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Hypocrisy in Florida

Babbitt: I Was Wronged!

From New Orleans to Midland

Bruce Babbitt:
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Fear and Torture:
Inside a Genoa Jail

Katharine Graham:
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Scenes from the Drug War

Nuked Baltimore?

Condit and the Lie Detector

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by Douglas Valentine

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Hell Hath No Fury
Like a Dragon Scorned

Tariq Ali: What Blair's Victory Means for Britain's Left

Indian Affairs

Trout and Ethnic Cleansing

The Jeffords Jump

Defunct Dems

Pearl Harbor Revisited

Jesse Jackson and
the Movement

Kerrey the Throat Slitter

Hate Crime Follies

Curtains for Jeb Bush?

Kerrey and His Liberal
Defenders

Shocked About Kerrey?
You Shouldn't Be

The F-22 Fighter:
Tiffany's On Wings

Linebaugh:
a May Day Meditation

A Letter from the
Trenches of Vieques

Berkshire's Quebec Diary

McVeigh and OK City

Ken Burns Kills Jazz

The Politics of Eminem

The Crimes of Ariel Sharon

Depleted Uranium:
Cancer as Weapon

TR, Clinton, Powell and Plan Colombia

Ashcroft an Extremist?

Farewell Bill and HIll

Criminalizing Youth

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Pentagon Auctions
Off the White House

South Carolina's Flag

Attack on Micro-Radio

The CounterPunch 100:
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment:
Lee Davis Execution Photos

Children In Banana Trees:
a photo exhibit by David Bacon

Bill Gates' Mugshot

Colombia:
Is It the Next Guatemala?

George W. Bush's Money Men:
The 119 Pioneers

What Set Off Ted K.?: The Unabomber, the CIA & LSD

CounterPunch Stories March / Nov. 2004

November 19, 2004

Cockburn / St. Clair
Mementos You Won't Find in the Clinton Library: Back in the 90s When We Were Happy

Kevin Alexander Gray
Soul Brother: the Exhibit You Won't See at the Clinton Library

Paul Craig Roberts
There's No One to Stop Them Now

Jack Z. Bratich
Digging Out Kerry and Burying the Bones(men)

Greg Bates
The Implosion of the Dems and the Death of Pragmatism (Hurray!)

Christopher Brauchli
Terror by Night: Waking Up to Darfur?

Forrest Hylton
At a Loss: for Margaret Hassan

James Petras
The Crushing of Fallujah

November 18, 2004

Brian Cloughley
Iraq War as Video Game: "I Got My Kills...I Just Love My Job"

Hugh Urban
America, "Left Behind": Bush, the Neo-Cons and Evangelical Christian Fiction

Luis A. Gómez
The Bolivian Crisis Deepens

Robert Fisk
The Murder of Margaret Hassan

Suzan Mazur
The New York Times Fesses Up to a Rip Off

Prof. Francis Boyle
Dems Cave on Gonzales: War Criminal as Attorney General?

Mike Ferner
Sign Here, Kid

 

November 17, 2004

Christian Harleman / Jan Oberg
Who and What Killed Our Friend Margaret Hassan?

Dave Lindorff
Bring Them Home Before They Kill Again

Larry Birns
Condi Rice and Latin America: She Sees Enemies Everywhere

Toni Solo
Rumsfeld in Nicaragua

Omar Barghouti
Snuff Films and War Crimes in Iraq

Clancy Sigal
"How to Take a Beating": Gen. Stilwell's Lessons for Iraq

Brita May Rose
America's Radioactive War: DU in Iraq

Ben Terrall
"We Must Kill the Bandits!": Lula's Troops in Haiti

Sam Hamod
The New Mongols

David Krieger
An Open Letter to the Regents of the University of California on Nuclear Weapons Research

Pierre Tristam
It Has Happened Here

John Marciano
Oppose the War and the Warriors: "Iraqis are a Cancer. An We're the Chemotherapy"

Website of the Day
Fallujah: the Real Story

 

 

November 16, 2004

Paul Craig Roberts
Declining Superpower Act: the Coming Currency Shock

Mike Whitney
The Goss Purge: Night of the Long Knives at CIA

Uri Avnery
Rejoice Not: Arafat's Funeral

Andrew Buncombe
Murder in a Fallujah Mosque

Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
On Refusing to be Silenced: Sen. Bill Frist v. John Quincy Adams

Rudy Rimando
Cousins of Color: Black Soldiers in the Philippines, 1899

Jordan Green
Fighting Jim Crow in Cincy: The Old South Lives ... Across the River

Hugh Urban
The Ohio "Vote": Ken Blackwell Has Some Explaining to Do

Steve Breyman
Challenges for the Peace Movement

John Ross
Bush in Rapture

Website of the Day
We Doomed?

 


November 15, 2004

Larry Birns
A Resignation Without Meaning: Powell and Latin America

Walt Brasch
On the (Far) Right Hand of God

John Pilger
The Greatest Political Scandal of Our Time

John Chuckman
Welcome to Ripley's Believe It or Not of Christianity

Francis A. Boyle
Obliterating Fallujah: War Crime in Real Time

Georgy / Sengupta
Fallujah in Ruins: The Air is Polluted with the Stench of Death

Ralph Nader
Voters v. Sports Fans

Neve Gordon
The "No Partner" Myth

Donna J. Volatile
So What Are You Going to Do About It?

Werther
On Reading the Duelfer Report

 

 

November 13 / 14, 2004

Alexander Cockburn
"Let Them Drink Sand!"

David Domke
Bush, God and the Election: a Theology of War?

James Petras
The Politics of Imperialism: Neoliberalism and Latin America

Carl G. Estabrook
How to Stop the GWOT: "Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil!"

Stan Goff
Torture and the Cinema

Dave Lindorff
The Ruins of Fallujah

Mike Whitney
Fallujah and the Erosion of American Power

Ron Jacobs
Waiting for the Last War to End

Alan Maass
The Rise and Fall of Gingrich: a Parable for Our Times

Lenni Brenner
"Next"...a Prison Tale

Gary Leupp
France's Little Vietnam: Imperialist France Destroys an African Air Force

Jessica Leight / Larry Birns
Haiti: the New Regime Shows Its Colors

Heather Gray
Whistling Dixie: Bush's Reelection, a Perspective from the South

Jordan Green
Ohio's Provisional Ballots: the State of Play

Robert Fisk
Arafat Ruled by Emotion and Cronyism

Omar Barghouti
The Death of Arafat and the Two-State SOlution

Fred Gardner
Marijuana: an Election Scorecard

Christopher Brauchli
When a POW Isn't a POW: the Other Torture Memo

Joanne Mariner
A Preview of the Scalia Court

Dr. Susan Block
Blue Values

Patrick Timmons
Violence at the Ballot Box: the War on Gay Rights

Mickey Z.
Rumor Club

Poets Basement
Hasan, Albert, Kent, St. Clair

Website of the Weekend
The Hand of God?

 

November 12, 2004

Forrest Hylton / Sinclair Thomson
Insurgent Bolivia: the Roots of Rebellion

November 11, 2004

Peggy Thomson
Encounters with Arafat

Joe Bageant
Hung Over in the End Times: Heaven's Foot Soldiers Escape the Dog Patch

Ben Tripp
The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grief

Edwin Krales
Cuba's Response to AIDS: a Model for the Developing World

Jordan Green
How They Tried to Suppress the Black Vote in South Carolina

Gary Leupp
Guzman's Fist

Mike Whitney
Meet Your New AG: Alberto Torquemada

Sam Bahour
Palestine is Bigger Than Arafat

Sylvia Shihadeh and Robert Jensen
The Irony of Arafat

Russ Wellen
Why Do They Laugh at Us?

Mark Scaramella
Kerry's Enablers: the Clinton Cult Factor

 

November 10, 2004

Joshua Frank
The Bright Side of Bush's Reelection

Mickey Z.
The Worst President Ever?: Bush + Clinton = Bubya

Stan Goff
Debating a Neo-Con

Mike Whitney
Exit Ashcroft

Dave Lindorff
Taking a Leak on the Bush Bulge

Ghada Karmi
After Arafat

Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste
Letter from a Haitian Jail

Rev. Bob Jones, III
A Letter to President Bush: "God Has Granted America a Reprieve"

Bernestine Singley
Tampa Vote: Dispatches from the Ground

Website of the Day
Free Camilo Mejia

 

 

November 9, 2004

Meredeth Kolodner
Rebuilding the Anti-War Movement

Saul Landau
The Appeal of George W. Bush: a Mystery for the World to Solve

Brian Cloughley
Diego Garcia and Freedom, Bush-Style

Charles Glass
US is Failing the Test of History in Iraq

Robert Fisk
Arafat Died Years Ago

Paul Craig Roberts
The American Century is Over

Adam Federman
Witch Hunt at Columbia: Middle East Profs Smeared as Anti-Semites

M. Junaid Alam
The Discredited Logic of ABB

Tony Kevin
Fallujah and the Making of a War Crime

Pierre Tristam
Zealots on the Mount: Get Voltaire on Speed Dial!

Patrick Cockburn
Crushing Fallujah Will Not End the Iraq War

Website of the Day
Don't Blame the Voters!

 

 

November 8, 2004

Roger Burbach
Out of the Ashes: Bush Win is a Defeat for Democrats, Not the Left

Dave Lindorff
Lessons from a Quagmire: Fallujah, the Hue of Iraq

Greg Moses
After the Morning After: On the Homefront of the Civil War

Greg Bates
Nader's Election Legacy: Something to Stand On

Michael Donnelly
The Hit-and-Run Left: From ABB to CYA

Nick Schwellenbach
Gutting FOIA: the Harm of Too Much Secrecy

Adam Jones
Men vs. Civilians in Fallujah

Amelia Peltz
Note from Palestine: This Is Not the Time for Despair

David Swanson
The Media Black Out on Vote Fraud

Brian Rainey
The Devil Made Them Do It? Elections, Religion and the American People

Poets' Basement
Albert, Landau, Hamod

Website of the Day
A Report on the US Supply of Toxic Weapons to Iraq

 

 

November 6 / 7, 2004

Alexander Cockburn
Don't Say We Didn't Warn You

Jeffrey St. Clair
Green Out

Carl G. Estabrook
Who Killed Cock Robin?

Saul Landau
Che: the Man and the Movie

Gary Leupp
Let There Be Conflict!

Ben Tripp
You Call This a Party?

Paul Craig Roberts
The October Numbers: Continuing Stress on the Jobs Front

Jordan Green
Heroin, Cocaine and Espanola, NM

Fred Gardner
Haul of Justice

J.A. Miller
Cults of the Jealous God: the Balfour Decision Reconsidered

Ramzy Baroud
Life Without Arafat

Dave Zirin
Out at the Ballgame: Pro Sports and the Gay Athelete

Ron Jacobs
The Arrow on the Doorpost

Robert Oscar Lopez
How White Liberals Became a New Racial Minority

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The November Surprise

Dave Lindorff
Silver Linings

Richard Oxman
Invitation to the Bodily Snatched

John Whitlow
Value Wars: the View from Lexington, Kentucky

Rahul Mahajan
Fallujah and the Reality of War

Leila Matsui
Political "Ju-On": Carrying a Grudge

 

November 5, 2004

David Vest
The Not-Bush Brothers: a Fond Farewell

Elizabeth Boylan
The Dems and Faith-Based Politics

Conn Hallinan
War Crimes and Iraq

David Zonsheine
Poetry and the Courage to Refuse

Cynthia McKinney
It's a New Day!

Elaine Cassel
Running from the Religious Right

Chris Geovanis
First Protect Your Vote: Lessons for Democrats on Fixing Elections from Chicago

Rob Ritchie
Election 2004 by the Numbers

Jo Guldi
The Beast of History is In

 

 

November 4, 2004

Sharon Smith
The Self-Fulfilling Prophesy of Lesser-Evilism

CounterPunch Wire
Bush Voters: 2000 v. 2004

Ben Tripp
My Fellow Americans...Get Stuffed!

Michael Donnelly
Why Not Blame Rosie?

Vijay Prashad
An Election of Homophobia and Misogyny

Jules Rabin
De Profundis: the Morning After

Robert Jensen
Politics and Professions of Faith: "Your Rich Men are Full of Violence"

Zoltan Grossman
Blue State Secession: the Only Solution?

Jonah Birch
1968 and Today

Dave Lindorff
What Went Wrong?

Jack McCarthy
I Knew It Was Over When Michael Moore Showed Up: He Was For Nader...Before He Was Against Him

Donna J. Volatile
Ahoy Kerrycrats! Welcome to Our Nightmare

Paul Craig Roberts
The Bright Side of Black Tuesday

 

 

November 3, 2004

James Hodge / Linda Cooper
The CIA and Abu Ghraib: 50 Years of Training Torturers

Ann Harrison
The Ghost Votes in the Machine: Voting Snafus Across the Nation

Greg Moses
Blues for Fallujah

Anis Memon
The Moral (Values) of This Election

Mickey Z.
Post Mortem

Josh Frank
The Dems Should be Ashamed

Chris Floyd
No Ways Tired: Defeat, Dissent and the Bush Machine

spArk
Smoke Signals from Portland: Karmic Blowback and the Democrats

Friedrich von Schiller
Folly, Thou Conquerest

Cockburn / St. Clair
Democrats in End Time: Who to Blame Now?

 

November 2, 2004

Gary Leupp
Democratic Elections in Historical Perspective: The Wrong Side Wins

Lance Selfa
Selling the War on Terror

Laura Carlsen
The US Elections and Latin America: Can the US Ever be a Good Neighbor?

James Davis
To Control the Event: Attention Bicyclists

Richard Oxman
Getting Up with Osama

Dr. Ira Kay
A Mental Map of the Bush Presidency

Jesse Walker
Frankenstein v. Chucky: the Halloween Election

Thomas C. Mountain
Election '24, Deja Vu?: LaFollette, Nader, & the "Most Important Election of Our Lifetimes"

 

November 1, 2004

Cockburn / St. Clair
How Bush Was Offered Bin Laden and Blew It

Dave Lindorff
Bulgegate Confirmed; Press Yawns

Greg Bates
Nader Voter Survey Results

Roger Morris
Novel Politics: Only Fiction Can Do This Election Justice

Diane Christian
Death Tolls

Lenni Brenner
Secularists Be Warned: Christlike Kerry Roams Spiritual Universe

Christopher C. Conway
Can the Left Sink Any Lower?

Francis Boyle
Legal Elites and the Iraq War: the Nazis Had Their Law Professors, Too

Jason Leopold
Rummy's Failed War Plan

Website of the Day
Dylan Resurrects "Masters of War"

 

 

October 30 / 31, 2004

JoAnn Wypijewski
The Long March and the Million Worker March

Winslow T. Wheeler
Spartacus Tells All

Bruce Anderson
Notes from the Big Empty: When the Hippies Invaded NoCal

Vicente Navarro
They Worked for Franco: How Sec. of State Cordell Hull and Nobel Laureate Camilo Jose Cela Collaborated with the Fascist Regime

Robin Blackburn
How Monica Lewinsky Saved Social Security

Greg Bates
A Question of Character: What Makes Nader Tick?

Nancy Welch
The American Health Care Crisis: an Interview with Dr. David Himmelstein

William Lind
Election Day: Which Menendez Brother Will You Vote For?

Brian Cloughley
Uzbekistan and Bush Hypocrisies

Suzan Mazur
Oops They Did It Again: the NYTs the Paper of Record and Rip-Offs

Greg Moses
Standing at the Graves of Iraq

John Chuckman
Osama's Endorsement

Richard Oxman
Why Not Accept Osama's Offer?

Ken Avidor
Landscape of Fear: When Ugly is Suspicious

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Bush, Ba'ath and Beyond

Hope Bastian
Strangling Cuba's Economy

P. Sainath
Tower of Gabble: Toward a Sustainable Rhetoric

Dave Zirin
Bush League: Why MLB Owners Support the Prez

Jon Swift
The Dry Drunk Thang: Put a Cork in It

Ron Jacobs
The Joke's on Me: a Review of Bob Dylan's Chronicles Vol. 1

Alexander Billet
Taking Theatre Back: Are the States Ready for "Stuff Happens"?

Poets' Basement
Jones, Laymon, Norris, Ford and Albert

Website of the Weekend
The Origins of Halloween

 

October 29, 2004

Harry Browne
No Justice for Peace Activist in County Clare

October 28, 2004

Forrest Hylton
"The Gas is Ours:" Bolivia's Ghosts of October

Col. Dan Smith
Rebellion in the Ranks

Alan Maass
Jon Stewart v. the Pundits

Ron Jacobs
Ecstasy in Red Sox Nation

Alexander Cockburn
Kerrycrats and the War

 

 

October 27, 2004

Jules Rabin
Crammed with Distressful Politics

Dave Lindorff
Bulgegate: the Lies Continue

Katherine Van Tassel
On the Home Front: Both Parties Ignore Working Parents

Jeffrey St. Clair
The Bi-Partisan Politics of Oil

 

October 26, 2004

Brian Cloughley
Three Weddings and Lots of Funerals: Atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan

William Blum
Fear Factors

Lenni Brenner
The 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Lessons for 2004

Ben Tripp
The Chicken Salad Election

Fidel Castro
After the Fall

Greg Bates
The Nation's Flawed Calculus

Walter Brasch
Gag the Public: the War on Dissent

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
An Open Letter to Pat Buchanan

Mickey Z.
Rumble in the Jungle at 30: Ali, Foreman and the Congo

Amir Taheri
The Boom in Conspiracy Theories

Alexander Billet
Say It Ain't So, Bruce!: the Boss Endorses Kerry

Doug Giebel
The Religion of G.W. Bush

Kathleen Christison
Why I Liked Thomas Friedman's Latest Column Before I Didn't

 

October 25, 2004

Ralph Nader
Letter from a Minnesota Highway

Werther
West Texas Wahabbism

Dave Zirin
Boston's Killer Cops: Death of a Fan

Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: Oregon Revokes Dr. Leveque's License

Omar Barghouti
Executing Another Child in Rafah

William J. Nottingham
Lori Berenson's Story

John Chuckman
A Foolish Consistency

Uri Avnery
On the Road to Civil War

 

October 22 / 24, 2004

Alexander Cockburn
You Can't Blame Nader for This

Rev. William Alberts
On Bended Knee: Faith-Based Deceptions

Willliam A. Cook
Killing for Christ

Saul Landau
George W. Bush: a Man of His Words?

Bill Quigley
I Held the Bullet in My Palm: Masked Haitian Police Shoot Children While Arresting Priest

Christopher Brauchli
Seal It With a Frown: What Compassionate Conservativism Really Means

William S. Lind
Fallujah and the Moral Level of War

Sharon Smith
Guilt Trippers for Kerry

Greg Bates
Kerrynomics: "Hurt the Ones Who Vote for Us"

Justin E.H. Smith
Is Lesser Evilism a Compromise with Evil?

Rebecca Evans
Tarnished Legacy: Pinochet and the Chilean Military

Mike Whitney
Al Hurra TV: the Second Invasion

M. Junaid Alam
Purchasing Individuality in America

David Krieger
Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Examining the Policies of Bush and Kerry

David J. Ledermann
The Emperor's New Crumbs

Lawrence Reichard
Same Old FBI Story

Website of the Weekend
Lie Girls: the Real Coalition of the Willling

 

 

October 21, 2004

Ben Tripp
The Undecided Voter Examined

Joshua Frank
Kerry and the Environment:
It's Not Easy Pretending to be Green

Stan Cox
What the Left Doesn't Get About Small Businesses

Bill Martinez
State Depart and Cuban Visas: Only Anti-Castro Agitators Need Apply

Mark Engler
The War and Globalization

Lina Britto and Lucia Suarez
Bolivia: a Year After the October Insurrection

Website of the Day
Two Pampered Children of Wealth

 

 

October 20, 2004

Yitzhak Laor
"Did You Two Squabble?": a Bullet Fired for Every Palestinian Child

Jason Leopold
Sinclair Broadcasting's Air War: a Long History of Journalistic Deception

Jesse Sharkey
A Teacher's Account of How Military Recruiters Prey on High School Students

Col. Dan Smith
Choking Free Speech About the Draft

Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
Using My Religion

David Vest
If Bush Wins, Blame Me

Jack Random
The Jackson 17: Reflections on a Mutiny

Ron Jacobs
Time to Kick It Up a Notch

James Brittain
Plan Patriota and the FARC: a Change in the Countryside?

Christopher Dols
Bombing Madison: Michael Moore's Fright Fest

Dave Lindorff
First They Came for the Nurses...

Website of the Day
Banana Republican Catalogue

 

 

October 19, 2004

Jeffrey St. Clair
Party Favors: the Political Business of Terry McAuliffe

Jeff Taylor
Confessions of a Swing State Voter

Matt Vidal
American Myopia: "More Money in Your Pocket"

Victor Kattan
"It's Not Who You're Against; It's Who You're For": Palestine Takes Center Stage At Euro Social Forum

William Loren Katz
What Goes Around Comes Around

Sean Carter
O'Reilly Should Shut Up About Extortion Claiims

CounterPunch Wire
Who's Really in Bed with Republican Funders: Kerry or Nader?

 

 

 

October 18, 2004

Saul Landau
Facts and Lies; Slogans and Truth

Dave Lindorff
Bulletin on the Bush Bulge

Diane Christian
Sheep and Goats: On the Language of Goodness

Greg Bates / Dave Lindorff
Betting on War: a Wager on the Fallout of a Kerry Presidency

Uri Avnery
Ariel Sharon's Philosophy

Peter LaVenia
Leaving the Greens So Soon? a Response to Josh Frank

Mike Whitney
O'Reilly at the Whipping Post

Elaine Cassel
The Other War: Civil Liberties Three Years After 9/11

 

October 16 / 17, 2004

Alexander Cockburn
The Free Speech Movement and Howard Stern

Leslie Brill
Unmerciful Judge, Merry Executioners: the Death Penalty as the True Measure of Bush's Character

Jules Rabin
Reckoning Deaths in an Agitated World

Dave Lindorff
About the Bush Bulge: Was There a Pucker in That Jacket or Was the President Just Glad to be There?

Peter Linebaugh
Judging Judges: a Few Pages from The Mirror of Justices

Gary Leupp
Iran and Syria: How to Effect Regime Change and Expand the Empire

M. Shahid Alam
America, Imagine This!

Ron Jacobs
Trying to Cross Lake Champlain

Fred Gardner
The Flu Vaccine Question: How Bush Blew It

Jenna Orkin
The Toxic Legacy of 9/11

Dave Zirin
Name the DC Baseball Team: Contest Results

David Hamilton
Alone and Exposed: Bush as a Strong Leader?

Ralph Nader
Criticizing Israel is Not Anti-Semitism

Doug Giebel
Thinking the Unthinkable

Mark Engler
Crimes in Freedom's Name: Dick Cheney's El Salvador

Derek Tyner
Blacks Didn't Get the Vote by Voting: an Interview With Clarence Thomas on the Million Worker March

Evan Jones
Gimme That Ole Time Religion: Cash and "The Mind of the South"

Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Klipschutz and Albert

Website of the Weekend
No More Bush Girls

 

October 15, 2004

Paul Craig Roberts
Where Did These "Conservatives" Come From?: The Brownshirting of America

Laura Carlsen
Wal-Mart vs. the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon

Greg Bates
Empire of Insanity: Kerry's Iraq Troop Numbers

Michael Donnelly
News from a Swing State: Does Anyone Here Have a Spine?

Katherine Lahey
The Venezuelan "Threat": Why Do Kerry and Bush Fear Hugo Chavez?

Robert Jensen / Pat Youngblood
Election Day Fears

Leah Caldwell
From Supermax to Abu Ghraib: the Masterminds of Torture and Abuse

Website of the Day
An Anti-Billionaire Policy? Why That Would Be Economic Racism

 

 

October 14, 2004

Darcy Richardson
The Other Progressive Candidate: the Lonely Crusade of Walt Brown

Willliam A. Cook
Turning Myths into Truth

Laura Santina
Water, Women and War

Evelyn Pringle
Free Speech Banned by Big Pharma: What You Can't Say About Drug Importation

Alan Farago
Lessons from Nature

Rep. Maxine Waters
A Letter to Colin Powell on Haiti

Nicole Colson
Maimed for Oil and Empire

 

 

 

October 13, 2004

Bishop Thomas Gumbleton and Bill Quigley
Aftermath of a Coup: The Other Disaster in Haiti

Sharon Smith
Barak O-Bomb-a?: Democrats Target Iran

Christopher Brauchli
God and the Bush Administration

Mike Whitney
The Real Meaning of the Hamdi Case

Paul de Rooij
Amnesty International: a False Beacon?

Website of the Day
Operation Truth

 

 

October 12, 2004

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
"Indian Country"

Greg Bates
The Year of Voting Dangerously: a Survey Request of Nader Voters in Swing States

Steven Conn
Progressives as Pawns: Kerry's War on Nader

Jason Leopold
Under Cheney, Halliburton Helped Saddam Siphon Billions from UN Oil-for-Food Program

Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy
Time for a Change of Course

Timothy J. Freeman
Dying for a Mistake

Pierre Tristam
Deconstructing Bush

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The 2nd Debate: the Blurring of Act and Audience

Bill and Kathleen Christison
Israel as Sideshow

Website of the Day
John Kerry's Personal Off-Shore Tax Shelters

 

October 11, 2004

Robert Fisk
Iraq: Unforgivable Betrayals and Broken Promises

Kevin Pina
The Untold Story of Aristide's Departure from Haiti

Patrick Gavin
Rethinking Columbus Day

Chris Floyd
Tribes with Flags in the New Afghanistan

Daniel Wolff
Radioactive Money: Entergy, Political Cash and America's Most Dangerous Nuclear Plant

Walter Brasch
The Only Ones Who Believe Saddam Had WMDs are Bush, Cheney...and 40% of All Americans

Mike Whitney
The Phony Afghan Elections: Ballot of the Disappearing Ink

Ari Shavit
"He Talks to Condi Rice Every Day": an Interview with Sharon's Lawyer

Paul Craig Roberts
The Debates and the Big Lie

Website of the Day
Dylan's Greatest Recording?

 

 

October 9 / 10, 2004

Alexander Cockburn
"There Are No Innocents"

Paul de Rooij
Northern Ireland is Still the Issue: a Conversation with Gerry Adams

M. Shahid Alam
Making Sense of Our Times

Laura Carlsen
Protest and Populism in Latin America

Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: ASA Goes to Court

Col. Dan Smith
Bush's Credibility Gap

Paul Craig Roberts
Faith-Based Economics

Greg Bates
What If Nader Critics Get What They Demand?

Joshua Frank
Cobb, the Greens and the Collapse of the Left

Felice Pace
Wilderness, Politics and the Oligarchy: How the Pew Charitable Trust is Smothering the Grassroots Environmental Movement

Walter A. Davis
Of Pynchon, Thanatos and Depleted Uranium

William A. Cook
The Agony of Colin Powell

Phyllis Pollack
Twas No Crank Call Love Affair: London Calling, 25 Years Later

Poets' Basement
Klipschutz, Albert, Ford

Website of the Weekend
Abu Ghraib: the Taguba Annexes

 

October 8, 2004

Jennifer Loewenstein
The Israeli Invasion of Gaza

Moshe Adler
Edwards' Gambit: He Hoped No One Would Notice the Similarities

David Swanson
Media Blackout: Press Continues to Ignore Labor's Opposition to Iraq War

Dave Zirin
CounterPunch Contest: Let's Name the New DC Baseball Team!

Rep. Ron Paul
The Draft is a Form of Slavery

William S. Lind
Keeping Our SA Up

Samar Assad
Kerry v. Bush: No Difference When It Comes to Israel / Palestine

Jim Ingalls and Sonali Kolhatkar
The Elections in Afghanistan

 

 

October 7, 2004

Dave Lindorff
All Out of Volunteers: A Draft is in the Air

Masha Hamilton
Fear in Kandahar

Christopher Brauchli
Master of Corruption: the Ripening Scandals of Tom Delay

Jason Leopold
Is There Still Time to Impeach Bush?

Bruce K. Gagnon
Bombing the Panhandle: Fighting the Pentagon in Rural Florida

Meredith Kolodner
Where is the Urgency?: The Anti-War Movement's Election Year Challenge

 

 

October 6, 2004

Jeffrey St. Clair
"Please, Dude, Can I Take Them Out?": Targeting Civilians in Fallujah

Ron Jacobs
Going Nuclear: the Ghost of Edward Teller Lives

Michael Colby
The National Flip-Flop: Suddenly Bush is Unfit to Lead?

Tarif Abboushi
More of the Same: Israel Wins the Debates

Matthew Behrens
Canadian Firms Profit from Iraqi Blood

Mike Whitney
Rethinking WMDs

John Pilger
Stealing Diego Garcia

Ben Tripp
Kerry's "Triumph"

Kevin McKiernan
Cheney's Poison Lab: Wrong Time, Wrong Target

Patrick Cockburn
Elections Will Not End the Fighting in Iraq

Website of the Day
Is There an Islamic Problem?

 

October 5, 2004

Anthony Loewenstein
Rupert Murdoch and the Marginals: "Personally Creating Outcomes"

Mark Clinton and Tony Udell
The Suicide of an Iraq War Veteran

Greg Bates
Trading Idiots: an Open Letter to Eric Alterman

Dave Lindorff
What's the Frequency, Karl?

Norm Dixon
Why Washington Won't Save Darfur Villagers

Larry Kearney
God Talk and Burning Children

Bill Linville
Dirty Politics in the Land of "Clean" Government

Gary Leupp
What Edwards Should Ask Cheney

Website of the Day
A Guide to Halliburton for Tonight's Debate

 

October 4, 2004

Diane Christian
The Gates of Hell

Joshua Frank
An Interview with David Cobb

Doug Giebel
Incurious George: What If Bush Didn't Lie?

John Chuckman
Strange Victory: Sen. Obvious and the Pathetic Lump

Ramzy Baroud
Reverse the Picture: Anatomy of a Palestinian Outrage

Julia Stein
Remembering Mario Savio and the FSM

Sean Donahue
Outsourcing Terror: Kerry and Special Forces

Website of the Day
Mapping Mt. St. Helens as She Rocks

 

October 2 / 3. 2004

Paul Wright
John Kerry on Criminal Justice

Kathleen and Bill Christison
An Exchange with Israeli Historian Bennie Morris

Kathie Helmkamp
My Son Trent: a Marine Who Doesn't Want to Kill

Phillip Cryan
Indigenous Mobilization in Colombia

Lenni Brenner
The First Ex-Catholic Saint: Memories of Mario Savio

Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: In Case You Missed "Montel"

Ron Jacobs
It Did Happen Here: When Neo-Nazis Terrorized Olympia

Ben Tripp
Sticker Shock

William S. Lind
The Grand Illusion: Iraqi Security Forces

Dave Zirin
The Swindle of the Century: Baseball Comes to DC

Dave Lindorff
Lies from the Great Debate

Luscon Pierre-Charles
Haiti's Elections: a High-Tech Sham is Underway

Zoe Moskovitz & Sasha Kramer
Separating Lies from Truth About Haiti

Nelson P. Valdes
Habana Night vs. Latin American Scholars in Vegas: 61 Banned Cuban Academics

Alan Farago
The "Ownership Society" and the End of the Everglades

Nancy Haley
What is the Historical Jesus Trying to Tell Us?

Alex Billet
Long Live The Clash: London Still Calling After 25 Years

Steve Fesenmaier
Save and Burn: The War on Libraries

Poets' Basement
Smith, Holt, Albert

 

October 1, 2004

Steve Breyman
Kerry's Missed Opportunities

Rose Gentle
My Son Died for a Lie

Lee Sustar
Iran in the Crosshairs

Ralph Nader
What We Didn't Hear at the Debate: Where's the Exit Strategy?

Walter Andrews
We Are Less Secure Now Than Ever

Mike Whitney
Pandora's Government

Mickey Z.
Debate This

Saul Landau
The Iraq Invasion: Lessons from the Pinochet Cases

 

September 30, 2004

Ralph Nader
10 Ways to Beat Bush: a Gift to the Kerry/Edwards Campaign

Patrick Cockburn
The Kidnap Capital of the World: Iraq's One Growth Industry

Gideon Levy
When You Have Breast Cancer in Gaza

Joshua Frank
Presidential Debates? Pass the Remote

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
I Dreamed They Had a Debate

Ali Khan
Dershowitz's Jihad: Inventing Exceptions to International Law

Steve Perry
An Interview with Sibel Edmonds

 

 

September 29, 2004

Behrooz Ghamari
Playing Politics with Nukes: A Collision Course with Iran?

Ray McGovern
More Troops to Iraq...After the Election

Walter Brasch
Tinseltown Traitors?: Applauding Only the Right Entertainers

Chris Floyd
The Deceivers: Chronicle of a Quagmire Foretold

Stacey Reynolds
The Story of a Mercury-Poisoned American

M. Junaid Alam
Disrupting America's Fateful Non-Debate on the Roots of Terrorism

John L. Hess
They've Already Called It

Paul Craig Roberts
Delusion Rules: War, Outsourcing an Debt

 


September 28, 2004

Mike Whitney
Kerry's Moral Compass

Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: the Civics Teacher

Dan Meek
How Democrats Kicked Nader Off the Oregon Ballot

Greg Bates
Choking on Progressives for Kerry

Alan Farago
Jeanne in Haiti: Where is the World?

Lori Berenson
The Cajamarca Protest

Wayne Madsen
Where is the Florida National Guard?

Robert Fisk
Why Have We Suddenly Forgotten Abu Ghraib?

 

 

September 27, 2004

Gary Leupp
The Expulsion of Cat Stevens

Patrick Cockburn
As British Muslims Plead for Bigley's Life, US Airstrikes Pound Fallujah

Sam Husseini
The Problem with Public Opinion Polls

Lee Sustar
Putting Bosses First: Latter Day Democrats and Labor

Dave Lindorff
A Progressive Case for (Gag) Kerry?

Norman Madarasz
Talking International: Contra Kerry

Kevin Pina
The Tragedy of Gonaives, Haiti

 

September 25 / 26, 2004

Alexander Cockburn
C'mon Ralph, You've Got Nothing to Lose

Dave Zirin
The Courage of the NBA's Etan Thomas: "I Am Totally Against This War"

Saul Landau
The Reality of Empire and Campaign Rhetoric

Dave Lindorff
Our Heroic Baby-Killers

Brian J. Foley
Bush at the UN: the Sound of No Hands Clapping

William Blum
Progressives and the Election

Alan Maass
Why is Kerry Running Such a Lame Campaign? You Can't Blame It All on Bob Shrum

Lucson Pierre-Charles
Haiti: Another Lost Story

Solange Echeverria
An Interview with Kevin Pina on the Floods in Haiti

Nicole Colson
What About the Supreme Court?

Justin Smith
The New Sparta

Joshua Frank
Iraq: From Clinton to Bush

Karyn Strickler
Momma, Don't Let Your Babides Grow Up to be Cannon Fodder

Michael Donnelly
Rather Disingenuous: "Remember in November"

Greg Bates
The Politics of Nader's Republican Support

Todd Chretien
Lesser Evilism: We Are Living in the Logical Conclusion

William Loren Katz
Dire Warnings from the Past: From Wilson to Bush

Omar Barghouti
Americans, You've Lost Your Alibi!

Poets' Basement
Holt, Clarke, Albert, Laymon and Ford

Website of the Weekend
Carnival of Chaos

 

September 24, 2004

Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
The Value of One Life: Keeping Up Appearances and Leaving Hostages to the Wolves

William S. Lind
Destroying the National Guard

Mike Whitney
The Bush Tent Show

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