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Today's
Stories
February 6,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
Super
Tuesday's Vote for Chaos
February 5,
2008
Winslow T.
Wheeler
The
Chaos in America's Vast Security Budget
Tariq Ali
Why I Will Not Participate in the Turin Book Fair
Stephen Soldz
The Secret Rules of Engagement in Iraq: Did Rumsfeld Authorize
War Crimes?
Chris Floyd
Strange
Fruit: America's Gulag and the Good War
William S. Lind
Saddam's Secret War Strategy: Die and Win
Martha Rosenberg
Live From the Killing Floor
Heather Gray
Conversations with Georgia Voters
Ayesha Ijaz
Khan
Obama, Bhagwandas and the Battle for a Secular Politics
David Macaray
Unions Need to Stop Being So Nice
Eliza Ernshire
Making Music and Laughing Till the Tears Run
Brenda Norrell
Hated Nation
Website of
the Day
The Things I Used to Do
February 4,
2008
Marc Levy
Winter
in America
Patrick Cockburn
The Bird Market Bombings
Saree Makdisi
Strangling Gaza
Uri Avnery
From Stalingrad to Winograd
Alan Farago
Let's Get Bambi! Someone is Slaughtering Florida's Key Deer
Ben Tripp
Spare Change: the Whine of the Progressive Voter
Paul Wolf
Civil Wars North and South
Paul Craig
Roberts
Why Were the 9/11 Tapes Destroyed?
Joshua Frank
MoveOn's Obama Endorsement: Why There's No Hope for Change
John Halle
Whither Progressive Democrats?
Website of the Day
How to Cheat in School
February 2
/ 3, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
Hot
Democratic Properties
Pam Martens
Bankers
Gone Bonkers: Global Finance and the Insanity Defense
Ralph Nader
The Great Clinton-Obama Debate: Questions They Weren't Asked
John Ross
Hilaria
vs. "El Moreno"
Wajahat Ali
Hillary, Obama and the Clash of Civilizations: an Interview with
Imam Zaid Shakir
Robert Fantina
A Colony by Any Other Name: Iraq as Stepchild of the American
Empire
B. R. Gowani
Not All Veils and Guns
James L. Secor
China in Winter: On the Western Edge of the Great Snow
John V. Walsh
The Invisible Green Primary
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Barack's Bubble, Bubba's Trouble
Dave Zirin
Who Stole the Super Bowl's Soul?
Jeremy Scahill
Blackwater and Blood
Fidel Castro
Reflections on Lula
Joe Allen
Tet Reconsidered: the Turning Point in the Vietnam War
Stephen Lendman
Life in Occupied Gaza
Patrick Irelan
What Happened to the Streetcars?
Andrej Grubacic
Ziga Vodovnik
Caligula's Horse: the USA, New Europe and Kosovo
Josh Karpoff
Dead Soldiers and the Antiwar Movement
Ron Jacobs
Carl Oglesby's War
Paul Krassner
Tom Waits Meets Super-Joel
Website of the Weekend
Company Woman: Hillary and Wal-Mart
February 1,
2008
Ray McGovern
The
Iniquities and Inequalities of War
Diane Farsetta
The Wild Career of James "Dow 36,000" Glassman
Patrick Cockburn
The
Most Dangerous Country in the World for Journalists
Tariq Ali
Et
Tu, New York Times?
Allan Nairn
Eating Dirt for Lunch in Haiti
Rannie Amiri
Collective Punishment in Beirut
Ramzy Baroud
People Power in Gaza: They Simply Did It
Kenneth Couesbouc
The Mother of All Snowballs
Peter Morici
Recession Looms
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Witha "Brutha" Like This: Bill Clinton as White Negro
Rosemary Jackowski
27 Reasons Nader Should Run for President
Scott Campbell
Direct Action to Stop the War Re-emerges
Website of the Day
Betes et Hommes
January 31,
2008
Saul Landau
Return
to Afghanistan
Andy Worthington
Horror at Guantánamo
Mike Whitney
Rate Cut as Dagger: America's Teetering Banking System
Jeff Ballinger
Sustainability for Dictators Initiative? Clinton Praises the
"Suharto of the Steppe"
Tiffany Ten
Eyck
The Saga of the Freightliner Five
William Loren
Katz
Waterboarding:
Torure or Mystery?
Alan Farago
Why the Republicans are in Deep Trouble
Col. Dan Smith
Oh Say Can You See the 2009 Budget?
China Hand
Slouching Toward Islamabad
Dave Lindorff
The Usual Suspects Once Again
Wadner Pierre
Fake Democracy in Haiti
Website of the Day
One Big Union
January 30,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
McCain
vs. Clinton?
Christopher
Ketcham
The Genius of the Development Industrial-Complex
Robert Weissman
America By the Numbers: The Shameful State of the Union
Neve Gordon
An Experiment in Famine
Paul Craig Roberts
Regulation or Deregulation, Which is Worse?
Joanne Mariner
How Anti-Terror Laws Threaten Free Speech
David Macaray
Labor's Only Real Weapon
Liaquat Ali
Khan
Is NATO Committing Genocide in Afghanistan?
Raymond J. Lawrence
Prankster-in-Chief: Bush's Troubling Non-Verbal Communication
Dan Bacher
The Collapse of the Central Valley Salmon
Website of the Day
Onward Through the Fog
January 29,
2008
Franklin C.
Spinney
Bush's
New War Budget: the $70 Billion Hand-Off
Mike Whitney
The Great Credit Unwind of 2008
Alan Farago
Buyer Beware: Florida, the Candidates and the Latin Builders
Association
Patrick Cockburn
"The Americans Bring Us Only Destruction"
Gary Leupp
"We Can't Afford to Let Them Spill the Beans:" a Sibel
Edmonds Timeline
R. F. Blader
A
World Without Abortion: USA v. Romania
Ahmad Faruqui
Musharraf's Post-Electoral Prospect
Fran Shor
Obama, the Kennedys and "Change We Can Believe In"
Jeremy Scahill
Secret Trials and Criminal Convictions: the Ordeal of the Blackwater
Protesters
Allan Nairn
Bush's
SOTU: Entitlement, Justice and the War of All Against All
Website of the Day
The Ghost of Rambo
January 28,
2008
Patrick Cockburn
Return
to Fallujah
Paul Craig
Roberts
The End of American Liberty
Allan Nairn
The Breaking of the Gaza Wall
Eyad al-Sarraj
/ Sara Roy
Ending the Stranglehold on Gaza
Martha Rosenberg
Obit for the "Front Page" City
Corporate Crime
Reporter
How They Rip Us Off
David Michael Green
Kristolizing Iraq: What a Great Freakin' War
Jennifer Van
Bergen
What's Left?
Nancy Oden
Survival Tips for Hard Times
Divya Karnad
Saving India's Sea Turtles
James L. Secor
Pissed About Pistorious: Why the Olympics Needs a Gimp
Website of
the Day
Yellow Journalism?
January 26
/ 27, 2008
Uri Avnery
Worse
Than a Crime
JoAnn Wypijewski
How the Clintons Lost It, Whatever the Outcome in S. Carolina
Ralph Nader
Ambition, Power and the Clintons
Paul Craig
Roberts
How Bush Destroyed the Dollar
Paul Watson
I'm Proud to be a Pirate!
John Ross
Murder and Cover-Up in Mexico
Fred Gardner
Ross v. Raging Wire: Employer's Right to Fire Workers Held Sacred
by California Supreme Court
Allan Nairn
Little Hands with Fever: Some Consequences of Poverty Death
Joshua Frank
Why Bush Wants to Legalize the Nuke Trade with Turkey
Binoy Kampmark
Société Générale and the Economic
Meltdown
James T. Phillips
America's Sick Comedy: Bringing the War Home
Stan Cox
The Depressing Truth About Anti-Depressants
Eamonn McCann
Hillary's Lie: "I Brought Peace to Northern Ireland"
Ron Jacobs
The Horizons of History: What's at Stake in Bolivia
Seth Sandronsky
California's Health Care Crisis
Ben Terrall
The Future is Unwritten
Poets' Basement
Tripp, Gardner, Gibbons and Davies
Website of
the Weekend
City of Immigrants
January 25,
2008
Douglas Valentine
Operation
Two-Fold: How the CIA Infiltrated the DEA
Patrick Cockburn
US Troops Will Be In Iraq for 10 More Years: an Interview with
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari
JoAnn Wypijewski
Down to the Wire in South Carolina
Heather Gray
Are We Seeing a Racial Shift in the South? Conversations with
South Carolina Voters
Marjorie Cohn
Senate Democrats Poised to Fold to Cheney on FISA
Erica Rosenberg
Environmentalists Out on a Limb: the Perils of Collaboration
Alan Farago
Jeb Bush Goes Nuclear
Robert Weissman
Reclaiming Economic Freedom
Laura Carlsen
Wild Cards: Mining the Hispanic Vote in Nevada
Stephen Lendman
Israeli Repression in the Hebron
Website of the Day
The FIX is In
January 24,
2008
JoAnn Wypijewski
Obama
as Anthologist of Uplift
Paul Craig
Roberts
President Hillary
Alexander Cockburn
Hillary Wants to Talk About Dirty Legal Dealings? Remember Her
Nursing Home Scam?
Kathleen Christison
One and Two State Solutions and the Myth of International Consensus
Jeff Halper
Power to the (Palestinian) People!
Stanley Heller
The Siege of Gaza is Broken
George Wuerthner
The Moronic Sport: ORVs on the Public Lands
Patrick Cockburn
Desperate Iraqi Farmers Turn to Opium
Jeff Sher
Just How "Good" is Your Health Insurance?
Patrick Irelan
Musharraf, the Steadfast Ally?
Charles Modiano
Restoring the Anti-War King
Website of
the Day
An Illustrated History of Trepanation
January 23,
2008
David Rosen
The
Great Disappearing Act: the Presidential Candidates and the Politics
of Sex
David Isenberg
Is
It Really So Hard to Believe That Iran Stopped Its Nuclear Weapons
Program?
Farzana Versey
Hillary's
Harem
Paul Craig
Roberts
The Empire That Must Be Obeyed
Alan Farago
Where Did All the Good Times Go?
Allan Nairn
Indonesian Intelligence Service Threatens to Kill Human Rights
Activist
Kenneth Couesbouc
Another Turn of the Screw
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
How the West was Re-Sold
Michael Donnelly
Obama Strikes Back
Norman Solomon
The Power of Love
Website of the Day
Rafah Today
January 22,
2008
Paul Craig
Roberts
Farewell
to Old Economic Nostrums
JoAnn Wypijewski
King Day in Columbia, South Carolina
Al Giordano
Divide and Conquer Politics: How the Clinton Campaign Armed a
Black-Latino Time Bomb in Nevada
Felice Pace
Power Politics in the Klamath: Water, Dams and Salmon
Paul Wolf
Bolívar's Sword
Robert Weissman
Deregulation and the Financial Crisis
Dave Lindorff
The Bush Dollar Trap
Marjorie Cohn
Cheney Impeachment Gains Traction
Richard Neville
Keeping Shakespeare in a Box
Don Fitz /
Zaki Baruti
St. Louis Mayor Booed Off MLK Platform
Ben Terrall
Cindy Sheehan and the Virtues of Divisiveness
Sam Husseini
Stoning Martin Luther King, Jr.
Website of
the Day
Defend the Mapuche!
January 21,
2008
Kevin Alexander
Gray
Playing
the Race Card
Linn Washington,
Jr.
Deferring Dreams, Delusions of Democracy
Pam Martens
How Wall Street Blew Itself Up
David Macaray
Labor's Grim Dilemma: Do We Need a Labor Party?
Uri Avnery
Look Who's Talking
Omar Barghouti
Europe's Collusion in Israel's Slow Genocide
Joe DeRaymond
Protest and Trial in D.C.
B.R. Gowani
Why Islam Should Tolerate Images
Shepherd Bliss
The False U.S. Economy
Jean-Guy Allard
Philip Agee Versus the CIA
Dan Bacher
Leaping Steelhead!
Website of
the Day
Destroyed
By a Rising Flood
January 19
/ 20, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
The
Campaign in Black and White
Saul Landau
Good Time Charlie's War
China Hand
Endgame for Pakistan?
Conn Hallinan
Desert Mirage: What Was the Bombing of Syria Really About?
Ron Jacobs
No Retreat
Dave Lindorff
A Tax Rebate Won't Fix This Mess
Andy Worthington
Canada's Humiliating Double Standard on Torture
Paul Armentano
What's the Going Price for a Joint? More Than You Might Think
Seth Sandronsky
High Crimes and Economics
Michael Donnelly
Dodging Ecocide
Patrick Irelan
The Ordeal of Dr. Safdar Sarki
Martha Rosenberg
The Drug Industry Takes Another Hit
Sherwood Ross
Making the World Safe for Despots: Bush's Global Arms Trade
David Michael
Green
So You Want to be My President, Eh?
James Rothenberg
Unimpeachable: Under House Protection
Daniel Gross
Starbucks Shortchanges Dr. King
Peter N. Carroll
In Memory of Milton Wolff
Susie Day
Croakin' on Hudson
Paul Krassner
Woody Allen Meets Tongue Fu
Poets' Basement
Wolff, Buknatski and Orloski
Website of the Day
Rocky Mountain
Blues
January 18,
2008
Allan Nairn
Killing
Civilians, Carefully
Ralph Nader
When
the Big Boys Get in Trouble, Who Pays the Ultimate Bill?
Joanne Mariner
Terrorism and Preventative Detention
Alan Farago
The Stimulus and the Meltdown
P. Sainath
Pity the Brahmins
R.F. Blader
Beyond Steinem's Feminism
Andy Worthington
A Letter from Guantánamo
John Jonik
Private Insurance is Bad for Your Health
Brian McKenna
Where Even Sharing is Prohibited: Notes from Inside a Michigan
Women's Prison
Daoud Kuttab
This Time Next Year?
Website of the Day
Those South Carolina Voting Machines
January 17,
2008
Paul Craig
Roberts
Leader
and Vassal
Christopher
Brauchli
The FBI's Bills Come Due
Robert Fantina
Leadership, Bush and the New York Times
Patrick Irelan
Eternal War
Paul A. Moore
When the Rich Pay No Taxes
Stephen Lendman
Institutionalized Spying on Americans
Beena Sarwar
Bhutto and the "State Within a State"
Walter Brasch
Buzzwords in the Echo Chamber: Change and the Establishment
Brenda Norrell
Bush Legacy in Texas Sours
Adam Federman
End of the Left?
Website of the Day
Democrats for Romney
January 16,
2008
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Return
of the Native
Franklin Lamb
The Bombing at Qarantina
Julian Sanchez
David Weigel
Who Wrote Ron Paul's Newsletters?
Sharon Smith
Ron Paul and the Left: a Slippery Slope?
Allan Nairn
Economic Indicator: No Free Lunch, No Free Market
Ayesha Ijaz
Khan
How the American Media Enables Bush's Iran Fixation
Andy Worthington
A Strategic Call to Close Guantánamo
Richard Behan
Nancy Pelosi, You Must Impeach!
Website of the Day
Obama the New JFK? He's Not That Bad!
January 15,
2008
Andrea Peacock
Breach
of Trust in America's Most Toxic Town: How the EPA is Rubbing
Poison Into Libby's Wounds
Wajahat Ali
An Interview with Seymour Hersh on Iraq, Bush Foreign Policy
and the Prospects of War with Iran
Joe Bageant
Getting Out the Bling Vote
Ralph Nader
The Candidate Taboos
John Ross
Zero Hour: NAFTA and Mexico's Agrarian Apocalypse
Elaine Cassel
Jose Padilla vs. John Yoo: Can a National Disgrace be Rectified?
Peter Morici
The Fed Needs More Than a New Communications Strategy
Beena Sarwar
Pakistan's Dirty Tricks Brigade
Robert Weissman
Big Business is Even More Unpopular Than You Thought
Binoy Kampmark
Going Tata in India
Dave Zirin
Dennis Brutus Smacks Down the Hall of Fame
Website of
the Day
David Lynch on the iPhone
January 14,
2008
Ishmael Reed
Ma
and Pa Clinton Flog Uppity Black Man
Roger Morris
Burials in the Sind
Uri Avnery
The
Hands of Esau
Mike Whitney
Bush's Voodoo Stimulus Package
Allan Nairn
General Suharto of Indonesia: One Small Man Leaves a Million
Corpses
William Blum
Oh, By the Way, the Iraqis Don't Really Want Us
Alan Farago
A Subprime Wake Up Call
David Macaray
Are Labor Unions Ready for Prime Time?
Eva Liddell
Getting Drunk with Obama
Zoe Blunt
Road Kill: New Highway Blocked by Protesting Raccoons
Website of the Day
Doug and Andrea Peacock on Grizzlies
January 12
/ 13, 2008
Andrew Cockburn
How
the New England Journal of Medicine Undercounted Iraqi Civilian
Deaths
Saul Landau
60
Years of Empire
Corey D. B. Walker
Barack Obama and the Crisis of the White Intellectual
Col. Dan Smith
Bush, Iran and the Magician of the Tarot
Eric Toussaint
The US Subprime Crisis Goes Global
Ron Jacobs
Television, Murder and Vietnam
Fred Gardner
The People vs. Christopher James Chakos
Stan Cox
Don't Take That Pill!
Jacob G. Hornberger
The Warfare State
Ramzy Baroud
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Joseph Grosso
The Anglosphere: a Special Relationship of Elites
David Díaz-Arias
Imagining An/Other Latin American Left
Stacey Warde
Before We Move On ...
Dan Bacher
Pumped to Extinction: the Decline of the Delta Smelt
Michael Dickinson
Georgie in Jesusland
Website of
Weekend
CounterPunchers Protest Outside NYT Offices
January 11,
2008
Dave Lindorff
Did
Hillary Really Win New Hampshire? More Questions About Diebold
Voting Machines
Paul Craig
Roberts
No
Escape from War and Unemployment
Andy Worthington
Six Years of Guantánamo
Kenneth Couesbouc
Banking on Thin Ice
Jeff Ballinger
Inside the Vienna Consensus
Christopher
Brauchli
Lethal Injection, the Supremes and China
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Paying No Attention to the Presidential Campaigns
Andrew Silverstein
Bush's Weepy Visit to Jerasulem
Marwan Bishara
Bush in the Middle East
Robert Weissman
The First Amendment Gone Wild
Patrick Irelan
Damn the Small Boats!
Website of
the Day
Hillary and the Superdelegates: Or Why She Wins Even When She
Loses
January 10,
2008
Alexander Cockburn
Now
Nader Claims He Didn't Endorse Edwards
Bob Wing
Marqueece Harris-Dawson
Race Within the Race: Obama, the NH Vote and the Specter of Tom
Bradley
Michael Donnelly
White Women Gone Wild?
David Macaray
Three Big Reasons for the Decline of Labor Unions
China Hand
Bush's Delusional Policy Pushes Pakistan to Brink of Catastrophe
Ayesha Ijaz Khan
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan: Brotherly, Friendly Countries?
Rannie Amiri
Obama, Man of Kansas or Kenya?
Website of the Day
Iranian Video of the Hormuz Incident
January 9,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
The
Empire Strikes Back
Dave Lindorff
The Bad News from New Hampshire: Death By Triangulation
John Chuckman
Pardon My Laughter: Watching the US Primaries from Canada
James Bovard
Stomping Freedom: Inside the Martial Law Act of 2006
Alan Farago
As Florida Sinks: the View from the Titanic
Russell Mokhiber
Why Picket the New York Times in DC on Friday?
William S. Lind
Kicking the Can Down the Road in Iraq
Peter Morici
Beyond the Sophistry: Why the Trade Deficit Matters
Josh Reubner
Sudan vs. Israel: Double Standard on Divestment
Mike Roselle
The Pursuit of Happiness
Website of the Day
Bottles of Tears on the Wall: Steve Perry on NH
January 8,
2008
Paul Craig
Roberts
No
Jobs for the New Economy (or the Old)
Russell Mokhiber
The Black Hillary: Obama is Just Another Political Sedative
Robert Fantina
The Gulf of Tonkin and the Strait of Hormuz
Dave Zirin
Butts on Parade
Shamako Nobel
I Am an Emcee: the Politics of Hip Hop
John Ross
Zapatista Women Encounter Themselves
Brenda Norrell
Apaches Defend Homeland from Homeland Security
Laura Carlsen
Why Bolivia Matters
Patrick Irelan
Remember the Maine!
Evelyn J. Pringle
The Holes in Bush's FDA
Jonathan M.
Feldman
After Iowa and New Hampshire: a Strategy for Rebuilding the Peace
Movement
Michael Dickinson
Playing Soldier
Website of
the Day
Sean Hannity on the Run!
January 7,
2008
Chris Floyd
There
Will Be Blood: But No Justice for Iraq Atrocities
John Blair
Remove That Man! Creeping Fascism in Indiana
Uri Avnery
The Case of the White Bird
Andy Worthington
Who Are the Gitmo Saudis?
Binoy Kampmark
Needling the Convict: Lethal Injection and the Supreme Court
David Macaray
Women on Strike
Ralph Nader
Obamarama: the Politics of the Smooth Mood
Michael Donnelly
It's the War Vote(s), Stupid!
Ron Jacobs
Ron Paul's Run: Is Being Against the War Enough?
Gideon Levy
The Hostile President
Dave Lindorff
A Real 9/11 Cover-Up? Sibel Edmonds, Turkey and the Bomb
Website of
the Day
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
January 5 /
6, 2008
Douglas Valentine
Good
Guys in Black Hoods
Kevin Young
The
US Occupation and Popular Opinion in Iraq
Richard Rhames
Saddam
Who?
Saul Landau
Bush Snatches Defeat from Victory
Marc Lynch
Why Bush's Iran Strategy is Failing
Robert Fantina
Iowa, Democrats and the Iraq War
Donna Volatile
Antiwar Soldier: an Interview with Jonathan Hutto, Sr.
Jelle Bruinsma
Norman Finkelstein in The Netherlands
Bob Sutcliffe
Remembering Andrew Glyn, Rebel Economist
Harvey Wasserman
Anti-Nuclear Renaissance
Missy Beattie
Why Obama Can't Save Us
David Swanson
Remembering the Separation of Powers
Jacob Hornberger
The Importance of the Padilla Case
Shepherd Bliss
Survival Tools from Kokopelli Farms
Ron Jacobs
Bleeding Kansas
Poets' Basement
Patti Smith, B.R. Gowani and Peter Buknatski
Website of the Weekend
Jimmy Dean Sausage Call Complaint
January 4,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
A
Good Night in Iowa
Jonathan Cook
War Crimes Airbrushed from History
Paul Craig Roberts
Thinking for Yourself is Now a Crime
Stan Goff
Ron Paul's Monkeywrench
Dave Lindorff
Clinton's Iowa Flop Exposes DLC Myths as Frauds
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
To Pindi Station
Allan Nairn
U.S. Elections Over Before They Began
Joshua Frank
The Failures of Sectarianism
Peter Morici
Economy on the Skids
Mary McInnis
Iowa Cocky-Us: How to be a Caucus Tease
Website of the Day
The Return of Obama Girl
January 3,
2008
Fatima Bhutto
Farewell
to Wadi Bua
Pam Martens
The
Free Market Myth Dissolves into Chaos
Joanne Mariner
The Presidential Candidates and Torture
Zoltan Grossman
Remember the '80s: Social Movements Between Woodstock and the
Web
David Domke
The Echoing Press and Huckabee
Norman Solomon
Edwards Reconsidered
Nikolas Kozloff
Return of the Faux Liberal
Jacob G. Hornberger
The Padilla Case and the Future of Habeas Corpus
Martha Rosenberg
Quit Picking on Huckabee's Son, Michael Vick
Russell Means
This Property is Condemned: a Notice to Those Occupying Lakotah
Lands
Website of the Day
WolfQuest
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February
6, 2008
Are We There Yet,
Pa?
Nine
Billion Little Feet on the Highway of the Damned
By JOE BAGEANT
John Raymond Castillo, age
81. Sunrise, January 14, 1917. Sunset, February 11, 2008. He
leaves 21 children, 140 grandchildren and 302 great-grandchildren
--- Obituary announcement on
Belize's LOVE Radio station
"The population of Belize?
Officially it's about 300,000. But if you include all the kids,
it's probably three million."
---Greg, longtime expatriate
American in Belize
HOPKINS VILLAGE, BELIZE.
The din of squealing, laughing children
is the background white noise of the Third World. In Belize,
as in most of the Third World, 45% of all people are under the
age of 16. About a dozen of that 45% swarm around me as I cut
my toenails under the mango tree. A few are picking on the mangy,
quarreling dogs but the majority are drawn in close, giving advise
about how to cut gnarly, old man type toenails: "Saw dem
off wid a file" seems to be the consensus.
What I see are children I help
with homework and feed, and admonish about grades unanxious
and reasonably happy little members of the human race. They do
not look much like a global migration or crushing planetary population
pressure. Yet they are among the most incredible wave of both
ever in human history.
Most families here have five
or six kids and their kids will have a similar number. I've yet
to meet a native of the village who does not think half a dozen
is not a nice round number of offspring. My adopted family has
six kids and four adults living on a 100 x 300-foot lot. This
does not include the Guatemalan family of five living in a rented
cabana at one corner of the lot. Assuming all the children reach
adulthood and procreate, the tally in ten years will be about
50 people of all ages trying to exist on this square of sewerage
soaked sand.
But oh, were it that bright
a future. As adults with families, these kids won't even have
this spot on which to live at all, much less live as well as
they live now. The resorts and condo rackets out of Canada, South
Africa and the U.S. are buying up these small plots. Unschooled
in western financial concepts and janked by the developers' offers
of more money than they have ever seen in their lives, locals
sell. Usually they are broke within a year. In any case their
semi-literate children will join the next generation's issuance
of dispossessed poverty stricken young adults headed for elsewhere.
Just what the world does not need, not here in Central America,
not in the Middle East, not in Latin America or the U.S. But
that's what we've got and that's what we are going to get a lot
more of.
Population growth is the rhino
in the playpen, the root cause of our approaching eco-disaster
that that no one honestly talks about. On the left we get an
onslaught of information about what we must and must not do to
prevent climate change. Good Democrats get Al Gore's advice,
which somehow never mentions the corporations doing the damage.
And all of America gets feel-good electric car ads -- buy your
way out of the problem, or at least your guilt if you happen
to have any. But nowhere do we get an honest discussion about
population growth. If you care to, argue that climate change
may or may not destroy us. But uncontrolled population growth
is guaranteed to do the job. As an old Idaho rancher told me,
"You can't run a hundred head of cattle on half an acre."
Most of the developed world remains clueless as to how all this
will affect their own lives. But Americans in particular cannot
get their head around the impact these billions will have on
the lifestyles they are driven like rats in hell to sustain.
About half of Americans
SCREAMING MAN: LOOKY HERE BAGEANT, YOU PICKLED OLD GAS
BAG. HALF OF AMERICANS LIVE UNDER THE GOOFBALL HALLUCINATION
THEY CAN SEAL THE BORDERS WITH SILLY PUTTY, DRONE AIRCRAFT AND
MACHINE GUNS. THE OTHER HALF, LIBERALS OVERDOSED ON PROZAC
AND WHITE WINE, IS LINED UP LIKE DOCKSIDE WHORES WAVING AT THE
INCOMING FLEET. "LET'S WELCOME THEM ALL! AMERICA IS THE
LAND OF IMMIGRANTS SO HELL FUCKING YES, LET'EM ALL IN!"
YEA, RIGHT. LET EVERYBODY LIVE LIKE A FUCKING HATIAN WHARF
RAT IN THE NEW THIRD WORLD AMERICA. HELL, IT'S ALREADY STARTED.
THEY'RE CROAKING 49 MILION AMERICANS BECAUSE THEY CAN'T COME
UP WITH THE BLACKMAIL DOUGH FOR HEALTHCARE. THEY'RE KICKIN HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS OUT OF THEIR PLYWOOD NESTING BOXES BECAUSE THEY
CAN'T MAKE THE MONTHLY NUT. AMERICA IS ALREADY A THIRD WORLD
COUNTRY WITH DRIVE THROUGH FEEDING BOXES.
Meanwhile, both camps of a
nation with no sense of history beyond its own state sponsored
founding fathers mythology hasn't the slightest notion of how
population migrations from areas of scarcity to areas of plenty
have shaped human history perhaps more than any other force,
including war (war is just more dramatic when it happens and
more entertaining to read about when it's over.) The Vikings
were a population shift from the limited arable land resources
of the north around the British coast to Normandy (and then back
to England by way of William the Conqueror, a Viking descendant.)
The Huns, the Goths, the Vandals, the Irish in America, Chinese
into Tibet
SCREAMING MAN: WELL BUBBA, LET ME SPELL IT OUT FOR
YOU IN CRAYONS. IT'S GETTING RIGHT BROWN OUT THERE IN HEARTLAND
AMERICA. ALL THOSE SAWED-OFF LITTLE DARK HAIRED FUCKERS HAVEN'T
COME UP HERE TO BE LAWN ORNAMENTS. AND SINCE THEY EAT AND SHIT
ABOUT THE SAME AMOUNT AS YOU DO, THERE'S GONNA BE SOME REDISTRIBUTION
OF THE GOODIES. YOU'RE GONNA SEE A LOT OF AMERICAN BLUBBER PARKED
IN LINE ALONGSIDE SALVADORANS WITH THEIR WHEELBARROWS FULL OF
WORTHLESS GREENBACKS WAITING TO BUY BLACK BEANS AND MASA HARINA
IN BULK THEN HITCHING A RIDE HOME ON A FLATBED TRUCK LIKE
THE REST OF THE WORLD SOUTH OF LOREDO DOES. OR MAYBE TAKING THE
CHICKEN COOP FIREWOOD EXPRESS SURPLUS SCHOOL BUS BACK TO THE
SAVAGE ARMED SUBURBS. A LITTLE TIP FROM THE OLE SCREAMING MAN:
IF THERE IS A BILLY GOAT IN THE BACK OF THE BUS, RIDE UP FRONT.
IF THE DAMNED GOAT IS UP FRONT, RIDE ON THE ROOF. THERE IS USUALLY
SOMEBODY OR SOMETHING UP THERE TO HANG ONTO.
Hungry but
still humpin'
Meanwhile, the truth stays
buried in the crapola. According to the UN's newest report on
the planetary condition, crop production has improved but has
not kept up with population. World cereal production per person
peaked in the 1980s, and has since been decreasing. We have over
six billion people now -- there were far less than half that
when I was born -- and there will be roughly nine billion people
by 2050. But the UN, being a world organization that has to
please a couple hundred governments, each beating its own national
drum to its people, pretending there is a long term solution
other that to eliminate two thirds of the world population within
the above mentioned kids' lifetimes. Thus, the UN issues
"millennium development goals." This neatly sidesteps
the fact that if the present six billion mouths and assholes
running the world's resources through their gullets like shit
through a goose is unsustainable, then nine billion of the same
are waaaaaay beyond sustainable in any way worth calling human
life.
For starters it would take
a doubling of world food production to (A-) feed the current
victims of hunger, and (B-) to feed the additional three billion.
Theoretically, we're going to cut back. We'll feed the nine billion
by some unarguably admirable means, like cutting waste, not overeating,
biofuels, and ending meat consumption. Small problem here Jackson:
We're pretty much out of the phosphate fertilizer that is the
foundation of world agriculture. The soil itself collapsing in
terms of human nutrition, as we use up its finite reserves of
vital elements iodine, chromium salts and other complex
materials our six billion collective bodies need to function.
And farming has already sucked down the world's water supply
to the danger level. Yet somehow, we are going to come up with
TWICE the water we now use by 2050, global warming and drying
be damned. The whole time we are fixing global warming the population
climbs.
Old Tom Malthus said something
like this was gonna happen, although he got some of the details
wrong, which a person just might conceivably do in predicting
the fate of human civilization a couple hundred years in advance.
Call me a softie here, but I tend to give the guy a break for
getting it 90% right.
But then I'm no scientist. Supposedly sophisticated American
scientists have been pissing on the grave of poor Tom at least
since I was a kid in school. All my life American capitalist
economists have proclaimed they've licked the population problem
by using the world up faster. "A failed prophet of doom,"
I believe my high school teacher called Malthus. Even commies
kicked Tom's dog around. Engles called him a barbarian. Marx
couldn't handle Tom's action, either. Nor practically anyone
else, from John Stuart Mill to Allen Greenspan. And we still
get the stale argument that "This planet isn't crowded;
it is just mismanaged." Even the greens seem to believe
that we can manage our way out of this fatal mess, if we just
recycle, wear hemp and vote for the candidate on the bicycle
with the Celtic tattoo. The alternative geeks swear nanotech
is gonna pull us through. But last I heard pandemic viruses were
still smarter than carbon nanotubes. Something about rapid adaptability.
Those little fuckers seem to be fast on their feet, so in a title
match between nano tech (or any tech for that matter) managed
in the ring by nerds, and natural evolutionary biology -- which
not only has mother nature holding the towels in its corner,
but also calling the fight -- I'm damned sure betting on the
biology.
At any rate, when it comes
to the planet, now under the new global corporate management,
it looks to be managed to death, dirt, people and all. The new
management, kings and feudal lords of corporate finance to a
man, peer down happily from the forty-fourth floor at six billion
potential slave wage employees and wonder if you can feed'em
on dirt and kudzoo.
Malthus must be thrashing inside
his lead lined English coffin right now, cackling, "Do the
math, you fuckers!" But they won't. With the world's geet
presently being loaded into their yachts bound for the Caymans,
they don't have to. Not just yet, anyway. As for they guy on
the bike with the Celtic tattoo, if he peddles long enough he's
bound to run into some of those 49,671 human beings born while
I was writing this.
SCREAMING MAN: AND WHILE HE'SPEEDING HE CAN CLOSE
HIS EYES AND MAKE A FUCKING WISH WITH TINKERBELL! THAT NINE BILLION
WILL BE HUMPING AWAY TRYING TO CRACK THE TWELVE BILLION MARK.
WHEN WE ARE ALL LIVING IN RENTALSTORAGE LOCKERS AND EATING PURINA
PEOPLE CHOW, FUCKING WILL BE ONE OF THE LAST FREE PASSTIMES LEFT,
OTHER THAN LISTENING TO THE 24/7 ADVERTIZING PIPED IN THROUGH
OUR NECK CHIPS SELLING TEENSY STRAP ON YOUR ASS RUBBER BAND POWERED
CARS. SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE EITHER HOMELAND SECURITY FUCK POLICE,
OR FORCED STERILIZATION BY ICE PICK.
Actually, THE SCREAMING MAN
is not so far off the mark. Human sterilizing crops are being
researched, and I'm not entirely sure I'm agin it, partner, so
long as they make the white people eat the stuff first.
In the meantime, the air is getting rather balmy in places it
shouldn't. Such as the North Pole. So the corporate and financial
lizards at the top of the world rock, in a last ditch effort
to milk out a few bloody trillion dollars more, has come up with
a plan: carbon emissions trading.
Just as in a Mafia handshake
and kiss on the neck "business agreement," there are
no escape clauses in the laws of physics. In either case the
rules cannot be bent, though you ass may well end up worse than
bent if you try to escape the debt you have racked up, be it
in greenbacks or the green life supporting stuff of our planet.
Both are finite and vital. Which means you get killed if you
try to scam the game, and you certainly don't get to write yourself
an escape clause after the fact. But that doesn't keep the high
rolling carnie hucksters we call legislators from trying. Naturally
they like carbon trading. To my mind at least, making a profit
off the fact that you did not piss into the community
drinking gourd is the kind of logic only obsessive, property
based western world governments and corporations could come up
with. It assumes that (A) poisoning everyone else in the human
fishbowl is a right to start with, and (B) that right is a property
which can be bought and sold between corporate poisoners.
Traded or not, there will be
plenty of carbon around, so don't worry about not getting your
fair share. In fact, we could park every car on the planet and
be assured of a nice steady supply of carbon pollution for our
great-great-great grandchildren. Turns out that, decades ahead
of an already grim global warming schedule, biological repositories
of carbon are beginning to release enough of the stuff to tide
us over so our progeny can gasp for breath as they skateboard
piggyback to and from their barracks at the Manpower gulag.
Anyway, we can monetize pollution, and trade our commonly shared
hemlock back and forth, and we can call it a "partial solution
and a progressive step forward." But it's still hemlock.
Yet, economists assure us that it makes good sense propertize,
then buy and sell catastrophe in the market of calamity.
SCREAMING MAN: LOOK HERE SPORT. THEY'RE POLISHING
A TURD SO THEY CAN SHAKE DOWN THE YOKELS. AND THE DUMB MAMMY
JAMMING PUBLIC BUYS IT! HELL, AN ECONOMIST SAID IT AND AN ECOLOGIST
AGREED, SO IT MUST BE A GOOD IDEA, RIGHT? BUT WHEN ALL THOSE
MOOKS WITHOUT ECONOMICS DEGREES FIGURE OUT THAT TURD IS NEVER
GONNA SHINE, THE GAME WILL BE UP. ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY BEGIN
TO ASSOCIATE POLLUTION WITH THE FACT THAT THEIR KIDS ARE BEING
BORN WITH 177 TEETH AND AN I.Q. OF 33.
The
Great Commons Shell Game
Civilization's most fatal folly
was monetization and propertizing of the natural world that is
humanity's great common. In fact those two things monetization
and propertization -- have come to mean civilization from the
perspective of most ordinary people over the increasingly brutal
centuries they have enabled. If modern cumulative civilization
is not perceived as being very brutal by, say, the average hedge
fund manager or Russian oligarch with a cell phone jacked into
one ear and hurtling through the earth's commons in a new BMW
toward either the Outback Steakhouse or an appointment with is
mistress, well, theirs is certainly a minority perspective. Ask
any indigenous person.
"Commons" may be
the current precious little term embraced by environmentally
concerned American writers and activists including me
but it rests on old European "ours together and my own private"
concepts of the earth. That green foliage stuff whizzing by our
windshields is more than commonly shared space. It is our commonly
shared oxygenic and chlorophylic blood. And the "dirt"
scraped and hammered into sterility and smothered under the asphalt
is the armature, the bones of our existence. It was never possible
for anyone to "own" any part of this so-called common,
a word that only exists so someone else --usually a less than
nice fellow surrounded by thugs in armor and whatnot -- could
call a piece of it his private property. You dared kill and eat
one of my grouse! Die peasant motherfucker!
But once the delusion set in,
and the peasants were allowed to scratch out a living on "their
own" miserable designated little square, there was no turning
back. Especially if you were European or derivative thereof,
and ultimately ended up on the winning side of the delusion,
otherwise called empire. But there never was a "mine and
theirs," when it comes to breathing clean air or drinking
clean water. It only appeared so to propertized minds and cultures
busy conquering and killing and pillaging other people's natural
world. And thanks to feudalism's greatest shape shifting trick
of all, capitalism, there ain't much left to pillage.
For Americans this is particularly ironic, especially in terms
of politics. Just as we started ballyhooing the triumph of America
consumer capitalism over communism, the world's ecology started
backing up like a redneck septic tank. And Castro's Cuba, of
all places, emerged as a beacon of relatively petroleum free
eco-enlightenment, organic farming and clean air, thanks to our
45-year embargo and the Ruskies turning off cigarland's oil spigot
in 1990. And now, despite it toxic track record, we find China,
the same goddamned anthill people who flat out starved 30 million
people (there's population control for ya) to make weight for
a great leap forward, are running the two largest eco-reclamation
projects on earth -- the Natural Forest Protection and the Sloping
Land Conversion Programs. These are admirable efforts in the
world's eyes, even if the air over the cities is still so foul
buzzards fly into it and drop dead. It certainly beats the U.S.
refusing to stop in at the Kyoto Conference, not even for the
hors d'oeuvres. Or going to the Bali Eco Summit just to pick
fights with the French. George Bush might claim to be from Texas,
but he plays global poker like a drunk. Meanwhile, the Chinese
are still reaping the benefits of offing those 30 million because,
voila! They never reproduced. Are those guys inscrutable or what?
So we what's an all-American
guy to do but drive around the suburbs looking for fried chicken,
watching the weeds grown up on the foreclosed lawns, and slobber
into our cell phones regarding our geographic location, having
lost all sense of historical and moral location. "I'm going
down Shirley Drive. Where are you?" "Me? I'm eating
a pizza and watching some hot blonde on Animal Planet smootch
upon bonobo chimps. It's educational. Kinda sexy too, in a weird
way." Now this folks, is called our "socio-economic
environment." It may be social, and it may be economic,
but it sure as hell ain't much of an environment. Unless you
happen to be a chimp. Of course like the chimps, we are "prime
apes." And as such, we're supposed to have big brains that
account for our "success as a species." We're gonna
have to rethink that one. I'm not seeing much success here, hoss.
Are you?
Let somebody
else fix it while I grab a salad
Sad lot that we are as a species,
not everyone is a moral pig. Millions of individuals, some governments
even, are unnerved by what is happening. In America the best
among us are outraged, and protest that officialdom has failed
us. Unfortunately, we are officialdom, indirectly as that may
be. Because we are mankind and mankind is all inclusive, organically
and forever forever having turned out to be rather shorter
than we thought. If officialdom has failed us, it is because
we have failed ourselves, and in many respects, our official
governments provide us with a collective excuse not to act personally.
Mainly though, aware Americans
are watching and waiting for someone else to make an important
move. Guts are nonexistent in Americans these days, programmed
out of us during the posh captivity of the "cheap oil fiesta"
that drove our grotesque and brief civilization. Still, if ever
there were a time to show some guts, it's now. Not by protesting
which has become a security state supervised liberal pussy
sport -- but by giving up the material life, the consumer life.
Damned near all of it. Including all those leftie and alternative
books from Amazon -- sitting on our asses reading and drinking
green tea just because we can afford to is just another type
of inaction and consumerism. It's the only real act of protest
possible by the prisoners of our consumption driven monolith.
True, you'll be just one iPodless, and carless little guy throwing
a single stone at the United States of Jabba the Hutt. But assuming
you're still capable of any kind of life after the stellazine
mind conditioning we've all been administered for past 40 years,
I've got folding cash that says you will own your life in a way
that seemed previously impossible. Hanging onto or chasing the
bling is over with anyway, as dead as the economy. The Olive
Garden and Circuit City are still open, true, but only because
the hair and nails still grow on Jabba's corpse. Would somebody
please quit pretending he's alive and yank the feeding tube?
Scoffers abound, those lurching,
undead cud chewers whose best lick is: "Aw, if things were
really that bad somebody would be doing something about it."
Asked who that somebody might be, they usually come up with "the
government." Or science or the stupidest of all, the Free
Market Solution. In other words, they haven't the slightest fucking
notion other than that there is some great governmental or commercial
force that governs their destiny one so vast that, like
god, they don't have to understand it, just swear by it and trust
it, even if they don't know exactly what the hell it is. What
it is of course is good old fashioned pillage. But Even Alaric
the Goth limited pillage to three days with an extra day
of rape thrown in if it had been a particularly good siege.
The gun
and cheeseburger ethic
In Hopkins Village, one can
find examples of everything that is both destroying the world
(scarcely a villager here would not live the America lifestyle
given half a chance) and good about the world (this morning I
took a bath in the sea at dawn, then ate fresh papaya with one
of the kids now supervising my pedicure.) Americans constitute
5% of the world's population but consume at least 28% of the
world's resources. This is a primary contributor to the fact
that the kids around me, Kirky, Lian, Ebony, Dennis and the rest
have no future. Is that out fault? You and I are but two of 280
million Americans. Yet just because one's contribution to global
misery seems small, it does not mean exemption from responsibility.
If I took part in the mass stoning of a child, would you be less
guilty because the stone I threw was a smaller than the rest?
Compassion figures somewhere
into all this. Or is supposed to anyway. Without it, we are lost.
Being born America, I have as little as anyone else. Last week
a young Garifuna woman in our village, a neighbor and friend,
lost her baby son in a terrible truck crash. That night, with
neighbors gathered round her in the dim light of her shack, her
grief was beyond grief. Unable even walk, she lay on the bed
issuing a low feral gurgling howl. And as I stood there
packed in among the black faces I felt nothing, except a strong
sense of looking at a National Geographic documentary. Exotic
dark people mourning in a strange setting. That's what American
media does to human consciousness. Provides inhuman reference
points in the brain/mind to replace experience and feeling. As
a people who demonstrably show no guts and even less compassion
about the rest of the world, we are in real trouble.
Comfortable as we have been in our plentitude, and confident
as we have been in our providence---or perhaps because of these
things---we Americans are now at the most critical and terrible
moral and ethical juncture in our history. Do we care at all
about anybody but ourselves? Is the reader, who has never met
Ebony, Lian, Kirky or Dennis, responsible for accommodating any
kind of future for them? Are we responsible that they be fed
adequately full well knowing that the world has far too many
babies anyway?
Not many Americans would eat a cheeseburger in front of a starving
African child. But is it OK to eat the cheeseburger behind the
child's back, out of sight of the child? How far must we get
from the starving child to make it OK? What if we worked very
hard to buy that cheeseburger? Does hard work justify everything?
What is our responsibility? Or are we just helpless in the face
of such things?
That we look to other people, politicians, police, and supposed
experts to solve our problems demonstrates that we have learned
to be helpless -- learned helplessness. None of us is helpless.
The fact is that at any given moment in any given day, we can
do something to help eliminate world misery and disparity. As
any Third World priest can tell you, this is done mostly face
to face, people helping people one at a time. But America's strictly
enforced and fearful class lines prevent us from even associating
with those we can actively help. The single mother, the felon
just released from prison, the Mexican with four kids who empties
your office waste basket at night
Americans and people of the developed world are in an unusual
position. We can help by doing nothing. Simply by sitting on
our asses and not buying stuff, not driving to the Gap or the
organic market, not turning on our televisions, which is the
ultimate act of protest, since it both denies access to our minds
by corporate interests, and denies media monoliths that all important
sea of eyeballs. We can refuse to consume. By not consuming we
can create our own economic cutbacks. Otherwise, economic cutbacks
are not going to happen and endless war is the inevitable outcome.
People will be killed so others survive, advanced nations with
sophisticated weaponry will kill off the people from weaker nations
so as to grab their land and resources. It happens. And if we
let it get that far (well, much farther, since we're already
doing it) Americans will be in favor because we live here and
not in a poor country. Evil as it sounds, we will have no choice
because it is human to prefer to see others die and our own families
survive. Morals never get in the way of ultimate survival. In
the end, there is no other way, except universal legislation
to push our bloated material standard of living back three generations.
Clearly democracy cannot make this happen. Unless it is the democracy
of the human heart, that internal thing that seeks justice.
Overcoming our worst instincts
is hard enough. But we also have an array of genuine enemies
lined up before us, many but not all of our own making. Being
the toughest kid on the global block, we long ago chose a geo-strategic
struggle for dwindling energy resources rather than conservation.
Simply because we could. The richest, strongest among us, the
global schoolyard bullies, the ones with the power and holding
all our national wealth (they hold the wealth, we hold the debt)
are seeing the same thing coming down the pike that we see, and
are building their forts around the planetary neighborhood, consolidating
as much wealth and power among as few people as possible.
Yet no one is much alarmed
by this because they are incapable of being alarmed by anything
except what the state message tells them to be alarmed about,
mainly terrorism, which is a form of chickens coming home to
roost. America is moreover a nation of state supervised zombies.
This used to scare the piss out of me, but now they have so long
been the national furniture, they are merely depressing. Especially
considering that, despite the Republican historical rewrite of
the era, we, meaning my generation, had a real crack at turning
this thing around during the Sixties. And we failed. We failed
ourselves, failed our children. And as if that were not enough,
we failed the planet and humanity itself. Fucking up doesn't
come bigger than that. I spent at least a decade nailing the
bling. The only excuse I can offer is that I didn't know any
better. And I didn't. But somehow that seems so lame.
I'm trying to atone. Yes, that
is the right word here atone -- for my part in this unholy
mess. I try to live on about $4000 -- $5000 a year and come
close to pulling it off. I share the rest with the world's needy,
almost never drive, refuse to own a cell phone or anything else
that requires earth killing batteries other than the laptop that
now provides my livelihood, yada yada you know the drill. Lest
I sound holier than thou, let me confess to my continuing part
in fucking up the earth's food chain due to a love of pork. But
on the whole, I'm not too ashamed these days of my role in the
ongoing disaster called America, though there is more I could
do. Almost weekly I seriously consider refusing to pay
income taxes as an act of personal resistance. But I ain't Joan
Baez and this ain't the Sixties, and I'm scared shitless of going
it alone. (Work with me here people!) Besides that, my wife is
unenthusiastic about the idea of her geezer playing dressups
in the Big House. The relatives would talk.
Thus, I am moreover just waiting
it out. Either I'll watch my sorry assed species will walk right
off that cliff, or I will croak first. Crappy set of choices.
Meanwhile, on a good day I realize that I've still got horses
to break, ball games to fix and beer to drink.
Stay strong.
Joe Bageant is the author of Deer
Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War,
from Random House/Crown about working class America. Bageant
is also a contributer to Red State Rebels: Resistance in the
Heartland edited by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank, forthcoming
this spring from AK Press. A complete archive of his online work,
along with the thoughts of many working Americans on the subject
of class may be found at: http://www.joebageant.com.
Feel free to contact him at:
joebageant@joebageant.com.
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