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March 31, 2002

Maha Sbitani
The Israeli Army Took Over My House

Robert Fisk
Lies Leaders Tell When
They Want to Go to War

March 24/30, 2002

Alexander Cockburn
The Year of the Yellow Notepad:
Plagiarism and History

Rep. Ron Paul
Slavery and the Draft

Fidel Castro
A Better World is Possible

Edward Said
What Price Oslo?

José Saramago
Justice and Democracy Denied

Azmi Bishara
Talking to Tanks

Jeffrey St. Clair
Clearcutting Montana

Alexander Cockburn
50 Years of James Bond

Wilhelm Reich
Gethsemane

Claud Cockburn
The Horror of It All

Dave Marsh
What's Playing at My Houe

David Vest
Remembering Tammy Wynette

Jeffrey St. Clair
Waylon Jennings:
an Honest Outlaw

March 23, 2002

Mokhiber/Weissman
A Corporate Lawyer
Speaks Out

Saeed Vaseghi
The US and Iran's Quest
for Democracy

Brian J. Foley
Does Pedophilia Scandal Spell an Opportunity for Catholics?

Sheperd Bliss
American Soul and Empire

James Packard Winkler
Occupation and Terror:
Politics from a Gun Barrel

M. Shahid Alam
A New International Division
of Labor

T.W. Croft
Enron's Attack on Our
Economic Security

March 22, 2002

Robert Jensen
Corporate Power is a
Threat to Democracy

Tommy Ates
The Future of Black Academia

Rep. Ron Paul
Why are We in Ukraine?

March 21, 2002

McQuinn, Munson, & Wheeler
Stars and Stripes:
Killing for the Flag?

John Chuckman
How Change is Wrought

David Vest
Hail to the Chaff

March 20, 2002

Kay Lee
Censorship at Angelfire

Robert Jensen
The Politics of Pain
and Pleasure

Sheperd Bliss
Notes from Hawai'i:
Trouble in Paradise

Rick Giambetti
Prozac and Suicide:
an Interview with
Dr. David Healy

Philip Farruggio
Bullies

Lori Allen
Live from Ramallah:
The Madness of Occupation

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Five Days That
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Photos by Allan Sekula

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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:
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April 1, 2002

DeskScan

by Dave Marsh

(What's playing this week at my house):

1. Patty Griffin, 1000 Kisses

2. Kid Rock, Cocky

3. Ali Soundtrack (I pretend this is the new R. Kelly album I want)

4. Guy Davis, Give in Kind

5. Lester Chambers and K.K. Martin, Blues for Sale

6. Copyright Anarchists, "Freedom Pirates (Hillary Rosen Suck My Ass)"

7. Amy Fairchild, Mr. Heart

8. Devil Gods and John Sinclair, "Up From the Skies (Jimi Hendrix)"

9. The Bonner Brothers, Delayed But Not Denied

10. Jimmy Ruffin, The Millenium Collection

Dave Marsh coedits Rock and Rap Confidential. He can be reached at: marsh6@optonline.net

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