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Coming in October From AK Press Today's Stories 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   Recent Stories 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 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 The Great Alejandro Escavedo Needs Your Help! 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 20, 2003 A Shot Rings Out, A Soldier Dies By DAVID KRIEGER "Bring 'em on." -- George W. Bush Young Americans, soldiers, sentries, oceans from home In the concrete jungles of Iraq, cradle of civilization, Dressed in desert camouflage, which hides nothing, Which announces, "I am a target," standing guard, Not knowing who is the enemy, but suspecting everyone, Wearing their helmets low on their foreheads, hands gripped Tightly on their weapons, feeling the nerves, ready to shoot, Not eager to kill, but ready, homesick, hearts pounding, Missing their sweethearts, knowing the president lies, Knowing the weapons of mass destruction are at home, Remembering Rumsfeld's smirk and Cheney's crooked mouth, Wanting only to go home, home from this dreary desert, Home from this place they don't belong, home before they are shot Or hit a mine or are bombed, home before they bleed and die. David Krieger is president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He is the editor of Hope in a Dark Time (Capra Press, 2003), and author of Choose Hope, Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age (Middleway Press, 2002). He can be contacted at: dkrieger@napf.org.   Insights Unsound By HAMMOND GUTHRIE Raging above the war that is "over," casualties too numerous to count beyond the daily Dogs of War Poised with hideous effortlessness, unmentionable disruptions in space, yet not a sound was heard Playing havoc with the body and future of world economic mass destruction - a subsidiary of daily shape and form A vertical stupidity is aiding and abetting horizontal proliferation with nuclear arms tearing holes in matters over minds Needing full inspection at home and abroad, across the board--in Russia, France, Israel, India, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, China and on, and on... As the US nukes itself up for the next charge, blindly researching "low-yield" development of "bunker busting" death and destruction Harboring losses over land, sea and sky, dominating power over an economy left to save and at the last, its peaceful citizens to defend This futuretense of man and woman kind idly left to the dictates of our "guardians"--yet I can't see their visions without going blind 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   Rise And Fall By STEW ALBERT Did the Bush empire of lies last for a thousand minutes? The Junta choking and stumbling amidst its own monstrous mendacity. They lied about their morning tooth paste and Weapons Of Mass Demolition They lied even when they said "hello." They were really walking away. In a Bush sentence even the word "and" was a lie. Among its native sons argument now abounds about what old lies should be exchanged for new falsehoods. Cheney still peddling Saddam's presence on 9/11 Rumsfied recognizing it's time to move on to bigger and better bullshit. The Junta's House is made of glass, the whole world is watching them manufacture tales of terror and it responds with laughter and by vomiting up its rage. Dubya is returning to his original face a bozo waiting to be beaten. Even Democratic hawks smell the sweet perfume of cowboy blood. Stew Albert runs the Yippie Reading Room. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com Weekend Edition Features for Sept. 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   Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /