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November
4, 2003
Tariq
Ali
Resistance
and Independence in Iraq
November 3, 2003
Patrick
Cockburn
The
Bloodiest Day Yet for Americans in Iraq: Report from Fallujah
Dave Lindorff
Philly's
Buggy Election
Janine Pommy Vega
Sarajevo Hands 2003
Bernie
Dwyer
An
Interview with Chomsky on Cuba
November
1 / 2, 2003
Saul Landau
Cui
Bono? The Cuba Embargo as Rip Off
Noam Chomsky
Empire of the Men of Best Quality
Bruce
Jackson
Midge Decter and the Taxi Driver
Brian Cloughley
"Mow the Whole Place Down"
John Stanton
The Pentagon's Love Affair with Land Mines
William S. Lind
Bush's Bizarre Korean Gambit
Ben Tripp
The Brown Paste on Bush's Shoes
Christopher Brauchli
Divine Hatred
Dave Zirin
An Interview with John Carlos
Agustin Velloso
Oil in Equatorial Guinea: Where Trickle Down Doesn't Trickle
Josh Frank
Howard Dean and Affirmative Action
Ron Jacobs
Standing Up to El Diablo: the 1981 Blockade of Diablo Canyon
Strickler
/ Hermach
Liar, Liar Forests on Fire
David Vest
Jimmy T99 Nelson, a Blues Legend and the Songs that Made Him
Famous
Adam Engel
America, What It Is
Dr. Susan Block
Christy Canyon, a Life in Porn
Poets'
Basement
Greeder, Albert & Guthrie
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)
Linda Heard
An Arab View of Masonry
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
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Website of the Day
Time Tested Books
October
15, 2003
Sunil
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The
General and the Governor: Two Measures of American Desperation
Forrest
Hylton
Dispatch
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Brian
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Those
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Lessons
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Uri Avnery
Three
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October 14, 2003
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November
4, 2003
When Did "Arab"
Become a Dirty Word?
Smearing
Said and Hanan Ashrawi
By ROBERT FISK
Is "Palestinian" now just a dirty word?
Or is "Arab" the dirty word? Let's start with the late
Edward Said, the brilliant and passionate Palestinian-American
academic who wrote--among many other books--Orientalism, the
ground-breaking work which first explored our imperial Western
fantasies about the Middle East. After he died of leukaemia last
month, Zev Chafets sneered at him in the New York Daily News
in the following words: "As an Episcopalian, he's ineligible
for the customary 72 virgins, but I wouldn't be surprised if
he's honoured with a couple of female doctoral graduates."
According to Chafets, who (says the Post)
spent 33 years "in politics, government and journalism"
in Jerusalem, Orientalism "rests on a simple thesis: Westerners
are inherently unable to fairly judge, or even grasp, the Arab
world." Said "didn't blow up the Marines in Lebanon
in 1983 ... he certainly didn't fly a plane into the World Trade
Centre. What he did was to jam America's intellectual radar."
When I read this vicious obituary, I
recalled hearing Chafets' name before. So I turned to my files
and up he popped in 1982, as former director of the Israeli government
press office in Jerusalem. He had just published a book falsely
claiming that Western journalists in Beirut--myself among them--had
been "terrorised" by bands of Palestinians. He even
claimed my old friend Sean Toolan, who was murdered by a jealous
husband with whose wife he was having an affair, was killed by
Palestinians because they disapproved of a US television programme
about the PLO.
So I got the point. You can kick a scholar
when he's dead if he's a Palestinian, and kick a journalist when
he's dead if you want to claim he was murdered by Palestinians.
But now the same sick fantasies are taking hold in Australia,
where a determined effort is being made by Israel's supposed
friends there to prevent the Palestinian scholar Hanan Ashrawi--of
all people--from receiving the 2003 Sydney Peace Prize this week.
A Jewish writer in Sydney has bravely defended her--not least
because the local Israeli lobby appears to have deliberately
misquoted an interview she gave me two years ago, distorting
her words to imply that she is in favour of suicide bombings.
Ashrawi is not in favour of these wicked
attacks. She has fearlessly spoken out against them. But Sydney
University has already withdrawn the use of its Great Hall for
the presentation of the peace prize and the Lord Mayor of Sydney,
Lucy Turnbull, has dissociated the City of Sydney, sponsor of
the prize, from the presentation. And just to show you what lies
behind this--apart from the fact that Turnbull's husband Malcolm
is trying to get a nomination for a parliamentary seat--take
a look through the following exchange between Kathryn Greiner,
former chairwoman of the Sydney peace foundation, and Professor
Stuart Rees, the foundation's director:
KG: "I have to speak logically.
It is either Hanan Ashrawi or the Peace Foundation. That's our
choice, Stuart. My distinct impression is that if you persist
in having her here, they'll (sic) destroy you. Rob Thomas of
City Group is in trouble for supporting us. And you know Danny
Gilbert [an Australian lawyer] has already been warned off."
SR: "You must be joking. We've been
over this a hundred times. We consulted widely. We agreed the
jury's decision, made over a year ago, was not only unanimous
but that we would support it, together."
KG: "But you're not listening to
the logic. The Commonwealth Bank ... is highly critical. We could
not approach them for financial help for the Schools Peace Prize.
We'll get no support from them. The business world will close
ranks. They are saying we are one-sided, that we've only supported
Palestine."
There is more of the same, but Professor
Rees is standing firm--for now. So is Australian journalist Antony
Loewenstein in Zmag magazine. Ashrawi, he says, "has endured
campaigns of hate based on slander and lies for most of her life,
from those who are intent on silencing the Palestinian narrative
..." But how much longer must this go on? Ashrawi, I notice,
is now being called an "aging (sic) bespoke terror apologist"
by Mark Steyn in, of all places, The Irish Times.
And it's getting worse. Said's work is
now being denounced in testimony to the US Congress by Dr Stanley
Kurz, who claims that the presence of "post-colonial theory"
in academic circles has produced professors who refuse to support
or instruct students interested in joining the State Department
or American intelligence agencies. So now Congress is proposing
to set up an "oversight board"--with appointed members
from Homeland Security, the Department of Defence and the US
National Security Agency--that will link university department
funding on Middle East studies to "students training for
careers in national security, defence and intelligence agencies
..."
As Professor Michael Bednar of the History
Department at the University of Texas at Austin says, "the
possibility that someone in Homeland Security will instruct college
professors ... on the proper, patriotic, 'American-friendly'
textbooks that may be used in class scares and outrages me."
So it's to be goodbye to the life-work
of Edward Said? And goodbye to peace prizes for Hanan Ashrawi?
Goodbye to Palestinians, in fact? Then the radar really will
be jammed.
Robert Fisk is
a reporter for The Independent and author of Pity
the Nation. He is also a contributor to CounterPunch's
hot new book, The
Politics of Anti-Semitism.
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Brian Cloughley
"Mow the Whole Place Down"
John Stanton
The Pentagon's Love Affair with Land Mines
William S. Lind
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Howard Dean and Affirmative Action
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