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January
30, 2002
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Linda
Lay, Hill and Knowlton
and the Tears of a Clown
Jack McCarthy
Free
Noelle Bush!
Michael
Ratner
Memo
to Bush: Adhere to
the Geneva Convention
Jay Moore
Proud
to be an American?
January
29, 2002
Gary Leupp
Why
This War Was, and Remains, Utterly Wrong
Alexander
Cockburn
The
Birds of Kandahar
Patrick
Cockburn
Afghan
Opium Trade
Back in Business
January
28, 2002
Larry
Chin
Brosnahan
for the Defense
Mokhiber/Weissman
Tyranny
of the Bottom Line
George
E. Curry
Civil
Rights Nominee Called Affirmative Action "Racist"
Sen. Russ
Feingold
Campaign
Finance Reform?
Think Enron
John Chuckman
Liberal?
Media?
January
27, 2002
Mokhiber
and Weissman
Enron's
Drip, Drip, Drip
Tom Turnipseed
MLK
Jr.'s Dream Perverted
January
26, 2002
Norman
Madarsz
Adieu,
Bourdieu
January
25, 2002
National
Lawyers Guild
Know
Your Rights
Alexander
Cockburn
You
Call This Terrorism?
CounterPunch
Wire
Cal
Energy Crisis Hoax:
It Wasn't A Shortage,
It Was a Shakedown
Tariq
Ali
Kashmir,
Klinghoffer,
the Kurds and Chomsky
Nadine
Strossen
Protecting
MLK Jr.'s Legacy:
Justice and Liberty After 9/11
January
24, 2002
Robert
Fisk
Turkey
Targets Chomsky
Dean Baker
Lying
on Top:
Ken Lay One of Many
David
Vest
Idiot
Wind
January
23, 2002
Terry
Waite
Guantanamo
Prisoners:
Justice or Revenge?
Molly
Secours
The
Case of Abu-Ali:
Racism and the Death Penalty
Robert
Jensen
Speak
Out, Get Slimed
January
22, 2002
Brendan
Cooney
Moby-Dick
and the Hunt
for Osama bin Laden
Rick Giombetti
Progressive
Pols for Enron?
Judith
Resnik
Invading
the Courts?
Kevin
Alexander Gray
The
Crisis in Black Leadership
January
21, 2002
Marjorie
Cohn
Will
Walker's Words
Be Used Against Him?
Ahmad
Faruqui
MLK
Jr. and the Palestinians
January
19. 2002
Jordan
Green
Enron
Stole Our Future
January
18, 2002
Tom Turnipseed
The
Enron Model
Walt Brasch
Enron
at the White House
CounterPunch
Wire
Human
Rights Group Says Guantanamo Prisoners Must
Be Treated as POWs
January
17, 2002
Gideon
Levy
Bulldozing
Rafah
Uri Avnery
That
Weapons Shipment
January
16, 2002
John Chuckman
The
Angel and the Pretzel
Lawrence
McGuire
Subverting
the
Geneva Convention
Kathy
Kelly
An
Open Letter to
Richard Perle on Iraq
January
15, 2002
George
Monbiot
Greenpeace,
Lord Melchett
and the Business of Betrayal
Jack McCarthy
Follow
the Pretzel
William
Blum
Atta
and the Times:
Follow the Changing Story
Edward
Said
Emerging
Alternatives
in Palestine
January
14, 2002
David
Vest
Open
Bag. Eat Pretzels.
Patrick
Cockburn
Collapse
of Georgia
Ignored by the World
Mokhiber/Weissman
Enron's
Accountants:
When In Doubt, Shred It
January
13, 2002
C.G. Estabrook
Why
We Kill People
January
12, 2002
Cockburn/St.
Clair
Forbidden
Truths
January
11, 2002
Lee Balllinger/Dave
Marsh
Neil
Young's Duet with Ashcroft
January
10, 2002
Tom Turnipseed
Bush,
Enron, UNOCAL
and the Taliban
St. Clair/Cockburn
Greenpeace
to Greenwash?
Hans von
Sponek
Iraq:
Is There an Alternative
to Military Action?
Jim Lobe
Israeli
Human Rights Group Assails Army
Marina Mayakova
Russia's
Top Military Astrologer Predicts More Attacks from OBL
January
9, 2002
David
Vest
The
Super-Burqa
and the Big Tent
ND Jayaprakash
Winnable
Nuclear War?
Rafiq
Kathwari
Kashmir
Will Make Ground Zero Look Like a Bonfire
January
8, 2002
Prudence
Crowther
Sting
Like a B-52
Nelson
Valdés
Al-Qaeda
at Guantanamo Bay
John Chuckman
Dark
Tales from the
Ministry of Truth
Richard
Corn-Revere
Do
We Fear Freedom?
Joan Hoff
The
Nixon You Haven't Heard
January
7, 2002
Lawrence
McGuire
Confusing
Economic Tales About Argentina
Wael Masri
They
Are Taking
Our Rights Away
Philip
Farruggio
Better
Medicine
A Photographic Journal of Life
in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann
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January
31, 2002
Blowback and
Daniel Pearl
American "Detainee" Kidnapped
in Pakistan, Held Illegally, Guantànamo S&M Style
By Dr. Susan Block
Apparently, sometime over the weekend, while I
was playing Guantànamo S&M games with Kim and the
Bonobo Gang and photographing our fun for the world, some Pakistani
dudes calling themselves "The National Movement for the
Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty" were doing the same
thing, only their games were real and involved kidnapping Wall
Street Journal South Asian Bureau Chief Daniel Pearl.
Their e-mail to various US media outlets
states that they believe that Mr. Pearl is a "CIA officer...posing
as a journalist of the Wall Street Journal." Spokespeople
from both the CIA and the Wall Street Journal have denied that
Mr. Pearl works for the agency. The English-language text of
the e- mail states that Mr. Pearl is being held "in very
inhuman circumstances quite similar infact to the way that Pakistanis
and nationals of other sovereign countries are being kept in
Cuba by the American Army." The e-mail also threatened
the kidnapping of other Americans, saying, "If the Americans
keep our countrymen in better conditions we will better the conditions
of Mr. Pearl and all other Americans that we capture."
Actually, if you compare the photos,
Mr. Pearl looks a lot more comfortable than his Guantànamo
counterparts; though, of course, it can't be all that comfortable
having a gun pressed against your skull, even if it's just for
a photo-op.
Without a doubt, the people behind this
kidnapping are dirty, low-down thugs and ought to be arrested
by somebody, and Mr. Pearl should be freed to go home to his
pregnant French wife and job at the Wall Street Journal (which
may as well be the CIA in a few respects). The situation is,
of course, quite dangerous. These S&M games can get out of
hand. That gun could go off and kill Mr. Pearl, accidentally
or on purpose. They--or thugs like them--could go out and pick
up a few more unsuspecting Americans. Of course, this is something
that could happen at any time, and we should never shape American
policies to fit the demands of kidnappers, extremists, hijackers
and thugs. Still, why should we bait them with insensitive,
erotically-charged power plays like the Pentagon's tasteless,
internationally illegal Guantànamo S&M porn? Just
compare: Is our photo so much more ethical and reasonable than
the ones of poor Mr. Pearl?
The actions of Rummy, Ayatollah Asscraft
and the Great Pretzel Swallower down there in breezy Guantànamo
Bay have just put innocent individual American lives--especially
Americans abroad--in more danger than ever.
Can't we see that Thanatos leads to Thanatos?
We are, without a doubt, still the world's biggest, strongest,
richest nation. We are also the World's Fattest Target. If only
to protect ourselves and our people, we should beware of throwing
our weight around and giving the appearance of being Obnoxious
Bullies (even though we know we're the Good Guys)..
Come, my fellow Americans, let us show
ourselves not only to be the strongest and richest, but also
the wisest of nations. Let us respond to Thanatos with Eros!
This is not the "sissy way" (no offensive to our transgendered
friends); this is the smart way. And no, it is not an easy way.
In the immortal words of the great seventeenth century French
courtesan Ninon de l'Enclos: "Much more genius is needed
to make love than to command armies." Considering the terrifying
situation that America finds itself in these days, a little genius
is what we sorely need.
Please send comments, questions and contributions
to liberties@blockbooks.com
Dr. Susan Block
is a sex educator, host of the Dr. Susan Block radio show, and
author of The 10 Commandments of Pleasure. Visit her website
at: http://www.drsusanblock.com/
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