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September 17, 2003

Timothy J. Freeman
The Terrible Truth About Iraq

St. Clair / Cockburn
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Meet the Real Wesley Clark

Terry Lodge
An Open Letter to Michael Moore on Gen. Wesley Clark

Mitchel Cohen
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Norman Madarasz
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Richard Forno
High Tech Heroin

Alexander Cockburn
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Website of the Day
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September 16, 2003

Rosemary and Walt Brasch
An Ill Wind: Hurricane Isabel and the Lack of Homeland Security

Robert Fisk
Powell in Baghdad

Kurt Nimmo
Imperial Sociopaths

M. Shahid Alam
The Dialectics of Terror

Ron Jacobs
Exile at Gunpoint

Christopher Brauchli
Bush's War on Wages

Al Krebs
Stop Calling Them "Farm Subsidies"; It's Corporate Welfare

Patrick Cockburn
The Iraq Wreck

Website of the Day
From Occupied Palestine

September 15, 2003

Stan Goff
It Was the Oil; It Is Like Vietnam

Robert Fisk
A Hail of Bullets, a Trail of Dead

Writers Bloc
We Are Winning: a Report from Cancun

James T. Phillips
Does George Bush Cry?

Elaine Cassel
The Troublesome Bill of Rights

Cynthia McKinney
A Message to the People of New York City

Matthew Behrens
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Uri Avnery
Assassinating Arafat

Hammond Guthrie
Celling Out the Alarm

Website of the Day
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September 13 / 14, 2003

Michael Neumann
Anti-Americanism: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Jeffrey St. Clair
Anatomy of a Swindle

Gary Leupp
The Matrix of Ignorance

Ron Jacobs
Reagan's America

Brian Cloughley
Up to a Point, Lord Rumsfeld

William S. Lind
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Werther
A Modest Proposal for the Pentagon

Dave Lindorff
Friendly Fire Will Doom the Occupation

Toni Solo
Fiction and Reality in Colombia: The Trial of the Bogota Three

Elaine Cassel
Juries and the Death Penalty

Mickey Z.
A Parable for Cancun

Jeffrey Sommers
Issam Nashashibi: a Life Dedicated to the Palestinian Cause

David Vest
Driving in No Direction (with a Glimpse of Johnny Cash)

Michael Yates
The Minstrel Show

Jesse Walker
Adios, Johnny Cash

Adam Engel
Something Killer

Poets' Basement
Cash, Albert, Curtis, Linhart

Website of the Weekend
Local Harvest

September 12, 2003

Writers Block
Todos Somos Lee: Protest and Death in Cancun

Laura Carlsen
A Knife to the Heart: WTO Kills Farmers

Dave Lindorff
The Meaning of Sept. 11

Elaine Cassel
Bush at Quantico

Linda S. Heard
British Entrance Exams

John Chuckman
The First Two Years of Insanity

Doug Giebel
Ending America as We Know It

Mokhiber / Weissman
The Blank Check Military

Subcomandante Marcos
The Death Train of the WTO

Website of the Day

September 11, 2003

Robert Fisk
A Grandiose Folly

Roger Burbach
State Terrorism and 9/11: 1973 and 2001

Jonathan Franklin
The Pinochet Files

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Postcards to the President

Norman Solomon
The Political Capital of 9/11

Saul Landau
The Chilean Coup: the Other, Almost Forgotten 9/11

Stew Albert
What Goes Around

Website of the Day
The Sights and Sounds of a Coup

September 10, 2003

John Ross
Cancun Reality Show: Will It Turn Into a Tropical Seattle?

Zoltan Grossman
The General Who Would be President: Was Wesley Clark Also Unprepared for the Postwar Bloodbath?

Tim Llewellyn
At the Gates of Hell

Christopher Brauchli
Turn the Paige: the Bush Education Deception

Lee Sustar
Bring the Troops Home, Now!

Elaine Cassel
McCain-Feingold in Trouble: Scalia Hogs the Debate

Norman Finkelstein
Hitchens as Model Apostate

Hammond Guthrie
When All Was Said and Done

Website of the Day
Fact Checking Colin Powell

September 9, 2003

William A. Cook
Eating Humble Pie

Robert Jensen / Rahul Mahajan
Bush Speech: a Shell Game on the American Electorate

Bill Glahn
A Kinder, Gentler RIAA?

Janet Kauffman
A Dirty River Runs Beneath It

Chris Floyd
Strange Attractors: White House Bawds Breed New Terror

Bridget Gibson
A Helping of Crow with Those Fries?

Robert Fisk
Thugs in Business Suit: Meet the New Iraqi Strongman

Website of the Day
Pot TV International

September 8, 2003

David Lindorff
The Bush Speech: Spinning a Fiasco

Robert Jensen
Through the Eyes of Foreigners: the US Political Crisis

Gila Svirsky
Of Dialogue and Assassination: Off Their Heads

Bob Fitrakis
Demostration Democracy

Kurt Nimmo
Bush and the Echo Chamber: Globalizing the Whirlwind

Sean Carter
Thou Shalt Not Campaign from the Bench

Uri Avnery
Betrayal at Camp David

Website of the Day
Rabbis v. the Patriot Act

September 6 / 7, 2003

Neve Gordon
Strategic Abuse: Outsourcing Human Rights Violations

Gary Leupp
Shiites Humiliate Bush

Saul Landau
Fidel and The Prince

Denis Halliday
Of Sanctions and Bombings: the UN Failed the People of Iraq

John Feffer
Hexangonal Headache: N. Korea Talks Were a Disaster

Ron Jacobs
The Stage of History

M. Shahid Alam
Pakistan "Recognizes" Israel

Laura Carlson
The Militarization of the Americas

Elaine Cassel
The Forgotten Prisoners of Guantanamo

James T. Phillips
The Mumbo-Jumbo War

Bill Glahn
RIAA Watch: Slumlords of the Internet

Walter A. Davis
Living in Death's Dream Kingdom

Adam Engel
Midnight's Inner Children

Poets' Basement
Stein, Guthrie and Albert

Book of the Weekend
It Became Necessary to Destroy the Planet in Order to Save It by Khalil Bendib

 

September 5, 2003

Brian Cloughley
Bush's Stacked Deck: Why Doesn't the Commander-in-Chief Visit the Wounded?

Col. Dan Smith
Iraq as Black Hole

Phyllis Bennis
A Return to the UN?

Dr. Susan Block
Exxxtreme Ashcroft

Dave Lindorff
Courage and the Democrats

Abe Bonowitz
Reflections on the "Matyrdom" of Paul Hill

Robert Fisk
We Were Warned About This Chaos

Website of the Day
New York Comic Book Museum

 

September 4, 2003

Stan Goff
The Bush Folly: Between Iraq and a Hard Place

John Ross
Mexico's Hopes for Democracy Hit Dead-End

Harvey Wasserman
Bush to New Yorkers: Drop Dead

Adam Federman
McCain's Grim Vision: Waging a War That's Already Been Lost

Aluf Benn
Sharon Saved from Threat of Peace

W. John Green
Colombia's Dirty War

Joanne Mariner
Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Latin America

Website of the Day
Califoracle

 

September 3, 2003

Virginia Tilley
Hyperpower in a Sinkhole

Davey D
A Hip Hop Perspective on the Cali Recall

Emrah Göker
Conscripting Turkey: Imperial Mercenaries Wanted

John Stanton
The US is a Power, But Not Super

Brian Cloughley
The Pentagon's Bungled PsyOps Plan

Dan Bacher
Another Big Salmon Kill

Elaine Cassel
Prosecutors Weep' Ninth Circuit Overturns 127 Death Sentences

Uri Avnery
First of All This Wall Must Fall

Website of the Day
Art Attack!

 

 

September 2, 2003

Robert Fisk
Bush's Occupational Fantasies Lead Iraq Toward Civil War

Kurt Nimmo
Rouind Up the Usual Suspects: the Iman Ali Mosque Bombing

Robert Jensen / Rahul Mahajan
Iraqi Liberation, Bush Style

Elaine Cassel
Innocent But Guilty: When Prosecutors are Dead Wrong

Jason Leopold
Ghosts in the Machines: the Business of Counting Votes

Dave Lindorff
Dems in 2004: Perfect Storm or Same Old Doldrums?

Paul de Rooij
Predictable Propaganda: Four Monts of US Occupation

Website of the Day
Laughing Squid

August 30 / Sept. 1, 2003

Alexander Cockburn
Handmaiden in Babylon: Annan, Vieiera de Mello and the Decline and Fall of the UN

Saul Landau
Schwarzenegger and Cuban Migration

Standard Schaefer
Who Benefited from the Tech Bubble: an Interview with Michael Hudson

Gary Leupp
Mel Gibson's Christ on Trial

William S. Lind
Send the Neocons to Baghdad

Augustin Velloso
Aznar: Spain's Super Lackey

Jorge Mariscal
The Smearing of Cruz Bustamante

John Ross
A NAFTA for Energy? The US Looks to Suck Up Mexico's Power

Mickey Z.
War is a Racket: The Wisdom of Gen. Smedley Butler

Elaine Cassel
Ashcroft's Traveling Patriot Show Isn't Winning Many Converts

Stan Cox
Pirates of the Caribbean: the WTO Comes to Cancun

Tom and Judy Turnipseed
Take Back Your Time Day

Adam Engel
The Red Badge of Knowledge: a Review of TDY

Adam Engel
An Eye on Intelligence: an Interview with Douglas Valentine

Susan Davis
Northfork, an Accidental Review

Nicholas Rowe
Dance and the Occupation

Mark Zepezauer
Operation Candor

Poets' Basement
Albert, Guthrie and Hamod

Website of the Weekend
Downhill Battle

 

 

August 29, 2003

Lenni Brenner
God and the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party

Brian Cloughley
When in Doubt, Lie Your Head Off

Alice Slater
Bush Nuclear Policy is a Recipe for National Insecurity

David Krieger
What Victory?

Marjorie Cohn
The Thin Blue Line: How the US Occupation of Iraq Imperils International Law

Richard Glen Boire
Saying Yes to Drugs!

Bister, Estrin and Jacobs
Howard Dean, the Progressive Anti-War Candidate? Some Vermonters Give Their Views

Website of the Day
DirtyBush

 

 

August 28, 2003

Gilad Atzmon
The Most Common Mistakes of Israelis

David Vest
Moore's Monument: Cement Shoes for the Constitution

David Lindorff
Shooting Ali in the Back: Why the Pacification is Doomed

Chris Floyd
Cheap Thrills: Bush Lies to Push His War

Wayne Madsen
Restoring the Good, Old Term "Bum"

Elaine Cassel
Not Clueless in Chicago

Stan Goff
Nukes in the Dark

Tariq Ali
Occupied Iraq Will Never Know Peace

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Behold, My Package

Website of the Day
Palestinian Artists


August 27, 2003

Bruce Jackson
Little Deaths: Hiding the Body Count in Iraq

John Feffer
Nuances and North Korea: Six Countries in Search of a Solution

Dave Riley
an Interview with Tariq Ali on the Iraq War

Lacey Phillabaum
Bush's Holy War in the Forests

Steve Niva
Israel's Assassination Policy: the Trigger for Suicide Bombings?

Website of the Day
The Dean Deception



August 26, 2003

Robert Fisk
Smearing the Dead

David Lindorff
The Great Oil Gouge: Burning Up that Tax Rebate

Sarmad S. Ali
Baghdad is Deadlier Than Ever: the View of an Iraqi Coroner

Christopher Brauchli
Bush Administration Equates Medical Pot Smokers with Segregationists

Juliana Fredman
Collective Punishment on the West Bank: Dialysis, Checkpoints and a Palestinian Madonna

Larry Siems
Ghosts of Regime Changes Past in Guatemala

Elaine Cassel
Onward, Ashcroft Soldiers!

Saul Landau
Bush: a Modern Ahab or a Toy Action Figure?

August 25, 2003

Kurt Nimmo
Israeli Outlaws in America

David Bacon
In Iraq, Labor Protest is a Crime

Thomas P. Healy
The Govs Come to Indy: Corps Welcome; Citizens Locked Out

Norman Madarasz
In an Elephant's Whirl: the US/Canada Relationship After the Iraq Invasion

Salvador Peralta
The Politics of Focus Groups

Jack McCarthy
Who Killed Jancita Eagle Deer?

Uri Avnery
A Drug for the Addict

August 23/24, 2003

Forrest Hylton
Rumsfeld Does Bogota

Robert Fisk
The Cemetery at Basra

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Insults to Intelligence

Andrew C. Long
Exile on Bliss Street: The Terrorist Threat and the English Professor

Jeremy Bigwood
The Toxic War on Drugs: Monsanto Weedkiller Linked to Powerful Fungus

Jeffrey St. Clair
Forest or Against Us: the Bush Doctor Calls on Oregon

Cynthia McKinney
Bring the Troops Home, Now!

David Krieger
So Many Deaths, So Few Answers: Approaching the Second Anniversary of 9/11

Julie Hilden
A Constitutional Right to be a Human Shield

Dave Lindorff
Marketplace Medicine

Standard Schaefer
Unholy Trinity: Falwell's Anti-Abortion Attack on Health and Free Speech

Catherine Dong
Kucinich and FirstEnergy

José Tirado
History Hurts: Why Let the Dems Repeat It?

Ron Jacobs
Springsteen's America

Gavin Keeney
The Infernal Machine

Adam Engel
A Fan's Notations

William Mandel
Five Great Indie Films

Walt Brasch
An American Frog Fable

Poets' Basement
Reiss, Kearney, Guthrie, Albert and Alam

Website of the Weekend
The Hutton Inquiry

 

August 22, 2003

Carole Harper
Post-Sandinista Nicaragua

John Chuckman
George Will: the Marquis of Mendacity

Richard Thieme
Operation Paperclip Revisited

Chris Floyd
Dubya Indemnity: Bush Barons Beyond the Reach of Law?

Issam Nashashibi
Palestinians and the Right of Return: a Rigged Survey

Mary Walworth
Other People's Kids

Ron Jacobs
The Darkening Tunnel

Website of the Day
Current Energy


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 Up Call"

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!

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

August 14, 2003

Peter Phillips
Inside Bohemian Grove: Where US Power Elites Party

Brian Cloughley
Charlie Wilson and Pakistan: the Strange Congressman Behind the CIA's Most Expensive War

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 Speech: From Birgmingham to Baghdad, Imperialism's Freedom Ride

Website of the Day
Tony Benn's Greatest Hits

August 13, 2003

Joanne Mariner
A Wall of Separation Through the Heart

Donald Worster
The Heavy Cost of Empire

Standard Schaefer
Experimental Casinos: DARPA and the War Economy

Elaine Cassel
Murderous Errors: Executing the Innocent

Ralph Nader
Make the Recall Count

Alexander Cockburn
Ted Honderich Hit with "Anti-Semitism" Slur

Website of the Day
Defending Yourself Against DirectTV Lawsuits: 9000 and Counting

 

August 12, 2003

William Blum
Myth and Denial in the War on Terrorism

Ron Jacobs
Revisionist History: the Bush Administration, Civil Rights and Iraq

Josh Frank
Dean's Constitutional Hang-Up

Wayne Madsen
What's a Fifth Columnist? Well, Someone Like Hitchens

Ray McGovern
Relax, It Was All a Pack of Lies

Wendy Brinker
Hubris in the White House

Website of the Day
Black Mustache

August 11, 2003

Douglas Valentine
Homeland Security for Whom?

Mickey Z.
Bush's Progress

Bill Glahn
RIAA Watch: Meet the New Bitch, Same as the Old

Elaine Cassel
Indicting DNA

Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq
Civil Liberties and Uncivil Super-Patriotism

Uri Avnery
Who Will Save Abu Mazen?

Website of the Day
RIAA Subpoena Clearinghouse

August 9 / 10, 2003

Alexander Cockburn
California's Glorious Recall!

Saul Landau
Bush and King Henry

Gary Leupp
On Terrorism, Methodism, "Wahhabism" and the Censored 9/11 Report

Paul de Rooij
The Parade of the Body Bags

Michael Egan
History and the Tragedy of American Diplomacy

Rob Eshelman
A Home of Our Own

Daoud Kuttab
Life as an ID Card

Philip Agee
Terror and Civil Society: Instruments of US Policy in Cuba

Jeffrey St. Clair
Marc Racicot: Bush's Main Man

Walt Brasch
Schwarzenegger, "Hollyweird" and the Rigtheous Right

Christopher Brauchli
Bush, Bribery and Berlusconi

Josh Frank
Mean, Mean Howard Dean

Elaine Cassel
Will the Death Penalty Ever Die?

Sean Carter
Total Recall

Poets' Basement
Hamod, Engel, Albert

August 8, 2003

John Chuckman
What the US Says Goes

Roberto Barreto
Defend the Vieques 12!

Bruce Gagnon
Iraq War Emboldens Bush Space Plans

Elaine Cassel
The Reign of John Ashcroft

Dave Lindorff
Snoops Night Out

Website of the Day
Zero Boy

 

August 7, 2003

M. Shahid Alam
It the US a "Terrorist Magnet?"

Toni Solo
Neo-liberal Nicaragua: a New Banana Republic

Adam Lebowitz
Hiroshima Commemorated: the View from Japan

Hanan Ashrawi
When the Bully Whines

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Conscience Takes a Holiday

Jason Leopold
Wolfowitz Lets Slip: Iraq Not Behind 9/11; No Ties to Al-Qaeda

Mike Kimaid
What's the Score?

Elaine Cassel
The Smell of VICTORY: Ashcroft's Latest Stinkbomb

Dardagan, Slobodo and Williams
CounterPunch Exclusive:
20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians

 


August 6, 2003

Steve Higgs
Going to Jail for the Cause: It's Not Easy Confronting King Coal

David Krieger
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Robert Fisk
The Ghosts of Uday and Qusay

Christopher Brauchli
Bush's War on the National Forests

Elaine Cassel
No Fly Lists

Stan Goff
Military Equipment and Pneumonia

Hugh Sansom
An Open Letter to Nicholas Kristof on the Nuking of Japan

 


August 5, 2003

Uri Avnery
The Prisoner of Ramallah: Arafat at 74

Forrest Hylton
Terrorism and Political Trials: the View from Bolivia

Ray McGovern
"We Cook Estimates to Go"

David Morse
Poindexter's Gambit

Edward Said
Orientallism: 25 Years Later

George W. Bush
My Darn Good Resumé

Hammond Guthrie
It's Incremental, Watson!

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

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!

 

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

July 3, 2003

Patrick W. Gavin
The Meaning of Gettysburg

Thomas W. Croft
There Was a Reason They Called It the Casino Economy

David Lindorff
Outlawing Subversives: Hong Kong and the US

John Chuckman
Lessons from the American Revolution

Jackson Thoreau
New Far-Right Scheme: Impeach Supreme Court Justices

Stan Goff
"Bring 'Em On?": a Former Special Forces Soldier Responds to Bush's Invitation for Iraqis to Attack US Troops

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log 7/3


July 2, 2003

Diane Christian
Good Killing and Bad Killing

Richard Falk
After Iraq, Does UN War Prevention Have a Future?

Mokhiber / Weissman
Bush Administration: Causing Repetitive Stress

Justin Podur
Uribe's Onslaught Across Colombia

Reuven Kaviner
Prosecuting Ben-Artzi, the Refusenik

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log 7/2

July 1, 2003

Sasan Fayamanesh
Weapon of Choice: Nukes, Israel and Iran

Elaine Cassel
Sex and the Supreme Moralizer: Scalia and the Sodomy Cops

Susan Block
A Love Supreme: Our Assholes Belong to Ourselves

Bill Glahn
RIAA Watch: No, No Bono

David Lindorff
Weapons in Search of a Name

Gary Leupp
Occupation, Resistance and the Plight of the GIs

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log 7/1

 

June 30, 2003

Karyn Strickler
The Do-Nothings: an Exposé of Progressive Politics in America

Col. Dan Smith
The Occupation of Iraq: Descending into the Quagmire

Tim Wise
Race and Destruction in Black and White

Neve Gordon
The Roadmap and the Wall

Chris Floyd
The Revelation of St. George: "God Told Me to Strike Saddam"

Elaine Cassel
Kentucky Woman

Uri Avnery
Hope in Dark Times

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log 6/30

Website of the Day
Bush El Hombre

 

June 28 / 29, 2003

Michael Neumann
Warfare and Terrorism

M. Shahid Alam
Bernard Lewis: Scholarship or Sophistry?

Jeffrey St. Clair
Meet Steven Griles: Big Oil's Inside Man

Laura Carlsen
Democracy's Future: From the Polls or the Populace?

Alan Maass
You Call These Democrats an Alternative?

C.Y. Gopinath
Bush and Kindergarten

Noah Leavitt
Bush, the Death Penalty and International Law

Joanne Mariner
Rehnquist Family Values

Ignacio Chapela
Tenure, Censorship and Biotech at Berkeley

Bob Scowcroft
Bush's Squeeze on Organic Farmers

Jon Brown
Tom Delay: "I am the Government"

Kam Zarrabi
Keep Your Hands Off Iran, Please!

Ron Jacobs
Big Bill Broonzy's Conversation with the Blues

Julie Hilden
Fear Factor: Art, Terror and the First Amendment

Adrien Rain Burke
The Anarchists' Wedding Guide

Adam Engel
US Troops Outta Times Square

Poets' Basement
Witherup, Guthrie, Albert, Hamod

 

June 27, 2003

Jason Leopold
CIA: Seven Months Prior to 9/11 Iraq Posed No Threat to US

David Vest
Supreme Silence: Bush's Bunker-Hunker

David Lindorff
The Catch and Release of "Comical Ali"

Ray McGovern
Cheney, Forgery and the CIA

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log 6/26

Website of the Day
John Kerry, Teresa Heinz & Ken Lay: The Politics of Hypocrisy

June 26, 2003

Sen. Robert Byrd
The Road of Cover-Up is a Road to Ruin

Jason Leopold
Wolfowitz Instructed the CIA to Investigate Hans Blix

Paul de Rooij
Ambient Death in Palestine

Chris Floyd
Mass Graves and Burned Meat in Bush's New Iraq

Elaine Cassel
Wolfowitz as Lord High Executioner

CounterPunch Wire
Musicians Unite Against Sweatshops

Sheldon Hull
Squatting in Mansions

Ben Tripp
A Guide to Hating Almost Anyone

Uri Avnery
The Best Show in Town

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log 6/25

Website of the Day
Ordinary Vistas:
The Photographs of Kurt Nimmo

 

June 25, 2003

Bruce Jackson
Buffalo Cops Wage War on Pedal Pushers

Mickey Z.
The New Dark Ages

David Lindorff
Indonesia's War on Journalists

Dan Bacher
Butterflies and Farmworkers Confront USDA and Riot Cops

Adam Federman
"Success is Not the Issue Here"

Elaine Cassel
"Ain't No Justice": Fed Judge Quits, Assails Sentencing Guidelines

Bill Kauffman
My America vs. the Empire

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log 6/25

Website of the Day
You Are Being Watched:
Elevator Moods

 

June 24, 2003

Elaine Cassel
Supreme Indemnity
Holocaust Denial at the High Court

Roya Monajem
A Message from Tehran: Is It Worth It to Risk One's Life?

John Chuckman
The Real Clash of Civilizations

David Lindorff
WMD Damage Control at the Times

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log 6/24

 

June 23, 2003

Marc Pritzke
Washington Lied: an Interview with Ray McGovern

Conn Hallinan
The Consistency of Sharon

Wayne Madsen
Commercials, Disney & Amistad

Edward Said
The Meaning of Rachel Corrie

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log 6/23

 

June 21, 2003

William A. Cook
The Scourge of Hopelessness

Standard Schaefer
The Wages of Terror: an Interview with R.T. Naylor

Ron Jacobs
US Prisons as Strategic Hamlets

Harry Browne
The Pitstop Ploughshares

Lawrence Magnuson
WMD: The Most Dangerous Game

Harold Gould
Saddam and the WMD Mystery

David Krieger
10 Reasons to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Avia Pasternak
The Unholy Alliance in the Occupied Territories

CounterPunch
Summer Reading:
Our Favorite Novels

Todd Chretien
Return to Sender: Todd Gitlin, the Duke of Condescension

Maria Tomchick
Danny Goldberg's Imaginary Kids

Adam Engel
The Fat Man in Little Boy

Poets' Basement
Guthrie, Albert & Hamod


June 20, 2003

Walter Brasch
Down on Our Knees

Robert Meeropol
The Son of the Rosenbergs on His Parents Death and Bush's America

Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Grannies and Baby Bells

Norman Madarasz
Pierre Bourgault: the Life of a Quebec Radical

Gary Leupp
Bush on "Revisionist Historians"

Steve Perry
Bush's Lies Marathon: the Finale

 

June 19, 2003

Elaine Cassel
Bush Plays the Racial Profiling Card: It's a Smokescreen

Brian Cloughley
Punch-and-Judy in the West Wing: The Powell-Rice Show

David Lindorff
What's Next?

Mark Jacobs
A Serious Conversation: a Former Foreign Service Officer on Diplomacy in the Age of Bush

Alfredo Castro
Bloodbath in Colombia: The Army and the Death Squads

Saul Landau
Lying, Flag Waving and Redefining Conservative Values

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log, 6/19

 

June 18, 2003

Wendell Berry
Small Destructions Add Up

Elaine Cassel
Dark Star Chambers: Secret Trials, Nameless Defendents, Veiled Threats to Defense Lawyers

Col. Daniel Smith
Iraq's WMDs: Integrity, Ethics and Intelligence

Chris Fagen
Ignoring the World's Bloodiest War

Rick Fantasia and Kim Voss
Bush's Low Intensity War on Labor

Sam Hamod
Theater of Deception: Bush, Sharon, Abbas

M. Shahid Alam
Illuminating Tom Friedman

Jon Brown
Greens & Dems: a Reply to Publius

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log, 6/18

 

June 17, 2003

Dr. Susan Block
Sex, Lies and WMDs

Elaine Cassel
Scalia, the Rumsfeld of the Supremes

Roger Burbach
Brazil Under Lula

Dan Bacher
The WTO's War on Salmon

Peter Phillips and Jason Spencer
Entertainment Media 2003

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century

Wayne Madsen
Outting Ashcroft's Latest Hypocrisy

Larry Kearney
Starlight

Steve Perry
The Bush Administration Lies Marathon, Day 3

June 16, 2003

Frida Berrigan
Death in Aceh: US Weapon Aid the Repression

Publius
Candidate Dem and Citizen Green

Tarif Abboushi
Roadmap or Roadkill?

Rep. John Conyers
Bush's Deceptions about Iraq Threaten Democracy at Home

Julian Samuel
A Review of Pilger's The New Rulers of the World

Uri Avnery
The Children of Death

Steve Perry
Bush's Lies, Part 2

 

June 14 / 15, 2003

Edward Said
A Roadmap to What and Where?

Jeffrey St. Clair
Pryor Unrestraint: Killer Bill Pryor's Mad Quest for the Federal Bench

David Lindorff
Rumsfeld v. Belgium

Jennifer Loewenstein
Suicide's Most Willing Accomplice

Lee Sustar
US Tax System: Rigged for the Rich

Ben Tripp
Of Dissidents and Dissonance

William S. Lind
Lies, Damned Lies and Military Intelligence

Joanne Mariner
Rebellious Judges

Gila Svirsky
A Macabre Alliance

Mickey Z.
Where We Are

Chris Floyd
Metaphysics as a Guide to Murder

Noah Leavitt
Peru as Our Crystal Ball?

Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi
The G8 and Africa

Dr. Gerry Lower
Dear Rudy, Let's Get Those Damned Liberals

Ted Dace
A Review of Kovel's The Enemy of Nature

Adam Engel
Midnight at the Apocalyptic Pancake

Poets' Basement
Smith, Greeder, Albert, and O'Hayer

Website of the Weekend
AEI: Starts Wars; Creates Poverty

June 13, 2003

David Vest
Bush Roadmap to What?

Ron Jacobs
The Iranian Revolution, Reloaded?

John Chuckman
The Man Who Wasn't There

Jason Leopold
Six Months Before War White House Silenced Critics of WMD Intelligence

Michael Leon
Missing Weapons, Shrinking Bush and the Media

Negar Azimi
Ashcroft's Cruel Version of America

Saul Landau
Shiite Happens

Hammond Guthrie
Then and Now

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log 6/13

 

June 12, 2003

Gary Leupp
The Intel-gate Row in Britain: a Chronology

Ahmad Faruqui
The Tragic Legacy of the Six Day War

Wayne Madsen
Unfit for Office: Time for Rumsfeld to Resign

Laura Carlsen
Hunger and Security

Tarif Abboushi
Warm and Fuzzy in Aqaba

Ray McGovern
Deceived into War: Reflections of a Former CIA Analyst

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log 6/12

 

June 11, 2003

Jeffrey St. Clair
Attack of the Hog Killers: Why the Generals Hate the A-10

Elaine Cassel
Meet Michael Chertoff: Ashcroft's Top Gremlin

David Lindorff
The Republican Drive to Eliminate Overtime Pay

Tom Gorman
Greens, the Antiwar Movement and 2004

Alfredo Castro
Colombia: The Most Dangerous Place on Earth for Trade Unionists

Nnimo Bassey and Lawrence Bohlen
Bush Must Stop Telling Us What to Eat!

Julie Hilden
Spike Lee v. Spike TV

CounterPunch Wire
Blair Bros. Change Jobs!

Eric Hobsbawm
The Empire Expands, Wider and Still Wider

Steve Perry
DHS: As Big a Planning Snafu as Iraq?

 

June 10, 2003

Benjamin Shepard
A Season in the Anti-War Movement

Chris Floyd
Bush Family Lies About Iraq and Nazi Germany

Wayne Madsen
Weaponsgate

Jason Leopold
Powell's Denials Ring Hollow

Richard Lichtman
Whining, Whimpering Leftists Confront the Logic of American World Domination

Ray Close
A CIA Analyst on Why the Lies About WMD Matter

Hammond Guthrie
Banking on Saddam?

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log 6/10

 

June 9, 2003

Alex Coolman
Male Rape in US Prisons

Elaine Cassel
Ashcroft is Coming!

Lee Sustar
Is Iran Next?

Agustin Velloso
Equatorial Guinea: Few Rich, Many Poor

Gila Svirsky
Some Lives Are Worth Less Than Others

Dr. Gerry Lower
Human Worth in Bush's America

Michael S. Ladah
A True Liberation

Ishmael Reed
Iraqi Slaughter, Mayhem and Plunder

Steve Perry
How to Beat Bush, part 1

 

June 7 / 8, 2003

Alexander Cockburn
The Terrible Truth

Jeffrey St. Clair
Going Critical: Bush's War on Endangered Species

Joanne Mariner
Ashcrofts Sides with Torturers

Steven Sherman
A Different Theory of Everything

Ron Jacobs
Sports, Politics and the 60s

M. Shahid Alam
Pauperizing the Periphery

Amelia Peltz
If This is the Road, I'd Rather be Lost

Shelton Hull
Another Powell, Another Capitulation

Binoy Kampmark
Nuclear Deterrence and North Korea

Ben Tripp
A Fish Story

Sen. Robert Byrd
Where is the Outrage?

Robin Philpot
Congo Distortions

Julie Hilden
Murder and the Matrix

Laura Flanders
An Interview with Isabel Allende

David Lindorff
The Last Byline

Adam Engel
Talk Dirty Scary Monsters

Poets' Basement
Kearney, Reiss, Guthrie, Albert and Hamod

 

June 6, 2003

Elaine Cassel
Ashcroft the Insatiable

David Krieger
The Big Lie

Ramzy Baroud
Sharon and the Myth of the Peacemakers

Anthony Gancarski
Sharansky: "Crucifixion is a Privilege"

Sam Hamod
His Own Little Country

Sean Carter
Why Indict Martha Stewart and Not Ken Lay?

David Lindorff
Cracks in the Consensus

Stew Albert
Ari's Great Set

Steve Perry
Greens and Moore in 04? No

 

June 5, 2003

Jeffrey St. Clair
Pools of Fire: The Looming Nuclear Nightmare in the Woods of North Carolina

Imraan Siddiqi
Ann Coulter's Foul Mouth

Michael Leon
Clinton, Reno & Waco: Remember What They've Done

Robert Jensen
Texas Pledge Law Undermines Democracy

Ann Harrison
Rosenthal is Free, But the Fight isn't Over

Paul Dean
How You Can Be Deliriously Happy in the Age of Bush

Gary Leupp
When Spooks Speak Out

Website of the Day
Evidence in Black and White?

 

June 4, 2003

Alexander Cockburn
Federal Judge Blinks; Rosenthal Walks

Lisa Walsh Thomas
The Isaiah Crowd: The Threat of Neo-Christianity

Jason Leopold
Manufacturing the Iraq War

John Chuckman
Blackmail as Policy

Mazin Qumsiyeh
Summit: Peace or Pretense?

Issam Nashashibi
Sharon's Sword of Damocles

Steve Perry
Wolfowitz of Arabia: the VF interview transcript

 

June 3, 2003

Chris Floyd
Copycat Killers: Bush, Jakarta and the Slaughter in Aceh

Jason Leopold
Wolfowitz Tells All

Elaine Cassel
We Interrupt Your Normal Show to Bring You an Important Message from Michael Powell: "Go to Hell, Americans!"

Tom Crumpacker
The Politics of US Cuba Policy

William S. Lind
Fourth Generation Warfare in Iraq

Sam Hamod
The Final Brick in the Wall

Uri Avnery
The Altalena Affair

Hammond Guthrie
Stepping into Some Deep DARPA

Steve Perry
The WashTimes' al-Qaeda nuke "exclusive"

June 2, 2003

Arundhati Roy
Day of the Jackals

Norman Madarasz
Behind the Neo-Con Curtain: Plato, Leo Strauss and Allan Bloom

Alain Frachon and Daniel Vernet
The Strategist and the Philosopher: Strauss and Wohlstetter

Anthony Gancarski
Anti-Imperialism, Then & Now

Standard Schaefer
Wasted at the Pentagon

Jason Leopold
Rocky's Advice to the Dems

Guthrie & Albert
HUAC 58 Years Letter

Steve Perry
The Politics of Terror Alerts

 

May 31, 2003

Alexander Cockburn
A Whiner Called Horowitz

Gary Leupp
The Frauds of War

Dave Lindorff
Clinton, Bush, Lies and Impeachment

Tom Stephens
Does It Matter that the Bush Administration Lied?

Sasan Fayazmanesh
Who Is Next?

Joanne Mariner
Trivializing Terrorism

Wayne Madsen
Ayatollah Ashcroft's Busy Week

Larry Magnuson
Is a Television a Radio or a Billboard?

Elaine Cassel
Wake Up, America!

Gila Svirsky
Waiting for the Lament to End

Susan Davis
Kitchen Dreams

Chris Clarke
Barbra Streisand: Environmental Hypocrite

Chris Floyd
Bush Locates Source of World Evil: God

Adam Engel
Gravity's End Zone

Poets' Basement
Reiss, Guthrie, Orloski, Albert

 

May 30, 2003

Ben Tripp
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Agenda

Neve Gordon
The Bad Fence

Todd Steiner
Endangered Ocean

Robert Freeman
Bush's Tax Cuts: a Form of National Insanity

Sean Carter
Utah Gets Fired Up for Executions

Daniel Bacher
How Bush's War Violated International Laws

Tariq Ali
Re-Colonizing Iraq

Steve Perry
Bush Wars Web Log

 

May 29, 2003

CounterPunch Wire
WMD: Who Said What When

Jason Leopold
Despite Thin Intelligence Reports, US Plans Overthrow of Iran Regime

Ron Jacobs
Popular Uprising, Inc.

Michelle Ciaccorra
Bush's Nuclear Policy: Do As I Say, Not As I Do

Yves Engler
The Economics of Health Care in America: Pay More to Die Sooner

Kimberly Blaker
Vouchers for Jesus

Harry Browne
Stakeknife: Britain's Army Spy at the Top of the IRA

Stew Albert
Cops of the World

Steve Perry
Greens 04: In or Out?

 

May 28, 2003

David Vest
DubyaCo.: It's Not So Funny Any More

Dave Lindorff
My Grandfather's Medal

John Stanton
America's Dying: Arts and Philosophy Hold the Key

Bernard Weiner
A PNAC Primer

Robert Jensen
Texas Dems Set a Standard for the Rest of the Party

Ahmad Faruqui
The Oil Business of Regime Change: the CIA and Iran

Hammond Guthrie
Disarming Conundrums

Steve Perry
What If There's No Such Thing as Al-Qaeda?

 

May 27, 2003

Kurt Nimmo
Condoleezza Rice: Huckstress for Israeli Myths

Anthony Gancarski
Hillary: a Dem the NeoCons Could Love?

Patrick Cockburn
Terror, Bush and Joseph Conrad

John Chuckman
an Interpretation of Bush's Character

Kathleen Christison
What Sharon Wants, Sharon Gets

Jeffrey Blankfort
AIPAC Hijacks the Roadmap

Steve Perry
Trouble in the Hinterlands

 

May 26, 2003

Franklin C. Spinney
Test Anxiety: Star Wars, Punctuated Epistimology and the Triumph of Medievalism

Elaine Cassel
Supreme Sacrifice

Sam Hamod
When Trained Killers Return Home

Stew Albert
The Final Conflict

 

May 24 / 25, 2003

Gary Leupp
The Philosopher Kings: Leo Strauss and the Neo-Cons

Uri Avnery
The Hannibal Procedure

Diane Christian
Who's the Real Enemy?
"Just Cause" or "Kill the Bastards"

Alexander Cockburn
Derrida's Double Life

William S. Lind
Is Saddam Really Out of the Game?

William Cook
Road to Nowhere

David Krieger
Bush's War on the Poor: Economic Justice

Ilan Pappe
Academic Freedom Under Assault in Israel

Wayne Madsen
American Idle

Noah Leavitt
Slowing Sowing Justice in the Killing Fields

Walt Brasch
Americans are Liars

Lenni Brenner
John Brown and Dutch Bill

Mickey Z.
Hope, Crosby & Al Qaeda

Michael Ortiz Hill
Grievous Harm Here and Abroad

Adam Engel
Towers of Babel

Poets' Basement
Albert, Guthrie, Alam, Orloski

 

May 23, 2003

Standard Schaefer
Lifting the Sanctions: Who Benefits?

Ron Jacobs
Long Live People's Park!

Michael Greger, MD
Return of Mad Cow: US Beef Supply at Risk

Elaine Cassel
Tigar to Ashcroft: "Secrecy is the Enemy of Democratic Govt."

Sam Hamod
The Shi'a of Iraq

Christopher Greeder
After the Layoffs (poem)

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars Weblog 5/23

 

May 22, 2003

Mark Gaffney
Christian in Name Only

Carl Estabrook
Republic of Fear

Carl Camacho, Jr.
Reason for Hope

Ben Granby
What Rates a Headline from the Middle East?

Vanessa Jones
Terror Alerts in Australia

Mickey Z.
Instant Understanding

Don Monkerud
Snowballs in a Soggy Economy

Barry Lando
The Nether-Nether World of G.W. Bush

Steve Perry
Total Information
Awareness: Secret Shadow Program?

 

May 21, 2003

Dave Lindorff
Ari Fleischer Quits the Scene: The Liar's Gone, the Enablers Remain

Chris Floyd
How Blood Money Becomes Business Opportunity

Dr. Gerry Lower
Graham's God and Bush's Pathology

Patrick Cockburn
In Post War Iraq, the Signs of Breakdown are Everywhere

Brian Cloughley
The Fatuous Braintrust: Newt, Rummy and Wolfowitz

Saul Landau
Shopping, the End of the World and the Politics of Bush

Larry Kearney
Two Morning Poems, May 2003

Steve Perry
Chaos in Iraq: Just What the US Wanted?

Elaine Cassel
Ashcroft Justice Comes to Iraq

 

May 20, 2003

Tariq Ali
The Empire Advances

Ahmad Faruqui
Whither American Nationalism?

Ben Tripp
Dialysis with Osama

Linda Heard
The Cage of Occupation

Cynthia McKinney
Toward a Just and Peaceful World

Edward Said
The Arab Condition

Mokhiber and Weissman
Why Ari Should Have Resigned in Protest Long Ago

Stew Albert
Yale Men

Steve Perry
The New Face of Al-Qaeda

 

May 19, 2003

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
A Letter to Kofi Annan on Powell's Missing Evidence

CounterPunch Wire
"Terror" Slut Steve Emerson Eats Crow

John Chuckman
Blair's Awkward Lies

Matt Vidal
Corporate Media and the Myth of the Free Market

Michael S. Ladah
The Fine Print to Bush's Road Map

Robert Fisk
Bush's Eternal War Backfires

Elaine Cassel
Clarence Thomas, Still Whining After All These Years

Jonathan Freedland
Ann Coulter's Appalling Magic

Steve Perry
Play It Again, O-Sam-a

May 17 / 18, 2003

Uri Avnery
The Children's Teeth

Peter Linebaugh
An American Tribute to Christopher Hill

Gary Leupp
Nepal Today

Rock and Rap Confidential
The Republican Plot Against the Dixie Chicks

Walter Sommerfeld
Plundering Baghdad's Museums

Ron Jacobs
Condy Rice's Yipping Tirades

Thomas P. Healy
Dubya Does Indy

Tarif Abboushi
Bush, Sharon and the Roadmap

Francis Boyle
Debating US War Crimes in Iraq

Mark Davis
An Interview with Richard Butler

Richard Lichtman
American Mourning

Michael Ortiz Hill
Overcoming Terrorism

Adam Engel
Uncle Sam is YOU!

Alan Maas
The Best News Show on TV

Poets' Basement
Reiss, Guthrie, Albert

Elaine Cassel
Good Enough for an Alien

Website of the Weekend
The 37 Americans Who Run Iraq

Song of the Weekend
Talkin' Sounds Just Like Joe McCarthy Blues

 

May 16, 2003

Leah Wells
In Iraq Water and Oil Do Mix

Ben Tripp
Fear Itself

Sharon Smith
The Resegregation of US Schools

Ramzy Baroud
Does Defeat Have to be So Humiliating?

Sam Hamod
A Nation of Fear

Phil Reeves
Baghdad Pays the Price

Robert McChesney
The FCC's Big Grab

Mark Engler
Those Who Don't Count

Steve Perry
We're All Extras in Bush's Movie

Website of the Day
Iraq and Our Energy Future

 

May 15, 2003

Ayesha Iman and Sindi Medar-Gould
How Not to Help Amina Lawal: The Hidden Dangers of Letter Writing Campaigns

Julie Hilden
Moussaoui and the Camp X-Ray Detainees: Can He Get a Fair Trial?

Tanya Reinhart
Bush's Roadmap: a Ticket to Failure

Laura Carlsen
Here We Go Again: NAFTA Plus or Minus?

Kenneth Rapoza
The New Fakers: State Dept. Undercuts New Yorker's Goldberg

Stew Albert
A Story I Will Tell

Steve Perry
Bush's Little Nukes

Website of the Day
Strip-o-Rama

 

May 14, 2003

Cindy Corrie
A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter I Can't Hear From

Jason Leopold
The Pentagon and Hallburton: a Secret November Deal for Iraq's Oil

David Lindorff
Fighting the Patriot Act: Now It's Alaska

John Chuckman
Giggling into Chaos

Jack McCarthy
Twin Towers of Journalism: Racism and Double Standards

Wayne Madsen
Assassinating JFK Again

M. Junaid Alam
The Longer View

Paul de Rooij
The New Hydra's Head:
Propagandists and the Selling of the US/Iraq War

James Reiss
What? Me Worry?

Steve Perry
More on Saudi Arabia Bombings

Website of the Day
A Tribute to Ted Joans

 

May 13, 2003

Saul Landau
Clear Channel Fogs the Airwaves

Michael Neumann
Has Islam Failed? Not by Western Standards

Uri Avnery
My Meeting with Arafat

Steve Perry
The Saudi Arabia Bombing

Jacob Levich
Democracy Comes to Iraq: Kick Their Ass and Grab Their Gas

William Lind
The Hippo and the Mongoose: a Question of Military Theory

The Black Commentator
Fraud at the Times: Blaming Blacks for White Folks' Mistakes

Stew Albert
Asylum

Hammond Guthrie
An Illogical Reign

Website of the Day
Sy Hersh: War and Intelligence

 

May 12, 2003

Chris Floyd
Bush, Bin Laden, Bechtel, and Baghdad

Dave Lindorff
America's Dirty Bombs

Sam Hamod and Elaine Cassel
Resisting the Bush Administration's War on Liberty

Uzi Benziman
Sharon and Sons, Inc.

Jason Leopold
The Decline and Fall of Thomas White

Rich Procter
George Jumps the Shark

Federico Moscogiuri
Going to Israel? Sign or Else

Steve Perry
Bush's War Web Log 5/12

Book of the Day
Fooling Marty Peretz

Website of the Day
T-Shirts to Protest In

May 10 / 11, 2003

Alexander Cockburn
Rosenthal Faces the Music in Key Med Marijuana Case

JoAnn Wypijewski
Labor in the Dawn of Empire

Annie C. Higgins
The Last Time I Saw Mus'ab

Ron Jacobs
The Devil in New England

William Mandel
One on One with Sen. Joe McCarthy

Jason Leopold
Halliburton Still Flouts the Law as It Profits from Terror

Patrick Cockburn
The Iraqi Quagmire

Larry Magnuson
William Bennett: Next Viceroy of Iraq?

Sasan Fayazmanesh
The Good Terrorists?

Anthony Gancarski
Chalabi: Drowning in Ba'ath-water?

Steven Sherman
A Letter to My European Friends

Khaled El-Bizri
Mr. Bush Comes to Santa Clara

Bruce Jackson
How Fear Curdles the Soul

Adam Engel
Flag in the Rain

Poets Basement
Reiss, Guthrie, Hamod & Albert

Steve Perry
Bush's War Web Log 5/10

Website of the Weekend
Killing Again

 

May 9, 2003

Rahul Mahajan
Don't Lift the Sanctions Yet

Wayne Madsen
When Lying Pays Off: Neo-Con Fabricators

Chris Floyd
The Karamazov Question

Don Monkerud
The Great Christian Schism: War or Peace?

Sam Hamod and Elaine Cassel
Drunk on Power: Bush, Power and the Pathology of the Dry Drunk

Hammond Guthrie
Bombastic Promise Keeping

Steve Perry
Bush's War Web Log 5/09

 

May 8, 2003

Julie Hilden
When It's a Crime to Visit Your Son

Mickey Z.
Partisan Protests?

Mark Zepezauer
Evil is as Evil Does

David Lindorff
The Coming Senior Revolution

Abu Spinoza
The Detention of Dr. Huda Ammash

Ben Tripp
The Other "F" Word

Norman Madarasz
God in the Service of the Security State: a Dispatch from Brazil

Stew Albert
Pushovers

Steve Perry
Bush's War Web Log 5/08

Website of the Day
Department of Sexual Security

 

May 7, 2003

Alexander Cockburn
Quoting Under the Influence: Breasts, Martinis, Hitchens

David Krieger
Winning the War; Alienating the World

Sen. Robert Byrd
Bush's Troubling Speech

Bruce Jackson
Bill Kunstler's Last Big Speech

Steve Perry
Bush's War Web Log 5/07

Website of the Day
The Truth About Bush's Military Records

 

May 6, 2003

Paul de Rooij
An Activist in the Trenches: an Interview with Gretta Duisenberg

Anthony Gancarski
Money to Burn: in Defense of Bill Bennett

John Stanton
Bush's War on Jesus

Sam Hamod
W. Bush: the Little Snot, the Little Bully

Robert Fisk
Bush Says the War is Over: Tell It to the Shi'a

Kathleen Christison
A Roadmap to Nowhere

Steve Perry
Bush's War Web Log 5/06

 

May 5, 2003

Gary Leupp
Phase Two: Syria and Iran

Jorge Mariscal
The Militarization of US Culture

Ishmael Reed
A Family Values Man

Tarif Abboushi
Sharon's Confidence: Bush Won't Come to Shove on Roadmap

Leila Matsui
Regime Change Begins at Home...Literally

Steve Perry
Bush's Wars

Sam Smith
Coalition of the Shilling

 

May 3, 2003

Ron Jacobs
Tears of Rage: Remembering May 1970

Elaine Cassel
William Bennett, a Freudian Perspective

Sam Hamod
Understanding the Shi'a of Lebanon

Scott Fleming
Getting Shot on the Oakland Docks

Mickey Z.
Cuba and Puerto Rico: 100 Years of Terror

William S. Lind
Don't Take Col. John Boyd's Name in Vain

Dr. Bruce Blair
The New Nuclear Terrorism Threat

Joanne Mariner
Cluster Bombs Over Iraq

Anthony Gancarski
Hot Fun in the Summertime

Ilian Pappe
Searching Jenin

William MacDougall
America's Kids Are All Right: Pre-Teen Conservative Commentators

Seth Sandronsky
Incarcerated and Invisible

Rich Procter
Over Our Dead Bodies

Lenni Brenner
How Bob Dylan Found His Voice

Adam Engel
American Bulk

Poets' Basement
Reiss, Guthrie, Albert

Steve Perry
Bush's War Web Log 5/03

 

May 2, 2003

Caoimhe Butterly
Crowd Control American-style

Neve Gordon
US: No Right to Know About the Disappeared

John Chuckman
Tom Friedman's Life as a Pet Hamster

Bradley Burston
Betting on Abu-Mazen...To Lose

Harvey Wasserman
Bush's Military Defeat

John Troyer
Question Those Writing History

Saul Landau
The Cuba Conundrum

Steve Perry
Bush's War Web Log 5/02

Website of the Day
Moussaoui's Quiz

 

May 1, 2003

Jeffrey St. Clair
Santorum: That's Latin for Asshole

Iain Boal
A May Day Message to the FCC: "We Are Many; They are Few"

Diana Johnstone
About Cuba

Sam Hamod
Killings at Al Fallujah, City of Mosques

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Intelligence Fiasco

Lee Sustar
Greed Air: Airline Workers Agree to Pay Cuts, While Bosses Stuff Their Pockets

Peter Linebaugh
May Day at Kut and Kienthal

Stew Albert
Straight Shooters

Steve Perry
Bush's War Web Log 5/01

Website of the Day
South Bay Mobilization