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Coming Soon! From Common Courage Press Recent Stories July 3, 2003 Stan Goff "Bring 'Em On?": a Former Special Forces Soldier Responds to Bush's Invitation for Iraqis to Attack US Troops David Lindorff Outlawing Subversives: Hong Kong and the US John Chuckman Lessons from the American Revolution Jackson Thoreau New Far-Right Scheme: Impeach Supreme Court Justices Patrick W. Gavin The Meaning of Gettysburg Steve Perry Bush's Wars Web Log 7/2 July 2, 2003 Diane Christian Good Killing and Bad Killing Richard Falk After Iraq, Does UN War Prevention Have a Future? Mokhiber / Weissman Bush Administration: Causing Repetitive Stress Justin Podur Uribe's Onslaught Across Colombia Reuven Kaviner Prosecuting Ben-Artzi, the Refusenik Steve Perry Bush's Wars Web Log 7/2 July 1, 2003 Sasan Fayamanesh Weapon of Choice: Nukes, Israel and Iran Elaine Cassel Sex and the Supreme Moralizer: Scalia and the Sodomy Cops Susan Block A Love Supreme: Our Assholes Belong to Ourselves Bill Glahn RIAA Watch: No, No Bono David Lindorff Weapons in Search of a Name Gary Leupp Occupation, Resistance and the Plight of the GIs Steve Perry Bush's Wars Web Log 7/1   June 30, 2003 Karyn Strickler The Do-Nothings: an Exposé of Progressive Politics in America Col. Dan Smith The Occupation of Iraq: Descending into the Quagmire Tim Wise Race and Destruction in Black and White Neve Gordon The Roadmap and the Wall Chris Floyd The Revelation of St. George: "God Told Me to Strike Saddam" Elaine Cassel Kentucky Woman Uri Avnery Hope in Dark Times Steve Perry Bush's Wars Web Log 6/30 Website of the Day Bush El Hombre   June 28 / 29, 2003 M. Shahid Alam Bernard Lewis: Scholarship or Sophistry? Jeffrey St. Clair Meet Steven Griles: Big Oil's Inside Man Laura Carlsen Democracy's Future: From the Polls or the Populace? Alan Maass You Call These Democrats an Alternative? C.Y. Gopinath Bush and Kindergarten Noah Leavitt Bush, the Death Penalty and International Law Joanne Mariner Rehnquist Family Values Ignacio Chapela Tenure, Censorship and Biotech at Berkeley Bob Scowcroft Bush's Squeeze on Organic Farmers Jon Brown Tom Delay: "I am the Government" Kam Zarrabi Keep Your Hands Off Iran, Please! Ron Jacobs Big Bill Broonzy's Conversation with the Blues Julie Hilden Fear Factor: Art, Terror and the First Amendment Adrien Rain Burke The Anarchists' Wedding Guide Adam Engel US Troops Outta Times Square Poets' Basement Witherup, Guthrie, Albert, Hamod   June 27, 2003 Jason Leopold CIA: Seven Months Prior to 9/11 Iraq Posed No Threat to US David Vest Supreme Silence: Bush's Bunker-Hunker David Lindorff The Catch and Release of "Comical Ali" Ray McGovern Cheney, Forgery and the CIA Steve Perry Bush's Wars Web Log 6/26 Website of the Day John Kerry, Teresa Heinz & Ken Lay: The Politics of Hypocrisy June 26, 2003 Sen. Robert Byrd The Road of Cover-Up is a Road to Ruin Jason Leopold Wolfowitz Instructed the CIA to Investigate Hans Blix Paul de Rooij Ambient Death in Palestine Chris Floyd Mass Graves and Burned Meat in Bush's New Iraq Elaine Cassel Wolfowitz as Lord High Executioner CounterPunch Wire Musicians Unite Against Sweatshops Sheldon Hull Squatting in Mansions Ben Tripp A Guide to Hating Almost Anyone Uri Avnery The Best Show in Town Steve Perry Bush's Wars Web Log 6/25 Website of the Day Ordinary Vistas: The Photographs of Kurt Nimmo   June 25, 2003 Bruce Jackson Buffalo Cops Wage War on Pedal Pushers Mickey Z. The New Dark Ages David Lindorff Indonesia's War on Journalists Dan Bacher Butterflies and Farmworkers Confront USDA and Riot Cops Adam Federman "Success is Not the Issue Here" Elaine Cassel "Ain't No Justice": Fed Judge Quits, Assails Sentencing Guidelines Bill Kauffman My America vs. the Empire Steve Perry Bush's Wars Web Log 6/25 Website of the Day You Are Being Watched: Elevator Moods   June 24, 2003 Elaine Cassel Supreme Indemnity Holocaust Denial at the High Court Roya Monajem A Message from Tehran: Is It Worth It to Risk One's Life? John Chuckman The Real Clash of Civilizations David Lindorff WMD Damage Control at the Times Steve Perry Bush's Wars Web Log 6/24   June 23, 2003 Marc Pritzke Washington Lied: an Interview with Ray McGovern Conn Hallinan The Consistency of Sharon Wayne Madsen Commercials, Disney & Amistad Edward Said The Meaning of Rachel Corrie Steve Perry Bush's Wars Web Log 6/23 June 21 / 22, 2003 Alexander Cockburn My Life as a Rabbi William A. Cook The Scourge of Hopelessness Standard Schaefer The Wages of Terror: an Interview with R.T. Naylor Ron Jacobs US Prisons as Strategic Hamlets Harry Browne The Pitstop Ploughshares Lawrence Magnuson WMD: The Most Dangerous Game Harold Gould Saddam and the WMD Mystery David Krieger 10 Reasons to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Avia Pasternak The Unholy Alliance in the Occupied Territories CounterPunch Summer Reading: Our Favorite Novels Todd Chretien Return to Sender: Todd Gitlin, the Duke of Condescension Maria Tomchick Danny Goldberg's Imaginary Kids Adam Engel The Fat Man in Little Boy Poets' Basement Guthrie, Albert & Hamod June 20, 2003 Walter Brasch Down on Our Knees Robert Meeropol The Son of the Rosenbergs on His Parents Death and Bush's America Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Grannies and Baby Bells Norman Madarasz Pierre Bourgault: the Life of a Quebec Radical Gary Leupp Bush on "Revisionist Historians" Steve Perry Bush's Lies Marathon: the Finale   Hot Stories 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 Elaine Cassel Civil Liberties Watch Michel Guerrin Embedded Photographer Says: "I Saw Marines Kill Civilians" Uzma Aslam Khan The Unbearably Grim Aftermath of War: What America Says Does Not Go Paul de Rooij Arrogant Propaganda Gore Vidal The Erosion of the American Dream Francis Boyle Impeach Bush: A Draft Resolution Click Here for More Stories.     Subscribe Online Search CounterPunch

July 4, 2003 Bring 'Em On By DIANE CHRISTIAN "Bring 'em on. We've got the force necessary. . ." Pres. Bush, about Iraqi attacks on our soldiers, July 2, 2003 C'mon you fuckers we'll kill you suckers Blood and circuses the emperor will be amused the good ol' boy never in combat ace who combs his hair behind the plane before you snap his prance peppy, preppy, pious, pugilist Gotcha Diane Christian is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at University at Buffalo. She can be reached at: engdc@acsu.buffalo.edu   SPRING DREAM:2003 By WILLIAM WITHERUP Each blossom, each flower Flicked on its light-jets; Opened nozzles-- Some to a fine spray, Others full-throated. Hosed down the jailers And torturers; washed The streets clean Of grief and blood. William Witherup's most recent collection of poetry is Down Wind, Down River: New and Selected Poems. West End Press, 2000. He can be reached at: moolmool27@msn.com   Long Hot Summer By STEW ALBERT Wives going nuts maybe their husbands are coming back killers if they come back from Iraq. Knowing high divorce came after Gulf War 1 and wanting and fearing the father of their baby to be. Dubya likes the fight he can see it on the tube read the insider reports and Ye-haw the conquests. Nation Building ain't my thing he assured us and straight shooting cowboy oath he told the truth. Dubya loves Destroying nations and some families in Georgia. Generals say we're still at war too much coordination for too much killing and put $25 million on Saddam's head like Bob Ford killing Jesse James but the bucks would be wasted. Saddam's beside the point cause anyone's gonna hate the guy who took away his water and history and when it's 120 degrees in the shade wouldn't you just kill the refrigeration bandit who shut off your air conditioning. Stew Albert manages the Yippie Reading Room. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com   Rococo Revolution By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR No one understands Fragonard Anymore. No one takes the time. In certain circles even his name Must not be mentioned. For it Will surely invite abuse, physical Violence even. It's happened. Is it fear of abandon-your wild Fragrance of fun--that strikes them As uncouth and causes them To revolt in front of the canvas? Would it shock them all To discover Robespierre loved You and cached your paintings In a flat on the Rue Monge, Visiting them during timeouts From his administration Of the Terror, crawling Over those canvases, Splayed to the floor, As if he could smell them, After all those decades. I wonder: Did you Save lives or draw blood? Or has the prim lawyer Too turned to dust In their eyes, as Kaput as Condorcet Or Lautreamont--basking In his hotels, feverish With black visions And opiated myths? You caught the cusp Of an age when marble Cornices began to crack, As Primaticcio's bright frescoes Sooted over and then flaked Away to ghostly images, The secret treasuries Of loot raided, Versailles Mortgaged to the hilt: Though few knew it, which, For you, must have been A big part of the beauty. Breughel would have done It all differently. But these Weren't his kind of people. Robespierre kept coming back To one large canvas, a forest Tryst: Tall spindly oaks frame The scene, like part-open shutters, A voyeur's invitation, The foliage lush, and so dark, Past prime. The air whips With anticipation of autumn, The grass rudely trampled, The ground lurches and thrusts As if the very Earth had hips. These salmon-skinned lovers Are wired, haven't slept in Days, coming together Like flagellants. Pre-lapsarian, Perhaps, but the transgression Has happened and happened Again. And soon they will Pay. Fragonard, your Greatest irony is decay. Weekend Edition Features M. Shahid Alam Bernard Lewis: Scholarship or Sophistry? Jeffrey St. Clair Meet Steven Griles: Big Oil's Inside Man Laura Carlsen Democracy's Future: From the Polls or the Populace? Alan Maass You Call These Democrats an Alternative? C.Y. Gopinath Bush and Kindergarten Noah Leavitt Bush, the Death Penalty and International Law Joanne Mariner Rehnquist Family Values Ignacio Chapela Tenure, Censorship and Biotech at Berkeley Bob Scowcroft Bush's Squeeze on Organic Farmers Jon Brown Tom Delay: "I am the Government" Kam Zarrabi Keep Your Hands Off Iran, Please! Ron Jacobs Big Bill Broonzy's Conversation with the Blues Julie Hilden Fear Factor: Art, Terror and the First Amendment Adrien Rain Burke The Anarchists' Wedding Guide Adam Engel US Troops Outta Times Square Poets' Basement Witherup, Guthrie, Albert, Hamod   Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /