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September 9, 2003
Robert Fisk
Thugs
in Business Suit: Meet the New Iraqi Strongman
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
Recent
Stories
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
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
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Elaine Cassel
Brother John Ashcroft's Traveling Patriot Salvation Show
Christopher Brauchli
Getting Gouged by Banks
Marjorie Cohn
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Vicente Navarro
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September
9, 2003
Meet
the New Iraqi Strongman: Paul Bremer
Thugs
in Business Suits
By ROBERT FISK
Paul Bremer's taste in clothes symbolises "the
new Iraq" very well. He wears a business suit and combat
boots. As the proconsul of Iraq, you might have thought he'd
have more taste. But he is a famous "anti-terrorism"
expert who is supposed to be rebuilding the country with a vast
army of international companies-most of them American, of course-and
creating the first democracy in the Arab world. Since he seems
to be a total failure at the "anti-terrorist" game-50
American soldiers killed in Iraq since President George Bush
declared the war over is not exactly a blazing success-it is
only fair to record that he is making a mess of the "reconstruction"
bit as well.
In theory, the news is all great. Oil
production is up to one million barrels a day; Baghdad airport
is preparing to re-open; every university in Iraq is functioning
again ; the health services are recovering rapidly; and mobile
phones have made their first appearance in Baghdad. There's an
Iraqi Interim Council up and hobbling.
But there's a kind of looking-glass fantasy
to all these announcements from the Coalition Provisional Authority
(CPA), the weasel-worded title with which the American-led occupation
powers cloak their decidedly undemocratic and right-wing credentials.
Take the oil production figures. Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez,
the US commander in Iraq, even chose to use these statistics
in his "great day for Iraq" press conference last week,
the one in which he triumphantly announced that 200 soldiers
in Mosul had killed the sons of Saddam rather than take them
prisoner. But Lt-Gen Sanchez was talking rubbish. Although oil
production was indeed standing at 900,000 barrels per day in
June (albeit 100,000bpd less than the Sanchez version), it fell
this month to 750,000. The drop was caused by power cuts--which
are going to continue for much of the year-and
export smuggling. The result? Iraq, with the world's second-highest
reserves of oil, is now importing fuel from other oil producing
countries to meet domestic demands. Then comes Baghdad airport.
Sure, it's going to re-open. But it just happens that the airport,
with its huge American military base and brutal US prison camp,
comes under nightly grenade and mortar attack. No major airline
would dream of flying its aircraft into the facility in these
circumstances. So, weird things are happening. The Iraqis are
told, for example, that the first flights will be run by "Transcontinental
Airlines" (a name oddly similar to the CIA's transport airline
in Vietnam), which is reported to be a subsidiary of "US
Airlines" and the only flight will be between Baghdad and-wait
for it-the old East Berlin airport of Schonefeld. A British outfit
calling itself "Mayhill Aviation" has printed advertisements
in the Iraqi press saying that it intends to fly a Boeing 747
once a week from Gatwick to Basra, a route which suggests that
it is going to be British military personnel and their families
who end up using the plane.
Open universities are good news. And
few would blame Bremer for summarily firing the 436 professors
who were members of the Baath party. In the same vein, the CPA
annulled the academic system whereby student party members would
automatically receive higher grades. This is real de-Baathification.
But then it turned out that there wouldn't be enough qualified
professors to go round. Quite a number of the 436 were party
men in name only and received their degrees at foreign universities.
So, at Mustansiriyah University, for example, the very same purged
professors were re-hired after filling out forms routinely denouncing
the Baath party. Bremer seems to have a habit of reversing his
own decisions; having triumphantly announced that he'd sacked
the entire Iraqi army, he was humiliatingly forced to put them
back on rations in case they all decided to attack US soldiers
in Iraq.
Health services? Well, yes, the new Iraqi
health service is being encouraged to rehabilitate the country's
hospitals and clinics. But a mysterious American company called
Abt Associates has turned up in Baghdad to give "Ministry
of Health Technical Assistance" support to the US Agency
for International Development (USAID) and "rapid response
grants to address health needs in-country". It has decreed
that all medical equipment must accord with US technical standards
and modifications-which means that all new hospital equipment
must come from America, not from Europe. And then there's the
mobile phones. Just over a week ago, my roaming Lebanese cellular
pinged into life at midnight and, after a few hours of scrambled
voice communication, picked up mobile companies in Kuwait, Qatar
and Bahrain (depending on where you happened to be in Baghdad).
Less than a week later, however, the Americans ordered the system
shut down because the Bahrain operating company, by opening its
service so early, was supposedly not giving other bidders a fair
chance at the contract. Those other companies are largely American.
Of course, Iraqis protest at much of
this. They protest in the streets, especially against the aggressive
American military raids, and they protest in the press. Much
good does it do them. When ex-Iraqi soldiers demonstrated outside
Bremer's office at the former Presidential Palace, US troops
shot two of them dead. When Falujah residents staged a protest
as long ago as April, the American military shot 16 dead. Another
11 were later gunned down in Mosul. During two demonstrations
against the presence of US troops near the shrine of Imam Hussein
at Karbala last weekend, US soldiers shot dead another three.
"What a wonderful thing it is to speak your own minds,"
Lt-Gen Sanchez said of the demonstrations in Iraq last week.
Maybe he was exhibiting a black sense of humour.
All this might be incomprehensible if
one forgot that the whole illegal Iraqi invasion had been hatched
up by a bunch of right-wing and pro-Israeli ideologues in Washington,
and that Bremer- though not a member of their group--fits squarely
into the same bracket. Hence Paul Wolfowitz, one of the prime
instigators of this war-he was among the loudest to beat the
drum over the weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist-is
now trying to deflect attention from his disastrous advice to
the US administration by attacking the media, in particular that
pesky, uncontrollable channel, Al-Jazeera. Its reports, he now
meretriciously claims, amount to "incitement to violence"-knowing
full well, of course, that Bremer has officially made "incitement
to violence" an excuse to close down any newspaper or TV
station he doesn't like.
Indeed, newspapers that have offended
the Americans have been raided by US troops in the same way that
the Americans have conducted raids on the offices of the Supreme
Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, whose leader, Ayatollah
Mohammed al-Hakim, is a member of the famous Interim Council-not
exactly a bright way to keep a prominent Shia cleric on board.
But the Council itself is already the
subject of much humour in Baghdad, not least because its first
acts included the purchase of cars for all its members; a decision
to work out of a former presidential palace; and-this the lunatic
brainchild of the Pentagon-supported and convicted fraudster
Ahmed Chalabi-the declaring of a national holiday every 9 April
to honour Iraq's 'liberation" from Saddam.
This sounds fine in America and Britain.
What could be more natural than celebrating the end of the Beast
of Baghdad? But Iraqis, a proud people who have resisted centuries
of invasions, realised that their new public holiday would mark
the first day of their country's foreign occupation. "From
its very first decision," an Iraqi journalist told me with
contempt, "the Interim Council de-legitimised itself."
And so there has begun to grow the faint but sinister shadow
of a different kind of "democracy" for Iraq, one in
which a new ruler will have to use a paternalistic rule-moderation
mixed with autocracy. a la Ataturk -to govern Iraq and allow
the Americans to go home. Inevitably, it has been one of the
American commentators from the same failed lunatic right as Wolfowitz-Daniel
Pipes of the Middle East Forum think tank, which promotes American
interests in the region-to express this in its most chilling
form. He now argues that ''democratic-minded autocrats can guide
[Iraq] to full democracy better than snap elections''. What Iraq
needs, he says, is "a democratically-minded [sic] strongman
who has real authority", who would be "politically
moderate" but "operationally tough" (sic again).
Of course, it's difficult to resist a
cynical smile at such double standards, although their meaning
is frightening enough. What does "operationally tough"
mean, other than secret policemen, interrogation rooms and torturers
to keep the people in order- which is exactly what Saddam set
up when he took power, supported as he was at the time by the
US and Britain? What does "strongman" mean other than
a total reversal of the promise of "democracy" which
Bush and Tony Blair made to the Iraqi people?
Democracies are not led by autocrats,
and autocrats are not led by anyone but themselves. The Pipes
version of the strongman democracy, by the way, involves the
withdrawal of American troops to '`military bases away from population
centres" where they "serve as the military partner
of the new government [sic] guaranteeing its ultimate security..."
In other words, US forces would hide in the desert to avoid further
casualties unless it was necessary to storm back to Baghdad to
get rid of the "strongman" if he failed to obey American
orders.
But today Bremer is the strongman, and
under his rule US troops are losing hearts and minds by the bucketful
with each new, blundering and often useless raid against the
civilians of Iraq. Still obsessed with capturing-or, rather,
killing-Saddam, they are destroying any residual affection for
them among the population. On a recent operation in the town
of Dhuluaya, for example, two innocent men were killed and the
Americans' Iraqi informer-originally paraded before those he
was to betray in a hood to keep his identity secret-was executed
by his own father. The enterprising newspaper Iraq Today found
that the "intelligence" officers of the 4th Infantry
Division even left behind mug shots, aerial reconnaissance photographs
and secret operational documents-complete with target houses
and briefing notes-at the scene. The paper, in the true tradition
of journalism, gleefully published the lot, including the comment
of the father of Sabah Salem Kerbul, the young informer who worked
for the Americans during "Operation Peninsula Strike".
He shot his son first in the foot and then in the head. "I
have killed him," he said. "But he is still a part
of my heart."
Indeed, anarchic violence is now being
embedded in Iraqi society in a way it never was under the genocidal
Saddam. Scarcely a day goes by when I do not encounter the evidence
of this in my daily reporting work in Baghdad. Visiting the Yarrnouk
hospital in Baghdad on Monday to seek the identity of civilians
killed by American troops in Mansur the previous day, I came
across four bodies Iying out in the yard beside the building
in the 50C heat.
All had been shot. No one knew their
identities. They were all young, save one who might have been
a middle-aged man, with a hole in his sock. Three days earlier,
on a visit to a local supermarket, I noticed that the woman cashier
was wearing black. Yes, she said, because her brother had been
murdered a week earlier. No one knew why.
In a conversation with my driver's father--who
runs a photocopying shop near Bremer's palace headquarters--a
young man suddenly launched into praise for Saddam Hussein. When
I asked him why, he said that his father's new car had just been
stolen by armed men. Trying to contact an ex-prisoner illegally
held by the Americans at his home in a slum suburb of Baghdad,
I drove to the mukhtar's house to find the correct address. The
mukhtar is the local mayor. But I was greeted by a group of long-faced
relatives who told me that I could not speak to the mukhtar--because
he had been assassinated the previous night.
So, if this is my experience in just
the past four days, how many murders and thefts are occurring
across Baghdad--or, indeed, across Iraq? Only two days ago, for
example, five men accused of selling alcohol were reportedly
murdered in Basra. Again, there was no publicity, no official
statement, no death toll from the CPA. Only a few days ago, I
sat in the conference hall that the occupation authorities use
for their daily press briefings, follies that are used to condemn
"irresponsible reporting", but which record only a
fraction of the violence of the previous 24 hours- violence which,
of course, is well known to the authorities.
And there was a disturbing moment when
Charles Heatley, the British spokesman from the Foreign Office,
appointed by Tony Blair at the behest of Alastair Campbell, talked
about the reports of abduction and rape in Iraq. He acknowledged
that there had been some cases, but then-I enjoyed the beautiful
way in which he tried to destroy any journalistic interest in
this terrible subject -talked about the number of "rumours"
that turned out to be untrue when checked out. But this is not
the experience of The Independent, which in just one day recently
discovered the identity of one young woman who had been kidnapped,
raped and then freed--only to attempt suicide three times at
her home. Another family gave the paper a photograph of their
abducted daughter in the hope that it might be printed in the
Iraqi press.
Why don't the occupation authorities
realise that Iraq cannot be "spun"? This country is
living a tragedy of epic proportions, and now-after its descent
into hell under Saddam-we are doomed to suffer its contagion.
By our hubris and by our lies and by our fantasies-including
the fantasies of Tony Blair-we are descending into the pit.
For the people of Iraq, the next stage
in their long suffering is under way. For us, a new colonial
humiliation, the like of which may well end the careers of George
Bush and Tony Blair, is coming. Of far more consequence is that
it is likely to end many innocent lives as well.
Robert Fisk is
a reporter for The Independent and author of Pity
the Nation. He is also a contributor to Cockburn and
St. Clair's forthcoming book, The
Politics of Anti-Semitism.
Weekend
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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
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