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How the Press & the CIA Killed Gary Webb's Career

 

Today's Stories

December 18 / 19, 2004

Joshua Frank
The Spin Doctor: an Interview with Mickey Z.

December 17, 2004

Dave Lindorff
Racism: Philly Style

Dan Bacher
Bush Abandons Salmon Restoration

Marisa Jacott
NAFTA and the Environment: Trade Still Runs Roughshod

Francis Thicke
How Now, Industrial Cow?

Rupert Cornwell
The Inuit Strike Back

Cockburn / St. Clair
CounterAttack: How the Press and the CIA Killed Gary Webb's Career

Website of the Day
Franz Boas Unrolls Over in His Grave

 

December 16, 2004

Michael Neumann
How We Became Barbarians

Merlin Chowkwanyun
An Interview with Ralph Nader

Gabriel Espinoza Gonzales
The Dubious Career of John Bolton

Christopher Brauchli
Louis Freeh's New Gig: Usurer

Patrick Cockburn
Allawi's Pre-Election Ploy: Putting "Chemical Ali" on Trial

Mike Whitney
Gearing Up for a Draft?

Walter Brasch
Hillbilly Humvees and Rumsfeld's New Physics

Bill Conroy
How Gary Webb Saved My Ass from the FBI

Website of the Day
Saturday Memorial for Gary Webb

 

December 15, 2004

Robert Fisk
Who Killed Baha Mousa?

Jennifer Van Bergen
The Monster Under the Bed

Heather Gray
Will the Real Christians Please Stand?: a Personal Testimony

Dave Lindorff
The DNC, Albright and the Iraq Elections

Luis Hernandez Navarro
To Die a Little: Migration and Coffee in Mexico and Central America

Joshua Frank
The Ohio Recount: an Exercise in "Dumbocracy"

Greg Moses
Eighty-Sixing Civil Rights in Ohio?

George Caffentzis
The Petroleum Commons

 

December 14, 2004

Dave Lindorff
DNC Meddling in the Ukraine Elections

Larry Birns / Seth DeLong
Haiti is Unraveling and No One is Saying Anything

Richard Thieme
My Last Talk with Gary Webb: "I Knew It Was the Truth and That's What Kept Me Going"

Patrick Cockburn
A Year After Saddam's Capture, Iraq is Getting Worse

Chris Floyd
Client State: Moral Values and Voluntary Servitude in Bush's America

Akiva Eldar
A One-time Hanukkah Miracle

Burbach / Cantor
The Legacy of Pinochet: Kissinger and the Teflon Tyrant

 

December 13, 2004

Cockburn / St. Clair
Gary Webb: a Great Reporter, Trashed by the CIA's Claque

David Phinney
"Contract Meal Disaster" for Iraqi Prisoners: Rancid Food Sparked Abu Ghraib Riots

Paul Craig Roberts
A Dose of Non-Delusional Reality for Douglas Feith

M. Junaid Alam
The War is the War Crime

Robert Jensen
The US Has Lost the Iraq War...and That's a Good Thing

Richard Oxman
Kafkaesque Lessons for the Left

Greg Moses
Send No Messengers of Defeat

Douglas Lummis
The Pentagon's Neurosis: Fallujah Gulag

 

December 11 / 12, 2004

Alexander Cockburn
Running an Empire on the Cheap

Ron Jacobs
The Drugs of War: Getting High in the Green Zone?

Saul Landau
Listening and Talking to God About Invading Other Countries

Gary Leupp
Bush's Capital

Sharon Smith
The Horrible Toll on US Troops

Dave Lindorff
Deja Vu All Over Again: 5,000 Desertions and Counting

Uri Avnery
The Boss Has Gone Crazy

Jude Wanniski
The Neo-Con Smear on Kofi Annan: What Food-for-Oil Scandal?

Heather Gray
How the South Became Republican: an Interview with John Egerton

Patrick Cockburn / Ken Sengupta
Fallujah: the Homecoming and the Homeless

John Pilger
Return to Kosovo: Calling the Humanitarian Bombers to Account

Joshua Frank
All the Rage: Mr. Solomon, Say You're Sorry

Ben Tripp
O Canada!: the Truth About the Election of 2004

John Stanton
God Speaks!

Laura Nathan
Porn Stars are People, Too: a Talk with Christi Lake

Poets' Basement
Capaccio, Davies, Louise, Ford and Albert

Website of the Day
Fallujah Photos: Killed in Their Beds

 

December 10, 2004

Ralph Nader
President Bush, Stop Destroying the Mosques of Iraq

Greg Moses
Whitewashing Voter Fraud

Nicole Colson
Rebellion in the Ranks: Grunts Are Resisting Stop-Loss Orders

Frederick B. Hudson
"They Still Got Those Dogs": A New Book Probes Old Civil Rights Lessons

Patrick Cockburn
Iraq's Insurgents Oppose the Occupation, Not the Elections

Kathy Kelly
From Haiti to Iraq: Burying Water

 

December 9, 2004

Greg Moses
Ask Not Who Bankrolled Fallujah

Joshua Frank
Cobb and the Ohio Recount: Vote Fraud as Fundraiser!

Ralph Nader
An Open Letter to Bush: It's Time to Disclose the Real Casualty Figures

Lee Sustar
Bhopal: the Making of a Disaster

Tom Barry
Restrictionist Resurgence

Mickey Z.
Sander Hicks and the 9/11 Truth Movement

Christopher Brauchli
Bush in the Bubble

Mark Donham
Why are House Democrats Trying to Deny Cynthia McKinney Seniority?

Gary Corseri
On the Anniversary of John Lennon's Death, 2012

Paul de Rooij
The Voices of Sharon's Little Helpers

 

 

December 8, 2004

Ralph Nader
Will the Real Michael Moore Ever Re-Emerge?

Ann Harrison
The Ohio Recount: Reluctant Officials and Few Rules

Paul Craig Roberts
War Crime

Dave Lindorff
They've Got a Secret: Inside the $40 Billion Black Budget for Spying

Patrick Cockburn / Andrew Buncombe
CIA Warning on Iraq: Fallujah Did Not Break the Back of the Insurgency

Col. Dan Smith
Rules of Engagement in Iraq

Emily Alves / Michael Johnson
Paradise Lost: Corruption and Clientelism in Costa Rica

Richard Oxman
The Dylan Bob Wouldn't Mention: Up With Dylan Thomas

Ron Jacobs
In Fallujah, Freedom Isn't Free

 

December 7, 2004

Patrick Cockburn
Running Battles in Baghdad

Behrooz Ghamari
Lost Muslim Voices of Dissent

Dave Lindorff
American Fantasies: Psst! Hey Buddy, Did You Hear How Well the War's Going?

Joshua Frank
Dean at the DNC?

Richard Oxman
Down with Dylan: the Insufferable Interview

Ray McGovern
All Mosquitoes, No Swamp

John Chuckman
The Invasion of Hallifax: The Imperial Wizard Visits Canada

James Petras
Latin America: the Empire Changes Gears

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ToxMap: Who's Poisoning You

 

December 6, 2004

Paul Craig Roberts
Paranoia and Pre-emption: Is the Bush Administration Certifiable?

December 4 / 6, 2004

Alexander Cockburn
Politicize the CIA? You've Got to be Kidding

Joe Bageant
Dining with the Rhinos

Alan Maass
Reporting from the Ground in Iraq: an Interview with Patrick Cockburn

Brian Cloughley
Democracy, Bush-style, in the Gulf

Laura Carlsen
Latin America Shifts Left

Lenni Brenner
Jefferson, Madison, Bush and Religion

Anna Ioakimedes
Brazil's Haitian Mission: Doing God's Work or Washington's?

Uri Avnery
Widow of Opportunity?

Fred Gardner
Supreme Court Hears Medical Pot Case

Dave Zirin
Steroids to Heaven

Jackie Corr
Mining Camp Blues: the Red State Variation

Don Fitz
Will Greens Abandon IRV?

Lucy Herschel
"Art can be a Weapon of the Oppressed": an Interview with Artist Anthony Papa

Richard Oxman
No Angels in America: Bashing the Gay Play

Ron Jacobs
Holiday Greeting Card

Poets' Basement
Collins, Albert, LaMorticella

 

December 3, 2004

Dave Lindorff
Lie Then Escalate

Ben Tripp
Fun With Boycotts: How to Shop in a Time of Crisis

Joe Allen
Murder in El Salvador: the Assassination of Teamster Organizer Gilberto Soto

Matthew B. Riley
Human Rights Court Fails Lori Berenson

Meir Shalev
In the End, It is the Violin that Wins

Bob Wing
The White Elephant in the Room: Race and Election 2004

Christopher Brauchli
When McCain Bit His Tongue

Sasan Fayazmanesh
The EU, the US, Israel and Iran

 

December 2, 2004

Tito Tricot
No Justice in Chile: I'm a Torture Survivor in a Country Where Torturers Still Run Free

Behzad Yaghmaian
The Murder of Theo Van Gogh and Muslim Migration

Dr. Susan Block
Lana and Me: Meetings with Remarkable Apes

Frank / Chowkwanyun
Liberalism and Its Bounds

Lee Sustar
Standoff in Ukraine: the Bad v. the Corrupt

Patrick Cockburn
Another Grim Record in Iraq

Mark Engler
Seattle at Five

Michael Donnelly
Something Stinks in South Bend: the Firing of Tyrone Willingham

Nate Collins
The Bay Area Mall on an Ohlone Burial Grounds

Saul Landau
The Assassination of Danilo Anderson

 

December 1, 2004

Phillip Cryan
Associated with Whom? Rightist Bias in Wire Coverage of Colombia

Dave Zirin
What's the Matter with "Leon"?: Budweiser's Racist Commercial

Ghali Hassan
Iraq's Health Care Under the Occupation: 200 Children Die Every Day

Donna J. Volatile
Beware Western Nations Threatening "Democracy"

Patrick Cockburn
How Saddam Tried to Arm the Insurgency

Nick Meo
Chemical War Over Afghanistan

Mike Ferner
The Battle of Toledo

Mokhiber / Weissman
Shame and Determination on Global AIDS Day: 40 Million and Rising

Kathy Kelly
Looking the Other Way: the Real Crimes of the UN in Iraq

 

November 30, 2004

Jennifer Van Bergen
The Veil of Secrecy

Toni Nelson Herrera
Meeting Kurtz: When Art is a Crime

Paul Craig Roberts
The Bush Delusions: Successful at Incompetence

Patrick Cockburn
The Insurgency Strikes Back: There Are No Safe Havens in Iraq

Chuck Munson
WTO Protests Five Years Later: Seattle Weekly Trashes Anti-Globalization Movement

Adam Williams
Citizenship Sold: Back to Business in Indiana

Gregory Elich
A Dangerous Turn in the US Plans for North Korea

Website of the Day
Read Lynne Cheney's Lesbian Novel Online!

 

November 29, 2004

Dave Lindorff
Blowback in Ukraine: The Hand of the CIA?

Omar Barghouti
"The Pianist" of Palestine: Roadblock Concerto at Gunpoint

Mike Whitney
The US Media and Fallujah: How to Market a Siege

Uri Avnery
The Abu Mazen Style: "Give Me Some Credit!"

Matt Vidal
Globalization and Economic Inequality: a Look at the Numbers

Patrick Cockburn
An Interview with Iraq's Foreign Minister

Alan Farago
Sex Change and Salvation: God, Girly Men and Endocrine Disrupters

Justin Huggler
Bhopal 20 Years Later

Antony Loewenstein
How Australia Reported Arafat's Death and Legacy

Gary Leupp
Ukraine: Poll Results Aren't the Real Issue

Website of the Day
Mosul: Images from a Kill Zone

 

 

November 27 / 28, 2004

Peter Linebaugh
Torture & Neo-Liberalism with Sycorax in Iraq

Alexander Cockburn
What Happened to O'Reilly's Loofa?

Fred Gardner
Ashcroft v. Raich: Medical Marijuana and the Supreme Court

Kathy Kelly
What We Can Control

Diane Christian
The Other Cheek: "Empire Doesn't Analyze, It Acts"

Gary Leupp
One More Neocon Target: South (Yes, South) Korea

Lenni Brenner
Equality and Rights of Return: Jefferson Instructs the New York Times

Ron Jacobs
Death Squads and Iraq's Elections: the Mysterious Murders of the AMS Clerics

Joshua Frank
An Interview with Kevin Zeese on Nader, Kerry and the ABB Crowd

Toni Solo
The Murder of Danilo Anderson

Saul Landau
Fallujah, the 21st Century Guernica

JoAnn Wypijewski
Matthew Shepard Case 6 Years Later: Why Hate Crimes Laws are No Cure for Homophobia

Justin Taylor
Empire's Lawless Opportunities

Amos Harel
The Case of Captain R.

Walter A. Davis
Tabloid Justice

Stephen Hendricks
God's Kind of Men

Poets' Basement
Albert, LaMorticella and Ford

 

 

November 26, 2004

Peter Feng
Gavin Newsom: Man or Machine?

Greg Moses
It's the White Vote, Stupid

Liaquat Ali Khan
The Devil's Work: Bush's Minority Appointments

Michael Mandel / Gail Davidson
Why Bush Should Be Banned from Canada: a Memo to the Ministry of Immigration

Dave Lindorff
Nation of Sheep, Turkey of an Election: Urkrainians Show the Way

Gary Corseri
When Black Friday Comes...

Paul Craig Roberts
Whatever Happened to Conservatives?

Website of the Day
Iraq Pipeline Watch

 

 

November 25, 2004

Willliam Loren Katz
Giving Thanks to Whom?: "Thanks to God We Sent 600 Heathen Souls to Hell Today"

Mitchel Cohen
Why I Hate Thanksgiving

Mike Ferner
An Uncommon Mom

 

 

November 24, 2004

Gila Svirsky
License to Kill: the Example of Violence is Set by the State

Winslow T. Wheeler
The Other Mess in Congress

Christopher Brauchli
The Company He Keeps: the Syndicate of Tom Delay

Dave Lindorff
Double Standards on Exit Polls: Hypocrisy Sans Irony

Ron Jacobs
The Occupation of Iraq is the Root of t he Problem

Ken Sengupta
Witnesses: War Crimes in Fallujah

Diana Barahona
The Final Holocaust or Why I Voted for Ralph Nader

John L. Hess
Safire the Shameless

Jason Leopold
Did Harvard Hire (Another) War Criminal?

Jeffrey St. Clair
The Mark of McCain: the Senator Most Likely to Start a Nuclear War

Map of the Day
Now and Then: 2004 v. 1860

 

November 23, 2004

Forrest Hylton
Bush and Uribe at the Beach

 

 

 

 

November 22, 2004

Dave Zirin
Fight Night in the NBA: Selective Outrage in Detroit

Paul Craig Roberts
On to Iran: We Won't Get Fooled Again?

Michael Mandel / Gail Davidson
Why Bush Should be Banned from Canada

Kathie Helmkamp
Our Son: a Marine Who Won't Kill

Ken Sengupta
The Triangle of Death: "This is Now the Most Dangerous Place in Iraq"

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November 20 / 21, 2004

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The Vulcans Consolidate Power: The Rise of Stephen Hadley

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December 18 / 19, 2004

Christmas on the Picket Line at CNH

"They Want to Break Our Unions"

By LEE SUSTAR

With just 635 workers on the picket line, the lockout at farm equipment maker CNH Global might seem to be just one small battle in the endless corporate war on labor.

In fact, it's a struggle that tests whether the United Auto Workers (UAW) is capable of maintaining any power in the agricultural implement industry--and whether organized labor as a whole can defend the dwindling number of good-paying manufacturing jobs.

"When I hired in back in 1977, there were about 1,200 people here," Mike Edwards, a member of UAW Local 807 at the CNH plant in Burlington, Iowa, told me. "Four years ago, there were 787. Now we're down to 235 members in the local."

Another 350 workers, members of UAW Local 180, are locked out at CNH's tractor assembly plant in Racine, Wis. Smaller groups of UAW workers at a CNH warehouse in Minnesota and a design facility in Illinois face Christmas on the picket line as well--in a fight to stop a pay cut and hold the line on health insurance costs.

The showdown at CNH highlights a series of trends hammering workers across the U.S.--the hemorrhaging of manufacturing jobs, outsourcing, falling wages, skyrocketing health care costs and the shredding of retiree benefits.

According to government statistics, some 2.7 manufacturing jobs have been lost since 2001--and in November, another 5,000 disappeared. November saw a net gain of just 112,000 jobs, half the number the White House predicted--even though Gross Domestic Product for the third quarter increased at an annual 3.9 rate.

That's only part of the terrible jobs picture. While the overall jobless rate is 5.5 percent, long-term unemployment persists. Some 14 percent of the unemployed--1.2 million people--have been looking for work for more than 39 weeks, a level usually associated with full-blown recessions.

Edwards and the other workers on the picket line at CNH know something about long-term joblessness. Although Edwards hired in at CNH--it was Case Equipment then--nearly 28 years ago, he's been on layoff for periods that total up to 13 years. That means he's still a long way from making the 30-year mark needed for full retirement benefits.

Meanwhile, thousands of CNH workers who have lost their jobs in plant closures in recent years will find it nearly impossible to find a job that pays anything close to their old wages--and even harder to get the kind of benefits they used to receive. According to the Economic Policy Institute, wages in the expanding sectors of the economy--such as retail sales and health care--was 9.5 percent lower than hourly pay in sectors where employment was going down.

Pensions are under attack as well. United Airlines and US Airways have led the way in using bankruptcy court to stop paying into pension funds--and threatening to void union contracts altogether unless workers take another round of pay cuts.

Similar demands from CNH provoked workers to walk out November 3. When management declared an impasse in bargaining--a likely prelude to permanently replacing workers--the UAW offered to return to work, but management kept them out.

The CNH struggle will in turn affect a much larger fight at Caterpillar, where 9,0000 UAW members have been working without a contract since April. In fact, CNH management is mimicking the hard-line tactics that Caterpillar used in its six-and-a-half-year contract battle with the UAW during the 1990s in which the company defeated two strikes. If CNH can force the UAW to retreat, Caterpillar will be even more aggressive.

CNH is the creation of a 1999 merger between Case--which once employed thousands of UAW members--and the Dutch company New Holland N.V., which is controlled by the Italian auto giant Fiat.

After years of downsizing and outsourcing, CNH is determined to shatter the power of the UAW altogether. Company proposals would roll back 40 years of improvements in health care coverage, according to John Valko, president of UAW Local 180 in Racine.

Workers hired since 1998 would retroactively be deemed "new hires" and paid at a lower-tier pay rate without cost-of-living allowances--resulting in an immediate $4.92 pay cut. New hires won't be eligible for bonuses, either. Today, base wages range between $17 and $20 per hour at the Burlington plant--well below wages in auto assembly plants. With the new cuts and additional health care costs, workers' income would be reduced to 1984 levels.

Retiree health care is on the line as well. CNH ceased paying the retirees' health insurance premiums--guaranteed under previous contracts--until a federal judge ordered the company to do so.

"The bottom line to me is that they want to break the union," said Edwards, who is mayor of Burlington and a longtime Democratic Party activist. "They've whittled the jobs down to such a small number that we've got some 250,000 square feet of empty building. If push comes to shove, they can move this operation anywhere they want to and close this facility without too much impact on their overall business."

That's a risk that UAW members realized when they voted overwhelmingly to strike just before the previous contract expired in May. "Only one person voted no," Edwards recalled.

Some point to CNH's Italian management as the problem. But the last contract negotiated with the old Case management in 1998 opened the door to these latest attacks. That deal included annual bonuses of 3 percent instead of wage increases that are compounded annually. It also imposed four-day, 10-hour workweeks and three-day 12-hour workweeks. Piece rate incentives were largely withdrawn, cutting pay further.

UAW leaders pushed hard for workers to accept those concessions. When UAW Local 1304 at the Case plant in Moline, Ill., voted the deal down, the union didn't reopen negotiations, but raised the pressure until the local voted to accept.

The Moline plant was closed in August as part of CNH's cost-cutting moves--and the UAW is now in a weaker position in a fight that can't be avoided any longer. Plus, by agreeing to two-tier wages in the auto parts industry, top UAW officials only encouraged management to be aggressive at Caterpillar and CNH.

In Burlington, the outcome of the struggle could well determine whether the town will face the plight of cities like Galesburg, Ill., where the recent closure of a Maytag plant has wiped out most of the few remaining good-paying unionized manufacturing jobs.

"If we lose these jobs in Burlington, it's going leave us with one good labor shop in this town--the Federal Mogul plant, which is also a UAW shop," Edwards said. "But even they have a two-tier wage system. And their contract is up in the spring."

The UAW does have some leverage over CNH: the tractor plant in Racine is brand new, built with the help of tax subsidies. The company won't walk away from that.

But with a well-planned scabbing operation under way, management is prepared to go for months--or longer--to break the UAW.

Waiting it out is not an option. The experience at Caterpillar shows that the only way to win is to raise the stakes by building solidarity and mounting large pickets that can challenge the strikebreakers.

For Edwards, the battle at CNH is part of a longer-term effort to reverse labor's decline. Turning things around, he said, "is going to be one hell of a fight. It's going to border on revolution, I'm afraid."

Send messages of support to UAW Local 807 at 319-753-0179 and UAW Local 180 at 262-631-5980.

Lee Sustar is a regular contributor to CounterPunch and the Socialist Worker. He can be reached at: lsustar@ameritech.net


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