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January
24, 2002
Alexander
Cockburn
This
is Terrorism?
David
Vest
Idiot
Wind
January
23, 2002
Terry
Waite
Guantanamo
Prisoners:
Justice or Revenge?
Molly
Secours
The
Case of Abu-Ali:
Racism and the Death Penalty
Robert
Jensen
Speak
Out, Get Slimed
January
22, 2002
Brendan
Cooney
Moby-Dick
and the Hunt
for Osama bin Laden
Rick Giombetti
Progressive
Pols for Enron?
Judith
Resnik
Invading
the Courts?
Kevin
Alexander Gray
The
Crisis in Black Leadership
January
21, 2002
Marjorie
Cohn
Will
Walker's Words
Be Used Against Him?
Ahmad
Faruqui
MLK
Jr. and the Palestinians
January
19. 2002
Jordan
Green
Enron
Stole Our Future
January
18, 2002
Tom Turnipseed
The
Enron Model
Walt Brasch
Enron
at the White House
CounterPunch
Wire
Human
Rights Groups Says Guantanamo Prisoners Must
Be Treated as POWs
January
17, 2002
Gideon
Levy
Bulldozing
Rafah
Uri Avnery
That
Weapons Shipment
January
16, 2002
John Chuckman
The
Angel and the Pretzel
Lawrence
McGuire
Subverting
the
Geneva Convention
Kathy
Kelly
An
Open Letter to
Richard Perle on Iraq
January
15, 2002
George
Monbiot
Greenpeace,
Lord Melchett
and the Business of Betrayal
Jack McCarthy
Follow
the Pretzel
William
Blum
Atta
and the Times:
Follow the Changing Story
Edward
Said
Emerging
Alternatives
in Palestine
January
14, 2002
David
Vest
Open
Bag. Eat Pretzels.
Patrick
Cockburn
Collapse
of Georgia
Ignored by the World
Mokhiber/Weissman
Enron's
Accountants:
When In Doubt, Shred It
January
13, 2002
C.G. Estabrook
Why
We Kill People
January
12, 2002
Cockburn/St.
Clair
Forbidden
Truths
January
11, 2002
Lee Balllinger/Dave
Marsh
Neil
Young's Duet with Ashcroft
January
10, 2002
Tom Turnipseed
Bush,
Enron, UNOCAL
and the Taliban
St. Clair/Cockburn
Greenpeace
to Greenwash?
Hans von
Sponek
Iraq:
Is There an Alternative
to Military Action?
Jim Lobe
Israeli
Human Rights Group Assails Army
Marina Mayakova
Russia's
Top Military Astrologer Predicts More Attacks from OBL
January
9, 2002
David
Vest
The
Super-Burqa
and the Big Tent
ND Jayaprakash
Winnable
Nuclear War?
Rafiq
Kathwari
Kashmir
Will Make Ground Zero Look Like a Bonfire
January
8, 2002
Prudence
Crowther
Sting
Like a B-52
Nelson
Valdés
Al-Qaeda
at Guantanamo Bay
John Chuckman
Dark
Tales from the
Ministry of Truth
Richard
Corn-Revere
Do
We Fear Freedom?
Joan Hoff
The
Nixon You Haven't Heard
January
7, 2002
Lawrence
McGuire
Confusing
Economic Tales About Argentina
Wael Masri
They
Are Taking
Our Rights Away
Philip
Farruggio
Better
Medicine
A Photographic Journal of Life
in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann
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January
24, 2002
Turkey Targets Chomsky
By Robert Fisk
Noam Chomsky, one of America's greatest
philosophers and linguists, has become the target of Turkey's
chief of "terrorism prosecution".
Scarcely two months after the European
Union praised Turkey for passing new laws protecting freedom
of expression, the authorities in Ankara are using anti -terrorism
legislation to prosecute Mr Chomsky's Turkish publisher.
Fatih Tas of the Aram Publishing House
faces a year in prison for daring to print American Interventionism,
a collection of Mr Chomsky's recent essays including harsh criticism
of Turkey's treatment of its Kurdish minority. Mr Chomsky, a
linguistics professor at MIT, is planning to fly to Turkey for
Mr Tas's first court appearance on 13 February and has already
written to the offices of the United Nations high commissioner
for human rights, pointing out that amendments to Turkish law
were supposed to have provided greater freedom of expression,
not less.
Mr Chomsky plans to visit the Turkish
city of Diyarbakir to meet Kurdish "activists" and
it will be a test of Turkey's freedoms to see if he is allowed
to visit the area.
In one of his essays, originally a university
lecture, he says that "the Kurds have been miserably oppressed
throughout the whole history of the modern Turkish state ...
In 1984, the Turkish government launched a major war in the south-east
against the Kurdish population ... The end result was pretty
awesome: tens of thousands of people killed, two to three million
refugees, massive ethnic cleansing with some 3,500 villages destroyed."
This, according to the Turks, constitutes
an incitement to violence. Mr Chomsky has been suitably outraged,
regarding the trial as part of a much broader wave of repression
directed against Kurds appealing for greater use of the Kurdish
language. Bekir Rayif Aldemyr, Turkey's chief prosecutor, claims
that the Chomsky essay "propagates separatism".
A spiky, inexhaustible academic of Jewish
origin who has been an inveterate critic of Israel and especially
of the United States, Mr Chomsky's condemnation of Turkey's treatment
of the Kurds --and of the vast arms shipments made to Turkey
by the United States --was bound to enrage Ankara.
Mr Chomsky describes the prosecution
as "a very severe attack on the most elementary human and
civil rights". The EU, so impressed by those changes in
Turkish law last November, has remained silent.
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