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April 3 / 5, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Anti-Depressants
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Jeffrey St. Clair
How Neil Bush Succeeded in Business
Without Really Trying
April 2, 2004
Dave Lindorff
Barbaric
Relativism: the Press and Fallujah
Kurt Nimmo
Wherever
Bush Goes, Osama is Bound to Follow
Emma Miller
The
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Dr. Susan Block
Same
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Norman Solomon
Media Strategy Memo for George & Dick
Sacha Guney
The Meaning of the Elections in Turkey
Christopher Brauchli
The
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Website of the Day
Mercenaries, Inc.
April 1, 2004
Ron Jacobs
Dying in Vain in Iraq
Harry Browne
No Smoke, Plenty of Fire: Ireland's Pubs Go Smokefree
Chris Floyd
Towel Boy: Bush Hits Workers with Chemical Weapons
Nicole Colson
Inside America's Concentration Camp: Tortured at Guantanamo
Charles Arthur
Haiti's Army Cracks Down on Workers
Laura Flanders
Elaine
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March 31, 2004
M. Junaid Alam
Israel:
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John L. Hess
Condi
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Fernando Suarez del Solar
A Year
Since My Son's Death in Iraq
Sofia Perez
Spain's
U-Turn on Iraq is Real Democracy in Action
David Vest
Stick 'Em Up: Put Cheney and Bush Under Oath
Tanya Reinhart
As in Tiannamen Square: Justice and the Yassin Assassination
Mike Whitney
Time to Dump the Pledge
Donald Kaul
Martha Stewart's Lesson: Never Talk to the FBI
Milt Bearden
Mired in the Tracks of Alexander the Great
Marjorie Cohn
The Illegal
Coup in Haiti: How the Kidnapping of Aristide Violated US and
International Law
Website of the Day
New Pentagon Papers Dropped at DC Starbucks
March 30, 2004
William S. Lind
An Occurrence
in Pakistan: the Battle That Wasn't
Ron Jacobs
Assassinations, Hate Mail &
Justice
Mickey Z.
Tommy Boy Friedman Does "Imagine"
Neve Gordon
Strategic Motives of the Yassin Assassination
Mark Scaramella
The Founding Scam: Insider Trading is the American Way
John Chuckman
The Countessa of Empire: Condi
Rice's Idea of Democracy
Greg Moses
Live from Pasadena: Silhouettes of New Order
Rai O'Brien
What Kind of Democracy to Expect if the Opposition Takes Power
in Venezuela
Bill Christison
The
9/11 Commission: Dangerous Harbinger for the Future
Website of the Day
Ghost Town: Riding Through Chernobyl
March 29, 2004
John Maxwell
Crisis
in the Caribbean: a Miasma Foretold
J. Michael Springmann
Email
Spying & Attorney Client Privilege
Robert Fisk / Severin
Carrell
Coalition
of the Mercenaries
The Black Commentator
Haiti's Troika of Terror
Doug Giebel
Candide in the Wilderness:
How Bush Policy Was Made
David Krieger
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Bargain
Mike Whitney
Rejecting the Language of Terrorism
Richard Oxman
The Pitts: a 9/11 Burrow of an American
Family
Kim Scipes
The AFL-CIO in Venezuela: Deja Vu All Over Again
Michael Donnelly
End Game for Northwest Forests
Norman Solomon
The Media Politics of 9/11
Kathy Kelly
Last Lines Before Vanishing
Website of the Day
Swans: Can Money Buy Everything?
March 27 / 28, 2004
Jeffrey St. Clair
Empire of the Locusts
Gary Leupp
The Yassin Assassination: Prelude to an Attack on Syria
William A. Cook
The Yassin Assassination: a Monstrous Insanity Blessed by the
US
Faheem Hussain
Some Thoughts on Waziristan: Once and Always a Colonial Army
Elaine Cassel
Is Playing Paintball Terrorism?
Larry Birns / Jessica
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Disturbing Signals: Kerry and Latin America
John Ross
Bush Tells the World: "Drop Dead"
John Eskow
A Memo to Karl Rove from the Hollywood Caucus
Alan Maass
Who Are the Real Terrorists?
Dave Lindorff
Spineless of US Journalists
Joe Bageant
Howling in the Belly of the Confederacy
Dave Zirin
Reasonable Doubt: Why Barry Bonds is Not on Steroids
Craig Waggoner
Who Would Mel's Jesus Nuke?
The Kerry Quandry
Joel Wendland
Marxists
for Kerry
Josh Frank
Scary,
Scary John Kerry
Matt Vidal
Spoilers, Electability and the Poverty of American Democracy
Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Hamod, Guthrie, Davies and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Say a Little Prayer
March 26, 2004
Christopher Brauchli
There's
a Chill Over the Country
Robert Fisk
The Man Who Knew Too Much: the Ordeal
of Mordechai Vanunu
Joe DeRaymond
Democracy in El Salvador? Think Again
Mike Whitney
Lessons on Apartheid from Ariel Sharon
Mickey Z.
Somalia and Iraq: Looking Back and Ahead
Chris Floyd
The Pentagon Archipelago
CounterPunch Photo Wire
Cheney's Close Shave?
John Breneman
Bush's Comic Bomb
Website of the Day
Dick
is a Killer
March 25, 2004
Lee Sustar
Who
is to Blame for Lost Jobs?
Standard Schaefer
An
Interview with Michael Hudson on Offshore Banking Centers
Roger Burbach
Lula vs. the IMF: Brazil Begins
to Throw Off the Austerity Planners
Jimmer Endres
Elections Without Politics: The Military Budget Is Not an "Issue"
Larry Tuttle
Acting in Your Name: Identity Theft and Public Interest Groups
Toni Solo
Misreporting Venezuela
Dan Bacher
A Memorial Wall for Iraq War's Dead and Wounded
Saul Landau
Is
Venezuela Next?
Website of the Day
The Spiral Railway
March 24, 2004
Gary Leupp
General
Musharraf's IOU
Richard Oxman
Shakespeare
for Kerry
William Lind
The Beginning
of Phase Three: 4G Warfare Hits Iraq
Rep. Ron Paul
Iraq One Year Later
Michael Dempsey
Killing Rachel Corrie Again
Alan Farago
The Bad Math of Mercury: Bush's War on the Unborn
Benjamin Dangl
and April Howard
Media
in Cuba
John L. Hess
No Lie Left Behind: Judy Miller Does Dick Clarke
Greg Weiher
Two Cheers for Dems: "We're Not as Bad as George"
Eva Golinger
An Open Letter to John Kerry on Venezuela
Grayson Childs
Where's Cynthia McKinney?
Steve Niva
Israel's Assassinations will Only
Fuel More Suicide Bombings
Website of the Day
The Bushiad and the Idiossey
March 23, 2004
Phillip Cryan
The
Drug War's Next Casualty: Colombia's National Parks
Ron Jacobs
They Shoot Men in Wheelchairs, Too?
Dave Lindorff
A Spanish Parallel: Scare Tactics and Elections
Mike Whitney
Richard Clarke and Teflon George
Brian McKinlay
Bush's Lil' Buddy in Trouble: John Howard Starts to Wobble
JG
Driving Mr. Koon: "Jim Crow Lives Next Door"
Phyllis Pollack
Gettin' Jigga with Metallica: the Battle Over the Double Black
CD
Ahmed Bouzid
Sharon's One-Way Track
Sean Carter
The G-Word Goes to Court: One Nation Under [Your Logo Here]
M. Shahid Alam
World's Greatest Country: Do the Facts Lie
March 22, 2004
Mazin Qumsiyeh
On Extrajudicial
Executions
Uri Avnery
The
Assassination of Sheikh Yassin is Worse Than a Crime
Gilad Atzmon
Sharon's Rampage
Mike Whitney
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: the Story of Captain James Yee
Jason Leopold
Firm With Ties to Cheney Faces Criminal Indictment in Cal Energy
Scam
Greg Moses
Stop
Walling and Stalling: a Report from Houston's Peace March
Phil Gasper
San Francisco: 25,000 March for an End to the Occupation
Lenni Brenner
Report
from NYC: Old and Young Parade for Peace
Julian Borger
The Clarke Revelations
Steve Perry
Karl Rove's Moment
Website of the Day
Enviros Against War
March 20 / 21, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Gay
Marriage: Sidestep on Freedom's Path
Jeffrey St. Clair
Intolerable Opinions in an Age of Shock and Awe: What Would Lilburne
Do?
Ted Honderich
Tony Blair's Moral Responsibility for Atrocities
Saul Landau / Farrah Hassen
The Plot Against Syria: an Irresponsibility Act
Gary Leupp
On Viewing "The Passion of the Christ"
William A. Cook
Fence, Barrier, Wall
Phil Gasper
Bush v. Bush-lite: Chomsky's Lesser Evilism
Ron Jacobs
Fox News and the Masters of War
John Stanton
Which Way John Kerry? The Senator's Inner Nixon
Justin Felux
Kerry and Black America: Just Another Stupid White Man
Mike Whitney
Greenspan's Treason: Swindling Posterity
Augustin Velloso
Avoiding Osama's Abyss
Lawrence Magnuson
Eyes Wide Open: Is Spain Caving in to Terrorism?
Kathy Kelly
Getting Together to Defeat Terrorism
Tracy McLellan
Scalia & Cheney: Happiness is a Warm Gun
Kurt Nimmo
Emma Goldman for President!
Luis J. Rodriguez
The Redemptive Power of Art: It's Not a Frill
Mickey Z
The Michael Moore Diet
Jackie Corr
When Harry Truman Stopped in Butte
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Great Trial of 1922: Gandhi's Vision of Responsibility
Poets' Basement
Stew Albert & JD Curtis
Website of the Weekend
Virtual World Election
March 19, 2004
Jeffrey St. Clair
Zapatero
to Kerry: Back Off, Senator, Our Troops are Coming Home
Ann Harrison
So
Protesters, How Well Do You Know Your Rights?
William MacDougall
Fortress Britain's War on "Economic Migrants"
Greg Moses
Sold American: Cowboy Nation Gets Ready to Vote
Cynthia McKinney
Haiti and the Impotence of Black America: Roll Back This Coup,
Mr. Bush
Norman Solomon
Spinning the Past; Threatening the Future
John L. Hess
"Missing" Evidence and the NYTs
Vicente Navarro
The
End of Aznar, Bush's Best Friend
Website of the War
Naming the Dead
March 18, 2004
Gila Svirsky
Rachel
Corrie, One Year Later: She Never Lost Faith in Decency
Christopher Brauchli
Drilling a Hole in the Sanctions: How Halliburton Made $73 Million
from Saddam
William Kulin
Report from Iraq: Just Another Baghdad Car Bombing
Mike Whitney
Resistance: a Moral Imperative
Rep. Ron Paul
Broadcast Indecency Act: an Indecent Attack on the First Amendment
Josh Frank
The Nader Question
Jack Random
They Lied & They Lost: Madrid and the Lessons of Democracy
Greg Bates
What Makes a Nader Voter Tick? A Survey
Sam Hamod / Alfredo Reyes
Contempt of the World: Hastert, Bush and Cheney on Spain
Gary Leupp
The
Madrid Bombings: the Chickens Come Home to Roost
Website of the Day
Privatizing Armageddon: Buy Your Own Doomsday Key
March 17, 2004
Marjorie Cohn
Spain, the EU and the US: War on
Terror or Civil Liberties?
David MacMichael
Untruth
and Consequences
Michael Donnelly
Wear the Green, But Skip the Green Beer
Tom Stephens
"Steady Leadership": Let the Buyer Beware
Wayne Madsen
Sen. Kerry, Let Me Help You Out
Karyn Strickler
Who Owns the Sierra Club? Anonymous Donors and Rigged Elections
Peter Linebaugh
Bush:
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March 16, 2004
Lenni Brenner
James
Madison: the Anti-Clerical Father of the Bill of Rights
Scott Boehm
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Alexander Lynch
From Franco to Aznar: the History
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
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The Case for a Nuclear Iran
Robert Fisk
The Bloody Price of the "War
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Bill Christison
The
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Justice
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Lidice Valenzuela
Haiti: a Coup without Consultation
Greg Moses
Lessons
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April 3 / 5, 2004
Thoughts on the ANC
and Leftists for Kerry
Communists
for Capitalism
By STEPHEN GOWANS
Ten years ago this month, Agnes Sehole, a black
South African cast a ballot for the first time. Like millions
of others, she voted for the African National Congress, the ANC.
"I had my hopes to live a better life [1]," she recalls.
Swept into power, the ANC, backed by
the South African Communist Party and a coalition of trade unions,
set out to fulfil Sehole's hopes. But in the end, the only hopes
they fulfilled were those of South Africa's corporations, global
investors, and the white minority. The dreams of the black majority
for a better life were dashed.
"I curse the day that I voted on
the 27th of April, 1994," Sehole says. "From the frying
pan right into the fire. If I died now, I would spin in my coffin
forever because I have left my children in this terrible place
[2]."
"Democracy," she concludes,
"has done nothing [3]."
You can hardly blame her for thinking
that democracy--and the ANC--have been a bust. In June 1996,
the ANC government adopted an economic strategy designed by the
World Bank, a move that could be likened to putting Vlad the
Impaler in charge of the Care Bears Nursery School.
The strategy, know as GEAR (Growth, Employment
and Redistribution), promised six percent growth per annum by
the year 2000, and 400,000 new jobs every year [4]. It didn't
deliver.
Instead, unemployment soared. The official
jobless rate grew from 16 percent in 1995 to 30 percent by 2003
[5]. And when discouraged job-seekers who had given up looking
for work were factored in, the jobless rate was 43 percent, and
over 80 percent in some rural areas [6].
The ANC government's privatization policies
didn't help. Some 20,000 workers lost their jobs at the state-owned
telecommunications company, Telkom, after it was placed on the
auction block, while 30,000 workers were thrown on the scrap
heap after a hurricane of privatization blew through the electricity
industry [7].
With joblessness exploding, poverty deepened.
From 1995 to 2000, the average income of black households sank
19 percent. Absolute poverty (the percentage of households earning
less than $90 of real income) increased from 20 percent in 1995
to 28 percent in 2000 [8].
If that wasn't enough, the ANC government
raised water and electricity rates and reduced cross-subsidies
on telephone service. An estimated 10 million lost access to
running water, 10 million lost their electricity, and 10 million
lost their telephone service [9].
And while the ANC and its Communist Party
junior were presiding over an economy that put the screws to
the black majority, they were, in true World Bank fashion, indulging
the private sector, slashing corporate taxes from 48 percent
in 1994 to 30 percent in 1999 [10].
Meanwhile, as electricity, water and
telephone services were priced beyond the reach of the progressively
impoverished majority, the average income of white households
grew 15 percent [11].
Critics dubbed the ANC policy "reverse
GEAR," a fitting label for a harsh to the poor, indulgent
to the rich demarche that was hardly producing growth, employment
or redistribution, though as a policy of redistributing income
upwards, it wasn't too shabby.
Not surprisingly, by late-2002, more
than 60 percent of South Africans thought the country had been
governed better by the white minority [12].
You would think that a government that
has so conspicuously failed to distinguish itself from ordinary,
run-of-the-mill governments of the sort that zealously cater
to corporations and investors, would soon fall out of favor with
the Left. And so it has, to a degree.
But the ANC and its Communist Party ally
have so thoroughly established their left-wing credentials that
they can behave just as right-wing as they like, while still
drawing on enormous left-wing support. So it is that the latest
issue of the Canadian Communist Party's newspaper, The People's
Voice, can declare that "South African Communists urge massive
ANC victory [13]," while assuring its readers that South
African Communists have "ideas to improve the lives of workers
and the poor [14]," without drawing forth a chorus of incredulous
guffaws.
Why would anyone vote for the ANC? To
do so would be like accepting a dinner invitation from a guy
who's out on bail for tampering with the packaged goods at the
local grocery store.
Perhaps recognizing that its urging a
massive vote for the ANC may just possibly be met by more than
a few sneers by the people who've spent the last 10 years falling
further and further behind, the South African Communist Party
has what any rascal should never leave home without: a good story.
Well, it has a story, anyway. It's titled,
"The Bosses Are To Blame." It goes like this: "The
bosses are still sabotaging our democracy." "We have
rolled out democracy, but the bosses continually undermine it."
"The bosses make solemn promises" they never keep [15].
The solution. Vote for the ANC, so it
can fight the bosses it has been giving into for the last 10
years, a proposal that amounts to something like the Vichy government
saying, "Support us, because we're the best alternative
to fighting the Nazi occupation."
What's more, wailing "it's the bosses
fault" is nothing but an admission that elections don't
really matter. No matter what you do, no matter how many ideas
you have to improve the lives of workers and the poor, the bosses
win, because the bosses are left in place, even catered to, and
the bosses run the place. Which invites the question, why bother
voting for the ANC? Or more to the point, why waste your time
on elections?
Joel Wendland, an
American Communist who calls himself a Marxist for Kerry,
thinks elections do matter. And he's planning to do all he can
to get the likely Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry
elected come November, even though Wendland says, "Kerry
is a representative of the capitalist class and shares many of
their interests," (actually, he's more than a representative;
he's a member in good standing), "has voted incorrectly
many times," "has taken centrist positions and has
even mimicked some right-wing positions [16]."
Sounds like there are a number of reasons
why any self-respecting leftist would steer clear of backing
Kerry. So what's up with Wendland?
It seems there are a "relatively
small handful of socialist sectarians [17]" that Wendland
disagrees with. First among these splitists are those who "advocate
boycotting the election [18]," which the Kerry-supporting
Marxist calls "the complete abstention from participation
in this crucial element of class struggle [19]." To Wendland's
way of thinking, voting for a capitalist who's the candidate
of a capitalist party that seeks to implement capitalist policies
for capitalist gain is a crucial element of class struggle. That
may be so, but exactly what class is Wendland thinking of?
Our Marxist for Kerry, who edits the
US Communist Party magazine Political Affairs, also takes issue
with "socialist sectarians" who sling the 'lesser evilism'
line [20]. While their argument makes "a lot of sense [21],"
he says, it doesn't make a lot of sense today. When it will make
sense, is not clear, but if Wendland is like most US Communists
it will make sense in some hard-to-glimpse, hazy future, when
millions of Americans will have gone over to the Communist Party,
though not as a result of any urging by Wendland and his like
who've booked indefinite passage on the good ship Democrat, while
urging as many other people as they can to come aboard.
Wendland's arguments aren't very convincing,
but he's got plenty of others, each as convincing as the last.
Consider this one: "Kerry and Bush aren't the same [22]."
I'll grant Wendland the point. Kerry
and Bush aren't the same. In some respects, Kerry's worse. But
that's not the question. The ANC and its apartheid predecessor
weren't the same either. But that doesn't mean that the economic
policies pursued by the ANC, with the backing of the South African
Communist Party, weren't the same as the economic policies the
apartheid regime would have pursued had it remained in power,
or that countless other governments around the world of various
political stripes have pursued since the ANC came to power 10
years ago.
Indeed, the policies of a group of people
in power have a lot more do to with the constraints imposed by
the dominant political and economic institutions, and who controls
the strategic heights, than what political label the government
happens to slap on itself. Or to put it another way: accept the
capitalist game, and you play by its rules. This, it would have
been imagined, would be fairly evident to a Marxist.
Still, says the Kerry-backing Wendland,
"We should send a message to Bush--and to Kerry--that we
won't tolerate [Bush's] kind of record [23]." So, cut Bush
loose, for his militarism, for waging war on Afghanistan, for
invading and occupying Iraq, to send a message to Kerry: We won't
tolerate this.
But wait a moment. Didn't Kerry support
the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq? Doesn't he support the occupations
of both countries? Hasn't he said he'd spend more on the military
than Bush? Wasn't it Kerry who said he'd add 40,000 troops to
the Army? Didn't Kerry say he's prepared to use force unilaterally
and pre-emptively? So how does voting for Kerry send a message
that militarism, wars of conquest, the doctrine of pre-emptive
war, the unilateral use of force and aggressive foreign policy,
are intolerable? Doesn't it do the very opposite--say these things
are acceptable because we voted for the candidate who promised
them?
Somehow, Wendland calls to mind the story
of Bill.
For four years Bill received regular
kicks to the balls by Sam's right boot. At the end of the four
years he was given a choice: four more years of getting booted
in the groin by the right foot, or four years by the left. Bill
could have said he'd accept neither. If he was going to get booted
in the balls anyway, no matter which boot he chose, he wouldn't
choose either. Why should he be a party to his own ball-crushing?
Instead, so angry was he at Sam's right boot for four years of
intolerable blows -- and charmed by the argument that the left
boot was the only realistic alternative, and that the right boot
really needed to be sent a message -- he decided he'd get even
by choosing Sam's left boot this time. Maybe it would be marginally
better. Today, crouched over in pain, he feebly raises his right
fist in victory. "I showed that right boot a thing or two!"
I'm not saying a vote for Bush or for
the ANC's opponents is the better choice. It isn't. But it's
plain to see that elections within a capitalist milieu are a
two, or three, or four boot system, one in which even Communists
are prepared to wear one of the boots.
Stephen Gowans
is a writer and political activist who lives in Ottawa, Canada.
He can be reached at: sr.gowans@sympatico.ca
Notes
1. "Despite Deep Woes, Democracy
Instils Hope," The Washington Post, March 31, 2004.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Patrick Bond, "South Africa's
Frustrating Decade of Freedom: From Racial to Class Apartheid,"
Monthly Review, March, 2004.
5. Ibid.
6. Washington Post.
7. Bond.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Bond.
11. Bond, Washington Post.
12. Bond.
13. People's Voice, April 1-15, 2004,
Volume 12, #6.
14. Ibid.
15. Highlights of South African Communist
Party election statement, People's Voice.
16. Joel Wendland, "Marxists
for Kerry,"
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
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