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April 12, 2002 John Chuckman Tom Friedman's Fabrications April 11, 2002 Patrick Cockburn Battle of St. Petersburg Zoo Jeff Halper After the Invasion: Now What? Falk / Krieger Taming the Nuclear Monster Steve Perry The Good Life of Nellie Stone Johnson Nick Ring Efficiency and Occupation: Terrorism vs. Taylorism Alexander Cockburn From the West Bank to BBQ to Old Sparky, And Beyond April 10, 2002 M. Junaid Alam Blaming the Victims: Hating the Palestinians George Monbiot World Bank to West Bank Fran Schor US-Sponsored State Terror David Vest Political Color Schemes Jack McCarthy Florida State Radicals: The Berkeley of the South Rises Again Doreen Miller A Tale of Two Warring Tribes Michael Neumann Israelis and Indians April 9, 2002 Bernard Weiner Colin Powell's Table Talk Matt Vidal Thomas Friedman, Another Wasted Pulitzer Ron Jacobs Buyer Beware Robert Jensen I Helped Kill a Palestinian Vijay Prashad Memories of Barbarity: Sharonism and September Wayne Madsen Anthrax and the Agency: Thinking the Unthinkable April 8, 2002 David Vest From Birmingham to Nashville: The Making of Tammy Wynette Rick Giombetti Paxil, Suicide and Science Dr. Neve Gordon Letter to an IDF Colonel: How Did You Become a War Criminal? Dave Marsh DeskScan: This Week's Top 10 CDs Jordy Cummings Not in My Name Anymore Gavin Keeney Bush and the Middle East: Mouth Wide Shut Edward Said The Future of Palestine April 7, 2002 Beth Daoud Accompanying Ambulances in Bethlehem Nancy Stohlman After the Invasion: The Search for Bread Among the Ruins Thomas Mountain "Yellow Peril" In Hawai'i: Judge Orders Chains and Shackles for Chinese Witnesses Tariq Ali Who Killed Daniel Pearl? April 6, 2002 Philip Farruggio War, Snake Oil and Circuses Viktor Litovkin Russian Generals Raise Questions About Pentagon Victories in Afghanistan Patrick Cockburn CIA Survey of Iraqi Airfields May Herald Attack Walt Brasch Oil Slick George: Bush-whacking the Environment Ralph Nader Campaign Finance Sham Sam Bahour The Blind Leading the Criminal Bill Christison: A Former CIA Official on Oil and the Middle East April 5, 2002 Charmaine Seitz In Ramallah: The Grueling Reoccupation Grinds On Nancy Stohlman The Invasion of Bethlehem and Our Tax Dollars at Work Beth Daoud The Siege of Bethlehem: "What Do You Mean God Is Punishing Me?" Fareed Marjaee: Demonizing Iran Mokhiber / Weissman Philip Morris to Canada: "Drop Dead" Alex Lynch Tampa Campus Mirrors Middle East Strife Alexander Cockburn Sharon's Wars: How the News Gets Through April 4, 2002 Ray Hanania Sharon's Latest Lie About the Church of the Nativity Mike Leon Rightwing Assault on Madison Progressives Misfires Tom Turnipseed Stop the Killing Now! Nancy Stohlman An American Under Siege in a West Bank Refugee Camp Christopher Reilly Kissinger, Chile and Justice at Long Last? M. Shahid Alam The Lies of Thomas Friedman April 3, 2002 Don Henley Dear Loathsome Trade Hacks Bernard Weiner An American Jew Talks About His Shame David Vest Sting of Stings Gabriel Ash America's Bravest John Chuckman Of War, Islam and Israel Robert Fisk The Siege of Bethlehem Alexander Cockburn The Sins of the Church Resources: 100s of Links About 9/11 CounterPunch: Complete Coverage of 9/11 and Its Aftermath Five Days That Shook The World: Seattle and Beyond By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair Photos by Allan Sekula (Click Here to Order from CounterPunch Online at 20% Off Amazon.com's price!) INSIDE Subscribe Online! EXCLUSIVE TO COUNTERPUNCH SUBSCRIBERS Published March 15, 2002 Facing Down Rehnquist and Scalia: Jennifer Harbury at the Supreme Court; ADL Throws in Towel, Pays Up: How They Worked for Apartheid Regime and Spied on NAACP: Cockburn on America the Bully: From Teddy Roosevelt to George W. St. Clair on Musicians Against the Death Penalty & The Legacy of the Mekons. Search CounterPunch Read Whiteout and Find Out How the CIA's Backing of the Mujahideen Created the World's Most Robust Heroin Market and Helped to Finance the Rise of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden Whiteout: CIA, Drugs & the Press by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair The New Crusade: America's War on Terrorism By Rahul Mahajan The Memphis Blues Again: Six Decades of Memphis Music Photographs Photos by Ernest Withers Text by Daniel Wolff The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid Edited by Roane Carey   A Pocket Guide to Environmental Bad Guys by James Ridgeway and Jeffrey St. Clair The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine Al Gore: A User's Manual by Cockburn and St. Clair Buy This Explosive New Book at an Amazing Discount!  Reviews of Gore: a User's Manual Private Warriors by Ken Silverstein CounterPunch's Booktalk

April 11, 2002 Republican Porn: Oiling Up the Caribou By Michael Colby The oil-hungry Republicans are pulling out all the stops in their maniacal pursuit of drilling for crude in Alaska1s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). First, they seized the news that Iraq's Saddam Hussein, the original "evil one," was going to temporarily suspend selling his nation's oil to the open market as proof that the U.S. should begin producing more of our own. But the Republicans left two important facts off their fear mongering bandwagon: the percentage of oil the U.S. receives from Iraqi sources is minimal at best and the amount of oil that could be extracted from Alaska would run our oil-thirsty nation for exactly six months. And then, prey tell, where would we turn for more? Ironically, these same Republicans (and many Democrats, too) had just placed their oily fingers on the "no" button when it came to voting on increasing fuel efficiency standards for U.S. automobiles, a measure that would have saved far more oil than could ever be drilled for in Alaska. But all that was nothing when compared to their latest foray into the unseemly world of caribou porn. The normally prudish Trent Lott, Dennis Hastert, Tom Delay and their friends at the Wall Street Journal1s editorial page, a decidedly unsexy bunch if there ever was one, seem to be getting a bit aroused when it comes to the mating habits of the caribou herd near the existing Alaska pipeline. In the lead editorial of the April 11 Wall Street Journal titled "Kerry vs. Caribou," the proponents for more drilling in Alaska are claiming that the warm, oil-filled pipelines arouse the caribou and, as a result, have led to a dramatic increase in their population. The asexual Wall Street Journal put it this way: "They like to mate near the warm pipelines." And they weren't shy about admitting that their newly found love of nature is more than a bit askew from their normal agenda. "We've never been big fans of animal rights," the editorial begins, "but lately we've been wishing caribou held some political sway." But when it comes to caribou sex they've got to make some exceptions. And you can be sure they'll oppose the distribution of caribou condoms. The things they'll do for oil! Michael Colby is the editor of Wild Matters. He can be reached via email at mcolby@wildmatters.org