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Today's
Stories
August 13, 2003
Linville and Ruder
Tyson Strike
Draws the Line
Gary Leupp
Condi's Speech: From
Birgmingham to Baghdad, Imperialism's Freedom Ride
Recent
Stories
August 13, 2003
Joanne Mariner
A Wall of
Separation Through the Heart
Donald Worster
The Heavy Cost
of Empire
Standard Schaefer
Experimental
Casinos: DARPA and the War Economy
Elaine Cassel
Murderous
Errors: Executing the Innocent
Ralph Nader
Make the Recall
Count
Alexander Cockburn
Ted Honderich
Hit with "Anti-Semitism" Slur
Website of the Day
Defending
Yourself Against DirectTV Lawsuits: 9000 and Counting
August 12, 2003
William Blum
Myth
and Denial in the War on Terrorism
Ron Jacobs
Revisionist
History: the Bush Administration, Civil Rights and Iraq
Josh Frank
Dean's
Constitutional Hang-Up
Wayne Madsen
What's a Fifth
Columnist? Well, Someone Like Hitchens
Ray McGovern
Relax, It Was All
a Pack of Lies
Wendy Brinker
Hubris in the
White House
Website of the Day
Black
Mustache
August
11, 2003
Douglas Valentine
Homeland
Security for Whom?
Mickey
Z.
Bush's
Progress
Bill
Glahn
RIAA Watch: Meet the
New Bitch, Same as the Old
Elaine
Cassel
Indicting
DNA
Dr. Mohammad Omar
Farooq
Civil
Liberties and Uncivil Super-Patriotism
Uri
Avnery
Who Will Save Abu
Mazen?
Website of the Day
RIAA Subpoena
Clearinghouse
August
9 / 10, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
California's
Glorious Recall!
Saul
Landau
Bush and King
Henry
Gary
Leupp
On Terrorism,
Methodism, "Wahhabism" and the Censored 9/11 Report
Paul de Rooij
The Parade of
the Body Bags
Michael Egan
History and the
Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Rob Eshelman
A Home of Our
Own
Daoud
Kuttab
Life as an ID
Card
Philip Agee
Terror and Civil
Society: Instruments of US Policy in Cuba
Jeffrey St. Clair
Marc Racicot:
Bush's Main Man
Walt Brasch
Schwarzenegger,
"Hollyweird" and the Rigtheous Right
Christopher Brauchli
Bush, Bribery
and Berlusconi
Josh Frank
Mean, Mean
Howard Dean
Elaine
Cassel
Will the Death
Penalty Ever Die?
Sean Carter
Total
Recall
Poets'
Basement
Hamod, Engel,
Albert
August
8, 2003
John
Chuckman
What the US Says
Goes
Roberto Barreto
Defend the
Vieques 12!
Bruce Gagnon
Iraq War
Emboldens Bush Space Plans
Elaine
Cassel
The Reign of
John Ashcroft
Dave
Lindorff
Snoops Night
Out
Website of the Day
Zero Boy
August
7, 2003
M.
Shahid Alam
It the US a
"Terrorist Magnet?"
Toni
Solo
Neo-liberal
Nicaragua: a New Banana Republic
Adam Lebowitz
Hiroshima
Commemorated: the View from Japan
Hanan
Ashrawi
When the Bully
Whines
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Conscience
Takes a Holiday
Jason
Leopold
Wolfowitz Lets
Slip: Iraq Not Behind 9/11; No Ties to Al-Qaeda
Mike Kimaid
What's the
Score?
Elaine
Cassel
The Smell of
VICTORY: Ashcroft's Latest Stinkbomb
Dardagan, Slobodo
and Williams
CounterPunch
Exclusive:
20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians
August 6, 2003
Steve
Higgs
Going to Jail for
the Cause: It's Not Easy Confronting King Coal
David
Krieger
Remembering
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Robert Fisk
The Ghosts of
Uday and Qusay
Christopher Brauchli
Bush's War on
the National Forests
Elaine Cassel
No Fly
Lists
Stan
Goff
Military Equipment
and Pneumonia
Hugh Sansom
An Open Letter
to Nicholas Kristof on the Nuking of Japan
August
5, 2003
Uri
Avnery
The Prisoner of
Ramallah: Arafat at 74
Forrest Hylton
Terrorism and
Political Trials: the View from Bolivia
Ray
McGovern
"We Cook
Estimates to Go"
David
Morse
Poindexter's
Gambit
Edward
Said
Orientallism: 25
Years Later
George
W. Bush
My Darn Good
Resumé
Hammond Guthrie
It's
Incremental, Watson!
Website of the Day
National
Prayer Day
August 4, 2003
Bruce
K. Gagnon
Another Peace
Activist Detained by Airport Cops: My Story
David
Lindorff
Fear-Mongering
About Social Security
Mark
Zepezauer
George F. Will:
Descent into Self-Parody
James
Plummer
Tracking You
Through the Mail
Mickey Z.
Marriage
Insecurity from Sharon to Bush
Bruce
Jackson
News that Isn't
News: How the NYT's Pimps for the White House
August
2 / 3, 2003
Tamara
R. Piety
Nike's Full
Court Press Breaks Down
Francis Boyle
My Alma Mater,
the University of Chicago, is a Moral Cesspool
David
Vest
Sons of Paleface:
Pictures from Death's Other Side
Neve Gordon
Nightlife in
Jerusalem
Uri
Avnery
Their Master's
Voice:
Bush, Blair and Intelligence Snafus
Robert Fisk
Paternalistic
Democracy for Iraq
Jerry
Kroth
Israel,
Yellowcake and the Media
Noah Leavitt
What's Driving
the Liberian Bloodbath: Is the US Obligated to Intervene?
Saul
Landau
The Film
Industry: Business and Ideology
Ron Jacobs
One Big Prison
Yard: the Meaning of George Jackson
Thomas
Croft
In the Deep,
Deep Rough: Reflections on Augusta
Amadi Ajamu
Def Sham:
Russell Simmons New Black Leader?
Poets'
Basement
Vega, Witherup,
Albert and Fleming
August
1, 2003
Joanne
Mariner
Stopping Prison
Rape
Alex Coolman
Who Moved My Soap:
Trivializing Prison Rape
Steve
J.B.
Prison
Bitch
Stan Goff
Injury and
Decorum: The Missing Wounded in Iraq
Wayne
Madsen
Europe Unplugs
from the Matrix
Robert Fisk
Wolfowitz the
Censor
Elaine
Cassel
Ashcroft Loses
Big in Puerto Rico
Website of the Day
Stop Prisoner Rape
July
31, 2003
Ray
McGovern
The Prostitution
of Intelligence
Brian
Cloughley
Wolfowitz's
Operative Statement
Sheldon Hull
The RIAA's
Jihad:
The Devil's Music (Industry)
Elaine
Cassel
The Next Time
You Crack a Lawyer Joke, Think of These Attorneys
Sheldon Rampton
and John Stauber
True Lies:
Propaganda and Bush's Wars
Hammond Guthrie
Speculation
Blues
Website of the Day
Army of
One?
Congratulations to CounterPuncher Gilad Atzmon! BBC
Names EXILE Top Jazz CD
July
30, 2003
David
Lindorff
Poindexter the
Terror Bookie
Marjorie Cohn
Why Iraq and
Afghanistan? It's About the Oil
Elaine
Cassel
How Ashcroft
Coerces Guilty Pleas in Terror Cases
Zvi
Bar'el
The Hidden Costs
of the Iraq War
Lisa Walsh Thomas
Killing Mustafa
Hussein: Death of a Child, Birth of a Legend?
Sean
Carter
Pat Robertson's
Prayer Jihad: God, Sodomy and the Supremes
ND Jayaprakash
India and
Ariel Sharon
Steve
Perry
Bush's Top 40
Lies
Standard Schaefer
Correction
about Bloomberg and Outscourcing
Website of the Day
Bring Them Home
Now!
Hot Stories
Dardagan, Slobodo
and Williams
CounterPunch
Exclusive:
20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians
Steve
J.B.
Prison
Bitch
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
True Lies: the Use
of Propaganda in the Iraq War
Wendell Berry
Small Destructions
Add Up
CounterPunch Wire
WMD: Who Said What
When
Cindy
Corrie
A Mother's Day
Talk: the Daughter I Can't Hear From
Elaine
Cassel
Civil Liberties
Watch
Michel
Guerrin
Embedded
Photographer Says: "I Saw Marines Kill Civilians"
Uzma
Aslam Khan
The Unbearably Grim
Aftermath of War: What America Says Does Not Go
Paul de Rooij
Arrogant
Propaganda
Gore Vidal
The
Erosion of the American Dream
Francis Boyle
Impeach Bush: A
Draft Resolution
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August
14, 2003
Inside Bohemian Grove
US Elites Celebrate Patriarchy, Racism and
Class Privilege
By PETER PHILLIPS
San
Francisco Bohemian Club members and guests from around the world recently
completed two weeks of celebration, self entertainment and partying at
their private 2,700 acre redwood retreat on the Russian River in Sonoma
County, California. Described as the "Greatest Men's Party on Earth," the
members of the Club and international elites have been gathering in their
redwoods for over 100 years.
Private men's clubs have existed in the U.S. for
over two and half centuries. U.S. clubs were modeled after British
gentlemen's clubs, which date back 400 years. Gentlemen's clubs followed
the English around the world and were a sanctum of racial, sexual and
class homogeneity for English aristocrats throughout the British
Empire.
American men's clubs have served a similar function
as did their British models. In most major American cities there are one
or two distinguished metropolitan men's clubs whose members dominate the
social and economic life of the community. Club activities are a blending
of arts, business, and socio-political discussions. Men's clubs are
private places where elites can mingle in an atmosphere of gentlemanly
civility away from the common everyday world.
The San Francisco Bohemian Club is unique among
private men's clubs in that it holds an annual 16-day summer encampment
where the 2,400 members are free to invite several hundred distinguished
business associates and guests from around the world. Long days of
glad-handing, off-the-record political discussions, government policy
reviews, and the building of business friendships serve to facilitate
consensus and ease of interaction among some of the top governmental and
business leaders in the world. The collective corporate stock ownership by
members and guests conservatively exceeds $100 billion.
The Bohemian Grove summer gathering brings together
the top business elite of California along with hundreds of men from
leadership positions in government, education, business, military, and the
arts from throughout the United States and the world. Foremost among
attendees are former Republican presidents, numerous current and past U.S.
cabinet members; military generals, famous actors; members of national
policy councils, and CEOs and directors of hundreds of the largest
corporations in the world. It is safe to say that the Bohemian Grove is
one of the few locations in the world where such a large high level
gathering of elites occurs without press coverage or public
scrutiny.
During the summer of 2003 the men at the Bohemian
Grove heard off-the-record presentations -no media is allowed - from
William F. Buckley Jr., William Safire, Charles Murray, George Shultz,
Michael York and Charlie Rose. Additionally, there were daily lectures
from world-class experts on global warming, war policy, school vouchers,
mad deer disease, horse racing, stem cell research, terrorism,
American-Russian relations, and marine ecosystem. Concerts, plays, and
daily parties rounded out the two-week session for 2003.
On June 4, 1994 a presentation at the Grove from a
University of California Berkeley professor stressed that, elites are
important and must set the values for society that are translated into
"standards of authority," and that elites cannot allow the "unqualified
masses" to carry out policy. The speech was given an enthusiastic standing
ovation by the over 1,000 men present and seemed to represent the feelings
of many club members.
Like the British Empire's gentlemen's clubs, the
American Empire elite gather annually in Sonoma County for an all-male
99%-white private party to find homogeneous comradeship and celebrate
themselves through poetry, music, discussions and plays. And like the
British before them they employ a cadre of servants, waiters, waitresses,
grounds people, on-site medical personnel, and security officers to meet
their every need, -women are prohibited from 90% of the Grove and can only
work in the main dining area, the skeet range, and the parking
lots.
The Bohemian Club's summer encampment is the
institutionalized embodiment of elite class privilege, a de facto
celebration of race and gender exclusiveness, and a slap in the face to
democratic process in the United States. Institutions of elite privilege
like the San Francisco Bohemian Club run counter to the core American
values of equality, due process and political openness. Americans deserve
a public apology from the Bohemian
Club for their celebration of eliteness, ongoing
full disclosures of their lectures and presentations, and the
transformation of the club to one of public service and gender and racial
inclusiveness.
Peter Phillips is a
Professor of Sociology and Department Chair at Sonoma State University:
Email peter.phillips@sonoma.edu.
His 1994 dissertation on the San Francisco Bohemian
Club is available at: http://libweb.sonoma.edu/regional/faculty/phillips/bohemianindex.html
Weekend Edition
Features for August 9 / 10, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
California's
Glorious Recall!
Saul
Landau
Bush and King
Henry
Gary
Leupp
On Terrorism,
Methodism, "Wahhabism" and the Censored 9/11 Report
Paul de Rooij
The Parade of
the Body Bags
Michael Egan
History and the
Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Rob Eshelman
A Home of Our
Own
Daoud
Kuttab
Life as an ID
Card
Philip Agee
Terror and Civil
Society: Instruments of US Policy in Cuba
Jeffrey St. Clair
Marc Racicot:
Bush's Main Man
Walt Brasch
Schwarzenegger,
"Hollyweird" and the Rigtheous Right
Christopher Brauchli
Bush, Bribery
and Berlusconi
Josh Frank
Mean, Mean
Howard Dean
Elaine
Cassel
Will the Death
Penalty Ever Die?
Sean Carter
Total
Recall
Poets'
Basement
Hamod, Engel,
Albert
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