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July 14, 2002

Bill Christison
The DOA (Poem)

David Vest
I'll Never Get Out of This Band Alive

July 13, 2002

M. Junaid Alam
A Process of Dehumanization

Gavin Keeney
Go Tell Karl Rove!

Matt Vidal
Corporate "Ethics" Red Herrings

Ed Whitfield
Lessons from Independence Day

July 12, 2002

Sean Donahue
The Other Harken Energy Scandal: Oil, Death Squads
and Colombia

Walt Brasch
Sin Tax Scam
"Psst. Cigarettes. A Buck Each."

Steve Perry
A Tale of Two Twits
Wall Street Burns, Bush Fiddles, But Where's Wellstone?

July 11, 2002

Lloyd Marbet
Arrested by the Chamber
of Commerce

David Krieger
Law vs. Force

David Vest
Fountain of Foo:
Strike Three Called

Irit Katriel
A Deep Ideological Crisis

Richard Glen Boire
Dangerous Lessons:
Public School Drug Testing

July 10, 2002

CounterPunch Wire
Third Party Woes
South Carolina Denies Kevin Alexander Gray Ballot Status

Nassar Ibriham & Majed Nassar
Bush's Middle East Plan: Always Changing, Never Changing

Robert Fisk
Ain't That America:
A Strange Kind of Freedom

Dave Marsh
The Return of CREEP:
Record Cartel Accounting

Bernard Weiner
Hope and Despair in
the Body Politic

Gary Leupp
European Worries and
Bush's Terror War

July 9, 2002

St. Clair / Cockburn
The Atomic Clock is Ticking:
All Roads Lead to Yucca Mtn.

Jack McCarthy
Florida: a Terrorist Sanctuary for Bush's Bloody Pals?

Robert Fisk
How a Saudi Billionaire
Does Beirut

Stanton and Madsen
God, Incorporated

Kurt Nimmo
IDF, Gangbanging with Tanks

Bill Christison
Disastrous Foreign Policies
of the US Part 3:
What Can We Do About It?

July 8, 2002

Rick Mercier
Yucca Mountain Bound

Lev Grinberg
The BUSHARON Global War

Tariq Ali
How Bush Used 9/11 to Remap the World

Lori Allen
The Tugs of War:
Palestinian Life Under Curfew

July 7, 2002

Alexander Cockburn
White House Crooks

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July 14, 2002

The DOA

by Bill Christison

Bush and handlers think the DOD is out of date

And needs big bucks, global evil to dominate.

So let's name it anew,

Then we'll understand it too.

 

Department of Aggression rings red-blooded, honest, and okay.

Our youth could march cheering to war with this DOA.

When hate, and husbanded hidden WMDs, explode around this DOA,

How many of our innocents will come home, and to what?

How many of theirs and ours will lie stinking instead, and for what?

All of them FNU/LNU and differently DOA

To the uncaring powers that sent them,

And maybe as well, to you and to me.

Bill Christison joined the CIA in 1950, and served on the analysis side of the Agency for 28 years. From the early 1970s he served as National Intelligence Officer (principal adviser to the Director of Central Intelligence on certain areas) for, at various times, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa. Before he retired in 1979 he was Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis, a 250-person unit. His wife Kathy also worked in the CIA, retiring in 1979. Since then she has been mainly preoccupied by the issue of Palestine.

This Weekend's Features

Bill Christison
The DOA (Poem)

David Vest
I'll Never Get Out of This Band Alive

M. Junaid Alam
A Process of Dehumanization

Gavin Keeney
Go Tell Karl Rove!

Matt Vidal
Corporate "Ethics" Red Herrings

Ed Whitfield
Lessons from Independence Day

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