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June
6, 2003
David
Krieger
The Big Lie
Ramzy
Baroud
Sharon and the Myth of the Peacemakers
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Gancarski
Sharansky: "Crucifixion is a Privilege"
Sam
Hamod
His Own Little Country
Sean Carter
Why Indict Martha Stewart and Not Ken Lay?
David
Lindorff
Cracks in the Consensus
Stew Albert
Ari's Great Set
Elaine
Cassel
Ashcroft the Insatiable
June
5, 2003
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Pools of Fire: The Looming Nuclear
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Imraan
Siddiqi
Ann Coulter's Foul Mouth
Michael
Leon
Clinton, Reno & Waco: Remember What They've Done
Robert
Jensen
Texas Pledge Law Undermines Democracy
Ann Harrison
Rosenthal is Free, But the Fight isn't Over
Paul
Dean
How You Can Be Deliriously Happy in the Age of Bush
Gary Leupp
When Spooks Speak Out
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of the Day
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June
4, 2003
Alexander
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Lisa
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The Isaiah Crowd: The Threat of Neo-Christianity
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John Chuckman
Blackmail as Policy
Mazin
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Summit: Peace or Pretense?
Issam Nashashibi
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Steve
Perry
Wolfowitz of Arabia: the VF interview transcript
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3, 2003
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Floyd
Copycat Killers: Bush, Jakarta and
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Leopold
Wolfowitz Tells All
Elaine
Cassel
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S. Lind
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The Final Brick in the Wall
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Avnery
The Altalena Affair
Hammond
Guthrie
Stepping into Some Deep DARPA
Steve
Perry
The WashTimes'
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June
2, 2003
Arundhati
Roy
Day of the Jackals
Norman
Madarasz
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Gancarski
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Perry
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May
31, 2003
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A Whiner Called Horowitz
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Lindorff
Clinton, Bush, Lies and Impeachment
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Sasan
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Who Is Next?
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Mariner
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Madsen
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June
7, 2003
Years
By LARRY KEARNEY
1
The Sunday Times Magazine
stays comfortable
with killing-
sad-assed dead-fat-heart
perambulators-
making the rounds-
mouthing the words clever
as you please-
sucking on them-
discarding the empties.
2
when I went to Brooklyn Tech the friends
I made were mostly Jews. still friends.
Brighton. East New York.
Park Slope. Ocean Parkway.
mostly kids
from left-wing families with real
frames of reference.
parents, families,
long
memories. dull
black smoke.
music. suspicion.
wit. a certain
respect for the books
if not for the Rabbi. I
was Scotch and Irish. left-
wing too. working class too.
and God knows
it was a pleasure to talk.
through those days. and this
morning. when I woke.
to the new brute
and the old machinery.
the ignorant thug and the shorn-again lambs.
I found myself back there. in Brooklyn.
laughing. picking up
a little Yiddish. feeling
comfortable in understood
things. decencies.
the pretty good stuff.
we were all bright kids and Israel
a bright place to plant cedars
by subscription.
history.
though.
turned out to be
a tank. and we.
as children.
stand now at the edge
of an artificial
empty space
and watch the ghetto
wall rise out of mind and poisoned
lake at once. one
brick at a time over.
the eyes of the lost
families. the lost.
children in the wall of dull. brutal.
memory. and. seeing.
we might say the nazis
have come again but
did they ever
go away? anyway?
or did we carry them
with us? in our thudded hearts?
down all these stupid
years?
Larry Kearney can be reached at: defoe43@comcast.net
Anchors Hooray
By JAMES REISS
(Tune: "Anchors Away")
Anchors hooray, oh boy!
Anchors hooray!
Last time we missed Hanoi,
But with George Bush we may-ay-ay-ay
Drop anvils on Sainte Foy
Or Mandalay.
Just hear us cry ahoy:
We're here to ship your corpse home to LA.
Keels, masts, and hulls of
tubs,
Shipmates at play,
We're here to sail in subs
Whose missiles seem to say-ay-ay-ay
God damn well pounds and drubs
Those in His way,
Arabs and Beelzebubs,
His enemies in Cairo and Bombay.
Sail on and on, my sons.
What can I say?
You're here with megatons
Of stink bombs A-OK-ay-ay-ay.
Battleships', cruisers' guns,
Carriers, hey!
Sail on like everyone's
Example of a murderous cliché.
James Reiss is a Professor of English & Editor
at Miami University Press. In 2001 Carnegie Mellon University
Press published his fourth book, Ten
Thousand Good Mornings, which was nominated
for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His previous poetry books
are
The
Parable of Fire (CMU Press, 1996), Express (University of
Pittsburgh Press, 1983), and The Breathers (Ecco Press, 1974).
He
edited Self-Interviews:
James Dickey (Doubleday, 1970). He can be reached at: reissja@muohio.edu
(Dis)Intelligence
Report
By HAMMOND GUTHRIE
Contra(pre)dictions become
accurate and true
within secret reports of distorted information
exaggerating pre-war WMD threats
determining what is missing
from where nothing has been found.
How to deal with what is left
of it?
Rendered safe and free
after 1,400 inspectors in Iraq
seek ground zero intelligence on the
preemptive reasons for going to war
which exist because they cannot be found.
Hammond Guthrie is the author of AsEverWas:
Memoirs of a Beat Survivor. He is the editor of the great
online journal The
3rd Page. He can be reached at: writenow@spiritone.com
(C) 2003-- Hammond Guthrie
The Smart Set
By STEW ALBERT
Dubya's real proud
having all the smart Jewish guys
working for him
calling themselves
NeoConservatives.
He's known Jews were smart
back in Andover and Yale
when he copied their homework.
Used to be thinking
all Jews were going to hell
till Billy Graham put him straight.
Maybe not all of them.
They're on the payroll
the good ones that is,
no Marxists or atheists
these guys follow someone named Leo.
Not that liberal on West Wing.
The NeoCons
figured out
Dubya could conquer the world
build an Empire
be loved in Iraq
and defend democracy.
He could spit out his rage
kick lots of ass
win a peace prize.
Talking to themselves
the philosophers call it
bein' dialectical
something sounding like that.
Dubya's getting himself interested
in philosophy
he'd like to have some smart Jews over to the ranch
and understand them
while talking Grecian ideas.
Gonna spend time
maybe after the election
being serious
learning lots of stuff
figuring out
Playdough's Cave.
Stew Albert manages the Yippie
Reading Room. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com
Picnics In Another
Place
By SAM HAMOD
I want to
Go back
To picnics
Where we talked
About the potato salad, the
Fried chicken and
Hot grapeleaves, where
the kids ran off
to the swings and
merry go round, when
we could just
lay back on those
old blankets and
look up at a welcoming
blue sky, where there
were no missiles,
where there were
lyrics about love
on the radio, no
news about the
war on terrorism, or
Rumsfeld preaching about
How he'd treat those
Enemy combatants, all
The time,
Forgetting these
Were human beings
Whose country
He had invaded, that
He was the enemy
Combatant in
A land not his own
that
Somehow, this
Turning the world
Upside
Down
Was going
To lead to more
Chaos, killing
And-
The picnics, ahhh
But, it drifts
Away, like a long camera
Shot in a Fellini film,
Where the clouds surround
A darkening sky, and
he's
Holding on to the tarps and
Cameras as the wind picks
Tempo, sheering canvas,
Holding on-
Ah, but
It happened in
Another country,
The picnics,
The potato salad and
fried chicken,
and the peaceful tiredness
We felt,
as we drove home
Sam Hamod
is an expert on world affairs, especially the Arab and Muslim
worlds, former editor of THIRD WORLD NEWS (in Wash, DC), a former
professor at Princeton University, former Director of The National
Islamic Center of Washington, DC, an advisor to the US State
Department and author of ISLAM IN THE WORLD TODAY. He is the
editor of www.todaysalternativenews.com,
and may be reached at shamod@cox.net
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David
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The Big Lie
Ramzy
Baroud
Sharon and the Myth of the Peacemakers
Anthony
Gancarski
Sharansky: "Crucifixion is a Privilege"
Sam
Hamod
His Own Little Country
Sean Carter
Why Indict Martha Stewart and Not Ken Lay?
David
Lindorff
Cracks in the Consensus
Stew Albert
Ari's Great Set
Elaine
Cassel
Ashcroft the Insatiable
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