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July 31, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Kerry:
He's the (Any) One
July 30, 2004
Kolhatkar /
Ingalls
Shattering
Illusions: Kerry's Speech Tells Anti-War Activists They're Not
Wanted
Dave Lindorff
Murder
Not So Foul?
Bruce Jackson
Walt Whitman on the Sound of Wolf Blitzer's Voice
Fidel Castro
The
Pathology of George W. Bush
Maximilien Robespierre
Memo to Kerry and Bush: Why They Resist
Saul Landau
Bush
Charges Castro with Sex Tourism; JFK Rolls Over in His Grave
Sex, Drugs & the Blues!
Serpents in the Garden
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July 29, 2004
Cockburn /
St. Clair
Hail,
the Conquering War Criminal: What Kerry Really Did in Vietnam
Frank Bardacke
What
Michael Moore Left Out of F9/11
Tom Barry
Shallow and Formulaic: Kerry's Latin America Plan
Ron Jacobs
Kerry
and Lennon: Hawking the CounterCulture
Robert Fisk
The Unreported War
Lichtman /
Kellis-Borok
What Kerry Must Do to Win (But Probably Won't)
William S. Lind
The 9/11 Commission Report: Cashing in on Failure
CounterPunch
Wire
Doonesbury Onto John Kerry in 1971!
Website of
the Day
Jabbing JibJab: Copyright Madness
July 28, 2004
Robert Fisk
The
Occupation at 114 Degrees: Baghdad is Swamped in the Smell of
the Dead
Kevin Mink
Kerry's Misperception of Palestine
Ray McGovern
Israel and the Iraq War: How the 9/11 Report Soft-Pedals Root
Causes
United for
Peace & Justice
An
Open Letter to John Kerry: Winter Soldiers and Summer Patriots
Mike Ferner
Vets Demand End to Occupation: "Pull the Troops or Face
Impeachment Mvt."
Imraan Siddiqi
Turning Tricks with Ann Coulter
Alexander Cockburn
Candidate
Kerry
Website of
the Day
Iraq Vets Against the War
July 27, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Why
the Democrats Deserve Nader
Dave Lindorff
Back to the 19th Century: Globalization's Coming!
Mike Whitney
Control Room: Inside Al Jazeera
Ali, Anderson, Bello, et al.
If We Were Venezuelan, We'd Vote for Chavez
Stefan Wray
Texas Plan to Grab Los Alamos Takes Hold, as DOE Shuts Down Labs
Louis Proyect
Reflections on Nicaragua: First Came the Contra Butchers, Then
the Sweatshops
Rick Giombetti
Faith in Freedom: the Challenge of Thomas Szasz
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
The
9/11 Report and Its Weak-Kneed Consensus: Dogding Israel/Palestine;
Blinkered on Causes of Terrorism
July 26, 2004
Todd Chretien
Green
Resistance: a Reply to Normon Solomon & Medea Benjamin
Robert Fisk
Terror
by Video
Richard Forno
Security
Theater in Boston: Security Expert Harrassed by DHS for Exposing
Flaws at the Fleet Center
Mitchel Cohen
Report from a Boston Demo: Arresting the Curious
Richard Moreno
Rockers
for Justice: an Interview with Tom Morello and Serj Tankian
Alexander Cockburn
Boston
Awaits a Dead Party
July
24 / 25, 2004
Alexander
Cockburn
The Democrats and Their Conventions:
Part One
Dennis
Hans
Those 16 Words Still Smell, Mr. Bush
Patrick
Cockburn
The Struggle for Iraq is Only Beginning
Josh
Frank
The War Path of Unity: Dems Reject
the Peace Movement
Justin
E.H. Smith
Christianity and the Left: the Latin
American Experience
Tariq
Ali
What's at Stake in Venezuela
Fred
Gardner
The Politics of Pot: Year of the
Antagonist
Mark
Scaramella
There's Dope and There's Dope
Ron
Jacobs
The Weather Underground's Prairie
Fire Statement...35 Years On
July
23, 2004
Lee
Sustar
Revolution in Nicaragua: 25 Years
On
Dave
Lindorff
Battle for NYC: Bush 1, Protesters
0
Saul
Landau
Zaniest President in US History: Bush
Beats Reagan
Mike
Whitney
The 9/11 Whitewash: Blaming No
One
Mickey
Z
Get On the Bus: 150 Years After Elizabeth
Jennings
Gary
Leupp
The 9/11 Commission and the Looming
War on Iran
July
22, 2004
M.
Junaid Alam
Ten Ways to Build a Better Democrat
Brian
McKinlay
Rusted On Down Under: Howard, Bush and Sharon
Jason
Leopold
Cheney Lobbied for Easing of Sanctions on Terrorist Regimes While
CEO of Halliburton
Chris
Floyd
Mob Rule: Ripping the Lid Off of America's Pious Myths
Uri
Avnery
Chirac v. Sharon
July
21, 2004
Paula
J. Caplan
The Emotional Casualities of War:
Psychologists Can't Heal All the Damage
Joshua
Frank
Nader Sleeping with the Enemy? Let's
be Fair
Ron
Jacobs
American Exceptionalism
Reza
Ghorashi
The Elections, Iran and al-Qaeda
Amy
Martin
Will Congress Rearm the Guatemalan Generals?
John
Ross
Bush May Lose, But His Wars Will Go
On and On
July
20, 2004
Stan
Cox
The Bush / Kerry War Ticket
Chris
Randolph
An Open Letter to Dr. Ehrenreich: It's Over, Barb!
Forrest
Hylton
The Ghosts of Gonismo: "Popular
Patricipation" and Bolivia's Gas Referendum
Mark
Scaramella
It's Official! Mendocino County is Crazier and Fatter Than the
Rest of California
Sam
Bahour
The World is Knocking on Israel's Door
George
Reiter
A Defense of David Cobb
John
Ross
Burying Iraq, Burying Bush
John
L. Hess
Girlie Stuff: Media Tolerance of Arnold & Co.
Website
of the Day
This Land is Your Land
July
19, 2004
Uri
Avnery
Marie and the Ghosts: the Hoax of
Paris
Col.
Dan Smith
What Has Been Accomplished?
Mike
Whitney
Allawi: Our Puppet with a Pistol
Karyn
Strickler
Just Marriage, Not Gay Marriage
Robert
Fisk
The Crisis of Information in Baghdad
David
Swanson
Media Blackout of US Labor Opposition
to Iraq War
Jennifer
van Bergen
The Death of the Great Writ of Liberty
July
17 / 18, 2004
Gary
Leupp
Apocalypse Now: Why the Book of Revelations
is Must Reading
Ghada
Karmi
Vanishing the Palestinians
Lenni
Brenner
When Cattle Unite, Lions Go Hungry: Notes for Ralph Nader
Ben
Tripp
Man on a Bridge: a Ghost Story
Brandy
Baker
What Would Elizabeth Cady Stanton Make of John Kerry?
M.
Shahid Alam
Israel Builds Another Wall
Sasan
Fayazmanesh
Nuclear Hypocrisy: Israel, Iran and the IAEA
Patrick
Bond
The George Bush of Africa
Fred
Gardner
Politics of Marijuana: Cannabiniod Therapuetics
William
Blum
Bush and Thucydides
Ben
Terrall
Carter and the Indonesia Elections: "I Don't See Anything
Wrong with a General Running the Country"
Tom
Barry
John Lehman on the War Path
David
Vest
Dylan Without the Music
Phyllis
Pollack
Return to Sin City: Keith Richards Does Gram Parsons
Ron
Jacobs
Smearing Muhammad Ali: Bob Feller Strikes Out
Joshua
Frank
Kerry to Edwards: "Let's Lose!"
David
Nally
A Call for Sudan: Our Georgraphical Blindspot
Toni
Solo
Bolivia's Gas Referendum
Landau,
Hassan, Prashad & Lindorff
Three Reviews of Moore's F911
Poets's
Basement
Ford, Smith and Albert
July
16, 2004
Dave
Zirin
Adonal Foyle: Master of the Lefty Lay-Up
Shervan
Sardar
Dershowitz, the ICJ and Jim Crow Laws
Ron
Jacobs
The Lil' Engine That Couldn't: Kucinich Surrenders on Anti-War
Plank
Robert
Fisk
Iraq, According to Edgar Allen Poe:
Coffin Bombs in Baghdad
Greg
Moses
The Forts of Iraq
Mickey
Z.
Ad Infinitum?: Presidential Campaigns in the Age of TV
Dan
Bacher
A Landmark Win for Salmon and the Tribes
Dave
Lindorff
The Mumia Case: Support from NAACP,
But a Movement in Shambles
Paul
McGeough
Did Allawi Shoot Inmates in Cold Blood?
Website
of the Day
10 Reasons to Fire Bush (and 9 Reasons Kerry Won't Be Any Better)
July
15, 2004
Heather
Williams
McMissing
the Point: Supersize Me Crashes on Its Message
Werther
Iraq: Follow the Money
Tom
Crumpacker
The Birds of Guantanamo
Brian
Cloughley
What Does the Bush Regime Object To?
Bill
Christison
Reorganize the CIA? Of Course,
But...
July
14, 2004
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Chronicle of a Nomination Foretold:
the Green Deceivers
Neve
Gordon
Of Socrates and the Apartheid Wall
Diane
Christian
The Priesthood of Death
Stefan
Wray
Who Benefits from Missing Data at Los Alamos Nuclear Lab?
Josh
Frank
The Nader / Dean Debate
Conn
Hallinan
Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules
Elizabeth
Weill-Greenberg
Bring My Brother Home!: Class, War
and Education
Website
of the Day
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of US Empire
July
13, 2004
Ray
McGovern
The CIA and Iraq: an Intelligence
Debacle...and Worse
Mark
Donham
The Sierra Club's Inexplicable Treatment of Cynthia McKinney
Ben
Tripp
Politus Interruptis: With Friends Like
These, Who Needs Electorates?
Mark
Gaffney
Slipping Towards Armageddon: Israel
in Iraq
Dave
Lindorff
Osama Wins! Election Postponed!
Chris
White
Double Think: the Bedrock of Marine
Indoctrination
July
10 / 12, 2004
Kathleen
Christison
The Problem with Neutrality Between
Palestinians and Israel
Janine
Pommy Vega
Trail of the Comet: a Gathering of the World's Poets Against
War
Sherry
Wolf
From Maverick to Party Attack Dog: Howard Dean Gay-Bashes Nader
Saul
Landau and Farrah Hassen
A Transfer of Power, Sort Of
Michael
Donnelly
How to Steal an Election: the Green Version, 2004
Stanton
/ Madsen
Iraq Survey Group: Rumsfeld's al-Qaeda?
Richard
Lichtman
The End of Innocence: Reflections on American Pathology
Gila
Svirsky
Thank You, Your Honors: a Legal Blow to the Wall
Kurt
Nimmo
Clinton's Life
Toni
Solo
Empire-Speak: What Roger Noriega Really Means
Ron
Jacobs
The Black Panthers and the Rest
Camelo
Ruiz Marrero
Gene Warfare in Oaxaca: Genetic Mutation of Mexican Maize
Omar
Barghouti
Wither the Empire: Rise of a Global Resistance
Poets'
Basement
Curtis and Albert
July
9, 2004
Dave
Zirin
Carlos Delgado on Deck: Blue Jays Slugger
Stands Up Against War
Justin
Delacour
Wishing Kerry Would Shut Up About
Latin America
Robert
Fisk
Iraq in Reverse: Martial Laws Fuel Insurgency
Boris
Kagarlitsky
Two Congresses and a Funeral
William
S. Lind
The October Surprises
Sibel
Edmonds
Our Broken System: John Ashcroft's War on Truth
Ron
Jacobs
Reading Tea Leaves: What Vietnam Tells Us About Iraq's Future
Gary
Leupp
The Lie That Will Not Die: Cheney and
the Iraq/al-Qaeda Link
July
8, 2004
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
The Inexplicable John McCain
Toufic
Haddad
Protesting Israel's Apartheid Wall:
a Letter from the Hunger Strikers' Tent
Dave
Lindorff
Liberation as Martial Law
Joshua
Frank
The Fall: How Beltway Dems Sank Howard
Dean
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush & Cheney Play the Hitler Card
James
Petras
The Truth About Jimmy Carter
July
7, 2004
John
Chuckman
Kerry's BBQ: a Deafening Silence
of Meaning
Virginia
Tilley
A Line in the Sand: Azmi Bishara's
Hunger Strike
Susan
Martinez
A Letter to Bill Cosby
Mickey
Z
Elie Wiesel's Strange Parade
Michael
Donnelly
Our Own Private Wilderness: Trusting the Land in the Inland Empire
Sean
Donahue
Boston Social Forum: the Dems aren't the Only Show in Beantown
Diane
Christian
Sovereignty and Freedom in Iraq
July
6, 2004
Lisa
Viscidi
Fleeing Guatemala: Central Americans
Risk Lives to Reach El Norte
Marc
Norton
The Felonious Five Ride Again: the
Supreme Court and Enemy Combatants
James
Brooks
Chemical Warfare on the West Bank?
Ray
McGovern
Porter Goss as CIA Director?
William
Cook
Legacy of Deceit: If Dante Knew of Bush and the Neo-Cons...
July
5, 2004
Forrest
Hylton
US Imperialism in Latin America: Sept.
11, July 4 and Systematic Torture
Chris
White
A Former Marine Sgt. on the Meaning
of Independence Day
Joe
Bageant
Cranky Reflections on the 4th of July
Robert
Jensen
Stupid White Movie: What Michael Moore
Misses About the Empire
Kathy
Kelly
"Two Days an' a Wake-Up"
July
3 / 4, 2004
Elaine
Cassel
Bush's Police State and Independence
Day
Stan
Goff
ABC of Opportunism: "Progressive"
Latin American Leaders Support the Coup in Haiti
Snehal
Shingavi
"We Want Real Justice for Bhopal": Two Survivors Speak
Out
Bruce
Anderson
The Cheney-Leahy Metaphor and the Greens
Sharon
Smith
Twilight of the Greens: the Chokehold of "Anybody But Bush"
Josh
Frank
Ralph Nader's Revolt: an Interview with Greg Bates
Robert
Fisk
Pentagon Tried to Censor Saddam's Hearing
Joe
Bageant
Sons of a Laboring God: Leftnecks Unite!
Brian
Cloughley
Fortress Bush and the One Law Doctrine
Justin
Delacour
The Anti-Chavez Echo Chamber: Venezuela's Media Tycoons
William
S. Lind
Saudi Spillover
Linda
S. Heard
A Joke Called "Justice"
Greg
Moses
"It's Illegal, But It's Our Right": Korean Labor Won't
Back Down
Ron
Jacobs
"Ain't You Proud to be White on Independence Day?"
Toni
Solo
Weary of Indigenous Resistances? Just Pretend They're Not There
Dan
Nagengast
Chicken Manure as Cattle Food: Safe, But Do We Want to Eat It?
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Albert
Brando, a Personal Recollection
Dave
Zirin
From the Black Panthers to Sacheen Littlefeather: a Eulogy for
Our Brando
Patrick
W. Gavin
The Progressive Case for Dodgeball
Steven
Rosenthal / Junaid Ahmad
The Problem is Bigger Than the Bushes: a Review of F911
Poets'
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Kearney, Ford and Davies
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July
2, 2004
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St. Clair
Suicide Right on the Stage: the Demise
of the Green Party
Douglas
Valentine
Fahrenheit 911: Mocking the Moral Crisis of Capitalism
Gary
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"Just Because I Could": On Obscenities and Opportunities
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Illegal People: Kerry Opposes Immigrant Rights
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Saddam in the Dock: Confused? Hardly
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Bush's Damaged Mind: the Madness in
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Bush's Evacuation Moment
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Bread and Circus Trials in Iraq
Alan
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July
31, 2004
Genocide
in Darfur?
Victims
without Oppressors; Massacres without Crimes
By
DAVID NALLY
"In the whole world no
poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I am not
degraded and murdered."
Aimé Césaire.
Genocide is defined in a 1948 UN Convention
as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part,
a national, ethnic, racial or religious group by "killing
members of the group"; "causing serious bodily or mental
harm to members of the group"; or "deliberately inflicting
on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part" constitute the
crime of genocide [1].
With this in mind consider
just a fraction of the chilling evidence which continues to trickle
in from Darfur. Amnesty International recently released a report
that documents the experiences of hundreds of women who have
been systematically raped (for no other reason than they are
black African women) or sold as sex slaves [2]. Monitors from
the African Union said that in an incident three weeks ago militiamen
killed villagers by chaining them up and then burning them alive
[3]. The Washington Post published an interview with Musa
Hilal, a sheik who along with six other individuals is accused
of organizing the Janjaweed militia's terror tactics in Darfur.
In 1997 Hilal was jailed for killing 17 Africans in Darfur; when
the region erupted in rebellion in early 2003 the Arab-led government
in Khartoum released Hilal on instruction to organise his militia
[4]. To date 1.5 million people have been displaced, 2.2 million
are in desperate need of food and medicine, and it is (conservatively)
estimated that 350,000 might die before the end of this year.
The list of government-sponsored crimes against humanity could
go on and on. The point worth stressing is this: on the charge
of genocide there is no fear of crying wolf in Darfur.
However, in refusing to call
the crimes in Darfur "genocide" the world has opted
to mimic the policy of the Sudanese Foreign Office who recently
declared that while there are "problems" in Darfur
"there is no Famine, no epidemic diseases" [5]. Of
course, it should also be made clear that such apathy-masquerading-as-prudence
is not unique to the West. To their immense discredit many Arab
regimes have refused to condemn the Sudanese government. Given
the "benumbing indifference" (The Times of India)
that presently characterises the international scene it seems
alarmingly easy to agree that the killing in Darfur "has
exposed the quiet savagery of the rest of the world" [6].
In fact, some analysts (for example, The New York Times
journalist who bluntly declared: "Western public opinion
will not be as moved by the plight of the Sudanese as by that
of the Kosovars") outwardly endorse this "quiet savagery"
[7]. Few have adequately questioned whether such "benumbing
indifference" and "quiet savagery" are a cause
or an effect of these atrocities.
In a chapter of great import
to the situation in Darfur (entitled "The Decline of the
Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man"), Hannah
Arendt wrote about how totalitarian politics visibly exposed
"the sufferings of more and more groups of people to whom
suddenly the rules of the world around them had ceased to apply."
Arendt continues: "It was precisely the seeming stability
of the surrounding world that made each group forced out of its
protective boundaries look like an unfortunate exception to an
otherwise sane and normal rule, and which filled with equal cynicism
victims and observers of an apparently unjust and abnormal fate"
[8]. History recalls that the lives of various minority peoples
in Europe--most notably the Jews and Gypsies--were threatened
only after "a condition of complete rightlessness was created."
The huge irony, which Arendt explains, is that these "stateless
minorities" ought to have been able to fall back on their
supposedly "inalienable" human rights. In fact, for
these poor unfortunates it was, in a sense, not that they were
oppressed but that nobody wanted to oppress them: "Only
in the last stage of a rather lengthy process is their right
to live threatened; only if they remain perfectly 'superfluous,'
if nobody can be found to 'claim' them, may their lives be in
danger" [9].
The mass deportation of 'undesirables'
from country after country during World War II exposed--with
shameless clarity--the naivety of those who claimed that "inalienable"
human rights would save the many who had had their national rights
removed. In other words, when human beings lost the protections
afforded by citizenship, when they were stripped down to sheer
biological existence (or "bare life"), they became
at the same time utterly expendable. To the extent that we are
all reducible to bare biological existence, to the extent that
human-made protections like citizenship can be created and
suspended, we are all potentially rightless and 'superfluous.'
We are all potentially homines sacri--that which can
be killed without sacrifice.
Once again genocide has exposed
the plight of an ever-increasing number of people who find themselves
stripped of their national rights and thus--in the eyes of the
rest of the world--of the right to have rights (the Khartoum
government has after all turned against its own people and the
survivors in the camps frankly admit that going home isn't an
option). But perhaps the greatest tragedy--evident in the rising
normality of camp life (think not only of the camps in Darfur
and Chad but also of Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib) and the disturbing
stability of the surrounding world--is the sad knowledge that
the present prolongation of Sudanese lives is due to charity
and not to right: "for no law exists which could force
nations to feed them; their freedom of movement, if they have
it at all, gives them no right to residence which even the jailed
criminal enjoys as a matter of course; and their freedom of opinion
is a fool's freedom, for nothing they think matters anyhow"
[10].
In his interview with the Washington
Post (which I mentioned above) sheik Musa Hilal responded
to the charge of genocide in frighteningly plain language. "No
one can wipe out an ethnicity," he said [11]. "Never,
never, never. No massacres," echoed Abdul-Rahim Mohammed
Hussein, Minister of the Interior, and the man tasked by Sudan's
President with resolving the crisis. "There have been no
massive massacres--and no one can prove there have been"
[12]. Here in plain speech the essential issue seems to lie:
no one is willing to 'claim' the victims in Darfur--not even
their oppressors. We thus have an almost preposterous situation
of victims without oppressors and massacres without crimes.
It is notoriously difficult
to explain why genocide happens--at least in the sense of what
motivates one group of people to systematically liquidate another
group; but we can begin to assess the conditions which make human
liquidation possible. One confirmed system is to create political-juridical
exceptions (for example: refugees, "enemy combatants,"
"stateless minorities.") These people literally stand
beyond the pale of the law and the protections it affords. As
the "Final Solution" demonstrates, once human beings
are stripped of their national protections--once they appear
before the court of human opinion as human beings (bare biological
existence) and not "citizens"--far from being protected,
their very biological existence may now be challenged. According
to political philosopher Giorgio Agamben this "state of
exception" is the only legitimate way to explain the increased
normalisation of camp life which connects the refugee
tents in Darfur and Chad to the internment camps of Abu Ghraib
and Guantanamo Bay [13]. This also makes clear the racism behind
the belief that "Western public opinion will not be as moved
by the plight of the Sudanese as by that of the Kosovars"
if and only because it refuses to accept the obvious: Darfur
is unquestionably and unforgivably, "a tragedy with many
authors" [14].
David Nally is working on his PhD in Geography
at the University of British Columbia. He can be reached at:
dpnally@yahoo.ie
[1] Ross Boylan, "Ethnic
Cleansing in Sudan" May 26, 2004 p. 2 ()
[2] Marc Lacey, "Amnesty
Says Sudan Militias Use Rape as Weapon" July 19,
2004; James Smith, "Living with the Legacy of Rape and Genocide"
Scotsman 20 July, 2004
[3] Ewen MacAskill, "Sudan to face 'Genocide' Inquiry"
Guardian July 28, 2004
[4] Emily Wax, "In Sudan,
'a Big Sheik' Roams Free" Washington Post
[5] Barbara Slavin, "Powell
tells Sudan to aid afflicted region" USA Today June
29, 2004
[6] Cited in, Jefferson Morley
"The Darfur Delay: Who's Responsible?" Washington
Post July 1, 2004
[7] James Traub, "Never
Again, No Longer?" The New York Times July 18, 2004
[8] Hannah Arendt, The Origins
of Totalitarianism (Harcourt: New York) 1976 p. 267-268.
[9] Ibid. p. 296.
[10] Ibid. p. 296.
[11] Emily Wax, "In Sudan,
'a Big Sheik' Roams Free" Washington Post
July 18, 2004
[12] Hilary Andersson, "Land
in the Grip of Death" Independent July 25 , 2004
[13] For a sustained treatment
of Agamben's ideas see Derek Gregory, The Colonial Present:
Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq (Blackwell: London) 2004.
[14] Morley, op. cit.
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