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July
26 / 28, 2003
Alexander
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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
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Jason Leopold
CIA Points the Finger at the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans
Robert
Fisk
The Power of Death
Joanne
Mariner
Monsieur Moussaoui
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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
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Julie
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Adam Engel
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25, 2003
Francis
A. Boyle
Impeaching Bush
David
Krieger
15 Questions
Harvey
Wasserman
Pat Robertson's Supreme Fatwah
Steve Dunifer
Seize the Airwaves!
Dan
Bacher
Federal Judge Throws Out Bush Salmon Plan for Klamath River
Kurt Nimmo
Bread, Circuses, Uday and Qusay
Steve
Perry
Bush's Wars Weblog
Website
of the Day
Stop the Wall!
July
24, 2003
Elaine
Cassel
Ashcroft Loses...Again
Robert
Fisk
The Ugly Story of Camp Cropper: The
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David
Lindorff
Dumb and Dumber in Iraq
Christopher
Brauchli
Ashcroft Demands Death Penalty in
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David
Vest
Dylan in Bend
Tom Turnipseed
Killing Saddam & His Family Won't Stop Killing of US Troops
Douglas
Valentine
A Nation of Assassins
Stew Albert
Contract Killing
Steve
Perry
Bush's Wars Weblog
Website
of the Day
Report on Palestinian Child Prisoners
July
23, 2003
Uri
Avnery
Caesar's Favor
David
Lindorff
Lynne Stewart's Big Win: Ashcroft
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Mano
Singham
Iraq's Missing WMD Scientists
Steve
Perry
Better Late Than Never: the Press, the Dems, and Bush's Lies
John Stanton
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Patrick
Bond
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Harry Browne
A Victory for a Disarming Irishwoman
Paul
Beaulieu
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Robert
Fisk
The Sons are Dead, But the Resistance
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William
Witherup
Georgie Porgie
Website
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Lieberman & Falwell:
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July
22, 2003
Diane
Christian
Bad Guy / Good Guy: War Forces;
Peace Frees
Jeremy
Brecher
Solidarity and Student Protests in Iran
Steve
Kretzmann
and Jim Vallette
Plugging Iraq into Globalization
Sam
Smith
Greening the Golden Triangle
James
Plummer
Smile, You're on Federal Camera
Lucretia
Stewart
This Day Shall Not Define My Life:
January 18, 2003
Website
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Iraq Coalition Casualties
July
21, 2003
Edward
Said
Imperial Arrogance and the Vile Stereotyping
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Ron
Jacobs
Shut Up and Shoot
Allan J.
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Why is George Bush President?
Elaine
Cassel
How's the Occupation Going? Ask the People of Iraq
Christopher
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History Recapitulates: Guantanamo and the Japanese Internment
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Bruce
Jackson
Third and Arizona, Santa Monica
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John Dean: Taking Apart Bush's State of the Union Speech, Claim
by Claim
July
19 / 20, 2003
Arthur
Mitzman
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Julian
Bond
We Shall be Heard
Cynthia
McKinney
Bush's Racial Politics at Home and Abroad
Mel
Goodman
What is to be Done with the CIA?
Jason Leopold
Tenet Blames Wolfowitz
Mickey
Z.
History Forgave Churchill
Doug Giebel
Impeachment as the Message
Jon
Brown
Whipping the Post
Mano Singham
Cheney's Oil Maps
Steven
Sherman
Nickle, Dimed and Slimed at UNC
Robin Philpot
Liberia: History Doesn't Repeat Itself, It Stutters
Khaldoun
Khelil
Capturing Friedman
Jeffrey
St. Clair
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Lenni
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Vanessa
Jones
Three Dog Night
Adam
Engel
Video Judas Video
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Foley, Smith and Curtis
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Illegal Art
July
18, 2003
David
Vest
Drowning in Deep Doo-Doo
Rahul
Mahajan
Deceit Runs Deep
John Chuckman
Enron-style Management in a Dangerous World
Harold
A. Gould
The Bush-Musharraf Conclave
Alvaro
Angarita
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David
Grenier
Sovereignty and Solidarity in Indian Country...Rhode Island
Dave Lindorff
Bush and Hitler: a Response to the Wall Street Journal
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Guerrin
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Uzma
Aslam Khan
The Unbearably Grim Aftermath of War:
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Paul de Rooij
Arrogant
Propaganda
Gore Vidal
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Francis Boyle
Impeach
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July
29, 2003
Another
Botched Raid; Another Massacre
Killing
Everyone But Saddam
By ROBERT FISK
Obsessed with capturing Saddam Hussein, American
soldiers turned a botched raid on a house in the Mansur district
of Baghdad yesterday into a bloodbath, opening fire on scores
of Iraqi civilians in a crowded street and killing up to 11,
including two children, their mother and crippled father. At
least one civilian car caught fire, cremating its occupants.
The vehicle carrying the two children
and their mother and father was riddled by bullets as it approached
a razor-wired checkpoint outside the house.
Amid the fury generated among the largely
middle-class residents of Mansur--by ghastly coincidence, the
killings were scarcely 40 metres from the houses in which 16
civilians died when the Americans tried to kill Saddam towards
the end of the war in April--whatever political advantages were
gained by the killing of Saddam's sons have been squandered.
A doctor at the Yarmouk hospital, which received four of the
dead,  turned on me angrily last night, shouting:
"If an American came to my emergency room, maybe I would
kill him."
Two civilians, both believed to have
been driving with their families, were brought to the Yarmouk,
one with abdominal wounds and the other with "his brain
outside of his head", according to another doctor.
At the scene of the killings, there was
pandemonium. While US troops were loading the bullet-shattered
cars on trucks--and trying to stop cameramen filming the carnage--crowds
screamed abuse at them. One American soldier a few feet from
me climbed into the seat of his Humvee, threw his helmet on the
floor of the vehicle and shouted: "Shit! Shit!"
There was no doubt about the target:
the home of Sheikh Rabia Mohamed Habib, a prominent tribal leader
who had met Saddam but who was not even in his house when the
Americans stormed it. One report says they killed a guard as
they entered.
"The Americans searched the house
completely, very roughly," Sheikh Habib said. "It seems
they thought Saddam Hussein was inside." It appears the
killings started as the troops were searching the building and
as motorists approached the barbed wire which the soldiers had
placed without warning across the road. Witnesses said the first
car contained at least two men. "The second contained two
children about 10, their mother and their father who had been
wounded in the Iran-Iraq war--he was a cripple," a local
shopkeeper told me. "They all died. The man's legs were
cut in half by the bullets," he added. A third car then
approached the Americans, who opened fire again. One of the occupants
fled, but the other two remained in the vehicle and were killed.
When another car arrived US troops riddled
it with more bullets and it burst into flames. It is believed
that two people were inside and both were burnt to death. "The
Americans didn't try to help the civilians they had shot, not
once," a witness said. "They let the car burn and left
the bodies where they lay, even the children. It was we who had
to take them to the hospitals."
Yet again, false informers, ill-trained
American soldiers who appeared to exercise no fire control and
a lack of military planning has created a tragedy among the people
the Americans claimed to be 'liberating' from Saddam Hussein
only 15 weeks ago. Last night, there were reports from the southern
city of Karbala that three men had been shot dead by American
troops during a demonstration.
Robert Fisk is
a reporter for The Independent and author of Pity
the Nation. He is also a contributor to Cockburn and
St. Clair's forthcoming book, The
Politics of Anti-Semitism.
Weekend Edition Features for July 19 / 20, 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
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