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March
4, 2002
Southern
/ Kubrick
Stangelove
Scenario
for Shadow Govt. Bunker
David
Vest
Grammy's
of Constant Sorrow
March
3, 2002
Bernard
Weiner
War
on Terrorism for Dummies
Paul Cox
Boycott
Mel Gibson's
"We Were Soldiers"
Frederick
Hudson
Toward
a Nonviolent Africa:
Bill Sutherland's Quest
Eric Schaeffer
Dear
Christie Whitman:
Take This Job and Shove It
John Chuckman
Why
the Rest of Planet is Unnerved by America
March
2, 2002
Alexander
Cockburn
Sweat,
Sex, Feet and
the Working Class
March
1, 2002
Brendan
Sexton III
What's
Wrong With Black Hawk Down: an Actor Speaks Out
Terry
Diggs
Why
Twain's Pudd'nhead
Wilson Still Matters
David
Krieger
Nuclear
Terrorism
and US Nuclear Policy
February
28, 2002
James
T. Phillips
Baghdad,
Spring 1992
Gideon
Samet
Sharon
Must Go
Rep. Ron
Paul
Before
We Bomb Iraq
M. Shahid
Alam
Samuel
Huntington:
Peddling Civilizational Wars
St. Clair
/ Cockburn
Rumble
from the Jungle:
Ecuadorian Farmers Fight
DynCorp's ChemWar
February
27, 2002
Eric Hobsbawm
The
Future of War and Peace
John Troyer
About
that WTC Memorial
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Wired
for Democracy
or Business?
Alexander
Cockburn
Daniel
Pearl: Should His
Editors Have Sent Him There?
February
26, 2002
Jonathan
Steele
Kabul's
Loss
Vasily
Streltsov
The
Pentagon in
the Transcaucusas
CounterPunch
Wire
How
Corporations Use Shadowy "527" Groups to Influence
Politicians
Lt. Col.
Robert Bowman
ABM
Treaty: Alive or Dead?
Rep. Dennis
Kucinich
A
Prayer for America
February
25, 2002
John Clarke
Interrogated
at US Border
Blankfort,
Poirier, Zeltzer
ADL
Blinks, Settles Spying Case
Alex Lynch
Naked
from Sin:
The Ordeal of Nahla
and Sami Al-Arian
John Chuckman
Ashcroft
Speaks in Tongues
February
24, 2002
David
Vest
Skate
Date
February
23, 2002
Tom Turnipseed
Axis
of Evil and
Media Monopolies
Bahour/Dahan
Cracks
in the Occupation
February
22, 2002
Alexander
Cockburn
Axel
of Evil: Sex Crimes
and the Constitution
February
21, 2002
Gary Leupp
The
Philippines: Second Front in US's Global War
David
Vest
Reagan
Clone Project?
Mokhiber
and Weissman
Chicago
School and Corporate America: Rotten to the Core
February
20, 2002
Bernard
Weiner
The
Shallow Throat Document
Kay Lee
The
Prison Guard Who Never Owned Up to His Crimes
February
19, 2002
David
Orr
Waylon
Jennings, the Duke,
and the Navajo
John Chuckman
The
Devil and Georgie Bush
Prudence
Crowther
Giblet
Gravitas
Ramzi
Kysia
Caught
in the Iraq DMZ
February
18, 2002
Ron Jacobs
The
US and Iran
George
Lewandowski
Empire
in Declline
Lenni
Brenner
Life
and Death of a Folk Hero
February
17, 2002
Robert
Fisk
Lost
in a Pit of Desperation
February
16, 2002
Phillip
Cryan
Colombia
in War Time
February
15, 2002
C.G. Estabrook
From
New York to Porto Alegre
Robert
O'Brien
The
View from Porto Alegre
Mokhiber/Weissman
Resisting
the Assassins
February
14, 2002
Levy and
Easton
Ante
Pavelic
Real Butcher of the Balkans
Joan Claybrook
Dear
Jeb Bush,
About You and Enron
John Chuckman
Time
for a Woman Prez
Alexander
Cockburn
Banning
the Koran
February
13, 2002
Sen. Russ
Feingold
War
Powers and
the War on Terror
Tom Turnipseed
Bush's
Folly
George
Monbiot
American
Imperialism
February
12, 2002
Uri Avnery
The
Great Game:
Oil, Sharon and Iran
Tommy
Ates
Black
Land Loss
February
11, 2002
Walt Brasch
The
Synergizing of America
John Troyer
Enron's
Deep Throat?
February
9, 2002
John Blair
Criticize
Cheney, Go to Jail
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in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann
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March 4, 2002
A Dinosaur
in the Age of Mammals
Dick Cheney and Conservation
By Ralph Nader
Vice President Dick Cheney is a dinosaur living
in the age of mammals. Imagine a public official uttering the
following:
"Conservation may be a sign of personal
virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive
energy policy.
"We ... safeguard the environment
by making greater use of the cleanest methods of power generation
we know.... that is nuclear power.
"The notion that somehow developing
the resources in ANWR [Arctic National Wildlife Reserve] requires
a vast despoiling of the environment is provably false."
It is time for the American people to
insist Mr. Cheney stop talking nonsense and to tell Mr. Cheney
and his fellow "oil man" President Bush that they
have to wean themselves from the economically and environmentally
costly energy policies that keep taxpayers, consumers and environmentalists
hooked on oil coal and nuclear power.
Federal policy over the past century
has largely failed to promote an energy system based on safe,
secure, economically affordable, and environmentally benign
energy sources. The tax code, budget appropriations, and regulatory
processes overwhelmingly have been used to subsidize dependence
on fossil fuels and nuclear power. The result: increased sickness
and premature deaths, depleted family budgets, acid rain destruction
of lakes, forests, and crops, oil spill contamination, polluted
rivers and loss of aquatic species and the long-term peril of
climate change and radioactive waste dumpsonot to mention a
dependency on external energy supplies.
There is an alternative. Three decades
of detailed assessments, on-the-ground results, and research
and development innovations in the energy-consuming devices
used in our buildings, vehicles and industries undeniably show
that energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies are
superior energy options for society. They offer a present and
future path that is economically attractive, safe and secure
from large-scale or long-term risks or threats to public health,
future generations, and the environment.
But embarking on that path requires overcoming
the power of the oil, nuclear and other conventional fuel industries
to which both the Republicans and Democrats are indentured.
Under the thumb of the dirty fuel industries, Congress and
the Executive branch have refused to adopt even the most modest,
common sense measures. For example, when the President's Committee
of Advisors on Science and Technology concluded in a 1997 report
that doubling the Department of Energy's efficiency R&D
funding would produce a 40 to 1 return on the investment for
the nation, Congress responded by proposing deep cuts in the
efficiency and renewables R&D budgets.
The Clinton/Gore Administration nod to
increased energy efficiency relied largely on corporate welfare.
Rather than push for an increase in auto fuel-efficiency standards,
the Administration established the Partnership for a New Generation
of Vehicles (PNGV). PNGV is a $1.5 billion subsidy program for
the Big Three auto companies that has done nothing to improve
auto fuel efficiency but has served as a convenient smokescreen
behind which the industry has been able to fend off new regulatory
requirements for more efficient cars.
Energy
Innovations: A Prosperous Path to a Clean Environment, a joint study prepared by half a dozen of the
nation's prominent energy and environmental research and advocacy
groups, shows that a handful of simple and straightforward measures
could produce a significant reduction in sulfur dioxide (SO2)
emissions (prime cause of acid rain) by 2010, compared to 1990
levels and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions (a key precursor of
ground-level ozone, smog) as well as deep cuts in emissions
of other damaging pollutants, including fine particles, toxic
metals like mercury and hydrocarbons, and carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions.
President Bush could establish the United
States as the model for other countries by adopting a sustainable
energy policy that includes:
- Ending fossil fuel and nuclear corporate
welfare supports, including numerous special tax preferences.
Launching a robust federal research and development program
in sustainable renewable energy sources, so that the energy-independence
promises of wind, solar and other forms of renewable energy
are finally realized.
- Increasing auto fuel efficiency standards
(at least to 45 miles per gallon for cars and 35 miles per gallon
for light trucks, to be phased in over five years) during a
transition period to zero-emissions cars. Adopting stronger
efficiency standards for appliances and mandatory energy performance
building codes.
- Ensuring electricity policies which
promote efficient use of electricity through a range of measures
including "net metering" requirements that companies
pay market prices for electricity generated by consumers and
passed back to the utility and elimination of clean air exemptions
for "grandfathered" fossil fuel facilities.
- Establishing a well-funded employee
transition assistance fund and job-retraining program for displaced
coal miners' easily affordable with the savings from greater
energy efficiency.
- Our country has more problems than it
deserves and more solutions than it uses.
- It is time for the United States to
stop letting Exxon-Mobil, Peabody Coal and Westinghouse shape
our energy policy and for our misguided elected officials to
adopt an energy strategy based on clean renewable energy and
conservation.
- Future generations will thank us for
curbing our fossil fuel appetite.
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