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OCTOBER
2002
The Slippery Slope of Advertising
Deregulation: The Inalienable Right to Mislead Millions
October
31, 2002 · Just a few years ago, the
practice of advertising prescription drugs to us common folk
was considered unethical. Nowadays you can hardly watch TV
for five minutes without some commercial promising to cure
the affliction it encourages you to be worried about. By Carol
Norris
Democratic Strategy for
Upcoming Elections
October
31, 2002 · Bush's few policies, the huge
tax cut for the richest 1%, to the war on terrorism, have
one unifying theme - namely to make his supporters happy,
at the expense of the rest of the country and world. By Bob
Connors
How Big Was My Rally
October
30, 2002 · The truth is that nobody really
knows how many people were there. But here's something I learned
in Washington, D.C. on October 26: standing up matters more
than being counted. By The
Plaid Adder
The Delusions of David
Horowitz
October
30, 2002 · Behold, David Horowitz, former
Marxist gone neoconservative in his autumn years. In the world
Horowitz occupies all of the clocks have lurched backward
to a more paranoid and suspicious time, let us say somewhere
mid-stride of the McCarthy inquisition. In the world Horowitz
inhabits there are communists under beds and Grand Conspiracies
on the tapis. By Kurt
Nimmo
They Shoot Leftists, Don't
They?
October
30, 2002 · Intervention after intervention,
it's always the same. If a democratically-elected leader of
a third world country champions his people over American business
interests, or if God forbid, a leftist government is elected,
that government is doomed. Given this, is it a leap to suggest
populist, progressive leaders are at risk on the home front,
too? By Maureen
Farrell
A Eulogy For Paul
October
29, 2002 · With the death of Senator
Paul Wellstone, my friend and my role model, America's sum
total of righteousness is diminished. Our inventory of integrity
is that much depleted. The reservoir of our compassion and
our passion for justice recedes by a small but potentially
crucial amount. By TygrBright
Volunteer and Vote
October
29, 2002 · It's tempting to stew in our
anger, but anger is useful only when it impels us to action.
Like it or not, we face a president who came to power in the
most questionable of ways, and whose administration has done
everything to consolidate that power ever since. By Paul
Rogat Loeb
Where Will Bush
Hide Now?
October
29, 2002 · So the push to invade that
dastardly and sleeping giant Iraq has stalled a bit in the
United Nations and the snipers who have been terrorizing the
D.C. area have been captured. What now will our intrepid leader
hide behind to avoid questions regarding the economy? By Curt
Morey
Turning Iraq Into Iran
October
26, 2002 · One question that has received
some limited discussion lately is, if the United States invades
Iraq and overthrows Saddam Hussein, who will replace him?
This is usually treated as an imponderable question for which
no one has yet come up with an answer. But we can stop worrying,
because George W. Bush has an answer already. By Paul
Kienitz
The "Great" Republican
Record Since Bush & Co. Stole the White House
October
26, 2002 · The following is an open letter
to U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas that was emailed to his office,
other politicians, the media, and others this week... By Jackson
Thoreau
The New Political Correctness:
7 More Things You Can't Say on TV
October
25, 2002 · A new political correctness
has taken hold. Ironically, neo-conservatives continue to
rail against political correctness as if it were solely the
province of liberals, while peddling warm and fuzzy falsehoods
of their own. By Maureen
Farrell
The Bush Vision, Do Not Bend
October
25, 2002 · While flipping through the
bills, I found a large envelope addressed to a Mr. Sammy Dozor
from the Republican National Committee. I had previously received
letters, of course, asking for donations. But, you see this
one, was different. It said, PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO ENCLOSED,
DO NOT BEND. By Samie
Dozor
Palast Movie Replays Election
2000
October
24, 2002 · "Unprecedented: The 2000 Election"
is a fantastic movie, a tremendous achievement and service
to humanity. It is a definitive, video document of the awful
sequence of events that unfolded in Florida during Elction
2000. By David
Cogswell
The Gathering Storm: A Call
to Reason, A Call to Action
October
24, 2002 · There is a storm gathering
on the horizon – a storm of domestic economic woes, lost freedoms,
and of lost political capital abroad. By SaintGermane
Time To Go After the TV Newsmedia
October
24, 2002 · Society's right to get truth
in journalism is the most important weapon against the enemies
of freedom. An informed people are a people who have the most
fundamental element of true freedom. By Judith
Foster
Dubya the Magnificent
October
23, 2002 · Mr. Bush must be a prophet
and visionary with spooky preternatural abilities. For two
years ago, even before he had won the White House, he was
laying out in some detail the need to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
By Brad
Radcliffe
The Company That You Keep
October
23, 2002 · I have long opposed the death
penalty and have seldom wavered in my belief that its practice
devalues not only the life it terminates - it demeans those
condoning its practice. By T.
K. Brookins
Chickenhawks? Or Just
Chickens?
October
23, 2002 · Isn't North Korea, like Iraq,
a member of the "Axis of Evil"? If Iraq and North Korea are
both seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction in violation
of agreements their governments signed, why doesn't Bush suggest
military action against North Korea? By mjjoe
Fear and Bowling
October
23, 2002 · Michael Moore's new movie
"Bowling for Columbine" is a depressing film about a horrible
situation, and it makes a very serious and compelling argument.
By David
Swanson
Way to Go, James Earl!
October
22, 2002 · The Republican right wing,
who never stops characterizing Al Gore as an ungracious loser
still pouting over the 2000 election (he's not the only one),
cannot manage so much as "Congratulations" to disco-era president
Jimmy Carter for the Nobel Prize he was awarded. By Kevin
Dawson
A Second Look at the Second
Amendment
October
22, 2002 · In the 90s, paranoia spoon-fed
by their relentless Republican representatives had the gun
culture joining and forming militia groups faster than you
could say Y2K. But by actually making their worst-case fears
a reality, George W. has them running for more toilet paper
than Clinton ever did. By Lisa
Croke
The Grifter-in-Chief
October
19, 2002 · Bush’s pronouncements on Iraq,
including his October 7 national address, have been replete
with verbal trickery that would make Slick Willie blush. Bush
repeatedly uses language to create impressions he knows are
false. By Dennis
Hans
The Vote, The War and The
Cynic
October
19, 2002 · Being a cynic gives one low
expectations when looking at the machinations of our politicians.
Unfortunately it doesn’t make it any less infuriating when
they behave in a cowardly, self-serving way. It just takes
away the element of surprise. By Mike
McArdle
Poverty - America's Shame
October
19, 2002 · The United States is, bar
none, the wealthiest country in the world. We are positively
profligate in our expenditure of the world's resources, and
we have more billionaires (by any currency measure) than the
rest of the world. And yet, about 12% of our population is
poor. By punpirate
Dead Men Have No Oil
October
18, 2002 · United States anti-terrorism
policy suffered what could be a catastrophic setback this
week when Iraqi President Saddam Hussein died two days after
suffering a heart attack. Upon hearing of Hussein's health
problems American officials sent both heart specialists and
government officials in a effort to save the Iraqi strongman.
By Mike
McArdle
Beyond the Salon
October
18, 2002 · Michelle Goldberg's article
"Peace Kooks," which appeared yesterday at Salon.com, presents
itself as a well-meaning attempt to wise up unsuspecting liberals
to the dangers of the radical fringe that lurks in the midst
of an apparently innocent anti-war movement. While the piece
is aimed at moderates, the tone throughout is anything but
moderate. By The
Plaid Adder
"Shallow Throat" Savages
Dem Leaders and Reveals Bush Strategy
October
18, 2002 · So many of us were devastated
after Congress rolled over and gave Bush his war on Iraq.
We needed help in figuring it all out. So I set up the coded
signal to "Shallow Throat," the high-ranking GOP mole in the
White House who had been so helpful in pointing us in the
right direction several times previously. By Bernard
Weiner
Arms Bizarre
October
17, 2002 · Rule #1: When going to war
with a country, have your allies refrain from selling it millions
of dollars worth of weapons to use against you. By Graham
Smith
It's War!
October
17, 2002 · George "W is for Warmonger"
Bush gets his very own photo story. By
EarlG
Things Related and Not: Rumsfeld,
Code Orange and a Duck-Billed Platypus
October
17, 2002 · Rumsfeld is playing Surrealist
parlor games, cutting up words from a newspaper, putting them
in a hat, pouring them out and then pasting them together
in the helter-skelter order they fell, creating an often hilarious,
bizarre new world. Only Rumsfeld and Company are playing for
real. His parlor is our planet. And it isn't so funny. By
Carol Norris
Soldiering On
October
16, 2002 · In a speech leading up to
the vote on Iraq, Senator Kennedy described the situation
in America for the last twenty years as "a Cold Civil War".
This is not merely a metaphor; it is a dangerously unappreciated
reality. By arendt
In Deep Voodoo
October
16, 2002 · The chattering media economists
and Bush's economic advisors assure us that the stock market
must soon find a "hard bottom," from which it will recover
from the recent "setback" and resume a steady ascent Its a
good time to “get back in,” they tell us. I beg to differ.
I fear that there is much worse ahead. And this is why. By Ernest
Partridge
Why I'm Voting, While I
Still Can
October
16, 2002 · There has been much heat and
a little light, within the Democratic Underground forum, in
our nation, and in our world. In my opinion, today's "issues"
(as defined by others often for their own convenience) are
less about war, peace, left, right, crime, regulation, stock
markets, jobs, or terrorism than about democracy itself. By TahitiNut
The Choice Before Us
October
15, 2002 · Internationally, a vote for
Republicans means that America will dictate its terms to the
world, domestically it means that the Bush family and their
financial backers will dictate their terms to Americans. By Joseph
Vecchio
You're Either With Us,
Or You're Whacko
October
15, 2002 · MSNBC thinks it is reading
my mind. "We know you want war," Hardball implies, taking
"manufacturing consent," to a whole new level. By Maureen
Farrell
Why We Need Tort Reform Now
October
15, 2002 ·
My concept of 'tort reform' is based on the Old Testament,
so I firmly believe that it should get the endorsement of
John Ashcroft, who is widely known for his evangelical, fundamentalist
beliefs.
By Christian Dewar
The Jiminy Cricket War
October
12, 2002 · This war can be called the
Jiminy Cricket War, after the cartoon character whom you'd
never guess was supposed to be a cricket if you weren't told
that that's what he was. The president essentially gives "Because
I said so, that's why" as the reason why we should take his
word for it that Iraq means to do this country great and immediate
harm. By Kevin
Dawson
Senator Byrd, A Hero for
Our Time
October
12, 2002 · Thank God for Senator Robert
C. Byrd (D-WV), the one man in the Senate saying what needs
to be said. By Margie
Burns
In Defense of the Christian
Liberal
October
12, 2002 · I consider myself a Christian
and I am also very politically liberal. I firmly believe a
person who really tries to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ
would be much more likely to be a political liberal rather
than a conservative. By Frank
Lovato
It's Crank-It-Up Time!
An Urgent Nov. 5th Call to Action
October
11, 2002 · At the risk of over-iteration,
I hope it's obvious that everything is riding on the
outcome of the Novermber elections. By
Bernard Weiner
U.S. Government Use of
Chemical Weapons Against U.S. Citizens
October
11, 2002 · Increasingly, western forces
have used tear gas, pepper spray, and other "non-lethal" control
measures against civilian populations, most often in response
to crowds organizing under their First Amendment rights to
peaceably assemble. By
Brian Leitner
Anticipatory Self-Defense:
A Modest Proposal
October
11, 2002 · I had a thought last night
about this "anticipatory self-defense" concept, which I initially
found so pukeworthy. I'm starting to think maybe I haven't
been giving it fair consideration. By
The Plaid Adder
Is Truth Bush's Number 1
Enemy?
October
10, 2002 · Ask yourself: who stands to
gain by having citizens believe the avalanche of lies we're
fed? Sooner or later, you'll realize that what amounts to
anti-Americanism these days is often an affinity for Truth.
By Maurreen
Farrell
The Energy for War
October
10, 2002 · You will be sold this war
until you have bought it and are willing to pay for it with
your life or the life of your firstborn son or daughter. You
might even buy it because you just can't stand to tell the
salesmen "no" and are too weak to keep up the resistance to
the unending pressure. By
Bridget Gibson
Bush Wages Quieter War to
Invade our National Parks
October
10, 2002 · While Bush publicly pushes
to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in
Alaska and invade Iraq, he is waging a quieter campaign to
invade popular national parks.
By Jackson Thoreau
The Case for War
October
9, 2002 · It is especially important
that a declaration of war be formally voted on by congress
because it is apparent that the United States intends on launching
an unprovoked invasion on another nation recognized as such
by the United Nations and the community of nations at large.
I submit the following proposed declaration of war as a pretty
well thought out justification for war against Saddam Hussein.
By James
O. B. Keener
Yet More Inconsistency on
the Right
October
9, 2002 · Three things happened last
week that should have convinced you if you were not already
convinced that the political Right in America has lost its
sense of shame altogether, deciding that single-minded focus
is more useful than honesty or consistency of message. By
Patrick Ennis
Bush and Lay and Unearned
Income
October
9, 2002 · Kenneth Lay's money was neither
earned nor made. Neither, to pick a closely related example,
was that of his protégé, George W. Bush. By
Jerome Doolittle
Contrasting Substances -
A Year of War Under FDR and GWB
October
8, 2002 · Franklin Delano Roosevelt and
George Walker Bush have one thing in common. They both chose
war as a response to a devastating surprise attack on the
United States. Will Congress see that that's where the similarities
end? By
Ted Westervelt
To Be a Pilgrim
October
8, 2002 · Mildred Norman's Peace Pilgrim
walk was a powerful statement, an affirmation of life in the
midst of such dark times, an inspiring project that could
make a difference - however small - in helping the world out
of its nuclear nightmare. By
Kevin J. Shay
Fill Your Tank With Iraqi
Children
October
8, 2002 · At Kidco Oil we recognize that
since September 11 our nation and in fact our world has been
faced with new and ever more daunting challenges. We also
realize that this is no time for squeamish leadership on either
the corporate or national level. By
Mike McArdle
Greetings From Your Secret
Allies on the Right
October
8, 2002 · Yes, that's right. You heard
me. We are allies. I am one of liberalism's secret new allies.
There are many of us; millions of us in fact. We are denizens
of the Right... the true Right. By
Anonymous
Is There a Spin Doctor
in the House?
October
5, 2002 · The Democratic party needs
a media makeover. People buy the shameless lies of the right
because they tell them well. The contingent of half-informed
voters who choose their candidates for superficial reasons
are not voting based on the merits of sound policy. They’re
voting on who feels better. That’s the harsh reality that
put Bush in office. By
Scott Donnelly
Bush Accepts Iraqi Offer
for a Duel
October
5, 2002 · Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin
Ramadan challenged President Bush and Vice President Cheney
today to a tag-team death match on neutral ground. Ramadan
wants to square off against Cheney while Saddam Hussein would
face Bush. "That fatso Cheney will be squealing like a stuck
pig when I'm through with him," said Ramadan through a translator.
By Graham
Smith
America's Far Right
is Not Conservative
October
5, 2002 · I consider myself to be a conservative,
albeit a progressive one. America's far right, which has the
Republican party as it's principal vehicle, boardroom America
as it's principal patron, the religious right as it's loyal
customer and the corporate media as it's mouthpiece cannot
be accurately considered conservative. By
Mark Davis
9 New Signs Democracy is
Dying
October
4, 2002 · The blatant lies told by this
administration notwithstanding, we've been bombarded with
a parade of decidedly undemocratic outrages since the 2000
selection, including the Patriot Act, secret detentions and
an underground government. By Maureen
Farrell
The Prince: Machiavelli,
the Bushes and the Reformation
October
4, 2002 · Most people have probably heard
of the political philosopher, Machiavelli, and know that his
name is synonymous with the cynical, amoral and deceitful
manipulation of people and events to gain political power.
By Christian
Dewar
Beyond Petroleum: How to
Fight Fascists and Restore Justice
October
4, 2002 · It may not show in the official
polls, but Americans are waking up to the outrage that has
been perpetrated on them. By David
Cogswell
ELECTION
2002: GEORGIA
Senator Max
Cleland of Georgia
Max Cleland is the senator from Georgia who was elected to
Sam Nunn's senate seat after Senator Nunn retired from politics.
By James
M. Kehl
Rumsfeld Drops a Load
October
3, 2002 · Until it became convenient,
which was yesterday, the Pentagon flat out refused to release
videotape of our planes bombing targets in the no-fly zone
of Iraq. The risk to our pilots was simply too great. By Jerome
Doolittle
ELECTION
2002: WASHINGTON
The Z Files: Far Right
Wingnut in the Hot Seat
October
3, 2002 · Washington State Senator Joe
Zarelli, far right wingnut trying to unseat Democratic Representative
Brian Baird from Washington's 3rd Congressional District,
has found himself in the hot seat... again. By John
M. Pickett
ELECTION
2002: MARYLAND
Kathleen Kennedy
Townsend: A Candidate to be Proud Of
October
3, 2002 · Kathleen Kennedy Townsend,
Robert and Ethel Kennedy's oldest daughter, is currently Maryland's
Lieutenant Governor and the Democratic Party's nominee for
governor. She is a member of a very successful administration.
By James
M. Kehl
The History of This Great
Nation
October
2, 2002 · Once upon a time, in order
to escape persecution from European liberals, the great explorer
Ronald Raegyn set out to discover a New World. (Unbeknownst
to the trusting Raegyn, his boat was infested with stowaway
liberals, holed up in the starboard hold!) By Hans
Christian Brando
Sheep in Wolf's Clothing
October
2, 2002 · Tom Daschle and Co. made a
spectacular display this last week. It was as if they finally
got a grip on just how much they've been manipulated. They
finally got tired of being kicked around, bullied, lied about,
and got mad enough to realize they had dignity at one time.
By W.
David Jenkins III
President Strangebrew,
or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bush
October
2, 2002 · I can't fight it anymore, you
say "war" and the liberal in me comes spewing out like regurgitated
goo after an Ann Coulter binge and purge session. By Lloyd
Dobbler
Politicizing the War
October
1, 2002 · Coming up to the midterm election,
both parties have taken off the gloves. Most people are not
fans of the political blame game or negative campaigning on
anyone's part, but some slander and lies are worse than others.
By Ramsey
Harris
Regime Change? You Bet
October
1, 2002 · There is no question in my
mind. "Regime change" (as the catch phrase goes) is justified,
perhaps even necessary. Should we continue to sit by idly
as a man who seized power, without the support of the majority
of the people in a free election, calls for war and, most
important, is in possession of weapons of mass destruction?
No, we must not.
By Stephen Sacco
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