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Now Available from CounterPunch for Only $11.50 (S/H Included) Today's Stories February 4, 2004 Brian McKinlay Bush's Australian Deputy: Howard's Last Round Up? February 3, 2004 Alan Maass The Dems' New Mantra: What They Really Mean by "Electability" Nick Halfinger How the Other Half Lives: Embedded in Iraq Rahul Mahajan Our True Intelligence Failure Neve Gordon The Only Democracy in the Middle East? Laura Carlsen Mexico: Two Anniversaries; Two Futures Jordan Green Democratic Patronage in Northern New Mexico Terry Lodge An Open Letter to Michael Powell from the Boobs & Body Parts Fairness Campaign Hammond Guthrie Investigating the Meaningless Website of the Day Waging Peace   February 2, 2004 Gary Leupp The Buddhist Nun in Tom Ridge's Jail Justin E.H. Smith The Manners of Their Deaths: Capital Punishment in a Smoke-Free Environment Tom Wright The Prosecution of Captain Yee Winslow Wheeler Inside the Bush Defense Budget Lee Ballinger Janet Jackson's Naked Truth Leonard Pitts, Jr For Blacks, the Game of Justice is Rigged Jeffrey St. Clair The Hollow Candidate: The Trouble with Howard Dean Website of the Day Resistance: In the Eye of the American Hegemon Jan. 31 / Feb 1, 2004 Paul de Rooij For Whom the Death Tolls: Deliberate Undercounting of Coalition Fatalities Bernard Chazelle Bush's Desolate Imperium Jack Heyman Bushfires on the Docks Christopher Reed Broken Ballots Michael Donnelly An Urgent Plea to Progressives: Don't Give in to Fear Rob Eshelman The Subtle War Lee Sustar Palestine and the Anti-War Movement George Bisharat Right of Return Ray McGovern Nothing to Preempt Brian Cloughley Enron's Beady-Eyed Sharks Conn Hallinan Nepal, Bush & Real WMDs Kurt Nimmo The Murderous Lies of the Neo-Cons Phillip Cryan Media at the Monterrey Summit Christopher Brauchli A Speech for Those Who Don't Read John Holt War in the Great White North Mickey Z. Clueless in America: When Mikey Met Wesley Mark Scaramella The High Cost of Throwing Away the Key Tariq Ali Farewell, Munif Ben Tripp Waiter! The Reality Check, Please Poets' Basement LaMorticella, Guthrie, Thomas and Albert January 30, 2004 Saul Landau Cuba High on Neo-Con Hit List Michael Donnelly Bush's Second Front: The War in the Woods Elaine Cassel Worse Than Jacko: Child Abuse at Gitmo David Vest More Halliburton News, Brought to You by Halliburton Mike Whitney The Kay Report: Still Defending Aggression David Miller The Hutton Whitewash Sam Husseini How Many People Must Die Because of This "Mistake", Senator Kerry? January 29, 2004 Patricia Nelson Limerick John Ehrlichman, Environmentalist Ron Jacobs Homeland Security and "Legalized" Immigration Rahul Mahajan New Hampshire v. Iraq Greg Weiher Bush Calls for Preemptive Strike on Moon and Mars Norman Solomon The State of the Media Union Cockburn / St. Clair Does NH Mean Anything?   January 28, 2004 Kathy Kelly Bearing Witness Against Teachers of Torture and Assassination     January 27, 2004 Steve Philion Ritter Was Right: My Exchange with CNN's Aaron Brown Daniel Ellsberg Leak Against This War: Expose the Lies from the Inside C.G. Estabrook Can George Ever Really be Elected President? Josh Frank Hot Coals in Vermont: Dean's Smoke Screens Greg Moses Racism 101 All Over Again Gilad Atzmon Blood, Soil and Art Mike Ferner "We're All Lied To": an Interview with Bruce Cockburn in Baghdad Hammond Guthrie General Disorders of the Day   January 26, 2004 Sean Donahue The Toxic Career of Rand Beers: Kerry's Drug War Zealot Gary Leupp David Kay's Admission January 24/5, 2004 Patrick Cockburn Iraq's Shia: "Our Day Has Come" Laura Flanders State of the Conservative Union Simon Helweg-Larsen Enter Berger: Signs of Hope in Guatemala Dave Lindorff Ground Control to Maj. George Susan Davis The Birdwatcher Menace Alexander Cockburn The Fog of Cop Out: McNamara 10, Morris 0   January 23, 2004 Yonathan Shapira An Israeli Pilot Speaks Out Standard Schaefer Italian Philosopher Giorgio Agamben Protests US Travel Policy Josh Frank In Defense of Polluters: Howard Dean's Vermont William A. Cook Rule by the Corrupt and the Capricious   January 22, 2004 Sam Smith Howards End? Patricia Koyce Wanniski Lost in Space Alexander Lukin Putin and the Clans Katherine van Wormer Dry Drunk Confirmed: O'Neill's Revelations and Bush's Mind Forrest Hylton The Prisoner, the President and the Mafia   January 19, 2004 Justin E. H. Smith Inside America's Prisons: From Corrections to Retribution Richard W. Behan The GOP, Inc. Ray McGovern Bush's State of the Union: Humility or More Hyperbole? Werther SOTUS: the Stalin Moment of America's Nomenklatura Phillip Cryan Media Collusion in Colombia's War Lee Sustar A New Strategy to Reverse Labor's Decline? Arthur Versluis Great Lakes as Commodity: Privatizing Water Uri Avnery Anti-Semitism: a Practical Manual Steve Perry Fresh Crack from Hawkeye State   January 17 / 18, 2004 Fadi Kiblawi and Will Youmans The Use and Abuse of MLK Jr by Israel's Apologists Joshua Muldavin and Joseph Nevins Blaming the Symptoms Jeffrey St. Clair Bad Days at Indian Point: Inside America's Most Dangerous Nuclear Plant Brian Cloughley Iron Hammers in Iraq Saul Landau Fog of War: Vietnam and Iraq M. Shahid Alam Lerner, Said and the Palestinians Richard Manning Food Poisoning as Background Noise Marjorie Cohn The Guantanamo Concentration Camp Mike Whitney Scalia and Opus Dei: Radicals on the Court Sadik Kassim Meet Our New Saddam: Islam Karimov Carol Norris Arnold and Bush's Numbers Don't Add Up Joe Quandt Suicide Bombers: The Clash of Absurdities David Krieger Imagining MLK Jr at 75 Bruce Jackson Making War, Making Movies Ron Jacobs Revolution in the Air: a review Richard Edmondson Rupert Murdoch and My Sister Richard Forno Apologizing for Preemption: Evil, Perle and Frum Poets' Basement Holt, Mickey Z, Albert & Guthrie   January 16, 2004 Kathy Kelly A Visit to Umm Qasr Prison William S. Lind More Thoughts on 4th Generation Warfare Gillian Russom So. Cal Grocery Strikers Speak Out: "We Need Action!" Ari Shavit Survival of the Fittest? An Interview with Benny Morris Adi Ophir Genocide Hides Behind Expulsion: a Response to Benny Morris Dave Lindorff The General's Henchman: Michael Moore Smears Kucinich Steve Perry Iowa Death Trip 2   January 15, 2004 Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Memo to the President: Your State of the Union Address John Chuckman Dry Hole in the Oval Office: President from Podunk Drilling, Inc Chris Floyd Mind Over Matter Gil-Scott Heron Whitey on the Moon Gary Leupp The Silk Road: Random Thoughts on the Bam Earthquake and Satan     January 14, 2004 Greg Moses Happy Birthday, Dr. King: To Write Off the South is to Surrender to Bigots Kurt Nimmo Bush and the Supremes: Amputating the Bill of Rights Dave Lindorff Preview of Iowa? Pennsylvania Straw Poll Spells Trouble for Traditional Dems (and Dean) Jason Leopold O'Neill Claims Backed by Rumsfeld / Wolfowitz War Letters to Clinton Alexander Cockburn Bush, Oil and Iraq: Some Truth at Last     January 13, 2004 William S. Lind How 2004 Looks from Potsdam M. Junaid Alam Do Iraqis Have a Right to Resist? Mickey Z Snipers: No Nuts in Iraq Adolfo Gilly Chonchocoro: The Prisoner and the Presidents Steve Perry You Love God, Right?                   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. Prison Bitch Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber True Lies: the Use of Propaganda in the Iraq War Wendell Berry Small Destructions Add Up CounterPunch Wire WMD: Who Said What When Cindy Corrie A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter I Can't Hear From Gore Vidal The Erosion of the American Dream Francis Boyle Impeach Bush: A Draft Resolution Click Here for More Stories.     Subscribe Online Search CounterPunch

February 4, 2004 From Death Row, San Quentin This is Not My Execution & I Will Not Claim It By KEVIN COOPER I, Kevin Cooper, am writing this from death row at San Quentin Prison. I am scheduled to be the next Black man executed by the state of California on February 10th, 2004. While I am an innocent man about to be murdered by this state, I realize that innocence makes no difference to the people who control the criminal justice system, including this prison. This is the same system that has historically and systematically executed men, women and children who look just like me, if only because they can. While it is my life that will be taken, and my body filled with poison, I will not say that this is my execution! That's because it is not, it is just a continuation of the historic system of capital punishment that all poor people all over this world have been and are subjected to. To personalize this crime against humanity as "my execution" would be to ignore the universal plight, struggle and murder of poor people all over this planet we call Earth. Thi! s I cannot and will not do! I will be murdered by the state with my understanding that this crime of evil is something that happens to men like me in this country. Especially when we are convicted (wrongfully, in my situation) of killing white people! If I must be murdered by the state, then I will do so with my dignity in tact. This guilt that the criminal justice system has put on me will be questioned by anyone and everyone who finds out the whole truth of this case. In Struggle, From Death Row at San Quentin Prison, Kevin Cooper For more on the Cooper case visit: www.savekevincooper.org/   Weekend Edition Features for February 1, 2004 Paul de Rooij For Whom the Death Tolls: Deliberate Undercounting of Coalition Fatalities Bernard Chazelle Bush's Desolate Imperium Jack Heyman Bushfires on the Docks Christopher Reed Broken Ballots Michael Donnelly An Urgent Plea to Progressives: Don't Give in to Fear Rob Eshelman The Subtle War Lee Sustar Palestine and the Anti-War Movement George Bisharat Right of Return Ray McGovern Nothing to Preempt Brian Cloughley Enron's Beady-Eyed Sharks Conn Hallinan Nepal, Bush & Real WMDs Kurt Nimmo The Murderous Lies of the Neo-Cons Phillip Cryan Media at the Monterrey Summit Christopher Brauchli A Speech for Those Who Don't Read John Holt War in the Great White North Mickey Z. Clueless in America: When Mikey Met Wesley Mark Scaramella The High Cost of Throwing Away the Key Tariq Ali Farewell, Munif Ben Tripp Waiter! The Reality Check, Please Poets' Basement LaMorticella, Guthrie, Thomas and Albert Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /