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Jan.
31 / Feb 1, 2004
Conn
Hallinan
Nepal, Bush & Real WMDs
January
30, 2004
Saul
Landau
Cuba High on Neo-Con Hit List
Michael
Donnelly
Bush's Second Front: The War in
the Woods
Elaine
Cassel
Worse Than Jacko: Child Abuse at Gitmo
David Vest
More Halliburton News, Brought to You by Halliburton
Mike
Whitney
The Kay Report: Still Defending Aggression
David
Miller
The Hutton Whitewash
Sam
Husseini
How Many People Must Die Because of This "Mistake",
Senator Kerry?
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
January 9, 2004
David Lindorff
The
Misers of War: Troop Strength and Chintzy Bonuses
Kurt Nimmo
Saddam's Defense: Summon Bush Sr. to the Stand
Mike Whitney
Orange Jumpsuits for the Bush Clan?: The Carnegie Report on Iraq's
Non-existent WMDs
Deb Reich
Palestinians and Israelis: This War is Unwinnable
David Vest
Disabled
Vets Fire Back at Rumsfeld
January 8, 2004
Neve Gordon
Israeli
Refuseniks Sentenced to Jail
Lenni Brenner
Dr.
Dean and the Godhead
Ray McGovern
Bush: Driving Without Breaks
Mark Scaramella
Inside
the DA's Office: Lies, Errors and Tedium
Yves Engler
Bush's Mexican Gambit
James Hollander
Journalists
Under Fire: the Death of José Couso in Baghdad
January 7, 2004
Democracy Now!
Uncharitable
Care: How Hospitals are Gouging and Even Arresting the Uninsured
Greg Weiher
The
Bush Administration's Ongoing Intelligence Problem
Ben Tripp
The Word of the Year, 2003
Dave Lindorff
Dean and His Democratic Detractors
Michael Leon
The NYT Does Chomsky
Bob Boldt
God Talk
Ramon Ryan
Small
Victories and Long Struggles: the 10th Anniversary of the Zapatista
Uprising
January 6, 2004
Dave Lindorff
RNC
Plays the Hitler Card: MoveOn Shouldn't Apologize for Those Ads
Ron Jacobs
Drugs
in Uniform: Hashish and the War on Terrorism
Josh Frank
Coffee and State Authority in Colombia
Doug Giebel
Permanent Bases: Leave Iraq? Hell No, We Won't Go
John Chuckman
Sick Puppies: David Frum's New Neo-Con Manifesto
Rannie Amiri
The Politics of the Iranian Earthquake
John L. Hess
A Record
to Dissent From
Thacher Schmid
A Cheesehead's Musings on the Sunday NYT
David Price
"Like
Slaves": Anthropological Thoughts on Occupation
January 5, 2004
Al Krebs
How
Now Mad Cow!
Kathy Kelly
Squatting
in Baghdad's Bomb Craters
Jordy Cummings
The Dialectic of the Kristol Family: Putting the Neo in the Cons
Fran Shor
Mad Human Disease: Chewing the Fat Down on the Farm
Fidel Castro
"We Shall Overcome": On the 45th Anniversary of the
Cuban Revolution
Gary Leupp
North
Korea for Dummies
January 3 / 4, 2004
Brian Cloughley
Never
Mind the WMDs, Just Look at History
Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan
The Wrong War at the Wrong Time
William Cook
Failing to Respond to 9/11
Glen Martin
Jesus
vs. the Beast of the Apocalypse
Robert Fisk
Iraqi Humor Amid the Carnage
Ilan Pappe
The Geneva Bubble
Walter Davis
Robert Jay Lifton, or Nostalgia
Kurt Nimmo
Ashcroft vs. the Left
Mike Whitney
The Padilla Case
Steven Sherman
On Wallerstein's The Decline of American Power
Dave Lindorff
Bush's Taiwan Hypocrisy
William Blum
Codework Orange!
Mitchel Cohen
Learning from Che Guevara
Seth Sandronsky
Mad Cow and Main Street USA
Bruce Jackson
Conversations with Leslie Fiedler
Standard Schaefer
Poet Carl Rakosi Turns 100
Ron Jacobs
Sir Mick
Adam Engel
Hall of Hoaxes
Poets' Basement
Jones, Albert & Curtis
January 2, 2004
Stan Cox
Red Alert
2016
Dave Lindorff
Beef, the Meat of Republicans
Jackie Corr
Rule and Ruin: Wall Street and Montana
Norman Solomon
George Will's Ethics: None of Our Business?
David Vest
As the Top Wobbleth
January 1, 2004
Randall Robinson
Honor
Haiti, Honor Ourselves
David Krieger
Looking
Back on 2003
Robert Fisk
War Takes an Inhuman Twist: Roadkill Bombs
Stan Goff
War,
Race and Elections
Hammond Guthrie
2003 Almaniac
Website of the Day
Embody Bags
December 31, 2003
Ray McGovern
Don't
Be Fooled Again: This Isn't an Independent Investigation
Kurt Nimmo
Manufacturing Hysteria
Robert Fisk
The Occupation is Damned
Mike Whitney
Mad Cows and Downer George
Alexander Cockburn
A Great Year Ebbed, Another Ahead
December 30, 2003
Michael Neumann
Criticism
of Israel is Not Anti-Semitism
Annie Higgins
When
They Bombed the Hometown of the Virgin Mary
Alan Farago
Bush Bros. Wrecking Co.: Time Runs Out for the Everglades
Dan Bacher
Creatures from the Blacklight Lagoon: From Glofish to Frankenfish
Jeffrey St. Clair
Hard
Time on the Killing Floor: Inside Big Meat
Willie Nelson
Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth?
December 29, 2003
Mark Hand
The Washington
Post in the Dock?
David Lindorff
The
Bush Election Strategy
Phillip Cryan
Interested Blindness: Media Omissions in Colombia's War
Richard Trainor
Catellus Development: the Next Octopus?
Uri Avnery
Israel's
Conscientious Objectors
December 27 / 28, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
A
Journey Into Rupert Murdoch's Soul
Kathy Kelly
Christmas Day in Baghdad: A Better World
Saul Landau
Iraq
at the End of the Year
Dave Zirin
A Linebacker for Peace & Justice: an Interview with David
Meggysey
Robert Fisk
Iraq
Through the American Looking Glass
Scott Burchill
The Bad Guys We Once Thought Good: Where Are They Now?
Chris Floyd
Bush's Iraq Plan is Right on Course: Saddam 2.0
Brian J. Foley
Don't Tread on Me: Act Now to Save the Constitution
Seth Sandronsky
Feedlot Sweatshops: Mad Cows and the Market
Susan Davis
Lord
of the (Cash Register) Rings
Ron Jacobs
Cratched Does California
Adam Engel
Crumblecake and Fish
Norman Solomon
The Unpardonable Lenny Bruce
Poets' Basement
Cullen and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Activism Through Music
December 26, 2003
Gary Leupp
Bush
Doings: Doing the Language
December 25, 2003
Diane Christian
The
Christmas Story
Elaine Cassel
This
Christmas, the World is Too Much With Us
Susan Davis
Jinglebells, Hold the Schlock
Kristen Ess
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Francis Boyle
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
Alexander Cockburn
The
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December 24, 2003
M. Shahid Alam
The Semantics
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William S. Lind
Marley's
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Josh Frank
Iraqi
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Cpt. Paul Watson
The
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Nuance
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December 23, 2003
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Duck
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Sharon's
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Here
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Sharon's
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December 22, 2003
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Pray
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What Would Lincoln Do?
Marjorie Cohn
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January 31 / February 1, 2004
The Cat is Out of
the Bag
Nothing
to Preempt
By RAY McGOVERN
Finally, some honesty. But mounting problems for
the White House.
The CIA's chief weapons inspector, David
Kay, has driven the final nail into the coffin where rests the
Bush administration's policy of preemptive war. It turns out
that there was nothing to preempt.
Which calls into question why more than
500 U.S. troops have been killed and at least 6,000 severely
wounded--and why untold thousands of Iraqi army conscripts and
civilians have also been killed. (Precise figures are impossible
to come by since U.S. casualties are flown back to the United
States in the dead of night, and proconsul Paul Bremer has instructed
Iraqi authorities to stop counting civilian casualties.)
Nothing to preempt also means that the
U.S./UK attack on Iraq last March falls into the category of
"preventive war" explicitly condemned by international
law. Which also means that the British Prime Minister Tony Blair's
political career is in jeopard, as is the political future of
other gullible leaders of the "coalition of the willing"--in
Australia, for example, and in even in Denmark.
You will not have heard this on FOX news,
but the Australian Senate has already formally censured Prime
Minister John Howard for misleading the country on Iraqi "weapons
of mass destruction" (WMD) and for suppressing a key report
from Australian intelligence warning that still more widespread
terrorism could be expected to follow any attack on Iraq.
The fact that Kay came up empty-handed
also means that the transparently disingenuous remarks of President
George W. Bush and his senior aides in attempting to justify
the invasion and occupation of Iraq will fall far short of what
the White House needs in order to defend the most misguided and
destructive U.S. foreign policy decision since Vietnam.
Announcing last week that he was leaving
his job as searcher-in-chief for weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) in Iraq, Kay dared not say "Mission Accomplished."
Rather, he said he believed that "probably 85 percent of
the significant things" have now been found--but no WMD.
He dutifully urged that the other 15 percent be pursued under
his successor, Charles Duelfer, but Duelfer is openly skeptical
that he will have any better luck.
Deulfer told the press on Jan. 9 "the
prospect of finding chemical weapons, biological weapons is close
to nil at this point." He noted that the inspectors have
debriefed many knowledgeable Iraqi scientists, who "have
every incentive to show them where the WMD are, and they have
come up with nothing."
Nevertheless, senior administration officials
are still putting up a hopeful front. One told the press on Saturday
that until "all" the Iraqis involved in WMD programs
are interviewed, the "jury is still out" on the accuracy
of U.S. intelligence. Another said yesterday that it would be
premature to make any definitive judgment until "millions
and millions of pages" of documents have been translated
from the Arabic.
To his credit, Kay is having none of
that. "Why could we all be so wrong?" he asks; and
his lament is all too reminiscent of Robert McNamara's "We
were wrong, terribly wrong" on Vietnam. Kay initially had
been a strong supporter of the attack on Iraq and, when appointed
chief inspector, he exuded confidence that he would find the
weapons.
Most of the answer is to be found in
a novel, faith-based approach to intelligence analysis--an approach
that applies the theorem propounded by Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld: "The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
Secretary of State Colin Powell rang a change on that theme last
week when he provided this explanation: "What we demanded
of Iraq was that they prove the negative of our hypothesis."
Vice President Dick Cheney and the true
believers working in the sizable intelligence apparat in his
office have kept faith with the Rumsfeld theorem--Kay's and Duelfer's
apostate comments notwithstanding. In an interview with National
Public Radio last week, Cheney insisted that inspectors in Iraq
may still find WMD. This expression of faith was accompanied
by a litany of other assertions discredited by Kay and others;
for example, that trailers found in Iraq posed "conclusive
evidence" that Saddam Hussein "did in fact have programs
for WMD."
Kay made short shrift of that lingering
canard when he alluded to a new intelligence community consensus
that the trailers were actually designed to produce hydrogen
for weather balloons, or perhaps rocket fuel.
For good measure, Cheney threw in the
old saw about a link between one of the 9/11 hijackers and Iraq,
and cited the compendium of unconfirmed reports on such links
that was prepared by Rumsfeld disciple Douglas Feith, sent to
the Senate, and then leaked immediately to the right-wing Weekly
Standard. Powell, however, recently admitted there is no concrete
evidence of such ties, despite his conjuring up a "sinister
nexus" in his UN speech on Feb. 5, 2003. And, in a highly
unusual move, the Defense Department disavowed Feith's litany
when it hit the press.
On WMD Cheney insisted, "It's going
to take some additional considerable period of time in order
to look in all the cubbyholes (sic) and ammo dumps... where you'd
expect to find something like that." This is not the first
hint that Cheney has dropped that he would like to string out
the quest for WMD until after the November election, while asking
the American people in the interim to keep faith.
Other senior officials appear to be hedging
their faith in the gullibility of American voters. They are urging
the president to say, "The CIA made me do it."
Quizzed on WMD by reporters last week,
Powell explained that his UN speech was based on "what our
intelligence community believed was credible." (This is
a far cry from the "solid sources" he earlier said
were the underpinning of that speech.) Powell complained to the
reporters, "If they (the Iraqis) didn't have any (WMD),
then why wasn't that known beforehand?" Why indeed?
Whom to Blame?
Were not a campaign for the presidency
in full swing, FOX and other U.S. media that serve as dummies
for administration ventriloquists might succeed in cutting off
the legs of this major story. But, clearly, that will not be
possible. It appears likely that Karl Rove and the president's
other political advisers are now telling Bush that Cheney's tough-it-out
attitude has run its course.
Do we have a volunteer to take the fall?
Yes--CIA Director Tenet, who for months has been telling intimates
that he intends to leave his post soon anyway. President Bush's
gratuitous accolades for the CIA yesterday, however, suggest
that he has not yet been persuaded to jettison him. So it appears
possible that the CIA director (widely referred to in Washington
as "Teflon Tenet") may survive to serve another day.
Why? Because he is useful. He has done
what he has been told to do--even when this meant scandalizing
his analysts by acquiescing in Secretary Powell's request that
Tenet sit directly behind him at the UN in an obvious attempt
to give CIA's imprimatur to "intelligence" his analysts
knew to be highly dubious. Besides, Tenet knows far too much
about what Bush had been told before 9/11.
Tenet might even agree to stay on and
cooperate in a campaign to blame the administration's misguided
decisions on Iraq on the intelligence community. This even though
he knows better than anyone that those decisions predated by
at least several months the National Intelligence Estimate conjured
up quickly in the fall of 2002. The draft of that estimate was
not to inform policy decisions; rather, it was used to persuade
Congress to cede to the president its constitutional power to
declare war.
That the malleable Tenet will comply
with just about anything was clear in his acquiescence in Rumsfeld's
cynical request early last year to keep track of how good the
intelligence would prove to be regarding WMD--chutzpah of the
highest order, since it was the "mini-CIA" Rumsfeld
created in the Pentagon that fed Bush the lion's share of adulterated
"intelligence" on those putative weapons.
So most signs point to Tenet being a
willing scapegoat, if that is what the White House decides. Kay
has already said that fundamental errors in pre-war intelligence
assessments were so serious that the intelligence community should
overhaul its collection and analysis efforts. In response, an
intelligence official said lamely, "it is premature to say
that the intelligence community's judgments were completely wrong
or largely wrong--there are still a lot of answers we need."
Ray McGovern,
a 27-year career analyst with the CIA, is co-founder of Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and co-director of the
Servant Leadership School, an outreach ministry in the inner
city of Washington, DC. He can be reached at: rmcgovern@slschool.org
This article first appeared on tompaine.com.
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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