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Now Available from CounterPunch for Only $11.50 (S/H Included) Today's Stories January 8, 2004 James Hollander Journalists Under Fire: the Death of José Couso in Baghdad   January 7, 2004 Democracy Now! Uncharitable Care: How Hospitals are Gouging and Even Arresting the Uninsured Greg Weiher The Bush Administration's Ongoing Intelligence Problem Ben Tripp The Word of the Year, 2003 Dave Lindorff Dean and His Democratic Detractors Michael Leon The NYT Does Chomsky Bob Boldt God Talk Ramon Ryan Small Victories and Long Struggles: the 10th Anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising January 6, 2004 Dave Lindorff RNC Plays the Hitler Card: MoveOn Shouldn't Apologize for Those Ads Ron Jacobs Drugs in Uniform: Hashish and the War on Terrorism Josh Frank Coffee and State Authority in Colombia Doug Giebel Permanent Bases: Leave Iraq? Hell No, We Won't Go John Chuckman Sick Puppies: David Frum's New Neo-Con Manifesto Rannie Amiri The Politics of the Iranian Earthquake John L. Hess A Record to Dissent From Thacher Schmid A Cheesehead's Musings on the Sunday NYT David Price "Like Slaves": Anthropological Thoughts on Occupation   January 5, 2004 Al Krebs How Now Mad Cow! Kathy Kelly Squatting in Baghdad's Bomb Craters Jordy Cummings The Dialectic of the Kristol Family: Putting the Neo in the Cons Fran Shor Mad Human Disease: Chewing the Fat Down on the Farm Fidel Castro "We Shall Overcome": On the 45th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution Gary Leupp North Korea for Dummies   January 3 / 4, 2004 Brian Cloughley Never Mind the WMDs, Just Look at History Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan The Wrong War at the Wrong Time William Cook Failing to Respond to 9/11 Glen Martin Jesus vs. the Beast of the Apocalypse Robert Fisk Iraqi Humor Amid the Carnage Ilan Pappe The Geneva Bubble Walter Davis Robert Jay Lifton, or Nostalgia Kurt Nimmo Ashcroft vs. the Left Mike Whitney The Padilla Case Steven Sherman On Wallerstein's The Decline of American Power Dave Lindorff Bush's Taiwan Hypocrisy William Blum Codework Orange! Mitchel Cohen Learning from Che Guevara Seth Sandronsky Mad Cow and Main Street USA Bruce Jackson Conversations with Leslie Fiedler Standard Schaefer Poet Carl Rakosi Turns 100 Ron Jacobs Sir Mick Adam Engel Hall of Hoaxes Poets' Basement Jones, Albert & Curtis     January 2, 2004 Stan Cox Red Alert 2016 Dave Lindorff Beef, the Meat of Republicans Jackie Corr Rule and Ruin: Wall Street and Montana Norman Solomon George Will's Ethics: None of Our Business? David Vest As the Top Wobbleth January 1, 2004 Randall Robinson Honor Haiti, Honor Ourselves David Krieger Looking Back on 2003 Robert Fisk War Takes an Inhuman Twist: Roadkill Bombs Stan Goff War, Race and Elections Hammond Guthrie 2003 Almaniac Website of the Day Embody Bags 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. 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January 8, 2004 Harsh Sentences Reveal Moral Bankruptcy Israeli Refusniks Sentenced to Jail By NEVE GORDON On January 4th, an Israeli Military Court sentenced five refusenicks, Noam Bahat, Hagai Matar, Adam Maor, Shimri Tsameret and Matan Kaminer to one year in jail for refusing to enlist. The judges declared that the five conscientious objectors deserved to be harshly punished since they questioned the morality of the military's actions and challenged the legitimacy of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The refusenicks admitted that this was indeed their intention, adding that they will continue to challenge the occupation. The severity of the sentence -- which did not take into account the period the CO's have already served -- exposed yet again the moral bankruptcy of the Israeli military: COs are imprisoned for over 2 years, while not a single soldier has been convicted for wrongful killing since the Intifada's outbreak -- a period in which 113 Palestinian children under the age of 12 have been killed. The Israeli refusenik movement has called upon the international community to send faxes (+972-3-5692933) to Brigadier General Gil Regev, who has the authority to revoke the sentence. A petition for the immediate release of the 5 conscientious objectors can be accessed at www.refuz.org.il Weekend Edition Features for January 3 / 4, 2004 Brian Cloughley Never Mind the WMDs, Just Look at History Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan The Wrong War at the Wrong Time William Cook Failing to Respond to 9/11 Glen Martin Jesus vs. the Beast of the Apocalypse Robert Fisk Iraqi Humor Amid the Carnage Ilan Pappe The Geneva Bubble Walter Davis Robert Jay Lifton, or Nostalgia Kurt Nimmo Ashcroft vs. the Left Mike Whitney The Padilla Case Steven Sherman On Wallerstein's The Decline of American Power Dave Lindorff Bush's Taiwan Hypocrisy William Blum Codework Orange! Mitchel Cohen Learning from Che Guevara Seth Sandronsky Mad Cow and Main Street USA Bruce Jackson Conversations with Leslie Fiedler Standard Schaefer Poet Carl Rakosi Turns 100 Ron Jacobs Sir Mick Adam Engel Hall of Hoaxes Poets' Basement Jones, Albert & Curtis Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /