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17, 2003
David
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Michael
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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
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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
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Rank and File: the New Unity Partnership Document
JoAnn
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The
New Unity Partnership:
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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!"
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October
11 / 13, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Kay's
Misleading Report; CIA/MI-6 Syrian Plot; Dershowitz Flaps Broken
Wings
Saul Landau
Contradictions: Pumping Empire and Losing Job Muscles
Phillip Cryan
The War on Human Rights in Colombia
Kurt Nimmo
Cuba and the "Necessary Viciousness" of the Bushites
Nelson P. Valdes
Traveling to Cuba: Where There's a Will, There's a Way
Lisa Viscidi
The Guatemalan Elections: Fraud, Intimidation and Indifference
Maria Trigona and Fabian
Pierucci
Allende Lives
Larry
Tuttle
States of Corruption
William A. Cook
Failing America
Brian
Cloughley
US Economic Space and New Zealand
Adrian Zupp
What Would Buddha Do? Why Won't the Dalai Lama Pick a Fight?
Merlin
Chowkwanyun
The Strange and Tragic Case of Sherman Marlin Austin
Ben Tripp
Screw You Right Back: CIA FU!
Lee Ballinger
Grits Ain't Groceries
Mickey Z.
Not All Italians Love Columbus
Bruce
Jackson
On Charles Burnett's "Warming By the Devil's Fire"
William Benzon
The Door is Open: Scorsese's Blues, 2
Adam Engel
The Eyes of Lora Shelley
Walt Brasch
Facing a McBlimp Attack
Poets'
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Mickey Z, Albert, Kearney
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October 10, 2003
John Chuckman
Schwarzenegger
and the Lottery Society
Toni Solo
Trashing
Free Software
Chris
Floyd
Body
Blow: Bush Joins the Worldwide War on Women
October
9, 2003
Jennifer
Loewenstein
Bombing
Syria
Ramzi
Kysia
Seeing
the Iraqi People
Fran Shor
Groping the Body Politic
Mark Hand
President Schwarzenegger?
Alexander
Cockburn
Welcome
to Arnold, King for a Day
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The Awful Truth about Wesley Clark
October
8, 2003
David
Lindorff
Schwarzenegger
and the Failure of the Centrist Dems
Ramzy
Baroud
Israel's
WMDs and the West's Double Standard
John Ross
Mexico
Tilts South
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Repub Guru Compares Taxes to the Holocaust
James
Bovard
The
Reagan Roadmap for Antiterrorism Disaster
Michael
Neumann
One
State or Two?
A False Dilemma
October
7, 2003
Uri Avnery
Slow-Motion
Ethnic Cleansing
Stan Goff
Lost in the Translation at Camp Delta
Ron Jacobs
Yom Kippurs, Past and Present
David
Lindorff
Coronado in Iraq
Rep. John Conyers, Jr.
Outing a CIA Operative? Why A Special Prosecutor is Required
Cynthia
McKinney
Who Are "We"?
Elaine Cassel
Shock and Awe in the Moussaoui Case
Walter
Lippman
Thoughts on the Cali Recall
Gary Leupp
Israel's
Attack on Syria: Who's on the Wrong Side of History, Now?
Website
of the Day
Cable News Gets in Touch With It's Inner Bigot
October
6, 2003
Robert
Fisk
US
Gave Israel Green Light for Raid on Syria
Forrest
Hylton
Upheaval
in Bolivia: Crisis and Opportunity
Benjamin Dangl
Divisions Deepen in Third Week of Bolivia's Gas War
Bridget
Gibson
Oh, Pioneers!: Bush's New Deal
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey
Wasserman
The Bush-Rove-Schwarzenegger Nazi Nexus
Nicole
Gamble
Rios Montt's Campaign Threatens Genocide Trials
JoAnn
Wypijewski
The
New Unity Partnership:
A Manifest Destiny for Labor
Website
of the Day
Guerrilla Funk
October
3 / 5, 2003
Tim Wise
The
Other Race Card: Rush and the Politics of White Resentment
Peter
Linebaugh
Rhymsters
and Revolutionaries: Joe Hill and the IWW
Gary Leupp
Occupation
as Rape-Marriage
Bruce
Jackson
Addio
Alle Armi
David Krieger
A Nuclear 9/11?
Ray McGovern
L'Affaire Wilsons: Wives are Now "Fair Game" in Bush's
War on Whistleblowers
Col. Dan Smith
Why Saddam Didn't Come Clean
Mickey
Z.
In Our Own Image: Teaching Iraq How to Deal with Protest
Roger Burbach
Bush Ideologues v. Big Oil in Iraq
John Chuckman
Wesley Clark is Not Cincinnatus
William S. Lind
Versailles on the Potomac
Glen T.
Martin
The Corruptions of Patriotism
Anat Yisraeli
Bereavement as Israeli Ethos
Wayne
Madsen
Can the Republicans Get Much Worse? Sure, They Can
M. Junaid Alam
The Racism Barrier
William
Benzon
Scorsese's Blues
Adam Engel
The Great American Writing Contest
Poets'
Basement
McNeill, Albert, Guthrie
October
2, 2003
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
What's
So Great About Gandhi, Anyway?
Amy Goodman
/ Jeremy Scahill
The
Ashcroft-Rove Connection
Doug Giebel
Kiss and Smear: Novak and the Valerie Plame Affair
Hamid
Dabashi
The Moment of Myth: Edward Said (1935-2003)
Elaine Cassel
Chicago Condemns Patriot Act
Saul Landau
Who
Got Us Into This Mess?
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Last Day to Save Beit Arabiya!
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October 1, 2003
Joanne
Mariner
Married
with Children: the Supremes and Gay Families
Robert
Fisk
Oil,
War and Panic
Ron Jacobs
Xenophobia
as State Policy
Elaine
Cassel
The
Lamo Case: Secret Subpoenas and the Patriot Act
Shyam
Oberoi
Shooting
a Tiger
Toni Solo
Plan Condor, the Sequel?
Sean Donahue
Wesley
Clark and the "No Fly" List
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30, 2003
After
Dark
Arnold's
1977 Photo Shoot
Dave Lindorff
The
Poll of the Shirt: Bush Isn't Wearing Well
Tom Crumpacker
The
Cuba Fixation: Shaking Down American Travelers
Robert
Fisk
A
Lesson in Obfuscation
Charles
Sullivan
A
Message to Conservatives
Suren Pillay
Edward Said: a South African Perspective
Naeem
Mohaiemen
Said at Oberlin: Hysteria in the Face of Truth
Amy Goodman
/ Jeremy Scahill
Does
a Felon Rove the White House?
Website
of the Day
The Edward Said Page
September 29, 2003
Robert
Fisk
The
Myths of Western Intelligence Agencies
Iain A. Boal
Turn It Up: Pardon Mzwakhe Mbuli!
Lee Sustar
Paul
Krugman: the Last Liberal?
Wayne Madsen
General Envy? Think Shinseki, Not Clark
Benjamin
Dangl
Bolivia's Gas War
Uri Avnery
The
Magnificent 27
Pledge
Drive of the Day
Antiwar.com
September
26 / 28, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Alan
Dershowitz, Plagiarist
David Price
Teaching Suspicions
Saul Landau
Before the Era of Insecurity
Ron Jacobs
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and
the Patriot Act
Brian
Cloughley
The Strangeloves Win Again
Norman Solomon
Wesley and Me: a Real-Life Docudrama
Robert
Fisk
Bomb Shatters Media Illusions
M. Shahid Alam
A Muslim Sage Visits the USA
John Chuckman
American Psycho: Bush at the UN
Mark Schneider
International Direct Action
The Spanish Revolution to the Palestiniana Intifada
William
S. Lind
How $87 Billion Could Buy Some Real Security
Douglas Valentine
Gold Warriors: the Plundering of Asia
Chris
Floyd
Vanishing Act
Elaine Cassel
Play Cat and Moussaoui
Richard
Manning
A Conservatism that Once Conserved
George Naggiar
The Beautiful Mind of Edward Said
Omar Barghouti
Edward Said: a Corporeal Dream Not Yet Realized
Lenni Brenner
Palestine's Loss is America's Loss
Mickey
Z.
Edward Said: a Well-Reasoned Voice
Tanweer Akram
The Legacy of Edward Said
Adam Engel
War in the Smoking Room
Poets' Basement
Katz, Ford, Albert & Guthrie
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of the Weekend
Who the Hell is Stew Albert?
September
25, 2003
Edward
Said
Dignity,
Solidarity and the Penal Colony
Robert
Fisk
Fanning
the Flames of Hatred
Sarah
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Wolfowitz at the New School
David
Krieger
The
Second Nuclear Age
Bill Glahn
RIAA Doublespeak
Al Krebs
ADM and the New York Times: Covering Up Corporate Crime
Michael
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The Obvious Solution: Give Iraq Back to the Arabs
Fran Shor
Arnold and Wesley
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Edward Said: a Monument to Justice and Human Rights
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Edward Said: a Mighty and Passionate
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Generational
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Grand Illusions About Wesley Clark
David
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Politics
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Jon Brown
Stealing Home: The Real Looting is About to Begin
Robert Fisk
Occupation and Censorship
Latino
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Neve Gordon
Sharon's
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Bands Against Bush
September
23, 2003
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To
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Gregory
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An
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October
17, 2003
The Ordeal of the Lockheed 52
The
World's Most Powerful Corporation Puts the Squeeze on Protesters
By
BEN TERRALL
Lockheed Martin, the world's largest and most
profitable arms manufacturer, has been turned back in its attempt
to squeeze $15,000 in "restitution" from peaceful
protestors.
On April 22, 2003, fifty-two demonstrators
were arrested for engaging in non-violent civil disobedience
outside Lockheed's Sunnyvale "campus," with 6,000
employees its largest facility in California. The weapons giant
initially demanded $41,000 in compensation for private security
forces, but that fee was knocked down in initial court proceedings.
The defendants never moved onto company property while protesting
Lockheed's profiteering off the war on Iraq, but sat and linked
arms in front of vehicles entering the corporation's domain.
The more than 200 police present had no problems containing
the demonstrators, who had earlier assured the authorities of
their commitment to non-violence.
On the day of the protest, a company
spokesperson told the Stanford Daily that the demonstrators
"have been very cooperative, very communicative, letting
everyone know their plans. They've worked with law enforcement
officials. There's been good communication and good cooperation
on all sides." He added, "we encouraged [employees]
to stagger their arrival hours--everything is operating normally."
Henry Norr, a San Francisco writer who
was among the "Lockheed 52" defendants, points out
that "most jurisdictions in the Bay Area haven't pursued
fines in civil disobedience cases" and that "restitution
has a chilling potential to create a deterrent effect for dissent."
Norr adds, "an element of the victims rights movement was
worthwhile, in that after all that victims go through, it's
not entirely fair that penalties should only be paid to the
authorities. I think that it makes sense if somebody steals
your stereo you should get money back. But we didn't do a penny's
worth of damage--and the only time we set foot on company property
was after we were arrested when they put us on a company tennis
court."
In her recent book "The New Nuclear
Danger" Dr. Helen Caldicott calls Lockheed Martin "the
world's most powerful corporation, one that literally controls
the fate of the earth." The weapons giant certainly has
a major presence in Washington, with a staggering 28 former
executives now in the Bush administration. Lockheed ex-VP Bruce
Jackson signed on to the founding letter of the infamous Project
for a New American Century, the template for the current deranged
U.S. uber alles foreign policy. Jackson played a pivotal role
in front groups supporting war on Yugoslavia and the expansion
of NATO (securing billions in weapons sales to the new member
states), as well as the "Committee for the Liberation of
Iraq," which backed the campaign against this year's reincarnation
of Hitler. As the overall chairman of the Bush Foreign Policy
Platform Committee, Jackson also wrote the Republican party
foreign policy platform for Bush's 2000 campaign.
Dick Cheney's wife Lynne collected an
annual $120,000 for years by sitting on Lockheed's board. And
though Republicans received the lion's share of Lockheed dollars,
Democrats are also complicit: Senate minority leader Tom Daschle's
wife is a paid lobbyist for the weapons giant, and former Texas
governor Ann Richards and former California Representative
Vic Fazio have lobbied for Lockheed in the past, while stalwart
party hack Joe Lieberman is a favored recipient of Lockheed
campaign donations.
Lockheed's staggering profits have made
the occasional multi-million dollar fine for graft just one
more cost of doing business. The Project on Government Oversight
found that from 2000-2001 Lockheed was cited for 84 instances
of misconduct and pay outs of more than $426 million. In June,
Lockheed paid the U.S. government $7.1 million to settle a
suit over "false and fraudulent" claims made to NASA.
In August, company spokeswoman Meghan Mariman explained that
the payment of $37.9 million to settle charges of inflating
costs on an Air Force contract was "to avoid the distraction
of litigation."
But in a political climate where John
Ashcroft can tell his critics that "your tactics only aid
terrorists, for they erode national unity and diminish our resolve,"
litigation against dissidents is obviously worthy of Lockheed's
corporate attention.
Given the range of weaponry the company
produces, including anti-personnel landmines and depleted uranium
weapons, it's not surprising Lockheed wants to avoid scrutiny
of its operations. Jennifer Hansen of the "Lockheed 52"
argues that "to realistically acknowledge the vast numbers
of civilians these weapons have killed, Lockheed should not
just be fined for price gouging, it should be charged with war
crimes under international law. Anti-personnel mines are inherently
indiscriminate, maiming more than 26,000 people a year, mostly
civilians. Though other companies have stopped producing these
horrific weapons, Lockheed refuses to do so. It also continues
to generate massive profits from the widespread use of depleted
uranium, which the UN found to be in violation of the Geneva
conventions, the Genocide convention, and the Convention against
Torture." Depleted uranium, widely used in the bombing
of Serbia and Iraq, contaminates the soil and the entire foodchain,
and is linked to the "Persian Gulf Syndrome" which
killed thousands of U.S. veterans, and thousands more Iraqis,
after the first Gulf war.
Shortly after the company crowed about
a sale of F-16s to Israel, the Israeli Defense Forces dropped
a 250 kilogram bomb from one of the war planes onto a crowded
apartment building in Gaza City (miraculously, there were only
15 reported injuries, no thanks to the PR invention called
"precision bombing").
Arming Israel to the teeth helps feed
Arab paranoia, leading to sales like the 2000 deal with the
United Arab Emirates which will deliver 80 F-16s to the U.A.E.
from 2004-2008, leaving Lockheed gleefully anticipating "what
we expect to be a long and mutually beneficial partnership."
Egypt also ordered 20 F-16s in 2000.
Lockheed, whose first quarter sales for
2003 were $7.1 billion, an 18% increase from 2002's first quarter,
is poised to continue to reap gigantic profits from the Bush
war on the world. According to the New York-based Arms Trade
Resource Center, "the company has a greater stake in nuclear
weapons and missile defense than any other U.S. arms maker";
Bush and his warmongers are pushing hard for expanded weapons
contracting on both fronts for their version of "deterrence."
After Lockheed agreed to drop the restitution
claim, on October 3 Judge Kenneth Barnum sentenced 36 of the
52 defendants from the April anti-war action to a fine of $612.50
(none of which will go to Lockheed) or equivalent amounts of
public service or jail time. The defendants also received two
years' court probation. Catholic Worker Larry Purcell agreed
to plead no contest, but when Barnum asked if he would "obey
all laws" during the probation period, Purcell responded,
"I can't predict what the government is going to do in
the next two years, so I can't promise not to engage in non-violent
resistance again." The judge called Purcell "a hero"
for his work on behalf of the hungry and homeless, but sentenced
him to 45 days in jail anyway.
Ben Terrall
is a writer and activist in Oakland. He can be reached at: bterrall@igc.org
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