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August
4, 2003
Bruce
Jackson
News that Isn't News: How the NYT's
Pimps for the White House
August
2 / 3, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Meet the Real WMD Fabricator: Rolf
Ekeus
Tamara
R. Piety
Nike's Full Court Press Breaks Down
Francis
Boyle
My Alma Mater, the University of Chicago, is a Moral Cesspool
David
Vest
Sons of Paleface: Pictures from Death's Other Side
Neve Gordon
Nightlife in Jerusalem
Uri
Avnery
Their Master's Voice:
Bush, Blair and Intelligence Snafus
Robert
Fisk
Paternalistic Democracy for Iraq
Jerry
Kroth
Israel, Yellowcake and the Media
Noah Leavitt
What's Driving the Liberian Bloodbath: Is the US Obligated to
Intervene?
Saul
Landau
The Film Industry: Business and Ideology
Ron Jacobs
One Big Prison Yard: the Meaning of George Jackson
Thomas
Croft
In the Deep, Deep Rough: Reflections on Augusta
Amadi Ajamu
Def Sham: Russell Simmons New Black Leader?
Poets'
Basement
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August
1, 2003
Joanne
Mariner
Stopping Prison Rape
Alex Coolman
Who Moved My Soap: Trivializing
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Steve
J.B.
Prison Bitch
Stan Goff
Injury and Decorum: The Missing Wounded in Iraq
Wayne
Madsen
Europe Unplugs from the Matrix
Robert
Fisk
Wolfowitz the Censor
Elaine
Cassel
Ashcroft Loses Big in Puerto Rico
Website
of the Day
Stop Prisoner Rape
July
31, 2003
Ray
McGovern
The Prostitution of Intelligence
Brian
Cloughley
Wolfowitz's Operative Statement
Sheldon
Hull
The RIAA's Jihad:
The Devil's Music (Industry)
Elaine
Cassel
The Next Time You Crack a Lawyer Joke, Think of These Attorneys
Sheldon
Rampton
and John Stauber
True Lies: Propaganda and Bush's
Wars
Hammond
Guthrie
Speculation Blues
Website
of the Day
Army of One?
July
30, 2003
David
Lindorff
Poindexter the Terror Bookie
Marjorie
Cohn
Why Iraq and Afghanistan? It's About
the Oil
Elaine
Cassel
How Ashcroft Coerces Guilty Pleas
in Terror Cases
Zvi
Bar'el
The Hidden Costs of the Iraq War
Lisa Walsh
Thomas
Killing Mustafa Hussein: Death of a Child, Birth of a Legend?
Sean
Carter
Pat Robertson's Prayer Jihad: God, Sodomy and the Supremes
ND Jayaprakash
India and Ariel Sharon
Steve
Perry
Bush's Top 40 Lies
Standard
Schaefer
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Website
of the Day
Bring Them Home Now!
Congratulations
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July
29, 2003
Jeffrey
St. Clair
"Journalist Spotted! Journalist
Dead!" Guatemala Bleeds; US Press Yawns
Thomas
J. Nagy
The Belligerent Dr. Pipes
Kurt Nimmo
Tom Delay Goes to Jerusalem
Chris
Floyd
Dead Reckoning: Bush Warriors Sign Off on War Crimes
Robert
Fisk
Another Botched Raid; Another Massacre
Jason Leopold
Did Chalabi Help Write Bush's State of the Union Address?
Conn Hallinan
Food Bully: Bush's Biotech Shock and Awe Campaign
Dan
Bacher
Sacramento's War on Free Speech
Ray
McGovern
Cheney Chicanery
Website
of the Day
Julie Hilden Caught on Tape
July 26 / 27, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
NYT's Screws Up Again; Uday and
Qusay Deaths Bad for Bush; Gen. Hitchens at the Front
Gary
Leupp
Faith-Based Intelligence
Saul Landau
A Report from Syria
Stan
Goff
Bring 'Em On Home, Now!
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Book Cooking at Boeing
Andrew
Cockburn
The Sons Are Dead; Now the Blood Feud
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The Power of Death
Joanne
Mariner
Monsieur Moussaoui
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Joblessness and the Invisible Hand
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The Global Economy Since 1800: a Short History
Harry
Browne
Northern Ireland: the Other Faltering Peace Process
Fidel Castro
Moncada, 50 Years Later
Lula
Democracy Requires Social Justice
Edward
S. Herman
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Ron Jacobs
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Julie
Hilden
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Adam Engel
Man Talk
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Keeney, Witherup, Short, Nimba, Guthrie and Albert
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Steve
J.B.
Prison Bitch
Sheldon
Rampton and John Stauber
True Lies: the Use of Propaganda
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Wendell
Berry
Small Destructions Add Up
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Corrie
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Elaine
Cassel
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Guerrin
Embedded Photographer Says: "I
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Uzma
Aslam Khan
The Unbearably Grim Aftermath of War:
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Paul de Rooij
Arrogant
Propaganda
Gore Vidal
The
Erosion of the American Dream
Francis Boyle
Impeach
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August
4, 2003
George
F. Will: Descent into Self-Parody
Will Will be
Will?
By
MARK ZEPEZAUER
It appears that George F. Will has finally become
a parody of himself. The ethically challenged millionaire pundit
has got his bow tie in a bunch in a navel-gazing column which
frets that conservatism may have been "rendered incoherent."
This, he whines, is "the summer of conservatives' discontent"
(of course no Will column would be complete without a quote or
paraphrase from his well-thumbed Bartlett's).
It doesn't seem to matter that so-called
"conservatives" now control all three branches of government,
neartly every major corporation, the lion's share of the mass
media, and the proprietary software for the nation's touch-screen
voting systems. "Disconcerting" things have happened
of late; presumably Will won't be satisfied until the last liberal
has crossed the Canadian border.
Are you ready for this? It seems that
the current administration has been insufficiently faithful to
the bedrock principle of "marginalizing the UN" (Of
course, Will knows what he's talking about when it comes to being
insufficiently faithful). I'm sure both he and you would be hard-pressed
to come up with another American politician who's done more to
marginalize the UN, but some people are never satisfied.
The problem is that in their ongoing
efforts to keep all their lies and cover stories straight, the
White House has had to back off a few furlongs from their assertions
that the dilapidated Iraqi regime had a dagger at our throat.
But that leaves them uncomfortably "close
to asserting" that we went to war simply to enforce UN resolutions.
Will doesn't explain why anybody should believe a single thing
the White House says any more about their various policy rationales,
but he sure is disconcerted.
Of course, the fact that our armed forces
are now so dangerously overextended and bogged down that the
Crawford Cowboy may have to go crawling back to the UN chewing
on barbecued crow may also serve to demarginalize the institution
somewhat.
Will also claims, against all common
sense, that the Usurper-in-Chief is actually interested in expanding
the Medicare entitlement, rather than destroying it. Will appears
disappointed that the White House has backed off the attempt
to strangle Medicare immediately and must content themselves
with starving the program until it can be, in Grover Norquist's
memorable phrase, drowned in the bathtub .
But these sorrows are as nothing compared
to the fact that the Supreme Court still does not consist of
nine clones of Antonin Scalia. Lamentably, the Court has now
prevented Americans from passing "laws intended to strengthen
a majority's moral principles" - that is, laws empowering
police to arrest lovers in their bedrooms.
Never mind that this same court has stood
by whistling while the First, Fourth, Sixth, Eighth, Fourteenth
and Sixteenth amendments have been eviscerated. Never mind that
the Court has used judicial activism of the most breathtaking
sweep to read into the Eleventh amendment their own right to
nullify any Congressional regulation of commerce. Never mind
that the Court did "conservatives" the service of halting
the lawful counting of votes so that their well-funded spokesman
might assume the trappings of state.
Doggone it, if you can't win every single
time, what fun is it to control all three branches?
Mark Zepezauer is an author and cartoonist
based in Tucson, Arizona. His most recent book is Boomerang!
How Our Covert Wars Have Created Enemies Across The Middle East
And Brought Terror To America, from Common Courage Press.
Weekend Edition Features for August 2/3, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Meet the Real WMD Fabricator: Rolf
Ekeus
Tamara
R. Piety
Nike's Full Court Press Breaks Down
Francis
Boyle
My Alma Mater, the University of Chicago, is a Moral Cesspool
David
Vest
Sons of Paleface: Pictures from Death's Other Side
Neve Gordon
Nightlife in Jerusalem
Uri
Avnery
Their Master's Voice:
Bush, Blair and Intelligence Snafus
Robert
Fisk
Paternalistic Democracy for Iraq
Jerry
Kroth
Israel, Yellowcake and the Media
Noah Leavitt
What's Driving the Liberian Bloodbath: Is the US Obligated to
Intervene?
Saul
Landau
The Film Industry: Business and Ideology
Ron Jacobs
One Big Prison Yard: the Meaning of George Jackson
Thomas
Croft
In the Deep, Deep Rough: Reflections on Augusta
Amadi Ajamu
Def Sham: Russell Simmons New Black Leader?
Poets'
Basement
Vega, Witherup, Albert and Fleming
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