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July 23, 2004
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
Sex,
Drugs & the Blues!
Serpents in the Garden
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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
23, 2004
The 9/11
Whitewash
Blaming
No One
By
MIKE WHITNEY
It
takes a lot of whitewash to cover over the murder of 3,000 Americans,
but that’s what you get when you appoint a “hand-picked”
panel to investigate a tragedy like 9-11.
The great virtue of selecting each member on an investigative team,
(like the Bush Administration did) is that the results are assured
before the first bit of evidence is examined. No embarrassing allegations
or blame, just a “shrug of the shoulders” and “let’s
move on”.
In Bush-world the “buck never stops”, it just keeps
circulating until the public loses interest.
This is the reality of the “500 plus” page 9-11 report,
that dismisses the incompetence (or treachery) of the people at
the top, as a “failure of imagination.”
There was no failure of imagination. According to the report the
President received “at least 12 warnings from the CIA that
an attack was imminent”. Either, Bush and his cronies were
asleep at the switch or they made damn sure the switch was in the
right position for their “Pearl Harbor-like event”.
(Alluded to in the Project for the New American Century)
The extent of the “whitewash” was painfully apparent
last night on PBS’s Jim Lehrer News Hour. In a Margaret Warner
interview with Condoleezza Rice, Warner (who always asks the “tough”
questions) asked Rice, “Do you think it was a failure of imagination?”
Rice, who has been at the center of the 9-11 storm from the very
onset, broke into a wide, Cheshire cat smile, unable to contain
her glee. She knew (along with everyone else in the Bush Administration)
that the report put to rest any implication of responsibility or,
heaven forbid, culpability on the part of those in charge. Instead,
it drew the broadest of conclusions, suggesting that even the “American
people shared the blame for 9-11 for underestimating the terrorist
threat”. (I’m not making this up)
Both commissioners of the 9-11 team appeared on The News Hour on
Thursday, passing “o so softly” over the details, instead,
opting to stick to their “talking points”. Those talking
points could have been predicted before they went “on air”.
Both
Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton emphasized that “When everyone is
to blame…no one is to blame” (Again, I am not making
this up)
Democratic hack, Hamilton went so far as to admit that, “We
decided early on that we weren’t going to play the blame game.”
Say what?
The Administration convenes a panel to investigate the greatest
act of mass murder in the country’s history and Hamilton doesn’t
want to find out who is responsible?
This
is pure gold.
Kean’s admissions weren’t much better. He took the approach
that we were simply “caught napping” and so “we
should focus on the future, not the past.”
Astonishing….an investigation that “focuses on the future”.
This is a script worthy of Orwell.
At least now we know that the expressed intention of the commission
leaders was to “never lay a glove” on Bush or his cronies.
They
succeeded admirably.
As for the “Independent” Commission’s recommendations;
the greatest emphasis was put on the need for a “National
Intelligence Director”, who will have authority over the many
disparate intelligence organizations and Congressional committees.
As Tom Kean said, “He should serve at the pleasure of the
President”, assuring that the position will be filled
by a political operative capable of maligning the facts in the same
way the Pentagon’s OSP (Office of Special Plans ) did prior
to the war in Iraq.
I expect this position to be “fine-tuned” by the Bush
Administration to become the foundation of an American Secret Police…the
Bush KGB.
It’s only a matter of time.
Weekend Edition 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
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