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Coming in September From AK Press Featuring Essays by: Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Michael Neumann, Shahid Alam, Alexander Cockburn, Uri Avnery, Bill and Kathy Christison and More Recent 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. 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August 5, 2003 It's Incremental Watson! By HAMMOND GUTHRIE Words can be created aforethought as if they had always been present, yet neo-words such as "Incrementalist" seem to erase the past. For example Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, is about to use these weapons immediately, and ordered "yellow cake" from Niger Remove and kill Saddam! Attack Iraq preemptively and now! Liberate the Iraqi people! Saddam didn't use weapons of mass destruction yet he has--had--or might have had them and they will be found--eventually Saddam's voice is on the radio! The liberators ass' are on the line! Iraq is Occupied! [insert Incrementalist retort] "Saddam might have had plans to have weapons of mass destruction and immediately ordered desert." 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 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       Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /