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April 8, 2002 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 Tzaporah Ryter Under Fire: an American Student in Ramallah 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 April 2, 2002 Uri Avnery Murdering Arafat? Jeff Chang Is Protest Music Dead? Lev Grinberg Israel's State Terrorism Norman Madarasz Bullying Brazil Robert Fisk Farce and Terror in Ramallah Steve Perry Let's Roll! ®: The Marketing of Lisa Beamer April 1, 2002 Stanton / Madsen America's War Inc. Rep. Dennis Kucinich Peace and Nuclear Disarmament: a Call to Action Bahour / Dahan Bloodshed in Palestine: A Way Out Molly Secours Tennessee's Kangaroo Court Phyllis Pollack The Making of Exile on Main Street Dave Marsh DeskScan: This Week's Top 10 CDs Francis Boyle The Big Lie: Palestine, Palestinians and International Law March 31, 2002 Jordan Flaherty Last Night the Israeli Military Tried to Kill Me Kristen Schurr Live from Bethlehem Maha Sbitani The Israeli Army Took Over My House Robert Fisk Lies Leaders Tell When They Want to Go to War 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 8, 2002 DeskScan By Dave Marsh (Now playing in my office): 1. 1000 Kisses, Patty Griffin 2. "Dog Dog," SNCC Freedom Singers 3. Cocky, Kid Rock 4. "Hey Mr. DJ," Van Morrison 5. Impressed! 24 Groups Inspired by the Legendary Impressions & Curtis Mayfield 6. Beautiful Stars, Isaac Freeman and the Bluebloods 7. Ali Soundtrack 8. Spacial Disorientation, Dick Dale 9. Highway 377, Cross Canadian Ragweed 10. Splitsville, Vol. 1, Supersuckers and Electric Frankenstein Dave Marsh coedits Rock and Rap Confidential. He can be reached at: marsh6@optonline.net Dave Marsh's Previous DeskScan Top 10 Lists: April 2, 2002 March 25, 2002 March 18, 2002 March 11, 2002