davis Reagan, In a Nutshell Phil Gasper Reagan: Goodbye and Good Riddance Website of the Day A Child's ABCs of Terrorism June 5 / 6, 2004 C. Douglas Lummis Toward a Universal Declaration of Human Wrongs Saul Landau Five Cubans in Prison, Victims of Bush's Obsession Dave Lindorff John Walker Lindh, Revisited Brian Cloughley Apologies, Please, From Those Who Got It Wrong Rich Gibson The Grenada 17: the Last Prisoners of the Cold War are Black Elaine Cassel A Sorry FBI Cathrin Schütz On the Ruins of Yugoslavia Ben Tripp Call Me, Mr. Cassandra Kurt Nimmo The Madness of King George Ron Jacobs They Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Unless We Make It So) Laura Flanders The Lynne Cheney Show? Lenni Brenner Renaissance Noir: Caravaggio at the Met Abigail Jones Whatever Happened to Lori Berenson, President Toledo's Trophy Prisoner? Mark Latham Nothing Bush Said Has Changed Our Hopes Gerry Adams I Was Photographed While Tortured, Too Toni Solo Venezuela 2004, Nicaragua's Contra War Reprised Derek Seidman Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old M. Junaid Alam Torture is Just the Symptom Matt Siegfried An American Way of War Dave Zirin The Politics of Charles Barkley Poets' Basement Albert, Krieger, St. Clair Website of the Weekend Overnight Sensations   June 4, 2004 Chris Floyd Masked and Anonymous: Inside America's Animal House Cornwell / Penketh Exit Tenet: the Fall of a Fall Guy Wayne Madsen Apprehension & Frustation: Neo-Cons on the Brink Greg Moses Agitating for Workers' Rights in Iraq Yitzak Laor Before Rafah Ghali Hassan Ambassador to Death Squads: Who is Negroponte? Jane Stillwater God, the Rapture and Vera Casey CounterPunch Wire D-Day Reconsidered: Was It Really Worth the Carnage? John Borowski Woo-Wooism v. Meteorites: Why the Dems Are No Match for Bush Mike Griffin Caterpillar's Assault on the UAW Alexander Cockburn Has Bush Gone Over the Edge? Website of the Day Aquae Urbis Romae: Water and Empire     June 3, 2004 Ron Jacobs Iran's Nuclear Dilemma Dr. Susan Block America in tha Hood Michael Donnelly The Bully and the Brahmin John Chuckman Insanity in America: US Ranks Number One in the Deranged Christopher Brauchli The Return of Cardinal Law: Rome on $12,000 a Month Samia Nassar Melki Caravaggio in Iraq Mike Whitney Subverting Justice: Pre-Trial Ruminations in the Padilla Case Diane Rejman Memorial Day Isn't Just About the Dead Scott Morris "WMDs" in Cuba Paul de Rooij Palestinian Misery in Perspective     June 2, 2004 Brian Cloughley The Liars are Winning Ray McGovern How Far Would They Go? Beware "Credible Intelligence" Josh Frank The Anybody But Bush Offensive Mike Whitney The Afghanistan Failure: Bush's Warlord Patriots Jackie Corr Iraq and Ireland: Three Tales from Butte, Montana Robert Jensen The US Lost the Iraq War...and It's a Good Thing, Too Alexander Cockburn "Bye, Bye Boonville!"   June 1, 2004 Gary Leupp Instant Karma: Bush's Sins Catch Up with Him William A. Cook Manufacturers of Fear and Loathing in Rafah Dave Lindorff Will the Times Clean House? Kevin Zeese Inside the Kerry / Nader Meeting: Did the Kerry Campaign Lie About What Was Discussed? Jacob Levich Coming Soon: Return of the Draft, a Bipartisan Production Kathy Kelly Voices in the Wilderness v. the US Government Website of the Day Remind Us     May 29 / 31, 2004 Lee Ballinger / Dave Marsh The Origins of Memorial Day Janine Pommy Vega Memo for Memorial Day Mike Ferner On Their Way to Abu Ghraib Alfred W. McCoy The Cruel Shadow: the Long History of CIA Torture Research Douglas Valentine An Open Letter to the NYT: Questions, Questions, Questions Chris White First to Fight Culture: a Former Marine on the Marine Motto Bruce Anderson The Awful Injustice to Tai Abreu David Vest Get Ready for Kerry's War: the 100 Year Quagmire Saul Landau Torture: the Logical Outcome of Bush's War for Democracy? Kurt Nimmo Abu Hamza al-Mazri, Made in the USA Elaine Cassel The Secrets of Surveillance: Ashcroft, Snoops, and Gag Orders Will Potter The New War on "Terror": Protest the Torture of Chimps; Get Arrested as a "Terrorist" Ben Tripp They Fiddled While Nero Got the Matches Dr. Susan Block Save Abu Ghraib! Kia Kojouri Nukes, the US, Israel and Iran: an Interview with Sasan Fayazmanesh Mickey Z D-Day: 60 Years is Enough! Jon Brown Correcting the Correction at the Times Patrick B. Barr Pre-emptive War Insurance Stephen Gowans Bad Apples in a Bad Barrel Tom Gorman Gore on Bush in Iraq: the Approach May be Exotic, But It's Hardly New Dave Zirin Fighting for Boxers' Rights: an Interview with Eddie Mustafa Muhammad Gregory Weiher Bush to Arabs: "Go Get Yourself Some Democracy" Erik Cummings Jung Meets Bush Poets' Basement Davies, Ford, Kearney, McLellan and Albert   May 28, 2004 Rafael Rodriguez Cruz Curtain of Silence on the Cuban 5 Greg Moses Bush's Misleading Speech on Abu Ghraib Dave Lindorff Dissing Independent Contractors: Those Who Do the Dirty Work Norman Solomon Leaping for Lies at the Times Rep. Bill Delahunt Bush's Cruel New Rules on Cuba Paul McGeough Chalabi Baba and the 40 Thieves Niranjan Ramakrishnan India and Nehru: 40 Years After Alexander Cockburn NYTs: "Maybe We Did Screw Up...a Little"     May 27, 2004 Amy Goodman / David Goodman Fatal Errors: the Lies of Our Times Douglas Valentine Ragging the Dogs of War at the NYTs John L. Hess The Times Confesses...Kind Of Stew Albert Dellinger, the Wrestling Pacifist Dave Dellinger a 1993 Interview Christopher Brauchli Tax Breaks for Scions...to Hell with Poor Kids Rampton / Stauber Banana Republicans: Pumping Irony     May 26, 2004 Ron Jacobs Goodbye, David Dellinger: He Was a Friend of Ours Robert Fisk The Things Bush Didn't Say in His Speech Zeynep Toufe New Draft UN Resolution Permits Perpetual Occupation Conn Hallinan Bush and Sharon: the Oil Connection Tom Stephens 2 + 2 is On My Mind: More Morons and War Crimes Derek Medley Protesting Gov. Bigot CounterPunch Wire FBI Abducts Artist; Seizes Art Andrew Cockburn The Trail to Tehran   May 25, 2004 Joe Bageant The Covert Kingdom: On Earth as It is in Texas Col. Dan Smith A Question of Human Dignity Gary Handschumacher Visiting Lori Berenson: Time to Bring Her Home Toni Solo A Developing War in the Andes Marc Estrin September Song: Disturbing Questions About 9/11 Stephen Banko, III A Vietnam Vet on "Supporting the Troops" Website of the Day The Wizard of Whimsy May 24, 2004 Ron Jacobs Dan Senor is Safe! Kurt Nimmo Dirty Tricks & TortureGate: the Missing Taguba Pages Sam Hamod Gen. Zinni: "Wrong War, Wrong Place, Wrong Time" Mike Whitney The Wedding was a Bomb Stan Goff Open Season on MAMs Image of the Day A Photo from Abu Ghraib We Didn't See on the Front Page of the NYTs     May 22 / 23, 2004 Paul de Rooij Colin Powell, a Political Obituary Jeffrey St. Clair When War is Swell: Bush and the Carlyle Group Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Her Son Was Told He Wouldn't See Combat; Now He's Dead: an Interview with Sue Niederer Brian Cloughley America is Committing War Crimes in Iraq Saul Landau Democracy in Latin America: Great for Investors; Not So Good for People Brandy Baker Feminists Stand By Their Man: Abortion, Judges and Kerry Randall Robinson Bushwhacked in the Caribbean Uri Avnery The Rape of Rafah Ben Tripp Assume the Worst Bruce Anderson News from Ecotopia: the Truth About the Wine Business Josh Ruebner Why I Burned My Israeli Military Papers Peter Wolson, Ph. D. Exhibitionistic Revenge at Abu Ghraib Chloe Cockburn In Defense of "Troy": What Hector Could Teach Rummy Linda Burnham Sexual Domination in Uniform: an American Value Adrien Rain Burke War of the Necrophiliacs: Spc. Sabrina Harman and Her Corpse David Krieger Charting a New Course for US Nuclear Policy Ron Jacobs Turnaround Poets' Basement Ford, Albert & LaMorticella   May 21, 2004 Ray Close The Canards of the Apologists Christopher Brauchli "The Object of Torture is Torture" Amira Hass Darkness at Noon Jack McCarthy Camilo Mejia: Can the Son of a Sandinista Get a Fair Trial from the US Army? Bill Kauffman Nader v. Bush Omar Barghouti No More Tears for America Ghali Hassan Moral Failure of the "Free World" in Gaza Christopher Reed How the CIA Taught the Portuguese to Torture Website of the Day Eric Idle on the Bush Administration: Fuck You, So Very Much   May 20, 2004 Andrew Cockburn The Truth About Chalabi Kathy Kelly A Visit from the FBI Niranjan Ramakrishnan Brown and Bored of Education in India Tom Stephens & John Philo The War Crimes of Bush, Cheney & Co. Sam Bahour / Michael Dahan Genocide by Public Policy Robert Ovetz Ending the Race for the Last Turtle Billy Wilson The Most Important Thing I Learned at School This Year Website of the Day Rafah Today         Hot Stories 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. 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Weekend Edition June 12 / 13, 2004 The Accidental President and the Presidential Accident The 18th Brumaire in the 21st Century By NIRANJAN RAMAKRISHNAN President Ronald Reagan's death has evoked an outpouring of grief and affection, all of it genuine. This is nothing to be ashamed of. The cartoonist Jules Feiffer, a trenchant critic, wrote once that he could not but melt when he ran across Reagan at the California beach during a morning walk, when Reagan flashed a smile at him. Throughout his career, Ronald Reagan exasperated his critics and opponents with a charm which seemed to transcend party, age and sex. A faint echo of this quality was part of the Clinton persona, although no Democrat ever mustered for Reagan the degree of hatred many Republicans nursed for Bill Clinton. But over and beyond Reagan himself, I suspect, a significant part of the emotion springs from a sense of nostalgia. Personally for me, there is an element of sentiment, for it was during Reagan's first term that I first came to America. For me, and perhaps many others, there is the sense that, whatever malaise Reagan rescued the country from, and whatever he left behind, there was not in those days the pervasive sense of foreboding which appears to bestride the nation today. As Dante wrote, there is no greater tragedy than looking back and seeing that we have had better times. By sheer accident, President Reagan, who had been ailing for long, chose with impeccable timing to die in the middle of a tight election season, and on the eve of the 60th anniversary of D-Day. The event was already being used by George W. Bush as a welcome photo op, and even before news of Reagan's death, he had plied the D-Day occasion to draw a parallel between the liberation of Europe in 1944-45 and the liberation of Iraq in last year, a thinly disguised invitation to France to chip in. Chirac publicly disavowed the comparison, but that's another story. All the same, history repeats itself, does it not? According to the famous quote, first as tragedy, then as farce. However, as our current president's election handlers try to get him into this godsend of a mantle (if a couple of sizes too large), it is clear that old Karl needs to be brought up to date for our times, for in this case at least, farce appears to have come first and tragedy later. A few examples will illustrate my point. Liberation Theology The liberation of the Eastern Bloc countries from Soviet domination was certainly hastened, if not caused, by Reagan's policies. By itself this was a positive milestone. It was accompanied, however, by the 'liberation' of populations from some modicum of social support, including education, health care, and other public services, and the "deliverance" of their natural resources into the hands of multinational corporations, changes with which the people in those countries are still coping. In Russia itself, the subsequent growth of organized crime and its spread worldwide makes a farce of the word, 'liberation', in this context. George W. Bush professes to do to the Islamic world what Ronald Reagan did to the Soviet Empire. While the 'liberation' of Eastern Europe and Russia happened without bloodshed, blood already has flown copiously from the liberation's of Afghanistan and Iraq. Tragedy has been built into the ground floor. The Gated Communities: Iran and Iraq Ronald Reagan had Irangate. His administration sold American weapons to Iran, and used the money to arm the Nicaraguan contras. Both aspects of the transaction were violative of American laws. Reagan claimed to know nothing about this, and his vice-president said he was 'out of the loop', claims best described as...well...farcical. There followed a farcical inquiry which produced no serious consequences. Oliver North now has a flourishing radio TV career, and Adm. Poindexter had a second coming as the Total Information Czar in recent times. In the throes of the scandal, the Reagan administration rather proudly pointed to its carefulness with the public exchequer -- that not a single dollar of the US Taxpayer had been expended in the entire shenanigan! George W. Bush has Iraqgate. He needed to break no law -- Congress gave him the authority (there's one tragedy to start with!). Over 800 US soldiers have died to date. More have been wounded, many disabled for life. The cost to the taxpayer is 200 billion and counting with no end in sight. All tragedy, no farce (if you ignore the sham evidence before the Security Council). Reaganomics and Tax Cuts Ronald Reagan came to office when supply side economics was an untested theory. Congress indulged him, partly awed by his landslide victory (and the Republicans had gained the Senate after 26 years), and he passed a tax cut the first year in office. I remember one press conference in late 1981 or 1982, when the economy had tanked and unemployment was up from 8% when he took office to 11% at the time of the press conference. Someone asked him about it. "W-e-e-e-l-l, I'll take responsibility for the 3%", the Gipper answered coolly, shaking his head and going for the jocular as usual. It is these elements of the farce that make one nostalgic. By the end of his second term, after having rolled back his tax cuts in later years, Reagan had brought unemployment down from these heights, and had created (per his claim) 19 million new jobs. George W. Bush is like a child who takes off with the family car as soon as he masters the forward gear, not realizing he needs a reverse gear too. Bush has stuck determinedly to the idea of tax cuts as a cure for all ills, notwithstanding the war in progress and the huge expense he has saddled the country with. He is likely to be the first President with a net job loss during his term since Herbert Hoover. In his reign too, the flight of jobs to foreign countries has skyrocketed, leading to a huge depletion of quality jobs and an erosion of the manufacturing base, the consequences of which will be felt for decades. The Teflon coaters: John Hinckley and Osama Bin Laden Much has been written about how the assassination attempt on President Reagan caused the press to mute its criticism, giving him a virtual free pass for his entire first term. Fortunately, no one died, and Jim Brady, the President's Press Secretary, recovered enough to become an active campaigner for gun control. John Hinckley was arrested, tried and pleaded insanity, following which he has remained in prison. George W. Bush received his teflon coating at an exorbitant price -- the loss of 3000 lives, property and business damage worth billions. In contrast to Hinckley, Osama Bin Laden, pleads not just complete sanity but total clairvoyance. Congress - then and now Within months of the outing of the Iran-Contra scandal, Congress began hearings, with great indignation, having the highest and mightiest in the administration testify under oath. Key figures Richard Secord and Oliver North played the committee like a banjo, however, behaving almost as if they were indulging a farce. Ultimately, Secord would be sentenced. His lawyer then was one Mr. Sharp. Not 9-11, not the lie over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, not the fabrications Powell took to the UN, but nothing -- would move Congress to set up a similar committee. It would be two years before there was even any sort of inquiry set up to about 9-11. And then the administration would drag its feet over every query from the commission. Inquiries are usually set up as quickly as possible, since as any investigator knows, the longer the time lag, the greater the chances of evidence being lost. But since Reagan's time, we have come to confuse the serious and the trivial almost routinely. The Bush administration treated demands for such an inquiry in the most cavalier fashion, before some combination of pressure and shame prevailed. (as an aside, the same Mr. Sharp has been retained by President Bush in relation to the investigation about the outing of the CIA agent married to Ambassador Wilson.) Foreign Adventures Reagan sent troops to Lebanon. He attacked Grenada, supported death squads in El Salvador and mined the harbors of Nicaragua, . When 241 marines died in Lebanon, he wound up the military engagement there. There were eight US hostages taken at various points in time. Eventually, all of them were released unharmed. While there is nothing farcical about people dying or being killed by death squads, the scale was to rise dramatically two decades later. Bush has committed the entire US armed forces to combat. Even at the height of the Cold War, Reagan did not declare that the nation was at war. Bush has said so several times. At least two US hostages (one in Pakistan, the other in Iraq) were to die in gruesome fashion. The state of humor The TV stations have been playing clips of Ronald Reagan's wit. The droll delivery, the poker faced punchline, the easy charm. What a pleasure to listen to Reagan's answers, even if they were often short on facts! He was the master of the farce. Reagan came across as though there was just the chance that he might believe in what he was saying, which added to his credibility. Where Reagan's middle initial was W for witty when it came to exchanges with the press (although this too wore thin towards the end of the second term), one is tempted to use its opposite to describe George W's press conferences. Reagan conveyed a sense of morality without moralizing. George W. is pedantic in 3rd grade English. His knit eyebrows, narrowed eyes and smirking bring a frightening realization that he really thinks in the language he speaks. The Mahabharata asks a rhetorical question, "What is the final step in the ladder of success?" It answers, "Defeat". As we count the tragedies, we note that it was Reagan's aid which built up the Islamic radicals who now threaten American interests. Indeed, it was Reagan who once described a bunch of visiting Afghan mujahideen (on a tour of the White House) as 'the moral equivalent of our founding fathers'. The single-minded concentration on the defeat of the Evil Empire, without adequate care about how it was done, has opened up a global nuclear bazaar of materials, brains and services, with consequences too terrible to contemplate. In the end, Ronald Reagan died, the myth larger than the man. Mythmaking is a part of leadership; the impact of mythmakers is always larger than that of mere technocrats. Myth lives on in the public consciousness long after the originator has departed. Sixteen years after his term ended, Reagan's impact is still felt, unlike that of a later two-term president, whose one great achievement -- the undoing of the Reagan-Bush deficit, has itself been undone with little fuss, in less than four years. Political leaders are to be evaluated differently from others. Lord Acton's famous saying, "Power corrupts. Absolute power, absolutely", is well known. Less known is Acton's next sentence, "Great men are almost always bad men." And so it is that though President Reagan will be remembered differently -- as a brilliant communicator by some, an amiable dunce by others, an idealist visionary by others yet, and a cynical fronter for the hard right by yet more -- he will certainly be credited (or criticized) for the changing the rules by which we live. That he did so without making serious political enemies is both a commentary on him and on us. In true Hollywood style, Reagan's epitaph was long ago scripted in a film starring two of his closest friends, James Stewart and John Wayne. The movie, "The Man who shot Liberty Valance", ends with this line: "When the legend is greater than the truth, print the legend". Niranjan Ramakrishnan is a writer living on the West Coast. His writings can be found at http://www.indogram.com/gramsabha/articles. He can be reached at njn_04@yahoo.com Weekend Edition Features for June 5 / 6, 2004 C. Douglas Lummis Toward a Universal Declaration of Human Wrongs Saul Landau Five Cubans in Prison, Victims of Bush's Obsession Dave Lindorff John Walker Lindh, Revisited Brian Cloughley Apologies, Please, From Those Who Got It Wrong Rich Gibson The Grenada 17: the Last Prisoners of the Cold War are Black Elaine Cassel A Sorry FBI Cathrin Schütz On the Ruins of Yugoslavia Ben Tripp Call Me, Mr. Cassandra Kurt Nimmo The Madness of King George Ron Jacobs They Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Unless We Make It So) Laura Flanders The Lynne Cheney Show? Lenni Brenner Renaissance Noir: Caravaggio at the Met Abigail Jones Whatever Happened to Lori Berenson, President Toledo's Trophy Prisoner? Mark Latham Nothing Bush Said Has Changed Our Hopes Gerry Adams I Was Photographed While Tortured, Too Toni Solo Venezuela 2004, Nicaragua's Contra War Reprised Derek Seidman Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old M. Junaid Alam Torture is Just the Symptom Matt Siegfried An American Way of War Dave Zirin The Politics of Charles Barkley Poets' Basement Albert, Krieger, St. Clair Website of the Weekend Overnight Sensations WWW http://www.counterpunch.org   Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /