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Coming Soon! From Common Courage Press Recent Stories July 25, 2003 Francis A. Boyle Impeaching Bush David Krieger 15 Questions Harvey Wasserman Pat Robertson's Supreme Fatwah Steve Dunifer Seize the Airwaves! Dan Bacher Federal Judge Throws Out Bush Salmon Plan for Klamath River Kurt Nimmo Bread, Circuses, Uday and Qusay Steve Perry Bush's Wars Weblog Website of the Day Stop the Wall!   July 24, 2003 Elaine Cassel Ashcroft Loses...Again Robert Fisk The Ugly Story of Camp Cropper: The US Torture Camp in Iraq David Lindorff Dumb and Dumber in Iraq Christopher Brauchli Ashcroft Demands Death Penalty in Puerto Rico David Vest Dylan in Bend Tom Turnipseed Killing Saddam & His Family Won't Stop Killing of US Troops Douglas Valentine A Nation of Assassins Stew Albert Contract Killing Steve Perry Bush's Wars Weblog Website of the Day Report on Palestinian Child Prisoners July 23, 2003 Uri Avnery Caesar's Favor David Lindorff Lynne Stewart's Big Win: Ashcroft Rebuked Mano Singham Iraq's Missing WMD Scientists Steve Perry Better Late Than Never: the Press, the Dems, and Bush's Lies John Stanton Avoiding Plato's Republic in America: Is Anarchy the Only Hope? Patrick Bond Bush and South Africa: a Petro-Military-Commerce Mission Harry Browne A Victory for a Disarming Irishwoman Paul Beaulieu When the WTO Comes to Montreal Robert Fisk The Sons are Dead, But the Resistance Will Grow William Witherup Georgie Porgie Website of the Day Lieberman & Falwell: True Love at Last July 22, 2003 Diane Christian Bad Guy / Good Guy: War Forces; Peace Frees Jeremy Brecher Solidarity and Student Protests in Iran Steve Kretzmann and Jim Vallette Plugging Iraq into Globalization Sam Smith Greening the Golden Triangle James Plummer Smile, You're on Federal Camera Lucretia Stewart This Day Shall Not Define My Life: January 18, 2003 Website of the Day Iraq Coalition Casualties   July 21, 2003 Edward Said Imperial Arrogance and the Vile Stereotyping of Arabs Ron Jacobs Shut Up and Shoot Allan J. Lichtman Why is George Bush President? Elaine Cassel How's the Occupation Going? Ask the People of Iraq Christopher Brauchli History Recapitulates: Guantanamo and the Japanese Internment Camps Bruce Jackson Third and Arizona, Santa Monica Website of the Day John Dean: Taking Apart Bush's State of the Union Speech, Claim by Claim   July 19 / 20, 2003 Arthur Mitzman Will the Pax Americana be More Sustainable Than the Dot.com Bubble? Julian Bond We Shall be Heard Cynthia McKinney Bush's Racial Politics at Home and Abroad Mel Goodman What is to be Done with the CIA? Jason Leopold Tenet Blames Wolfowitz Mickey Z. History Forgave Churchill Doug Giebel Impeachment as the Message Jon Brown Whipping the Post Mano Singham Cheney's Oil Maps Steven Sherman Nickle, Dimed and Slimed at UNC Robin Philpot Liberia: History Doesn't Repeat Itself, It Stutters Khaldoun Khelil Capturing Friedman Jeffrey St. Clair You Must Leave Home, Again: Gilad Atzmon's A Guide to the Perplexed Lenni Brenner Sitting in with Mingus Vanessa Jones Three Dog Night Adam Engel Video Judas Video Poets' Basement Foley, Smith and Curtis Website of the Weekend Illegal Art   July 18, 2003 David Vest Drowning in Deep Doo-Doo Rahul Mahajan Deceit Runs Deep John Chuckman Enron-style Management in a Dangerous World Harold A. Gould The Bush-Musharraf Conclave Alvaro Angarita In the Eye of the Storm: Colombia's War on Journalists David Grenier Sovereignty and Solidarity in Indian Country...Rhode Island Dave Lindorff Bush and Hitler: a Response to the Wall Street Journal Website of the Day Murder of a Whistleblower? Timeline in David Kelly Affair   July 17, 2003 Ron Jacobs Sometimes Even the President of the United States Has to Stand Naked Lisa Walsh Thomas Bush Country: the Venom and Adulation of Ignorance Martin Schwarz Bush Pre-emptive Strike Doctrine is the Bane of Non-Proliferation Watchdogs Heidi Lypps Better Justice Through Chemistry? Forced Drugging and the Supreme Court Norman Madarasz Third Ways and Third Worlds: Lula at the Progressive Governance Conference Pankaj Mehta Criminalizing the Palestinian Solidarity Movement Marjorie Cohn Bush, War Lies & Impeachment: the Boy Who Cried Wolf Hammond Guthrie (Dis) Intelligence Revisited Website of the Day No Force, No Fraud: the Soul of Libertarianism July 16, 2003 Jason Leopold Wolfowitz Told White House to Hype Dubious Uranium Claims William Cook Defining Terrorism from the Top Down Elaine Cassel Judge Brinkema v. Ashcroft: She Whom Must Not Be Obeyed Jason Leopold How Can They Justify the War If WMDs Are Never Found? Linda Heard Bondage or Freedom? Raymond Barrett From Detroit to Basra Jeffrey St. Clair Back to the Future in Guatemala: The Return of Gen. Ríos Montt   July 15, 2003 Kathleen and Bill Christison Why We Resigned from VIPS Elaine Cassel Ashcroft's War on Legal Whistleblowers: the Ordeal of Jesselyn Radack Chris Floyd Barge Poles: Oil Wars and New Europe's Mercenaries Jason Leopold CIA Warned White House Last October that Niger Docs were Forgeries Gaius Publius Considering the Obvious: Fool Us Once, Fool Us Twise...Please John Troyer The Niger Syndrome Becky Gillette No Conspiracy at Coffeen Nature Preserve: a Response to David Orrr Uri Avnery The Bi-National State: The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb Website of the Day Cost of Iraq War   July 14, 2003 Lisa Taraki Hot Days in Ramallah Walter Brasch Bush: the Pretend Captain SOA Watch Training Colombia's Killers in the US Dan Bacher Yurok Tribe Denounces Klamath River Salmon Killers Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Intelligence Unglued Website of the Day Coalition for Democratic Rights and Civil Liberties July 12 / 13, 2003 Arthur Mitzman The Double Wall Before the Future Standard Schaefer The Coming Financial Reality: an Interview with Michael Hudson John Feffer A Fearful Symmetry: Washington and Pyongyang Ron Jacobs Shades of Gray in Iran Elaine Cassel Judicial Terrorism Against the Bill of Rights Tom Stephens Civil Liberties After 9/11 David Lindorff New White House Slogan: "Case Closed. Just Move On" Jason Leopold The Mini-War Against Iraq Prior to 9/11 Lee Sustar What's Behind the Crisis in Liberia? Mickey Z. AIDS Dissent and Africa Sam Hamod Semitic is a Language Group, Not a Race or Ethnic Group Ramzy Baroud Awaiting Justice on an Old Blanket Jeffrey St. Clair Savage Incongruities: the Photographic Life of Lee Miller Adam Engel Parable of the Lobbyist Robert Sanders A Review of Ralph Lopez's American Dream Poets' Basement Albert, Witherup, Guthrie   July 11, 2003 Conn Hallinan The Coin of Empire Tim Wise God Responds to Bush Mokhiber / Weissman The Two Faces of Bush in Africa Edward S. Herman Whitewashing Sandra Day O'Connor David Orr Coffeen-gate: What's Going on at the Sierra Club Foundation? David Lindorff An Iraq War & Occupation Glossary Website of the Day Dead Malls   July 10, 2003 Ron Jacobs Dealing with the Devil: the Bloody Profits of General Dynamics Sean Donahue Bush and the Paramillitaries: Coddling Terrorists in Colombia Yemi Toure Who Outted Bush in Afrika? Robert Jensen Politics and Sustainability: an Interview with Wes Jackson Ali Abunimah US Leaves Injured Iraqis Untreated Joanne Mariner Federal Courts, Not Military Commissions Website of the Day Electronic Iraq   July 9, 2003 David Lindorff Is the Media Finally Turning on Bush? David Krieger and Angela McCracken 10 Myths About Nuclear Weapons Mickey Z. Why Speak Out? Lee Sustar The Great Medicare Fraud John Chuckman The Worst Kind of Lie Gary Leupp "Pacifist" Japan and the Occupation of Iraq Website of the Day Hail to the Thief: Songs for the Bush Years   July 8, 2003 Elaine Cassel Bully on the Bench: the Pathological Dissents of Scalia Alan Maass Nights of Fire and Rage in Benton Harbor Chris Floyd Troubled Sleep: Getting Used to the American Gulag Linda S. Heard America's Kangaroo Justice Brian Cloughley They Tell Lies to Nodders Charles Sullivan Bush the Christian? Saul Landau The Intelligence Culture in the National Security Age Website of the Day Occupation Watch   July 7, 2003 William Blum The Anti-Empire Report Harvey Wasserman The Nuke with a Hole in Its Head Ramzy Baroud Peace for All the Wrong Reasons Simon Jones What Progressives Should Think About Iran Lesley McCulloch Fear, Pain and Shame in Aceh Uri Avnery The Draw Steve Perry Bush's Wars Web Log 7/3   July 4 / 6, 2003 Patrick Cockburn Dead on the Fourth of July Frederick Douglass What is Freedom to a Slave? Martha Honey Bush and Africa: Racism, Exploitation and Neglect Jeffrey St. Clair The Rat in the Grain: Amstutz and the Looting of Iraqi Agriculture Standard Schaefer Rule by Fed: Anyone But Greenspan in 2004 Lenni Brenner Jefferson is for Today Elaine Cassel Fucking Furious on the Fourth Ben Tripp How Free Are We? Wayne Madsen A Sad Independence Day John Stanton Happy Birthday, America! 227 Years of War Jim Lobe Bush's Surreal AIDS Appointment John Blair Return to Marble Hill: Indiana's Rusting Nuke Lisa Walsh Thomas Heavy Reckoning at Qaim David Vest Wake Up and Smell the Dynamite Adam Engel Queer as Grass Poets' Basement Christian, Witherup, Albert & St. Clair Website of the Weekend The Lipstick Librarian   Hot Stories 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 Click Here for More Stories.     Subscribe Online Search CounterPunch

July 26, 2003   The Drunken Flower By GAVIN KEENEY "The soul must die", said the drunken flower, close to its own end, withering away I chose the blood-red wine because it was imported by Dionysos Ltd., a gorgeous French Merlot I put the rose-purple flower into a small vase of wine, and drank the whole bottle, sailing into the evening I argued with No One about Everything, about useless things, and about Love (martyrdom) It was not possible to go way Downeast, the 'S'ea would not allow it, refusing to oblige The coast of Maine is in my soul (as sea-smoke), like so many other trembling (swirling) things I said farewell to it, realising it held me no longer enthralled, in its grips Enthralled by Every-thing, the great 'S' (Spirit), written against the sky by trees at dusk, sings At dawn (singed), I read out the Book of Lies (slowly) -- And it has no purpose other than its own Thus, and for very sound reasons (unreasonable reasons), I accept everything that passes Gavin Keeney is a landscape architect in New York. He is author of On the Nature of Things (Birkhauser, 2000). Wanted Dead or Alive By WILLIAM WITHERUP Make a Wanted poster With photographs of Osama bin Laden, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Attorney General John Ashcroft, And Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld. Then circle A: the most intelligent face; B: the politician and/or leader of criminal mien. The most intelligent demeanor will be obvious. You may have more than one choice for B As the demonic terrorist Is many faceted, like a cracked mirror Reflecting a lake of burning oil. William Witherup is the author of Down Wind, Down River: New and Selected Poems. West End Press, 2000 (C) William Witherup 2003   Hocus Pocus By DAVE SHORT Hocus Pocus Famine Locust Missle fly Sniper focus Death to all the unbelievers Death to every un-deciever Kill the Arab Kill the Black Kill for race Kill with crack Hide behind a wall of silence Profit all by war and violence Secrecy and blood that bind us Satan always stand behind us. Christ our savior loud proclaim Secretly defile his name. Spit in hand take the oath Money - satan worship both Missle fly Sniper aim Target falls Patriot game. Dave Short can be reached at: dshortresearch@yahoo.com   Spring By ROSCELIN NIMBA It is spring. Little white flowers are coming out and somewhere the tanks are rolling. The sky is blue, just blue, the world be damned. Your servant, here in line, is waiting for the doctor, the good doctor, to be seen, for there is much to look forward to- the withering away of the state the drugs to get us through all that, the concomitant withering away of desire thanks to same; friendships struck up and abandoned; causes likewise. And most of all: lies, lies, lies. It is spring. Spring. It is spring. Roscelin Nimba, flatterer, malicious gossip, and grant recipient, is an infrequent contributor to fittsås. She can be reached at: dogen@mindspring.com   Faulty Powers By HAMMOND GUTHRIE Irradiating counterfeit words blow yellowcake carrying on... under each and every grain of sand undermining time..... regardless. 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 Ignorance is Bush By STEW ALBERT All the ignorant people, they earn 40 G's and think they're in the top one percent, they know Iraq used WMD during the invasion and Bush was honestly elected and Iraqis pulled off 9/11 and Dubya speaks the truth even when his facts are wrong. Where do they all come from? Decades of TV hypnosis and narcosis and gutted public education and targeted brain cleansing ads for armies and being despised by those who screwed them the scientist hating his monster. They were being prepared for Bush like his favorite hamburger Dubya was like them he didn't read books he didn't visit France he preferred guzzle booze to culture he traded Sam Sosa. and he was an embarrassment at the finest schools. Dubya is their President he shares their fantasies for revenge and rule kicking ass in a speeding pick-up down a bumpy road two flags flying in the idiot wind not sounding fancy not sounding smart. Dubya shares everything with the ignorant except his money and power and at long last being loved at Yale. Stew Albert manages the Yippie Reading Room. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com Weekend Edition Features for July 19 / 20, 2003 Arthur Mitzman Will the Pax Americana be More Sustainable Than the Dot.com Bubble? Julian Bond We Shall be Heard Cynthia McKinney Bush's Racial Politics at Home and Abroad Mel Goodman What is to be Done with the CIA? Jason Leopold Tenet Blames Wolfowitz Mickey Z. History Forgave Churchill Doug Giebel Impeachment as the Message Jon Brown Whipping the Post Mano Singham Cheney's Oil Maps Steven Sherman Nickle, Dimed and Slimed at UNC Robin Philpot Liberia: History Doesn't Repeat Itself, It Stutters Khaldoun Khelil Capturing Friedman Jeffrey St. Clair You Must Leave Home, Again: Gilad Atzmon's A Guide to the Perplexed Lenni Brenner Sitting in with Mingus Vanessa Jones Three Dog Night Adam Engel Video Judas Video Poets' Basement Foley, Smith and Curtis Website of the Weekend Illegal Art   Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /