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October
9, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Welcome
to Arnold, King for a Day
October
8, 2003
David
Lindorff
Schwarzenegger
and the Failure of the Centrist Dems
Ramzy
Baroud
Israel's
WMDs and the West's Double Standard
John Ross
Mexico
Tilts South
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Repub Guru Compares Taxes to the Holocaust
James
Bovard
The
Reagan Roadmap for Antiterrorism Disaster
Michael
Neumann
One
State or Two?
A False Dilemma
October
7, 2003
Uri Avnery
Slow-Motion
Ethnic Cleansing
Stan Goff
Lost in the Translation at Camp Delta
Ron Jacobs
Yom Kippurs, Past and Present
David
Lindorff
Coronado in Iraq
Rep. John Conyers, Jr.
Outing a CIA Operative? Why A Special Prosecutor is Required
Cynthia
McKinney
Who Are "We"?
Elaine Cassel
Shock and Awe in the Moussaoui Case
Walter
Lippman
Thoughts on the Cali Recall
Gary Leupp
Israel's
Attack on Syria: Who's on the Wrong Side of History, Now?
Website
of the Day
Cable News Gets in Touch With It's Inner Bigot
October
6, 2003
Robert
Fisk
US
Gave Israel Green Light for Raid on Syria
Forrest
Hylton
Upheaval
in Bolivia: Crisis and Opportunity
Benjamin Dangl
Divisions Deepen in Third Week of Bolivia's Gas War
Bridget
Gibson
Oh, Pioneers!: Bush's New Deal
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey
Wasserman
The Bush-Rove-Schwarzenegger Nazi Nexus
Nicole
Gamble
Rios Montt's Campaign Threatens Genocide Trials
JoAnn
Wypijewski
The
New Unity Partnership:
A Manifest Destiny for Labor
Website
of the Day
Guerrilla Funk
October
3 / 5, 2003
Tim Wise
The
Other Race Card: Rush and the Politics of White Resentment
Peter
Linebaugh
Rhymsters
and Revolutionaries: Joe Hill and the IWW
Gary Leupp
Occupation
as Rape-Marriage
Bruce
Jackson
Addio
Alle Armi
David Krieger
A Nuclear 9/11?
Ray McGovern
L'Affaire Wilsons: Wives are Now "Fair Game" in Bush's
War on Whistleblowers
Col. Dan Smith
Why Saddam Didn't Come Clean
Mickey
Z.
In Our Own Image: Teaching Iraq How to Deal with Protest
Roger Burbach
Bush Ideologues v. Big Oil in Iraq
John Chuckman
Wesley Clark is Not Cincinnatus
William S. Lind
Versailles on the Potomac
Glen T.
Martin
The Corruptions of Patriotism
Anat Yisraeli
Bereavement as Israeli Ethos
Wayne
Madsen
Can the Republicans Get Much Worse? Sure, They Can
M. Junaid Alam
The Racism Barrier
William
Benzon
Scorsese's Blues
Adam Engel
The Great American Writing Contest
Poets'
Basement
McNeill, Albert, Guthrie
October
2, 2003
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
What's
So Great About Gandhi, Anyway?
Amy Goodman
/ Jeremy Scahill
The
Ashcroft-Rove Connection
Doug Giebel
Kiss and Smear: Novak and the Valerie Plame Affair
Hamid
Dabashi
The Moment of Myth: Edward Said (1935-2003)
Elaine Cassel
Chicago Condemns Patriot Act
Saul Landau
Who
Got Us Into This Mess?
Website of the Day
Last Day to Save Beit Arabiya!
October 1, 2003
Joanne
Mariner
Married
with Children: the Supremes and Gay Families
Robert
Fisk
Oil,
War and Panic
Ron Jacobs
Xenophobia
as State Policy
Elaine
Cassel
The
Lamo Case: Secret Subpoenas and the Patriot Act
Shyam
Oberoi
Shooting
a Tiger
Toni Solo
Plan Condor, the Sequel?
Sean Donahue
Wesley
Clark and the "No Fly" List
Website of the Day
Downloader Legal Defense Fund
September
30, 2003
After
Dark
Arnold's
1977 Photo Shoot
Dave Lindorff
The
Poll of the Shirt: Bush Isn't Wearing Well
Tom Crumpacker
The
Cuba Fixation: Shaking Down American Travelers
Robert
Fisk
A
Lesson in Obfuscation
Charles
Sullivan
A
Message to Conservatives
Suren Pillay
Edward Said: a South African Perspective
Naeem
Mohaiemen
Said at Oberlin: Hysteria in the Face of Truth
Amy Goodman
/ Jeremy Scahill
Does
a Felon Rove the White House?
Website
of the Day
The Edward Said Page
September 29, 2003
Robert
Fisk
The
Myths of Western Intelligence Agencies
Iain A. Boal
Turn It Up: Pardon Mzwakhe Mbuli!
Lee Sustar
Paul
Krugman: the Last Liberal?
Wayne Madsen
General Envy? Think Shinseki, Not Clark
Benjamin
Dangl
Bolivia's Gas War
Uri Avnery
The
Magnificent 27
Pledge
Drive of the Day
Antiwar.com
September
26 / 28, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Alan
Dershowitz, Plagiarist
David Price
Teaching Suspicions
Saul Landau
Before the Era of Insecurity
Ron Jacobs
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and
the Patriot Act
Brian
Cloughley
The Strangeloves Win Again
Norman Solomon
Wesley and Me: a Real-Life Docudrama
Robert
Fisk
Bomb Shatters Media Illusions
M. Shahid Alam
A Muslim Sage Visits the USA
John Chuckman
American Psycho: Bush at the UN
Mark Schneider
International Direct Action
The Spanish Revolution to the Palestiniana Intifada
William
S. Lind
How $87 Billion Could Buy Some Real Security
Douglas Valentine
Gold Warriors: the Plundering of Asia
Chris
Floyd
Vanishing Act
Elaine Cassel
Play Cat and Moussaoui
Richard
Manning
A Conservatism that Once Conserved
George Naggiar
The Beautiful Mind of Edward Said
Omar Barghouti
Edward Said: a Corporeal Dream Not Yet Realized
Lenni Brenner
Palestine's Loss is America's Loss
Mickey
Z.
Edward Said: a Well-Reasoned Voice
Tanweer Akram
The Legacy of Edward Said
Adam Engel
War in the Smoking Room
Poets' Basement
Katz, Ford, Albert & Guthrie
Website
of the Weekend
Who the Hell is Stew Albert?
September
25, 2003
Edward
Said
Dignity,
Solidarity and the Penal Colony
Robert
Fisk
Fanning
the Flames of Hatred
Sarah
Ferguson
Wolfowitz at the New School
David
Krieger
The
Second Nuclear Age
Bill Glahn
RIAA Doublespeak
Al Krebs
ADM and the New York Times: Covering Up Corporate Crime
Michael
S. Ladah
The Obvious Solution: Give Iraq Back to the Arabs
Fran Shor
Arnold and Wesley
Mustafa
Barghouthi
Edward Said: a Monument to Justice and Human Rights
Alexander Cockburn
Edward Said: a Mighty and Passionate
Heart
Website
of the Day
Edward Said: a Lecture on the Tragedy of Palestine
The Great Alejandro Escavedo Needs Your Help!
September 24, 2003
Stan Goff
Generational
Casualties: the Toxic Legacy of the Iraq War
William
Blum
Grand Illusions About Wesley Clark
David
Vest
Politics
for Bookies
Jon Brown
Stealing Home: The Real Looting is About to Begin
Robert Fisk
Occupation and Censorship
Latino
Military Families
Bring Our Children Home Now!
Neve Gordon
Sharon's
Preemptive Zeal
Website
of the Day
Bands Against Bush
September
23, 2003
Bernardo
Issel
Dancing
with the Diva: Arianna and Streisand
Gary Leupp
To
Kill a Cat: the Unfortunate Incident at the Baghdad Zoo
Gregory
Wilpert
An
Interview with Hugo Chavez on the CIA in Venezuela
Steven
Higgs
Going to Jail for the Cause--Part 2: Charity Ryerson, Young and
Radical
Stan Cox
The Cheney Tapes: Can You Handle the Truth?
Robert
Fisk
Another Bloody Day in the Death of Iraq
William S. Lind
Learning from Uncle Abe: Sacking the Incompetent
Elaine
Cassel
First They Come for the Lawyers, Then the Ministers
Yigal
Bronner
The
Truth About the Wall
Website
of the Day
The
Baghdad Death Count
September
20 / 22, 2003
Uri Avnery
The
Silliest Show in Town
Alexander
Cockburn
Lighten
Up, America!
Peter Linebaugh
On the Bicentennial of the Execution of Robert Emmet
Anne Brodsky
Return
to Afghanistan
Saul Landau
Guillermo and Me
Phan Nguyen
Mother Jones Smears Rachel Corrie
Gila Svirsky
Sharon, With Eyes Wide Open
Gary Leupp
On Apache Terrorism
Kurt Nimmo
Colin
Powell: Exploiting the Dead of Halabja
Brian
Cloughley
Colin Powell's Shame
Carol Norris
The Moral Development of George W. Bush
Bill Glahn
The Real Story Behind RIAA Propaganda
Adam Engel
An Interview with Danny Scechter, the News Dissector
Dave Lindorff
Good Morning, Vietnam!
Mark Scaramella
Contracts and Politics in Iraq
John Ross
WTO
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Justin Podur
Uribe's Desperate Squeals
Toni Solo
The Colombia Three: an Interview with Caitriona Ruane
Steven Sherman
Workers and Globalization
David
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Masked and Anonymous: Dylan's Elegy for a Lost America
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Politics of the Hip-Hop Pimps
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Krieger, Guthrie and Albert
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October
9, 2003
Bombing Syria
A
Strategy for Self-Defense
By JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN
Israel made a wise decision when it decided to
bomb Syria on October 5th. As a result, the Palestinian terrorist
organization Islamic Jihad has called a halt to all suicide bombings.
The parents of the 29-year-old female suicide bomber who blew
herself up inside Maxim's restaurant in Haifa on Saturday have
sent a letter of apology to the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel
Sharon, and to the Mayor of Haifa. In their letter they state
explicitly that they would have expected no more fitting a punishment
than the demolition of their family home, the measure taken by
the IDF after the bombing, and that they are saddened and bewildered
by their daughter's action. "We accept our displacement
with dignity and take upon ourselves full responsibility for
our daughter's senseless action," they wrote. In response
to this unprecedented letter, Israeli military authorities stationed
outside Jenin offered relatives of the dead woman a thirty-minute
reprieve from all travel restrictions, issuing them temporary
passes for free travel throughout the northern West Bank if curfew
is lifted within the next 24 hours.
For its part, Syria has issued an ultimatum
to Palestinians residing within its borders. They must shut down
all media offices and possible terrorist training camps within
the week. Failure to take immediate action will result in a house-to-house
search and arbitrary arrests in order to clamp down on any suspected
or potential terrorists. A poll taken just after the bombing
outside Damascus this past weekend revealed that more than 90%
of the Syrian public has softened its stance towards Israel.
Surveys showed they admire the militancy of Ariel Sharon and
the no-negotiations policy he has pursued with their government.
More and more Syrians believe that normalizing relations with
Jerusalem would be a welcome step as their acceptance of the
Jewish state has increased dramatically especially in the last
three years. Issues such as Israel's annexation of the Golan
Heights and its military presence on the Syrian-Israeli border
no longer create resentment in the popular mind. Some of the
respondents even suggested that an Israeli-sponsored coup against
Syrian President Bashar al-Asad with a corresponding restructuring
of their government along the lines of the United States' backed
governing council in Iraq could help pacify and stabilize the
entire region.
In an unprecedented move at the recent
United Nations Security Council meeting in New York, Damascus
offered to deploy troops along Iraq's northwest border and to
begin joint military exercises with the Israeli Defense Forces
to combat Palestinian terror in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.
Other developments have been equally
encouraging: Speaking to an audience of thousands in Beirut,
Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah condemned its members'
firing of rockets across the border into Israel. The time had
come, he reportedly said, to move forward. Though a relatively
small political organization with limited representation in the
government, Hizbullah would henceforth seek to establish diplomatic
ties with Israel, Nasrallah announced. It also hoped to send
delegates to the Knesset in the near future for democracy and
civil liberties training courses.
In a rare display of Arab political savvy, Nasrallah publicly
refused further monetary aid from any rogue elements in Syria
and from Iran asking instead that Tehran take the next step towards
regional peace by shutting down its two nuclear facilities known
to be producing weapons-grade plutonium. "One nuclear power
in the region is sufficient," he said. Al-Manar television,
owned and operated by Hizbullah, broadcast Nasrallah's speech
throughout the Middle East causing jubilation in places as far
away as Yemen.
Hizbullah negotiators in Beirut have
meanwhile introduced a resolution calling on Lebanese president
Emile Lahoud to offer Israel exclusive water rights to the Litani
River and direct access to areas north of Baalbek. International
observers are expecting a positive response from Lahoud now that
Damascus has voluntarily begun pulling its troops out of Lebanon.
At the same time, President Lahoud has begun talks with Lebanese
Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri approving Hariri's desire to seek
bids from outside contractors eager to aid in the post-war reconstruction
of Beirut. A new, four-lane highway lined with luxury resorts
and old-style Lebanese villas along the Mediterranean is being
planned to replace the unsightly, run-down and overcrowded refugee
camps poisoning the landscape from the Beirut airport on into
upscale West Beirut. Investors are convinced that Lebanon's economy
will benefit greatly from an increase in tourism and a beautified
and sanitized infrastructure.
While it is too soon to know for certain,
analysts are projecting equally positive developments within
the territories still disputed by Israel and Palestinians as
a result of last Saturday's bombing. Reports from inside Gaza
indicate that Hamas leaders have initiated a political restructuring
that could result in the abolition of their military wing. The
recent escalation of Israel's targeted assassination policy against
terrorist leaders caused widespread Palestinian anger towards
the Strip's largest and most popular Islamic organization. Many
former Hamas members voluntarily turned in their weapons renouncing
Hamas leaders for their failure to concede the justice of Israel's
cause and its armed incursions, shootings, and destruction of
property throughout the Gaza Strip. "Attempting to stop
acts of self-defense sends the wrong message," commented
one man whose family now live in a temporary UNRWA-provided tent
at the edge of a destroyed neighborhood in Khan Yunis.
In a separate act of defiance, Palestinian farmers near Deir
al-Balah went out every night for a week to uproot their own
olive and citrus groves so that the over-worked teams of Israelis
could have a short reprieve. The villagers are donating produce
left on the trees to the Jewish settlers in nearby Gush Katif,
an effort to demonstrate genuine Arab hospitality.
Further south, scores of young men daringly
approached the Rafah-Israel border this week offering outstretched
hands to Israeli soldiers patrolling the area. Although soldiers
shot and killed six young Palestinian men and wounded 14 others
before realizing why the latter had come, they were happy to
learn that the local municipal leadership in Rafah had organized
teams of men to search the remaining homes on the Rafah-Egypt
border and to fill in any tunnels still used for weapons' smuggling.
Chagrined that they had killed six of the peace-seekers, an Israeli
officer ordered one of his bulldozer operators to bury the bodies
under the rubble of nearby destroyed homes, saving their families
the time and expense of elaborate funerals.
Not surprisingly, in his wrecked compound
in Ramallah, Yassir Arafat is said to be holding high-level meetings
with his closest advisors. Israeli intelligence sources claim
to have tapped into one conversation in which the Palestinian
leader expressed bewilderment that his people were disobeying
his orders for the immediate escalation of terror throughout
Israel. A high-ranking Israeli military official, who wishes
to remain anonymous, announced that Israel would nevertheless
proceed with steps to expel Arafat to the Spanish Sahara. Mossad
operatives stationed in the West African nation are scheduled
to return to Tel Aviv by the end of November making Arafat's
transfer there in the near future imperative.
But in Gaza City, Hamas leader Abdel
Aziz Rantisi spoke on Al-Jazeera after relieving his newest bodyguard
of duty. Rantisi offered to give himself up to Israeli authorities
at Erez if they promised to leave Hamas' spiritual leader, Sheikh
Yassin, alone. Rantisi now faces a life sentence in an Israeli
prison close to Nes Tsiona. Family members might be allowed to
visit him, we are told, but have been cautioned to purchase gas
masks before entering any ward since prison guards, practicing
state-of-the-art subduing techniques on their prisoners, routinely
spray an agent similar to nerve-gas into the prison cells before
beating up unrepentant convicts. [The Israeli Supreme Court recently
ruled that these guards, however, must not kill any unconscious
victims as that constituted cruel and unusual punishment inconsistent
with the Jewish State's humanitarian track record. Pundits in
the US have uniformly lauded this case as yet another example
of Israel's moral and legal superiority over its Arab neighbors
and even some western European nations.]
Reporters have confirmed that the elderly
Sheikh Yassin will pay tribute to Rantisi by organizing "civil
obedience" measures at all checkpoints in the disputed territories.
Adult males are to line up and voluntarily strip themselves submitting
to searches as they pass from blockade to blockade. In order
to help stimulate the Israeli economy deliberately ruined during
the Intifada, hundreds of men and boys plan to accept low-paying
construction jobs within the West Bank in order to speed up completion
of the giant security wall. A well-known scholar at Bir Zeit
University near Ramallah has begun a detailed report on the advantages
of isolated, walled-in villages for maintaining civic pride and
good behavior. His study, "The Palestinian Archipelago"
may serve as the model for the next US-sponsored peace initiative
aimed at reconciling Greater Israel with Palestinians.
As expected, neo-conservative leaders
in Washington are applauding the simultaneous successes of the
Bush-Sharon power consolidation efforts in the Middle East. Incidentally,
government officials are using the occasion of their overseas
achievements to urge the public to support the re-examination
of outdated civil liberties codes such as the Bill of Rights
and to consider having a national referendum on the so-called
Constitution. The National Security Council in conjunction with
the Israeli military leadership are meanwhile drawing up contingency
plans for the co-bombing of Cairo, Sana'a, Amman, Tehran, and
Riyadh, an act of superpower-client sponsored self-defense unprecedented
in modern history.
Jennifer Loewenstein lives in Madison, Wisconsin. She spent a good
part of the last three years in Palestinian refugee camps in
the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Lebanon. She is a member of
the Palestine/Israel Peace & Justice Alliance (PIPAJA) and
a founder of the Rafah-Madison Sister City Project. She can be
reached at: jsarin@facstaff.wisc.edu
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