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Coming in September From AK Press Featuring Essays by: Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Michael Neumann, Shahid Alam, Alexander Cockburn, Uri Avnery, Bill and Kathy Christison and More Today's Stories August 14, 2003 Peter Phillips Inside Bohemian Grove: Where US Power Elites Party Brian Cloughley Charlie Wilson and Pakistan: the Strange Congressman Behind the CIA's Most Expensive War Linville and Ruder Tyson Strike Draws the Line Jim Lobe Bush Administration Divided Over Iran Ramzy Baroud Sharon Freezes the Road Map Tom Turnipseed Blowback in Iraq Gary Leupp Condi's Speech: From Birgmingham to Baghdad, Imperialism's Freedom Ride Website of the Day Tony Benn's Greatest Hits   Recent Stories August 13, 2003 Joanne Mariner A Wall of Separation Through the Heart Donald Worster The Heavy Cost of Empire Standard Schaefer Experimental Casinos: DARPA and the War Economy Elaine Cassel Murderous Errors: Executing the Innocent Ralph Nader Make the Recall Count Alexander Cockburn Ted Honderich Hit with "Anti-Semitism" Slur Website of the Day Defending Yourself Against DirectTV Lawsuits: 9000 and Counting   August 12, 2003 William Blum Myth and Denial in the War on Terrorism Ron Jacobs Revisionist History: the Bush Administration, Civil Rights and Iraq Josh Frank Dean's Constitutional Hang-Up Wayne Madsen What's a Fifth Columnist? Well, Someone Like Hitchens Ray McGovern Relax, It Was All a Pack of Lies Wendy Brinker Hubris in the White House Website of the Day Black Mustache August 11, 2003 Douglas Valentine Homeland Security for Whom? Mickey Z. Bush's Progress Bill Glahn RIAA Watch: Meet the New Bitch, Same as the Old Elaine Cassel Indicting DNA Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq Civil Liberties and Uncivil Super-Patriotism Uri Avnery Who Will Save Abu Mazen? Website of the Day RIAA Subpoena Clearinghouse August 9 / 10, 2003 Alexander Cockburn California's Glorious Recall! Saul Landau Bush and King Henry Gary Leupp On Terrorism, Methodism, "Wahhabism" and the Censored 9/11 Report Paul de Rooij The Parade of the Body Bags Michael Egan History and the Tragedy of American Diplomacy Rob Eshelman A Home of Our Own Daoud Kuttab Life as an ID Card Philip Agee Terror and Civil Society: Instruments of US Policy in Cuba Jeffrey St. Clair Marc Racicot: Bush's Main Man Walt Brasch Schwarzenegger, "Hollyweird" and the Rigtheous Right Christopher Brauchli Bush, Bribery and Berlusconi Josh Frank Mean, Mean Howard Dean Elaine Cassel Will the Death Penalty Ever Die? Sean Carter Total Recall Poets' Basement Hamod, Engel, Albert August 8, 2003 John Chuckman What the US Says Goes Roberto Barreto Defend the Vieques 12! Bruce Gagnon Iraq War Emboldens Bush Space Plans Elaine Cassel The Reign of John Ashcroft Dave Lindorff Snoops Night Out Website of the Day Zero Boy     August 7, 2003 M. Shahid Alam It the US a "Terrorist Magnet?" Toni Solo Neo-liberal Nicaragua: a New Banana Republic Adam Lebowitz Hiroshima Commemorated: the View from Japan Hanan Ashrawi When the Bully Whines Niranjan Ramakrishnan Conscience Takes a Holiday Jason Leopold Wolfowitz Lets Slip: Iraq Not Behind 9/11; No Ties to Al-Qaeda Mike Kimaid What's the Score? Elaine Cassel The Smell of VICTORY: Ashcroft's Latest Stinkbomb Dardagan, Slobodo and Williams CounterPunch Exclusive: 20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians   August 6, 2003 Steve Higgs Going to Jail for the Cause: It's Not Easy Confronting King Coal David Krieger Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki Robert Fisk The Ghosts of Uday and Qusay Christopher Brauchli Bush's War on the National Forests Elaine Cassel No Fly Lists Stan Goff Military Equipment and Pneumonia Hugh Sansom An Open Letter to Nicholas Kristof on the Nuking of Japan   August 5, 2003 Uri Avnery The Prisoner of Ramallah: Arafat at 74 Forrest Hylton Terrorism and Political Trials: the View from Bolivia Ray McGovern "We Cook Estimates to Go" David Morse Poindexter's Gambit Edward Said Orientallism: 25 Years Later George W. Bush My Darn Good Resumé Hammond Guthrie It's Incremental, Watson! Website of the Day National Prayer Day August 4, 2003 Bruce K. Gagnon Another Peace Activist Detained by Airport Cops: My Story David Lindorff Fear-Mongering About Social Security Mark Zepezauer George F. Will: Descent into Self-Parody James Plummer Tracking You Through the Mail Mickey Z. Marriage Insecurity from Sharon to Bush Bruce Jackson News that Isn't News: How the NYT's Pimps for the White House August 2 / 3, 2003 Tamara R. Piety Nike's Full Court Press Breaks Down Francis Boyle My Alma Mater, the University of Chicago, is a Moral Cesspool David Vest Sons of Paleface: Pictures from Death's Other Side Neve Gordon Nightlife in Jerusalem Uri Avnery Their Master's Voice: Bush, Blair and Intelligence Snafus Robert Fisk Paternalistic Democracy for Iraq Jerry Kroth Israel, Yellowcake and the Media Noah Leavitt What's Driving the Liberian Bloodbath: Is the US Obligated to Intervene? Saul Landau The Film Industry: Business and Ideology Ron Jacobs One Big Prison Yard: the Meaning of George Jackson Thomas Croft In the Deep, Deep Rough: Reflections on Augusta Amadi Ajamu Def Sham: Russell Simmons New Black Leader? Poets' Basement Vega, Witherup, Albert and Fleming   August 1, 2003 Joanne Mariner Stopping Prison Rape Alex Coolman Who Moved My Soap: Trivializing Prison Rape Steve J.B. Prison Bitch Stan Goff Injury and Decorum: The Missing Wounded in Iraq Wayne Madsen Europe Unplugs from the Matrix Robert Fisk Wolfowitz the Censor Elaine Cassel Ashcroft Loses Big in Puerto Rico Website of the Day Stop Prisoner Rape   July 31, 2003 Ray McGovern The Prostitution of Intelligence Brian Cloughley Wolfowitz's Operative Statement Sheldon Hull The RIAA's Jihad: The Devil's Music (Industry) Elaine Cassel The Next Time You Crack a Lawyer Joke, Think of These Attorneys Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber True Lies: Propaganda and Bush's Wars Hammond Guthrie Speculation Blues Website of the Day Army of One? Congratulations to CounterPuncher Gilad Atzmon! BBC Names EXILE Top Jazz CD   July 30, 2003 David Lindorff Poindexter the Terror Bookie Marjorie Cohn Why Iraq and Afghanistan? It's About the Oil Elaine Cassel How Ashcroft Coerces Guilty Pleas in Terror Cases Zvi Bar'el The Hidden Costs of the Iraq War Lisa Walsh Thomas Killing Mustafa Hussein: Death of a Child, Birth of a Legend? Sean Carter Pat Robertson's Prayer Jihad: God, Sodomy and the Supremes ND Jayaprakash India and Ariel Sharon Steve Perry Bush's Top 40 Lies Standard Schaefer Correction about Bloomberg and Outscourcing Website of the Day Bring Them Home Now!   Hot Stories 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 Elaine Cassel Civil Liberties Watch Michel Guerrin Embedded Photographer Says: "I Saw Marines Kill Civilians" 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 Francis Boyle Impeach Bush: A Draft Resolution Click Here for More Stories.     Subscribe Online Search CounterPunch

August 16, 2003 Travel Advisory By HAMMOND GUTHRIE Who would dare to threaten honored citizens with removal of their pensions- to become destitute, and with the random sale of their houses- to become homeless and dishonored? Indeed, who dares to threaten former teachers of the blind, an heroic activist shield against this war in Iraq, with imprisonment and fines? Never mind the dead children Up against the wall activists! the Treasury Dept. will continue to release travel advisories t-hreatening cluster bombs in definitive denial as to what the term "humanitarian workers" actually means in acts of non-violent protest Blindman's nausea vision, air sickness and more mushroom clouds of death fireball carnage into world living room video games intent upon punishing anti-war actions and support yet dissent will not be constrained by hypocrisy Hammond Guthrie is the author of AsEverWas: Memoirs of a Beat Survivor. He is the editor of the great online journal The 3rd Page. He can be reached at: writenow@spiritone.com © 2003--Hammond Guthrie   And So We Hear Again By SAM HAMOD And so we hear again, Of blackouts Of water shortages Of totally polluted air Of unending wars Of deaths in Iraq Of deaths in Afghanistan Of deaths in Palestine Of terrorists in our midst Of yellow to orange alerts Of orange to red alerts Of SARS Of smallpox Of anthrax Of e coli in our chickens and beef Of mercury in our fish Of an dozens of nightly auto accidents Floods, earthquakes, Oncoming hurricanes, tornadoes, New rates of joblessness Falling wages Rising deficits All this on the nightly news Every night All night On every channel Or, Can we decide who the Bachelor should choose, or Who the Bachelorette should choose, or Who should be Elimidated out, or in, or Who shall be the Survivor, or Who shall win a Million dollars tonight, or Listen to endless inane and not funny alleged jokes. Or you can just shut that damn television set off Sit back, breathe, maybe go out Take a walk, call a friend, read a poem, Write a letter to the editor, Call your congressperson or senator, or Even call that fool in the White House, or Take a swim, play some tennis, or Just do nothing- The key thing is, Don't just sit there Falling asleep, Losing your mind, Losing your life In front of the idiot tube.... Sam Hamod can be reached: shamod@cox.net Solidarity Forever By STEW ALBERT Blackness like Baghdad but not from bombs. In accidental Solidarity with the Iraqi people the entire east coast of America goes without electricity baths subways CNN air conditioning and gossiping on the phone. Walking home millions of people in the street crossing the Brooklyn Bridge returning to a sweltering apartment ten flights up what axis of evil planed this hideous night? They sat in offices calculating plus and minus deciding it's better investing in trinket building in India than hiring union labor and constructing backup grids in Niagara Falls and Detroit. Same calculations concluded the cost of war a bargain at the price for all the oil in Iraq. Two blackouts. One cruel thought. Stew Albert manages the Yippie Reading Room. He can be reached at: StewA@aol.com Weekend Edition Features for August 9 / 10, 2003 Alexander Cockburn California's Glorious Recall! Saul Landau Bush and King Henry Gary Leupp On Terrorism, Methodism, "Wahhabism" and the Censored 9/11 Report Paul de Rooij The Parade of the Body Bags Michael Egan History and the Tragedy of American Diplomacy Rob Eshelman A Home of Our Own Daoud Kuttab Life as an ID Card Philip Agee Terror and Civil Society: Instruments of US Policy in Cuba Jeffrey St. Clair Marc Racicot: Bush's Main Man Walt Brasch Schwarzenegger, "Hollyweird" and the Rigtheous Right Christopher Brauchli Bush, Bribery and Berlusconi Josh Frank Mean, Mean Howard Dean Elaine Cassel Will the Death Penalty Ever Die? Sean Carter Total Recall Poets' Basement Hamod, Engel, Albert   Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /