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Ron Jacobs
The
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August 21, 2003
Robert Fisk
The US
Needs to Blame Anyone But Locals for UN Bombing
Virginia Tilley
The Quisling Policies of the UN in Iraq: Toward a Permanent War?
Rep. Henry Waxman
Bush Owes the Public Some Serious Answers on Iraq
Ben Terrall
War Crimes and Punishment in Indonesia: Rapes, Murders and Slaps
on the Wrists
Elaine Cassel
Brother John Ashcroft's Traveling Patriot Salvation Show
Christopher Brauchli
Getting Gouged by Banks
Marjorie Cohn
Sergio Vieira de Mello: Victim of Terrorism or US Policy in Iraq?
Vicente Navarro
Media
Double Standards: The Case of Mr. Aznar, Friend of Bush
Website of the Day
The Intelligence Squad
August 20, 2003
Robert Fisk
Now No
One Is Safe in Iraq
Caoimhe Butterly
Life and Death on the Frontlines of Baghdad
Kurt Nimmo
UN Bombing: Act of Terrorism or Guerrilla War?
Michael Egan
Revisiting the Paranoid Style in the Dark
Ramzi Kysia
Peace
is not an Abstract Idea
Steven Higgs
NPR and the NAFTA Highway
John L. Hess
A Downside Day
Edward Said
The Imperial Bluster of Tom Delay
Jason Leopold
Gridlock at Path 15: the California Blackouts were the "Wake
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Website of the Day
Ashcroft's Patriotic Hype
August 19, 2003
Jeffrey St. Clair
Blackouts Happen
Gary Leupp
"Our Patch": Australia v. the Evil Doers of the South
Pacific
Sean Donahue
Uribe's Cruel Model: Colombia Moves Toward Totalitarianism
Matt Martin
Bush's Credibility Problem on Missile Defense
Juliana Fredman
Recipe for the Destruction of a Hudna
John Ross
Fox Government's Attack on Mexican Basques
Sasan Fayazmanesh
What Kermit Roosevelt Didn't Say
Website of the Day
Tom Delay's Dual Loyalities
August 18, 2003
Uri Avnery
Hero in War and Peace
Stan Goff
The Volunteer Military and the Wicked Adventure
Cathy Breen
Baghdad on the Hudson
Michael Kimaid
Fight the Power (Companies)!
Jason Leopold
The California Rip-Off Revisited: Arnold, Milken and Ken Lay
Matt Siegfried
The Bush Administration in Context
Elaine Cassel
At Last, A Judge Who Acts Like a Judge
Alexander Cockburn
Judy Miller's War
Harvey Wasserman
The Legacy of Blackout Pete Wilson
Website of the Day
Fire Griles!
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August 16 / 17, 2003
Flavia Alaya
Bastille
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Jeffrey St. Clair
War Pimps
Saul Landau
The Legacy of Moncada: the Cuban Revolution at 50
Brian Cloughley
What Has Happened to the US Army in Iraq?
William S. Lind
Coffins for the Crews: How Not to Use Light Armored Vehicles
Col. Dan Smith
Time for Straight Talk
Wenonah Hauter
Which
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David Lindorff
Where's Arnold When We Need Him?
Harvey Wasserman
This Grid Should Not Exist
Don Moniak
"Unusual Events" at Nuclear Power Plants: a Timeline
for August 14, 2003
David Vest
Rolling Blackout Revue
Merlin Chowkwanyun
An Interview with Sherman Austin
Adam Engel
The Loneliest Number
Poets' Basement
Guthrie, Hamod & Albert
Book of the Weekend
Powerplay by Sharon Beder
August 14, 2003
Peter Phillips
Inside
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Brian Cloughley
Charlie Wilson and Pakistan: the Strange Congressman Behind the
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Linville and Ruder
Tyson
Strike Draws the Line
Jim Lobe
Bush Administration Divided Over Iran
Ramzy Baroud
Sharon Freezes the Road Map
Tom Turnipseed
Blowback in Iraq
Gary Leupp
Condi's
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August 13, 2003
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A Wall of Separation Through the
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Donald Worster
The Heavy Cost of Empire
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Elaine Cassel
Murderous Errors: Executing the Innocent
Ralph Nader
Make the Recall Count
Alexander Cockburn
Ted Honderich Hit with "Anti-Semitism" Slur
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August
23, 2003
Zonked
a villanelle
By JAMES REISS
I never thought a war would
wake me up
From dreams of olive branches by the sea.
I sip black coffee from a bitter cup.
The commandant pontificates,
"A-yup,
Now's not the time for dozing. Look at me.
I never thought a war would wake me up."
His minions listen. While they
sit to sup
On sweet potatoes and molasses tea,
I sip black coffee from a bitter cup.
His mistress knows at heart
he's just a pup
In need of petting. "Woof!" she snarls; then she,
Who never thought a war would wake her up,
Yawns over her pink lady--hic,
hiccup!--
And draws him to her bosom drowsily.
I sip black coffee from a bitter cup,
Which runneth over every time
I sip.
I'm lost between the letters A and Z.
I never thought a war would wake me up.
I swig black Lethe from a loving cup.
James Reiss is a poet and editor at the University
of Miami in Oxford, Ohio. His new book of poems, RIFF ON SIX:
NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (Salt Publishing) will be published in
September 2003. This volume includes his Iraq War poems from
"A Child's Garden of Evil". Reiss can be reached at:
reissja@muohio.edu
Neos Con Dios
By LARRY KEARNEY
the soul won't die but lies
in head with wounded
child on the path to the
fire. the great
folding up and burning the
big boys want. the end of half-thought
thought is the fire. and the
big
noise. they make big
noises it's
what they want. the big
flaming noise. the whirlwind.
they think. they try
to think. dead
small-time with flag pins and dead
eyes and dead
syntax and breathless
cruelties. tacky little
office guys grown
to power slot
machine mysticisms they
got God.
really think it's not quite cool to think
that way but what
the hell? there's the fire. coming.
pissant matchhead
bombs they love. they really
think. hey.
here's the whirlwind look
.
at me. the real
whirlwind.
of course.
hardly moves at all to pick
their minds up one by one like jacks.
and fling them clinking through
real
God brooding lovely in powerless
love as they
accelerate. talking. being.
knowing. nothing. hot
damn. really secret. hot
damn. here
we go. Georgie.
hang on tight.
Larry Kearney can be reached at:
defoe43@comcast.net
The Presentense
of the Past
By HAMMOND
GUTHRIE
Once upon a time (8-21-2003),
a man (the President of the US),
flew over a Central Oregon forest fire
and cried out: "It's the holocaust!"
Once upon another time (1933-1945),
another man (the Chancellor of Germany),
flew all over Central and Eastern Europe
and cried out "Kill all the Gypsies and Jews!"
Was this a forest fire in disguise--
or am I mistaking history for idiocy?
Hammond Guthrie is the author of AsEverWas:
Memoirs of a Beat Survivor. He is the editor of the great
online journal The
3rd Page. He can be reached at: writenow@spiritone.com
© 2003--Hammond
Guthrie
One
Way Street
By STEW ALBERT
Go right to
jail
for the thoughts
in your head.
Why are you
in China?
To compare wanton soup
in Peking
with Portland?
Or do you want to tour Afghanistan
and
join the Taliban?
It doesn't
matter
that you never ever
got to Kabul
or
met a Taliban
Uncle Allah Wants You
recruiter.
You came home looking silly
the Jihad that couldn't shoot straight.
Now
you are facing life in prison
for your fantasy
so are your traveling buddies
and maybe your mosque.
Ashcroft insisting
imagination is a crime
without rights.
One citizen
One dimension
only.
Stew Albert runs the Yippie
Reading Room.
He can be reached at:
stewa@aol.com
Arab Eyes
By M. JUNAID
ALAM
The glares of the oppressed
Shoot out from shadows writhing
under black war boots strapped on white skin
Arab-dirtied in desert sands.
Rising in the nascent sandstorm
of national struggle
can these angered Arab eyes
these
twin towers
of Resistance
stare down
buildings stretching into the sky
and
empires digging into the (s)oil.
Dark Eyes, yes, of
Bandits, bastards, Ba'athists
of Renegades, rocket-repelled
'Remnants'
of a
family
village
city
nation
bombed into oblivion;
Exploding from obsidian
bursting brightly into tears, anguish and
Revolt.
These sorrowful, spiteful eyes
stare out
Stinging and soaking in
the fatal fumes of Freedom:
depleted uranium mayhem
cluster killers and
napalm neurotics
released on the breath of
two-bit Crusaders
three-star generals
five-sided war bureaus
and six-sided stars.
America: Let us look into those
Arab eyes, those tinted mirrors!
And weep for our tainted souls
descending down the war path
to a faintly calm doom:
a last hurrah of fireworks
and freedom
fries
As we fizzle out in the fires
of nationalist flatulence
sizzling to the death-tune
of cascading arrogance.
M. Junaid Alam is a student at Northeastern University
and manager of the MSALM website.
He can be reached at: junaidalam@msalam.net
Weekend
Edition Features for August 16 / 17, 2003
Flavia Alaya
Bastille
New Jersey
Jeffrey St. Clair
War Pimps
Saul Landau
The Legacy of Moncada: the Cuban Revolution at 50
Brian Cloughley
What Has Happened to the US Army in Iraq?
William S. Lind
Coffins for the Crews: How Not to Use Light Armored Vehicles
Col. Dan Smith
Time for Straight Talk
Wenonah Hauter
Which
Electric System Do We Want?
David Lindorff
Where's Arnold When We Need Him?
Harvey Wasserman
This Grid Should Not Exist
Don Moniak
"Unusual Events" at Nuclear Power Plants: a Timeline
for August 14, 2003
David Vest
Rolling Blackout Revue
Merlin Chowkwanyun
An Interview with Sherman Austin
Adam Engel
The Loneliest Number
Poets' Basement
Guthrie, Hamod & Albert
Book of the Weekend
Powerplay by Sharon Beder
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