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Coming in October From AK Press Today's Stories September 12, 2003 Subcomandante Marcos The Death Train of the WTO   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 The Great Alejandro Escavedo Needs Your Help! Recent Stories 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 Congratulations to CounterPuncher Gilad Atzmon! BBC Names EXILE Top Jazz CD   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! 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September 12, 2003 The Death Train of the WTO The Slaves of Money...and Our Rebellion By Subcomandante MARCOS Brothers and sisters of Mexico and the world, who are gathered in Cancun in a mobilisation against neo- liberalism, greetings from the men, women, children and elderly of the Zapatista National Liberation Army. It is an honour for us that, amid your meetings, agreements and mobilisations, you have found time and place to hear our words. The world movement against the globalisation of death and destruction is experiencing one of its brightest moments in Cancun today. Not far from where you are meeting, a handful of slaves to money are negotiating the ways and means of continuing the crime of globalisation. The difference between them and all of us is not in the pockets of one or the other, although their pockets overflow with money while ours overflow with hope. No, the difference is not in the wallet, but in the heart. You and we have in our hearts a future to build. They only have the past which they want to repeat eternally. We have hope. They have death. We have liberty. They want to enslave us. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that the people who think themselves the owners of the planet have had to hide behind high walls and their pathetic security forces in order to put their plans in place. As if at war, the high command of the multinational army that wants to conquer the world in the only way possible, that is to say, to destroy it, meets behind a system of security that is as large as their fear. Before, the powerful met behind the backs of the world to scheme their future wars and displacements. Today they have to do it in front of thousands in Cancun and millions around the world. That is what this is all about. It is war. A war against humanity. The globalisation of those who are above us is nothing more than a global machine that feeds on blood and defecates in dollars. In the complex equation that turns death into money, there is a group of humans who command a very low price in the global slaughterhouse. We are the indigenous, the young, the women, the children, the elderly, the homosexuals, the migrants, all those who are different. That is to say, the immense majority of humanity. This is a world war of the powerful who want to turn the planet into a private club that reserves the right to refuse admission. The exclusive luxury zone where they meet is a microcosm of their project for the planet, a complex of hotels, restaurants, and recreation zones protected by armies and police forces. All of us are given the option of being inside this zone, but only as servants. Or we can remain outside of the world, outside life. But we have no reason to obey and accept this choice between living as servants or dying. We can build a new path, one where living means life with dignity and freedom. To build this alternative is possible and necessary. It is necessary because on it depends the future of humanity. This future is up for grabs in every corner of each of the five continents. This alternative is possible because around the world people know that liberty is a word which is often used as an excuse for cynicism. Brothers and sisters, there is dissent over the projects of globalisation all over the world. Those above, who globalise conformism, cynicism, stupidity, war, destruction and death. And those below who globalise rebellion, hope, creativity, intelligence, imagination, life, memory and the construction of a world that we can all fit in, a world with democracy, liberty and justice. We hope the death train of the World Trade Organisation will be derailed in Cancun and everywhere else. Subcomandante Marcos is the leading voice of the Zapatista movement, which fights for the rights of Mexico's 10 million indigenous people. This is the transcript of a message - Marcos's first international communiqué for four years - delivered on Wednesday to the anti-globalisation conference taking place alongside the WTO global trade negotiations in Cancun. Weekend Edition Features for Sept. 1 / 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   Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /