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March 5, 2002

Bill Christison
A Former CIA Officer
Explains Why the War
on Terror Won't Work

March 4, 2002

Ralph Nader
Dick Cheney: A Dinosaur
in the Age of Mammals

Uri Avnery
How Israel Will Torpedo
the Saudi Peace Plan

Southern / Kubrick
Stangelove Scenario
for Shadow Govt. Bunker

David Vest
Grammy's of Constant Sorrow

March 3, 2002

Bernard Weiner
War on Terrorism for Dummies

Paul Cox
Boycott Mel Gibson's
"We Were Soldiers"

Frederick Hudson
Toward a Nonviolent Africa:
Bill Sutherland's Quest

Eric Schaeffer
Dear Christie Whitman:
Take This Job and Shove It

John Chuckman
Why the Rest of Planet is Unnerved by America

March 2, 2002

Alexander Cockburn
Sweat, Sex, Feet and
the Working Class

March 1, 2002

Brendan Sexton III
What's Wrong With Black Hawk Down: an Actor Speaks Out

Terry Diggs
Why Twain's Pudd'nhead
Wilson Still Matters

David Krieger
Nuclear Terrorism
and US Nuclear Policy

February 28, 2002

James T. Phillips
Baghdad, Spring 1992

Gideon Samet
Sharon Must Go

Rep. Ron Paul
Before We Bomb Iraq

M. Shahid Alam
Samuel Huntington:
Peddling Civilizational Wars

St. Clair / Cockburn
Rumble from the Jungle:
Ecuadorian Farmers Fight
DynCorp's ChemWar

February 27, 2002

Eric Hobsbawm
The Future of War and Peace

John Troyer
About that WTC Memorial

Mokhiber / Weissman
Wired for Democracy
or Business?

Alexander Cockburn
Daniel Pearl: Should His
Editors Have Sent Him There?

February 26, 2002

Jonathan Steele
Kabul's Loss

Vasily Streltsov
The Pentagon in
the Transcaucusas

CounterPunch Wire
How Corporations Use Shadowy "527" Groups to Influence Politicians

Lt. Col. Robert Bowman
ABM Treaty: Alive or Dead?

Rep. Dennis Kucinich
A Prayer for America

February 25, 2002

John Clarke
Interrogated at US Border

Blankfort, Poirier, Zeltzer
ADL Blinks, Settles Spying Case

Alex Lynch
Naked from Sin:
The Ordeal of Nahla
and Sami Al-Arian

John Chuckman
Ashcroft Speaks in Tongues

February 24, 2002

David Vest
Skate Date

February 23, 2002

Tom Turnipseed
Axis of Evil and
Media Monopolies

Bahour/Dahan
Cracks in the Occupation

February 22, 2002

Alexander Cockburn
Axel of Evil: Sex Crimes
and the Constitution

February 21, 2002

Gary Leupp
The Philippines: Second Front in US's Global War

David Vest
Reagan Clone Project?

Mokhiber and Weissman
Chicago School and Corporate America: Rotten to the Core

February 20, 2002

Bernard Weiner
The Shallow Throat Document

Kay Lee
The Prison Guard Who Never Owned Up to His Crimes

February 19, 2002

David Orr
Waylon Jennings, the Duke,
and the Navajo

John Chuckman
The Devil and Georgie Bush

Prudence Crowther
Giblet Gravitas

Ramzi Kysia
Caught in the Iraq DMZ

February 18, 2002

Ron Jacobs
The US and Iran

George Lewandowski
Empire in Declline

Lenni Brenner
Life and Death of a Folk Hero

February 17, 2002

Robert Fisk
Lost in a Pit of Desperation

February 16, 2002

Phillip Cryan
Colombia in War Time

February 15, 2002

C.G. Estabrook
From New York to Porto Alegre

Robert O'Brien
The View from Porto Alegre

Mokhiber/Weissman
Resisting the Assassins

February 14, 2002

Levy and Easton
Ante Pavelic
Real Butcher of the Balkans

Joan Claybrook
Dear Jeb Bush,
About You and Enron

John Chuckman
Time for a Woman Prez

Alexander Cockburn
Banning the Koran

February 13, 2002

Sen. Russ Feingold
War Powers and
the War on Terror

Tom Turnipseed
Bush's Folly

George Monbiot
American Imperialism

February 12, 2002

Uri Avnery
The Great Game:
Oil, Sharon and Iran

Tommy Ates
Black Land Loss

February 11, 2002

Walt Brasch
The Synergizing of America

John Troyer
Enron's Deep Throat?

February 9, 2002

John Blair
Criticize Cheney, Go to Jail

 


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March 5, 2002

Race-Baiting Norm Mineta

Ann Coulter At It Again

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The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has condemned the most recent column by right-wing commentator Ann Coulter which once again calls for racial profiling of Arab Americans and which attacks Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta in a deeply unfair personal and insulting manner. Coulter's columns since the attacks of Sept. 11 have been among the most hateful and racist in the country and she seems determined to spread intolerance at any cost.

Coulter expresses regret that the Afghan Transportation Minister was recently killed instead of Secretary Mineta. Coulter claims that "Ethnic profiling is the only reasonable security measure that has been thwarted in the war on terrorism," in spite of the fact that the kind of crude profiling she is advocating would be illegal and, according to many senior law enforcement and counter-terrorism experts, completely ineffective.

Coulter claims that Sec. Mineta "is given plumb government jobs solely and exclusively because he is a minority," and has deliberately blocked the racial profiling of Arabs because he secretly hates America. "Transportation Secretary Mineta is angry and he wants America to suffer," she claims.

"Mineta is burning with hatred for America," Coulter fumes, and "he's subjecting all of America to the Bataan Death March!"

ADC President Ziad Asali said, "it is an outrage that any self-respecting journal or website in this country would continue to publish Coutler's unabashed bigotry and race-baiting. Not content with her endless attacks on Arabs and Muslims, she has now returned to the racism of bygone years by dredging up attacks on the loyalty of Japanese Americans, cabinet secretaries no less, associated with the events of World War II."

"Ann Coulter should have become a pariah months, if not years ago, due to her open racism," Asali continued, "and after this latest outrage, no responsible publication or broadcast outlet should welcome her particpation. There simply has to be a limit as to how far a commentator is able to go with impunity in spreading ethnic hatred and intolerance before he or she is repudiated by the responsible press."

"Secretary Mineta is one of the most respected and responsible members of President Bush's cabinet and a dedicated public servant," Asali concluded, "this racial attack on him is beyond irresponsible, it is downright despicable and completely un-American. Universal Press Syndicate should stop distributing her column at once."

Following Sept. 11, Coulter wrote of the Arab and Muslim worlds that "we should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." That went too far even for the National Review Online, which then dropped her as a contributing editor. Coulter has also called for the expulsion of all non-citizens in the United States from "suspect countries," among numerous other racist policies.