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January
15, 2002
William
Blum
Atta
and the Times:
Follow the Changing Story
Edward
Said
Emerging
Alternatives
in Palestine
January
14, 2002
David
Vest
Open
Bag. Eat Pretzels.
Patrick
Cockburn
Collapse
of Georgia
Ignored by the World
Mokhiber/Weissman
Enron's
Accountants:
When In Doubt, Shred It
January
13, 2002
C.G. Estabrook
Why
We Kill People
January
12, 2002
Cockburn/St.
Clair
Forbidden
Truths
January
11, 2002
Lee Balllinger/Dave
Marsh
Neil
Young's Duet with Ashcroft
January
10, 2002
Tom Turnipseed
Bush,
Enron, UNOCAL
and the Taliban
St. Clair/Cockburn
Greenpeace
to Greenwash?
Hans von
Sponek
Iraq:
Is There an Alternative
to Military Action?
Jim Lobe
Israeli
Human Rights Group Assails Army
Marina Mayakova
Russia's
Top Military Astrologer Predicts More Attacks from OBL
January
9, 2002
David
Vest
The
Super-Burqa
and the Big Tent
ND Jayaprakash
Winnable
Nuclear War?
Rafiq
Kathwari
Kashmir
Will Make Ground Zero Look Like a Bonfire
January
8, 2002
Prudence
Crowther
Sting
Like a B-52
Nelson
Valdés
Al-Qaeda
at Guantanamo Bay
John Chuckman
Dark
Tales from the
Ministry of Truth
Richard
Corn-Revere
Do
We Fear Freedom?
Joan Hoff
The
Nixon You Haven't Heard
January
7, 2002
Lawrence
McGuire
Confusing
Economic Tales About Argentina
Wael Masri
They
Are Taking
Our Rights Away
Philip
Farruggio
Better
Medicine
A Photographic Journal of Life
in an Afghan Refugee Camp
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January
15, 2002
Follow the Pretzel
By Jack McCarthy
It's no wonder George W. Bush is having fainting
spells.
Everyday he has to worry that Osama bin
Laden's angry young men are stalking him. But it's Dick Cheney
who is in hiding.
And now Bush is just a bombshell memo
away from political oblivion.
You could see that W. was unraveling
late last week when, like a child caught with his hand in the
proverbial cookie jar, he nervously claimed that Enron's Willie
Sutton, Kenneth Lay, supported Democrat Ann Richards in his
first Governors race.
That turned out to be a bald faced lie.
The truth is that Lay did contribute some money to Richards,
$12,000. But most of Lay's largess went to Bush, to the tune
of $37,000.
The New York Times's William Safire,
who used his column to fire one Republican Whitewater prosecutor
for another Republican prosecutor because the first wasn't aggressive
enough, claims this is "no Whitewater."
Well, maybe he's right. When you think
about it Bush was more like Ken Lay's Monica Lewinsky. For Bush
has been going down on Enron for quite awhile now.
For all pratical purposes, Bush has been
a personal lobbyist for Lay and Enron since his days as Texas
governor.
Bush's fainting spell could well have
been precipitated by his knowledge that documentation will surface
showing that he did more on Enron's behalf than he's admitting.
By lying about something as basic as
who Lay supported for governor, Bush is showing signs of panic.
Or in sports parlance, the president is blinking.
And now he's choking.
To Bush's disadvantage, the Washington
media is giddy that they have something other than Afghanistan
to write and talk about. And although the press corps will go
out of their way not to be too antagonistic they may have no
choice.
By all appearance, the administration
and the dozen or so Enron connected staffers, have been recklessly
available to provide economic hum jobs for Enron.
There could be many smoking gun memos
floating around or being shredded and deleted as I write this.
And maybe W. knows it.
And that could be why he was taken down
by a lone pretzel.
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