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Stories
August
5, 2003
Edward
Said
Orientallism: 25 Years Later
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
Alexander
Cockburn
Meet the Real WMD Fabricator: Rolf
Ekeus
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?
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!
Congratulations
to CounterPuncher Gilad Atzmon! BBC Names EXILE Top Jazz CD
July
29, 2003
Jeffrey
St. Clair
"Journalist Spotted! Journalist
Dead!" Guatemala Bleeds; US Press Yawns
Thomas
J. Nagy
The Belligerent Dr. Pipes
Kurt Nimmo
Tom Delay Goes to Jerusalem
Chris
Floyd
Dead Reckoning: Bush Warriors Sign Off on War Crimes
Robert
Fisk
Another Botched Raid; Another Massacre
Jason Leopold
Did Chalabi Help Write Bush's State of the Union Address?
Conn Hallinan
Food Bully: Bush's Biotech Shock and Awe Campaign
Dan
Bacher
Sacramento's War on Free Speech
Ray
McGovern
Cheney Chicanery
Website
of the Day
Julie Hilden Caught on Tape
July 26 / 27, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
NYT's Screws Up Again; Uday and
Qusay Deaths Bad for Bush; Gen. Hitchens at the Front
Gary
Leupp
Faith-Based Intelligence
Saul Landau
A Report from Syria
Stan
Goff
Bring 'Em On Home, Now!
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Book Cooking at Boeing
Andrew
Cockburn
The Sons Are Dead; Now the Blood Feud
Begins
Jason Leopold
CIA Points the Finger at the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans
Robert
Fisk
The Power of Death
Joanne
Mariner
Monsieur Moussaoui
Standard
Schaefer
Joblessness and the Invisible Hand
M. Shahid
Alam
The Global Economy Since 1800: a Short History
Harry
Browne
Northern Ireland: the Other Faltering Peace Process
Fidel Castro
Moncada, 50 Years Later
Lula
Democracy Requires Social Justice
Edward
S. Herman
Refuting Brad DeLong's Smear Job on Noam Chomsky
Ron Jacobs
Guided by a Great Feeling of Love: a Review of Gordon's The Company
You Keep
Julie
Hilden
A Photographer, an Offer and Cameron Diaz's Topless Photos
Adam Engel
Man Talk
Poets'
Basement
Keeney, Witherup, Short, Nimba, Guthrie and Albert
Hot Stories
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
5, 2003
My
Darn Good Resumé
Accomplishments
as President
By
GEORGE W. BUSH
The White House, USA
* I attacked and took over two countries.
* I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted
the Treasury.
* I shattered the record for biggest
annual deficit in history.
* I set an economic record for most private
bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
* I set all-time record for biggest drop
in the history of the stock market.
* I am the first president in decades
to execute a federal prisoner.
* I am the first president in US history
to enter office with a criminal record.
* In my first year in office I set the
all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in
US history.
* After taking the entire month of August
off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure
in US history.
* I set the record for most campaign
fundraising trips by any president in US history.
* In my first two years in office over
2 million Americans lost their jobs.
* I cut unemployment benefits for more
out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.
* I set the all-time record for most
foreclosures in a 12-month period.
* I appointed more convicted criminals
to administration positions than any president in US history.
* I set the record for the fewest press
conferences of any president since the advent of TV.
* I signed more laws and executive orders
amending the Constitution than any other president in US history.
* I presided over the biggest energy
crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption
was revealed.
* I presided over the highest gasoline
prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves
as past presidents have.
* I cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
* I set the all-time record for most
people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest
me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against
any person in the history of mankind
* I dissolved more international treaties
than any president in US history.
* I've made my presidency the most secretive
and unaccountable of any in US history.
* Members of my cabinet are the richest
of any administration in US history. (The 'poorest' multimillionaire,
Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her).
* I am the first president in US history
to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
* I presided over the biggest corporate
stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history
of the world.
* I am the first president in US history
to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation,
and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world
community.
* I have created the largest government
department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
* I set the all-time record for biggest
annual budget spending increases, more than any other president
in US history.
* I am the first president in US history
to have the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights
Commission.
* I am the first president in US history
to have the United Nations remove the US from the Elections Monitoring
Board.
* I removed more checks and balances,
and have the least amount of Congressional oversight than any
presidential administration in US history.
* I rendered the entire United Nations
irrelevant.
* I withdrew from the International Criminal
Court.
* I refused to allow inspectors access
to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the
Geneva Conventions.
* I am the first president in US history
to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the
2002 US elections.
* I am the all-time US (and world) record
holder for most corporate campaign donations.
* The biggest lifetime contributor to
my campaign, who is also one of my best friends, presided over
one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history
(Kenneth Lay, former CEOof Enron Corporation).
*I spent more money on polls and focus
groups than any president in US history.
* I am the first president to run and
hide when the US came under attack (and then lied, saying the
enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
* I am the first US president to establish
a secret shadow government.
* I took the world's sympathy for the
US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented
country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure
in US and world history).
* I am the first US president in history
to have a majority of the people of Europe(71%)view my presidency
as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
* I am the first US president in history
to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than
by their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
* I changed US policy to allow convicted
criminals to be awarded government contracts.
* I set the all-time record for number
of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling
their huge investments in corporations bidding for gov't contracts.
* I have removed more freedoms and civil
liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.
* In a little over two years I have created
the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided
that the US has been since the civil war.
* I entered office with the strongest
economy in US history and in less than two years turned every
single economic category heading straight down, record unemployment
being the most recent achievement..
RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
* I have at least one conviction for
drunk driving in Maine (Texas drug conviction has been erased
and is not available).
* I was AWOL from the National Guard
and deserted the military during a time of war.
* I refuse to take a drug test or even
answer any questions about drug use.
* All records of my tenure as governor
of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers library, sealed
in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
* All records of any SEC investigations
into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy
and unavailable for public view.
* All minutes of meetings of any public
corporation for which I served on the board are sealed in secrecy
and unavailable for public view.
* Any records or minutes from meetings
I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed
in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
Weekend Edition Features for August 2/3, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Meet the Real WMD Fabricator: Rolf
Ekeus
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
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