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October
30, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Paul
Krugman: Part of the Problem
October
29, 2003
Chris
Floyd
Thieves
Like Us: Cheney's Backdoor to Halliburton
Robert Fisk
Iraq Guerrillas Adopt a New Strategy: Copy the Americans
Rick Giombetti
Let
Them Eat Prozac: an Interview with David Healy
The Intelligence
Squad
Dark
Forces? The Military Steps Up Recruiting of Blacks
Elaine
Cassel
Prosecutors
as Therapists, Phantoms as Terrorists
Marie Trigona
Argentina's War on the Unemployed Workers Movement
Gary Leupp
Every
Day, One KIA: On the Iraq War Casualty Figures
October
28, 2003
Rich Gibson
The
Politics of an Inferno: Notes on Hellfire 2003
Uri Avnery
Incident
in Gaza
Diane
Christian
Wishing
Death
Robert
Fisk
Eyewitness
in Iraq: "They're Getting Better"
Toni Solo
Authentic Americans and John Negroponte
Jason
Leopold
Halliburton in Iran
Shrireen Parsons
When T-shirts are Verboten
Chris
White
9/11
in Context: a Marine Veteran's Perspective
October 27, 2003
William
A. Cook
Ministers
of War: Criminals of the Cloth
David
Lindorff
The
Times, Dupes and the Pulitzer
Elaine
Cassel
Antonin
Scalia's Contemptus Mundi
Robert
Fisk
Occupational Schizophrenia
John Chuckman
Banging Your Head into Walls
Seth Sandronsky
Snoops R Us
Bill Kauffman
George
Bush, the Anti-Family President
October
25 / 26, 2003
Robert
Pollin
The
US Economy: Another Path is Possible
Jeffrey St. Clair
Outsourcing US Guided Missile Technology to China
James
Bunn
Plotting
Pre-emptive Strikes
Saul Landau
Should Limbaugh Do Time?
Ted Honderich
Palestinian Terrorism, Morality & Germany
Thomas Nagy
Saving the Army of Peace
Christopher
Brauchli
Between Bush and a Lobotomy: Killing Endangered Species for Profit
Laura Carlsen
Latin America's Archives of Terror
Diane
Christian
Evil Acts & Evil Actors
Muqtedar Khan
Lessons from the Imperial Adventure in Iraq
John Feffer
The Tug of War on the Korea Peninsula
Brian Cloughley
Iraq War Memories are Made of Lies
Benjamin
Dangl
and Kathryn Ledebur
An Uneasy Peace in Bolivia
Karyn
Strickler
Down
with Big Brother's Spying Eyes
Noah Leavitt
Legal Globalization
John Stanton
Hitler's Ghost Haunts America
Mickey
Z.
War of the Words
Adam Engel
Tractatus Ridiculous
Poets'
Basement
Curtis, Subiet and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Project Last Stand
October
24, 2003
Kurt Nimmo
Ashcroft's
War on Greenpeace
Lenni Brenner
The Demographics of American Jews
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Rockets,
Napalm, Torpedoes and Lies: the Attack on the USS Liberty Revisited
Sarah Weir
Cover-up of the Israeli Attack on the US Liberty
David
Krieger
WMD Found in DC: Bush is the Button
Mohammed Hakki
It's Palestine, Stupid!: Americans and the Middle East
Harry
Browne
Northern
Ireland: the Agreement that Wasn't
October
23, 2003
Diane
Christian
Ruthlessness
Kurt Nimmo
Criticizing Zionism
David Lindorff
A General Theory of Theology
Alan Maass
The Future of the Anti-War Movement
William
Blum
Imperial
Indifference
Stew Albert
A Memo
October
22, 2003
Wayne
Madsen
Religious
Insanity Runs Rampant
Ray McGovern
Holding
Leaders Accountable for Lies
Christopher
Brauchli
There's
No Civilizing the Death Penalty
Elaine
Cassel
Legislators
and Women's Bodies
Bill Glahn
RIAA
Watch: the New Morality of Capitalism
Anthony Arnove
An Interview with Tariq Ali
October 21, 2003
Uri Avnery
The
Beilin Agreement
Robert Jensen
The Fundamentalist General
David
Lindorff
War Dispatch from the NYT: God is on Our Side!
William S. Lind
Bremer is Deaf to History
Bridget
Gibson
Fatal Vision
Alan Haber
A Human Chain for Peace in Ann Arbor
Peter
Linebaugh
On the Bicentennial of the Hanging of Thomas Russell
October
20, 2003
Standard
Schaefer
Chile's
Failed Economy: an Interview with Michael Hudson
Chris
Floyd
Circus Maximus: Arnie, Enron and Bush Maul California
Mark Hand
Democrats Seek to Disappear Chomsky
& Nader
John &
Elaine Mellencamp
Peaceful
World
Elaine
Cassel
God's
General Unmuzzled
October
18 / 19, 2003
Robert
Pollin
Clintonomics:
the Hollow Boom
Gary Leupp
Israel, Syria and Stage Four in the Terror War
Saul Landau
Day of the Gropenfuhrer
Bruce Anderson
The California Recall
John Gershman
Bush in Asia: What a Difference a Decade Makes
Nelson P. Valdes
Bush, Electoral Politics and Cuba's "Illicit Sex Trade"
Kurt Nimmo
Shock Therapy and the Israeli Scenario
Tom Gorman
Al Franken and Al-Shifa
Brian
Cloughley
Public Propaganda and the Iraq War
Joanne Mariner
A New Way to Kill Tigers
Denise
Low
The Cancer of Sprawl
Mickey Z.
The Reverend of Doom
John Chuckman
US Missiles for Israeli Nukes?
George Naggiar
A Veto of Public Diplomacy
Alison
Weir
Death Threats in Berkeley
Benjamin Dangl
Bolivian Govt. Falling Apart
Ron Jacobs
The Politics of Bob Dylan
Fidel Castro
A Review of Garcia Marquez's Memoir
Adam Engel
I Hope My Corpse Gives You the Plague
Poets' Basement
Jones, Albert, Guthrie and Greeder
October
17, 2003
Stan Goff
Piss
On My Leg: Perception Control and the Stage Management of War
Newton
Garver
Bolivia
in Turmoil
Standard
Schaefer
Grocery Unions Under Attack
Ben Terrall
The Ordeal of the Lockheed 52
Ron Jacobs
First Syria, Then Iran
David
Lindorff
Michael
Moore Proclaims Mumia Guilty
October
16, 2003
Marjorie
Cohn
Bush
Gunning for Regime Change in Cuba
Gary Leupp
"Getting Better" in Iraq
Norman
Solomon
The US Press and Israel: Brand Loyalty and the Absence of Remorse
Rush Limbaugh
The 10 Most Overrated Athletes of All Time
Lenni
Brenner
I
Didn't Meet Huey Newton. He Met Me
Website of the Day
Time Tested Books
October
15, 2003
Sunil
Sharma / Josh Frank
The
General and the Governor: Two Measures of American Desperation
Forrest
Hylton
Dispatch
from the Bolivian War: "Like Animals They Kill Us"
Brian
Cloughley
Those
Phony Letters: How Bush Uses GIs to Spread Propaganda About Iraq
Ahmad
Faruqui
Lessons
of the October War
Uri Avnery
Three
Days as a Living Shield
Website
of the Day
Rank and File: the New Unity Partnership Document
JoAnn
Wypijewski
The
New Unity Partnership:
A Manifest Destiny for Labor
October 14, 2003
Eric Ridenour
Qibya
& Sharon: Anniversary of a Massacre
Elaine
Cassel
The
Disgrace That is Guantanamo
Robert
Jensen
What the "Fighting Sioux" Tells Us About White People
David Lindorff
Talking Turkey About Iraq
Patrick
Cockburn
US Troops Bulldoze Crops
VIPS
One Person Can Make a Difference
Toni Solo
The CAFTA Thumbscrews
Peter
Linebaugh
"Remember
Orr!"
Website
of the Day
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Alexander Cockburn
Behold,
the Head of a Neo-Con!
Subcomandante Marcos
The
Death Train of the WTO
Norman Finkelstein
Hitchens
as Model Apostate
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
Gore Vidal
The
Erosion of the American Dream
Francis Boyle
Impeach
Bush: A Draft Resolution
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October
30, 2003
Howard Dean:
A
Hawk in a Dove's Cloak
By SEAN DONAHUE
"Soon we'll find out who is the
real revolutionary, I don't want my people to be tricked by mercenaries."
Bob Marley
Howard Dean wants the peace movement to believe
that he is its best hope for bringing change in Washington.
In television ads and presidential debates,
Dean has emphasized his opposition to Bush's decision to launch
a unilateral invasion of Iraq--and downplaying his support for
the continued U.S. military occupation of Iraq, and his earlier
waffling over whether he might have supported a war in Iraq under
slightly different conditions. Dean's emphasis on his opposition
to the war in Iraq also obscures his earlier support for the
first Gulf War, the war in Kosovo, and the war in Afghanistan.
Indeed, Dean's earliest statements on
foreign policy in the presidential campaign were written with
the help of one of the architects of the war in Afghanistan,
Danny Sebright, who held the Orwellian title of Director of the
Executive Secretariat for Enduring Freedom at the Pentagon under
Donald Rumsfeld. Sebright oversaw military operations that claimed
the lives of over 3,000 civilians without achieving the stated
objective of finding and arresting Ossama bin Laden. Under the
Clinton administration, Sebright worked at the Pentagon helping
to oversee weapons sales to the Middle East during the period
in which the U.S. became the largest weapons exporter in the
world.
When Sebright left the Pentagon in February
of 2002 he went to work for his old boss, former Secretary of
Defense William Cohen, at the Cohen Group, a Washingon-based
consulting company. The firm uses its political connections to
help companies obtain contracts with the Pentagon and with foreign
governments. While it is discreet about its clientele, the Cohen
Group does list some of its successes on its website--a list
that includes helping to negotiate arms sales to Latin American
and Eastern European countries, and "Advis[ing] and assist[ing]
[a] U.S. company in working with U.S. Government officials and
the Coalition Provisional Authority in securing major contract
related to Iraq reconstruction" The fact that a close Dean
advisor works for a consulting firm involved in pitching contracts
for reconstruction projects in Iraq raises questions about the
true motives of Dean's support for the President's $87 billion
Iraqi reconstruction program.
More recently, Dean has been getting
foreign policy advice from President Clinton's former Deputy
Chief of Staff, Maria Echaveste. Echaveste's record is mixed.
To her credit, Echaveste led the Department of Labor's campaign
against sweatshops in the mid-1990's and has worked for the United
Farm Workers union. But Echaveste also played a key role in shaping
the legislative and public relations strategies that helped the
Clinton administration get Congress to approve Plan Colombia.
Echaveste traveled to Colombia with President Clinton to help
promote a policy that included aerial herbicide fumigations of
vast areas of farmland and rainforests in southern Colombia and
more U.S. funding, weapons, and advisors for the Colombian military.
Over the past three years she has done nothing to distance herself
from a policy that contributed to the escalation of Colombia's
civil war, the destruction of forests and farms, massive displacement,
and dramatic increases in assassinations and disappearances.
For his part, Dean has been vague about his position on U.S.
military aid to Colombia. (Incidentally, Sen. John Kerry has
chosen Rand Beers, who oversaw Colombia policy at the State Department
for both the Clinton and Bush administrations, to head up his
foreign policy team.)
Dean comes from the centrist wing of
the Democratic Party, and draws his advisors from the party's
establishment, even though he tries to portray himself as a progressive
and an outsider. His opposition to the war in Iraq isn't rooted
in the moral vision or poltical analyis of the peace movement,
but rather in the foreign policy establishment's skepticism about
the rash and impulsive nature of the Bush administration's military
actions in Iraq. In remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations
last June, Dean said that: "America must not shy away from
its role as the remaining superpower in the world. We are, as
Madeleine Albright once put it, the "indispensable power"
for so many challenges around the world. Inevitably, some will
resent us for what we have, and some will hate us for what we
believe. But there is much in the world that we cannot achieve
on our own. So we must lead toward clearly articulated and shared
goals and with the cooperation and respect of friends and allies."
In other words, Dean doesn't object so
much to Bush's willingness to use military force, which he sees
as indispensable to maintaining the U.S.'s political and economic
position in the world, but rather he objects to Bush's refusal
to play by the rules of the game and recruit a coalition of allies
to support U.S. goals. Dean went on in the same speech to hold
up Harry Truman's role in articulating the U.S. vision for the
world and creating the NATO alliance and the World Bank as examples
of the kind of foreign policy he would like to pursue.
Howard Dean admits that the war in Iraq
was a mistake but he supports the underlying policy positions
that led to the war. As much as we might want to believe that
changing presidents will change the U.S. role in the world, replacing
George Bush with Howard Dean would do little or nothing to advance
the peace movement's goals.
Sean Donahue
is Project Director of the Corporations and Militarism Project
of the Massachusetts
Anti-Corporate Clearinghouse. He is available for interviews
and talks and can be reached at info@stopcorporatecontrol.org.
Weekend
Edition Features for Oct. 25 / 26, 2003
Robert
Pollin
The
US Economy: Another Path is Possible
Jeffrey St. Clair
Outsourcing US Guided Missile Technology to China
James
Bunn
Plotting
Pre-emptive Strikes
Saul Landau
Should Limbaugh Do Time?
Ted Honderich
Palestinian Terrorism, Morality & Germany
Thomas Nagy
Saving the Army of Peace
Christopher
Brauchli
Between Bush and a Lobotomy: Killing Endangered Species for Profit
Laura Carlsen
Latin America's Archives of Terror
Diane
Christian
Evil Acts & Evil Actors
Muqtedar Khan
Lessons from the Imperial Adventure in Iraq
John Feffer
The Tug of War on the Korea Peninsula
Brian Cloughley
Iraq War Memories are Made of Lies
Benjamin
Dangl
and Kathryn Ledebur
An Uneasy Peace in Bolivia
Karyn
Strickler
Down
with Big Brother's Spying Eyes
Noah Leavitt
Legal Globalization
John Stanton
Hitler's Ghost Haunts America
Mickey
Z.
War of the Words
Adam Engel
Tractatus Ridiculous
Poets'
Basement
Curtis, Subiet and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Project Last Stand
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