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Now Available from CounterPunch for Only $11.50 (S/H Included) Today's Stories November 1 / 2, 2003 Saul Landau Cui Bono? The Cuba Embargo as Rip Off October 31, 2003 Lee Ballinger Making a Dollar Out of 15 Cents: The Sweatshops of Sean "P. Diddy" Combs Wayne Madsen The GOP's Racist Trifecta Michael Donnelly Settling for Peanuts: Democrats Trick the Greens, Treat Big Timber Patrick Cockburn Baghdad Diary: Iraqis are Naming Their New Babies "Saddam" Elaine Cassel Coming to a State Near You: The Matrix (Interstate Snoops, Not the Movie)   October 30, 2003 Forrest Hylton Popular Insurrection and National Revolution in Bolivia Eric Ruder "We Have to Speak Out!": Marching with the Military Families Dave Lindorff Big Lies and Little Lies: The Meaning of "Mission Accomplished" Philip Adams "Everyone is Running Scared": Denigrating Critics of Israel Sean Donahue Howard Dean: a Hawk in a Dove's Cloak Robert Jensen Big Houses & Global Justice: A Moral Level of Consumption? 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!" 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Weekend Edition November 1 / 2, 2003 Lights, Camera, SEX! Christy Canyon, a Life in Porn By Dr. SUSAN BLOCK The first porn movie set I ever visited was for a silly little film called "Sore Throat." It was shot in the mid-80s at the beautiful, sprawling Topanga Canyon home of my friends Lynn Redgrave and John Clark, while Lynn was out of town. The director was John's friend, the notorious "hedgehog" Ron Jeremy, and the star was future porn mega-director Paul Thomas, but the most intriguing person at the shoot was a lovely young lady named Christy Canyon. With her lustrous, long dark hair, sweet Valley Girl manners, natural boobs and even more natural attitude, I remember thinking, "She doesn't look like a porn star!" Then, as I watched her enthusiastically engage in one explicit sex scene after another, I drastically revised my understanding of what a porn star looks like. What I didn't realize was that this was, in fact, part of a "comeback" for this still rather young woman whose sultry good looks and unaffected style helped to launch the world of porn as we know it. Several hundred sex scenes, a college education and a creative writing course (with the fabulous Jack Grapes) later, Christy Canyon has written the first part of an autobiography, Lights, Camera, SEX!, chronicling her life and times in and out of the American porn industry. It is quite well-written, very revealing, sometimes erotic, often funny and occasionally touching, a must-read for any Christy Canyon fan (and there are legions), and a fascinating glimpse into the world of American erotica, as well as the mind of a young, smart, alienated, world famous porn star. Lots of juicy behind-the-scenes stories of her adventures with porn luminaries Traci Lords, Ginger Lynn, Peter North and the ubiquitous Ron Jeremy, as well as mainstream celebs like Max Baer (Jethro on "The Beverly Hillbillies"), intercut with tales of suburban angst and an intense longing for love. Christy comes across as just as likeable as I thought she was back in "Sore Throat" days, albeit a bit more complex. Occasionally, she seems rather spoiled, "blaming" her totally voluntary entry into porn on not getting enough attention from her self-involved but loving suburban folks, and griping about "filthy," "loser" homeless people panhandling for quarters in front of the supermarket. But who says porn stars are angels? This one is obviously a real human being, and a very talented one at that, capable of captivating one generation with her knockout body, and now, perhaps, another one with her engaging writing. Dr. Susan Block is a sex educator, host of The Dr. Susan Block Show and author of The 10 Commandments of Pleasure. Visit her website at http://www.drsusanblock.com 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 Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /