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February
13, 2002
Alexander
Cockburn
Banning
the Koran
George
Monbiot
American
Imperialism
February
12, 2002
Uri Avnery
The
Great Game:
Oil, Sharon and Iran
Tommy
Ates
Black
Land Loss
February
11, 2002
Walt Brasch
The
Synergizing of America
John Troyer
Enron's
Deep Throat?
February
9, 2002
John Blair
Criticize
Cheney, Go to Jail
February
8, 2002
CounterPunch
Wire
Ashcroft
the Bigot
Molly
Secours
Racism
and Real Estate
Wole Akande
World
Economic Forum:
The Aftermath
Cockburn/St.
Clair
Dita
Sari Tells Reebok
to "Shove It"
February
7, 2002
Patrick
Cockburn
Taliban's
War on Chess
John Chuckman
Howdee,
Dick!
Tariq
Ali
Mullahs
and Heretics
February
6, 2002
Amira
Hass
On
the Edge of the
Non-Violent Demonstrations
Vivian
Berger
Sentenced
to Rape
Vladimir Georgiyev
Russian Intelligence:
War on Iraq Begins in Sept.
Tom Turnipseed
"Axis
of Evil" a Cover for Corporate Corruption?
David
Vest
The
Enron Creature
February
5, 2002
Norman
Madarasz
Dispatch
from Pôrto Alegre
Tom Malinowski
What
to do with
Our "Detainees"?
Dita Sari
Why
I Rejected the
Reebok Human Rights Award
February
4, 2002
Eric Miller/Beth
Daley
Five
Weapons Systems
That Bilk the Taxpayers
Kenneth
Roth
Dear
Condoleezza,
You've Misstated the
Geneva Convention
Robert
Jensen
The
Occupation Must End
Shahid
Alam
How
Different Are
Islamic Societies?
David
Vest
Everybody
Says I Loathe You
John Chuckman
American
Politics of Grief
February
3, 2002
Zoltan
Grossman
War
and New Military Bases
February
2, 2002
Francis
Schor
Carlucci's
Strange Career
February
1, 2002
Dr. Susan
Block
The
Great Ashcroft Cover Up
Jeremy
Voas
Why
We're Suing Ashcroft
David
Vest
10
Things I Know About Him
January
31, 2002
Rahul
Mahajan
The
State of the Union:
A New Cold War
Dave Marsh
Miles
Copeland, War
and the Future of Music
John Pilger
The
Colder War
Alexander
Cockburn
American
Journal:
Killer Dog, Weird Couple
Dr. Susan
Block
Blowback
and Daniel Pearl
January
30, 2002
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Linda
Lay, Hill and Knowlton and the Tears of a Clown
Jack McCarthy
Free
Noelle Bush!
Michael
Ratner
Memo
to Bush: Adhere to
the Geneva Convention
Jay Moore
Proud
to be an American?
Susan
Block
The
Great Pretzel Swallower
and Guantanamo Porn
January
29, 2002
Gary Leupp
Why
This War Was, and Remains, Utterly Wrong
Alexander
Cockburn
The
Birds of Kandahar
Patrick
Cockburn
Afghan
Opium Trade
Back in Business
January
28, 2002
Larry
Chin
Brosnahan
for the Defense
Mokhiber/Weissman
Tyranny
of the Bottom Line
George
E. Curry
Civil
Rights Nominee Called Affirmative Action "Racist"
Sen. Russ
Feingold
Campaign
Finance Reform?
Think Enron
John Chuckman
Liberal?
Media?
A Photographic Journal of Life
in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann
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February 13,
2002
Bush's Folly:
Arrogance of
Arms Abroad and Access to Avarice at Home
by Tom Turnipseed
The European Union commissioner in charge of international
relations attacked U.S. foreign policy under the Bush Administration
as having a dangerously "absolutist and simplistic"
attitude toward our allies and other members of the global community.
Chris Patten, the EU commissioner, who is a former Conservative
Party chairman in Britain, also told a London newspaper that
it was time for EU governments to speak up and stop the U.S.
before it goes into "unilateralist overdrive". In an
interview with the Guardian, Mr. Patten was particularly incensed
by President Bush's characterization of Iran, Iraq, and North
Korea as an "axis of evil" in his State of the Union
address. He described the phrase as very "unhelpful"
and hard to believe as a "thought-through policy".
The European Union is working on a trade and cooperation agreement
with Iran and Mr. Patten emphasized that the long-standing European
policy of "constructive engagement" with Iranian moderates
and North Korea is more likely to bring results than the increasingly
belligerent tone of Washington.
The European leader was critical of Washington's
insistence on destroying terrorism but not in ending terrorism's
causes. He said that "smart bombs have their place but smart
development assistance seems to me even more significant".
Patten said the dramatic success of the U.S.-led military operation
in Afghanistan has fed a new U.S. mood of "intense triumphalism"
and he encouraged the EU states to go their own way on global
issues from climate change to the Middle East.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia was
also critical of Bush's "axis of evil" rhetoric as
applied to Iraq, and warned against the U.S. going it alone against
Iraq. Putin told Wall Street Journal reporters in the Kremlin
that Iraq is "completely different" from Afghanistan
and must not become a target for unilateral U.S. military action.
Russia has billions invested in the economy of Iraq and Mr. Putin
said that Russia was willing to work on "problems"
through the United Nations, where Russia has a permanent seat
on the Security Council, but such "problems cannot be solved
by one country alone".
The Wall Street Journal also reported
from northern Iraq, where the country's 3.6 million Kurds reside,
that the Kurdish population is wary of joining with the U.S.
in military action against Iraq because the Kurds are prospering
now. The region's minister of reconstruction said, "It's
a golden age. It has never been better for the Kurds in 4,000
years". The Kurds want assurances that they will receive
formalization of their current autonomy but the U.S. will not
give them such assurances because of Turkey's bitter opposition.
The Kurds would like to see Saddam Hussein deposed but they also
remember that the U.S. turned its back on them in 1991 after
promising them protection as we also did in 1975 after covertly
supporting their rebellion. Massoud Barzani, the leader of one
of the two Kurdish regions in northern Iraq said, "We will
not be a party to any project that will endanger what we have
achieved".
In an article headlined "Armed to
the Teeth" the London Observer questions the "awesome
increase" in military spending championed by Bush when the
U.S. now "enjoys military and cultural power unrivaled since
the days of the Roman emperors". It reports that Paul Kennedy
of Yale University estimates the U.S. is already responsible
for 40% of the world's military spending-the equivalent of more
each year than the next 9 largest national defense budgets combined.
As the U.S. budget is busted by buying such wasteful weaponry,
the Enron collapse is causing a crisis in confidence in corporate
accounting for investors who won't take the risks if they don't
believe the numbers.
Our government's capability to curb corporate
fraud and corruption was the issue when my U.S. Senator, Fritz
Hollings, called for a Special Counsel to investigate Enron and
said he had never "witnessed a corporation so extraordinarily
committed to buying government" in his 35 years in the Senate.
In the past ten years Enron gave contributions to 186 House members
and 71 Senators, including $3,500 to Hollings. In the 2000 election,
Enron gave over $700,000 to Mr. Bush and the Republicans. Senator
Hollings candidly criticized the increasingly prevalent practice
of corporate America "buying" our government with campaign
contributions and cited serious conflicts of interest at the
Justice Department and White House that justify the appointment
of a Special Counsel. Aftershocks from the biggest bankruptcy
in history at Enron caused questioning of accounting practices
and market jitters that led to the bankruptcy of other companies
like Global Crossing, the 4th largest in U. S. history with rumors
rampant of more to come. Senator Hollings described a top executive's
suicide, the shredding of documents, and the taking of the 5th
Amendment by other top executives as more of the "extraordinary
circumstances" under which a Special Counsel can also be
appointed.
The U.S. House of Representatives is
taking up the Shays-Meehan Bill that is a step toward campaign
finance reform by limiting large amounts of unlimited donations
known as soft money. The White House is embroiled in the Enron
imbroglio of campaign contribution corruption and needs cover
on the bill. White House operatives are using the Republican
Party, led by its chairman and former Enron lobbyist, Marc Racicot,
in a back door attempt to scuttle the bill by encouraging Republican
House members to make "poison pill" amendments that
will finally weaken or kill the bill outright. The arrogant administration
of George W. Bush is killing confidence in our government at
home and abroad.
In Tehran, Iran, where just months ago
pro-Western demonstrators marched and shouted "death to
the mullahs", millions of marchers galvanized by Bush's
"axis of evil" comments chanted "death to America"
and "death to Bush".
Tom Turnipseed
is an attorney, writer and civil rights activist in Columbia,
South Carolina. http://www.turnipseed.net
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