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CounterPunch: Complete Coverage of 9/11 and the War on Afghanistan

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December 15, 2001

Yusuf Agha
Tale of the Tape:
Osama Gump?

December 14, 2001

Don Atapattu
A Conversation with
Norman Finkelstein

December 13, 2001

Trojanow and Hoskote:
Nonsense Mantras of Our Times

Dr. A. Tajudeen
Afghanistan and Zaire

Michael Williams
Prohibit Prohibition

December 12, 2001

Jack McCarthy
Hitchens, Walker
and Osama's Tape

Laura W. Murphy
Ashcroft's Jihad

Shahid Alam
Race and Visibility

December 11, 2001

Joshua Orton
University of Wisconsin
Won't Aid FBI Interviews

Philip Farruggio
Cleansing the Nation's Soul

Robert Fisk
Why I Was Beaten

December 10, 2001

Robert Dunham
Race and the Death Penalty:
Partners in Injustice

Andy Kershaw
Chamber of Horrors
Near the Garden of Eden

John Touchie
Isaac's on Chomsky

December 9, 2001

Jo Dillon
Journalist: The CIA Wanted
Me Killed

John Chuckman
High-Tech Puritanism

December 8, 2001

Laurence Tribe
Military Tribunals
Undermine the Constitution

Patrick Cockburn
The End of a Strange War

December 7, 2001

John Troyer
Blacklist Me!

Sen. Edwards v. Ashcroft
Military Tribunals

George Naggiar
Occupation as Terrorism

Hugo von Sponek
and Denis Halliday
Iraq the Hostage Nation

David Vest
The Coen Brothers'
Minstrel Show

Alexander Cockburn
Sharon or Arafat:
Who's the Terrorist?

December 6, 2001

CounterPunch Wire
Hampshire College the First
to Condemn the War

Robert Jensen
University Teaching After
September 11

Jack McCarthy
Does Tom Friedman Read
the New York Times?

Sam and Leila Bahour
The Psychology of a Suicide Attacker

December 5, 2001

Edward Hammond
The Only Real Way to
Prevent Biowarfare

Harvey Wasserman
Atomic Treason in the House

Carl Estabrook
America's Israel

Don Williams
Questions Barbara Walters Didn't Ask George Bush

Cockburn/St. Clair
Liberals Hail War as
Return of Big Government

Robert Fisk
The Last Colonial War?

Bahour/Dahan
It's About the Occupation

December 4, 2001

Dave Marsh
A Plea for Byron Parker

Rep. Ron Paul
Keep Your Eye on the Target

Susan Herman
Ashcroft and the Patriot Act

Tariq Ali
The Afghan King and the Nazis

November 30, 2001

Jordan Green
Disappeared in the Southland

Willliam Blum
Rebuilding Afghanistan?

November 29, 2001

Phillip Cryan
Defining Terrorism

Robert Fisk
We Are the War Criminals Now

November 28, 2001

Tom Turnipseed
A Continuum of Terror

Patrick Cockburn
Tribal Council:
Don't Blame It All on Taliban

Robert Fisk
At Last, The Truth about the Sabra and Chatila Massacres

Harry Browne
The Bill of Rights:
They Threw It All Away

Sunil Sharma
Suffer Palestine's Children

November 27, 2001

Paul Coggins
Kafka and the Patriot Act

Tariq Ali
Tigris and Euprhates

November 26, 2001

Robert Fisk
Blood and Tears in Kandahar

Jeffrey St. Clair
Boeing's Sweet Deal

CounterPunch Wire
Human Rights Abuses and
Nuke Waste Shipments

Alexander Cockburn
Harry Potter and Terrorism


A Photographic Journal of Life in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann

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Five Days That
Shook The World:
Seattle and Beyond

By Alexander Cockburn
and Jeffrey St. Clair
Photos by Allan Sekula

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December 15, 2001

The Execution of Osama bin Laden

By Dana Cook

Osama Bin Laden is finally captured alive and is brought to America for justice. He is found guilty by a military tribunal and the sentence is death, by hanging. There are cameras in the "courtroom" and CNN's audience ratings triple that of the O.J. Simpson trial.

Before the sentence is administered, bin Laden is put on a tour of major population centers for public pillory. Millions file by the hapless terrorist kingpin, just out of spitting and pissing range, in football stadiums and parks across the land. They chant and scream hatred and retribution. A coffee-table book of photographs of this tour, Bin Laden in America, is a bestseller that Christmas season.

Execution day. The long-awaited "E-Day". September 11, 2002. Yankee Stadium in Bronx, N.Y. More than 60,000 pony up $1000 each to witness the event. Scaffolding is erected near second base. "The Star Spangled Banner", "America the Beautiful" and "God Bless America" are duly sung.

Millions across the country have paid $500 to watch live on closed-circuit television. Images of the crumbling World Trade Center twin towers flicker on the stadium Jumbotron. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gives the ceremonial "first pitch", a grave incantation against terrorism which includes a warning to Saddam Hussein.

A mélange of state, local and federal politicians flock to the keystone sack lynchtower for "pre-game" photo op and sound bite. Rudolf Guliani, no longer mayor of New York City but still "Mayor of America," and President George W. Bush jointly trip the lever which sends bin Laden dangling to his death. The moment is greeted by a 30-minute non-stop standing ovation, causing Joe DiMaggio to stir in his grave in envy.

Within weeks, a video of the proceedings, "Present at the Execution", sets record sales.

America's New War continues...