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Ron Jacobs
The
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August 21, 2003
Robert Fisk
The US
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Virginia Tilley
The Quisling Policies of the UN in Iraq: Toward a Permanent War?
Rep. Henry Waxman
Bush Owes the Public Some Serious Answers on Iraq
Ben Terrall
War Crimes and Punishment in Indonesia: Rapes, Murders and Slaps
on the Wrists
Elaine Cassel
Brother John Ashcroft's Traveling Patriot Salvation Show
Christopher Brauchli
Getting Gouged by Banks
Marjorie Cohn
Sergio Vieira de Mello: Victim of Terrorism or US Policy in Iraq?
Vicente Navarro
Media
Double Standards: The Case of Mr. Aznar, Friend of Bush
Website of the Day
The Intelligence Squad
August 20, 2003
Robert Fisk
Now No
One Is Safe in Iraq
Caoimhe Butterly
Life and Death on the Frontlines of Baghdad
Kurt Nimmo
UN Bombing: Act of Terrorism or Guerrilla War?
Michael Egan
Revisiting the Paranoid Style in the Dark
Ramzi Kysia
Peace
is not an Abstract Idea
Steven Higgs
NPR and the NAFTA Highway
John L. Hess
A Downside Day
Edward Said
The Imperial Bluster of Tom Delay
Jason Leopold
Gridlock at Path 15: the California Blackouts were the "Wake
Up Call"
Website of the Day
Ashcroft's Patriotic Hype
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!
Congratulations
to CounterPuncher Gilad Atzmon! BBC Names EXILE Top Jazz CD
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
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,
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Wendy Brinker
Hubris in the White House
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Black
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Steve
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Sheldon
Rampton and John Stauber
True Lies: the Use of Propaganda
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Wendell
Berry
Small Destructions Add Up
CounterPunch
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Cindy
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A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter
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William Blum
Myth
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Standard Schaefer
Experimental Casinos: DARPA and the War Economy
Uzma
Aslam Khan
The Unbearably Grim Aftermath of War:
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Paul de Rooij
Arrogant
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Gore Vidal
The
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Francis Boyle
Impeach
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August
23, 2003
Dear Tom, Dear Matt
A
Fan's Notations
By ADAM ENGEL
To: Tom Turnipseed
From: Adam Engel
CC: United States of America
Subject: "Blowback
in Iraq," Counter Punch, August 14, 2003
Dear Tom Turnipseed,
Horrifying. I actually hoped, though
the waving flags and media hoopla indicated otherwise, that all
the marching, writing, teaching I and colleagues did from September,
2002 through March 2003 would actually prevent Gulf War II. Hell,
fifteen million people across the globe screamed NO in a single
February week-end. It ended in a massacre, which itself was the
culmination of twelve years of slaughter, starvation, intimidation
and outrages too numerous to mention against the people of Iraq
(and let's not forget about our great People's Victory over the
mighty Taliban).
Whatever happens to the U.S. now is,
at the very least, justice. Still, I remember the WTC crumbling
to the pavement with friends of mine dying inside. I don't want
to see Americans suffer the same punishment we inflicted on the
peoples of Iraq, Afghanistan and (via our Israeli proxies) Palestine.
The typical American, despite the flag-waving, jingoistic, fanaticism
and indifference to human suffering, is no more deserving of
the coming horrors than the Mid East citizens "our"
army destroyed with cruise missiles and radioactive shells. But
protesting this blowback seems even less effective than protesting
the warmongers who started it all (dating back to WWII). Uncle
Sam murdered in our names, with our tax money, and the support
of a large segment of our population. Now we must all pay.
What were people thinking? That we could
allow "our" military to step on humans as if they were
insects and get away with it? Because we're such nice people?
Because even though our parents and grand-parents got suckered
into a materialistic, racist, anti-social "American Dream,"
they basically meant well?
My wife's best friend, a woman she met
in kindergarten, who worked ten hours a day while raising two
daughters, probably never made the connection between the fuel
that heated her house and powered the vehicles that drove her
kids to school and the liquid fire that blew her out of some
shiny glass WTC office window.
Great article.
Adam Engel
NYC
From: Adam Engel
To: Matt Siegfried
CC: United States of America
Subject: "Bush
Administration in Context", Counter Punch, August 18,
2003
Dear Matt Siegfried,
Fabulous, terse synopsis of "some
of the defining events that have set the stage for our current
situation" since 1945 and inspiring call to arms against
capitalism/imperialism/militarism itself rather than the ridiculous
and ineffectual targeting of one member of the tag-team Republican/Democrat
wrestling duo that sends in a "new" administration
to fight all life on the planet in four to eight year cycles
(approximately the time it takes for one or the other to exhaust
its own rhetoric and tactics and take a breather while the other
fights on).
The problem for me is, despite all that
Greens, socialists, anarchists, progressives and anyone else
on the left has done to point out that this global meltdown is
the result of a highly evolved system, rather than the mere exchange
of a "happy hegemon" like Clinton for a "surly
hegemon" like Bush, false consciousness (or unconsciousness)
wins the day here in America time and time again. It's as if
Americans still think in the binary code taught to them by FDR.
I write a weekly column in the Cultural
Section of Counter Punch, and I actually receive emails/newsletters
daily which invoke the horrors of corporatism, militarism, racism,
corruption, exploitation and everything else that makes our "democracy"
tick, only to blame it ALL on Bush and urge me to (What, rebel?
organize? resist? Of course not!) VOTE Democrat (for Howard Dean
or Denis Coconut or whoever else is slated to accept the torch
of status quo).
Such thinking truly baffles me, and leaves
me speechless. For every such e-missive I receive, I will reply
with a link to your article.
Excellent work.
Adam Engel
NYC
Adam Engel
can be reached at: bartleby.samsa@verizon.net.
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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
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