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CounterPunch's Scorching New History of a Decade of War Order Now / Available in April Today's Stories April 21, 2004 Bill Christison Only Major Policies Changes Can Help Washington Now April 20, 2004 Dave Lindorff Bush and Kerry Share a Problem Stan Cox Wal-Mart's Magic Numbers Bruce Anderson On Listening to Air America Joseph Kalvoda Czech Mate for Condi Greg Moses Yesterday's Intelligence Stan Goff The Democrats and Iraq Website of the Day Santorum Happens April 19, 2004 Kurt Nimmo The "Central Hand" of the Resistance Mike Whitney Bob Woodward's Imperial Trifles Douglas Valentine 52 Pick-Up and the 100-to-1 Rule John Chuckman The Sharon Annex: Evil Does Often Triumph Doug Giebel Welcome to the Club Rahul Mahajan Hospital Closings and War Crimes   April 16 / 18, 2004 Robert Fisk Bush Legitimizes Terror Saul Landau Subverting Brazil and Cuba Dave Lindorff Paying for War: $2,150 per Family and Counting Brandy Baker Fallujah's Collateral Damage Mickey Z. The Left Attacks from the Right Bruce Jackson The Bush Press Conference: Gott Mit Uns Norman Solomon How the "NewsHour" Changed History Alexander Cockburn Bush, Kerry and Empire   April 15, 2004 Greg Moses Follow the Families, Not the Script Virginia Tilley The Carnage According to Gen. Kimmitt: Just Change the Channel Ron Jacobs They Coulda Been Champions of the World: Hurricane Carter and Ron Kovic Michael Neumann A Happy Compromise: Hate Crimes Reporting in the Toronto Globe and Mail   April 14, 2004 Tom Reeves Return to Haiti: an American Learning Zone Reza Fiyouzat Japan and Iraq Ron Jacobs What Bush Really Said Diane Christian The Real Passion April 10 / 12, 2004 Alexander Cockburn The Greatest Radical Journalist of His Age Patrick Cockburn Ambush, Kidnap, Murder: Another Day in "Post War" Iraq Ellen Cantarow Health Under Siege on the West Bank Tariq Ali Iraqi Resistance: a New Phase Werther Pseudoconservatism Revisited: When God is Pro War & Other Delicacies Robert Fisk Bush's War Lords to Their Critics: "Just Shut Up" Gary Leupp Indian Wars, Vietnam and Orientalist Fantasy Ron Jacobs The Iranian Revolution, Cont. Jorge Mariscal Perils of the Bootstrap Phil Gasper Defying Stereotypes About Death Row Dave Zirin Bringing the Black Freedom Struggle Into Sports: an Interview with Lee Evans Brandy Baker The Revolution is Playing at a Theater Near You Mickey Z. Underground Music is Free Media: an Interview with Twiin Ali Tonak Get Ready for the Million Worker March Harry Browne Asking the Wrong Question About Richard Clarke & 9/11 Gideon Samet The Sharonizing of America Conn Hallinan Remote Control Warriors Website of the Weekend Taboo Tunes   April 9, 2004 Robert Fisk This War's Simple Truth: Iraqis Do Not Want Us John L. Hess The Non-Confessions of a Warrior Princess: Condi on the Stand Niranjan Ramakrishnan Condoleezza's Condescensions Christopher Brauchli Holes in the Sky: Bush's Crazed Missile Defense Plan Don Santina Forget the Alamo!: Glorifying the Fight for Slavery in Texas William S. Lind The 4G Warfare Seminar, Cont. Bill Christison 9/11 Commission is Bush's New Lapdog Website of the Day What We've Done to Fallujah   April 8, 2004 Wayne Madsen Rice (and the Record) Proves It: Bush Knew, But Failed to Act Kurt Nimmo Will Bush Flatten Fallajuh? Patrick Cockburn Guided Missile; Misguided War Laura Flanders Steamed Rice Larry Everest What Condi Rice is Hiding Adam Federman Sacred Capitalism Hits Russia M. Junaid Alam The Iraqi Intifada Begins Norman Solomon The Quest for a Monopoly on Violence Douglas Valentine Echoes of Vietnam: Phoenix, Assassination and Blowback in Iraq Website of the Day Xispas: Chicano Art, Culture and Politics   April 7, 2004 Alexander Cockburn Those Pulitzers! Sen. Robert Byrd Deeper into the Mouth of Hell: We Must Find the Exit from Iraq Ron Jacobs Tet in Iraq: Closer to the Cosmic Disaster? Patrick Cockburn Battles Across Iraq: US Death Toll Mounts Kathy Kelly Pacification: Worth the Price? Sonali Kolhatkar What Are You Doing About Afghanistan? Rahul Mahajan Report from Baghdad: Opening the Gates of Hell Robert Fisk US Airlifts Saddam to Qatar Mike Whitney America Out of Iraq, Now! Sam Hamod Bush, Pandora's Box and the Tiger April 6, 2004 C.G. Estabrook Mercenaries and Occupiers William Blum The Anti-Empire Report: the Israel Lobby Col. Dan Smith The Language of Disbelief: 1.3 Billion Still Live in War Zones Dr. Bulent Gokay The Coming Islamic Republic of Iraq? Lynn Landes Faking Democracy: Americans Don't Vote; Machines Do Sheila Samples What Would Royko Write? Jason Leopold Condi's Blind Spot: Rice Never Mentioned al-Qaeda Mickey Z. A Reality Show with No End in Sight Robert Fisk Iraq on the Brink of Anarchy   April 5, 2004 John Farrell Lessons from El Salvador and Iraq Robert Fisk Bloodbath a Bad Omen for Bush Gary Leupp Shiites Say No: Another "Nightmare Scenario"     April 3 / 4, 2004 Alexander Cockburn Anti-Depressants a Problem? We're Shocked Jeffrey St. Clair How Neil Bush Succeeded in Business Without Really Trying Gary Leupp On Jefferson, Diderot and the Political Uses of God Lawrence Davidson Orwell and Kafka in Israel / Palestine Frederick B. Hudson Condi Rice: the Family Retainer Phillip Cryan The Magic of Coca-Cola: Colombian Workers, Civil Rights and Advertising Dave Zirin Lester Speaks: an Interview with Lester "Red" Rodney Ben Tripp Talking Dirty: Obscene But Not Heard Bruce Anderson Phony Liberals and Fake Concern for the Homeless Bill Fletcher, Jr. Justice and Legitimacy in Haiti Mark Scaramella Do You Have What It Takes to Be Sec. of Defense? Take the Rumsfeld Quiz Sharon Smith Do Most Iraqis Really Want the US to Stay? Rick Giombetti Melissa Ann Rowland: a Witch for Our Time Nader/Kerry Quandary Stephen Gowans Communists for Capitalism? Frank Bardacke / Doug Lummis Support Nader; Dump Bush: an Election Manifesto Mickey Z Turn ON Saul Landau Kerry: a Less Dangerous Imperialist? Richard Oxman Nader and/or Death? Poets' Basement Holt, LaMorticella, Davies, Albert and Tripp Website of the Weekend Missing   April 2, 2004 Dave Lindorff Barbaric Relativism: the Press and Fallujah Kurt Nimmo Wherever Bush Goes, Osama is Bound to Follow Emma Miller The Role of the West in the Rwandan Genocide Dr. Susan Block Same Sex Marriages: Just Say "No" to Prohibition Norman Solomon Media Strategy Memo for George & Dick Sacha Guney The Meaning of the Elections in Turkey Christopher Brauchli The Disturbing Case of Cpt. Yee Website of the Day Mercenaries, Inc.   April 1, 2004 Ron Jacobs Dying in Vain in Iraq Harry Browne No Smoke, Plenty of Fire: Ireland's Pubs Go Smokefree Chris Floyd Towel Boy: Bush Hits Workers with Chemical Weapons Nicole Colson Inside America's Concentration Camp: Tortured at Guantanamo Charles Arthur Haiti's Army Cracks Down on Workers Laura Flanders Elaine Chao: a First Daughter for the First Son   March 31, 2004 M. Junaid Alam Israel: Suicide Nation? 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April 21, 2004 The Women in Good Sheperd Prison Colombia's Forgotten Prisoners By ALFREDO CASTRO Along with dozens of other female political prisoners, campesino leader Luz Perly Cordoba lives behind bars in the Bogota women's prison, El Buen Pastor. They are forced to sleep in the dirt of the floor, and their babies will grow up in confinement. "These women live each day as if it were their last" says journalist Sara Cifuentes of the Colombian weekly VOZ. Cifuentes follows the desperate situation of the women imprisoned in the "Buen Pastor" prison closely. The women lack milk, towels, linen and toys for their children. They sleep bundled together on the floor. According to Cifuentes, "they are an example of tenacity, valor and solidarity. They preserve for themselves and for their children the hope that the world can be made better, even though it today denies them milk, linen and medicine for their babies." 84 women are confined in Yard Six of the "Buen Pastor": "The Good Shepherd" in English. Of these 84, 54 are accused of various crimes such as rebellion and terrorism, and only 29 have been convicted--ten to terms between 16 and 40 years. The remainder have not been judged guilty, but remain detained, many together with their small children. Several are victims of so called "miraculous fishing expeditions", massive detentions carried out by the Armed Forces with the objective of capturing opponents of the regime. One of the prisoners is Luz Perly Cordoba, a leader of the National Trade Union Federation of Rural Workers, FENSUAGRO. Known as an energetic defender of peasant rights, she is now imprisoned, accused of rebellion. In a letter sent to ANNCOL from The Good Shepherd, she writes: "Today, there are hundreds of leaders from the rural workers' movement and other popular movements who, like me, are denied their liberty, torn from their families and their communities, accused of rebellion. This is the product of the intolerance of a regime which has taken to demonizing and stigmatizing as rebels all those who dare to differ and to dissent from their unacceptable social and economic policies." She adds that, despite the persecution, "we will not renounce our struggle and our dreams, which are more alive today than ever." Two women share each of the cells of Yard Six in the women's prison, one sleeping on the floor and the other on the bunk. There are six mothers with babies between two and nine months old, and one with a girl of three years. "But the circumstances are more difficult than one would think", explains Sara Cifuentes. "Of the 84 prisoners, 63 are single parents. There are 20 women with one child, 17 with two children, 11 with three, nine with four and three with five." Alfredo Castro writes for ANNCOL. Weekend Edition Features for April 3 / 4, 2004 Alexander Cockburn Anti-Depressants a Problem? We're Shocked Jeffrey St. Clair How Neil Bush Succeeded in Business Without Really Trying Gary Leupp On Jefferson, Diderot and the Political Uses of God Lawrence Davidson Orwell and Kafka in Israel / Palestine Frederick B. Hudson Condi Rice: the Family Retainer Phillip Cryan The Magic of Coca-Cola: Colombian Workers, Civil Rights and Advertising Dave Zirin Lester Speaks: an Interview with Lester "Red" Rodney Ben Tripp Talking Dirty: Obscene But Not Heard Bruce Anderson Phony Liberals and Fake Concern for the Homeless Bill Fletcher, Jr. Justice and Legitimacy in Haiti Mark Scaramella Do You Have What It Takes to Be Sec. of Defense? Take the Rumsfeld Quiz Sharon Smith Do Most Iraqis Really Want the US to Stay? Rick Giombetti Melissa Ann Rowland: a Witch for Our Time Nader/Kerry Quandary Stephen Gowans Communists for Capitalism? Frank Bardacke / Doug Lummis Support Nader; Dump Bush: an Election Manifesto Mickey Z Turn ON Saul Landau Kerry: a Less Dangerous Imperialist? Richard Oxman Nader and/or Death? Poets' Basement Holt, LaMorticella, Davies, Albert and Tripp Website of the Weekend Missing Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /