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Now Available from CounterPunch for Only $11.50 (S/H Included) Today's Stories January 3 / 4, 2004 Glen Martin Jesus vs. the Beast of the Apocalypse 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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Weekend Edition January 3 / 4, 2004 Clovelly By VANESSA JONES After a while, You give up worrying about bodily "imperfections", Fling off your T-shirt and bra, Pop on your bikini top, Whip off the skirt, & plunge into Clovelly Bay. Seaweed and sand, rocks, under your feet You take your kids out Where you used to dive in Off the rocks With Martha As a 13 year old. Day dreamy mornings Walking down from her Dad's flat Sleep still in your eyes- Plunging in. * They gather shells The man, your sons. Fascinating collections You'd think belonged in Tonga- The town's name etched in As a souvenir. * I sift through the papers (on the net) Like they sifted through the seaweed and rocks, yesterday. (Crabs disappearing). I find an article about MI6 About the British government confirming How British intelligence MI6 created "Operation Mass Appeal" & placed stories about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction in the media To influence public opinion. Since 1997. * Scott Ritter stood out before March 2003 . A voice in the political wilderness on the international horizon of puppets puppeteering. He'd led WMD inspection teams in Iraq. Ritter wrote in The Guardian in April 2003: "If it turns out that there are no weapons of mass destruction or programmes related to their production and concealment in Iraq, Blair and his government must be held accountable by the British people for actions carried out in their name. If British policy was sustained on the back of a lie, then those who perpetrated that lie must be called upon to explain themselves." * Our own Australian Richard Butler Used to appear on TV, in earlier 2003, pre-war, So smug Aussie boy done well. Former U.N. Chief Arms inspector in Iraq Recently made the Governor of the island state of Tasmania. Butler wrote "The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, & The Crisis of Global Security" (2000). * Support the spread of propaganda regarding Saddam's Iraq, And you get cozy jobs, & lucrative post-invasion contracts. Paint the removable words "NO WAR" on top of The Sydney Opera House, risking your own life, (to draw attention to the upcoming loss of life in Iraq) And you get a possible prison sentence. * It's a wobbly world, & one better seen under water with your eyes open, salty, seeing sea shells, left alone from all the crap above. Vanessa Jones lives in Australia and can be contacted on post4@bigpond.com.au   Oy Canada By STEW ALBERT Ever notice how whenever anything goes wrong in America we blame Canada? A power failure--bad weather crazy cows happen, and its Canada's fault. Being the City on the Hill no evil starts out in America Canada has socialized medicine & the British Royal Family and besides a lot of them speak French. Oh what great evil lurks in the hearts of our northern neighbors? Next time a Mountie, riding atop a Mad eyed Cow talking in tongues crosses our border just ask him. Stew Albert runs the Yippie Reading Room. His memoir, Who the Hell is Stew Albert?, is now available at independent bookstores or from Red Hen Press. For a personally autographed copy, please send a check or money order for $22 (includes s&h) to Stew Albert, Who The Hell. PO Box 13161, Portland OR 97213-0161. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com   The Bush-Cheney Saw Massacre II By J.D. CURTIS In the 1980's, the US helped Saddam when Iraq was at war with Iran. Bush the First and all his men wanted Iraq to win and get some oil to use and sell in the USA instead of putting billions into schools, jobs, or energy for cars that run on water or hydro fuel, US leaders chose to send soldiers to help a man named Saddam Hussein, to give him weapons of mass destruction, nerve gas, chemical agents to use on Iranians and Kurds, then pile their bodies under dirt. Now we are appalled by the mass graves and weapons. We found the bodies but the weapons are gone. It's a rerun. Now the US will put another dictator in power to help corporations shave the dollars like wool from middle class backs; we will shiver in the Cold of the New 2004's winter War while the Bush-Cheney Saw hacks through foreign policy creating new enemies in Korea, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Chinathe list grows on and on as they two stand, insulated by their many thick hats and coats of wool, next to their timber and oil flames, Cheney & Bush buzz and ask for us to chip in, while the world is stripped and left to freeze. J.D. Curtis lives in Columbus, Ohio. Email: lunafleurs@yahoo.com   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 /