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May
24, 2003
Gary
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The Philosopher Kings: Leo Strauss
and the Neo-Cons
Uri Avnery
The Hannibal Procedure
Diane
Christian
Who's the Real Enemy?
"Just Cause" or "Kill the Bastards"
Alexander
Cockburn
Derrida's Double Life
William
S. Lind
Is Saddam Really Out of the Game?
William
Cook
Road to Nowhere
David Krieger
Bush's War on the Poor: Economic Justice
Ilan
Pappe
Academic Freedom Under Assault in Israel
Wayne Madsen
American Idle
Noah
Leavitt
Slowing Sowing Justice in the Killing Fields
Walt Brasch
Americans are Liars
Lenni
Brenner
John Brown and Dutch Bill
Mickey
Z.
Hope, Crosby & Al Qaeda
Michael
Ortiz Hill
Grievous Harm Here and Abroad
Adam Engel
Towers of Babel
Poets'
Basement
Albert, Guthrie, Alam, Orloski
May
23, 2003
Standard
Schaefer
Lifting the Sanctions: Who Benefits?
Ron
Jacobs
Long Live People's Park!
Michael
Greger, MD
Return of Mad Cow: US Beef Supply
at Risk
Elaine
Cassel
Tigar to Ashcroft: "Secrecy is the Enemy of Democratic Govt."
Sam
Hamod
The Shi'a of Iraq
Christopher
Greeder
After the Layoffs (poem)
Steve
Perry
Bush's Wars Weblog 5/23
May
22, 2003
Mark
Gaffney
Christian in Name Only
Carl
Estabrook
Republic of Fear
Carl
Camacho, Jr.
Reason for Hope
Ben
Granby
What Rates a Headline from the Middle
East?
Vanessa
Jones
Terror Alerts in Australia
Mickey
Z.
Instant Understanding
Don
Monkerud
Snowballs in a Soggy Economy
Barry Lando
The Nether-Nether World of G.W. Bush
Steve
Perry
Total Information
Awareness: Secret Shadow Program?
May
21, 2003
Dave
Lindorff
Ari Fleischer Quits the Scene: The
Liar's Gone, the Enablers Remain
Chris
Floyd
How Blood Money Becomes Business Opportunity
Dr. Gerry
Lower
Graham's God and Bush's Pathology
Patrick
Cockburn
In Post War Iraq, the Signs of Breakdown
are Everywhere
Brian Cloughley
The Fatuous Braintrust: Newt, Rummy and Wolfowitz
Saul
Landau
Shopping, the End of the World and the Politics of Bush
Larry Kearney
Two Morning Poems, May 2003
Steve
Perry
Chaos in Iraq: Just What the US Wanted?
Elaine
Cassel
Ashcroft Justice Comes to Iraq
May
20, 2003
Tariq
Ali
The Empire Advances
Ahmad
Faruqui
Whither American Nationalism?
Ben Tripp
Dialysis with Osama
Linda
Heard
The Cage of Occupation
Cynthia
McKinney
Toward a Just and Peaceful World
Edward
Said
The Arab Condition
Mokhiber
and Weissman
Why Ari Should Have Resigned in Protest Long Ago
Stew
Albert
Yale Men
Steve Perry
The New Face of Al-Qaeda
May
19, 2003
Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
A Letter to Kofi Annan on Powell's Missing
Evidence
CounterPunch
Wire
"Terror" Slut Steve Emerson
Eats Crow
John
Chuckman
Blair's Awkward Lies
Matt
Vidal
Corporate Media and the Myth of the Free Market
Michael
S. Ladah
The Fine Print to Bush's Road Map
Robert
Fisk
Bush's Eternal War Backfires
Elaine
Cassel
Clarence Thomas, Still Whining After All These Years
Jonathan
Freedland
Ann Coulter's Appalling Magic
Steve Perry
Play It Again, O-Sam-a
May
17 / 18, 2003
Uri
Avnery
The Children's Teeth
Peter
Linebaugh
An American Tribute to Christopher
Hill
Gary
Leupp
Nepal Today
Rock and
Rap Confidential
The Republican Plot Against the Dixie Chicks
Walter
Sommerfeld
Plundering Baghdad's Museums
Ron Jacobs
Condy Rice's Yipping Tirades
Thomas
P. Healy
Dubya Does Indy
Tarif Abboushi
Bush, Sharon and the Roadmap
Francis
Boyle
Debating US War Crimes in Iraq
Mark Davis
An Interview with Richard Butler
Richard
Lichtman
American Mourning
Michael
Ortiz Hill
Overcoming Terrorism
Adam
Engel
Uncle Sam is YOU!
Alan Maas
The Best News Show on TV
Poets'
Basement
Reiss, Guthrie, Albert
Elaine
Cassel
Good Enough for an Alien
Website
of the Weekend
The 37 Americans Who Run Iraq
Song of
the Weekend
Talkin' Sounds Just Like Joe McCarthy Blues
May
16, 2003
Leah
Wells
In Iraq Water and Oil Do Mix
Ben Tripp
Fear Itself
Sharon
Smith
The Resegregation of US Schools
Ramzy Baroud
Does Defeat Have to be So Humiliating?
Sam
Hamod
A Nation of Fear
Phil Reeves
Baghdad Pays the Price
Robert
McChesney
The FCC's Big Grab
Mark Engler
Those Who Don't Count
Steve
Perry
We're All
Extras in Bush's Movie
Website
of the Day
Iraq and Our
Energy Future
May
15, 2003
Ayesha
Iman and Sindi Medar-Gould
How
Not to Help Amina Lawal: The Hidden Dangers of Letter
Writing Campaigns
Julie
Hilden
Moussaoui and the Camp X-Ray Detainees:
Can He Get a Fair Trial?
Tanya
Reinhart
Bush's Roadmap: a Ticket to Failure
Laura Carlsen
Here We Go Again: NAFTA Plus or Minus?
Kenneth
Rapoza
The New Fakers: State Dept. Undercuts
New Yorker's Goldberg
Stew Albert
A Story I Will Tell
Steve
Perry
Bush's Little
Nukes
Website
of the Day
Strip-o-Rama
May
14, 2003
Cindy
Corrie
A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter
I Can't Hear From
Jason
Leopold
The Pentagon and Hallburton: a Secret
November Deal for Iraq's Oil
David
Lindorff
Fighting the Patriot Act: Now It's
Alaska
John
Chuckman
Giggling into Chaos
Jack
McCarthy
Twin Towers of Journalism: Racism
and Double Standards
Wayne
Madsen
Assassinating JFK Again
M.
Junaid Alam
The Longer View
Paul
de Rooij
The New Hydra's Head:
Propagandists and the Selling of the US/Iraq War
James
Reiss
What? Me Worry?
Steve Perry
More on Saudi Arabia Bombings
Website
of the Day
A Tribute to Ted Joans
May
13, 2003
Saul
Landau
Clear Channel Fogs the Airwaves
Michael
Neumann
Has Islam Failed? Not by Western
Standards
Uri
Avnery
My Meeting with Arafat
Steve Perry
The Saudi Arabia Bombing
Jacob
Levich
Democracy Comes to Iraq: Kick Their Ass and Grab Their Gas
William
Lind
The Hippo and the Mongoose: a Question of Military Theory
The
Black Commentator
Fraud at the Times: Blaming Blacks for White Folks' Mistakes
Stew Albert
Asylum
Hammond
Guthrie
An Illogical Reign
Website
of the Day
Sy Hersh: War and Intelligence
May
12, 2003
Chris
Floyd
Bush, Bin Laden, Bechtel, and Baghdad
Dave
Lindorff
America's Dirty Bombs
Sam
Hamod and Elaine Cassel
Resisting the Bush Administration's War on Liberty
Uzi
Benziman
Sharon and Sons, Inc.
Jason
Leopold
The Decline and Fall of Thomas White
Rich Procter
George Jumps the Shark
Federico
Moscogiuri
Going to Israel? Sign or Else
Steve
Perry
Bush's War Web Log 5/12
Book
of the Day
Fooling
Marty Peretz
Website
of the Day
T-Shirts to Protest In
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Cindy
Corrie
A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter
I Can't Hear From
Elaine
Cassel
Civil Liberties
Watch
Michel
Guerrin
Embedded Photographer Says: "I
Saw Marines Kill Civilians"
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
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May
27, 2003
Hillary: a Dem the
Neocons Can Get Behind?
W's Woman Trouble
By ANTHONY GANCARSKI
The splash page on ESPN.com said it all. "Almost
time to sign off" from the Jocks to GIs program, a "support
our troops" operation launched back when such were fashionable,
shut down even as US soldiers find that an occupying soldier
is very much like a sitting duck. Because to look at the news
now, you wouldn't think we were at war with a mortal enemy, searching
for Weapons of Mass Destruction, or anything along those lines.
If I remember correctly, Annika Sorenstam
was the big news this past week. Female golfer, inserted into
the game for a cheap spike in "fan interest" and the
synergy that provides those who market commodities like golf,
golfing accessories, golf television, and the scrumptious Sorenstam
herself. Mercedes-Benz was bullish on Annika as well; their logo
covered her left breast in one press conference or another. Yes,
exactly like a Scarlet Letter.
Annika is marked, after all, just as
she is marketed. Branded like an animal raised to be slaughtered,
she belongs to the corporations who raised her up as a designated
Female Role Model. And those icons of the corporate media --
the Fox News All Stars, the hardnosed NYSE shills at CNBC, and
all those game show hosts that pass as "telejournalists"
-- all treated the "controversy" over her golfing as
being a matter of some import.
Like Annika shooting bogeys does one
solitary, damned thing for all the unwed mothers in America who
bag groceries at Piggly-Wiggly, holding back head colds, wondering
what devil cursed them with this thing the TV calls life. Annika
Sorenstam doesn't mean a thing to the average American woman.
She's a hype with a comely figure, pimped out by the corporate
media as something to which "common folks" can relate.
A golfer making millions of dollars a year, glossed-up to be
the athletic version of Linda Lavin in seventies "feminist"
TV movie "The $5.25 an Hour Dream."
She's a nice piece of business, as men
used to say about women. And she's also a piece of fake news,
the kind of thing dredged up by those fabulists who decide the
"news agenda" to distract the American people from
what's really going on. Add to that the sudden de-emphasis in
the media on the American cakewalk liberation in Iraq, and it's
hard for this writer not to wonder if moves are being made to
dump Bush in 2004.
Not off of the Republican ticket, of
course. Serious money is behind Bush, and serious money sees
his administration as capable of maintaining a plausibly favorable
economic climate in the short-term. But while Bush clearly is
willing to print as much money as it takes to consolidate power
in the Executive branch, it looks as if his tenure as a "wartime
President" will be short-lived and is ending at a most inopportune
time.
Bush would've been better off if he'd
gotten a free ride off the war for another year. By then, the
Democratic nomination process would be far enough underway that
a spoiler candidate like Hillary Clinton could only emerge as
the nominee at a brokered convention, presumably after having
had to scrape and bow before the LaRouche and Sharpton delegations.
As it is, with no candidate for the Democratic bid having any
tangible grassroots support [or charisma, or consistency, or
even a pulse in some cases], a spoiler candidate like Hillary
Clinton is well-positioned to steal the thunder from Kerry, Dean,
Gephardt, and the rest of the crew.
Hillary is a tough politician who survived
eight years in a scandal-ridden White House to carpetbag her
way into a New York Senate seat over future Attorney General
Giuliani. Once in the seat, she quickly became the power Senator
from her side of the aisle. Politicians as canny and cunning
as Clinton don't make such power moves if they don't have serious
backing.
Who but Hillary would've been brazen
enough to hold up a tabloid proclaiming "9/11: Bush Knew"
in front of cameras for the public record? Hillary, with her
zealous advocacy for all things Homeland Security, has morphed
into a most predictable monster: a Democrat the neo-cons can
get behind.
Who was it that was fond of saying "we
didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left
us"? The strength of the neo-con position has always been
their ability to switch parties whenever they can get a better
deal. So it was that "Scoop Jackson Democrats" could
morph into "Reagan Republicans". And so it is that
the tactical support given the Administration by the Kristols
and Bennetts of the world could be shifted without ceremony or
warning into Camp Clinton. That is, if the demure Senator could
be persuaded to run.
Anthony Gancarski is a regular columnist for CounterPunch. He
can be reached at: Gancarski@Hotmail.com
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Ron
Jacobs
Long Live People's Park!
Michael
Greger, MD
Return of Mad Cow: US Beef Supply
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Elaine
Cassel
Tigar to Ashcroft: "Secrecy is the Enemy of Democratic Govt."
Sam
Hamod
The Shi'a of Iraq
Christopher
Greeder
After the Layoffs (poem)
Alexander
Cockburn
Derrida's Double Life
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Perry
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