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Coming in October From Common Courage Press Today's Stories August 20, 2003 Edward Said The Imperial Bluster of Tom Delay   August 19, 2003 Jeffrey St. Clair Blackouts Happen Gary Leupp "Our Patch": Australia v. the Evil Doers of the South Pacific Sean Donahue Uribe's Cruel Model: Colombia Moves Toward Totalitarianism Matt Martin Bush's Credibility Problem on Missile Defense Juliana Fredman Recipe for the Destruction of a Hudna John Ross Fox Government's Attack on Mexican Basques Sasan Fayazmanesh What Kermit Roosevelt Didn't Say Website of the Day Tom Delay's Dual Loyalities   August 18, 2003 Uri Avnery Hero in War and Peace Stan Goff The Volunteer Military and the Wicked Adventure Cathy Breen Baghdad on the Hudson Michael Kimaid Fight the Power (Companies)! Jason Leopold The California Rip-Off Revisited: Arnold, Milken and Ken Lay Matt Siegfried The Bush Administration in Context Elaine Cassel At Last, A Judge Who Acts Like a Judge Alexander Cockburn Judy Miller's War Harvey Wasserman The Legacy of Blackout Pete Wilson Website of the Day Fire Griles!   Recent Stories August 16 / 17, 2003 Flavia Alaya Bastille New Jersey Jeffrey St. Clair War Pimps Saul Landau The Legacy of Moncada: the Cuban Revolution at 50 Brian Cloughley What Has Happened to the US Army in Iraq? William S. Lind Coffins for the Crews: How Not to Use Light Armored Vehicles Col. Dan Smith Time for Straight Talk Wenonah Hauter Which Electric System Do We Want? David Lindorff Where's Arnold When We Need Him? Harvey Wasserman This Grid Should Not Exist Don Moniak "Unusual Events" at Nuclear Power Plants: a Timeline for August 14, 2003 David Vest Rolling Blackout Revue Merlin Chowkwanyun An Interview with Sherman Austin Adam Engel The Loneliest Number Poets' Basement Guthrie, Hamod & Albert Book of the Weekend Powerplay by Sharon Beder   August 14, 2003 Peter Phillips Inside Bohemian Grove: Where US Power Elites Party Brian Cloughley Charlie Wilson and Pakistan: the Strange Congressman Behind the CIA's Most Expensive War Linville and Ruder Tyson Strike Draws the Line Jim Lobe Bush Administration Divided Over Iran Ramzy Baroud Sharon Freezes the Road Map Tom Turnipseed Blowback in Iraq Gary Leupp Condi's Speech: From Birgmingham to Baghdad, Imperialism's Freedom Ride Website of the Day Tony Benn's Greatest Hits August 13, 2003 Joanne Mariner A Wall of Separation Through the Heart Donald Worster The Heavy Cost of Empire Standard Schaefer Experimental Casinos: DARPA and the War Economy Elaine Cassel Murderous Errors: Executing the Innocent Ralph Nader Make the Recall Count Alexander Cockburn Ted Honderich Hit with "Anti-Semitism" Slur Website of the Day Defending Yourself Against DirectTV Lawsuits: 9000 and Counting   August 12, 2003 William Blum Myth and Denial in the War on Terrorism Ron Jacobs Revisionist History: the Bush Administration, Civil Rights and Iraq Josh Frank Dean's Constitutional Hang-Up Wayne Madsen What's a Fifth Columnist? Well, Someone Like Hitchens Ray McGovern Relax, It Was All a Pack of Lies Wendy Brinker Hubris in the White House Website of the Day Black Mustache August 11, 2003 Douglas Valentine Homeland Security for Whom? Mickey Z. Bush's Progress Bill Glahn RIAA Watch: Meet the New Bitch, Same as the Old Elaine Cassel Indicting DNA Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq Civil Liberties and Uncivil Super-Patriotism Uri Avnery Who Will Save Abu Mazen? Website of the Day RIAA Subpoena Clearinghouse August 9 / 10, 2003 Alexander Cockburn California's Glorious Recall! Saul Landau Bush and King Henry Gary Leupp On Terrorism, Methodism, "Wahhabism" and the Censored 9/11 Report Paul de Rooij The Parade of the Body Bags Michael Egan History and the Tragedy of American Diplomacy Rob Eshelman A Home of Our Own Daoud Kuttab Life as an ID Card Philip Agee Terror and Civil Society: Instruments of US Policy in Cuba Jeffrey St. Clair Marc Racicot: Bush's Main Man Walt Brasch Schwarzenegger, "Hollyweird" and the Rigtheous Right Christopher Brauchli Bush, Bribery and Berlusconi Josh Frank Mean, Mean Howard Dean Elaine Cassel Will the Death Penalty Ever Die? Sean Carter Total Recall Poets' Basement Hamod, Engel, Albert August 8, 2003 John Chuckman What the US Says Goes Roberto Barreto Defend the Vieques 12! Bruce Gagnon Iraq War Emboldens Bush Space Plans Elaine Cassel The Reign of John Ashcroft Dave Lindorff Snoops Night Out Website of the Day Zero Boy   August 7, 2003 M. Shahid Alam It the US a "Terrorist Magnet?" Toni Solo Neo-liberal Nicaragua: a New Banana Republic Adam Lebowitz Hiroshima Commemorated: the View from Japan Hanan Ashrawi When the Bully Whines Niranjan Ramakrishnan Conscience Takes a Holiday Jason Leopold Wolfowitz Lets Slip: Iraq Not Behind 9/11; No Ties to Al-Qaeda Mike Kimaid What's the Score? Elaine Cassel The Smell of VICTORY: Ashcroft's Latest Stinkbomb Dardagan, Slobodo and Williams CounterPunch Exclusive: 20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians   August 6, 2003 Steve Higgs Going to Jail for the Cause: It's Not Easy Confronting King Coal David Krieger Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki Robert Fisk The Ghosts of Uday and Qusay Christopher Brauchli Bush's War on the National Forests Elaine Cassel No Fly Lists Stan Goff Military Equipment and Pneumonia Hugh Sansom An Open Letter to Nicholas Kristof on the Nuking of Japan   August 5, 2003 Uri Avnery The Prisoner of Ramallah: Arafat at 74 Forrest Hylton Terrorism and Political Trials: the View from Bolivia Ray McGovern "We Cook Estimates to Go" David Morse Poindexter's Gambit Edward Said Orientallism: 25 Years Later George W. Bush My Darn Good Resumé Hammond Guthrie It's Incremental, Watson! Website of the Day National Prayer Day August 4, 2003 Bruce K. Gagnon Another Peace Activist Detained by Airport Cops: My Story David Lindorff Fear-Mongering About Social Security Mark Zepezauer George F. Will: Descent into Self-Parody James Plummer Tracking You Through the Mail Mickey Z. Marriage Insecurity from Sharon to Bush Bruce Jackson News that Isn't News: How the NYT's Pimps for the White House August 2 / 3, 2003 Tamara R. Piety Nike's Full Court Press Breaks Down Francis Boyle My Alma Mater, the University of Chicago, is a Moral Cesspool David Vest Sons of Paleface: Pictures from Death's Other Side Neve Gordon Nightlife in Jerusalem Uri Avnery Their Master's Voice: Bush, Blair and Intelligence Snafus Robert Fisk Paternalistic Democracy for Iraq Jerry Kroth Israel, Yellowcake and the Media Noah Leavitt What's Driving the Liberian Bloodbath: Is the US Obligated to Intervene? Saul Landau The Film Industry: Business and Ideology Ron Jacobs One Big Prison Yard: the Meaning of George Jackson Thomas Croft In the Deep, Deep Rough: Reflections on Augusta Amadi Ajamu Def Sham: Russell Simmons New Black Leader? Poets' Basement Vega, Witherup, Albert and Fleming   August 1, 2003 Joanne Mariner Stopping Prison Rape Alex Coolman Who Moved My Soap: Trivializing Prison Rape Steve J.B. Prison Bitch Stan Goff Injury and Decorum: The Missing Wounded in Iraq Wayne Madsen Europe Unplugs from the Matrix Robert Fisk Wolfowitz the Censor Elaine Cassel Ashcroft Loses Big in Puerto Rico Website of the Day Stop Prisoner Rape   July 31, 2003 Ray McGovern The Prostitution of Intelligence Brian Cloughley Wolfowitz's Operative Statement Sheldon Hull The RIAA's Jihad: The Devil's Music (Industry) Elaine Cassel The Next Time You Crack a Lawyer Joke, Think of These Attorneys Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber True Lies: Propaganda and Bush's Wars Hammond Guthrie Speculation Blues Website of the Day Army of One? Congratulations to CounterPuncher Gilad Atzmon! BBC Names EXILE Top Jazz CD   July 30, 2003 David Lindorff Poindexter the Terror Bookie Marjorie Cohn Why Iraq and Afghanistan? It's About the Oil Elaine Cassel How Ashcroft Coerces Guilty Pleas in Terror Cases Zvi Bar'el The Hidden Costs of the Iraq War Lisa Walsh Thomas Killing Mustafa Hussein: Death of a Child, Birth of a Legend? Sean Carter Pat Robertson's Prayer Jihad: God, Sodomy and the Supremes ND Jayaprakash India and Ariel Sharon Steve Perry Bush's Top 40 Lies Standard Schaefer Correction about Bloomberg and Outscourcing Website of the Day Bring Them Home Now!   Hot Stories Dardagan, Slobodo and Williams CounterPunch Exclusive: 20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians Steve J.B. 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August 20, 2003 What's the Use? A Downside Day By JOHN L. HESS The news from liberated Iraq is godawful. Bombs hitting oil and water pipelines and the compound where the UN was trying to resume its relief work. Nobody has claimed responsibility, so the question arose -- qui bono -- who benefits from this? An immediate answer was Big Oil - since with Iraq down the price of oil had to go up. Furthermore, Halliburton and the Texas gang in general don't want the UN meddling in their pea-patch. So conspiracy buffs have another bone to chew on, but who needs it? Stupidity is about as likely an explanation as any. Note the link between religious fundamentalism and irrational violence -- throughout the Third World, and also in the United States. We have the largest number of alleged true believers in the industrial world. We're also the last executioners in the industrial world. The Chinese are said to have used executions to supply organs for export. The Times reports that in this country, the shortage of body parts is growing. The headline calls it a downside to a decline in deaths by accident or violence. A downside. How witty. It might have said that every silver lining has a cloud. Younger readers may not believe this, but when the religion of privatization was taking over big time, one go-getter launched a market in body parts. Fortune magazine made a pitch for it, but the country was not quite ready. We have moved along, though. Madeline Albright asked, what's the use of all this weaponry if we don't use it? So what's the use of creating all those fresh body parts, if we don't use them? John L. Hess is a commentator on WBAI in New York City.   Weekend Edition Features for August 16 / 17, 2003 Flavia Alaya Bastille New Jersey Jeffrey St. Clair War Pimps Saul Landau The Legacy of Moncada: the Cuban Revolution at 50 Brian Cloughley What Has Happened to the US Army in Iraq? William S. Lind Coffins for the Crews: How Not to Use Light Armored Vehicles Col. Dan Smith Time for Straight Talk Wenonah Hauter Which Electric System Do We Want? David Lindorff Where's Arnold When We Need Him? Harvey Wasserman This Grid Should Not Exist Don Moniak "Unusual Events" at Nuclear Power Plants: a Timeline for August 14, 2003 David Vest Rolling Blackout Revue Merlin Chowkwanyun An Interview with Sherman Austin Adam Engel The Loneliest Number Poets' Basement Guthrie, Hamod & Albert Book of the Weekend Powerplay by Sharon Beder     Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /