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Today's Stories September 23 / 24, 2006 Weekend Edition Jonathan Cook How Israel is Engineering the "Clash of Civilizations" September 22, 2006 Patrick Cockburn Republic of Fear: Torture in Bush's Iraq, Worse Than Under Saddam Michael Donnelly It's the Manipulated Economy, Stupid! Ramzy Baroud The Next Palestinian Struggle Evo Morales "We Need Partners, Not Bosses": Address to the United Nations Stanley Howard Torture and Justice in Chicago Sarah Leah Whitson Hezbollah's Rockets and Civilian Casualties: a Reply to Jonathan Cook JoAnn Wypijewski Conservations at Ground Zero Website of the Day Cockburn in Atlanta: the Video Interview September 21, 2006 Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad "No Nation Should Have Superiority Over Others:" UN Address Justin E. H. Smith Ending the Death Penalty: Outline of an Abolitionist Program Rick Kuhn Australian Government Steps Up Attacks on Muslims: "I Certainly Don't Want That Type of People in Australia" Mike Roselle Ed Wiley's Long March: the Elementary School vs. the Strip Mine Amira Hass In the Name of Security: What Israeli Police Files Reveal About the Occupation of Palestine Deborah Rich From the Kitchen of Dr. Frankenstein: the Consumption of Gene-Engineeered Foods Mickey Z. 10 Reasons Cars Suck Saul Landau Terrorism at Sheridan Circle Website of the Day Stop the Decapitation of Mountains! September 20, 2006 Sharon Smith Elections, Detentions and Deportations Christopher Reed Goodbye Koizumi, Hello Abe John Ross Mexico: Does AMLO Have a Future? Joshua Frank A Wasted Campaign: How Jonathan Tasini Helped Hillary Clinton and Distracted the Antiwar Movement Arthur Neslen The Clenched Fist of the Phoenix: What Made Israel Burn Lebanon, Again? Norman Solomon The Hollow Promise of Digital Technology Michael Carmichael The Vatican's Tyrant Evelyn Pringle The Merck Vioxx Litigation: a Scorecard Hugo Chavez Rise Up Against the Empire: Address to the United Nations Website of the Day Before You Enlist: Watch This Video! September 19, 2006 Patrick Cockburn Deadly Harvest: Lebanese Fields Sown with Israeli Cluster Bombs Jeff Leys Economic Warfare: Iraq and the IMF Brian M. Downing War, Taxes and Democracy Col. Dan Smith Dispelling Brutality Liaquat Ali Khan Presidential Incitements: Did Bush's Speech Violate Geneva Conventions on Genocide? Ron Jacobs Just Sign on the Dotted Line: Iraqi Oil and Production Sharing Agreements Nik Barry-Shaw / Yves Engler Canada in Haiti: Torture, Murder and Complicity Lucinda Marshall Air Paranoia: the Great Toothpaste and Hair Gel Scare Saul Landau The Pinochet Syndicate Photo of the Day Hold That Bridge! Website of the Day Scenarios for an Iranian War September 18, 2006 Carl Boggs Crimes of Empire Uri Avnery Peace Panic Mike Stark / Jim Bullington Ann Richards, the Original Texacutioner Joshua Frank Corporate E. Coli John Murphy The Price of Free Speech Ramzy Baroud Murdoch Almighty Dave Lindorff On Constitution Day Bill Quigley Showing Conviction at Echo 9 Website of the Day Tutorial: How to Hack a Diebold Voting Machine   September 16 / 17, 2006 Weekend Edition Tariq Ali A Bavarian Provocation Eliza Ernshire Death and Tears in Nablus Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon (Part 7): To Tilted Park Mairead Corrigan Maguire A Nobel Laureate Visits with Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu Brian Cloughley "Let Them Drink Coke!": Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan Ben Tripp November Prognostication: Republicans Sweep! Laura Carlsen Bush and Latin America: War on Terrorism or Fight for Social Justice Ralph Nader Terror on the Road Ron Jacobs Shooting Sgrena John Chuckman Imperial Entropy Robert Fisk The American Military's Cult of Cruelty Gary Leupp The Pope's New Crusade: Defender of the West, Scourge of Islam Lawrence R. Velvel The Pretexter in Chief: Learning About Bush from Hewlett-Packard Missy Comley Beattie The Insecurity of Immorality Adrienne Johnstone Deporting Widows: the Nightmare of a Kenyan Immigrant Mickey Z. Why I Hate America Jeffrey St. Clair Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week Poets' Basement Kearney, Orloski, Engel, Louise and Davies Website of the Weekend Still Life with Killpecker September 15, 2006 Diana Johnstone In Defense of Conspiracy: 9/11, in Theory and in Fact Diane Christian On Retaliation William S. Lind General Puffery: When the Military Brass Deceives Lee Sustar Bosses Take Aim at Undocument Workers Dave Lindorff Retroactive Immunity for Bush? Ramzy Baroud Presidential PR: Lost in the Bush Spin Cycle Mokhiber / Weissman The Cesspool Jeffrey St. Clair Glow, River, Glow: Radioactive Leaks and Plumbers at Hanford Website of the Day F-22: The Most Expensive Piece of Junk Ever Built? September 14, 2006 Franklin Lamb Israel's Use of American Cluster Bombs: a Walk Through the Rubble Tim Wilkinson Alan Dershowitz's Sinister Scheme Dick J. Reavis Mexico's Time of Troubles: Who Benefits? Sam Husseini 9/11 Five Years Later: a Conspiracy to Silence Doug Giebel Democracies of Death: Why John Adams Wouldn't Recognize His Own Country Bill Berkowitz The Messaging Strategy of the Iraq War Diane Farsetta What Media Democracy Looks Like Mary Turck Targeting Refugees and Human Rights Workers in Colombia Patrick Cockburn Amnesty Intl Accuses Hizbollah of War Crimes, But Katyusha Damage "Much Less" Than Israel Claimed J.L. Chestnut, Jr. Ah, Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Website of the Day The Shocking Truth About Inequality September 13, 2006 Jack Bratich Eyes Put a Spell on You: Signs of Surveillance in the Public Secret Sphere John Ross Welcome to the Nightmare: Al Qaeda de Mexico? Christopher Brauchli "You Had to Have Been There": Teaching Iraq and Iran Dave Lindorff Mourning in America: Bush Weeps? Who are They Kidding? Antony Loewenstein My Israel Question Al Krebs The Gates Foundation and African Agriculture Leonard Peltier Crazy Horse in Chains Jim Bensman My Adventures with the FBI: How I Was Targeted as a Terrorist Website of the Day FreedomWalk: Take a Moment for Leonard Peltier September 12, 2006 Norman Finkelstein Kill Arabs, Cry Anti-Semitism Seth Sandronsky The War on Nurses John Walsh Khatami Comes to Harvard Alan Maass "Islamic Fascism": the New Hysteria David Krieger Troubling Questions About Missile Defense Nate Mezmer September 12th, America Kathleen Christison The Coming Collapse of Zionism September 11, 2006 Uri Avnery State of Chutzpah Patrick Cockburn Palestinians Forced to Scavenge Rubbish Dumps for Food Col Dan Smith The Centrality of War in the Presidency of George W. Bush Dr. Susan Block Beyond Terror Anthony Alessandrini Forgetting 9/11 Dave Lindorff Bush After 9/11: Five Years of High Crimes and Misdemeanors Niranjan Ramakrishnan What Happened? Joshua Frank Proving Nothing: How the 9/11 "Truth" Movement Helps Bush & Cheney Jean Bricmont The End of the "End of History" Sprague / Emesberger "You Are a Dog. You Should Die": Death Threats Against Lancet's Haiti Investigator Website of the Day Web Piracy   September 9/10, 2006 Weekend Edition Alexander Cockburn The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts: How They Let the Guilty Parties of 9/11 Off the Hook Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon: In the Footsteps of Vladimir Putin (Part Six) Greg Grandin Good Christ, Bad Christ: Testament of the Death Squads Peter Stone Brown Bob Dylan's Swing Time Waltz in the Face of the Apocalypse Ralph Nader X-Raying Greed Brian Cloughley Rumsfeld at the American Legion: Dead Babies and Nazi Propaganda Col. Chet Richards Crossroads at the Litani David Model Tailoring the Case Against Iran: Cut from the Same Old Pattern Dave Himmelstein From Bil'in to Birmingham Ron Jacobs War and the Power of Words Fred Gardner Is Medical Pot Image a Turn-Off to Teens? Mike Whitney America's Economic Meltdown Josh Gryniewicz In the Belly of the Bentonville Beast: Working for Wal-Mart Daniel Gross / Joe Tessone An IWW Story at Starbucks Joe Bageant Inside the Iron Theater Nicole Colson The Colbert Factor: Some Truthiness, At Last Alexander Billet Thirty Years of "White Riot": Long Live The Clash! Poets' Basement Engel, Louise, Buknatski, Davies, & Orloski     Subscribe Online

Weekend Edition September 23 / 24, 2006 What I'm Listening to This Week CounterPunch Playlist By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR   Todd Snider: East Nashville Skyline (Oh Boy) Alt country surrealism from former Portlander released by John Prine's Oh Boy label. Funny, impish and weird songs from the other side of the tracks. If Edgar Allan Poe had written country songs, they might have come out something like "Tillamook County Jail." Will Kimbrough: Americanitis (Emergent) Famous session guitarist proves he is more than capable of leading his band with this roaring indictment of American hubris. Shannon McNally and Charlie Sexton: Southside Sessions (Back Porch) A gorgeous and unadorned set from New Orleans singer Shannon McNally and guitarist Charlie Sexton, fresh off of the Dylan tour. Their gripping cover of Jesse Winchester's Biloxi just might make you break down. The Impressions: Fabulous Impressions/We're a Winner (Kent) Two early albums packaged together by one of the greatest soul harmony groups of the 1960s, featuring the great Curtis Mayfield. Even the cover of "Up, Up and Away" holds up, but the real gems here are "Isle of the Sirens," "We're a Winner" and "Let Me Tell the World." Elizabeth Cook: This Side of the Moon (Emergent) Ms. Cook looks like a fashion model, sings like Loretta Lynn. Carlene Carter: Love Letters (Giant Records) A country rock classic that improves with time. Of course, the fact that Carlene raw vocals are backed by a band that includes Benmont Trench, Albert Lee and Roy Huskey, Jr. doesn't hurt, either. Tony Williams: Spring (Blue Note) When Miles Davis stepped out of the room, teen sensation Tony Williams commandeered the rest of the band--including Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock--to record this challenging set of grooving, post-bop jazz. At 18, Williams lead one of the most talented groups of musicians ever assembled into territory they'd never have ventured on their own. Jeffrey St. Clair is the author of Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: the Politics of Nature and Grand Theft Pentagon: Tales of Corruption and Profiteering from the War on Terror. His music writing is collected in Serpents in the Garden. He can be reached at: sitka@comcast.net.

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