RIDGEWAY Paris Reporters Say Bush Threatened War Last Summer 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

WP Bush's War Message Brings Political Gains 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

CONASON Media Blame Game For Sept. 11 Requires A Mirror 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

KAMINER Don't Underestimate The Public's Willingness To Remain In Ignorance 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

GONZALEZ Ignorance Is Not Bliss 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

LIGHTHIZER Fast Track To Nowhere 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

KUTTNER "Enron Dots Lead To Ideology And Organization Of Bush" 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

MARSHALL Over 30 BushAdmin Appointees Owned Stock In Enron 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

WP Enron Executives Face Subpoenas 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

KUTLER "George W. uses 9/11 as a pretext to reverse the will of Congress" 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

FLETCHER "Bush's military tribunals haven't got a legal leg to stand on." 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

SCHRAG Ashcroft's Hypocrisy 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

SAFIRE "Ashcroft determined to keep the F.B.I.'s embarrassing history hushed up." 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

RENSE FBI May Be Implicated In Anthrax Mailings Cover-Up 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

FRANKLIN "Reason to believe that the FBI may not yet be up to the job." 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

LYONS "How many intelligence hoaxes must an American citizen swallow?" 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

ACLU Know Your Rights 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

WP Report Finds Shortcomings In Energy Dept. Nuke Testing 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

SINGH Controlling Pakistan's Nukes 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

NYT Israelis Withdraw From Two Palestinian Cities 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

LENZI Europe's Hotbed Of Terrorism 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

PEAR Daschle Fights For Mining Company Over Public Interest 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

MEYERSON Labor Rights, Environmental Standards, And Our House Of Lords 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

WP ED Army Corps Of Engineering Using Bush Approach To Environment 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

LEWIS "Why I Won't Wave The Flag" 01.03.02 www.bushreport.com

"Abbott Laboratories, Argenbright, Bayer, Coke, Enron, Exxon Mobil, Philip Morris, Sara lee, Southern Co. and Wal-Mart have been named the 10 worst corporations of 2001, in Multinational Monitor magazine's annual listing. "These behemoths have ripped off the public, polluted the environment, abused their workers and debased our culture," said Robert Weissman, editor of Multinational Monitor. "They appear in our lives everyday, disguised as 'respectable members of the community.' They deserve public opprobrium, and, in many cases, government sanction." Multinational Monitor is a Washington, D.C.-based monthly magazine that tracks the activities of multinational corporations. It was founded by Ralph Nader.... Argenbright, the security company, was named to the list for repeat violations of regulations for airport security. Argenbright's appalling record helped convince Congress to federalize U.S. airport security operations.... Enron made the 10 worst list for costing many of its employees their life savings by refusing to let them dump Enron stock from their pension plans, as the company plunged toward bankruptcy." --MM

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Under Cover Of War: Will Bush Skate On Enron?

by Michelangelo Signorile

Under cover of war, and with the help of a pathetically soft media, Bush and company’s slippery maneuvers continue. Caving in to Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott and other Republican Neanderthals, Bush has broken his promise to give $20 billion in aid to New York, and has eluded much criticism for it. He conveniently pulled out of the ABM treaty with Russia on the same day that the White House released the newest bin Laden tape, which of course dominated the media. And as the fallout from the Enron collapse continues, the Bush administration may be teetering on the edge of a scandal that makes Whitewater look like a bake sale. But so far, you wouldn’t know it.

Much thanks for that needs to go to the Tom Brokaws of the world, so enamored with themselves, so blindly patriotic, so wrapped up in Greatest Generation propaganda, they’ve given Bush a pass on just about everything. Maybe it’s the influence of the higher-ups who own these media companies–the execs up at GE and Disney/Capital Cities and AOL Time Warner–who know what’s best for themselves as the recession comes into sharper focus and they look to the administration’s future corporate-friendly policies and corporate welfare schemes. Or maybe nobody wants to take on a president with such high poll numbers–if the pollsters are right I’m probably going to be stoned on the street, Taliban-style, just for writing this column.

Whatever it is, the war coverage seems to have strained the media’s resources to the point where much else is being left by the wayside. Last week it was announced that a staggering three-quarters of all HIV cases in the U.S. are resistant to drugs to fight the disease, a story with dire epidemiological implications and one that would have created front-page headlines in the past. The New York Times didn’t cover it at all. Even O.J. mania can’t jar the media crowd: Simpson’s house was raided in a drug-smuggling investigation, but the story was mostly relegated to the annoying ticker on the bottom of your tv screen. O.J. chase scenes are small potatoes when you’re hunting down Osama bin Laden.

If my own was any indication, many of the national family Christmas flak-fests revolved around the issue of whether or not the Bush administration's motives were dirty with oil in its war against the Taliban. It doesn't help that the media continues to display a virtual news blackout on the subject, but on the Friday before Christmas Bush signed treaties with Kazakhstan to help develop their oil fields. President Nursaltan Nazarbayev met with Bush in Washington, and later followed him to Texas. (As an interesting aside, Nazarbayev was the last Communist leader of Kazakhstan, he dissolved Parliament in 1995, his last election was rife with fraud, and his rule gives every indication of returning to dictatorship. So much for our alliance with 'freedom-loving people everywhere.') For further perspective, we can turn to the Chairman of the New York based Petroleum Industry Research Council, John Lichtblau, who says the Caspian Sea oil region is important because "It is politically different from the Middle East." So perhaps looking forward to a Saudi Arabia deposed of its royals by tens of millions West-hating Muslim fundamentalists, we're securing friendly oil through the relatively easy means of knocking off the crackpot Taliban. Makes sense. But who would've thought the Bush administration so clever? Must be Poppy's doing. In any event, it's always about the oil. --Kent Southard

Honk If You Hate Honking... India's capital of New Delhi imposed a ban against honking at traffic lights, an effort to calm nerves in the city's overcrowded streets. Anyone using a horn within 100 yards of a traffic signal will have to pay a $2 fine. Honking drivers are a menace at intersections, where they blow their horns to alert cars ahead of them that the light has changed. The noise often leads to waving fists and shouting matches, not to mention rampant poverty and polluted air and water and horrible uncontrollable overpopulation and an absurd lack of proper widespread birth control and infrastructure collapse and angry resentful politically charged feelings toward Pakistan leading to a bitter and imbecilic nuclear arms race no one can win especially in this era of interwoven global economic paradigms and 18 billion Starbucks franchises and incredibly mediocre political leadership. --Mark Morford, SF Gate

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