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Jeffrey St. Clair: Salazar and the Tragedy of the Common Ground Jeffrey St. Clair: Salazar and the Tragedy of the Common Ground http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair12192008.html home / subscribe / donate / books / archives / search / links / feedback / events / faq Exclusive in the CounterPunch Print Edition! You Want to Deal With a Humanitarian Crisis, Mr Obama? “Right now Israel, with full support from the U.S. is denying 1.5 million people in Gaza ALL the necessities of life.” Read Kathleen and Bill Christison’s searing emergency bulletin to Obama. “This is a U.S.-created, U.S.-supported disaster…Put meat on the bones of your talk about compassion…” Also in the new issue of our subscriber-only newsletter, Barbara Rose Johnston brings us a detailed report on the drive for justice in Guatemala after another catastrophe sponsored by the U.S. – the building of the Chixoy Dam. Finally, Alexander Cockburn sets out the record of assaults on freedom in the Bush years. 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CLAIR Phillip Doe The Man in the Hat: Salazar and the Status Although America’s greatest Interior Secretary, Harold Ickes, Quo who had the post for nearly a decade under FDR, was from Chicago, the playbook for presidential transitions calls for picking a Ronnie Cummins Westerner for Interior, as long as the nominee isn’t a Californian. Vilsack: Another Shill Pick someone from Arizona or New Mexico or Colorado. Of course, for Monsanto Colorado has produced two of the worst recent Interior Secretaries: James Watt and Gale Norton. Ken Salazar may make Jesse Sharkey it three. No School Left Unsold: Arne Duncan's And why not? After all, Salazar was one of the first to endorse Privatization Agenda Gale Norton’s nomination as Bush’s Interior Secretary. Saul Landau By almost any standard, it’s hard to imagine a more uninspired or Postcard from uninspiring choice for the job than professional 1 of 18 1/23/2009 1:51 PM Jeffrey St. Clair: Salazar and the Tragedy of the Common Ground http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair12192008.html Venezuela middle-of-the-roader Ken Salazar, the conservative Democrat from Colorado. This pal of Alberto Gonzalez is a meek politician, Peter Morici who has never demonstrated the stomach for confronting the What's Next for the corporate bullies of the west: the mining, timber and oil Fed? companies who have been feasting on Interior Department handouts for the past eight years. Even as attorney general of Dave Lindorff Colorado, Salazar built a record of timidity when it came to going Prosecuting Bush and after renegade mining companies. Cheney for Torture The editorial pages of western papers have largely hailed Salazar’s Panos Petrou nomination. The common theme seems to be that Salazar will be Days of Rage in Greece “an honest broker.” But broker of what? Mining claims and oil leases, most likely. Jeff Cohen / Norman Solomon Less defensible are the dial-o-matic press releases faxed out by The 2008 P.U.-litzer the mainstream groups, greenwashing Salazar’s dismal record. Prizes: the Stinkiest Here’s Carl Pope, CEO of the Sierra Club, who fine-tuned this kind Media Performances of of rhetorical airbrushing during the many traumas of the Clinton the Year years: Worthy Group of the Day “The Sierra Club is very pleased with the nomination of Click Here to Buy! Organic Consumer Ken Salazar to head the Interior Department. As a Alliance Westerner and a rancher, he understands the value of The Inside Story of the our public lands, parks, and wildlife and has been a Shannon Five's Smashing December 17, 2008 vocal critic of the Bush Administration’s reckless efforts Victory Over the to sell-off our public lands to Big Oil and other special Bush War Machine Peter Lee interests. Senator Salazar has been a leader in By Harry Browne Pushing Pakistan Over protecting places like the Roan Plateau and he has the Edge stood up against the Bush’s administration’s dangerous rush to develop oil shale in Colorado and across the Conn Hallinan West. Angels and Demons in Mumbai “Senator Salazar has also been a leading voice in calling for the development of the West’s vast solar, Mike Whitney wind, and geothermal resources. He will make sure that Bernanke's Fatal Flaw we create the good-paying green jobs that will fuel our economic recovery without harming the public lands he Jeff Halper will be charged with protecting.” Obama and the Israel-Palestine Conflict Who knew that strip-mining for coal, an industry Salazar resolutely promotes, was a green job? Hold on tight, here we go once more Alan Farago down the rabbit hole. The Audacity of Parkland The Sierra Club had thrown its organizational heft behind Mike Thompson, the hook-and-rifle Democratic congressman from Peter Morici northern California. Obama stiffed them and got away with it The Big Hole without enduring even a whimper of disappointment. Norm Kent In the exhaust-stream, not far beyond Pope, came an organization Obama Lights Up (you can’t call them a group, since they don’t really have any members) called the Campaign for American Wilderness, lavishly Col. Douglas MacGregor endowed by the centrist Pew Charitable Trusts, to fete Salazar. The Price of Expediency According to Mike Matz, the Campaign’s executive director, Salazar “has been a strong proponent of protecting federal lands Margaret Kimberley as wilderness…As a farmer, a rancher, and a conservationist, Sen. Blacks and Gay Rights Salazar understands the importance of balancing traditional uses Ron Jacobs of our public lands with the need to protect them. His knowledge The Myth of the Good of land management issues in the West, coupled with his ability to Guy: Waiting on a work with diverse groups and coalitions to find common ground, President to Do the will serve him well at the Department of the Interior.” Right Thing Whenever seasoned greens see the word “common ground” Worthy Group of the invoked as a solution for thorny land use issues in the Interior Day West it sets off an early warning alarm. “Common ground” is Born Under a Bad Sky: Campaign to End the another flex-phrase like, “win-win” solution that indicates greens Notes from the Dark Side Death Penalty will be handed a few low-calorie crumbs while business will of the Earth proceed to gorge as usual. By Jeffrey St. Clair December 16, 2008 In Salazar’s case, these morsels have been a few measly 2 of 18 1/23/2009 1:51 PM Jeffrey St. Clair: Salazar and the Tragedy of the Common Ground http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair12192008.html wilderness areas inside non-contentious areas, such as Rocky Vicente Navarro Mountain National Park. Designating a wilderness inside a national RED STATE REBELS: A Forgotten Genocide: park is about as risky as placing the National Mall off-limits to oil Tales of Grassroots Resistance the Case of Spain drilling. from the Heartland Patrick Cockburn But Salazar’s green gifts haven’t come without a cost. In the Each Shoe was Worth a calculus of common ground politics, trade-offs come with the Thousand Words territory. For example, Salazar, under intense pressure from Coloradoans, issued a tepid remonstrance against the Bush Thomas Michael Power administration’s maniacal plan to open up the Roan Plateau in Back to the Pump: an western Colorado to oil drilling. But he voted to authorize oil Economic and drilling off the coast of Florida, voted against increased Environmental Dead fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks and voted against the End repeal of tax breaks for Exxon-Mobil when the company was shattering records for quarterly profits. Jason Hribal Orangutans, Resistance On the very day that Salazar’s nomination was leaked to the and the Zoo: the Story press, the Inspector General for the Interior Department released of Ken Allen and a devastating report on the demolition of the Endangered Species Kumang Act under the Bush administration, largely at the hands of the disgraced Julie MacDonald, former Deputy Secretary of Interior for Farzana Versey Edited by Fish and Wildlife. The IG report, written by Earl Devaney, detailed Jeffrey St. Clair Straw Warriors and the how MacDonald personally interfered with 13 different endangered and Joshua Frank Pantomime of species rulings, bullying agency scientists and rewriting biological Patriotism opinions. "MacDonald injected herself personally and profoundly in a number of ESA decisions,” Devaney wrote in a letter to Oregon How the Press Led Wajahat Ali / Senator Ron Wyden. “We determined that MacDonald's the US into War Ahmed Rashid management style was abrupt and abrasive, if not abusive, and Indian Muslims: that her conduct demoralized and frustrated her staff as well as Defining Their Loyalty her subordinate managers." Mats Svensson What McDonald did covertly, Salazar might attempt openly in the The Order to Destroy name of, yes, common ground. Take the case of the white-tailed has been Given prairie dog, one of the declining species that MacDonald went to nefarious lengths to keep from enjoying the protections of the Paul Fitzgerald / Endangered Species Act.
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