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April 7, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Those
Pulitzers!
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?
John L. Hess
Condi
Under Oath: But What About the NYTs Reporters?
Fernando Suarez del Solar
A Year
Since My Son's Death in Iraq
Sofia Perez
Spain's
U-Turn on Iraq is Real Democracy in Action
David Vest
Stick 'Em Up: Put Cheney and Bush Under Oath
Tanya Reinhart
As in Tiannamen Square: Justice and the Yassin Assassination
Mike Whitney
Time to Dump the Pledge
Donald Kaul
Martha Stewart's Lesson: Never Talk to the FBI
Milt Bearden
Mired in the Tracks of Alexander the Great
Marjorie Cohn
The Illegal
Coup in Haiti: How the Kidnapping of Aristide Violated US and
International Law
Website of the Day
New Pentagon Papers Dropped at DC Starbucks
March 30, 2004
William S. Lind
An Occurrence
in Pakistan: the Battle That Wasn't
Ron Jacobs
Assassinations, Hate Mail &
Justice
Mickey Z.
Tommy Boy Friedman Does "Imagine"
Neve Gordon
Strategic Motives of the Yassin Assassination
Mark Scaramella
The Founding Scam: Insider Trading is the American Way
John Chuckman
The Countessa of Empire: Condi
Rice's Idea of Democracy
Greg Moses
Live from Pasadena: Silhouettes of New Order
Rai O'Brien
What Kind of Democracy to Expect if the Opposition Takes Power
in Venezuela
Bill Christison
The
9/11 Commission: Dangerous Harbinger for the Future
Website of the Day
Ghost Town: Riding Through Chernobyl
March 29, 2004
John Maxwell
Crisis
in the Caribbean: a Miasma Foretold
J. Michael Springmann
Email
Spying & Attorney Client Privilege
Robert Fisk / Severin
Carrell
Coalition
of the Mercenaries
The Black Commentator
Haiti's Troika of Terror
Doug Giebel
Candide in the Wilderness:
How Bush Policy Was Made
David Krieger
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Bargain
Mike Whitney
Rejecting the Language of Terrorism
Richard Oxman
The Pitts: a 9/11 Burrow of an American
Family
Kim Scipes
The AFL-CIO in Venezuela: Deja Vu All Over Again
Michael Donnelly
End Game for Northwest Forests
Norman Solomon
The Media Politics of 9/11
Kathy Kelly
Last Lines Before Vanishing
Website of the Day
Swans: Can Money Buy Everything?
March 27 / 28, 2004
Jeffrey St. Clair
Empire of the Locusts
Gary Leupp
The Yassin Assassination: Prelude to an Attack on Syria
William A. Cook
The Yassin Assassination: a Monstrous Insanity Blessed by the
US
Faheem Hussain
Some Thoughts on Waziristan: Once and Always a Colonial Army
Elaine Cassel
Is Playing Paintball Terrorism?
Larry Birns / Jessica
Leight
Disturbing Signals: Kerry and Latin America
John Ross
Bush Tells the World: "Drop Dead"
John Eskow
A Memo to Karl Rove from the Hollywood Caucus
Alan Maass
Who Are the Real Terrorists?
Dave Lindorff
Spineless of US Journalists
Joe Bageant
Howling in the Belly of the Confederacy
Dave Zirin
Reasonable Doubt: Why Barry Bonds is Not on Steroids
Craig Waggoner
Who Would Mel's Jesus Nuke?
The Kerry Quandry
Joel Wendland
Marxists
for Kerry
Josh Frank
Scary,
Scary John Kerry
Matt Vidal
Spoilers, Electability and the Poverty of American Democracy
Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Hamod, Guthrie, Davies and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Say a Little Prayer
March 26, 2004
Christopher Brauchli
There's
a Chill Over the Country
Robert Fisk
The Man Who Knew Too Much: the Ordeal
of Mordechai Vanunu
Joe DeRaymond
Democracy in El Salvador? Think Again
Mike Whitney
Lessons on Apartheid from Ariel Sharon
Mickey Z.
Somalia and Iraq: Looking Back and Ahead
Chris Floyd
The Pentagon Archipelago
CounterPunch Photo Wire
Cheney's Close Shave?
John Breneman
Bush's Comic Bomb
Website of the Day
Dick
is a Killer
March 25, 2004
Lee Sustar
Who
is to Blame for Lost Jobs?
Standard Schaefer
An
Interview with Michael Hudson on Offshore Banking Centers
Roger Burbach
Lula vs. the IMF: Brazil Begins
to Throw Off the Austerity Planners
Jimmer Endres
Elections Without Politics: The Military Budget Is Not an "Issue"
Larry Tuttle
Acting in Your Name: Identity Theft and Public Interest Groups
Toni Solo
Misreporting Venezuela
Dan Bacher
A Memorial Wall for Iraq War's Dead and Wounded
Saul Landau
Is
Venezuela Next?
Website of the Day
The Spiral Railway
March 24, 2004
Gary Leupp
General
Musharraf's IOU
Richard Oxman
Shakespeare
for Kerry
William Lind
The Beginning
of Phase Three: 4G Warfare Hits Iraq
Rep. Ron Paul
Iraq One Year Later
Michael Dempsey
Killing Rachel Corrie Again
Alan Farago
The Bad Math of Mercury: Bush's War on the Unborn
Benjamin Dangl
and April Howard
Media
in Cuba
John L. Hess
No Lie Left Behind: Judy Miller Does Dick Clarke
Greg Weiher
Two Cheers for Dems: "We're Not as Bad as George"
Eva Golinger
An Open Letter to John Kerry on Venezuela
Grayson Childs
Where's Cynthia McKinney?
Steve Niva
Israel's Assassinations will Only
Fuel More Suicide Bombings
Website of the Day
The Bushiad and the Idiossey
March 23, 2004
Phillip Cryan
The
Drug War's Next Casualty: Colombia's National Parks
Ron Jacobs
They Shoot Men in Wheelchairs, Too?
Dave Lindorff
A Spanish Parallel: Scare Tactics and Elections
Mike Whitney
Richard Clarke and Teflon George
Brian McKinlay
Bush's Lil' Buddy in Trouble: John Howard Starts to Wobble
JG
Driving Mr. Koon: "Jim Crow Lives Next Door"
Phyllis Pollack
Gettin' Jigga with Metallica: the Battle Over the Double Black
CD
Ahmed Bouzid
Sharon's One-Way Track
Sean Carter
The G-Word Goes to Court: One Nation Under [Your Logo Here]
M. Shahid Alam
World's Greatest Country: Do the Facts Lie
March 22, 2004
Mazin Qumsiyeh
On Extrajudicial
Executions
Uri Avnery
The
Assassination of Sheikh Yassin is Worse Than a Crime
Gilad Atzmon
Sharon's Rampage
Mike Whitney
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: the Story of Captain James Yee
Jason Leopold
Firm With Ties to Cheney Faces Criminal Indictment in Cal Energy
Scam
Greg Moses
Stop
Walling and Stalling: a Report from Houston's Peace March
Phil Gasper
San Francisco: 25,000 March for an End to the Occupation
Lenni Brenner
Report
from NYC: Old and Young Parade for Peace
Julian Borger
The Clarke Revelations
Steve Perry
Karl Rove's Moment
Website of the Day
Enviros Against War
March 20 / 21, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Gay
Marriage: Sidestep on Freedom's Path
Jeffrey St. Clair
Intolerable Opinions in an Age of Shock and Awe: What Would Lilburne
Do?
Ted Honderich
Tony Blair's Moral Responsibility for Atrocities
Saul Landau / Farrah Hassen
The Plot Against Syria: an Irresponsibility Act
Gary Leupp
On Viewing "The Passion of the Christ"
William A. Cook
Fence, Barrier, Wall
Phil Gasper
Bush v. Bush-lite: Chomsky's Lesser Evilism
Ron Jacobs
Fox News and the Masters of War
John Stanton
Which Way John Kerry? The Senator's Inner Nixon
Justin Felux
Kerry and Black America: Just Another Stupid White Man
Mike Whitney
Greenspan's Treason: Swindling Posterity
Augustin Velloso
Avoiding Osama's Abyss
Lawrence Magnuson
Eyes Wide Open: Is Spain Caving in to Terrorism?
Kathy Kelly
Getting Together to Defeat Terrorism
Tracy McLellan
Scalia & Cheney: Happiness is a Warm Gun
Kurt Nimmo
Emma Goldman for President!
Luis J. Rodriguez
The Redemptive Power of Art: It's Not a Frill
Mickey Z
The Michael Moore Diet
Jackie Corr
When Harry Truman Stopped in Butte
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Great Trial of 1922: Gandhi's Vision of Responsibility
Poets' Basement
Stew Albert & JD Curtis
Website of the Weekend
Virtual World Election
March 19, 2004
Jeffrey St. Clair
Zapatero
to Kerry: Back Off, Senator, Our Troops are Coming Home
Ann Harrison
So
Protesters, How Well Do You Know Your Rights?
William MacDougall
Fortress Britain's War on "Economic Migrants"
Greg Moses
Sold American: Cowboy Nation Gets Ready to Vote
Cynthia McKinney
Haiti and the Impotence of Black America: Roll Back This Coup,
Mr. Bush
Norman Solomon
Spinning the Past; Threatening the Future
John L. Hess
"Missing" Evidence and the NYTs
Vicente Navarro
The
End of Aznar, Bush's Best Friend
Website of the War
Naming the Dead
March 18, 2004
Gila Svirsky
Rachel
Corrie, One Year Later: She Never Lost Faith in Decency
Christopher Brauchli
Drilling a Hole in the Sanctions: How Halliburton Made $73 Million
from Saddam
William Kulin
Report from Iraq: Just Another Baghdad Car Bombing
Mike Whitney
Resistance: a Moral Imperative
Rep. Ron Paul
Broadcast Indecency Act: an Indecent Attack on the First Amendment
Josh Frank
The Nader Question
Jack Random
They Lied & They Lost: Madrid and the Lessons of Democracy
Greg Bates
What Makes a Nader Voter Tick? A Survey
Sam Hamod / Alfredo Reyes
Contempt of the World: Hastert, Bush and Cheney on Spain
Gary Leupp
The
Madrid Bombings: the Chickens Come Home to Roost
Website of the Day
Privatizing Armageddon: Buy Your Own Doomsday Key
March 17, 2004
Marjorie Cohn
Spain, the EU and the US: War on
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David MacMichael
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Michael Donnelly
Wear the Green, But Skip the Green Beer
Tom Stephens
"Steady Leadership": Let the Buyer Beware
Wayne Madsen
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Peter Linebaugh
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April
7, 2004
Telling Them So
Bush,
Pandora's Box and the Tiger
By SAM HAMOD
Many months ago, I wrote that GW Bush had opened
Pandora's Box with is invasion of Iraq. He thought it was going
to be a picnic in the park, with a box opening with a beautiful
woman coming out, just as Cheney and Wolfowitz told him, "The
Iraqi people will meet us with cheers, with flowers and welcome
us with open arms." Ah, such nonsense.
The tiger, that Bush and Bremer agitated
finally, after all the other insults to the Iraqi people, was
a 30 year old firebrand from a kind of royal religious family,
a family that had stood against Saddam Hussein to the point that
the family leader was killed by Saddam, the Sadr family. In this
case, Muqtadr Al Sadr followed in his father's footsteps for
the independence of the Iraqi Shi'a, and for Iraq.
When Bremer became personally irritated
at Sadr's newspaper, he closed it down, much to the dismay of
those who thought that America believed in "freedom of the
press." But then again, it is clear that Bremer and Bush
really have no democracy at all in mind, just the rhetoric of
"We want to bring democracy to Iraq" (more nonsense
and lies, obviously--especially in light of closing down the
free press, and American soldiers assassinating Arab journalist
from Al Jazeerah and Al Arabiyah).
Then, Bremer and his friends decided
they would arrest Sadr for the murder of another Iraqi puppet
clergyman that had been flown in from England to control the
Shi'a population. There have been no witness called forth that
Sadr did the killing or was even involved in it in any way, but
Bremer wants this young man out of the way. Bremer and Bush both
felt if they could collar Sadr, arrest and punish him, that they
would use this as a lesson in "putting the Iraqi Shi'a in
their place," just as Kimmit and Bremer were going to put
the Sunni of Fallujah in "their place, and let them know
who is charge here." Alas, it didn't work out that way.
Instead, the tiger came out, roaring, clawing and fighting for
ever inch of land and meaning.
Now that Sadr has gone from Kufa to Najaf--
it is clear he is wrapping himself in the robes of the Shi'a
of old, those who were willing, like Husayn, to die for their
beliefs. He has now taken fully the role of leader, who may become
a martyr if he is killed, and if he stays alive, will become
an even larger leader. Sistani had asked him to calm down, but
when Bremer came after Al Sadr, even Sistani took Sadr's side,
and now has openly spoken against American actions. Thus, Bremer/Bush
mistakes have created more trouble, not less. Add to this that
there is an even closer unity among all Muslims in Iraq, and
even in the world, against the American occupation of Iraq--and
the tiger is even more dangerous for Bush/Bremer and their neo-con
allies. Now, we in America must brace for even more reaction
that may come to our own shores, as revenge for the Bremer/Bush/Kissinger
"solution" (most do not know that Bremer, before he
came to Iraq was president of Kissinger Associates--that's something
worth remembering when you start to analyze Bremer's behavior.
Remember Kissinger's solutions to every major problem of people
resisting American imperialism in Korea, Viet Nam, Afghanistan
and now Iraq, was "bomb them back into the stone ages;"
thus, the new American terroristic tactics of attacking civilians
in major cities. Just imagine if you were a person living in
one of those cities, just trying to survive with no water, no
electricity, with American bombs and missiles landing everywhere,
almost at random to terrorize you and the resistance fighters.)
Of course, it may be that Bremer wants
this warfare to open up so that there will be no handing over
<Iraq.Even> though Bush keeps saying the handover will
take place as planned, there is still a question in the Western
media of "to whom?" But, most of us who know the reality
of the region realize that there will be no real hand-over, that
America will still run the show with our army there, and our
puppets in offices of control, so that it will be more than a
facade of Iraqi control. But Sistani,Al Sadr and others also
know this, and are sick and tired of this facade, this fakery,
so now they are fighting back before it is too late--so that
the whole worls can see the truth of the situation in Iraq. Something
tha Bremer and Bush can no longer hide, as the fighting intensifies
and the weakness of the U.S. military and its coalition partners
is seen by the whole world. In fact, some military analysts with
whom I have spoken, agree that this has given the Russians, Chinese,
North Koreans and others a sense of our weaknesses, rather than
our strengths. So much for Bush's leadership in "time of
war." America now is no longer seen as a major military
power except for its ability to destroy; much the same way that
Israel can destroy, but not defeat the Palestinians. In fact,
one middle east commentator called Iraq," the new Sabra
and Shatilla, the new West Bank and Gaza." Perhaps, when
all is said and done, it is.
So, today, we have major fighting from
the Shi'a, from the Sunni and whoever wants to join in to fight
against the occupying forces from America, Poland, Uzbekistan,
Ukraine, Spain, El Salvador and Italy--with the Shi'a and Sunni
infliciting heavy casualties on the Western Alliance of the bought-and-paid
for, from your American taxpayer money (not to mention the mercenaries
that have been hired from all over the world at a rate of $100,000
to $200,000 per year--by the way, they, the mercenaries guard
Bremer, our man, not our military????what's that all about???)
In fact, Skye news claimed that over 130 Western military and
mercenary troops had been killed. Later, the U.S. military changed
that and said only 12 had been killed, but hundreds of Iraqis.
As anyone who has ever been in war knows,
you have no real idea of how many of your opponents you have
killed; you only know of your own casualties. And, as usual,
the U.S. military, like that of Israel, inflates the amount of
kills of the enemy and lessens their own losses; we saw that
in Viet Nam, in Korea before that, in Somali, in Afghanistan,
and now in Iraq. But even if the Iraqis are losing at a rate
of 4 to 1, there are millions of Iraqis to fight against America,
and others from bordering countries, and others even as far away
as China, who are coming in to fight against the Bush/Bremer
army- of- the- paid-to-fight, and we have only 125,000 of our
men there in Iraq, with few more to send. Our military is stretched
between Afghanistan, Phillipines, Indonesia, Kenya, Germany,
Japan, Korea and over 100 other places, and we have come down
to sending our "national guard" to fight overseas.
Even if we have a draft, we cannot get
enough men to deal with the Iraqis; several generals have made
clear that we'd need over 500,000 men to just police Iraq, and
that would be with minimum "resistance." But believe
me when I say, we are going to be facing major resistance from
here on out. I say this because at this point, the moderate Shi'a
and moderate Sunni, and even many of the Kurds are coming out
to fight against America--because they realize they are not going
to get a democracy of any sort, only an occupation by America
and a country run by American puppets, with contracts that have
been let that will allow American companies and their friends
to keep milking Iraq for decades or longer.
NO, America must realize that the Iraqis
are not dummies; the have lived through 5000 years of wars, and
they are still intact--from the Mongols to the Ottomans, to the
English, to Saddam and now the Americans. One more important
point, that Bush and Bremer have failed to grasp, these Iraqis
are willing to die for their religion and for their country--our
men are not willing to die for Bush or for Iraq, and if they
are smart, they will tell Bush, "Hell no, you come and fight
if you think it is such a good idea and so important." In
fact, it would be a good idea to send Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz
and Bremer out to the field of battle and let them take Sadr
on--I doubt they'd last more than a few minutes before they'd
either high tail it out of there, with their tails between their
legs, or if they stood and fought, they'd find they were not
match for the Iraqis.
As things stand, our troops ahve better
armament, planes, helicopters and tanks--and they will kill a
lot of Iraqis, but this will do nothing but fuel the fire that
will end up burning America and its allies in Britain and Italy--all
because of Bush and Bremer's ignorance. Those two ignoramuses
thought Sistani was just an old man; they forgot that he was
an eminent attorney, was one of the most brilliant men in Iraq,
and that he has wisdom from his age--not senility.
They thought they could bluff Sadr and
just roll over him. Ah, this is not, nor will it be the case.
And, if Sadr dies. he will be magnified by others, so that his
spirit, after death will be towering over the inferno it will
ignite.
In both cases, the Bush/Bremer team showed
they were the fools, the ones who didn't know, nor do they yet
realize, what they did when they opened Pandora's Box.
Sam Hamod
is an expert on the Middle East and Islam; he was an advisor
to the U.S. State Department, editor of 3rd World News, Director
of The Islamic Center in Washington, DC, and a professor at Princeton.
He may be reached at shamod@cox.net
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