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Coming in October From AK Press Today's Stories 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   Recent Stories 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     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     August 28, 2003 Gilad Atzmon The Most Common Mistakes of Israelis David Vest Moore's Monument: Cement Shoes for the Constitution David Lindorff Shooting Ali in the Back: Why the Pacification is Doomed Chris Floyd Cheap Thrills: Bush Lies to Push His War Wayne Madsen Restoring the Good, Old Term "Bum" Elaine Cassel Not Clueless in Chicago Stan Goff Nukes in the Dark Tariq Ali Occupied Iraq Will Never Know Peace Arnold Schwarzenegger Behold, My Package Website of the Day Palestinian Artists August 27, 2003 Bruce Jackson Little Deaths: Hiding the Body Count in Iraq John Feffer Nuances and North Korea: Six Countries in Search of a Solution Dave Riley an Interview with Tariq Ali on the Iraq War Lacey Phillabaum Bush's Holy War in the Forests Steve Niva Israel's Assassination Policy: the Trigger for Suicide Bombings? Website of the Day The Dean Deception August 26, 2003 Robert Fisk Smearing the Dead David Lindorff The Great Oil Gouge: Burning Up that Tax Rebate Sarmad S. Ali Baghdad is Deadlier Than Ever: the View of an Iraqi Coroner Christopher Brauchli Bush Administration Equates Medical Pot Smokers with Segregationists Juliana Fredman Collective Punishment on the West Bank: Dialysis, Checkpoints and a Palestinian Madonna Larry Siems Ghosts of Regime Changes Past in Guatemala Elaine Cassel Onward, Ashcroft Soldiers! Saul Landau Bush: a Modern Ahab or a Toy Action Figure? Congratulations to CounterPuncher Gilad Atzmon! BBC Names EXILE Top Jazz CD   August 25, 2003 Kurt Nimmo Israeli Outlaws in America David Bacon In Iraq, Labor Protest is a Crime Thomas P. Healy The Govs Come to Indy: Corps Welcome; Citizens Locked Out Norman Madarasz In an Elephant's Whirl: the US/Canada Relationship After the Iraq Invasion Salvador Peralta The Politics of Focus Groups Jack McCarthy Who Killed Jancita Eagle Deer? Uri Avnery A Drug for the Addict   August 23/24, 2003 Forrest Hylton Rumsfeld Does Bogota Robert Fisk The Cemetery at Basra Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Insults to Intelligence Andrew C. Long Exile on Bliss Street: The Terrorist Threat and the English Professor Jeremy Bigwood The Toxic War on Drugs: Monsanto Weedkiller Linked to Powerful Fungus Jeffrey St. Clair Forest or Against Us: the Bush Doctor Calls on Oregon Cynthia McKinney Bring the Troops Home, Now! David Krieger So Many Deaths, So Few Answers: Approaching the Second Anniversary of 9/11 Julie Hilden A Constitutional Right to be a Human Shield Dave Lindorff Marketplace Medicine Standard Schaefer Unholy Trinity: Falwell's Anti-Abortion Attack on Health and Free Speech Catherine Dong Kucinich and FirstEnergy José Tirado History Hurts: Why Let the Dems Repeat It? Ron Jacobs Springsteen's America Gavin Keeney The Infernal Machine Adam Engel A Fan's Notations William Mandel Five Great Indie Films Walt Brasch An American Frog Fable Poets' Basement Reiss, Kearney, Guthrie, Albert and Alam Website of the Weekend The Hutton Inquiry   August 22, 2003 Carole Harper Post-Sandinista Nicaragua John Chuckman George Will: the Marquis of Mendacity Richard Thieme Operation Paperclip Revisited Chris Floyd Dubya Indemnity: Bush Barons Beyond the Reach of Law? Issam Nashashibi Palestinians and the Right of Return: a Rigged Survey Mary Walworth Other People's Kids Ron Jacobs The Darkening Tunnel Website of the Day Current Energy August 21, 2003 Robert Fisk The US Needs to Blame Anyone But Locals for UN Bombing 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 Hot Stories Steve Niva Israel's Assassination Policy: the Trigger for Suicide Bombings? Dardagan, Slobodo and Williams CounterPunch Exclusive: 20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians Steve J.B. Prison Bitch Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber True Lies: the Use of Propaganda in the Iraq War 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 William Blum Myth and Denial in the War on Terrorism Standard Schaefer Experimental Casinos: DARPA and the War Economy 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

September 6, 2003 A Legal Netherworld The Forgotten Prisoners of Guantanamo By ELAINE CASSEL It has been a while since the hapless prisoners of the United States, those being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as "enemy combatants," have been in the news. The last rush of publicity in the spring had to do with plans to build execution chambers and try them in secret with government prosecutors and defense attorneys. Then Blair got feisty and wanted the British subjects held there not to face death. Alright, Bush said, we won't shoot your guys, out of gratitude for your putting your asses on the line for us in Iraq. Then there was the news of the juveniles held there--we now find that some were as young as 13. We have not heard of their fates yet, only that they were held separately from adults and are being "schooled." That's a new twist on the Administration's "no child left behind" policy, isn't it? Few Americans care about the prisoners, captured in Afghanistan and brought to Cuba about 18 months ago. Hell, they must have been up to no good, or they would not be here. That is about what Rumsfeld says, too. They might not be "terrorists," but they are troublemakers. Previous efforts to get some legal relief for these men--to require that they be charged and tried or freed, to provide them with attorneys, to provide them with meaningful contact with families--were stopped at the courthouse door. A federal judge said, in one of the more idiotic catch-22 lines of logic, that they were not on American soil, so they could have no access to American courts. Forget that we control Guantanamo Bay. So the prisoners are in a legal nether world--subject only to the ad hoc, ex post facto regulations Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz make up as they go along. But the Center for Constitutional Rights is trying once to get the plight of these men before the U.S. legal system. On Tuesday, the Center for Constitutional Rights asked the Supreme Court to review the controversial decision by the DC Circuit denying counsel to alleged terrorists being detained by the United States at its naval base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The issue presented in the case, Rasul v. Bush, is whether enemy combatants being tried in military tribunals are entitled to any of the due process rights to which they would be entitled in U.S. courts. The Court has already rejected one petition to review the case, on procedural grounds. Its decision on this petition is expected this fall. Weekend Edition Features for 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     Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /