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June 26, 2002
Mokhiber / Weissman
Brokerman
June 25, 2002
Dave Marsh
The RIAA,
Library of Congress and the Web Pirates
Uri Avnery
Reform
Now!
Bahour / Dahan
Bush:
Off with Arafat's Head
Walt Brasch
Bush:
the Compassionate Exerciser
June 24, 2002
Bernard Weiner
Talkin'
About the F-Word
David Bates
Portland
Gets Dicked:
Cheney Does Oregon
Jo Freeman
Will
the War on Terror Follow the Path of the Cold War?
Tom Gorman
The Only
Thing "Generous" is the Propaganda
Bezhad Yaghmaian
Caught
Between Borders
in a Borderless World
Ben Sonnenberg
Ted
Hughes' Spell
June 22/23, 2002
Douglas Valentine
Sex,
Drugs & the CIA
June 21, 2002
Norman Madarasz
Brazil
Over England:
The Gaucho's Wild Ride
John Borowski
Stossel
and Disney's Crimes Against Nature
Chris Floyd
Southern
Cross: The US Takes Aim at Brazil
David Martin
Of Lies
and Oil: an interview with Rahul Mahajan
James T. Phillips
Serbian
Reservations:
Kosovo 2002
June 20, 2002
Chris Kromm
The South
at War: a Tour of the US Military/Industrial Complex
Jacob Levich
The War
on Terror is
Not a Suicide Pact
Mark Weisbrot
What
are They Doing to Argentina?
Jeffrey St. Clair
and Alexander Cockburn
Fire
Walk With Me:
Terry Lynn Barton and the Flames of Colorado
June 19, 2002
Gary Leupp
Red Targets in Terror War
Lenni Brenner
The Road
Forward for the
Palestinian Movement
Bernard Weiner
Inside
Cheney's Diary:
Cakewalking Through Minefields
Alexander Cockburn
The
Incredible Shrinking President
June 18, 2002
David Vest
Raise the
White Flag in Terror War?
Ben White
Is It Possible
to "Understand" the Rise in "Anti-Semitism"?
Edward Said
Palestinian
Elections Now
June 17, 2002
Jack McCarthy
Watergate
and All That
Philip Farruggio
A Maximum
Wage Law
Ron Sullivan
Law
and Orders:
The Assault on Trial by Jury
Rev. Charles Booker-Hirsch
Taking
on the School
of the Americas
Joan Smith
G.W. Bush:
The Man is Stupid
Dave Marsh
Corporate
Buy Outs and the Decline of Teen Jive
Robert Jensen
Rhetoric
Distorts Realities
June 15 / 16, 2002
Tanweer Akram
A Review
of Noam Chomsky's 9-11
Daniel Wolff
The Day
They Shot a Wolf in the Ghetto and What It Meant
Ralph Nader
A Corporate
Crime State
David Vest
Have You
Been Serviced?
Karl Kraus
A Minor
Detail
Alexander Cockburn
The
Terrorism of Everyday Life
June 14, 2002
Mark Weisbrot
US Trade
Policy:
"Do as We Say, Not as We Did"
Starhawk
The Boy Who Kissed the Soldier
David Krieger
Farewell
to the ABM Treaty
Tom Turnipseed
The Fear Factor to Promote
War and Trample Truth
Steve Perry
How the
Bush Adminstration Buried Coleen Rowley
June 13, 2002
Linda Belanger
Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict:
The Story Behind the Headlines
Amira Hass
Indefinite
Siege
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Time to Put Lives Over Patents
Robert Fisk
Bush's Weird
War
Stanton / Madsen
Democracy
in Crisis:
What is to be Done?
Roldan Tomasz Suárez
Venezuela:
Five Facts
About the Coup
June 12, 2002
Fran Shor
Dirty Bombs, Blowback
and Imperial Projections
Dave Marsh
Shelley
Stewart, Radio and the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement
Chris Floyd
Murder, Inc.
June 11, 2002
Omar Barghouti
On Dance, Identity and War
Robert Fisk
The Bush
Afghan Gang:
Murderers, Gangsters, Stooges
Minerva Wright
The Donkeys of the Holy Land
David Krieger
Stopping
a Nuclear War
in South Asia
June 10, 2002
Jeffrey St. Clair
Executioner's Last Songs
June 8/9, 2002
Gavin Keeney
Mademoiselle
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Or Getting Screwed in Paris
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Sleepless
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Curing Insomnia: a new use for The Nation?
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"Send
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June 26,
2002
Arafat Calls for Democratic
Elections in the United States;World Reaction is Mixed
by Rahul Mahajan
Palestinian Authority President Yasir Arafat stunned
the world yesterday by demanding that the United States hold
democratic elections for a new Chief Executive before it attempts
to continue in its role as broker between Israel and Palestine.
"Mr. Bush is tainted by his association
with Jim-Crow-style selective disenfranchisement and executive
strong-arm tactics in a southeastern province controlled by his
brother," said Mr. Arafat, who was elected with 87% of the
vote in 1996 elections in the West Bank and Gaza, declared to
be free and fair by international observers, including former
U.S. president Jimmy Carter. "Our count shows that he would
have lost the election if his associates hadn't deprived so many
thousands of African-Americans, an oppressed minority, of the
right to vote. He is not the man to bring peace to the Middle
East."
Hugo Chavez, elected president of Venezuela
with 62% of the popular vote, concurred with Mr. Arafat. Chavez
has long been a victim of Bush's anti-democratic attitude, as
the Bush administration funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars
through the "National Endowment for Democracy" to anti-Chavez
forces and reportedly gave the go-ahead for an attempted military
coup by those forces. "After it was over and I was back
in power," said Chavez, "his administration actually
told me 'legitimacy is not conferred by a majority vote.' Unless,
of course, it's a majority of the Supreme Court. I respect the
local traditions, however quaint, of the United States, but he
hardly sets the best example for the Middle East, does he? Why
don't we get back to that idea of an international conference
to settle the question of Palestine?"
Bush was not without his supporters,
however. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, elected head of
a country that legally discriminates among its citizens on the
basis of religious belief, forbids political candidates from
advocating an end to that discrimination, and disenfranchises
an entire people through military occupation, dismissed the call
as "absurd."
Hamid Karzai, recently "elected"
head of Afghanistan by a grand council, or "loya jirga,"
in which a foreign body, controlled by the United States, selected
delegates; unelected warlords who had ravaged the country were
permitted to control the meeting and to threaten delegates who
refused to vote their way; and the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan,
Zalmay Khalilzad, refused to allow at least two other candidates
to stand for election, added his support for Mr. Bush in his
hour of need. Said Karzai, "In Afghanistan, we have the
loya jirga. In the United States, you have your own process --
as we understand, it's traditional over there for corporations
to play a large part in electing officials and writing legislation.
We're very interested in looking into that kind of system ourselves."
Vojislav Kostunica, chosen head of Yugoslavia
in an election where the United States spent an estimated $25
million to influence the results, was also keen to rush to Bush's
defense, indicating that he saw no procedural problems with the
2000 elections.
And Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia, long
derided for his claim that "Asian culture" is at odds
with universal human rights, added, "The elections are strictly
an internal matter, and should have no bearing on the status
of the United States as a broker. The Palestinians' high-handedness
is a serious threat to national independence."
In a surprise move, British Prime Minister
Tony Blair, long an ally of the United States, supported Arafat's
call, saying, "While we're at it, let's take another look
at our agreement on American independence. George Washington
was not only unelected, he did rather associate with terrorists.
Benedict Arnold would have been a much more suitable partner
for peace, n'est ce pas?"
Arafat, busy working on a plan to find
a new Israeli leader not tainted with the massacre of hundreds
of innocents in Sabra and Shatila to negotiate with, could not
be reached for further comment.
Rahul Mahajan
is the Green Party candidate for Governor of Texas and author
of "The
New Crusade: America's War on Terrorism," (Monthly Review
Press, April 2002). He serves on the National Board of Peace
Action and is a founding member of the Nowar
Collective.
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