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Coming in October From AK Press Today's Stories September 24, 2003 Neve Gordon Sharon's Preemptive Zeal 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   Recent Stories 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 Collapses in Cancun: Autopsy of a Fiasco Foretold Justin Podur Uribe's Desperate Squeals Toni Solo The Colombia Three: an Interview with Caitriona Ruane Steven Sherman Workers and Globalization David Vest Masked and Anonymous: Dylan's Elegy for a Lost America Ron Jacobs Politics of the Hip-Hop Pimps Poets Basement Krieger, Guthrie and Albert Website of the Weekend Ted Honderich: Terrorism for Humanity?   September 19, 2003 Ilan Pappe The Hole in the Road Map Bill Glahn RIAA is Full of Bunk, So is the New York Times Dave Lindorff General Hysteria: the Clark Bandwagon Robert Fisk New Guard is Saddam's Old Jeff Halper Preparing for a Struggle Against Israeli Apartheid Brian J. Foley Power to the Purse Clare Brandabur Hitchens Smears Edward Said Website of the Day Live from Palestine   September 18, 2003 Mona Baker and Lawrence Davidson In Defense of the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Wayne Madsen Wesley Clark for President? Another Neo-Con Con Job Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair Wesley Clark and Waco Muqtedar Khan The Pakistan Squeeze Dominique de Villepin The Reconstruction of Iraq: This Approach is Leading Nowhere Angus Wright Brazilian Land Reform Offers Hope Elaine Cassel Payback is Hell Jeffrey St. Clair Leavitt for EPA Head? He's Much Worse Than You Thought Website of the Day ALA Responds to Ashcroft's Smear   September 17, 2003 Timothy J. Freeman The Terrible Truth About Iraq St. Clair / Cockburn A Vain, Pompous Brown-noser: Meet the Real Wesley Clark Terry Lodge An Open Letter to Michael Moore on Gen. Wesley Clark Mitchel Cohen Don't Be Fooled Again: Gen. Wesley Clark, War Criminal Norman Madarasz Targeting Arafat Richard Forno High Tech Heroin Alexander Cockburn Behold, the Head of a Neo-Con! Website of the Day The Ultimate Palestine Resource Site! 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 The Great Alejandro Escavedo Needs Your Help! 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 Sunday Morning Coming Down: Reflections on Johnny Cash Uri Avnery Assassinating Arafat Hammond Guthrie Celling Out the Alarm Website of the Day Arnold and the Egg   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 Making Mesopotamia a Terrorist Magnet 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 A Woman in Baghdad     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   Hot Stories Steve Niva Israel's Assassination Policy: the Trigger for Suicide Bombings? Dardagan, Slobodo and Williams CounterPunch Exclusive: 20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians 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 William Blum Myth and Denial in the War on Terrorism Standard Schaefer Experimental Casinos: DARPA and the War Economy 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

September 24, 2003 Our Next Savior? Grand Illusions About Wesley Clark By WILLIAM BLUM In case anyone is still embracing any illusions that General Wesley Clark is likely the hero who can bring closer to fruition our belief and hope that Another World Is Possible, here are a few more items about this charming man. At the start of the 78-day NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999, which he oversaw as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Clark declared: "We are going to systematically and progressively attack, disrupt, degrade, devastate and ultimately destroy these forces and their facilities and support unless President Milosevic complies with the demands of the international community." (Los Angeles Times, 26 March 1999) Clark was among 68 leaders charged with war crimes by a group of international-law professionals from Canada, the United Kingdom, Greece, and the American Association of Jurists. The group filed its well-documented complaints with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, charging leaders of NATO countries and officials of NATO itself with crimes similar to those for which the Tribunal had issued indictments shortly before against Serbian leaders. Amongst the charges filed were: "grave violations of international humanitarian law", including "wilful killing, wilfully causing great suffering and serious injury to body and health, employment of poisonous weapons and other weapons to cause unnecessary suffering, wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages, unlawful attacks on civilian objects, devastation not necessitated by military objectives, attacks on undefended buildings and dwellings, destruction and wilful damage done to institutions dedicated to religion, charity and education, the arts and sciences." At one point in the bombing campaign it was reported that "[Clark] would rise out of his seat and slap the table. 'I've got to get the maximum violence out of this campaign -- now!'" (Washington Post, 21 September 1999) And last year found our hero in New Hampshire, endorsing Democrat Katrina Swett for Congress, as reported by the local paper. "Clark, who supports a congressional resolution that would give President Bush authority to use military force against Iraq, said if Swett were in Congress this week, he would advise her to vote for the resolution, but only after vigorous debate." (The Union Leader, Manchester, NH, 10 October 2002) William Blum is the author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, Rogue State: a guide to the World's Only Super Power. and West-Bloc Dissident: a Cold War Political Memoir. He can be reached at: BBlum6@aol.com Weekend Edition Features for Sept. 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 Collapses in Cancun: Autopsy of a Fiasco Foretold Justin Podur Uribe's Desperate Squeals Toni Solo The Colombia Three: an Interview with Caitriona Ruane Steven Sherman Workers and Globalization David Vest Masked and Anonymous: Dylan's Elegy for a Lost America Ron Jacobs Politics of the Hip-Hop Pimps Poets Basement Krieger, Guthrie and Albert Website of the Weekend Ted Honderich: Terrorism for Humanity? Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /