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Today's Stories

September 11, 2003

Robert Fisk
A Grandiose Folly

September 10, 2003

John Ross
Cancun Reality Show: Will It Turn Into a Tropical Seattle?

Zoltan Grossman
The General Who Would be President: Was Wesley Clark Also Unprepared for the Postwar Bloodbath?

Tim Llewellyn
At the Gates of Hell

Christopher Brauchli
Turn the Paige: the Bush Education Deception

Lee Sustar
Bring the Troops Home, Now!

Elaine Cassel
McCain-Feingold in Trouble: Scalia Hogs the Debate

Norman Finkelstein
Hitchens as Model Apostate

Hammond Guthrie
When All Was Said and Done

Website of the Day
Fact Checking Colin Powell



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September 9, 2003

William A. Cook
Eating Humble Pie

Robert Jensen / Rahul Mahajan
Bush Speech: a Shell Game on the American Electorate

Bill Glahn
A Kinder, Gentler RIAA?

Janet Kauffman
A Dirty River Runs Beneath It

Chris Floyd
Strange Attractors: White House Bawds Breed New Terror

Bridget Gibson
A Helping of Crow with Those Fries?

Robert Fisk
Thugs in Business Suit: Meet the New Iraqi Strongman

Website of the Day
Pot TV International



September 8, 2003

David Lindorff
The Bush Speech: Spinning a Fiasco

Robert Jensen
Through the Eyes of Foreigners: the US Political Crisis

Gila Svirsky
Of Dialogue and Assassination: Off Their Heads

Bob Fitrakis
Demostration Democracy

Kurt Nimmo
Bush and the Echo Chamber: Globalizing the Whirlwind

Sean Carter
Thou Shalt Not Campaign from the Bench

Uri Avnery
Betrayal at Camp David

Website of the Day
Rabbis v. the Patriot Act

 

September 6 / 7, 2003

Neve Gordon
Strategic Abuse: Outsourcing Human Rights Violations

Gary Leupp
Shiites Humiliate Bush

Saul Landau
Fidel and The Prince

Denis Halliday
Of Sanctions and Bombings: the UN Failed the People of Iraq

John Feffer
Hexangonal Headache: N. Korea Talks Were a Disaster

Ron Jacobs
The Stage of History

M. Shahid Alam
Pakistan "Recognizes" Israel

Laura Carlson
The Militarization of the Americas

Elaine Cassel
The Forgotten Prisoners of Guantanamo

James T. Phillips
The Mumbo-Jumbo War

Bill Glahn
RIAA Watch: Slumlords of the Internet

Walter A. Davis
Living in Death's Dream Kingdom

Adam Engel
Midnight's Inner Children

Poets' Basement
Stein, Guthrie and Albert

Book of the Weekend
It Became Necessary to Destroy the Planet in Order to Save It by Khalil Bendib


September 5, 2003

Brian Cloughley
Bush's Stacked Deck: Why Doesn't the Commander-in-Chief Visit the Wounded?

Col. Dan Smith
Iraq as Black Hole

Phyllis Bennis
A Return to the UN?

Dr. Susan Block
Exxxtreme Ashcroft

Dave Lindorff
Courage and the Democrats

Abe Bonowitz
Reflections on the "Matyrdom" of Paul Hill

Robert Fisk
We Were Warned About This Chaos

Website of the Day
New York Comic Book Museum

 

September 4, 2003

Stan Goff
The Bush Folly: Between Iraq and a Hard Place

John Ross
Mexico's Hopes for Democracy Hit Dead-End

Harvey Wasserman
Bush to New Yorkers: Drop Dead

Adam Federman
McCain's Grim Vision: Waging a War That's Already Been Lost

Aluf Benn
Sharon Saved from Threat of Peace

W. John Green
Colombia's Dirty War

Joanne Mariner
Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Latin America

Website of the Day
Califoracle

 

September 3, 2003

Virginia Tilley
Hyperpower in a Sinkhole

Davey D
A Hip Hop Perspective on the Cali Recall

Emrah Göker
Conscripting Turkey: Imperial Mercenaries Wanted

John Stanton
The US is a Power, But Not Super

Brian Cloughley
The Pentagon's Bungled PsyOps Plan

Dan Bacher
Another Big Salmon Kill

Elaine Cassel
Prosecutors Weep' Ninth Circuit Overturns 127 Death Sentences

Uri Avnery
First of All This Wall Must Fall

Website of the Day
Art Attack!

 

September 2, 2003

Robert Fisk
Bush's Occupational Fantasies Lead Iraq Toward Civil War

Kurt Nimmo
Rouind Up the Usual Suspects: the Iman Ali Mosque Bombing

Robert Jensen / Rahul Mahajan
Iraqi Liberation, Bush Style

Elaine Cassel
Innocent But Guilty: When Prosecutors are Dead Wrong

Jason Leopold
Ghosts in the Machines: the Business of Counting Votes

Dave Lindorff
Dems in 2004: Perfect Storm or Same Old Doldrums?

Paul de Rooij
Predictable Propaganda: Four Monts of US Occupation

Website of the Day
Laughing Squid


August 30 / Sept. 1, 2003

Alexander Cockburn
Handmaiden in Babylon: Annan, Vieiera de Mello and the Decline and Fall of the UN

Saul Landau
Schwarzenegger and Cuban Migration

Standard Schaefer
Who Benefited from the Tech Bubble: an Interview with Michael Hudson

Gary Leupp
Mel Gibson's Christ on Trial

William S. Lind
Send the Neocons to Baghdad

Augustin Velloso
Aznar: Spain's Super Lackey

Jorge Mariscal
The Smearing of Cruz Bustamante

John Ross
A NAFTA for Energy? The US Looks to Suck Up Mexico's Power

Mickey Z.
War is a Racket: The Wisdom of Gen. Smedley Butler

Elaine Cassel
Ashcroft's Traveling Patriot Show Isn't Winning Many Converts

Stan Cox
Pirates of the Caribbean: the WTO Comes to Cancun

Tom and Judy Turnipseed
Take Back Your Time Day

Adam Engel
The Red Badge of Knowledge: a Review of TDY

Adam Engel
An Eye on Intelligence: an Interview with Douglas Valentine

Susan Davis
Northfork, an Accidental Review

Nicholas Rowe
Dance and the Occupation

Mark Zepezauer
Operation Candor

Poets' Basement
Albert, Guthrie and Hamod

Website of the Weekend
Downhill Battle

Congratulations to CounterPuncher Gilad Atzmon! BBC Names EXILE Top Jazz CD

 

August 29, 2003

Lenni Brenner
God and the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party

Brian Cloughley
When in Doubt, Lie Your Head Off

Alice Slater
Bush Nuclear Policy is a Recipe for National Insecurity

David Krieger
What Victory?

Marjorie Cohn
The Thin Blue Line: How the US Occupation of Iraq Imperils International Law

Richard Glen Boire
Saying Yes to Drugs!

Bister, Estrin and Jacobs
Howard Dean, the Progressive Anti-War Candidate? Some Vermonters Give Their Views

Website of the Day
DirtyBush

 

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Chilean Coup Memorial Edition
September 11, 2003

What Goes Around

By STEW ALBERT
1

9/11
30 years ago
Nixon and Kissinger
could murder democracy
in Chile
and
never consider
that
a sky scraper might be blown up
in Manhattan
and
a wall
knocked out of the Pentagon.

Those were
the good old days
for death squads.

2

They are naming a stadium
in Santiago
after Victor Jara.

There,
he was tortured and murdered
30 years ago

for being
a singing socialist
in a very well mannered revolution.

31 years ago
saw Victor singing with Phil Ochs
up in the Andes
half time
in a basketball game
miners vs students.

Victor translated Phil
but my long hair
was driving the miners crazy.

Stew Albert runs the Yippie Reading Room. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com

Weekend Edition Features for Sept. 1 / 7, 2003

Neve Gordon
Strategic Abuse: Outsourcing Human Rights Violations

Gary Leupp
Shiites Humiliate Bush

Saul Landau
Fidel and The Prince

Denis Halliday
Of Sanctions and Bombings: the UN Failed the People of Iraq

John Feffer
Hexangonal Headache: N. Korea Talks Were a Disaster

Ron Jacobs
The Stage of History

M. Shahid Alam
Pakistan "Recognizes" Israel

Laura Carlson
The Militarization of the Americas

Elaine Cassel
The Forgotten Prisoners of Guantanamo

James T. Phillips
The Mumbo-Jumbo War

Bill Glahn
RIAA Watch: Slumlords of the Internet

Walter A. Davis
Living in Death's Dream Kingdom

Adam Engel
Midnight's Inner Children

Poets' Basement
Stein, Guthrie and Albert

Book of the Weekend
It Became Necessary to Destroy the Planet in Order to Save It by Khalil Bendib

 

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