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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
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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
Denigrating Critics
of Israel
"Everyone
Is Running Scared"
By PHILIP ADAMS
As today's column will provoke accusations of
anti-Semitism, let me begin with a few words in my defence. A
classic philo-Semite, I've long been described as a Jew lover
by the anti-Semites in organisations such as Frederick Tobin's
Adelaide Institute. I've been dragged before the Press Council
by the abominable League of Rights and am proud to say I'm regularly
attacked in the hate pages of neo-Nazi organisations.
I'm on the receiving end of stacks of
hate mail, up to and including death threats. My home was attacked
by an anti-Semitic group that spray-painted racist obscenities
all over it, then tried to sledgehammer their way in.
My children grew up in a home with a
mezuzah, which consecrates it, on the doorpost. They were taught
to respect the extraordinary contribution of Jews to science,
philosophy, philanthropy, ethics, civil rights and the arts.
My first daughter, named Rebecca, renounced her father's atheism
and converted to Judaism. And I've lost count of the occasions
when I've launched books by Jewish authors, opened exhibitions
by Jewish artists or spoken at Jewish fundraisers or at Holocaust
exhibitions or museums.
Yet, with growing frequency, I get letters
branding me an anti-Semite. Worse still, I've lost close friends
in the Jewish community. Why? Because in recent years I've found
it impossible not to criticise Israel's policies towards the
Palestinians.
It is not anti-Semitic to disagree with
Israel's behaviour in the Lebanon or the disputed territories.
It is not anti-Semitic to regard Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon as equally culpable with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
in the present mess. And it is not anti-Semitic to protest long
and loud against the attempts to denigrate Hanan Ashrawi and
those who would honour her.
The behaviour of the so-called Jewish
lobby over the Ashrawi issue is not only appalling but extraordinarily
stupid. Once again, in its efforts to suppress and censor, the
lobby challenges the efforts of its worst enemies to become its
own worst enemy.
Take the case of the diabolical David
Irving. Australian Jewry succeeded in banning him from entering
Australia--the classic Pyrrhic victory. It did not hurt Irving's
cause. Rather, it made him a martyr to his deranged supporters
while providing the oxygen of publicity for his books, videos
and website.
Far better to have let him into the country
and to confront him. The demolition job done on Irving in the
London libel trial shows his vulnerability to scholarly attack.
Whereas shutting him out in an attempt to shut him up gives the
ill-informed and uninformed the impression that his opponents
have something to hide.
If the campaign to keep Irving out of
Australia was counterproductive, the attack on Ashrawi--and those
of us who admire her--is worse.
I'm one of many who regard themselves
as simultaneously pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian, in the sense
that we want a negotiated settlement, some sort of two-state
solution. Of course we want the suicide bombings to end. But
we also want the building of that monstrous wall to cease. And
we want to recognise the immense efforts of those, on both sides
of the fence--of the wall, of the political abyss--who've spent
their lives trying to negotiate a workable and equitable solution.
I've known Ashrawi for many years. The
last time we spoke she'd just celebrated her daughter's marriage,
the festivities clouded by the explosions of Israeli missiles.
Her response was characteristically measured and modulated. She
has, after all, spent a lifetime in the firing line, working
as a top negotiator between her people and the Israelis, within
the maelstrom of Palestinian politics. I've had dealings with
hundreds of the most prominent people in public life, not only
in Australia but across the world. Their ranks have included
quite a few who have won the Nobel Peace Prize. But I've met
few I admire as much as Ashrawi.
Now there are attempts to deny her the
Australian Peace Prize. First the University of Sydney was cowed
into slamming the door of the Great Hall in her face. Then it
was Sydney Town Hall, with Lord Mayor Lucy Turnbull's behaviour,
calling into question not only her courage but her judgment.
Which brings us to Sydney councillor
Kathryn Greiner's attack on the Sydney Peace Foundation, which
she'd chaired for four years. Her attempts to have the award
to Ashrawi overturned were uncharacteristically craven.
Yesterday, Foreign Minister Alexander
Downer bought into the issue, tut-tutting Ashrawi's award. Odd,
given that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade paid for
Ashrawi to attend, and address, the Festival of Ideas in Adelaide.
Everyone, it seems, is running scared.
At least NSW Premier Bob Carr has refused to back off. Equally
admirable, the behaviour of Stuart Rees, director of the SPF.
As a consequence of their bitter experiences
over the centuries, Jews have stood at the forefront of human
rights and civil rights issues across the world. To be so wrong-headed
on this occasion is, therefore, doubly disappointing.
The campaign smacks of an attack on free
speech in this country and, yes, on free assembly. And it plays
right into the hands of the true anti-Semites.
Philip Adams
writes for the Australian, where this column originally appeared.
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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