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June
13, 2003
David
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Bush
Roadmap to What?
Ron Jacobs
The Iranian Revolution, Reloaded?
John
Chuckman
The Man Who Wasn't There
Jason Leopold
Six Months Before War White House Silenced Critics of WMD Intelligence
Michael
Leon
Missing Weapons, Shrinking Bush and the Media
Negar Azimi
Ashcroft's Cruel Version of America
Saul
Landau
Shiite Happens
Hammond
Guthrie
Then and Now
Steve
Perry
Bush's Wars
Web Log 6/13
June
12, 2003
Gary
Leupp
The Intel-gate Row in Britain: a Chronology
Ahmad Faruqui
The Tragic Legacy of the Six Day
War
Wayne
Madsen
Unfit for Office: Time for Rumsfeld to Resign
Laura Carlsen
Hunger and Security
Tarif
Abboushi
Warm and Fuzzy in Aqaba
Ray
McGovern
Deceived into War: Reflections of
a Former CIA Analyst
Steve
Perry
Bush's Wars
Web Log 6/12
June
11, 2003
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Attack of the Hog Killers: Why the
Generals Hate the A-10
Elaine
Cassel
Meet Michael Chertoff: Ashcroft's
Top Gremlin
David Lindorff
The Republican Drive to Eliminate Overtime Pay
Tom
Gorman
Greens, the Antiwar Movement and 2004
Alfredo
Castro
Colombia: The Most Dangerous Place
on Earth for Trade Unionists
Nnimo
Bassey and Lawrence Bohlen
Bush Must Stop Telling Us What to
Eat!
Julie Hilden
Spike Lee v. Spike TV
CounterPunch
Wire
Blair Bros. Change Jobs!
Eric
Hobsbawm
The Empire Expands, Wider and Still
Wider
Steve
Perry
DHS: As Big
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June
10, 2003
Benjamin
Shepard
A Season in the Anti-War Movement
Chris
Floyd
Bush Family Lies About Iraq and Nazi
Germany
Wayne
Madsen
Weaponsgate
Jason Leopold
Powell's Denials Ring Hollow
Richard
Lichtman
Whining, Whimpering Leftists Confront the Logic of American World
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Ray
Close
A CIA Analyst on Why the Lies About
WMD Matter
Hammond
Guthrie
Banking on Saddam?
Steve
Perry
Bush's Wars
Web Log 6/10
June
9, 2003
Alex
Coolman
Male Rape in US Prisons
Elaine
Cassel
Ashcroft is Coming!
Lee
Sustar
Is Iran Next?
Agustin
Velloso
Equatorial Guinea: Few Rich, Many
Poor
Gila
Svirsky
Some Lives Are Worth Less Than Others
Dr. Gerry
Lower
Human Worth in Bush's America
Michael
S. Ladah
A True Liberation
Ishmael Reed
Iraqi Slaughter, Mayhem and Plunder
Steve
Perry
How to Beat Bush, part 1
June
7 / 8, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
The Terrible Truth
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Going Critical: Bush's War on Endangered Species
Joanne
Mariner
Ashcrofts Sides with Torturers
Steven
Sherman
A Different Theory of Everything
Ron Jacobs
Sports, Politics and the 60s
M.
Shahid Alam
Pauperizing the Periphery
Amelia
Peltz
If This is the Road, I'd Rather be Lost
Shelton
Hull
Another Powell, Another Capitulation
Binoy Kampmark
Nuclear Deterrence and North Korea
Ben
Tripp
A Fish Story
Sen. Robert
Byrd
Where is the Outrage?
Robin
Philpot
Congo Distortions
Julie Hilden
Murder and the Matrix
Laura
Flanders
An Interview with Isabel Allende
David Lindorff
The Last Byline
Adam
Engel
Talk Dirty Scary Monsters
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Elaine
Cassel
Ashcroft the Insatiable
David
Krieger
The Big Lie
Ramzy
Baroud
Sharon and the Myth of the Peacemakers
Anthony
Gancarski
Sharansky: "Crucifixion is a Privilege"
Sam
Hamod
His Own Little Country
Sean Carter
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Lindorff
Cracks in the Consensus
Stew Albert
Ari's Great Set
Steve
Perry
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5, 2003
Jeffrey
St. Clair
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Imraan
Siddiqi
Ann Coulter's Foul Mouth
Michael
Leon
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Robert
Jensen
Texas Pledge Law Undermines Democracy
Ann Harrison
Rosenthal is Free, But the Fight isn't Over
Paul
Dean
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Gary Leupp
When Spooks Speak Out
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Uzma
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Paul de Rooij
Arrogant
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June
14, 2003
Liars--Bush, Blair, Straw
by SYDNEY BERNARD SMITH
you lied in word, in deed,
& by omission:
you blamed Saddam for things
that you had done
& failed to do--the Shia
insurrection,
incited, left to founder--sorry
son!
with VX, sarin, stuff for nuclear
fission -
you armed him, supplied anthrax
by the ton,
you egged him on to fight Iran,
then ditched him...
& now you cannot find the
smoking gun?
too long past their use-by-date.
oh? fine!
(don't bother to say sorry:
just resign.)
you lied about "eviction"
of inspectors
whom the UN "withdrew"--you
wanna bet?
phials, anti-poison-gas injectors,
antidotes to dangers to be
met,
& posters: how to cope
with radiation
were hailed as "proof
of clear & present threat."
duty-bound to free a captive
nation?
ever think of rescuing Tibet?
oh. it's unfair to hold you
to that line...
don't bother to say sorry:
just resign.
there's some bad bastards,
but it's no use fretting -
ex-Soviets Belarus & Kazakhstan.
our hatred of dictators could
not threaten
Suharto, Burma, Saudi, Pakistan.
adjust the odds, it makes for
safer betting;
where standards are too high,
let down the bar.
for Chile we strained the rules,
left Pinochet in;
Somoza, Marcos, Franco, Salazar,
we backed; who claimed their
right to rule divine,
& never did say sorry,
nor resign.
Afghanistan: "we'll never
walk away!"
you left them unexploded cluster
bombs
like food parcels--they go
off every day! -
to add to 20 million Russian
mines.
& all the billions that
you said you'd pay
keeps war lords ruling as in
former times.
the bulk of it is mis-spent,
gone astray,
they don't add up, the economic
sums.
damage limitation? not this
time.
don't bother to say sorry:
just resign.
you lied about the poison factories;
lied about nuclear capacity;
on links to Al Qaida came a
freeze--
Bush yes, Blair no (gulp gulp);
it took audacity...
45 minute standby--there's
a wheeze -
imminent threat! in coping
with this facet we
might have bypassed other forgeries--
uranium from Niger? sheer mendacity!
you've been found out, you've
overstayed your time,
so do what Denis Healy said:
resign
you lied. you said it wasn't
about oil.
you bellowed this until your
face turned blue.
& yet, available to any
literate child:
what Goldstein said to Bush's
cronies whom
cringing,--see footnote--we
will not imbroil
after the war the inverse will
be true.
blatant: the Wall Street Journal--your
blood boil?
mine does. we all could read
it! so could you.
maybe you did; it chanced to
slip your mind?
don't even promise. do it now.
resign.
Sydney Bernard
Smith lives in Ireland
A Seqway Poem
by CHRIS GREEDER
The machinery
has begun to fail you.
The screws have come loose as
the breathless come home
in coffins of lies, as the breathless
die unnamed deaths in sad
desserts, and as the breathless
children sleep tight.
And now you stumble,
like a drunk on skates,
drunk with hate and greed.
The Leaks are the Evidence.
as the inside turns gross and sick
and spits up on itself. The snake
eats its tail.
And listen the hurdy gurdy
plays
a broken anthem and a cool wind
whips up.
What were you thinking
as the ground was getting closer?
As your right hand stretched out
to save your fal?
What desperate thoughts
now that the machinery is failing?
What desperate thoughts
you must have had
you poor, sad, sad, man.
Chris Greeder can be reached at: greederc@toysrus.com
Read All About It
by STEW ALBERT
Media for the moment
seems out of embed with Bush.
Asking
what didn't Bush know
and when didn't he know it?
When was he unaware
that Osama and Bin Laden
hated each other
never mind conspiratorial plotting
these guys couldn't agree on lunch.
When was Dubya fully misinformed
about Saddam not having
a fire cracker's worth
of massive military might
threatening our skyscrapers?
When didn't he know
that Iraqis wouldn't welcome his occupation
certainly wouldn't consider
voting for him
in the next election?
Momentarily free press
isn't asking
the mother of all questions.
When didn't Bush know
that 9/11 was a happening
and
who didn't tell him?
Stew Albert manages the Yippie
Reading Room. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com
Neocon Voodoo
by PATRICK O'HAYER
There once was an oil man from
Texas
Who round-housed Saddam's solar plexus.
Old Baathists are gone,
The new Rummies roll on
And Iran's next--that Wolfy has hexed us.
Patrick O'Hayer can be reached at: pohayer@hotmail.com
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Michael
Leon
Missing Weapons, Shrinking Bush and the Media
Negar Azimi
Ashcroft's Cruel Version of America
Saul
Landau
Shiite Happens
Hammond
Guthrie
Then and Now
Steve
Perry
Bush's Wars
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