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September 14,
2004
Jennifer van
Bergen
What's
Wrong with Torture?
September 13,
2004
Gabriel Kolko
Elections,
Alliances and the American Empire
Phillip Cryan
How Do You Say "Death Squad?": Language in Colombia's
War
Patrick Cockburn
One of Baghdad's Bloodiest Days: "I'm a Journalist! I'm
Dying! I'm Dying"
Noah Leavitt
The War on Civil Liberties
Robert Jensen
Highjacking Catastrophe: Bush, the Neo-Cons and 9/11
Mike Whitney
Alan Greenspan: Fed-Master to the Wealthy
John Chuckman
Stop Talking About the "Election"
Mike Burke
Kerry/Edwards Website Censors Discussion of Israel/Palestine
Issues
CounterPunch
Wire
The Quotations of David Cobb: "I Don't Care How Many Votes
I Get"
Website of the Day
Keep It In Your Pants: the Bush Plan to Combat Teen Promiscuity
September 11
/ 12, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Swatting
at Flies
Fred Gardner
Yet Another Prozac Scandal
Saul Landau
When Our Assassins Go Free
Jennifer Van Bergen
How to Beat Bush: a Simple Strategy for the Average American
Roger Burbach
/ Jim Tarbell
The Real Dead Enders: Iraq and the Crisis of Empire
Christopher Reed
9/11 in an Historical Context: a Minor Event When Compared to
Worldwide War Casualties
Francisc Catalin
An ABC of American Interventions
Carl Estabrook
Big Science and Government Terror
Bernard Chazelle
Anti-Americanism: a Clinical Study
Sharon Smith
Third Party Blues
Dave Lindorff
Perhaps This Time We're the Silent Majority
Mike Whitney
Fallujah: an Iraqi Beslan?
Frederick B.
Hudson
Their Sons Perished in the Flames, But Not Their Faith
Mickey Z.
Round Up the Usual Suspects: a Look Back at 9/11
Ron Jacobs
Redneck Music for the New Century
Greg Moses
Soap Opera Moments in Texas School Funding Trial
Benjamin Dangl
/ Andrew Kennis
An Interview with Leslie Cagan
Poets Basement
Del Papa, Albert, Gelman
September 10,
2004
Patrick Cockburn
Disappointment
at Samarrah?
Michael Donnelly
Democrats v. Democracy
Alan Farago
Mosquitoes in a Hurricane
Doug Giebel
Karl Rove's Terror Playbook
Mike Whitney
Bob Graham's Political Tsunami
David Domke
God's
Will, According to the Bush Administration
September 9,
2004
Joe Bageant
Karaoke
Night in Bush's America
Ed Kinane
Abducted in Baghdad
Peter Bohmer
The Cuban Revolution: Present and Future
Todd May
The Emerging Case for a Single-State Solution
Jeremy Scahill
The New York Model: Indymedia and the Text Message Jihad
Joshua Frank
Green House Party Gasses
Fran Shor
The Crisis in Public Dissent: When Protest is Considered a Terrorist
Act
Patrick Cockburn
Welcome
to the Dirtiest City in the World: Despair in Baghdad
Website of
the Day
Liberty Street Protest: No to War at Ground Zero
September 8,
2004
Patrick Cockburn
This
Doesn't Smell Like Victory: A War on Two Fronts in Iraq
Dave Lindorff
Bush Confuses; Kerry Mute: Spinning 1000 Dead
Bulent Gokay
Russian and Chechnia After Beslan
Lisa Viscidi
Land Reform and Conflict in Guatemala
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Byrd's Eye View
Mike Whitney
Afghanistan: American's Drug Colony
Stan Goff
Body
Count: 1001
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Bush and the Love Doctors
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September 7,
2004
Diane Christian
Hostage Tactics: a Game of Mortal Poker
Joshua Frank
Greens
Unravel from Within
Patrick Cockburn
Fallujah
Erupts Again: US Death Toll in Iraq Nears 1000
Ron Jacobs
Bush and Putin: "We're Not Girlie Men"
Chris Floyd
Cry Havoc: Bush's Own Personal Janjaweed
Dr. Carol Wolman
No Blood for Oil at Paul Bunyan Day Parade
John Ross
The
Politics of Darkness North / South
September 6,
2004
Alexander Cockburn
An
Anti-Labor Day That Lives in Infamy: How Many Democrats Voted
For Taft-Hartley?
Ralph Nader
The
Cruel Legacy of Taft-Hartley: a Labor Day Call for Rights for
Working People
Lee Sustar
What's Driving the Attack on Pensions?
Kathleen and
Bill Christison
Dual
Loyalties: the Bush Necons and Israel
September 4-5,
2004
Alexander Cockburn
Elephants
and Gramsci
Ted Honderich
The
Way Things Are
Sasan Fayazmanesh
The
Holy Empire: Who We Are and What We Do
Douglas Valentine
What the World Should Know About Guantanamo
Patrick Cockburn
New Iraqi Police State Flexes Its Muscles
Gary Leupp
Neo Cons Under Fire
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: the Hempstead T-Shirt
William A.
Cook
The
Day of the Lemming
Dave Zirin
Kobe Bryant and the Price of Freedom
John Chuckman
The Day the World Ended
Karyn Strickler
God Save the Endangered Species Act
Vanessa Jones
Bad Day with an Ikea Cup
Mike Whitney
Kerry: the "Better" War Candidate
Mark Donham
Dear John (Kerry): Start Explaining and Fast
Mickey Z.
McBypass Nation: Feeling Clinton's Pain
Alan Farago
Can the Everglades be Fixed?
Poets' Basement
Landau and Albert
September 3,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: Jesus Told Him Where to Bomb
Rahul Mahajan
Bush's RNC Speech: an Annotated Response
Carl Estabrook
The
Book of Slaughter and Forgetting
Joshua Frank
The Florida of the Northwest: Oregon Dems Sabotage Nader Again
Gary Leupp
Music to My Ears: Sunday's March
James Hollander
Deja Vu in Manhattan: Assisted Political Suicide?
Mark Engler
Republicans
Among Us: a Week at the RNC, Inside and Out
Jesse Sharkey
Making Students and Teachers Pay for the Crisis in Education
Jane Stillwater
Calling the Cops on Your Own Kid
Stephen Green
Serving
Two Flags: the Bush Neo-Cons and Israel
September 2,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: Part 3: More Pricks Than Kicks
Max Gimble
Et Tu, Menchu? Extrajudicial Killings and Clandestine Graves
in Guatemala
James Petras
President Chavez and the Referendum: Myths and Realities
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush and the Afghan Electoral Model: "If They Want to Vote
Twice, Let Them"
Todd Chretien & Jessie
Muldoon
Will the Democrats Expel Zell Miller?
Jack Random
Spite and Venom Day: the Turncoat and the Profiteer
Alan Maass
The Real Vietnam
Christa Allen
Contre Bush
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September 1,
2004
Alexander Cockburn
The
Stench of Doom
Kathleen and Bill Christison
Poor Larry Franklin
Dave Lindorff
Kerry's Litmus Test
Josh Frank
Protest in White: Not All of New York Rises Up
John L. Hess
Moles, Scoops and Flip Flops
Mike Whitney
Deconstructing Arnold
Jack Random
Kindergarten Night at the RNC
Andrew Wilson
War on the Pachyderms: Why Do Elephants Hate Us?
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: Part Two: Mark His Words
August 31,
2004
Joseph Nevins
Escapism
and Global Apartheid: The Dominican Republic & the NYTs
Matt Vidal
Beyond
Bush's Rhetoric on the Economy
Neve Gordon
Kerry and the Middle East
Dave Lindorff
Bush
the Peace Candidate?
Mike Whitney
NPR Leads the Charge for War Against Iran
Jack Random
Opening Night: Playing the War Card
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: the Life and Crimes of George W. Bush (Part One)
CounterPunch Photo of the Day
Pete Seeger in NYC
August 30,
2004
Justin Podhur
The
Disappeared Mayor
Shaun Joseph
The
Hypocrites at TheNaderbasher.com
Mike Whitney
Israeli Moles in the Pentagon: What More Could They Possibly
Want?
Ron Jacobs
Live, From New York: the Majority of Protesters Claimed No Candidate
David Lindorff
Sunday in Manhattan: the Sound of Marchin', Chargin' Feet, Boy
Dave Zirin
USA Basketball: The Team White America Loved to Hate
Sam Husseini
Israeli Spying on the US: a Long History
August 28 /
29, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Zombies
for Kerry
Patrick Cockburn
Najaf Ceasefire Good for Iraq, But Weakens Allawi and US
Ray McGovern
Blowing Smoke on Intelligence
Dr. Juan Romagoza
From El Salvador to Abu Ghraib: Reflections of Torture Survivor
Ray Hanania
An Israeli Spy in the Pentagon? Ridiculous!
Fred Gardner
Eddie Lepp Busted by DEA: Facing Life for Growing Medical Pot
Diane Christian
Big Men: the Better Leader Lets You Live
William S. Lind
The Desert Fox
Paul D'Amato
The Left Takes a Dive for Kerry
Joshua Frank
Greens at the Crossroads
Mickey Z.
Media Declares War on Anti-War Protests
Winslow T. Wheeler
Sen. McCain's Pork Chops: an Exchange
Justin E.H.
Smith
The New Age Racket and the Left
Thomas St. John
Burning Slaves at the Stake: On "Sinners in the Hands of
an Angry God"
Ali Tonak
Help the NYPD?
Mark Engler
New York Says "No"
Justin Felux
Haiti: the Attica of the Americas
Poets' Basement
Gelman, Albert, Ford and Hamod
August 27,
2004
Gary Leupp
Neocon
Musings
Robin Cook
The
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Diane Christian
Disarming
Michael Donnelly
Situational Democracy: the Show Me the Green Party?
Jack Random
4F and Other Heroes: an Army of War Resisters
Mike Ferner
"To the Swift Boats!"
Mazin Qumsiyeh
7000 Palestinian Political Prisoners
Veronza Bowers, Jr.
"You Won't Be Leaving Tomorrow"
August 26,
2004
M. Shahid Alam
The
Clash Thesis: a Failing Ideology?
Diane Christian
War
Rules: Bush is No Sun Tzu
Derek Seidman
"They're As Bad As Wal-Mart:" Starbucks Workers Get
Organized
David Lindorff
Court to RNC Protesters: Drop the Rally
Christopher
Brauchli
Signs of Dissent: the Bush in the Bubble
Stew Albert
Reporting Suspicious Activity
Mark Donham
Judgement in Athens: Give the Koreans Their Day in Court
Saul Landau
Pinochet:
the Al Capone of the Southern Cone
Website of
the Day
The Kerry 527 Ad You'll Never See
August 25,
2004
Amelia Peltz
Can
I Have 9.8 Seconds of Your Time?
Noah Leavitt
Defining and Redefining Torture
Ron Jacobs
Takin' It to the Streets: It's Not About the Election, It's About
Democracy
James Brooks
Coronado Crosses the Jordan
Akiva Eldar
How to Win the Jewish Vote: Turn Gaza into a "Mini-Afghanistan"
Gemma Araneta
Chavez's New Brand of Populism
Philip Cryan
Uribe's Boys: the Death Squads of Colombia
CounterPunch Wire
Cheney Opens the Closet Door
August 24,
2004
Jeremy Scahill
John
Kerry: the Warchurian Candidate
Gary Leupp
"We
Want Them to Go Away"
David Domke
God
Willing: an Echoing Press and Political Fundamentalism
William Loren Katz
The Meaning of Hugo Chávez: Black and Indian Power in
Venezuela
Jonah Gindin
With Chavez? Reading the International Private Media
Fran Schor
Denying Atrocities: From Vietnam to Fallujah
Joe Bageant
Driving
on the Bones of God
Website of the Day
The Great America Lockdown: a Primer for the RNC
August 23,
2004
Winslow Wheeler
Don't
Mind If I Do: Porkbarrel and the War on Terror
John Pilger
Bush
May Be the Lesser Evil
Stan Goff
Swift
Boat Dogfight
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
Notes
from the West Bank: Build, Demolish, Rebuild
Mike Whitney
The Unraveling of Afghanistan
William Blum
Brave
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Ralph Nader
A Letter to the Washington Post: a Shameful and Unsavory Editorial
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Brian Cloughley
The
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Josh Frank
Nader as David Duke? The ADL Wants You to Think So
Mike Whitney
Reincarnating Mengele: the Torture Doctors of Abu Ghraib
Ron Jacobs
Day Labor Blues
Mickey Z.
Shooting at Whales: 40 Years After Tonkin
Fred Gardner
Dr. Wolman Comes Out: The Cannabis Consultants
Dave Zirin
Uprising in Athens: Iraqi Soccer Team Gives Bush the Boot
Josh Saxe
Witnessing Police Brutality in LA
Yanar Mohammed
Letter from Baghdad: a Democracy of Killings and Bombings
Helen Williams
Ali's Story: a Taste of Reality from Baghdad
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September 14, 2004
The Orations
of Zell Miller
The
Peckerwood Pericles
By
WERTHER*
"If the fellow was sincere,
then so was P.T. Barnum. The word is disgraced and degraded by
such uses. He was, in fact, a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany
without any shame or dignity. What animated him from end to end
of his grotesque career was simply ambition - the ambition of
a common man to get his hand upon the collar of his superiors,
or, failing that, to get his thumb into their eyes. He was born
with a roaring voice, and it had the trick of inflaming half-wits
against their betters, that he himself might shine."
Anno 1925, H.L. Mencken penned those
uncharitable words about William Jennings Bryan after the letter
exited both his public career and the realm of the animate. Anno
2004, as the Hon. Zell Miller, senior Senator from Georgia, approaches
the end of his public career, the nation - or at least that portion
of it that still possesses of a sense of irony - wishes the Sage
of Baltimore could be living at this hour, so as to properly
limn the life and works of this latest personification of a recurring
American archetype: the country-fried demagogue.
Bryan himself was hardly the
purest example of this species: he was born in Nebraska and as
candidate for president held economic views that today, a century
later, Sean Hannity would denounce as socialist. The true hatchery
of genus demogogus is the Deep South: that intellectual Gobi
where Kudzu strangles the Magnolia even as revivalism strangles
thought.
And what a shining roster of
rabble-rousers it has been: "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman;
James K. Vardeman; "Cotton Ed" Smith ("my job
is to keep N[egroes] down and the price of cotton up");
Orville Faubus; W. Lee ("Pass the biscuits Pappy")
O'Daniel; Herman ("Hummun") Tallmadge; J. Strom Thurmond;
the pre-makeover George C. Wallace; Lester Maddox[1]; and a plague
of other rascals.
What is it that distinguishes
this omnium gatherum of kooks, aside from their uniformly strident
exacerbation of poisonous race relations, the chief curse and
original sin of this republic? A close examination of genus demagogus
australis since at least the time of Reconstruction reveals the
following stigmata:
Anti-intellectualism. Consonant
with the region's historical record in the provision of public
education and learning generally, the South's demagogues assume
the pose of the "wise fool," whose cracker-barrel homilies
are presumed to be far more instructive than the works of Aristotle.
The most cursory reading of Zell's latest literary opus provides
verification of this thesis. It is difficult to decide, however,
whether this disposition is due to a consciousness that the lights
of science and learning (e.g., evolution) are inimical to the
powers and principalities of revivalism, or whether the anti-intellectual
stump speaker merely hates what he cannot comprehend. Zell Miller
listening to chamber music, or watching Hamlet, would arouse
as much astonishment as seeing a chimpanzee playing the viola
da gamba.
Populism as a mask for oligarchy.
Historically, the genus has expressed overwelling sympathy for
the common man, whether as the flybitten sharecropper of Tobacco
Road or as the NASCAR dad in sprawling suburban Atlanta who yells
at his television set. This concern, however, never quite translates
into concrete progress for the common man.
Instead, the demagogue shows
an unwavering respect for the interests of power companies, pulp
paper barons, and agribusiness in any contest between management
and the common man's unions or the consumer's wallet. The demagogue's
theoretical hatred of the meddling Yankee central government
melts before the lure of defense contracts, Corps of Engineers
water projects, and similar assaults on the taxpayer. The last
time the Southern politico showed an unaccustomed respect for
science was when the Texas Congressional delegation lobbied furiously
for the Superconducting Supercollider - the particle physics
equivalent of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.
For one so religiously devoted
to populist causes, one would think the Southern-fried pol would
take up the cause of the common man with respect to the loss
of manufacturing jobs. Yet he evinces substantially greater support
for "free trade" (i.e., reverse mercantilism) than
his counterpart in other regions of the United States. This may
be in part a hangover from the Old Confederacy, when the Southern
slaveocracy was a willing cog in the financial machinery controlled
by British merchant banking. But it is mostly explained by the
logic of campaign finance: in any conflict of interest between
the Yankee money centers of Wall Street (the latter having replaced
the effete Brits) and poor, grits-eating Tom Joad, guess who
wins?
That Old Time Religion. If,
as Mencken averred, Southern evangelicals "practiced a theology
debased almost to the level of voodooism," he would boggle
at twenty-first century developments. The objects of Mencken's
withering scorn were, in his view, culturally retrograde and
guilty of battening upon a helpless country by force of law the
worst socio-theological nostrum in our history: Prohibition.
But after 80 years of putative
Enlightenment, the descendants of John Scopes's tormenters have
concocted a new level of silliness that would render Mencken
speechless: end-times religion for export by the military force
of the United States Government. According to this vision, sending
cannon fodder to die in heathen Babylon is a good thing because
a spreading Middle East war will hasten the Apocalypse: whereupon
the scapulae of the faithful will sprout wings lofting them into
Bliss Eternal while infidels [2] will be consumed in the fiery
furnace.
Can one picture the carnival
of bunkum that attended Judge Roy Moore and the Ten Commandments
controversy occurring in Auckland, New Zealand, Oxford (the English
one, not Mississippi), or St. Tropez? Or Brattleboro, Vermont,
for that matter. But this sort of theological exegesis is the
meat and drink of the Southern demagogue, however much an examination
of his private life shows him to be anything but prudish in his
actual behavior. [3]
Patriotism as a mask for unfocused
belligerence. Two of some of the most retrograde cultural strains
on the planet went into the making of the old South: the English
cavalier and the Scots borderer. [4] From the former came the
following institutions: chattel slavery; indentured servitude
(to re-emerge after the Civil War as sharecropping); the code
duello; various sports involving cruelty to animals (cock fighting,
bear baiting, etc.); enthusiasm for whipping, branding, and capital
punishment; and a debt-service national economy. From the border
reivers came a love of violence for its own sake; hatred of learning;
and a periodic susceptibility to the more outlandish forms of
evangelicalism.
Times may change, but ingrained
habits persist. What really changes is the outward rationale
for these habits. Fifty years ago a demagogue on the State House
steps could cry "segregation forever" or rail in favor
of Ku Kluxery, but such sentiments are verboten today - or at
least hedged with tortuous euphemism. Enthusiasm for cruelty
to animals would elicit a frozen disgust from the sane listener.
But the aggressive impulse needs an outlet.
Hence the Southern martial
enthusiasm, articulated by shoals of Dixie catchpolls from Carl
Vinson of yore to the current incomparable Zell. One may think
this passion is motivated to a degree by the rewards of pork-barrel
spending, and so it is. But the belligerence and war-loving are
as real as their zest for Coca-Cola and Moon Pies.
Zell was no doubt being sincere
(at least as sincere as any practical politician can be) when
he regaled the mob of Babbitts in New York about the glorious
imperial project in Iraq. Those who doubt the rightness of our
course, he said, would prefer to throw "spitballs"
at the enemy. Skeptics who talk of the occupation of Iraq were
crazy if not seditious; the Peckerwood Pericles would have us
know in no uncertain terms that the proper word is "liberation."
Zell would have us stay the course, a policy that might be illustrated
by a 12 September 2004 Reuters article recounting a U.S. helicopter
rocketing a group of Iraqis crowding around a disabled Bradley
Fighting Vehicle. The incident killed 13 people, including a
reporter, and wounded 61; the U.S. military woodenly stated that
the helicopter destroyed the Bradley "to prevent looting
and harm to the Iraqi people." Some spitballs. Some liberation.
Some harm-prevention.
It would be tempting to dismiss
Zell as a charlatan in Karl Rove's traveling medicine show: a
mere attraction for the gaping yokels. It would be tempting to
dismiss the entire historical pageant of Southern demagogues
as no more than a wart on the body politic - unsightly, a bit
embarrassing, but not threatening.
It would be tempting, indeed,
to regard the whole complex of political neuroses herein described
as a regrettable but minor aberration in the national narrative:
the great sweep of the popular idea of sovereignty and democratic
self-government from Plymouth Rock, to Independence Hall, to
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, to FDR's More Abundant Life; from
Melville's Young America, to Whitman's Broad Democratic Vistas,
to Sandburg's The People, Yes, The People.
But there is another, competing
narrative.[5] It begins in the London counting houses as an idea.
It makes its way to the slave pens of Conakry, and jumps to the
the Western Hemisphere via the cane plantations of Barbados.
It makes continental landfall in Charleston, South Carolina;
it drives through the Old South to the Rio Grande. It is a socio-economic
idea composed of financier-driven "free trade;" resource
exploitation consisting of vast, soil-depleting monocultures
(plantations then, agribusiness and oil now); human labor as
a cheap commodity[6]; and the culture of violence. This idea
is responsible for the most nearly successful conspiracy (so
far) to attempt the overthrow Constitutional government in the
American Republic, taking 600,000 lives in the process.
Is it too far fetched to say
Jefferson Davis's dream of a great Southern plant ation empire
stretching through Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America,
an empire of compliant natives and lucrative resource extraction,
was never definitively thwarted? Or did it merely slumber, like
a serpent coiled in the national thicket, waiting for the right
geopolitical circumstances and psychological tenor to re-emerge,
in appearance different but in substance the same? Let us not
forget that the reins of government are now held by two Texas
oil patch millionaires; substituting for dreamy Veracruz, Havana,
Cartagena, and Santo Domingo are the flintier but no less exotic
Djibouti, Basra, Kirkuk, and the fabled Khyber Pass.
Thus considered, Zell Miller's
chief significance is as folksy bard of the new overseas plantation.
Werther is the pen name of a Northern Virginia-based
defense analyst.
[1] Governor Maddox is the
link to Miller in the demagogic line of succession. Miller began
in politics in the 1960s as an aide to Maddox, who had gained
local fame through chasing black patrons from his restaurant
by distributing ax handles to white customers. When Maddox died
in 2003, a segregationist to the last, Miller gave a heartfelt
eulogy.
[2] Infidels would include
unconverted Jews (sorry, Ariel). Evangelical necromancers somehow
reconcile this future holocaust with obedient support for the
present state of Israel.
[3] As a close reading of the
past deeds of the late J. Strom Thurmond, "Hot Tub Tom"
DeLay, and self-proclaimed Georgian Newt Gingrich will disclose.
[4] Albion's Seed by David
Hackett Fisher explores this phenomenon in detail.
[5] How the South Finally Won
the Civil War by Charles Potts is a quirky but inspired exploration
of this theme.
[6] The South has progressed
all the way from chattel slavery through sharecropping to the
union-busting of Wal-Mart: progress certainly, but progress measured
at the pace of glacial epochs.
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On "Shame": Warmed-Over Orientalism and Racist Projection
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All About Eve: Open Season on Women in DC and Rome
Andrew Fenton
Fighting for Democracy and Justice in Haiti
Aseem Shrivastava
Saga of an Anguished Afghan
Neil Corbett
See Cuba: Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar, Mr. Bush
Carol Miller
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Rigged Convention; Divided Party: How David Cobb Won with Only
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Tarek Milleron
Breaking the Principled Voter
Donald Macintyre
The
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Ron Jacobs
Spirits of The Dead: Why I Love My Petty Bourgeois Tendencies
Mickey Z.
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