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Jeffrey
St. Clair
Leavitt
for EPA Head? He's Much Worse Than You Thought
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September 17, 2003
Timothy J. Freeman
The
Terrible Truth About Iraq
St. Clair / Cockburn
A
Vain, Pompous Brown-noser:
Meet the Real Wesley Clark
Terry Lodge
An Open Letter to Michael Moore on Gen. Wesley Clark
Mitchel Cohen
Don't Be Fooled Again: Gen. Wesley Clark, War Criminal
Norman Madarasz
Targeting Arafat
Richard Forno
High Tech Heroin
Alexander Cockburn
Behold,
the Head of a Neo-Con!
Website of the Day
The Ultimate Palestine Resource Site!
September 16, 2003
Rosemary and Walt Brasch
An
Ill Wind: Hurricane Isabel and the Lack of Homeland Security
Robert Fisk
Powell
in Baghdad
Kurt Nimmo
Imperial Sociopaths
M. Shahid Alam
The Dialectics
of Terror
Ron Jacobs
Exile at Gunpoint
Christopher Brauchli
Bush's War on Wages
Al Krebs
Stop Calling Them "Farm Subsidies"; It's Corporate
Welfare
Patrick Cockburn
The
Iraq Wreck
Website of the Day
From Occupied Palestine
September 15, 2003
Stan Goff
It Was
the Oil; It Is Like Vietnam
Robert Fisk
A Hail of Bullets, a Trail of Dead
Writers Bloc
We
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James T. Phillips
Does George Bush Cry?
Elaine Cassel
The Troublesome Bill of Rights
Cynthia McKinney
A Message to the People of New York City
Matthew Behrens
Sunday Morning Coming Down: Reflections on Johnny Cash
Uri Avnery
Assassinating
Arafat
Hammond Guthrie
Celling Out the Alarm
Website of the Day
Arnold and the Egg
September 13 / 14, 2003
Michael Neumann
Anti-Americanism:
Too Much of a Good Thing?
Jeffrey St. Clair
Anatomy of a Swindle
Gary Leupp
The Matrix of Ignorance
Ron Jacobs
Reagan's America
Brian Cloughley
Up to a Point, Lord Rumsfeld
William S. Lind
Making Mesopotamia a Terrorist Magnet
Werther
A Modest Proposal for the Pentagon
Dave Lindorff
Friendly Fire Will Doom the Occupation
Toni Solo
Fiction and Reality in Colombia: The Trial of the Bogota Three
Elaine Cassel
Juries and the Death Penalty
Mickey Z.
A Parable for Cancun
Jeffrey Sommers
Issam Nashashibi: a Life Dedicated to the Palestinian Cause
David Vest
Driving in No Direction (with a Glimpse of Johnny Cash)
Michael Yates
The Minstrel Show
Jesse Walker
Adios, Johnny Cash
Adam Engel
Something Killer
Poets' Basement
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Website of the Weekend
Local Harvest
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Todos
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Laura Carlsen
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Dave Lindorff
The Meaning of Sept. 11
Elaine Cassel
Bush at Quantico
Linda S. Heard
British
Entrance Exams
John Chuckman
The First Two Years of Insanity
Doug Giebel
Ending America as We Know It
Mokhiber / Weissman
The Blank Check Military
Subcomandante Marcos
The
Death Train of the WTO
Website of the Day
A Woman in Baghdad
September 11, 2003
Robert Fisk
A Grandiose
Folly
Roger Burbach
State Terrorism and 9/11: 1973 and 2001
Jonathan Franklin
The Pinochet Files
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Postcards to the President
Norman Solomon
The Political Capital of 9/11
Saul Landau
The Chilean Coup: the Other, Almost Forgotten 9/11
Stew Albert
What Goes Around
Website of the Day
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September 10, 2003
John Ross
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Zoltan Grossman
The General Who Would be President: Was Wesley Clark Also Unprepared
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Tim Llewellyn
At the Gates of Hell
Christopher Brauchli
Turn the Paige: the Bush Education Deception
Lee Sustar
Bring the Troops Home, Now!
Elaine Cassel
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Norman Finkelstein
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September
18, 2003
Wesley Clark for President?
Another
Con Job from the Neo-Cons
By WAYNE MADSEN
Let it never be said the neo-conservatives are
not persistent. That's why they must be rounded up by the FBI
and charged with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations (RICO) statutes. But let's save that issue for
another time.
The latest trick of the neo-cons is running
retired General Wesley Clark for President as a Democrat. But
not just any Democrat -- a "New Democrat." The same
bunch that are pushing Joe Lieberman's candidacy are obviously
hedging on their bets and want to have Clark in the race as a
potential vice presidential candidate (to ensure their continued
influence in a future Democratic administration of Howard Dean,
John Kerry, or Dick Gephardt) or as a "go-to" candidate
in the event that Lieberman stumbles badly in the first few Democratic
primaries next year.
The "New Democrats" (neo-cons)
are as much masters at the perception management (lying) game
as their GOP counterparts (Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald
Rumsfeld). Clark's presidential candidacy announcement in Little
Rock is one warning sign. This city is a sort of "Mecca"
for the neo-con Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and its main
nurturers, Al From and Bruce Reed. It was from Little Rock where
the DLC propelled a little known governor named Bill Clinton
into the White House. And although Clinton did not turn out exactly
as conservative as the DLC hoped for, his support for globalization
and selected use of U.S. military power abroad were neo-con keystone
successes.
Now enter "Arkansan" Wesley
Clark. Like Hillary Clinton, Clark is a Chicago transplant to
Little Rock. And he is about as power driven as the former First
Lady. According to Pentagon insiders, when Clark was Commander
of the US Southern Command in Panama from June 1996 to July 1997,
he was fond of "ordering" Latin American military commanders
and defense  ministers to appear
before him. Some of the Latin American officials, particularly
those from Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, refused to be bullied
by Clark, whose personality is said to be acerbic. From his pro-consul
position in Panama, Clark supported with US military advisers
and American mercenaries, continued warfare against anti-oligarchic
movements in Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, and Bolivia.
Fast forward to the Kosovo wars when
Clark was NATO commander. Not only did Clark lord over the first
unprovoked aerial bombardment of a major European city (Belgrade)
since Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe pounded virtually defenseless
European cities, but he almost got into a shooting war with Russian
peacekeeping troops in Kosovo. It was only the intervention of
the British government, Defense Secretary William Cohen, and
Joint Chiefs Chairman General Hugh Shelton that prevented Clark
from starting World War III. When Clark ordered British Lt. Gen.
Michael Jackson to forcibly block Kosovo's Pristina Airport to
prevent Russian planes from landing, the Briton replied, "Sir,
Ia*TMm not starting World War III for you.a** Jackson was backed
up all the way to Number 10 Downing Street. Clark was forced
to back down. Eventually, Cohen fired Clark as NATO commander
three months before his term was to expire.
Before becoming NATO Commander, Clark
was the Director for Strategic Plans and Policy within the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. From this vantage point, Clark was well aware
of and likely supported the arming of the Bosnian government
by accepting contributions from various deep-pocketed Muslim
countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Malaysia, Brunei, Jordan,
and Egypt. Via something called the Bosnia Defense Fund, these
countries deposited millions of dollars into U.S. coffers to
buy weapons for the Bosnians and train them in their use through
the use of private military contractors like Military Professional
Resources, Inc. (MPRI). And when some of the weapons and cash
for the Bosnians became "unaccounted for," where did
some of the guns and cash wind up? In the hands of Al Qaeda and
Iranian Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guard) units in Bosnia.
More interestingly is how General Clark's
Bosnia strategy ultimately goes full circle. According to Washington
K Street sources, the law firm that established the Bosnia Defense
Fund was none other than Feith and Zell, the firm of current
Pentagon official and leading neo-con Douglas Feith. Feith's
operation at Feith and Zell was assisted by his one-time boss
and current member of Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board, Richard
Perle. Both Feith and Perle advised the Bosnian delegation during
the 1995 Dayton Peace talks. The chief U.S. military negotiator
in Dayton was Wesley Clark.
A long time ago, the French, tired of
war, turned to a short general named Napoleon to lead them to
peace and prosperity. Instead, Napoleon seized imperial power
and ensured the French would have more war. After four years
of Bush, the neo-con Fifth Column in the Democratic Party is
trying to convince us that Clark is the "anti-war"
candidate. Tell that to the people of Serbia, Kosovo, and Montenegro.
Tell that to the coca farmer in Bolivia or Colombia who is trying
to feed his family. Let's not fall for the deception and tricks
of the neo-cons again. If you are tired of Bush, Cheney, and
the neo-cons and their phony wars, Clark is certainly not the
answer. He has been, and remains part of, the great deception
of the American people.
Wayne Madsen
is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and columnist.
He wrote the introduction to Forbidden
Truth. He is the co-author, with John Stanton, of the
forthcoming book, "America's Nightmare: The Presidency of
George Bush II."
Madsen can be reached at: WMadsen777@aol.com
Weekend
Edition Features for Sept. 13 / 14, 2003
Michael Neumann
Anti-Americanism:
Too Much of a Good Thing?
Jeffrey St. Clair
Anatomy of a Swindle
Gary Leupp
The Matrix of Ignorance
Ron Jacobs
Reagan's America
Brian Cloughley
Up to a Point, Lord Rumsfeld
William S. Lind
Making Mesopotamia a Terrorist Magnet
Werther
A Modest Proposal for the Pentagon
Dave Lindorff
Friendly Fire Will Doom the Occupation
Toni Solo
Fiction and Reality in Colombia: The Trial of the Bogota Three
Elaine Cassel
Juries and the Death Penalty
Mickey Z.
A Parable for Cancun
Jeffrey Sommers
Issam Nashashibi: a Life Dedicated to the Palestinian Cause
David Vest
Driving in No Direction (with a Glimpse of Johnny Cash)
Michael Yates
The Minstrel Show
Jesse Walker
Adios, Johnny Cash
Adam Engel
Something Killer
Poets' Basement
Cash, Albert, Curtis, Linhart
Website of the Weekend
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