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January
30, 2004
David
Miller
The Hutton Whitewash
January
29, 2004
Patricia
Nelson Limerick
John Ehrlichman, Environmentalist
Ron
Jacobs
Homeland Security and "Legalized"
Immigration
Rahul Mahajan
New Hampshire v. Iraq
Greg
Weiher
Bush Calls for Preemptive Strike on
Moon and Mars
Norman
Solomon
The State of the Media Union
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Does NH Mean Anything?
January
28, 2004
Kathy
Kelly
Bearing Witness Against Teachers of
Torture and Assassination
January
27, 2004
Steve
Philion
Ritter Was Right: My Exchange with
CNN's Aaron Brown
Daniel
Ellsberg
Leak Against This War: Expose the
Lies from the Inside
C.G.
Estabrook
Can George Ever Really be Elected
President?
Josh
Frank
Hot Coals in Vermont: Dean's Smoke
Screens
Greg
Moses
Racism 101 All Over Again
Gilad
Atzmon
Blood, Soil and Art
Mike
Ferner
"We're All Lied To": an
Interview with Bruce Cockburn in Baghdad
Hammond
Guthrie
General Disorders of the Day
January
26, 2004
Sean
Donahue
The Toxic Career of Rand Beers: Kerry's
Drug War Zealot
Gary
Leupp
David Kay's Admission
January
24/5, 2004
Patrick
Cockburn
Iraq's Shia: "Our Day Has
Come"
Laura
Flanders
State of the Conservative Union
Simon Helweg-Larsen
Enter Berger: Signs of Hope in
Guatemala
Dave
Lindorff
Ground Control to Maj. George
Susan Davis
The Birdwatcher Menace
Alexander
Cockburn
The Fog of Cop Out: McNamara 10,
Morris 0
January
23, 2004
Yonathan
Shapira
An Israeli Pilot Speaks Out
Standard
Schaefer
Italian Philosopher Giorgio Agamben
Protests US Travel Policy
Josh
Frank
In Defense of Polluters: Howard Dean's
Vermont
William
A. Cook
Rule by the Corrupt and the Capricious
January
22, 2004
Sam
Smith
Howards End?
Patricia
Koyce Wanniski
Lost in Space
Alexander
Lukin
Putin and the Clans
Katherine
van Wormer
Dry Drunk Confirmed: O'Neill's
Revelations and Bush's Mind
Forrest
Hylton
The Prisoner, the President and the
Mafia
January 19, 2004
Justin E. H. Smith
Inside
America's Prisons: From Corrections to Retribution
Richard W. Behan
The GOP, Inc.
Ray McGovern
Bush's
State of the Union: Humility or More Hyperbole?
Werther
SOTUS:
the Stalin Moment of America's Nomenklatura
Phillip Cryan
Media Collusion in Colombia's War
Lee Sustar
A New Strategy to Reverse Labor's Decline?
Arthur Versluis
Great Lakes as Commodity: Privatizing Water
Uri Avnery
Anti-Semitism:
a Practical Manual
Steve Perry
Fresh Crack from Hawkeye State
January 17 / 18, 2004
Fadi Kiblawi and Will
Youmans
The
Use and Abuse of MLK Jr by Israel's Apologists
Joshua Muldavin
and Joseph Nevins
Blaming the Symptoms
Jeffrey St. Clair
Bad Days at Indian Point: Inside America's Most Dangerous Nuclear
Plant
Brian Cloughley
Iron Hammers in Iraq
Saul Landau
Fog of War: Vietnam and Iraq
M. Shahid Alam
Lerner, Said and the Palestinians
Richard Manning
Food Poisoning as Background Noise
Marjorie Cohn
The Guantanamo Concentration Camp
Mike Whitney
Scalia and Opus Dei: Radicals on the Court
Sadik Kassim
Meet Our New Saddam: Islam Karimov
Carol Norris
Arnold
and Bush's Numbers Don't Add Up
Joe Quandt
Suicide
Bombers: The Clash of Absurdities
David Krieger
Imagining MLK Jr at 75
Bruce Jackson
Making War, Making Movies
Ron Jacobs
Revolution in the Air: a review
Richard Edmondson
Rupert Murdoch and My Sister
Richard Forno
Apologizing for Preemption: Evil, Perle and Frum
Poets' Basement
Holt, Mickey Z, Albert & Guthrie
January 16, 2004
Kathy Kelly
A Visit
to Umm Qasr Prison
William S. Lind
More
Thoughts on 4th Generation Warfare
Gillian Russom
So.
Cal Grocery Strikers Speak Out: "We Need Action!"
Ari Shavit
Survival
of the Fittest? An Interview with Benny Morris
Adi Ophir
Genocide Hides Behind Expulsion: a Response to Benny Morris
Dave Lindorff
The General's Henchman: Michael Moore Smears Kucinich
Steve Perry
Iowa Death Trip 2
January 15, 2004
Veteran Intelligence
Professionals for Sanity
Memo
to the President: Your State of the Union Address
John Chuckman
Dry
Hole in the Oval Office: President from Podunk Drilling, Inc
Chris Floyd
Mind Over Matter
Gil-Scott Heron
Whitey on the Moon
Gary Leupp
The
Silk Road: Random Thoughts on the Bam Earthquake and Satan
January 14, 2004
Greg Moses
Happy
Birthday, Dr. King: To Write Off the South is to Surrender to
Bigots
Kurt Nimmo
Bush and the Supremes: Amputating the Bill of Rights
Dave Lindorff
Preview of Iowa? Pennsylvania Straw Poll Spells Trouble for Traditional
Dems (and Dean)
Jason Leopold
O'Neill Claims Backed by Rumsfeld / Wolfowitz War Letters to
Clinton
Alexander Cockburn
Bush,
Oil and Iraq: Some Truth at Last
January 13, 2004
William S. Lind
How 2004
Looks from Potsdam
M. Junaid Alam
Do Iraqis Have a Right to Resist?
Mickey Z
Snipers:
No Nuts in Iraq
Adolfo Gilly
Chonchocoro:
The Prisoner and the Presidents
Steve Perry
You Love God, Right?
January 12, 2004
Ben Tripp
No Stan
for the Kurds
Norman Solomon
The
Dixie Trap: Democrats and the South
Mike Whitney
O'Neill's Revenge
Jason Leopold
From the Very First Instant It Was About Iraq
Uri Avnery
Syria's
Peace Proposal
January 10 / 11, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Bush
as Hitler? Let's Be Fair
Susan Davis
Dangerous Books
Diane Christian
On Lying and Colin Powell
Lisa Viscidi
Exhumations: Unearthing Guatemala's Macabre Past
Daniel Estulin
Destroying History in Iraq
Saul Landau
Homeland Anxiety
Elaine Cassel
Who's Winning the War on Civil Liberties?
Bruce Jackson
Making the Shit List
Christopher Brauchli
Baptizing Hitler's Ghost
Francis A. Boyle
The Deep Scars of War
Lee Ballinger
Cold Sweat: Sweatshops and the Music Industry
Patrick W. Gavin
Hillary's Slur: Mrs. Lott?
Ramzy Baroud
What Invaders Have in Common
Michael Schwartz
Inside the California Grocery Strike
Gary Johnson
An Interview with Former Heavyweight Champ Greg Page
Dave Zirin
An Interview with Marvin Miller on Unions and Baseball
Mark Hand
A Review of Resistance: My Life for Lebanon
Poets' Basement
Thomas, Daley, Curtis, Guthrie and Albert
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Alexander Cockburn
Behold,
the Head of a Neo-Con!
Subcomandante Marcos
The
Death Train of the WTO
Norman Finkelstein
Hitchens
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Steve Niva
Israel's
Assassination Policy: the Trigger for Suicide Bombings?
Dardagan,
Slobodo and Williams
CounterPunch Exclusive:
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Steve
J.B.
Prison Bitch
Sheldon
Rampton and John Stauber
True Lies: the Use of Propaganda
in the Iraq War
Wendell
Berry
Small Destructions Add Up
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Cindy
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A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter
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Gore Vidal
The
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Francis Boyle
Impeach
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January
30, 2004
Same Skeletons, Different
Closet
How
Many People Will Die Because of This "Mistake", Senator
Kerry?
By SAM HUSSEINI
Truth is the only safe ground to stand
upon.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
At the debate last night, John Kerry, asked to
give examples of the administration's deceptiveness on the "war
on terrorism," said the following:
"Well, 45 minutes deployment of
weapons of mass destruction, number one. Aerial vehicles to be
able to deliver materials of mass destruction, number two. I
mean, I -- nuclear weapons, number three. I could run a long
list of clear misleading, clear exaggeration...."
On Oct. 9, 2002 John Kerry participated
in "a long list of clear misleading, clear exaggerations,"
to put it mildly. In his
speech on the floor of the Senate just before voting to
authorize Bush to invade Iraq, Kerry said:
"Why is Saddam Hussein attempting
to develop nuclear weapons when most nations don't even try?
... According to intelligence, Iraq has chemical and biological
weapons ... Iraq is developing unmanned aerial vehicles capable
of delivering chemical and biological warfare agents..."
Kerry became
famous by asking senators "How do you ask a man to be
the last man to die in Vietnam? How
do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
Kerry is now himself a senator.
Mr. Kerry: How do you ask someone to
die for your support of the invasion of Iraq? How do you ask
someone to die for this mistake? More than a "mistake,"
how do you ask someone to die because you
voted for an illegal , unconstitutional
invasion? How do you ask Iraqis and Americans and others to
die because you backed Bush?
How can you tell us that Bush was deceitful
when you uttered many of the same falsehoods? How can you hold
him accountable when you refuse to be held accountable yourself?
How can you be "electable"
when you have many of the
same skeletons in your closet as Bush? Do you really think
the Republican machine won't cite your speech over and over again
-- "Kerry claims that Bush lied when Kerry said many of
the same things!" Fox will blare. Or, after you get the
Democratic nomination, will you be quiet about Iraq, other than
to talk about narrow issues like Halliburton -- searching for
something, anything, that Bush is guilty of that you are not?
You will come off as petty. Bush will come off as the visionary.
How could you have been deceived by the
administration on Iraq? You tout your leadership and foreign
policy experience. How could the idea of a government lying systematically
about a war not been considered seriously by you, given
your experience in Vietnam? How could you not know that Bush
was lying even before the invasion?
How do you explain your speech -- lies
in your speech that were known lies at the time.
You said:
The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons
of mass destruction is real, but it is not new. It has been with
us since the end of the Persian Gulf War. It has been with us
for the last four years -- since Saddam Hussein kicked out U.N.
weapons inspectors at the end of 1998. And frankly, after Operation
Desert Fox failed to force Iraq to readmit inspectors, the United
States - and the international community -- erred in failing
to find effective ways to compel Iraqi compliance, thus giving
Saddam Hussein a free hand for four years to reconstitute his
weapons of mass destruction programs and allowing the world to
lose focus on the threat of proliferation.
Can you count the lies here? If anything,
Hussein's weapons of mass destruction capability ended with the
Gulf War, the exact opposite of what it claimed. Hussein did
not "kick out U.N. weapons inspectors at the end of 1998."
They were withdrawn by UNSCOM head Richard Butler at the behest
of the Clinton administration so it could launch the "Desert
Fox" bombing campaign on the eve of Clinton's scheduled
impeachment vote. And "Desert Fox" did not "fail"
to achieve Iraqi compliance, it succeeded in destroying UNSCOM.
The U.S. government, well before Bush, clearly did not want a
successful weapons inspection program. If Saddam could continue
verifying his compliance, there would be more pressure to lift
the draconian economic sanctions.
How can you talk of the administration
rushing to war when you said:
But the Administration missed an opportunity
two years ago and particularly a year ago after September 11th
to address this issue. They regrettably, even clumsily, complicated
their own case. The events of September 11 created a new understanding
of the terrorist threat and the degree to which every nation
is vulnerable. That understanding enabled the Administration
to forge a broad and impressive coalition against terrorism.
Had the Administration tried then to capitalize on this unity
of spirit to build a coalition to disarm Iraq, we would not be
debating this question now, just a few weeks before Congressional
elections. The Administration's decision to engage on this issue
now, rather than a year ago or earlier, and the manner in which
it engaged has politicized and complicated the national debate
and raised questions about the credibility of its case.
So that's what raises questions about
the credibility of the administration -- the fact that they leveraged
the Iraq invasion for the mid-term elections, not their pattern
of lies. Mr. Kerry, you actually fault the administration for
not being hawkish enough, for not immediately "capitalizing
on" 9-11. It is clear that you merely offer a different
flavor of U.S. corporate global control than the Bush administration.
For over a decade, no politician ever
lost political ground by attacking Saddam. But you could be the
first.
Sam Husseini
has put up the web page www.compassroses.com.
He can be reached at: sam@accuracy.org
Weekend
Edition Features for January 10 / 11, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Bush
as Hitler? Let's Be Fair
Susan Davis
Dangerous Books
Diane Christian
On Lying and Colin Powell
Lisa Viscidi
Exhumations: Unearthing Guatemala's Macabre Past
Daniel Estulin
Destroying History in Iraq
Saul Landau
Homeland Anxiety
Elaine Cassel
Who's Winning the War on Civil Liberties?
Bruce Jackson
Making the Shit List
Christopher Brauchli
Baptizing Hitler's Ghost
Francis A. Boyle
The Deep Scars of War
Lee Ballinger
Cold Sweat: Sweatshops and the Music Industry
Patrick W. Gavin
Hillary's Slur: Mrs. Lott?
Ramzy Baroud
What Invaders Have in Common
Michael Schwartz
Inside the California Grocery Strike
Gary Johnson
An Interview with Former Heavyweight Champ Greg Page
Dave Zirin
An Interview with Marvin Miller on Unions and Baseball
Mark Hand
A Review of Resistance: My Life for Lebanon
Poets' Basement
Thomas, Daley, Curtis, Guthrie and Albert
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