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Now Available from CounterPunch for Only $11.50 (S/H Included) Today's Stories February 28 / 29, 2004 Stephen Green Serving Two Flags: Neo-Cons, Israel and the Bush Team Mike Whitney Dismantle the Military Goliath   February 27, 2004 Thomas C. Mountain A White Jesus During Black History Month? Laura Carlsen Americans Abroad: Bush is Persona Non Grata John B. Anderson Nader's Campaign Brings Back Memories: Creating an Open Electoral Process Jason Leopold Spying on Kofi Annan John Chuckman Nader, Risk and Hope Standard Schaefer An Interview with Michael Hudson on Putin's Russia Ray McGovern Punished for Honest Intelligence Saul Landau The Haiti Redux Website of the Day Bush: Why I'm Running for Re-election   February 26, 2004 Brandy Baker Is Nader on to Something? Jacques Kinau AEI to Colombia: "Can't Give You Anything But Guns, Baby" Norman Solomon Bugging Kofi Annan: UN Spying and the Evasions of US Journalism Greg Weiher A Purloined Letter: the Zarqawi Gambit Walt Brasch Janet Jackson, Bush & No. 542: There are No Halftime Shows in War Shadi Hamid The Music World Explodes in Anger Norman Madarasz As Canadian as Corruption Chris Floyd Bullets and Ballots Virginia Tilly The Deeper Meaning of the Wall Amy Goodman / Jeremy Scahill Haiti's Lawyer Says US is Arming Haiti's Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries Website of the Day Clear Channel Sucks February 25, 2004 Dr. Susan Block Saddam's Sex Therapist and the Rape of Free Speech Bruce Anderson Treacherous Bastards: The Greens and the Dems and Nader Ron Jacobs Our Power is on the Streets and in Our Hearts Mike Whitney Bush and Gay America: the Politics of Duplicity Sam Husseini Jesus in 100 Words John L. Hess Kick Off or Flub? Sam Hamod Bush's Newest Red Herring Cockburn / St. Clair Winning with Nader Website of the Day VotePact February 24, 2004 Ralph Nader Why I'm Running for President Greg Moses Rally the Mob! Bush, Gay Marriage and the Constitution Douglas O'Hara The Merchants of Fear: Smearing Nader Phillip Cryan Frozen in Time: The WSJ's Paranoid Lens on Latin America David Lindorff John Kerry's China Connection Jason Leopold Cheney's Shame: Halliburton Faces New Charges Gary Younge Haiti: Throttled by History Kromm, Masri & Purohit Why No Democracy in Iraq? Steve Perry Tangled Up in Red and Blue: Beware the Electoral College February 23, 2004 Neve Gordon Israel's Apartheid Wall on Trial at The Hague Kurt Nimmo Richard Perle, Executioner: "Heads Should Roll" Jonathan Franklin US Soldier Seeks Refugee Status in Canada Al Krebs The Liberal "Intelligentsia" v. Nader Josh Frank Nader's Nadir? Not a Chance Bruce Jackson Nader, Another View: "He's as Evil as Bush" Gary Leupp A Misguided Attack, The Passion, Rabbi Lerner and the Gospels February 20 / 22, 2004 Cockburn / St. Clair Kerry: He's Peaking Already! Derek Seidman Chasing Judith Miller from the Stage: Watch Her Run! Ghada Karmi Sharon is not the Problem Vanessa Jones This Week in Redfern, a Boy Dies, Chased by Cops Ben Granby Anatomy of a Night Raid on Balad, Iraq John Holt An Air That Kills: Greed, Apathy, Dead People Saul Landau Entry from a White House Diary Tom Jackson Why They Couldn't Wait to Invade Iraq Frederick B. Hudson Slave Power and the Constitution: Jefferson, Slaves, Haiti and Hypocrisy Roger Burbach Argentina Fights Back Kate Doyle Lessons on Justice from Guatemala Mike Whitney Operation Enduring Misery: the Afghanistan Debacle Greg Moses What Gives Texas A&M the Right to Trample the Civil Rights Act? David Krieger US Elections: an Opportunity to Debate Nuclear Weapons Sam Bahour Palestinian Issue Riddles Bush's Budget David Grenier You Could Get 10 Years in Prison Just for Reading This Charles Sullivan Corporatism vs. Single Party Politics Poet's Basement Hilda White, Larry Kearney & Stew Albert Website of the Weekend The Rumsfeld Fighting Technique   February 19, 2004 Cecilie Surasky Anti-Semitism at the World Social Forum? That's Not What I Saw Ray McGovern Iraq Hawks and Deceptive Intelligence: Did They Really Think They'd Get Away With It? Tariq Ali How Far Will Bush Go in Iraq? Ralph Nader Whither the Nation? Wayne Madsen Would Kerry Purge the Neo-Cons? Norman Solomon The Collapse of Dean's Cyber-Bubble Christopher Brauchli Cheney, Halliburton and the NYT Mike Whitney Bush's Iraq Strategy: "I Hope They Kill Each Other" Lewis Carroll Bush the Mighty Helmsman from Yale Website of the Day Sex Toy Horoscope   February 18, 2004 William Wilgus Bush: AWOL and Dereliction of Duty William Blum Mush-Minded Liberals Dave Lindorff Bush's China Syndrome Greg Weiher Why is Kerry Getting a Pass? Mike Griffin Killing the Messenger: the AFL-CIO's Attack on Harry Kelber Mark Hand Kerry Tells Peace Movement to "Move On"     February 17, 2004 Mike Ferner The Countryside Murders in Iraq Mokhiber / Weissman Corporation as Psychopath Marjorie Cohn DrakeGate: a Victory for Free Speech Kurt Nimmo Bush's Endgame: a Review of Chalmers Johnson's "Sorrows of Empire" Greg Bates Nader Ambush: a New Low for The Nation Ximena Ortiz A Bush Doctrine, of Sorts Gary Leupp Whatever Happened to Gen. Khazraji? Sen. John Kerry "The Cause of Israel is the Cause of America" Steve Perry Kerry 1, Drudge 0   February 16, 2004 James Johnston Huddling with the Cheeseheads in a NASCAR World Sara Eltantawi To Wear the Hijab or Not Bruce Anderson Kevin Cooper and the Midnight Needle Elaine Cassel Feds on Campus: the Drake Subpoenas Rahul Mahajan Bush, Is the Tide Finally Turning? Kevin Cooper The Ritual of Death Stan Cox Goodbye, Howard Dean Larry David My War Steve Perry Bush and the Guard: the Cover-Up's the Thing Website of the Day Prison Patriots: Help This Vital Film Get Made 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 February 28 / 29, 2004 Laff Box By BOB DAVIES On the way to the bank pockets stuffed with checks from corporate bosses the President's aide laughs it's his secret laugh at his own secret fantasy: The President is listening to a speech he has made to the people whatevers he calls them and in the midst of his most serious words Someone unknown Someone has turned on the laff box. The President frantically switches stations: again same thing laughter at his careful outline of fears we must face. Those difficult declarative sentences are hard for him lined up row on row like beer bottles. Whatevers laughing at the President! Heh, heh, heh the President's man laughs out loud. He can't shoot all their planes down. The whatevers are threatening terror. They don't seem to believe the man. Bob Davies can be reached at: rjdavies@gte.net   Haiti Report By CAROLYN S. SCARR They live, they die before his eyes as in the basement room Pierre recounts the stories he has heard. from distant friends, last seen only two months past. Moise is in hiding don't know where. I hope to hear from him again in a few days. Imprisoned torturers broken free by well-armed friends drag from their homes the witnesses against them. In Gonaïves thirty Lavalas supporters are murdered in one day execution style. Cap-Haitien taken by armed rebels re-taken by its populace. In early morning darkness gunboat enters the harbor heavy arms, new guns. some fighters speaking Spanish Once again Cap-Haitien falls to foreign hands. Old woman's house is burned before her eyes. Her daughter organized bicentennial celebrations -- crime enough. Fighting despair, Pierre recounts the stories he has heard. Carolyn S. Scarr can be reached at: epicalc@earthlink.net (c) 2004 Carolyn S. Scarr, permission to share.   Where We Seem to Be By LARRY KEARNEY I'll tell you where we seem to be. we're trapped in a fold of nowhere with a vicious pissant and a crowd of resentful. would-be torturers. in case there's any doubt. I wanted to mention. too. that the things of Caesar can't be given to Caesar without he break your body. lingeringly. and that he'll do this to your children too. I say this just in case you're tired. like me. and don't much care. anymore. Larry Kearney can be reached at: defoe43@earthlink.net   Fully Free By STEW ALBERT Some days the world doesn't seem worthy of a poem but tears save it for the Muse. Lord Bremer of Baghdad proclaims he is the ultimate power on Iraq's new constitution and nothing offensive to his values will be included because Iraq is now a fully free nation owned and operated exclusively by the West. The Democratic People's Shi'ites also have a nifty proposal, they can all vote in the first fully free elections but not the Sunnis who are just way too chaotic and contentious for something as genteel and sensitive as ruling Iraq. Investigators in Iraq continue to report an absolute absence of Weapons of Mass Democracy no potential for building them, finding instead boundless pain so many unwritten poems. Stew Albert runs the Yippie Reading Room. His memoir, Who the Hell is Stew Albert?, is now available at independent bookstores or from Red Hen Press. For a personally autographed copy, please send a check or money order for $22 (includes s&h) to Stew Albert, Who The Hell. PO Box 13161, Portland OR 97213-0161. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com       Weekend Edition Features for February 20 / 22, 2004 Cockburn / St. Clair Kerry: He's Peaking Already! Derek Seidman Chasing Judith Miller from the Stage: Watch Her Run! Ghada Karmi Sharon is not the Problem Vanessa Jones This Week in Redfern, a Boy Dies, Chased by Cops Ben Granby Anatomy of a Night Raid on Balad, Iraq John Holt An Air That Kills: Greed, Apathy, Dead People Saul Landau Entry from a White House Diary Tom Jackson Why They Couldn't Wait to Invade Iraq Frederick B. Hudson Slave Power and the Constitution: Jefferson, Slaves, Haiti and Hypocrisy Roger Burbach Argentina Fights Back Kate Doyle Lessons on Justice from Guatemala Mike Whitney Operation Enduring Misery: the Afghanistan Debacle Greg Moses What Gives Texas A&M the Right to Trample the Civil Rights Act? David Krieger US Elections: an Opportunity to Debate Nuclear Weapons Sam Bahour Palestinian Issue Riddles Bush's Budget David Grenier You Could Get 10 Years in Prison Just for Reading This Charles Sullivan Corporatism vs. Single Party Politics Poet's Basement Hilda White, Larry Kearney & Stew Albert Website of the Weekend The Rumsfeld Fighting Technique Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /