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Now Available from CounterPunch for Only $11.50 (S/H Included) Today's Stories January 1, 2004 Stan Goff War, Race and Elections December 31, 2003 Ray McGovern Don't Be Fooled Again: This Isn't an Independent Investigation Kurt Nimmo Manufacturing Hysteria Robert Fisk The Occupation is Damned Mike Whitney Mad Cows and Downer George Alexander Cockburn A Great Year Ebbed, Another Ahead     December 30, 2003 Michael Neumann Criticism of Israel is Not Anti-Semitism Annie Higgins When They Bombed the Hometown of the Virgin Mary Alan Farago Bush Bros. Wrecking Co.: Time Runs Out for the Everglades Dan Bacher Creatures from the Blacklight Lagoon: From Glofish to Frankenfish Jeffrey St. Clair Hard Time on the Killing Floor: Inside Big Meat Willie Nelson Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth?   December 29, 2003 Mark Hand The Washington Post in the Dock? David Lindorff The Bush Election Strategy Phillip Cryan Interested Blindness: Media Omissions in Colombia's War Richard Trainor Catellus Development: the Next Octopus? Uri Avnery Israel's Conscientious Objectors   December 27 / 28, 2003 Alexander Cockburn A Journey Into Rupert Murdoch's Soul Kathy Kelly Christmas Day in Baghdad: A Better World Saul Landau Iraq at the End of the Year Dave Zirin A Linebacker for Peace & Justice: an Interview with David Meggysey Robert Fisk Iraq Through the American Looking Glass Scott Burchill The Bad Guys We Once Thought Good: Where Are They Now? Chris Floyd Bush's Iraq Plan is Right on Course: Saddam 2.0 Brian J. Foley Don't Tread on Me: Act Now to Save the Constitution Seth Sandronsky Feedlot Sweatshops: Mad Cows and the Market Susan Davis Lord of the (Cash Register) Rings Ron Jacobs Cratched Does California Adam Engel Crumblecake and Fish Norman Solomon The Unpardonable Lenny Bruce Poets' Basement Cullen and Albert Website of the Weekend Activism Through Music     December 26, 2003 Gary Leupp Bush Doings: Doing the Language   December 25, 2003 Diane Christian The Christmas Story Elaine Cassel This Christmas, the World is Too Much With Us Susan Davis Jinglebells, Hold the Schlock Kristen Ess Bethlehem Celebrates Christmas, While Rafah Counts the Dead Francis Boyle Oh Little Town of Bethlehem Alexander Cockburn The Magnificient 9 Guthrie / Albert Another Colorful Season     December 24, 2003 M. Shahid Alam The Semantics of Empire William S. Lind Marley's List for Santa in Wartime Josh Frank Iraqi Oil: First Come, First Serve Cpt. Paul Watson The Mad Cowboy Was Right Robert Lopez Nuance and Innuendo in the War on Iraq     December 23, 2003 Brian J. Foley Duck and Cover-up Will Youmans Sharon's Ultimatum Michael Donnelly Here They Come Again: Another Big Green Fiasco Uri Avnery Sharon's Speech: the Decoded Version December 22, 2003 Jeffrey St. Clair Pray to Play: Bush's Faith-Based National Parks Patrick Gavin What Would Lincoln Do? Marjorie Cohn How to Try Saddam: Searching for a Just Venue Kathy Kelly The Two Troublemakers: "Guilty of Being Palestinians in Iraq"   December 20 / 21, 2003 Alexander Cockburn How to Kill Saddam Saul Landau Bush Tries Farce as Cuba Policy Rafael Hernandez Empire and Resistance: an Interview with Tariq Ali David Vest Our Ass and Saddam's Hole Kurt Nimmo Bush Gets Serious About Killing Iraqis Greg Weiher Lessons from the Israeli School on How to Win Friends in the Islamic World Christopher Brauchli Arrest, Smear, Slink Away: Dr. Lee and Cpt. Yee Carol Norris Cheers of a Clown: Saddam and the Gloating Bush Bruce Jackson The Nameless and the Detained: Bush's Disappeared Juliana Fredman A Sealed Laboratory of Repression Mickey Z. Holiday Spirit at the UN Ron Jacobs In the Wake of Rebellion: The Prisoner's Rights Movement and Latino Prisoners Josh Frank Sen. Max Baucus: the Slick Swindler John L. Hess Slow Train to the Plane Adam Engel Black is Indeed Beautiful Ben Tripp The Relevance of Art in Times of Crisis Michael Neumann Rhythm and Race Poets' Basement Cullen, Engel, Albert & Guthrie         Hot Stories Alexander Cockburn Behold, the Head of a Neo-Con! Subcomandante Marcos The 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 Click Here for More Stories.     Subscribe Online Search CounterPunch

January 1, 2004 2003 Almaniac By HAMMOND GUTHRIE Though the use of almanacs may be perfectly innocent, be on the alert for inordinate people carrying almanacs if they are suspiciously annotated or X'd in sharpie combined with suspicious behavior--e.g. looking at things The Bureau is urging you to report users of almanacs to the local U.S. Joint Terrorism Task Force. And in the meanest erstwhile: If a terrorist group were to claim it had recently stolen 5 kg of plutonium, authorities in the UK could not say with any certainty that they had not taken it A very unsatisfactory situation indeed. Was the plutonium stolen? Why no, it simply disappeared. Seeminly we can't find our own weapons of mass destruction shuffling from one department nightmare to the next - Price Waterhouse needs to take charge! Just scratching the surface fiasco are badly needed supplies being sent to Iran, supplies handily sitting in Jordan awaiting hordes of Iraqi refugees that never arrived Following the preemptive tactics of the day democracy came a knockin' on Saddam's door "the anticipated migration just didn't happen," as so many anticipated things just didn't happen The search and research for weapons of mass destruction and the many labs filled with ready to use bio toxins simply were not there to be found as anticipated while the world waited in false anticipation If only Price Waterhouse would intervene, tally up the botched 'anticipations' before and after compared to the preemptively correct 'anticipations' leading to the current state of "not" rebuilding Iraq Saddam is said to have given up his account numbers to the tune of 40 billion dollars--all of which will be "given back to Iraq"--after payments through the nose for the 'anticipations' that just didn't happen "Envelope please.... (pause in anticipation) and the loser is, the American tax payer!" 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 Weekend Edition Features for Dec. 27 / 28, 2003 Alexander Cockburn A Journey Into Rupert Murdoch's Soul Kathy Kelly Christmas Day in Baghdad: A Better World Saul Landau Iraq at the End of the Year Dave Zirin A Linebacker for Peace & Justice: an Interview with David Meggysey Robert Fisk Iraq Through the American Looking Glass Scott Burchill The Bad Guys We Once Thought Good: Where Are They Now? Chris Floyd Bush's Iraq Plan is Right on Course: Saddam 2.0 Brian J. Foley Don't Tread on Me: Act Now to Save the Constitution Seth Sandronsky Feedlot Sweatshops: Mad Cows and the Market Susan Davis Lord of the (Cash Register) Rings Ron Jacobs Cratched Does California Adam Engel Crumblecake and Fish Norman Solomon The Unpardonable Lenny Bruce Poets' Basement Cullen and Albert Website of the Weekend Activism Through Music Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /