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September 11
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Alexander Cockburn
Swatting
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September 10,
2004
Patrick Cockburn
Disappointment
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Michael Donnelly
Democrats v. Democracy
Alan Farago
Mosquitoes in a Hurricane
Doug Giebel
Karl Rove's Terror Playbook
Mike Whitney
Bob Graham's Political Tsunami
David Domke
God's
Will, According to the Bush Administration
September 9,
2004
Joe Bageant
Karaoke
Night in Bush's America
Ed Kinane
Abducted in Baghdad
Peter Bohmer
The Cuban Revolution: Present and Future
Todd May
The Emerging Case for a Single-State Solution
Jeremy Scahill
The New York Model: Indymedia and the Text Message Jihad
Joshua Frank
Green House Party Gasses
Fran Shor
The Crisis in Public Dissent: When Protest is Considered a Terrorist
Act
Patrick Cockburn
Welcome
to the Dirtiest City in the World: Despair in Baghdad
Website of
the Day
Liberty Street Protest: No to War at Ground Zero
September 8,
2004
Patrick Cockburn
This
Doesn't Smell Like Victory: A War on Two Fronts in Iraq
Dave Lindorff
Bush Confuses; Kerry Mute: Spinning 1000 Dead
Bulent Gokay
Russian and Chechnia After Beslan
Lisa Viscidi
Land Reform and Conflict in Guatemala
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Byrd's Eye View
Mike Whitney
Afghanistan: American's Drug Colony
Stan Goff
Body
Count: 1001
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Bush and the Love Doctors
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September 7,
2004
Diane Christian
Hostage Tactics: a Game of Mortal Poker
Joshua Frank
Greens
Unravel from Within
Patrick Cockburn
Fallujah
Erupts Again: US Death Toll in Iraq Nears 1000
Ron Jacobs
Bush and Putin: "We're Not Girlie Men"
Chris Floyd
Cry Havoc: Bush's Own Personal Janjaweed
Dr. Carol Wolman
No Blood for Oil at Paul Bunyan Day Parade
John Ross
The
Politics of Darkness North / South
September 6,
2004
Alexander Cockburn
An
Anti-Labor Day That Lives in Infamy: How Many Democrats Voted
For Taft-Hartley?
Ralph Nader
The
Cruel Legacy of Taft-Hartley: a Labor Day Call for Rights for
Working People
Lee Sustar
What's Driving the Attack on Pensions?
Kathleen and
Bill Christison
Dual
Loyalties: the Bush Necons and Israel
September 4-5,
2004
Alexander Cockburn
Elephants
and Gramsci
Ted Honderich
The
Way Things Are
Sasan Fayazmanesh
The
Holy Empire: Who We Are and What We Do
Douglas Valentine
What the World Should Know About Guantanamo
Patrick Cockburn
New Iraqi Police State Flexes Its Muscles
Gary Leupp
Neo Cons Under Fire
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: the Hempstead T-Shirt
William A.
Cook
The
Day of the Lemming
Dave Zirin
Kobe Bryant and the Price of Freedom
John Chuckman
The Day the World Ended
Karyn Strickler
God Save the Endangered Species Act
Vanessa Jones
Bad Day with an Ikea Cup
Mike Whitney
Kerry: the "Better" War Candidate
Mark Donham
Dear John (Kerry): Start Explaining and Fast
Mickey Z.
McBypass Nation: Feeling Clinton's Pain
Alan Farago
Can the Everglades be Fixed?
Poets' Basement
Landau and Albert
September 3,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: Jesus Told Him Where to Bomb
Rahul Mahajan
Bush's RNC Speech: an Annotated Response
Carl Estabrook
The
Book of Slaughter and Forgetting
Joshua Frank
The Florida of the Northwest: Oregon Dems Sabotage Nader Again
Gary Leupp
Music to My Ears: Sunday's March
James Hollander
Deja Vu in Manhattan: Assisted Political Suicide?
Mark Engler
Republicans
Among Us: a Week at the RNC, Inside and Out
Jesse Sharkey
Making Students and Teachers Pay for the Crisis in Education
Jane Stillwater
Calling the Cops on Your Own Kid
Stephen Green
Serving
Two Flags: the Bush Neo-Cons and Israel
September 2,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: Part 3: More Pricks Than Kicks
Max Gimble
Et Tu, Menchu? Extrajudicial Killings and Clandestine Graves
in Guatemala
James Petras
President Chavez and the Referendum: Myths and Realities
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush and the Afghan Electoral Model: "If They Want to Vote
Twice, Let Them"
Todd Chretien & Jessie
Muldoon
Will the Democrats Expel Zell Miller?
Jack Random
Spite and Venom Day: the Turncoat and the Profiteer
Alan Maass
The Real Vietnam
Christa Allen
Contre Bush
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September 1,
2004
Alexander Cockburn
The
Stench of Doom
Kathleen and Bill Christison
Poor Larry Franklin
Dave Lindorff
Kerry's Litmus Test
Josh Frank
Protest in White: Not All of New York Rises Up
John L. Hess
Moles, Scoops and Flip Flops
Mike Whitney
Deconstructing Arnold
Jack Random
Kindergarten Night at the RNC
Andrew Wilson
War on the Pachyderms: Why Do Elephants Hate Us?
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: Part Two: Mark His Words
August 31,
2004
Joseph Nevins
Escapism
and Global Apartheid: The Dominican Republic & the NYTs
Matt Vidal
Beyond
Bush's Rhetoric on the Economy
Neve Gordon
Kerry and the Middle East
Dave Lindorff
Bush
the Peace Candidate?
Mike Whitney
NPR Leads the Charge for War Against Iran
Jack Random
Opening Night: Playing the War Card
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: the Life and Crimes of George W. Bush (Part One)
CounterPunch Photo of the Day
Pete Seeger in NYC
August 30,
2004
Justin Podhur
The
Disappeared Mayor
Shaun Joseph
The
Hypocrites at TheNaderbasher.com
Mike Whitney
Israeli Moles in the Pentagon: What More Could They Possibly
Want?
Ron Jacobs
Live, From New York: the Majority of Protesters Claimed No Candidate
David Lindorff
Sunday in Manhattan: the Sound of Marchin', Chargin' Feet, Boy
Dave Zirin
USA Basketball: The Team White America Loved to Hate
Sam Husseini
Israeli Spying on the US: a Long History
August 28 /
29, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Zombies
for Kerry
Patrick Cockburn
Najaf Ceasefire Good for Iraq, But Weakens Allawi and US
Ray McGovern
Blowing Smoke on Intelligence
Dr. Juan Romagoza
From El Salvador to Abu Ghraib: Reflections of Torture Survivor
Ray Hanania
An Israeli Spy in the Pentagon? Ridiculous!
Fred Gardner
Eddie Lepp Busted by DEA: Facing Life for Growing Medical Pot
Diane Christian
Big Men: the Better Leader Lets You Live
William S. Lind
The Desert Fox
Paul D'Amato
The Left Takes a Dive for Kerry
Joshua Frank
Greens at the Crossroads
Mickey Z.
Media Declares War on Anti-War Protests
Winslow T. Wheeler
Sen. McCain's Pork Chops: an Exchange
Justin E.H.
Smith
The New Age Racket and the Left
Thomas St. John
Burning Slaves at the Stake: On "Sinners in the Hands of
an Angry God"
Ali Tonak
Help the NYPD?
Mark Engler
New York Says "No"
Justin Felux
Haiti: the Attica of the Americas
Poets' Basement
Gelman, Albert, Ford and Hamod
August 27,
2004
Gary Leupp
Neocon
Musings
Robin Cook
The
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Diane Christian
Disarming
Michael Donnelly
Situational Democracy: the Show Me the Green Party?
Jack Random
4F and Other Heroes: an Army of War Resisters
Mike Ferner
"To the Swift Boats!"
Mazin Qumsiyeh
7000 Palestinian Political Prisoners
Veronza Bowers, Jr.
"You Won't Be Leaving Tomorrow"
August 26,
2004
M. Shahid Alam
The
Clash Thesis: a Failing Ideology?
Diane Christian
War
Rules: Bush is No Sun Tzu
Derek Seidman
"They're As Bad As Wal-Mart:" Starbucks Workers Get
Organized
David Lindorff
Court to RNC Protesters: Drop the Rally
Christopher
Brauchli
Signs of Dissent: the Bush in the Bubble
Stew Albert
Reporting Suspicious Activity
Mark Donham
Judgement in Athens: Give the Koreans Their Day in Court
Saul Landau
Pinochet:
the Al Capone of the Southern Cone
Website of
the Day
The Kerry 527 Ad You'll Never See
August 25,
2004
Amelia Peltz
Can
I Have 9.8 Seconds of Your Time?
Noah Leavitt
Defining and Redefining Torture
Ron Jacobs
Takin' It to the Streets: It's Not About the Election, It's About
Democracy
James Brooks
Coronado Crosses the Jordan
Akiva Eldar
How to Win the Jewish Vote: Turn Gaza into a "Mini-Afghanistan"
Gemma Araneta
Chavez's New Brand of Populism
Philip Cryan
Uribe's Boys: the Death Squads of Colombia
CounterPunch Wire
Cheney Opens the Closet Door
August 24,
2004
Jeremy Scahill
John
Kerry: the Warchurian Candidate
Gary Leupp
"We
Want Them to Go Away"
David Domke
God
Willing: an Echoing Press and Political Fundamentalism
William Loren Katz
The Meaning of Hugo Chávez: Black and Indian Power in
Venezuela
Jonah Gindin
With Chavez? Reading the International Private Media
Fran Schor
Denying Atrocities: From Vietnam to Fallujah
Joe Bageant
Driving
on the Bones of God
Website of the Day
The Great America Lockdown: a Primer for the RNC
August 23,
2004
Winslow Wheeler
Don't
Mind If I Do: Porkbarrel and the War on Terror
John Pilger
Bush
May Be the Lesser Evil
Stan Goff
Swift
Boat Dogfight
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
Notes
from the West Bank: Build, Demolish, Rebuild
Mike Whitney
The Unraveling of Afghanistan
William Blum
Brave
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Ralph Nader
A Letter to the Washington Post: a Shameful and Unsavory Editorial
August 21 /
22, 2004
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Brian Cloughley
The
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Josh Frank
Nader as David Duke? The ADL Wants You to Think So
Mike Whitney
Reincarnating Mengele: the Torture Doctors of Abu Ghraib
Ron Jacobs
Day Labor Blues
Mickey Z.
Shooting at Whales: 40 Years After Tonkin
Fred Gardner
Dr. Wolman Comes Out: The Cannabis Consultants
Dave Zirin
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Josh Saxe
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Letter from Baghdad: a Democracy of Killings and Bombings
Helen Williams
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Weekend Edition
September 11 / 12, 2004
Wars Against
74 Nations...and Counting
An
ABC of American Interventions
By
FRANCISC CATALIN
United States of Americans, this Patriot
Day let us take the time, on behalf of the newly-liberated Iraqi
and Afghan people, to remember not only the innocents killed
on 9/11, but also the death, injury, mental and emotional trauma,
political repression, economic hardship and social destruction
from the many wars the United States of America has been involved
in in it's brief 228 years of existence.
1. Afghanistan:
A. 1998 bombing AND
B. Operation Enduring Freedom
* A special note, the birth
of the "World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders"
(also known as Usama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist organisation)
occurred because of US cooperation with fundamentalist Islamic
militants at the time known as "freedom fighters" against
the USSR in Afghanistan;
2. Algeria (Barbary Wars);
3. Angola (1976-92 US-backing
of South African rebels fighting Marxists);
4. Argentina (1890 troop dispatch
to Buenos Aires to protect business interests);
5. Austria:
A. WWI, Central Power AND
B. WWII;
6. Bolivia (US-backed killing
of former Cuban government minister and doctor Ernesto "Che"
Guevara and comrades in 1967);
7. Bulgaria:
A. WWI, Central Power AND
B. WWII, minor Axis member
AND
C. Cold War;
8. Cambodia (see Vietnam);
9. Canada (war of 1812);
10. Chile:
A. clashed with nationalists
in 1891 AND
B. US-backed 11 September 1973
coup that led to the killing of President Allende and start of
Pinochet military regime;
11. China:
A. involvement during Sino-Japanese
War AND
B. occupation during Boxer
Revolution AND
C. intermittent troops dispatches
from 1911 to 1941 AND
D. Cold War;
12. Cuba:
A. seized during Spanish-American
War, with Guantanamo Bay still under US control due to a resulting
treaty AND
B. 1906-09 troop landing AND
C. 1912 troop dispatch to protect
business interests AND
D. 1917-33 occupation AND
E. 1961 Bay of Pigs AND
F. 1962 Navy quarantine during
Cuban Missile Crisis AND
G. repeated assassination attempts
against Dr. Fidel Castro AND
H. Cold War;
13. Dominican Republic:
A. 1903-04 troop dispatch to
protect business interests AND
B. 1914 fight with rebels over
Santo Domingo AND
C. 1916-24 occupation AND
D. 1965-66 troop deployment;
14. Egypt
A. 1956 troop deployment following
nationalisation of Suez Canal AND
B. propping-up of unelected
Hosni Mubarak;
15. El Salvador:
A. 1932 Navy warships deployed
during FMLN revolt under Marti AND
B. 1981-92 assistance in fight
against FMLN;
16. France (naval conflict,
1798-1800)
* Another special note, this
was the very country that less than a generation earlier was
USA's principal ally in the fight for independence;
17. Germany:
A. WWI, Central Power AND
B. WWII, major Axis member;
18. Greece (1947-49 US operations
secure far-right victory in elections arguably the seeds
of the later birth of the November 17 organisation)
19. Grenada (Reagan's 1983-84
"Wag the Dog" to get Lebanon out of the news);
20. Guatemala:
A. 1920 two-week occupation
during strikes AND
B. 1954 overthrow of the democratically
elected Arbenz and placement of Colonel Armas in power AND
C. 1966-67 troop deployment;
21. Haiti:
A. suppressed revolt in 1891
AND
B. 1914-34 occupation AND
C. 1994-96 blockade against
government AND
D. 2004 intervention;
22. Honduras:
A. 1903 intervention in revolution
AND
B. 1907 troops landing AND
C. 1911-12 troop dispatch to
protect business interests AND
D. 1919 troop landing during
elections AND
E. 2 troop landings during
1924-25 election;
23. Hungary:
A. WWI, Central Power AND
B. WWII, minor Axis member
AND
C. Cold War;
24. Indonesia (1965 US-backed
military coup leading to Suharto rule)
25. Iran:
A. US-sponsored overthrow of
democratically elected Mossadegh and restoration of the Shah
to power AND
B. 1980 rescue operation incursion
AND
C. 1984 shoot down of two fighter
planes AND
D. 1980's US assistance for
Iraq, and Saddam Hussein, during Iran-Iraq war;
26. Iraq:
A. Gulf War AND
B. Operation Iraqi Freedom
(or the acronym people with senses of humour prefer, Operation
Iraqi Liberation);
27. Italy (WWII, major Axis
member);
28. Japan (WWII, major Axis
member)
* Yet another special note,
this country was the recipient (TWICE!) of the ultimate Weapon
of Mass Destruction, a historical distinction still uniquely
owned by the US of A;
29. Jordan (propping up of
Hussein monarchy);
30. Laos:
A. see Vietnam AND
B. Cold War;
31. Lebanon (1982-84 occupation
that eventually led to the barracks bombing by Hizbullah, arguably
the de facto declaration of modern day asymmetrical warfare waged
by fundamentalist Islamic militant irregulars against the United
States of America);
32. Liberia:
A. 1990 troop entrance during
civil war AND
B. 2003 intervention;
33. Libya:
A. Barbary Wars AND
B. 1981 shoot down of two fighter
planes AND
C. 1986 bombings of Tripoli
AND
D. 1989 shoot down of two more
fighter planes;
34. Mexico:
A. Mexican-American War AND
B. 1914-18 intervention against
nationalists;
35. Morocco (Barbary Wars);
36. Nicaragua:
A. 1894 occupation of Bluefields
AND
B. 1898 troops landing in San
Juan del Sur AND
C. 1907 protectorate AND
D. 1912-33 occupation AND
E. 1981-90 Iran Contra scandal;
37. North Korea:
A. Korean War AND
B. Cold War;
38. Panama:
A. 1895, troops landed in Corinto
AND
B. occupation since the start
of the building of the Panama Canal AND
C. 1908 troop dispatch AND
D. 1912 troop landing during
election AND
E. 1925 troop deployment to
put down national strike AND
F. 1958 troop landing during
demonstrations that threatened the Canal Zone AND
G. 1964 troop deployment during
protests against US presence AND
H. 1989-90 overthrow of Manuel
Noriega;
39. Philippines:
A. 1898-1910 AND
B. Moros War AND
C. the US-backed civil war
against the Filipino Huk revolt AND
D. 1989 Air Force cover for
Marcos government during coup;
40. Romania:
A. WWII, minor Axis member,
until it became a member of the Allies in 1944 AND
B. Cold War;
41. Russia:
A. 1918-1922 troop landings
after Bolshevik Revolution AND
B. Cold War;
42. Saudi Arabia (propping
of undemocratic monarchy and former troop stationing in Mecca
and Medina);
43. Somalia ("Black-Hawk
Down");
44. Spain (Spanish-American
War);
45. Sudan (1998 bombing of
a pharmaceutical company in Khartoum);
46. Tunisia (Barbary Wars);
47. Turkey:
A. WWI, Central Power AND
B. 1922 fight with nationalists
at Smyrna;
48. United Kingdom:
A. Revolutionary War AND
B. War of 1812;
49-69. United Socialist Soviet
Republics, allies and satellite states ("Cold War"
involving at least 20 nations not otherwise listed previously
- Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Chechnya, Czechoslovakia [today
the Czech Republic and Slovakia], Dagestan, Estonia, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova,
Poland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
* Yet another special note,
countries otherwise mentioned on the list are NOT included in
the aforementioned 20;
70. Uruguay (bombers deployed
in 1947);
71. Vietnam:
A. war that started under fictitious
auspices, the Gulf of Tomklin incident, that spread to neighbouring
countries AND
B. Cold War;
72. Former Yugoslavia:
A. Cold War AND
B. 1990s Balkan Wars;
73. Zaire (1996-97 entrance
into Rwanda Hutus' refugee camps from where the Congo revolution
began);
74. Zimbabwe (assisting apartheidist
Rhodesia).
Total countries recognised
by the United Nations as of 2004: 191.
Of course, this list omits
USA's wars with the aboriginal peoples of the homeland (the Indian
Wars) and the Civil War. The list further fails to list all
the by-proxy conflicts, such as US-backed dictatorships, US-funded
death squads, and US-supported insurgencies, movements, or rebellions.
Also, the list does not cite support for state-sponsored terrorism,
such as US support for Israel's occupation of Palestine. Lastly,
left out are the "wars" on crime, drugs, illiteracy,
poverty, terrorism.
For any red, white and blue
trivia buffs, look into the history of how Hawaii became part
of the States. Most of the Southwest as well. (Hint, in school
they only tell you about the purchases of Alaska, Louisiana and
Manhattan; they are silent about other 'acquisitions' for a reason.)
By the way, whilst we are on
the subject of trivia, who can name the number of people killed
on 9/11? About 3,000 you say? How about US troops killed in
Iraq the past 18 months? About 1,000 you say? How about innocent
Iraqi civilians (or, euphemistically, collateral damage) killed
during their receipt of freedom? How about today's price for
a gallon of petrol?
Francisc Catalin is a Romanian-American. He welcomes
your comments at francisc_catalin@hotmail.com
Weekend
Edition Features for Sept 4 / 5, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Elephants
and Gramsci
Ted Honderich
The
Way Things Are
Sasan Fayazmanesh
The
Holy Empire: Who We Are and What We Do
Douglas Valentine
What the World Should Know About Guantanamo
Patrick Cockburn
New Iraqi Police State Flexes Its Muscles
Gary Leupp
Neo Cons Under Fire
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: the Hempstead T-Shirt
William A.
Cook
The
Day of the Lemming
Dave Zirin
Kobe Bryant and the Price of Freedom
John Chuckman
The Day the World Ended
Karyn Strickler
God Save the Endangered Species Act
Vanessa Jones
Bad Day with an Ikea Cup
Mike Whitney
Kerry: the "Better" War Candidate
Mark Donham
Dear John (Kerry): Start Explaining and Fast
Mickey Z.
McBypass Nation: Feeling Clinton's Pain
Alan Farago
Can the Everglades be Fixed?
Poets' Basement
Landau and Albert
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