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March 26, 2003
Bruce Jackson
A Battlefield from Hell
Pablo
Mukherjee
Watch Their Lips
David Krieger
Shock But Not Awe
Linda
Heard
Winning Hearts and Minds Bush----Style
Imad Jadaa
The Beautiful Face of America
Adam
Engel
Buckets of Blood
Patrick Cockburn
Kurds Unimpressed
David
Lindorff
POWs, Torture and Hypocrisy
Robert Fisk
The Coup That Didn't Happen
April
Hurley, MD
A Doctor's Outrage in Baghdad
Gloria Bergen
Chretien's Shame
Reema
Abu Hamdieh
The Smell of Death Surrounds Me
March 25, 2003
Jeffrey St. Clair
Life During Wartime
Gary
Leupp
What Democracy Looks Like: the Streets
of Cairo
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
An Interview with Hanan Ashrawi
Bruce
Jackson
Why Protest? Why Write?
Uri Avnery
Bitter Rice: Thoughts and Warnings on
the War
Jason
Leopold
Blood Indicator: Casualties and the Stock
Market
Ralph Nader
A Pre----emptive War on a Defenseless Country
March 24, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
Ominous Signs
David
Lindorff
Peacekeepers at Ground Zero
Diane Christian
Blood Sacrifice
Kathy
Kelly
The Morning After Shock and Awe
John Stanton
US Bombs Iran
Wayne
Madsen
How to Live with a Rogue Superpower
Anthony Gancarski
Iraq and the Death of the West
David
Vest
Earth vs. Bush
Ahmad Faruqui
The Liberation of Iraq in Perspective
Robert
Fisk
We Bomb, They Suffer
March 22 / 23, 2003
Edward Said
The Other America
Saul Landau
The Threats of Empire
Kathleen and Bill Christison
On the Road in the West Bank
Joanne Mariner
Suing Seymour Hersh
Ann Harrison
The Battle of San Francisco
Robert Fisk
A Cauldron of Fire
Hani Shukrallah
The Gates of Hell
Chris Floyd
Memory Lane
Kathy Kelly
Imagine Chicago Under This Kind of Attack
Ramzi Kysia
Bombing Away a Chance for Joy
Linda Heard
Baghdad Burns While Bush Does Lunch
Bradley Burston
Could the US be at War for Years?
Salvador Peralta
Mass Murder as Liberation?
Tom Gorman
Now That's a Coalition!
Jorge Mariscal
Johnny Mack, When Are You Coming Back?
Cindy Milstein
The Grassroots Go Global
Josh Frank
Blocking Portland's Bridges
Elaine Cassel
The Case of Elizabeth Smart: Kidnapping and Insanity
Gordon Solberg
Drowning in Niceness: the Lessons of Elizabeth Smart
Tom Crumpacker
Getting to Know the Real Havana
Poets' Basement
Dobie, Guthrie, Alam, Wechsler
March 21, 2003
Ben Tripp
Blood for Oil:
the Exchange Rate
Cathy Breens
Report from Baghdad: Mothers, Kids and Crash Kits
Scott Handleman
Fourth
Generation Protesting: Shutting Down San Francisco
Vanessa Jones
Paint Them
Red
Brian J. Foley
Patriotic Protest
for Professors
Zoltan Grossman
After Saddam, a War on Iraqi Rebels?
Philip S. Golub
Inventing Demons
Richard Lichtman
On the Current Experience of Terror
Milan Rai
Blitz----Coup
Pepe Escobar
A Cheap Family Farce
Floyd Rudmin
The Nightmare at the Back Door: Nuclear Plant's as Terror Targets
Chris Floyd
See Rome (poem)
Website of the War
Iraq
Body Count
March 20, 2003
Stephen Banko
I Was a Soldier
Once
Kevin Alexander Gray
How Did We Become
an Outlaw Nation?
Shane Claiborne
Nomadic
Solidarity: Glimpses of Life in Baghdad on the Eve of War
Kathy Kelly
Waiting on the Baghdad Skies to Crack
Anthony Gancarski
Michelle
Makin's "Liberty Shields"
Rahul Mahajan and Robert Jensen
Myths and
Facts About the War on Iraq
Jason Leopold
Cheney's
Lies About Halliburton and Iraq
Ron Jacobs
If War is Business as Usual, There Should be No Business as Usual
Chuck O'Connell
Predictions About the Iraq War
Douglas Herman
US Air Force Veteran on the Coming Air Campaign
Ralph Nader
Come On Democrats,
Stand Up for Peace
William Hughes
War is Theft
Sima Saeedi
Dispatch from
Iran
Hammond Guthrie
John Philip Sousa
Website of the Day
Iraq
Body Count
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March
28, 2003
Madness Translated
Iraq
War Lingo 101
By RIAD Z. ABDELKARIM,
M.D.
Many
television viewers worldwide have been confused by the vast amount of
military terminology, slogans, and acronyms being utilized in reporting
on the ongoing war against Iraq being waged by the United States and
Britain. As a service to these news watchers, the following Iraq War
Dictionary has been compiled.
"Shock
and Awe"--Title of Iraqi resistance strategy, intended
to "shock" invading American and British troops and "awe"
them with their unexpected ferocity
Operation
Iraqi Liberation--alternative name of US military action, but
dropped from consideration because of obvious implication of acronym
(OIL)
"Imbedded
with"--term used to describe primarily Western reporters
traveling with American and British troops; can be used interchangeably
with "in bed with"
Decapitation
strike--term used to describe how Iraqi civilians are being
liberated (refer to very graphic pictures at al-jazeera)
Born
Again Ba'ath Fundamentalist--term describing Saddam Hussein's
recent turn to religious rhetoric
Umm Qasr and Al-Nassiriyah: Iraqi Sister Cities of Jenin Refugee Camp
in Israeli-occupied West Bank
Friendly Fire: term used to describe strategy employed by coalition
troops to liberate Iraqis
NPR--National
Pentagon Radio
Patriot Missile--New weapon to be used by Attorney General John Aschroft
to enforce Patriot Act against dissenting Americans
WMD--weapons
of mass distraction; can be used interchangeably with "US media"
Precision
Guided Weapons--used to describe Pentagon's informal term for
"imbedded journalists"
Enemy
Combatants: Term used by Iraqi Information Minister Muhammad
Al-Sahaf to describe American POWs in attempt to justify their (mis)treatment
by comparing them to Johnny Walker Lindh and Guantanamo Bay prisoners,
thereby relieving Iraq of need to abide by Geneva Convention
Dud--informal
nickname of CNN anchor Paula Zahn; synonym--empty shell
MIA--new
acronym for the Arab Leaque
"Between
Iraq and a Hard Place"--Term used to describe current
position of Coalition troops in the Middle East
CNN--Controlled
News Network
Air
Jordan--Pentagon's term for available airspace corridors provided
by this kingdom
Food
for Oil Program--What American troops are offering starving
residents of Basra and southern Iraq: "We'll give you food if you
give us your oil."
Drone--Pentagon
code word for CNN anchors Aaron Brown and Wolf Blitzer
Fratricide--military
term used for soldiers killing other soldiers; also applicable to official
Arab stance on the war on Iraq
AWOL--another
acronym for the Arab League (Arabs WithOut Leadership)
Fictitious--(1)
Michael Moore's description of US presidency; (2) In the Middle East,
term used to describe "Arab unity"
Sandstorm--obstacle
in US forces' attempt to defeat "sand niggers" in Iraq; alternatively,
according to US Central Command, "heinous act of terrorism by God"
MRE--(1) formally, military term used to describe soldiers' rations
(Meals Ready-to-Eat); (2) informally, military term used to describe
coalition enemies (Muslims Ready for Extermination)
Al-Fallah
(translation-"the peasant")-crude Iraqi anti-aircraft weapon-used
to down Apache helicopters; not to be confused with Al-Samud missiles;
Al-Fallah was not declared to UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix by Iraqi
leadership)
Irregulars-Pentagon
term for constipated recruits
Objective
Reporting-term used to describe over-dramatic reporting of
flak-jacket and gas-mask-clad, gleeful correspondents when US bombs
strike their "objectives"
Regime
Change-term describing US policy objective vis-à-vis
France
FOX
News-US State-run media outlet; official White House and Pentagon
mouthpiece
MOAB-term
used to describe international reaction to US/British Campaign; Mounting
Outrage Against Bombing; also Saddam's term to describe his new, nuclear-proof
hideout-Mother of All Bunkers
Gutter-apparently,
a new Persian Gulf nation serving as temporary home to US Central Command
"Kurds
N' Way"-overheard statement by Turkish official regarding
situation in Northern Iraq
Operation
Dish Out-reported clandestine US military plan to bomb Al-Jazeera's
Baghdad office; modeled after similar operation in Kabul
Colon
Bowel-Arabic pronunciation of US Secretary of State's name,
as heard on Al-Jazeera
King
George-reported title requested by President Bush upon the
occupation-err, liberation-of Iraq; see also Prince Richard (Cheney),
Prince Donald (Rumsfeld), and Prince of Darkness
Republican
Guard-term used to describe neoconservative hawks Richard Perle,
Paul Wolfowitz, and Douglas Feith
Turkish
Ba'ath-previously unheard of Turkish pro-Saddam militia
Cruise-Aid-planned
fundraising concert to be held by neoconservative war supporters to
raise money for more Cruise missiles; not to be confused with "Crusade"
Targets
of Opportunity--White House term for US taxpayers, expected
to fund massive war effort.
Dr.
Riad Z. Abdelkarim of Anaheim, California, writes the monthly
"Islam in America" column for the Washington Report on Middle
East Affairs. He can be reached at: RiadZuhdi@aol.com
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Adam
Engel
Buckets of Blood
Patrick Cockburn
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David
Lindorff
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Robert Fisk
The Coup That Didn't Happen
April
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