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Articles
MARCH
2004
Lights... Camera... Regime
Change!
March 31,
2004 · Whether it's covering "Made in
China" labels with fake boxes marked "Made in U.S.A." for
a speech backdrop, forcing people at a Bush rally to take
off their ties to look more like common folk, or spicing up
the set of Iraq War Central Command headquarters in Qatar,
Karl Rove Productions knows that image is everything. By
Ian Watson
White House Goes on Offensive
Against Jesus
March 30,
2004 · Washington, DC. - The White House,
still reeling from this week's surprise return of Jesus Christ
and His condemnation of the Bush administration's war in Iraq,
has gone on the offensive. An administration aide admitted
to growing White House frustration that staffers had been
"caught napping," not only by Mr. Christ's unexpected
return, which the aide likened to "a thief in the night,"
but especially by His strongly worded condemnation of Bush's
foreign policy. Satire
by Daniel Welch
Deceit Then, Deceit Now
March 30,
2004 · In late 1975, a small group of
conservatives across the legislative and executive branches
of the U.S. government were convinced that America's military
strength was falling behind the Soviet war machine. As we
witness the same old cold warriors regurgitate the same old
insanities, we can take heart: true power always remains with
the people willing to exercise it, and ordinary people have
beaten back powerful barbarians in the past. By
Joseph P. Firmage
The Pre-9/11 Bush Administration
March
27, 2004 · If the White House was so
focused on fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda before September
11, 2001, wouldn’t there be evidence to that fact? Wouldn’t,
for example, Department of Defense policy reflect that fact?
Wouldn’t the State Department have identified terrorist groups
as among the leading threats to this country? By
Michael Coblenz
An Overview of American
Conservatism
March
27, 2004 · Ideologically, there seems
to be no principle that binds the various conservative groups
together. If not ideology, then what is it that unites and
drives them? The answer can be summed up in one word: liberals.
By Violet
Lake
The Patriot Card™
March 26,
2004 · Dear Mr. Bush I need a favor.
It seems that in my patriotic enthusiasm to support our failing
economy in the days following Saddam's attack on the World
Trade Center I, well, I overspent a little. I was just doing
my part for the war effort... Satire
by Dave Firmage
Welcome to "Whitewasher"
March 26,
2004 · George W. Bush has a lifelong
pattern of cover-up and deceit in his private and public life.
Now it looks like the 9/11 commission may be the latest victim
of Bush's spin machine. By Joe
Fields
The Teflon President
March 26,
2004 · If you listen to Dubya and his
henchmen long enough, you get a sense that they have an almost
manical distance from the reality of the times. They don't
allow the fact that they could be wrong (or violating the
law) to enter their thinking. If it is in line with their
preconcieved notions, nothing can sway them. By
Trevor Seigler
The Poisoned Well
March 25,
2004 · Credibility is the wellspring
from which flows all the weight and substance of political
persuasion. If that well is corrupted, the prospects of the
party and of the candidate drawing from that well will be
seriously, and perhaps fatally, damaged. Bush and the GOP
propaganda machine have polluted that well, and thus have
given Kerry and the Democrats an outstanding opportunity that
they must not fail to use. By Ernest
Partridge
Being John Kerry
March 24,
2004 · The "pioneering" Internet "journalist"
Matt Drudge seems to have a sacred mission in life: report
something negative about John Kerry every day, no matter how
inconsequential. By Scott
C. Smith
Marching for Peace is Good,
Getting Rid of Bush is Better
March 23,
2004 · Make no mistake about it: The
next six months leading up to the November election are going
to be the most important in our civic and personal life. Let's
mount up, friends, and join the growing movement for peace
and justice. We need to light the torches of hope and righteousness,
and send the shadow forces represented by Bush & Co. back
into the dank caves from whence they came. By Bernard
Weiner
It Takes a Nitwit
March 23,
2004 · Bush just keeps making the pie
of lies higher and higher, trusting the evil machinations
of Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove, the legions of pundits marching
in lockstep to media assignments from within the network of
right-wing think tanks, and his buddies in the corporate media
to clean it all up for him. By Sheila
Samples
Ending the Endless War
March
20, 2004 · The war on terrorism is being
lost. Al Qaida is no less able to inflict harm with a dramatic
attack where and when it desires today than it was on September
11, 2001. The responsibility for this failure can be placed
squarely at the feet of the Bush administration. By Jack
Rabbit
Santa Claus, The Easter
Bunny, and Compassionate Conservatives
March
20, 2004 · In having a conversation with
one of my co-workers the other day about the upcoming Easter
holiday, I offhandedly mentioned that my wife and I allow
our five-year old to know that there is no Easter bunny. By N.
O'Neal
The Calculus of a Bombing
March 19,
2004 · For American voters, there is
a question that must be faced: wasn't the invasion of Iraq
supposed to make the world a safer place? Since the fall of
Baghdad, there have been any number of bombings in Turkey,
Saudi Arabia, Iraq itself and now Spain. By Y. A.
Espinoza
The NeoCon Standard
March 19,
2004 · Key to the neocons' utter disdain
for any and all governmental social initiatives is the absolutist
terms in which they have defined success, terms under which
no other public or private program in the history of mankind
could be ruled a success. We have allowed them to describe
all social initiatives as "failures" based upon the single
fact that the problems addressed by those programs continue
to exist. By Greg
Whitaker
Just Plain Liars
March 18,
2004 · It is a repetitive theme in the
alternative press that the Bush administration collectively
seems to be the largest complement of liars ever to have inhabited
Washington, DC. The continuing mystery is why the public hasn't
risen up and ripped out all their tongues. By punpirate
The Sins of the Bush Administration
March 17,
2004 · Since Bush fancies himself a Christian,
and is taking stances on many subjects that match those of
his pro-Christian conservative base (e.g.: anti-abortion,
anti-gay marriage, anti-stem cell research), we can conclude
that if our current government is becoming more religious,
then the religion it is embracing is Christianity. If so,
we are now within our rights to ask the question: Has our
Government sinned? By Tab
Julius
Bush Wants Us To "Move
On" - So Why Don't We Take Him Up On It?
March 16,
2004 · As we all know, Bush&Co. act forcefully,
aggressively, arrogantly, in both the domestic and foreign
arenas. They don't seem to care if what they do is based on
lies, or immorality, or illegalities. Once the deed has been
done, the Bushies say it's senseless to look back and examine
how those decisions were made. That's old history, it's time
to "move on." By Bernard
Weiner
The Politics of Inexperience
March 16,
2004 · Politics is a strange business
because it's one of the few professions where no experience
is required for the job. In fact, it's considered a plus to
not have any political experience. By Scott
C. Smith
It's the Trifecta, Stupid!
March 13,
2004 · Bush's ads exploiting 9/11 show
how much we've come to tolerate. You know he didn't apologize
for the failures that allowed it. You know he didn't assist
the investigation. Now you know he didn't respect the privacy
of the victims. But did you know he thought it was funny?
By Jack
MacMillan
A Long and Bloody History
March 12,
2004 · The list of victims is long, the
pattern unmistakable. Despite conventional wisdom, propped
up by propaganda and a complicit press, the motivation of
U.S. intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean is anything
but well-intentioned. By Suspicious
From Right to Left: the
Adventures of a Liberal Veteran
March 12,
2004 · I wasn't any more politically
savvy in the 1990s than I was in the 1980s. But the Internet
changed that, when I first had access to it in 1995, and discovered
the world of Usenet. In between arguments over which Enterprise
captain was better, Kirk or Picard, I started to develop an
interest in political discussions. And, of course, easy access
to porn. By Scott
C. Smith
The Real Deal
March 11,
2004 · John Kerry's Real Deal will not
only save us from George Bush's Raw Deal, but will give us
a renewed faith in America's ability to deliver for its citizens
and serve as a beacon for the world. By David
Michael Rothschild
Why Torture Doesn't Work:
A Critique of Alan Dershowitz' Case for Torture
March 11,
2004 ·Alan Dershowitz, the renowned legal
scholar and civil libertarian, has stirred up a small hornets
nest since the September 11 attacks by talking openly about
the possibilities of sanctioning torture in America. Dershowitz
feels it is incumbent on him to lead a discussion on a choice
he feels is unpleasant but necessary. By Jack
Rabbit
Powell the Star of Bush's
"Façade Corps"
March 10,
2004 · The most successful department
in the Bush administration is, without question, the Façade
Corps. This little-known operation is headquartered in the
White House basement, but its personnel are scattered throughout
the bureaucracies. The Façade Corps functions, in effect,
as a theatre company. By Dennis
Hans
Bush Uses Word "Terror"
in Dramatic Campaign Speech
March 10,
2004 · In a nationally televised campaign
speech, President George W. Bush wowed audience members and
the press corps through his use of the word "terror". By David
Albrecht
Decisive or Divisive?
March 10,
2004 · It's easy to appear decisive when
you think everyone is with you or against you. You can't have
second thoughts when you never have the first one. It's hard
to have conflicting views when you don't ask questions or
even listen to your own cabinet members. By Todd
Smyth
Gore vs. Bush - A Lesson
for John Kerry
March 9,
2004 · A look back at the 2000 presidential
debates reveals that Bush beat Gore because Bush ran on his
record - and Gore let him get away with it, acting as if Bush's
record in Texas had nothing worthy of criticism and the man
was a bipartisan statesman. Let's not make the same mistake
twice. By Brad
Peachy
The 28th Amendment
March 9,
2004 · Apparently Bush and his cohorts
on the radical right are blinded by the difficulties to amend
the 200-year-old document that has been modified a scant 27
times since adoption. No doubt the ghost of the late Senator
Sam Ervin, once America's greatest Constitutional scholar,
is having a good laugh at Bush's expense. By Bob
Volpitto
No Hay Banda
March 6,
2004 · No hay Banda - there is no
band. I have written in the past of the need to wake up
from that singular American illusion that all is well in the
world. The clock is ticking on that awakening, Dear Reader,
and when George W. Bush and his illegitimate administration
overthrew the same legitimate government that had been toppled
by his father before him, our time grew shorter, and shorter
still. By Raul
Groom
Legal Discrimination
March 6,
2004 · Nowhere in the Constitution does
it grant rights to Americans and states "with exception to
homosexuals." Nowhere. So how come two people of the same
sex cannot get married? Are gays not capable of loving or
being loved? By Dylan
Walker
Laughter of the Gods
March 5,
2004 · The more I look at the chaotic
mess George W. Bush is making in every blessed corner of the
world, the more I am inclined to take a closer look at the
God in whose name he claims to be making it. By Sheila
Samples
A Jobs Program for Iraq
March 5,
2004 · The awarding of no-bid contracts
to U.S. corporations, along with rules issued by Paul Bremer,
the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, that allow
foreign investors to buy control of Iraqi-owned enterprises,
reinforce the perception among some Iraqis that the war was
really about the economic plundering of their country. By Brian
Youngblood
The America I Live In:
Notes for the Campaign
March 3,
2004 · Our country finds itself in one
of those periods when the shadow forces have emerged to take
us back to darker, more authoritarian and rigid times. But
shafts of light are beginning to pour through more and more
cracks in the Bush&Co. edifice. By Bernard
Weiner
The Uncultured War
March 3,
2004 · One might say that the entire
brief history of our country has been one long culture war.
Come to think of it, our country's history seems to focus
mainly on wars, with culture finishing a distant second. By Rush
Roberts
The Splintering of the Right
March 2,
2004 · The latest salvoes being fired
across the bow of both neo-conservatism and the Republican
establishment indicate that this may be the beginning of the
end for unified American conservatism. By Rick
Freedman
The Next Time is the Last
Time
March 2,
2004 · The act of voting is a serious
and personal matter, and no one can tell you how to use your
most fundamental Democratic possession. But the crucial test
for any action which we might hope to call "moral"
is the question that is so seldom asked - what is the likely
outcome of this action, in the near term and in the long run
as well? By Raul
Groom
Atheists Pack Theaters
For Controversial Movie About Execution of Renaissance
Philosopher
March 2,
2004 · Theaters across America were packed
on Wednesday for the long-anticipated release of "Giordano
Bruno", the controversial movie about the life of the
Italian scientist and philosopher executed by the Inquisition
in 1600. Satire
by David Albrecht
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