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Today's Stories

September 17, 2003

Alexander Cockburn
Behold, the Head of a Neo-Con!


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

 

Recent Stories
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


The Great Alejandro Escavedo Needs Your Help!

 

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
Demonstration 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!

Bister, Estrin and Jacobs
Howard Dean, the Progressive Anti-War Candidate? Some Vermonters Give Their Views

Website of the Day
DirtyBush

 

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Israel's Assassination Policy: the Trigger for Suicide Bombings?

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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

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September 17, 2003

Don't Be Fooled Again

Gen. Wesley Clark: War Criminal

By MITCHEL COHEN

Gen. Wesley Clark is a major war criminal. Please don't be fooled by the current well-orchestrated push to nominate Clark as Democratic Party nominee for president, at trap which Michael Moore has apparently fallen into as well as a number of other well-meaning peace people.

Gen. Wesley Clark was in charge of refugee camps in the 1980s and 1990s where Haitian refugees who were fleeing first Baby Doc Duvalier (and later the new regime installed by the US following the overthrowal of the elected Aristide government in the early 1990s), were packed, under appalling conditions condemned by the Center for Constitutional Rights, among many others. In the 1980s, many Haitian male refugees incarcerated at Krome (in Miami), and Fort Allen (in Puerto Rico) reported a strange condition called gyneacomastia, a situation in which they developed full female breasts.

Ira Kurzban, attorney for the Haitian Refugee Center, managed to pry free government documents via a lawsuit on behalf of the refugees. These contained the startling information that prison officials had ordered the refugees sprayed repeatedly with highly toxic chemicals never designed for such generic use.

The officer in charge of the refugee camp? None other than Gen. Wesley Clark, chief of operations at the US Navy internment camp at Guantanamo, and later head of NATO forces bombing Yugoslavia. The documents go on to say that lengthy exposure to the particular chemicals can cause hormonal changes that induce development of female breasts.

Medical studies of female Haitian refugees in New York revealed that they had a much higher rate of cervical cancer than the rest of the female population.

Half a decade later, Gen Welsey Clark was supreme NATO commander in Yugoslavia. He presided over the massive use of depeleted uranium weapons there which poisoned Yugoslavia's water supply and agriculture, leading to an extremely high rate of miscarriages and childhood cancers.

Clark was in charge of NATO's "spin" in the Yugoslavia bombardment. Clark called the destruction of a Yugoslav train filled with civilians by a NATO missile "an uncanny accident." He said the same each time that NATO bombed civilian targets, which happened frequently.

Paul Watson reported in the San Francisco Chronicle that "NATO bombers scored several direct hits here in Kosovo's capital yesterday - including a graveyard, a bus station, and a children's basketball court." (April 14)

A Spanish pilot flying missions for NATO, Capt. Martin de la Hoz, stated that on a number of occasions his supervising colonel protested to NATO about their bombing of non-military, civilian targets. "Once there was a coded order from the North American military that we should drop anti-personnel bombs over Pristina and Nis. All of the missions that we flew, all and each one, were planned in detail, including attacking planes, targets and type of ammunition, by US high-ranking military authorities.

... They are destroying the country," the Spanish F-18 pilot continued, "bombing it with novel weapons, toxic nerve gasses, surface mines dropped by parachute, bombs containing uranium, black napalm, sterilization chemicals, sprayings to poison crops, and weapons of which even we still know nothing about." (quoted in "Articulo 20," a Spanish weekly newspaper, June 14, 1999)

Clark defended all of these bombings, and was an integral part of the Clinton team's "spin" operation in Yugoslavia.




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

 

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