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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
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January
1, 2004
The Largest Anti-War
Uprising in History
Looking
Back on 2003
By DAVID KRIEGER
The turning of the year is a good time to look
back and recall some of the momentous events and trends of 2003.
We witnessed the greatest uprising of
people ever in the history of the world in protest to war. In
cities large and small across the planet, ordinary people took
to the streets to try to stop a US-led war against Iraq. In the
end, we didn't succeed, but our effort marked the opening of
a new era of global protest against war and violence.
We witnessed poets across the globe rise
up and generate more than 13,000 poems in opposition to a war
against Iraq.
We witnessed the government of the United
States ignore the people of the world, the poets and the United
Nations Security Council and initiate an illegal war against
Iraq in violation of the UN Charter, a war that has thus far
resulted in the deaths of some 8,000 to 10,000 Iraqi civilians,
some 475 US troops and unknown numbers of Iraqi troops.
We witnessed the increase of deadly attacks
against US and other troops and international relief workers
in Iraq after the president declared an end to major hostilities
on May 1st aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
We witnessed US leaders make claims of
the imminent threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, but
after massive searches no weapons of mass destruction were found
in Iraq as of the end of the year.
We witnessed North Korea withdraw from
the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, declare itself a nuclear
weapon state and offer to give up its nuclear arsenal and ambitions
if the  United States would agree
to a non-aggression pact. At year's end, despite six nation talks,
the US and North Korea continue to threaten each other without
coming closer to agreement.
We witnessed Iran deny it had a nuclear
weapons program and allow inspectors from the International Atomic
Energy Agency greater leeway for inspections, and we witnessed
Libya admit that it had a nuclear weapons program and allow inspectors
of the IAEA to verify that it had ceased. At the same time, the
US government made plans for building a new facility to create
some 500 plutonium pits each year for new nuclear weapons.
We witnessed US government leaders press
for and the US Congress support research on more usable nuclear
weapons, mini-nukes and "bunker-busters," and the allocation
of funds for shortening of the time necessary to resume nuclear
testing. We witnessed the United States move toward deployment
of missile defenses and pressure other states to join in this
program.
We witnessed assassination attempts on
Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf. The death of Musharraf would
open the door for nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of Islamic
extremists, which almost certainly would lead to war, possibly
nuclear war, with India or the United States.
We witnessed the United States stand
nearly alone in opposing major nuclear disarmament resolutions
in the United Nations. In one vote on bringing the Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty into force, the US cast the only vote against
the resolution while 173 countries voted in favor. In a resolution
put forward by Japan on the Path to the Total Elimination of
Nuclear Weapons, only the US and India opposed the resolution.
We witnessed the capture of Saddam Hussein,
a pathetic fallen dictator, and the ongoing international trial
of another fallen dictator, Slobodan Milosevic. At the same time,
we witnessed the United States government take extraordinary
steps to oppose the newly formed International Criminal Court,
which has the support of nearly all major US allies.
We witnessed the world spend nearly a
trillion dollars on war and preparations for war, including the
United States spending more than $1.1 billion per day on its
military, while more than a billion people lived in utter poverty
on less than $1 per day.
But despite the wars and preparations
for war, the breakdown of international law and the global inequities,
we witnessed a resurgence of hope that ultimately people power
can and will prevail over imperialism; that peace can and will
prevail over the obscene spectacle of war and its preparations;
and that human security and dignity can and will prevail over
the current state of global inequities. In 2004, there will again
be an opportunity for the people of the world to unite in support
of peace, international law and the rights of children and people
everywhere to have their basic needs fulfilled and to live with
dignity.
David Krieger
is president of the Nuclear
Age Peace Foundation. He can be contacted at dkrieger@napf.org.
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
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