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A Photographic Journal of Life
in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann
November 13, 2001
Peter Mahoney
Veteran's
Day, 2001
Rep. Ron
Paul
Expanding
NATO
Is a Bad Idea
November 12, 2001
Robert Jensen
Goodbye to
All That...
Patriotism
Nancy
Oden
My
Day at the Airport
CounterPunch Wire
East Timor
10 Years
After the Massacre
C.G. Estabrook
Instead
of Terror
Alexander Cockburn
Wide World
of Torture
November 11, 2001
Douglas
Valentine
Homeland
Insecurity: The Politics of Terror in America
November 10, 2001
Grover Furr
Seeking an Opposition
to the Afghan War
Bruce
Kyle
Anatomy
of a Green Smear:
Backstabbing Nancy Oden
November 9, 2001
Karen Snell
Torture By
Proxy
John Troyer
A
New Kind of Activism
Tariq Ali
Q &
A About the War
Michael
Colby
Schoolgirl
Gets Booted
for Anti-war Views
November 8, 2001
Mokhiber/Weissman
The
Cipro Rip-Off
Mitchel Cohen
The Smear Campaign
Against Nancy Oden
Steve
Perry
American
Roulette
November 7, 2001
Bahour/Dahan
Placebo Peace
Plan
Tom Turnipseed
Bush
Gives Billions
to His Oil Buddies
Cockburn/St. Clair
Greens, Airports
and
National ID Cards
Dr. Susan
Block
Ayatollah
Asscroft
Brian J. Foley
Bombing Campaign
Not "Self-Defense" Under International Law
November 6, 2001
Mark Scaramella
Where's
That Red Cross Money Going
C.G. Estabrook
Our Torturers
Sheperd
Bliss
Scott
Nearing on War
Rep. Ron Paul
Underwriting
the Taliban
Tariq
Ali
The
General Who
Came to Dinner
Evan Ravitz
Stop the War
Through
Direct Democracy
Steve
Perry
Hunger
in Afghanistan
November 5, 2001
Patrick Cockburn
Living
in the Minefields
David Price
Terror
and Indigenous People
November 3, 2001
Declan McCullagh
Nancy Oden Interview
Daniel
Wolff
The
Memphis Blues Again
Mark Weisbrot
War on Civilians
Dave Marsh
How
the RIAA (and the FBI) Cheat Musicians
Robert Jensen
Speaking
Out Against
War on Campus
November 2, 2001
CounterPunch
Wire
Green
Party Leader Detained at Maine Airport; Prevented from Boarding
Any Plane
Alexander Cockburn
FBI Eyes
Torture
November 1, 2001
Dean Baker
Dying
for Patents
Sami Amarah
US Attempts
to Recruit
Russian Vets of Afghan War
Molly Secours
Where
Are the Voices of Reason? Let the Women
Be Heard
William Blum
Unleashing the
CIA
October 31, 2001
Tom Turnipseed
Terrorize
the Poor,
Subsidize the Rich
Chris Clarke
Thank God
for Berkeley
Steve
Perry
The
Silent Genocide
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November
13, 2001
Preventing Terrorism
Gimme Some Truth, Now
by Harry Browne
It is time for President Bush to stop
the cheer-leading and speak the truth.
He said last Thursday, "This
great nation will never be intimidated. . . . Life in America
is going forward."
Who is he trying to kid? Last
Friday at Los Angeles airport I saw people trying to check their
baggage - standing in a line that was at least 200 yards long.
I stood in five separate lines to identify myself and my carryon
luggage. The soldiers in fatigues with submachine guns reminded
me of a Third World country.
The politicians live in their
own unreal world, with no idea of what's happening in America.
How many times has Air Force One been late taking off? How many
security lines have Donald Rumsfeld, Tom Ridge, and Dick Cheney
stood in?
They care little about the
traveling businessman who now must cut his work short at lunchtime
in order to catch a 5pm flight. Or the individual who must get
up at 4am to catch a morning flight.
Has the President noticed the
hundreds of billions of dollars being added to federal, state,
and local government budgets - spending piled on top of previous
budgets, spending that's causing huge deficits and tax increases,
spending that's coming out of the hide of American taxpayers?
When will he say straight out:
"America rules the world by force, and the price of that
is for you to pay high taxes and live in a nation that looks
more and more like a police state."
No Neutrals
President Bush says, "You're
either with us or against us."
Does that mean he'll bomb neutral
Switzerland - the island of freedom, privacy, and security in
the midst of socialist Europe - if it doesn't confiscate private
bank accounts and otherwise act on every whim of our President?
Why doesn't he simply tell
the truth: "America rules the world and I rule America.
You will do as I say or I'll kill your people."
Opposition
The President keeps telling
us that the world supports the American war against Afghanistan.
But the truth is that he has bought the support of foreign leaders
with your money - while public opinion polls show people in
foreign countries are overwhelmingly opposed to American military
attacks.
Why doesn't he just tell the
truth: "We are destroying the last vestiges of love for
America around the world - but that's the price we must pay
for me to become powerful and popular at home beyond my wildest
dreams."
Time for the
Truth
When you know some of what
politicians tell you are lies, you have to wonder how many of
their other statements are lies as well.
What I want is the truth. I'd
like to think I'm mature enough to handle whatever that may
be. And I could prepare for the future much better if someone
told me the truth - instead of all this rah-rah stuff.
America isn't leading the world.
Leaders lead by example. And America is providing no example
of individual liberty, personal responsibility, small government,
or peace. America rules the world. Rulers rule by force. They
may succeed temporarily, but at an awful cost.
It is long past time for the
truth - the truth that many more Americans will have to die
to satisfy the politicians' lust for power.
Harry Browne ran for president as the Libertarian
Party's candidate in 2000. He is the director of the American
Liberty Foundation.
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