Today's
Stories
February 15,
2006
Brian Conacnnon,
Jr.
Haiti's Elections: Chaos, Supression
and Fraud
Amira Hass
Down the Expulsion Highway
CounterPunch
Wire
Winter of Discontent: a 34-Day Fast
Against the War
Robert Bryce
The United States of Enron
Website of
the Day
Osama's
Game: an Interview with Michael Scheuer
February
14, 2006
John Sugg
Those Cartoons and the Neo Con: Daniel
Pipes and the Danish Editor
Don
Santina
DiFi and the Royal Democrats: the
Curious Withdrawal of Cindy Sheehan
William A.
Cook
Shaming Sharon
Ray
McGovern
Who Will Blow the Whistle About
Iran?
John
Ross
Bush's Mexican Poodle
Website
of the Day
Willie
Nelson Records CPer Ned Sublette's "Cowboys Are Frequently
Secretly"
February 13, 2006
Lila
Rajiva
Axis of Child Abusers: UK Troops Beat
Up Barefoot Iraqi Teens
Christopher
Brauchli
Whistleblowers and Witch Hunters:
the Bush Inquisition
Dave
Lindorff
Deadeye Dick: If Stupidity Were
Impeachable, Cheney Would Be History
Ron
Jacobs
Black Liberation
Mike
Whitney
Riding High with Hugo Chavez
Michael
Neumann
Respectful Cultures and Disrespectful
Cartoons
Website
of the Day
Virtual Resistance
February
11 / 12, 2006
Alexander
Cockburn
How Not to Spot a Terrorist
Ralph Nader
Bringing Democracy to the Federal Reserve
Paul Craig Roberts
Nuking the Economy
Pat Williams
John Boehner's Dirty Little Secret:
Flying Lobbyist Air at $4,000 a Junket
Fred Gardner
Dr. Mikuriya's Appeal: a Last Minute
Twist
Saul Landau
From Munich to Hamas
John Chuckman
Cartoons and Bombs: Was Rice Right
for Once?
Roger Burbach
Evo Morales: the Early Days
Seth Sandronsky
Economy on Ice
Website of the Weekend
Just Say Know
February 10, 2006
Carl
G. Estabrook
A US War Plan for Khuzestan?
Sen.
Russell Feingold
A Raw Deal on the Patriot Act
Roxanne
Dunbar----Ortiz
How Did Evo Morales Come to Power?
Saree Makdisi
The Tempest Over the Hamas Charter
Website of the Day
The
New York Art Scene: 1974----1984
February 9, 2006
Dave Lindorff
Bush
and Yamashita: War Crimes and Commanders----in----Chief
Mike Marqusee
The
Human Majority was Right About Iraq
Paul Craig Roberts
How Conservatives Went Crazy: the Rightwing Press
Peter Phillips
Inside
the Global Dominance Group: 200 Insiders Against the World
William S. Lind
Rumsfeld the Maximalist: the Long War
Christine Tomlinson Innocent
Targets in the "Long War": False Positives and Bush's
Eavesdropping Program
Will Youmans
Church of England Votes to Divest from Israel
Robert Robideau
An American Indian's View of the Cartoons
Richard Neville
The Cartoons That Shook the World: All This from the Danes, the
Least Funny People on Earth
Peter Rost
The New Robber Barons
Website of the Day
Eyes Wide Open
February 8,
2006
Ron Jacobs
The
Once and Future Sly Stone: Soundtrack to a Riot
Stan Cox
Making
and Unmaking History with General Myers
Sen. Russ Feingold
Why
Bush's Wiretapping Program is Illegal and Unconstitutional
Robert Jensen
Horowitz's
Academic Hit List: Take a Class from One of the CounterPunch
16
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Bush Should Have Wiretapped FEMA and Chertoff
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Alberto Gonzales Channels Mark Twain
Don Monkerud
Covenant Marriage on the Rocks
David Swanson
Inequality and War
C.L. Cook
Nuking Ontario
Christopher
Fons
Chill Out Jihadis: They're Just Cartoons!
Jeffrey Ballinger
The Other Side of Nike and Social Responsibility
Website of
the Day
Encyclopedia of Terrorism in the Americas
February 7,
2006
Edward Lucie----Smith
An
Urgent Plea to Save a Small Estonian Museum from Neo----Nazis
Robert Fisk
The Fury: Now Lebanon is Burning
Paul Craig Roberts
Colin Powell's Career as a "Yes Man"
Neve Gordon
Why Hamas Won
Joshua Frank
The Hillary and George Show: Partners in War
Peter Montague
The Problem with Mercury: a History of Regulatory Capitulation
Jackie Corr
The
Last Best Choice: Public Power and Montana
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Rumsfeld's
Enforcer: the Secret World of Stephen Cambone
Website of the Day
Negroes with Guns
February 6,
2006
Christopher
Brauchli
Spilling
Blood: Two Sentences
Robert Fisk
Don't
Be Fooled: This Isn't About Islam vs. Secularism
John Chuckman
What Did Stephen Harper Actually Win?
Jenna Orkin
Judge Slams EPA for Lying About 9/11's Toxic Air
Paul Craig
Roberts
Who
Will Save America: My Epiphany
February 4
/ 5, 2006
Alexander Cockburn
"Lights
Out in Tehran": McCain Starts Bombing Run
Mike Ferner
Pentagon
Database Leaves No Kid Alone
James Petras
Evo Morales's Cabinet: a Bizarre Beginning in Bolivia
Alan Maass
Scare of the Union: Dems Collaborate with Bush on Surveillance
Fred Gardner
Annals of Law Enforcement: a Look Inside the San Francisco DA's
Office
Ralph Nader
Bush's
Energy Escapades
Bill Glahn
RIAA Watch: Speaking in Tongues
Saul Landau
Freedom 2006: Buying Sex on the Net or Those Older Freedoms?
Laura Carlsen
Bad Blood on the Border: Killing Guillermo Martinez
James Brooks
Our Little Shop of Diplomatic Horrors
Mike Roselle
Hippies and Revolutionaries in Carcacas
John Holt
Black Gold, Black Death: Canada's Oil Sands Frenzy
Sarah Ferguson
Cops Suing Cops ... for Spying on Cops
William S.
Lind
Beware the Ides of March
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Price of Globalization: Free Trade or Free Speech?
Seth Sandronsky
The Color of Job Cuts in the Auto Industry
Derrick O'Keefe
Rumsfeld's Hitler Analogy
Michael Donnelly
Hop on the Bus
Ron Jacobs
Religion and Political Power
Elisa Salasin
RSVP to Bush
St. Clair / Vest
Playlists: What We're Listening to This Week
Stew Albert
God's Curse: Selected Poems
Poets' Basement
Guthrie, LaMorticella and Engel
Website of
the Weekend
Killer
Tells All!
February 3,
2006
Toufic Haddad
A
Parliament of Prisoners
Heather Gray
Working with Coretta Scott King
Tim Wise
Racism,
Neo----Confederacy and the Raising of Historical Illiterates
Conn Hallinan
Nuclear Proliferation: the Gathering Storm
Eva Golinger
Rumsfeld and Negroponte Amp Up Hositility Toward Venezuela
Daniel Ellsberg
The World Can't Wait: Invitation to a Demonstration
Dave Zirin
Detroit: Super Bowl City on the Brink
Robert Bryce
The
Problem with Cutting US Oil Imports from the Middle East
Website of
the Day
The Chavez Code
February 2,
2006
Winslow T.
Wheeler
Pentagon
Pork: How to Eliminate It
Stan Cox
Outsourcing
the Golden Years
Rachard Itani
Danes
(Finally) Apologize to Muslims (For the Wrong Reasons)
Mike Whitney
Afghanistan Five Years Later: Buildings Down, Heroin Up
Amira Hass
In
the Footsteps of Arafat: an Interview with Hamas' Ismail Haniya
Norman Solomon
When Praise is Desecration: Smothering King's Legacy with Kind
Words
Michael Simmons
Stew Lives!
Christopher
Reed
Japan's
Dirty Secret: One Million Korean Slaves
Website of the Day
State of Nature
February 1,
2006
Sharon Smith
The
Bluff and Bluster Dems: Alito and the Faux Filibuster
Jason Leopold
Enron and the Bush Administration
Cindy Sheehan
Getting
Busted at the State of the Union: What Really Happened
Joseph Grosso
Oprah
and Elie Wiesel: a Match Made in "Neutrality"
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Coretta Scott King was More Than Just Dr. King's Wife
Steven Higgs
Life After Roe. v. Wade
Robert Robideau
"God Given Rights": Palestine and Native America
R. Siddharth
Tales of Power: When Gandhi Rejected a Faustian Bargain with
Henry Ford
Jim Retherford
Remembering Stew Albert: the Quiet Genius
Rep. Cynthia
McKinney
The Legacy of Coretta Scott King
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
True State of the Union
Website of
the Day
Candide's Notebooks
| February
15, 2006
Deadeye Dick Isn't a Lone Gunman
Democrats Shoot Their
Own, Too
By DAVE LINDORFF
Dick
Cheney may have demonstrated his ability yet again to go after the
wrong target when he bagged his hunting companion instead of his
quarry, but the Democratic Party leadership is proving to be even
more treacherous in the field than Deadeye Dick.
Party
leaders, including Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) recently pressured
Cindy Sheehan not to mount a primary campaign against California
Senator Diane Feinstein, a woman who has betrayed party principles,
such as they are, at almost every turn and deserves to go down to
defeat. (It was only after Sheehan said she was considering a primary
fight that Feinstein announced she would support a filibuster on
Alito.) Now they've killed the campaign of Paul Hackett, an Iraq
War vet and sharp critic of the war and the president and a candidate
who had a strong shot at snatching a Senate seat for the Democrats
this fall in Ohio.
For
months, the Democratic National Committee, and the Democratic Senate
Campaign Committee chair, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), have been
working behind the scenes to undermine Hackett's campaign in favor
of Rep. Sherrod Brown. When Hackett announced his intention to run,
he met with party leaders, and with Ohio Rep. Sherrod Brown, and
won a commitment from Brown not to enter into a primary fight for
the Democratic senate nomination. Later, the party leadership undercut
him and had Brown go back on his promise, forcing a primary battle.
The undermining effort continued and Hackett finally decided Monday
he didn't want the fight.
Saying
he had been betrayed by his country when he was sent to Iraq, and
now by his party, Hackett, a Marine reservist and a lawyer, said
he was quitting politics in understandable disgust, but would continue
to speak out against the war. I'm sorry he decided not to fight,
but understand his disgust.
Only
a few days ago, I received a call from a fund-raiser for the DNC
asking me to help the party elect a Democratic Congress in 2006.
I told the woman she was wasting her time, and that I would not
give a penny to a corrupt and self-destructing organization that
was so afraid to be a genuine opposition party that it would sabotage
its own best candidates. She indignantly asked me who the DNC had
sabotaged and I ran a whole list by her, from Cynthia McKinney to
Cindy Sheehan. Now we can add Paul Hackett to the list.
The
same can be said for my home state of Pennsylvania, where the Democratic
Party leadership is hard at work trying to kill off the senate campaign
of a genuine progressive candidate, Chuck Pennacchio, in favor of
an anti-abortion candidate, Bob Casey, who actually expressed support
for the nomination of Sam Alito to the Supreme Court, and whose
only claim to fame is having the name of a former state governor
(his father). Polls show that Democratic voters in Pennsylvania
give Pennacchio a higher lead over incumbent Sen. Rick Santorum
than Casey gets, but hardly anyone has heard of Pennacchio. This
is largely because the DNC has anointed Casey, and so the media
focuses on him.
Yet
Casey, a lackluster candidate who shares almost nothing with the
Democratic electoral base, is likely to lose to Santorum, while
Pennacchio, a college professor and activist in the mold of the
late Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone, could actually beat the Republican
incumbent if he had financial backing to mount a serious campaign
and make his views known. (Which reminds me: maybe the conspiracy
buffs should consider whether it was the DNC behind the downing
of Wellstone's campaign, and not the Bush administration...)
It's
pathetic to watch most of the genuine opposition to Bush coming
from people in his own party, from torture policies (Sen. John McCain,
R-AZ) to NSA spying (Rep. Heather Wilson, R-NM), while most Democrats
in Congress are lying down, sitting back or are just comatose. Meanwhile,
with no opposition worthy of the name, the Bush administration is
hacking away at what's left of the Constitution, international law,
and civil liberties.
Ordinary
Democratic voters, according to the polls, want to see this president
impeached by a margin of over 80% to 20%, yet not one Democrat in
Congress has the guts to introduce an impeachment bill in the House
the way the late Rep. Henry Gonzalez (D-Texas) did back in 1991
against President George H.W. Bush.
Candidates
like Hackett and Pennacchio would have the courage and independence
to do just that. That's why weasels like Chuck Schumer, Hillary
Clinton, and yes, Howard Dean, would rather see the party go down
to defeat in `06 than see them get into Congress.
My
advice: If the party comes calling and asking for your support,
tell them you’re a real Democrat, and won't be giving any
money to the Democratic Party until it becomes a real party of opposition.
I'm all for supporting individual Democratic incumbents who deserve
it, like Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) or Rep. John Murtha (D-PA),
but not a penny for the party, or for those incumbents or challengers
to Republicans who have forgotten what the word "opposition"
means.
Cheney
is going to find it hard to get hunting partners after his latest
display of marksmanship. Let's make it impossible for the Democratic
Party to get grassroots financial support after its latest round
of treachery.
Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing
Time: an Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. His new book of CounterPunch
columns titled "This
Can't be Happening!" is published by Common Courage Press.
Information about both books and other work by Lindorff can be found
at www.thiscantbehappening.net.
He can be reached at: dlindorff@yahoo.com
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