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August 11, 2003

Uri Avnery
Who Will Save Abu Mazen?

 

 

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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?

Congratulations to CounterPuncher Gilad Atzmon! BBC Names EXILE Top Jazz CD

 

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!

 

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Wendell Berry
Small Destructions Add Up

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Embedded Photographer Says: "I Saw Marines Kill Civilians"

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The Unbearably Grim Aftermath of War: What America Says Does Not Go

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August 11, 2003

RIAA Watch

Meet the New Bitch, Same as the Old

By BILL GLAHN

On September 1 Mitch Bainwol will take over as head honcho at the RIAA, an organization bent on bankrupting the target audience of the major record labels that it represents. Is he up to the task? You bet.

For the first time in my journalistic career, I'm cutting Hilary Rosen a little slack (very little, though). With as much relish as Rosen seemed to take doing her job, ultimately it wasn't her that was calling the shots. It was the label execs that supply the organization's $44 million (2002) budget. If they didn't think that brow-beating music fans over music downloads was a good idea, then Rosen never would have been able to proceed with such a diabolical plan.

While Rosen states that she left the RIAA for personal reasons, it is more likely that she may have been a liability to the organization, having come to power in 1998 as a Clinton White House insider. In an era where partisan politics is a mandate, this just wouldn't wash when the industry was trying to convince a Republican Congress and White House that all rights and liberties guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution should be set aside with regards to music.

Exit Tipper Gore's tea-time buddy. Enter Senate Majority leader Bill Frist's former chief of staff.

Bainwol is the ultimate insider with regards to the present administration. Besides his recent tenure with Frist, he was previously executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. In other words, as an accomplished bagman (campaign fund-raiser), Bainwol already has the knowledge of which pockets to grease and the access to grease them. This doesn't bode well for music fans.

In a press release, Bainwol states, "What could be more rewarding than helping to promote two great American traditions: music and property rights?" This would be something like his former boss, Frist, stating "What could be more rewarding than helping promote two great American traditions: healthy Americans and for-profit HMOs. Placing his emphasis on the second will undoubtedly serve to the detriment of the first. And privacy guarantees don't fit anywhere into the equation at all.

Bainwaol inherits (at present) over 1,000 subpoenas issued by the RIAA to obtain information from Internet Service Providers on suspected music file sharers. While the initial court appeals by some of the ISPs have been successful, that probably won't last. It's in the bag.

Meet the new bitch. Kinda looks like the old bitch.

Bill Glahn writes the RIAA Watch column for CounterPunch and the Husgow Record Guide bi-weekly at www.mondogordo.com. His "Piss On It: The Best of Live Music Review" book will be published by Options Publications later this year. Glahn can be reached at billglahn@hotmail.com

Weekend Edition Features for 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

 

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