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Cockburn / St. Clair's Scorching New History of a Decade of War Now Available! Today's Stories June 12 / 13, 2004 Peter Linebaugh Remembering the Common Hood: Soweto and Runnymede June 11, 2004 Alexander Cockburn Reagan in Truth and Fiction Ron Jacobs Ray Charles' Legacy of Spirit Chris Floyd Funeral Games Steven Sherman How Reagan Destroyed the Democrats and Paved the Way for Clinton Mokhiber / Weissman Remembering Reagan Norman Solomon Media's Mourning in America Paul Alexander The Kerry Fantasies of Chalmers Johnson CounterPunch Wire The Terror Hour: Miami TV Station Invites Commandoes to Talk About Planned Attacks on Cuba     June 10, 2004 Noam Chomsky The Apotheosis of Reagan : Divinity Through Marketing Gary Leupp Bush, the Religious Scholar Patrick Cockburn The Iraqi Street Has Spoken: New Govt. Made Up of CIA Pawns Saul Landau Force-Feeding Lies About Free Trade Scott Evans Settling for the System: How Punkvoter.com Became Just Another Tool of the Democrats Jacob Levich John Kerry's World of Hurt: Senator Supports Beam Weapons Zeynep Toufe Reagan, Neo-Cons and the "Intelligence Failures" Nico Pitney Reform at Wal-Mart? Dave Zirin Son of a Reagan: What a Sporty 6-Year Old Saw at the Revolution Jack McCarthy Where Were You When Reagan Croaked? Gary Corseri Nouns That Should be Acronyms David Price Reagan and the Black Budget Website of the Day Inequality by the Numbers   June 9, 2004 Mustafa Barghouthi Israel's Common Use of Torture Must be Exposed Mike Whitney Alan Dershowitz, Still Defending Torture John Chuckman Why the CIA will Always be a Costly Flop Jim Tarbell / Roger Burbach Bush's Democratic Charade in Iraq Dave Lindorff Put Reagan on the $3 Bill Miguel D'Escoto Reagan was the Butcher of My People Becky Burgwin The Betrayal of Smarty Jones: Flogging a Natural Born Hero Patrick Cockburn The Rich Have Been Warned to Leave Baghdad   June 8, 2004 Jeffrey St. Clair The Nature of Ronald Reagan: Will the Earth Accept His Corpse? Dave Lindorff The March on Rumsfeld's House: Is the US Anti-War Movement Running Out of Steam? Phillip Cryan Torture, Bombings & the Press in Colombia Mark Zepezauer Getting Reagan Wrong Mickey Z. Reagan, Radicals and Repetitive Reactions John L. Hess Reagan and Bush in Normandy Alex Dawoody Reagan and Saddam: the Unholy Alliance Christopher Fons Reagan in a Word: Mean Niranjan Ramakrishnan Some Tenets are More Important Than Others Ahmed Bouzid Nothing New Under the Israeli Sun Michael Leon Bush the Narcissist   June 7, 2004 Jason Leopold New Enron Docs Show Lay and Skilling Knew of California Trading Schemes Patrick Cockburn The Baghdad Bombings: the Pattern of Attacks is Changing Dennis Hans From Afghanistan to El Salvador: Reagan's Dark Global Legacy Tracy McLellan Nader at the National Press Club: a Glimpse at a Different Kind of Politics Bill Blum The Myth of the Gipper: Reagan Didn't End the Cold War Ben Tripp What I Owe Reagan: the Brylcreemed Bullshitter Susan Davis Reagan, In a Nutshell Phil Gasper Reagan: Goodbye and Good Riddance Website of the Day A Child's ABCs of Terrorism June 5 / 6, 2004 C. Douglas Lummis Toward a Universal Declaration of Human Wrongs Saul Landau Five Cubans in Prison, Victims of Bush's Obsession Dave Lindorff John Walker Lindh, Revisited Brian Cloughley Apologies, Please, From Those Who Got It Wrong Rich Gibson The Grenada 17: the Last Prisoners of the Cold War are Black Elaine Cassel A Sorry FBI Cathrin Schütz On the Ruins of Yugoslavia Ben Tripp Call Me, Mr. Cassandra Kurt Nimmo The Madness of King George Ron Jacobs They Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Unless We Make It So) Laura Flanders The Lynne Cheney Show? Lenni Brenner Renaissance Noir: Caravaggio at the Met Abigail Jones Whatever Happened to Lori Berenson, President Toledo's Trophy Prisoner? Mark Latham Nothing Bush Said Has Changed Our Hopes Gerry Adams I Was Photographed While Tortured, Too Toni Solo Venezuela 2004, Nicaragua's Contra War Reprised Derek Seidman Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old M. Junaid Alam Torture is Just the Symptom Matt Siegfried An American Way of War Dave Zirin The Politics of Charles Barkley Poets' Basement Albert, Krieger, St. Clair Website of the Weekend Overnight Sensations   June 4, 2004 Chris Floyd Masked and Anonymous: Inside America's Animal House Cornwell / Penketh Exit Tenet: the Fall of a Fall Guy Wayne Madsen Apprehension & Frustation: Neo-Cons on the Brink Greg Moses Agitating for Workers' Rights in Iraq Yitzak Laor Before Rafah Ghali Hassan Ambassador to Death Squads: Who is Negroponte? Jane Stillwater God, the Rapture and Vera Casey CounterPunch Wire D-Day Reconsidered: Was It Really Worth the Carnage? John Borowski Woo-Wooism v. Meteorites: Why the Dems Are No Match for Bush Mike Griffin Caterpillar's Assault on the UAW Alexander Cockburn Has Bush Gone Over the Edge? Website of the Day Aquae Urbis Romae: Water and Empire     June 3, 2004 Ron Jacobs Iran's Nuclear Dilemma Dr. Susan Block America in tha Hood Michael Donnelly The Bully and the Brahmin John Chuckman Insanity in America: US Ranks Number One in the Deranged Christopher Brauchli The Return of Cardinal Law: Rome on $12,000 a Month Samia Nassar Melki Caravaggio in Iraq Mike Whitney Subverting Justice: Pre-Trial Ruminations in the Padilla Case Diane Rejman Memorial Day Isn't Just About the Dead Scott Morris "WMDs" in Cuba Paul de Rooij Palestinian Misery in Perspective     June 2, 2004 Brian Cloughley The Liars are Winning Ray McGovern How Far Would They Go? Beware "Credible Intelligence" Josh Frank The Anybody But Bush Offensive Mike Whitney The Afghanistan Failure: Bush's Warlord Patriots Jackie Corr Iraq and Ireland: Three Tales from Butte, Montana Robert Jensen The US Lost the Iraq War...and It's a Good Thing, Too Alexander Cockburn "Bye, Bye Boonville!"   June 1, 2004 Gary Leupp Instant Karma: Bush's Sins Catch Up with Him William A. Cook Manufacturers of Fear and Loathing in Rafah Dave Lindorff Will the Times Clean House? Kevin Zeese Inside the Kerry / Nader Meeting: Did the Kerry Campaign Lie About What Was Discussed? Jacob Levich Coming Soon: Return of the Draft, a Bipartisan Production Kathy Kelly Voices in the Wilderness v. the US Government Website of the Day Remind Us     May 29 / 31, 2004 Lee Ballinger / Dave Marsh The Origins of Memorial Day Janine Pommy Vega Memo for Memorial Day Mike Ferner On Their Way to Abu Ghraib Alfred W. McCoy The Cruel Shadow: the Long History of CIA Torture Research Douglas Valentine An Open Letter to the NYT: Questions, Questions, Questions Chris White First to Fight Culture: a Former Marine on the Marine Motto Bruce Anderson The Awful Injustice to Tai Abreu David Vest Get Ready for Kerry's War: the 100 Year Quagmire Saul Landau Torture: the Logical Outcome of Bush's War for Democracy? Kurt Nimmo Abu Hamza al-Mazri, Made in the USA Elaine Cassel The Secrets of Surveillance: Ashcroft, Snoops, and Gag Orders Will Potter The New War on "Terror": Protest the Torture of Chimps; Get Arrested as a "Terrorist" Ben Tripp They Fiddled While Nero Got the Matches Dr. Susan Block Save Abu Ghraib! Kia Kojouri Nukes, the US, Israel and Iran: an Interview with Sasan Fayazmanesh Mickey Z D-Day: 60 Years is Enough! Jon Brown Correcting the Correction at the Times Patrick B. Barr Pre-emptive War Insurance Stephen Gowans Bad Apples in a Bad Barrel Tom Gorman Gore on Bush in Iraq: the Approach May be Exotic, But It's Hardly New Dave Zirin Fighting for Boxers' Rights: an Interview with Eddie Mustafa Muhammad Gregory Weiher Bush to Arabs: "Go Get Yourself Some Democracy" Erik Cummings Jung Meets Bush Poets' Basement Davies, Ford, Kearney, McLellan and Albert   May 28, 2004 Rafael Rodriguez Cruz Curtain of Silence on the Cuban 5 Greg Moses Bush's Misleading Speech on Abu Ghraib Dave Lindorff Dissing Independent Contractors: Those Who Do the Dirty Work Norman Solomon Leaping for Lies at the Times Rep. Bill Delahunt Bush's Cruel New Rules on Cuba Paul McGeough Chalabi Baba and the 40 Thieves Niranjan Ramakrishnan India and Nehru: 40 Years After Alexander Cockburn NYTs: "Maybe We Did Screw Up...a Little"     May 27, 2004 Amy Goodman / David Goodman Fatal Errors: the Lies of Our Times Douglas Valentine Ragging the Dogs of War at the NYTs John L. Hess The Times Confesses...Kind Of Stew Albert Dellinger, the Wrestling Pacifist Dave Dellinger a 1993 Interview Christopher Brauchli Tax Breaks for Scions...to Hell with Poor Kids Rampton / Stauber Banana Republicans: Pumping Irony     May 26, 2004 Ron Jacobs Goodbye, David Dellinger: He Was a Friend of Ours Robert Fisk The Things Bush Didn't Say in His Speech Zeynep Toufe New Draft UN Resolution Permits Perpetual Occupation Conn Hallinan Bush and Sharon: the Oil Connection Tom Stephens 2 + 2 is On My Mind: More Morons and War Crimes Derek Medley Protesting Gov. Bigot CounterPunch Wire FBI Abducts Artist; Seizes Art Andrew Cockburn The Trail to Tehran   May 25, 2004 Joe Bageant The Covert Kingdom: On Earth as It is in Texas Col. Dan Smith A Question of Human Dignity Gary Handschumacher Visiting Lori Berenson: Time to Bring Her Home Toni Solo A Developing War in the Andes Marc Estrin September Song: Disturbing Questions About 9/11 Stephen Banko, III A Vietnam Vet on "Supporting the Troops" Website of the Day The Wizard of Whimsy May 24, 2004 Ron Jacobs Dan Senor is Safe! Kurt Nimmo Dirty Tricks & TortureGate: the Missing Taguba Pages Sam Hamod Gen. Zinni: "Wrong War, Wrong Place, Wrong Time" Mike Whitney The Wedding was a Bomb Stan Goff Open Season on MAMs Image of the Day A Photo from Abu Ghraib We Didn't See on the Front Page of the NYTs     May 22 / 23, 2004 Paul de Rooij Colin Powell, a Political Obituary Jeffrey St. Clair When War is Swell: Bush and the Carlyle Group Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Her Son Was Told He Wouldn't See Combat; Now He's Dead: an Interview with Sue Niederer Brian Cloughley America is Committing War Crimes in Iraq Saul Landau Democracy in Latin America: Great for Investors; Not So Good for People Brandy Baker Feminists Stand By Their Man: Abortion, Judges and Kerry Randall Robinson Bushwhacked in the Caribbean Uri Avnery The Rape of Rafah Ben Tripp Assume the Worst Bruce Anderson News from Ecotopia: the Truth About the Wine Business Josh Ruebner Why I Burned My Israeli Military Papers Peter Wolson, Ph. D. 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Weekend Edition June 12 / 13, 2004 The Good, the Bad, the Ugly Object Lessons from the Case of Francisco Cortés By FORREST HYLTON To start with good news, I was dead wrong: Claudio Ramírez and Carmelo Peñaranda, the compañeros with whom Francisco "Pacho" Cortés was arrested in Bolivia on April 10, 2003, have taken the hardest way out. They refuse to exchange their freedom for false testimony about Pacho and the international "narcoterrorist conspiracy" which is allegedly afoot in Bolivia. Having been released briefly, Claudio and Carmelo were given a summons to return to Chonchocoro Maximum Security Prison. Carmelo Ramírez and Claudio Peñaranda are not yet on the lam, but their lawyer announced that they would be if their Habeus Corpus petition is rejected (which it will be, and soon). ¡Adelante compañeros! Suerte, y disculpen las calumnias, sí? Also, for the first time, Evo Morales and MAS have agreed to break the silence they have so carefully maintained around Pacho's case (excepting Senators Filemón Escóbar and Antonio Peredo); this was the main result of the visit of an "international humanitarian mission" organized from Bogotá and Brussels, and composed of Jose Bove; Afro-Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba; Fray Holguin, a Brazilian deputy from the PT; Gloria Flores, a Colombian human rights activist with MINKA; and Rafael Alegría, a Honduran who currently heads the Vía Campesina, of which Evo Morales is a leading member. But here the bad and the ugly begin. First, the agenda organized for the mission by Pacho and activists from the defense committee was discarded in favor of one designed by Evo's minions, who, prior to the arrival of the mission, had never visited Pacho, much less made an effort to coordinate with his defense committee. Hence from the beginning, the mission was subject to the sort of underhanded opportunism associated with the old Left of the 1970s and 80s, and was bent to serve the ends of Morales and MAS. In Evo's electoral calculus, Pacho's case is of minimal importance at most. Because Pacho's defense committee has worked closely with Filemón Escóbar, whom Evo has recently accused (implausibly, as even Escóbar's many enemies agree) of collaborating with the US Embassy, the mission was dragged into internal strife that threatens, as Escóbar has cogently argued, to tear MAS apart from within. Or was the mission rigged from the outset to secure collaboration from Morales, and isolate and marginalize the defense committee and Escóbar? Though it is impossible to know with certainty-- and while some, like Jose Bove, were disgusted with Morales' political maneuvering-- the mission's organizer, Belén Torres, appears to have been in contact with Morales and MAS before she arrived. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain the reception she received at the airport, her pleasure at the "strategic alliance" formed with Morales and MAS, or her refusal to coordinate with-- or even acknowledge-- Pacho's (now defunct) defense committee. The degree of cultural imperialism and political elitism displayed by the mission's leadership took the Bolivian members of the defense committee by surprise. Through previous efforts to co-ordinate with Colombians in Bogotá and Europe revealed implicit racist assumptions regarding an "Indian" country like Bolivia, no one was prepared for so much arrogance, ignorance, and paternalism, which dovetailed a bit too neatly with MAS's characteristically rank opportunism-- matched by that of leading figures from the NGO world-- to have been mere coincidence. Viewed from another angle, the miscommunication, mistrust, and lack of coordination can be explained in terms of incompatible political strategies, tactics, and visions of social change. In classic vanguardist fashion, the mission was organized from above and outside, and its political objectives were initially hidden from brother and sister activists on the ground in Bolivia (more shades of old Left shenanigans). The anti-globalizers, lacking any clear sense of the particularities of the Bolivian context, sincerely believed that by bringing international pressure to bear, they could secure the immediate release of Cortés. As Torres put it the night before she returned to Belgium, "I'm really disappointed, because I if you'd asked me before I got here, I would've sworn that Pacho would be free today." Torres, Alegría, and others seem to be under the illusion that in the brave new world of globalization, not only multinational capital but also the anti-globalization movement has outflanked nation-states, which are assumed to have lost the centrality they had acquired in the postwar 'Golden Age' of capitalism. Hence, as various members of the mission expressed, it came as a rude shock when the Vice-Minister of Justice assured them that the best he could do was get a minimum sentence of three years, while President Carlos Mesa, though clearly sympathetic and wary of international outcry, pointed out that as the head of the executive branch of government, he could not legally interfere with the judicial branch. Given the obstacles that stand in the way of Pacho's freedom, it is difficult to comprehend the uncritical, self-congratulatory, and self-deceptive nature of the mission's final meeting. Now that the mission's gone, the chance the Morales and Co. will lift a finger to help Pacho or Andrés is slim. If they do, there will plenty of foot-dragging. As Foucault once said, even the best theories can't guarantee good practices, but bad theories are demonstrably counter-productive. It is going to take much more than "humanitarian missions" led by prominent anti-globalization activists to excarcerate Pacho Cortés. The irony gets richer: Pacho's best chance lies in the helping hand of Lula, as the delegate from the PT proposed. Lula's administration has been working with the Cortés family and its lawyers in Bogotá. If Lula grants political asylum to the Cortés family, Mesa may be tempted to pressure the Minister of Government to annul the trial proceedings, which have been characterized by consistent disrespect for the Bolivian constitution and penal code. That is, since the liberation of Cortés is not on the agenda of Bolivia's social movements-- with which the mission never made contact-- without the intervention of another nation-state, Cortés will continue to reside in San Pedro Minimum Security Prison for some time to come. The US Embassy is not eager to see Pacho released. But aren't Evo Morales and MAS representative of Bolivia's social movements? Two dates marked by massive, leaderless urban insurrections-February and October 2003-suggest otherwise. As anyone who lived through them knows, neither Morales nor MAS provided leadership, and were conspicuous only in their absence. A more serious question would concern alternative strategies of liberation for Pacho. Which brings us to the pre-history of the "humanitarian mission" and the "strategic alliance" achieved with Morales and MAS. Through Belén Torres, Pacho's son, Andrés Cortés, made contact with Pedro Marset, a deputy representing Spain's IU (Izquierda Unida) in the European Parliament in Brussels. In a meeting with Filemón Escóbar, Andrés Cortés, and another member of Pacho's defense committee in January, Marset agreed to pay $15,000 for a legal team, which had been arranged by and coordinated with the committee. The legal defense fund was to go through Senator Escóbar's office to Pacho's legal team, excluding the two lawyers-- one contacted by the Colombian Embassy, the other a long-time militant of ADN, a far rightwing party that served as the political vehicle of former dictator Hugo Banzer-- who had bumbled their way through the case. They had been unable to get Pacho brought from Chonchocoro Maximum Security Prison (4,200 m) down to San Pedro in La Paz (3,800 m). As soon as Torres and the Colombian NGOs working on Pacho's case got wind of the money, they made sure it passed through their hands, and Evo Morales, along with prominent defense lawyer Mary Carrasco, disputed the funds with Escóbar and Pacho's new legal team. Needless to say, not a penny went to the team, which, working with Pacho's defense committee, managed to get Pacho transferred to, and settled in, San Pedro by mid-March. Dr. Rogelio Mayta and his team achieved in less than two months what the other lawyers had not achieved in nine. So who has the money now, Torres and the Colombian NGOs, or Morales and Carrasco? Why wasn't any of it used to reimburse Pacho's legal team for its successful efforts to get Pacho transferred to San Pedro? Who paid for the mission, and how much did it cost? Why were these issues were so scrupulously excluded from discussion and debate? The answers will probably remain unknown. In the end, they are less important than the differences in strategy, vision, and praxis alluded to above. Like the Zapatistas in the 1990s, the rank-and-file of Bolivia's social movements, resurgent since April 2000, have a way of doing politics based on transparency and bottom-up, democratic self-organization, two dynamic elements of a tradition of indigenous insurgency that stretches back to the 1770s. The emphasis on collective, horizontal leadership and rank-and-file participation contrasts sharply with the most unsavory aspects of politics of the old Left, notably the cult of personality and caudillismo, which MAS has so successfully reproduced. The search for the seeds of a new society amidst the rot of the old is ongoing, but one has to know where to look in order to see it. Had the anti-globalizers arrived with no agenda other than to free Pacho Cortés, and had they stayed for more than three days, they might have learned something from these mostly anonymous people's movements, which have much to teach us all. As one of the stalwarts of Pacho's defense committee put it, "Who do they think they are? This is Bolivia. You don't just come here and step on people like that. We're not objects to be used, we're people." *Though I take full responsibility for the views expressed in this article, they stem from collective discussion, analysis, and self-criticism-- prominent and highly positive features of the short, unhappy life of the Committee to Liberate Francisco Cortés. I would like to thank my Bolivian, Mexican, Colombian, and French comrades in the Committee, who shall remain nameless, for framing my critique, and for teaching me about politics. Forrest Hylton is conducting doctoral research in history in Bolivia. He can be reached at forresthylton@hotmail.com. Weekend Edition Features for June 5 / 6, 2004 C. 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