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February 23, 2004
Gary Leupp
A Misguided Attack, The Passion,
Rabbit Lerner and the Gospels
February 20 / 22, 2004
Cockburn / St. Clair
Kerry:
He's Peaking Already!
Derek Seidman
Chasing
Judith Miller from the Stage: Watch Her Run!
Ghada Karmi
Sharon is not the Problem
Vanessa Jones
This Week in Redfern, a Boy Dies, Chased by Cops
Ben Granby
Anatomy of a Night Raid on Balad, Iraq
John Holt
An Air That Kills: Greed, Apathy, Dead People
Saul Landau
Entry from a White House Diary
Tom Jackson
Why They Couldn't Wait to Invade Iraq
Frederick B. Hudson
Slave Power and the Constitution: Jefferson, Slaves, Haiti and
Hypocrisy
Roger Burbach
Argentina Fights Back
Kate Doyle
Lessons on Justice from Guatemala
Mike Whitney
Operation Enduring Misery: the Afghanistan Debacle
Greg Moses
What Gives Texas A&M the Right to Trample the Civil Rights
Act?
David Krieger
US Elections: an Opportunity to Debate Nuclear Weapons
Sam Bahour
Palestinian Issue Riddles Bush's Budget
David Grenier
You Could Get 10 Years in Prison Just for Reading This
Charles Sullivan
Corporatism vs. Single Party Politics
Poet's Basement
Hilda White, Larry Kearney & Stew Albert
Website of the Weekend
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February 19, 2004
Cecilie Surasky
Anti-Semitism
at the World Social Forum? That's Not What I Saw
Ray McGovern
Iraq
Hawks and Deceptive Intelligence: Did They Really Think They'd
Get Away With It?
Tariq Ali
How Far
Will Bush Go in Iraq?
Ralph Nader
Whither
the Nation?
Wayne Madsen
Would Kerry Purge the Neo-Cons?
Norman Solomon
The Collapse of Dean's Cyber-Bubble
Christopher Brauchli
Cheney, Halliburton and the NYT
Mike Whitney
Bush's Iraq Strategy: "I Hope They Kill Each Other"
Lewis Carroll
Bush the Mighty Helmsman from Yale
Website of the Day
Sex Toy Horoscope

February 18, 2004
William Wilgus
Bush:
AWOL and Dereliction of Duty
William Blum
Mush-Minded
Liberals
Dave Lindorff
Bush's China Syndrome
Greg Weiher
Why
is Kerry Getting a Pass?
Mike Griffin
Killing the Messenger: the AFL-CIO's Attack on Harry Kelber
Mark Hand
Kerry Tells Peace Movement to "Move On"

February 17, 2004
Mike Ferner
The
Countryside Murders in Iraq
Mokhiber / Weissman
Corporation
as Psychopath
Marjorie Cohn
DrakeGate:
a Victory for Free Speech
Kurt Nimmo
Bush's
Endgame: a Review of Chalmers Johnson's "Sorrows of Empire"
Greg Bates
Nader Ambush: a New Low for The
Nation
Ximena Ortiz
A Bush
Doctrine, of Sorts
Gary Leupp
Whatever Happened to Gen. Khazraji?
Sen. John Kerry
"The Cause of Israel is the Cause of America"
Steve Perry
Kerry
1, Drudge 0

February 16, 2004
James Johnston
Huddling
with the Cheeseheads in a NASCAR World
Sara Eltantawi
To
Wear the Hijab or Not
Bruce Anderson
Kevin
Cooper and the Midnight Needle
Elaine Cassel
Feds
on Campus: the Drake Subpoenas
Rahul Mahajan
Bush,
Is the Tide Finally Turning?
Kevin Cooper
The Ritual of Death
Stan Cox
Goodbye, Howard Dean
Larry David
My War
Steve Perry
Bush and the Guard: the Cover-Up's the Thing
Website of the Day
Prison Patriots: Help This Vital Film Get Made

February 14/15, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Milk Bars, Hollywood and the
March of Empires
Jeffrey St. Clair
Oil Grab in the Arctic
William A. Cook
Faith-Based Fanatics
Stan Goff
Beloved
Haiti
Dave Marsh / Lee Ballinger
Rock, Rap & the Election
Hughes / Weiher
Tupac, the Patriot Act and Me
Michael Colby
Bush v. Kerry: the Power Elite's Dream Ballot
Mickey Z.
Michael Moore's Lesser Party: the General and the Lieutenant
Josh Frank
Dean's Demise No Big Loss for the Left
Peter Wolson
The Politics of Narcissism
William James Martin
Clean Break with the Road Map
Daniel Estulin
Religious Extremism in Africa
Standard Schaefer
The Privatization of Culture: an Interview with Michael Hudson
Dave Zirin
Maurice Clarett Gets Off the Plantation
Tracy McLellan
Oprah's Birthday Greedfest
Poets' Basement
Holt, LaMorticella, Guthrie, Subiet and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Progressives Scorecard: Where Do the Dems Rank on the Issues
That Matter?

February 13, 2004
Alan Maass
Kevin
Cooper's Fight to Live
Karyn Strickler
McCarthyism in the Sierra Club
Annie Higgins
On
a Street in America
Adam Federman
Democratic Snipers Target Nader
Mike Whitney
George W. Faces the Nation
Brian Cloughley
Our Imperial Leader Has Spoken
Website of the Day
Lying Action Figure Doll

February 12, 2004
Ray McGovern
George
Tenet's Spin Cycle
Robert Jensen
Bush's
Nuclear Hypocrisy
Saul Landau
Elegy to the Salton Sea
February
11, 2004
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Hail, Kerry: Senator Facing-Both-Ways
Steve Perry
Bush
v. Bush?
February
10, 2004
Kurt
Nimmo
Inquisition in Iowa
Ron Jacobs
Politics and the Beatles: Don't
You Know You Can Count Me Out (In)
Elizabeth
Schulte
The Many Faces of John Kerry
Mickey
Z
Meet the Oxmans: "The Rich
Shouldn't Sleep at Night Either"
February
9, 2004
Michael
Donnelly
Will Skull and Bones Really Change
CEOs? Inside John Kerry's Closet
Chris Floyd
Smells Like Team Spirit: the Bush
B-Boys Replay Their Greatest Hits
Bill
Christison
What's Wrong with the CIA?
Dr. Susan
Block
Janet Jackson's Mammary Moment:
Boob Tube Super Bowl
February
7/8, 2004
Kathleen
Christison
Offending Valerie: Dealing with
Jewish Self-Absorption
Jeff Ballinger
No Sweat Shopping
Dave
Lindorff
Spray and Pray in Iraq: a Marine
in Transit
Alexander
Cockburn
McNamara: the Sequel
February
6, 2004
Ron
Jacobs
Are the Kurds in the Way?
Joanne
Mariner
Anita Bryant's Legacy
Saul
Landau
Happiness and Botox
Kurt Nimmo
Horror Non-fiction: A How-To Guide
from Perle and Frum
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
The Real Intelligence Failure:
Our Own
February
5, 2004
Benjamin
Shepard
Turning NYC into a Patriot Act Free
Zone
Khury
Petersen-Smith
A Report from Occupied Iraq: "We Don't Want Army USA"
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003
Teresa
Josette
The Exeuctioner's Pslam? Christian Nation? Yeah, Right
David Krieger
Why Dr. King's Message on Vietnam is Relevant to Iraq
Christopher
Brauchli
Monkey Business: Of Recess and Evolution in Georgia Schools
Norman
Solomon
The Deadly Lies of Reliable Sources
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Presenting President Edwards!
February
4, 2004
Brian
McKinlay
Bush's Australian Deputy: Howard's
Last Round Up?
Mark
Gaffney
Ariel Sharon's Favorite Senator: Ron Wyden and Israel
Judith
Brown
Palestine and the Media
Frederick
B. Hudson
Moseley-Braun and the Butcher: Campaign for Justice or Big Oil's
Junta?
Kurt Nimmo
Bush's Independent Commission: Exonerating
the Spooks
M.
Junaid Alam
Philly School Workers Fight for Fair Contract
Fran Shor
Whose Boob Tube?
Kevin
Cooper
This is Not My Execution and I Will Not Claim It
February
3, 2004
Alan
Maass
The
Dems' New Mantra: What They Really Mean by "Electability"
Nick
Halfinger
How the Other Half Lives: Embedded
in Iraq
Rahul
Mahajan
Our True Intelligence Failure
Neve Gordon
The Only Democracy in the Middle East?
Laura
Carlsen
Mexico: Two Anniversaries; Two Futures
Terry
Lodge
An Open Letter to Michael Powell from the Boobs & Body Parts
Fairness Campaign
Hammond
Guthrie
Investigating the Meaningless
Website
of the Day
Waging Peace
February
2, 2004
Gary
Leupp
The Buddhist Nun in Tom Ridge's Jail
Justin
E.H. Smith
The Manners of Their Deaths: Capital Punishment in a Smoke-Free
Environment
Tom
Wright
The Prosecution of Captain Yee
Winslow
Wheeler
Inside the Bush Defense Budget
Lee Ballinger
Janet Jackson's Naked Truth
Leonard
Pitts, Jr
For Blacks, the Game of Justice is
Rigged
Jeffrey
St. Clair
The Hollow Candidate:
The Trouble with Howard Dean
Website
of the Day
Resistance:
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Paul
de Rooij
For Whom the Death Tolls: Deliberate
Undercounting of Coalition Fatalities
Bernard
Chazelle
Bush's Desolate Imperium
Jack
Heyman
Bushfires on the Docks
Christopher
Reed
Broken Ballots
Michael
Donnelly
An Urgent Plea to Progressives: Don't Give in to Fear
Rob Eshelman
The Subtle War
Lee
Sustar
Palestine and the Anti-War Movement
George
Bisharat
Right of Return
Ray
McGovern
Nothing to Preempt
Brian Cloughley
Enron's Beady-Eyed Sharks
Conn
Hallinan
Nepal, Bush & Real WMDs
Kurt Nimmo
The Murderous Lies of the Neo-Cons
Phillip
Cryan
Media at the Monterrey Summit
Christopher
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A Speech for Those Who Don't Read
John
Holt
War in the Great White North
Mickey
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Clueless in America: When Mikey Met Wesley
Mark
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The High Cost of Throwing Away the Key
Tariq Ali
Farewell, Munif
Ben
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Waiter! The Reality Check, Please
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Saul
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Michael
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Bush's Second Front: The War in
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February
23, 2004
"Heads Should
Roll"
Richard
Perle, Executioner
By KURT NIMMO
Native Americans had an expression for it.
Forked tongue.
Now we call them liars, backstabbers,
dissimulators. People who say one thing and do another. Cheats,
double-dealers, hypocrites. Dirty tricks and skullduggery.
For as Mark Twain once quiped, "A
lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is just
putting on its shoes."
"I think, of course, heads should
roll," yawped the Prince of Dissimulation, Richard Perle.
"When you discover that you have an organization that doesn't
get it right time after time, you change the organization, including
the people."
Richard is talking about the CIA, of
course, and the bad intelligence on those Iraqi WMD. It's all
George Tenet's fault.
"The CIA has an almost perfect record
of getting it wrong in relation to the (Persian) Gulf going back
to the Shah of Iran," said Perle. "I'd start with the
head head."
Somebody dust off the guillotine. Richard
is in the mood for blood. Cast the head head on a tumbrel and
drive him through the streets of Washington to the guillotine
and off with his head!
Richard Perle is our Charles-Louis Sanson,
the official executioner of the French Revolution. Execution,
lies, and deceitfulness are easy for the Prince of Darkness.
But wait a minute. Something's wrong
here.
As I recall the CIA was dissing Perle
and Cheney and the Neocon Gang that Can't Shoot Straight for
their spurious intelligence, most of it coming from Feith's Operation
of Special Plans.
Cheney and Scooter paid numerous visits
to the CIA and put the thumbscrews to them. "They were the
browbeaters," a former defense intelligence told the Washington
Post. "In interagency meetings, Wolfowitz treated the analysts'
work with contempt."
Wolfie treated reality with contempt
because it didn't jive with his game plan, that is the US and
Israeli strategy to rule supreme in the Middle East, steal all
the oil, and dictate to the Arabs.
Instead of hard evidence, Perle and gang
relied on the preposterous fantasies of so-called Iraqi dissidents
and the nutcake Laurie Mylroie, adjunct scholar at the American
Enterprise Institute, the preeminent hatchery of ding-a-ling
neocon theory.
"In what amounts to the discovery
of a unified field theory of terrorism, Mylroie believes that
Saddam was not only behind the '93 Trade Center attack, but also
every anti-American terrorist incident of the past decade, from
the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania to the leveling
of the federal building in Oklahoma City to September 11 itself.
She is, in short, a crackpot," writes Peter Bergen.
In the Bush White House and Pentagon,
crackpots run roughshod.
Oh, and Saddam was behind the anthrax
letters, too. Even though the anthrax mailed to two leading Senate
Democrats, in October 2001, is biologically identical to bacteria
secretly manufactured at the Fort Detrick, Maryland, warfare
facility.
So mesmerizing are neocon lies that a
large number of Americans believe Saddam is Osama and this amalgamative
personality is responsible for the horrors of 9/11.
Remember Perle's claim one of Saddam's
henchmen, Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, met with alleged
9/11 "mastermind" Mohamed Atta in Prague? Neocon helpmate
and right-wing crank William Safire reported this stinker. For
some reason the New York Times allowed Perle the Fabulist to
publish an op-ed piece claiming this screwy conspiracy theory
as fact.
Of course, soon thereafter, the Old Gray
Lady looked completely foolish and printed a reversal. It's not
the first time the Times has been flimflamed by reactionary nutbars.
David Ignatius of the Washington Post
wrote that the evidence for the meeting was slim to none. Even
the Czechs backed away from Perle's fairy tale.
Safire went into bongo mode and screamed
"gullible commentators" were duped by perfidious Europeans,
probably all of them cowardly French pantywaists.
Perle says the CIA gave Dubya bogus intelligence,
when in fact the CIA was telling the Bushites their OSP intelligence
linking Saddam and al-Qaeda was gibberish.
"There isn't a factual basis for
such assertions," declared a CIA official after Powell trotted
out his dog-and-pony show at the United Nations. During his performance,
Powell waved around a vial of anthrax for effect. As it turns
out, that anthrax was counterfeit -- the same way Bush's whole
case against Saddam is counterfeit, a huge and cynical sham contrived
by Perle and the Straussian mob.
But it was David Kay, CIA weapons inspector,
who really blew Dub's boat out of the water. "I don't think
[Saddam's WMD] existed... I don't think there was a large-scale
production program in the '90s," he told Reuters January
24.
Throw Kay in the tumbrel with the head
head, off with all their heads!
Instead, it should be Perle and the neocons
confronting the guillotine of public censure for their premeditated
lies and calculated dishonesty resulting in the murder of more
than 10,000 innocent Iraqi civilians.
Last July Richard the Maligner admitted
he has no idea where Saddam stashed his WMD, although since the
neocons have said they are in Syria, an outrageous claim minus
evidence.
"We don't know where to look for
them and we never did know where to look for them," Perle
acquiesced.
Recall Donnie "Bunker Buster"
Rumsfeld declaring he knew where Saddam's WMD were and he would
grab them. Rumsfeld, of course, knew nothing -- it was all a
pack of monstrous and murderous lies.
According to Perle, it may take 200 years
or more to find Saddam's illusive WMD, so we best keep the indefatigable
Straussian neocons on the case.
Remember: Bush said the war on terror
will last generations, eight or more generations if we are to
believe the Prince of Darkness.
Naturally, after Iraq's oil is gone,
there will be no need to look for WMD, just as there is no reason
to look for WMD in the Sahara Desert. WMD are only a threat in
countries chock-full of natural resources. Or in countries selling
missile technology to oil-rich countries that are thorns in Israel's
side, viz. North Korea.
In the meantime, however, while there's
still a few billion barrels of oil under the ground in Iraq,
the WMD nobody can find remain a threat. I mean, you never know,
a bouquet of nukes may turn up (in five minutes or 199 years)
concealed beneath a palm grove or squirrled away in Syria.
"It hardly needs to be added that
if Saddam does acquire the capability to deliver weapons of mass
destruction, as he is almost certain to do if we continue along
the present course, the safety of American troops in the region,
of our friends and allies like Israel and the moderate Arab states,
and a significant portion of the world's supply of oil will all
be put at hazard," said Perle and the neocon gaggle in a
rare moment of honesty on January 26, 1998, in a letter to Clinton,
well before Dubya was enthroned.
Clinton believed the neocons nutcakes,
so he ignored them. Clinton was hardly averse to telling lies,
but compared to the neocons he's a rank amateur.
Perle may attempt to slough off his numerous
lies on the CIA. But eventually it will turn around and bite
him and his boss squarely in the ass.
Recall the CIA's expertise in fixing
elections and instigating coups. Or at least making things uncomfortable
for people they don't like.
But this may not be necessary due to
neocon flubbing and the pathological inability to not tell big
whopper lies. It now appears the media considers them fair game
as Bush meanders toward the election.
However, the more desperate the neocons
become, the more dangerous and wigged out they are.
No way are they going down in November,
not after four years of hard work on the Greater Israel and Big
Oil scheme, a plan more than a decade in the making.
Look forward to an October surprise.
Kurt Nimmo
is a photographer and multimedia developer in Las Cruces, New
Mexico. Visit his excellent no holds barred blog at www.kurtnimmo.com/blogger.html
. Nimmo is a contributor to Cockburn and St. Clair's,
The
Politics of Anti-Semitism. A collection of his essays
for CounterPunch, Another
Day in the Empire, is now available from Dandelion Books.
He can be reached at: nimmo@zianet.com
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