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October 22
/ 24, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
You
Can't Blame Nader for This
October 21,
2004
Ben Tripp
The
Undecided Voter Examined
Joshua Frank
Kerry
and the Environment:
It's Not Easy Pretending to be Green
Stan Cox
What
the Left Doesn't Get About Small Businesses
Bill Martinez
State
Depart and Cuban Visas: Only Anti-Castro Agitators Need Apply
Mark Engler
The War and Globalization
Lina Britto
and Lucia Suarez
Bolivia:
a Year After the October Insurrection
Website of the Day
Two Pampered Children of Wealth
October 20,
2004
Yitzhak Laor
"Did
You Two Squabble?": a Bullet Fired for Every Palestinian
Child
Jason Leopold
Sinclair
Broadcasting's Air War: a Long History of Journalistic Deception
Jesse Sharkey
A
Teacher's Account of How Military Recruiters Prey on High School
Students
Col. Dan Smith
Choking
Free Speech About the Draft
Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
Using My Religion
David Vest
If
Bush Wins, Blame Me
Jack Random
The Jackson 17: Reflections on a Mutiny
Ron Jacobs
Time
to Kick It Up a Notch
James Brittain
Plan Patriota and the FARC: a Change in the Countryside?
Christopher
Dols
Bombing Madison: Michael Moore's Fright Fest
Dave Lindorff
First They Came for the Nurses...
Website of
the Day
Banana Republican Catalogue
October 19,
2004
Jeff Taylor
Confessions
of a Swing State Voter
Matt Vidal
American
Myopia: "More Money in Your Pocket"
Victor Kattan
"It's Not Who You're Against; It's Who You're For":
Palestine Takes Center Stage At Euro Social Forum
William Loren
Katz
What Goes Around Comes Around
Sean Carter
O'Reilly Should Shut Up About Extortion Claiims
CounterPunch Wire
Who's Really in Bed with Republican Funders: Kerry or Nader?
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Party
Favors: the Political Business of Terry McAuliffe
October 18,
2004
Saul Landau
Facts
and Lies; Slogans and Truth
Dave Lindorff
Bulletin
on the Bush Bulge
Diane Christian
Sheep
and Goats: On the Language of Goodness
Greg Bates / Dave Lindorff
Betting on War: a Wager on the Fallout of a Kerry Presidency
Uri Avnery
Ariel
Sharon's Philosophy
Peter LaVenia
Leaving the Greens So Soon? a Response to Josh Frank
Mike Whitney
O'Reilly at the Whipping Post
Elaine Cassel
The Other War: Civil Liberties Three Years After 9/11
October 16
/ 17, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
The
Free Speech Movement and Howard Stern
Leslie Brill
Unmerciful Judge, Merry Executioners: the Death Penalty as the
True Measure of Bush's Character
Jules Rabin
Reckoning Deaths in an Agitated World
Dave Lindorff
About the Bush Bulge: Was There a Pucker in That Jacket or Was
the President Just Glad to be There?
Peter Linebaugh
Judging Judges: a Few Pages from The Mirror of Justices
Gary Leupp
Iran and Syria: How to Effect Regime Change and Expand the Empire
M. Shahid Alam
America, Imagine This!
Ron Jacobs
Trying to Cross Lake Champlain
Fred Gardner
The Flu Vaccine Question: How Bush Blew It
Jenna Orkin
The Toxic Legacy of 9/11
Dave Zirin
Name the DC Baseball Team: Contest Results
David Hamilton
Alone and Exposed: Bush as a Strong Leader?
Ralph Nader
Criticizing Israel is Not Anti-Semitism
Doug Giebel
Thinking the Unthinkable
Mark Engler
Crimes in Freedom's Name: Dick Cheney's El Salvador
Derek Tyner
Blacks Didn't Get the Vote by Voting: an Interview With Clarence
Thomas on the Million Worker March
Evan Jones
Gimme That Ole Time Religion: Cash and "The Mind of the
South"
Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Klipschutz and Albert
Website of
the Weekend
No More Bush Girls
October 15,
2004
Paul Craig
Roberts
Where
Did These "Conservatives" Come From?: The Brownshirting
of America
Laura Carlsen
Wal-Mart
vs. the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon
Greg Bates
Empire of Insanity: Kerry's Iraq Troop Numbers
Michael Donnelly
News from a Swing State: Does Anyone Here Have a Spine?
Katherine Lahey
The Venezuelan "Threat": Why Do Kerry and Bush Fear
Hugo Chavez?
Robert Jensen
/ Pat Youngblood
Election Day Fears
Leah Caldwell
From
Supermax to Abu Ghraib: the Masterminds of Torture and Abuse
Website of
the Day
An Anti-Billionaire Policy? Why That Would Be Economic Racism
October 14,
2004
Darcy Richardson
The
Other Progressive Candidate: the Lonely Crusade of Walt Brown
Willliam A.
Cook
Turning
Myths into Truth
Laura Santina
Water, Women and War
Evelyn Pringle
Free Speech Banned by Big Pharma: What You Can't Say About Drug
Importation
Alan Farago
Lessons
from Nature
Rep. Maxine Waters
A Letter to Colin Powell on Haiti
Nicole Colson
Maimed
for Oil and Empire
October 13,
2004
Bishop Thomas
Gumbleton and Bill Quigley
Aftermath
of a Coup: The Other Disaster in Haiti
Sharon Smith
Barak
O-Bomb-a?: Democrats Target Iran
Christopher Brauchli
God and the Bush Administration
Mike Whitney
The Real Meaning of the Hamdi Case
Paul de Rooij
Amnesty
International: a False Beacon?
Website of
the Day
Operation
Truth
October 12,
2004
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
"Indian
Country"
Greg Bates
The Year of Voting Dangerously: a Survey Request of Nader Voters
in Swing States
Steven Conn
Progressives as Pawns: Kerry's War on Nader
Jason Leopold
Under Cheney, Halliburton Helped Saddam Siphon Billions from
UN Oil-for-Food Program
Security Scholars
for a Sensible Foreign Policy
Time for a Change of Course
Timothy J. Freeman
Dying for a Mistake
Pierre Tristam
Deconstructing Bush
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The 2nd Debate: the Blurring of Act and Audience
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
Israel as Sideshow
Website of the Day
John Kerry's Personal Off-Shore Tax Shelters
October 11,
2004
Robert Fisk
Iraq:
Unforgivable Betrayals and Broken Promises
Kevin Pina
The
Untold Story of Aristide's Departure from Haiti
Patrick Gavin
Rethinking
Columbus Day
Chris Floyd
Tribes with Flags in the New Afghanistan
Daniel Wolff
Radioactive Money: Entergy, Political Cash and America's Most
Dangerous Nuclear Plant
Walter Brasch
The Only Ones Who Believe Saddam Had WMDs are Bush, Cheney...and
40% of All Americans
Mike Whitney
The Phony Afghan Elections: Ballot of the Disappearing Ink
Ari Shavit
"He Talks to Condi Rice Every Day": an Interview with
Sharon's Lawyer
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
Debates and the Big Lie
Website of the Day
Dylan's Greatest Recording?
October 9 /
10, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
"There
Are No Innocents"
Paul de Rooij
Northern Ireland is Still the Issue: a Conversation with Gerry
Adams
M. Shahid Alam
Making Sense of Our Times
Laura Carlsen
Protest and Populism in Latin America
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: ASA Goes to Court
Col. Dan Smith
Bush's Credibility Gap
Paul Craig
Roberts
Faith-Based Economics
Greg Bates
What If Nader Critics Get What They Demand?
Joshua Frank
Cobb, the Greens and the Collapse of the Left
Felice Pace
Wilderness, Politics and the Oligarchy: How the Pew Charitable
Trust is Smothering the Grassroots Environmental Movement
Walter A. Davis
Of Pynchon, Thanatos and Depleted Uranium
William A.
Cook
The Agony of Colin Powell
Phyllis Pollack
Twas No Crank Call Love Affair: London Calling, 25 Years Later
Poets' Basement
Klipschutz, Albert, Ford
Website of the Weekend
Abu Ghraib: the Taguba Annexes
October 8,
2004
Jennifer Loewenstein
The
Israeli Invasion of Gaza
Moshe Adler
Edwards' Gambit: He Hoped No One Would Notice the Similarities
David Swanson
Media Blackout: Press Continues to Ignore Labor's Opposition
to Iraq War
Dave Zirin
CounterPunch Contest: Let's Name the New DC Baseball Team!
Rep. Ron Paul
The Draft is a Form of Slavery
William S. Lind
Keeping Our SA Up
Samar Assad
Kerry v. Bush: No Difference When It Comes to Israel / Palestine
Jim Ingalls
and Sonali Kolhatkar
The Elections in Afghanistan
October 7,
2004
Dave Lindorff
All
Out of Volunteers: A Draft is in the Air
Masha Hamilton
Fear in Kandahar
Christopher
Brauchli
Master of Corruption: the Ripening Scandals of Tom Delay
Jason Leopold
Is There Still Time to Impeach Bush?
Bruce K. Gagnon
Bombing the Panhandle: Fighting the Pentagon in Rural Florida
Meredith Kolodner
Where
is the Urgency?: The Anti-War Movement's Election Year Challenge
October 6,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
"Please,
Dude, Can I Take Them Out?": Targeting Civilians in Fallujah
Ron Jacobs
Going
Nuclear: the Ghost of Edward Teller Lives
Michael Colby
The National Flip-Flop: Suddenly Bush is Unfit to Lead?
Tarif Abboushi
More of the Same: Israel Wins the Debates
Matthew Behrens
Canadian Firms Profit from Iraqi Blood
Mike Whitney
Rethinking WMDs
John Pilger
Stealing Diego Garcia
Ben Tripp
Kerry's "Triumph"
Kevin McKiernan
Cheney's Poison Lab: Wrong Time, Wrong Target
Patrick Cockburn
Elections
Will Not End the Fighting in Iraq
Website of the Day
Is There an Islamic Problem?
October 5,
2004
Anthony Loewenstein
Rupert
Murdoch and the Marginals: "Personally Creating Outcomes"
Mark Clinton
and Tony Udell
The
Suicide of an Iraq War Veteran
Greg Bates
Trading
Idiots: an Open Letter to Eric Alterman
Dave Lindorff
What's
the Frequency, Karl?
Norm Dixon
Why Washington Won't Save Darfur Villagers
Larry Kearney
God Talk and Burning Children
Bill Linville
Dirty Politics in the Land of "Clean" Government
Gary Leupp
What
Edwards Should Ask Cheney
Website of
the Day
A Guide to Halliburton for Tonight's Debate
October 4,
2004
Diane Christian
The
Gates of Hell
Joshua Frank
An Interview with David Cobb
Doug Giebel
Incurious George: What If Bush Didn't Lie?
John Chuckman
Strange Victory: Sen. Obvious and the Pathetic Lump
Ramzy Baroud
Reverse the Picture: Anatomy of a Palestinian Outrage
Julia Stein
Remembering Mario Savio and the FSM
Sean Donahue
Outsourcing
Terror: Kerry and Special Forces
Website of
the Day
Mapping
Mt. St. Helens as She Rocks
October 2 /
3. 2004
Paul Wright
John
Kerry on Criminal Justice
Kathleen and Bill Christison
An Exchange with Israeli Historian Bennie Morris
Kathie Helmkamp
My Son Trent: a Marine Who Doesn't Want to Kill
Phillip Cryan
Indigenous Mobilization in Colombia
Lenni Brenner
The First Ex-Catholic Saint: Memories of Mario Savio
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: In Case You Missed "Montel"
Ron Jacobs
It Did Happen Here: When Neo-Nazis Terrorized Olympia
Ben Tripp
Sticker Shock
William S.
Lind
The Grand Illusion: Iraqi Security Forces
Dave Zirin
The Swindle of the Century: Baseball Comes to DC
Dave Lindorff
Lies from the Great Debate
Luscon Pierre-Charles
Haiti's Elections: a High-Tech Sham is Underway
Zoe Moskovitz
& Sasha Kramer
Separating Lies from Truth About Haiti
Nelson P. Valdes
Habana Night vs. Latin American Scholars in Vegas: 61 Banned
Cuban Academics
Alan Farago
The "Ownership Society" and the End of the Everglades
Nancy Haley
What is the Historical Jesus Trying to Tell Us?
Alex Billet
Long Live The Clash: London Still Calling After 25 Years
Steve Fesenmaier
Save and Burn: The War on Libraries
Poets' Basement
Smith, Holt, Albert
October 1,
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Steve Breyman
Kerry's
Missed Opportunities
Rose Gentle
My
Son Died for a Lie
Lee Sustar
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Ralph Nader
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"Hurt
the People Who Vote For Us"
Kerrynomics:
Seems Like Old Times
By
GREG BATES
Robert Pollin's excellent Contours
of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global
Austerity provides a snapshot of Clintonomics that should
be required reading for those in the anybody-but-Bush school.
It's a taste of things to come. Pollin writes:
"Unlike Clinton, Bush
is unabashed in his efforts to mobilize the power of government
to serve the wealthy. But we should be careful not to make too
much of such differences in the public stances of these two figures,
as against the outcomes that prevail during their terms of office.
It was under Clinton that the distribution of wealth in the U.S.
became more skewed than it had been at any previous time in the
past forty years-with, for example, the ratio of wages for the
average worker to the pay of the average CEO rising astronomically
from 113 to 1 in 1991 under Bush-1 to 449 to 1 when Clinton left
office in 2001."
Such skewing was conscious
policy, as will be reviewed momentarily. Pollin reports that
Clinton's tax policy did reverse some of the regressive taxation
under Reagan but not all of it. And, he notes, "The fact
is that, insofar as the end of the Cold War yielded any peace
dividend under Clinton, it took the form of an overall decrease
in the size of the federal government rather than an increase
in federal support for the programs supposedly cherished by Clinton,
such as better education, improved training, or poverty alleviation."
Pollin allows that the Earned
Income Tax Credit (EITC), the most significant initiative under
Clinton, more than doubled from $9.3 billion to $26.8 billion
during his two terms. But food stamps,
"dropped by $8.5 billiona
decline reflecting a large increase in the percentage of households
who are not receiving food assistance even though their income
level is low enough for them to qualify. Under Clinton's presidency,
the decline in the number of people receiving food stamps-9.8
million-was 17 percent greater than the decline in the number
of people officially defined as impoverished, and was accompanied
by a dramatic increase in the pressure on private soup kitchens
and food pantries.
"And while the EITC does correct some of the failings of
the old welfare system, it has created new, and equally serious
problems. Moving poor and unskilled women from welfare onto the
labor market exerts a downward pressure on wages, and the national
minimum wage itself is too low to allow even a full-time worker
to keep just herself and only one child above the official poverty
line."
But wasn't Clintonomics the
policy that created boom times? Poverty did decline under Clinton
by almost 4 percentage points. Yet, as Pollin explains, in the
prosperity of the 1990s, this small drop back to the level it
was in 1974 is reprehensible: "Per capita GDP in 2000 was
70% higher than it was in 1974, productivity was 61% higher,
and the stock market was up 603%."
Clinton's presidency did see
a stop to the declining wages from 1993 to 1996, according to
Pollin. And in the next 3 years wages rose sharply. But,
"the real wage gains were
also, in turn, largely a result of the stock market bubble.
The Clinton economy of the late 1990s, whose successes were so
heavily dependent on the stock market, offers little guidance
as to what such an alternative path to sustained improvements
in real wages might be.
"Moreover, conditions under Clinton worsened among those
officially counted as poor. This is documented through data on
the so called "poverty gap," which measures the amount
of money needed to bring all poor people exactly up to the official
poverty line. The poverty gap rose from $1,538 to $1,620 from
1993-99 (measured in 2001 dollars)."
The good news is both not so
good and not repeatable. As Pollin points out in his chapter
"The Down Side of Fabulous":
"The conclusion is clear:
the overall rise in consumption spending in the Clinton years-which
was itself central to the economy's overall growth in this period-was
driven almost entirely by an enormous increase in consumption
by the country's richest households, tied to the similar formidable
increase in wealth for those households."
Pollin makes clear that the
modicum of good news was temporary, unsustainable, and costly.
"The stratospheric rise in stock prices and debt-financed
consumption and investment booms produced a mortgaged legacy.
The financial unraveling had begun even as Clinton was basking
in praise for his economic stewardship."
But how can we blame Clinton
for the stock market boom? As Pollin shows, Federal Reserve Chairman
Alan Greenspan not only knew of the "irrational exuberance"
of the market back in 1996, but in minutes of a September 1996
meeting stated that, "I guarantee that if you want to get
rid of the bubble[raising margin requirements on stock speculators
to lower how much they can borrow] will do it." But Greenspan,
like Clinton, was not willing to confront Wall Street. Instead,
the Clinton administration and the Fed presented a united front
in advancing across-the-board financial deregulation in the name
of market efficiency and modernization.
The yawning gap in wealth distribution
was by design. Quoting from Bob Woodward's The Agenda,
Pollin reports that:
Clinton himself acknowledged
only weeks after winning the election that "We're Eisenhower
Republicans here We stand for lower deficits, free trade, and
the bond market. Isn't that great?" Clinton further conceded
during this same period that with his new policy focus "we
help the bond market and we hurt the people who voted us in."
Just as Bush's personnel were
key players in past Republican administrations and therefore
represent no real break with the past, a Kerry administration
would employ key players from Clinton's administration. As discussed
later key members of the team-Roger C. Altman, Gene Sperling,
and Sarah Bianchi who worked for Gore-are mapping out the Kerry
economy.
Kerry's economic policy shows
the promise of moving the country rightward, just as Clinton's
did. In fact, Kerry is running right so fast that he's running
against the promises he made during the primaries. In a May 3,
2004 interview with the Wall Street Journal, he proclaimed
that he was scaling back some promises in an effort to woo business.
These "involved paring earlier proposals to expand college-tuition
subsidies and provide aid to state governments, to help achieve
the higher priority of halving the federal deficit in four years,"
the Journal reports. Regardless of what one thinks of
this particular trade-off, it is yet another sign that, in his
bid for the presidency, nothing is safe.
Another example of Kerry's
rightward push is his orientation toward the bond market. As
mentioned earlier, Clinton admitted his rightwing position in
saying that he was helping that market while hurting his voters.
With Kerry, we are already one step farther right, and the guy
hasn't even been elected yet. As the Wall Street Journal
concluded that May 3 article:
Liberals worry that, in the
White House, Mr. Kerry is likely to tack even further toward
the center. Some on the left complain Mr. Kerry is already doing
so-undercutting the populism that was a key part of Mr. Clinton's
1992 campaign. "The risk is that he's going to run the way
Clinton governed, rather than the way Clinton ran," says
Robert Kuttner, editor of the liberal American Prospect.
"No president ever got elected by promising to appease the
bond market."
Kerry's advisors make clear
where his presidency would take us. As the New York Times
headlined March 28, 2004, it's "A Kerry Team, A Clinton
Touch." Four people are at the heart of the team. Roger
C. Altman was a deputy Treasury secretary in the early Clinton
years who got derailed by the Whitewater scandal and resigned.
He's back, having invigorated his wallet with stock market wealth.
The three other team members are Jason Furman, an economist trained
at Harvard, Gene Sperling, who served under Clinton for all of
the eight years, and Sarah Bianchi who served as Al Gore's health
care specialist and later policy advisor during the 2000 campaign.
And the man in the wings is Clinton's former secretary of the
Treasury. "This group is consulting literally daily with
Bob Rubin," Altman told the Times.
"The right tax code will
spark job creation at home," Sperling claimed. Gone is any
whiff of aid to the poor, any sense that government could reinvigorate
the New Deal politics of FDR, which long ago sought to employ
people directly instead of paying companies to do it indirectly-the
latter being at greater cost to the taxpayer per job created,
and a far more dicey form of insuring the economic health of
the country.
Another principle is that "New
spending must be offset by cuts in existing spending," the
Times reported. Kerry has made clear that spending on
Defense and Homeland Security will continue to outpace inflation;
the growth of these sectors will impose draconian fiscal discipline
on the rest of the government if Kerry were to keep his pledge
of balancing the budget.
The article also reveals what
John Kerry really means by healthcare for all. Not single payer
insurance, by far the most cost efficient and most effective
means for insuring access to health care for all-favored by most
Americans. Instead, money will be shoveled to corporations: "federal
subsidies for some aspects of corporate health insurance,"
the Times reports. The Wall Street Journal, May
3, 2004, quotes Kerry as saying about his health care subsidies,
"I would think American business would jump up and down
and welcome what I am offering."
The Wall Street Journal
explained further in a sober-eyed analysis of the two candidates
just before that third debate. On October 13, the paper reported:
"Mr. Kerry balances his
support for new government programs with a Clintonian bow to
limits on government action. His health-care plan eschews regulatory
mandates and is heavy on market-based incentives: It gives uninsured
people tax credits to buy into existing plans, and encourages
companies to lower health-care charges for employees by having
the government subsidize their most expensive cases."
Returning to the Times
article, regulation of outsourcing is out the window, the only
hope for actually addressing the more pernicious effects of globalization's
race to find the cheapest worker. Instead, Kerry will "provide
tax rebates to manufacturers that add jobs in the United States."
And he would cut corporate taxes-already at astonishing low levels-by
5%. It could be a nice tax break-offset in part by forcing companies
with overseas income to pay tax on it immediately instead of
deferring it indefinitely. Then, to cut the deficit by $250 billion,
Kerry will reinstate the tax rates Bush cut on those households
earning over $200,000 a year. Sounds good, but there is no plan
to cut back on Bush's bloated Defense and Homeland Security spending.
Kerry claims he can save tens of billions a year by ending some
corporate welfare subsidies. But ending deficit spending while
increasing the Defense and Homeland Security budgets would be
devastating nonetheless. Progressives, arguing we must vote Kerry
to "stop the pain," should consider exactly what they
are voting for. Lest there be any question whether Kerry's presidency
would be a move to the right for the economy, Altman clarifies
that "It is a credible, enforceable pledge that will position
Kerry to the right of Bush on fiscal policy."
In the third presidential debate,
Kerry promised to level the playing field for the American worker,
but put the matter bluntly:
"Outsourcing is going
to happen. I've acknowledged that in union halls across the country.
I've had shop stewards stand up and say, "Will you promise
me you're going to stop all this outsourcing? "And I've
looked them in the eye and I've said, "No, I can't do that."
"
The Wall Street Journal pointed out (October 13),
"In practice, both men
are free traders, and their rhetoric exaggerates their differences.
Both support a new global trade pact, as well as one for the
Western hemisphere. Mr. Kerry says he would review all existing
trade pacts in the first 120 days of his administration to ensure
their fairness, but it's nearly inconceivable that he would pull
out of any of them because of the havoc that would cause the
trading system."
Returning to the band of merry
men and women who are designing Kerrynomics, is there any shred
of remorse over what these policy wonks did while they worked
for Clinton? Any hope that we can escape the accelerated transfer
of wealth to the rich, that, as mentioned, went from a CEO-to-worker
ratio of 113 to 1 to 449 to 1 during Clinton's reign? Bianchi
was asked in general terms about the relationship between Kerry
and the Clinton years, and framed it this way, "The Clinton-Gore
administration had a fantastic record on the economy, and John
Kerry supported their plan. It's a logical place for him to be
philosophically."
Greg Bates is the founding publisher at Common
Courage Press and author of Ralph's
Revolt: The Case For Joining Nader's Rebellion. He can be
reached at gbates@commoncouragepress.com.
Weekend
Edition Features for October 16 / 17, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
The
Free Speech Movement and Howard Stern
Leslie Brill
Unmerciful Judge, Merry Executioners: the Death Penalty as the
True Measure of Bush's Character
Jules Rabin
Reckoning Deaths in an Agitated World
Dave Lindorff
About the Bush Bulge: Was There a Pucker in That Jacket or Was
the President Just Glad to be There?
Peter Linebaugh
Judging Judges: a Few Pages from The Mirror of Justices
Gary Leupp
Iran and Syria: How to Effect Regime Change and Expand the Empire
M. Shahid Alam
America, Imagine This!
Ron Jacobs
Trying to Cross Lake Champlain
Fred Gardner
The Flu Vaccine Question: How Bush Blew It
Jenna Orkin
The Toxic Legacy of 9/11
Dave Zirin
Name the DC Baseball Team: Contest Results
David Hamilton
Alone and Exposed: Bush as a Strong Leader?
Ralph Nader
Criticizing Israel is Not Anti-Semitism
Doug Giebel
Thinking the Unthinkable
Mark Engler
Crimes in Freedom's Name: Dick Cheney's El Salvador
Derek Tyner
Blacks Didn't Get the Vote by Voting: an Interview With Clarence
Thomas on the Million Worker March
Evan Jones
Gimme That Ole Time Religion: Cash and "The Mind of the
South"
Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Klipschutz and Albert
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