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Cockburn / St. Clair's Scorching New History of a Decade of War Now Available! Today's Stories May 6, 2004 Werther The Sunk Cost Fallacy: War as Vegas Casino Game Robert Fisk "Smoke Him": Video Shows Wounded Men Being Shot by US Helicopter Alan Farago Dead Oceans: So Long, Thanks for the Fish William S. Lind On the Brink of Defeat in Iraq May 5, 2004 Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba Complete US Army Report on Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners Kathleen and Bill Christison Kerry: a Lost Cause for Progressives? Will Youmans Deal with the Devil: a Palestinian Zionist and the End of the World Patrick B. Barr Terrorists R Us: the Powerful are Exempt from the Label Lawrence Magnuson Nightline's All-American Morgue Greg Moses Pocketbook of Denuded Ideals Niranjan Ramakrishnan Tormenting Prisoners, Torturing Truth Lee Ballinger Cinco de Mayo and Unity Gilbert Achcar Bush's Cakewalk into the Iraq Quaqmire Website of the Day Operation Phoenix & Iraq   May 4, 2004 Human Rights Watch A Timeline of Torture and Abuse Allegations and Responses Kurt Nimmo The CIA Privatized Torture David Peterson CBS, Self-Censorship & Iraq Barry Lando CACI's Private Torture Chambers Patrick Cockburn Torture: Iraqis Disgusted, But Not Surprised Dr. Susan Block Indecent Insurgents: Watch What You Say Fidel Castro A Mindless, Unnecessary War Mike Whitney Empire of Torture Sonali Kolhatkar How to Stop the War: Demonstrate Against John Kerry Josh Frank The Lost Sierra Club Stan Goff The Role: Another Open Letter to US Troops in Iraq Agustin Velloso Spare Us Your Disgusting Ethics Stew Albert American Know-How Website of the Day Scenes from a Cover-Up   May 3, 2004 Virginia Tilley Let the Wall of Silence Fall May 1 / 2, 2004 Patrick Cockburn An Army in Disgrace, a Policy in Tatters, the Real Prospect of Defeat Robert Fisk "Good Guys" Who Can Do No Wrong Alexander Cockburn Watching Niagara: Stupid Leaders, Useless Spies, Angry World Heather Williams Gringo, We're Going Home: Latin American Troops Flee Iraq Diane Rejman An Army Vet on Torture in Iraq: Abu Ghraib as My Lai? Diane Christian Blood Spilling: Osama, Bush and Sharon Speak the Same Language Patrick Cockburn Seems Like Old Times in Fallujah Dave Lindorff Bush's Torturous Logic: Shocked, Shocked, Shocked Chris Floyd Suicide Bomber: Neocons, Nihilists and Annihilation April 29 / 30, 2004 Dave Zirin A Pawn in Their Game: the Unlonesome Death of Pat Tillman Kathy Kelly The Warden's Tour Greg Weiher Fallujah and the Warsaw Ghetto: the Banality of Evil Michael S. Ladah Terrorism and Assassination: the Ultimate Depception Patrick Cockburn The Fallujah Mutinies     April 28, 2004 Christopher Brauchli Meet Congressman Know-Nothing: Tom Tancredo Wendy Brinker The Politics of the Numb Faisal Kutty The Dirty Work of Canadian Intelligence John Chuckman Seeking the Evil One Mike Whitney Flag-Draped Coffins and the Seattle Times Tom Mountain Rwanda and the F***** Word Graeme Greenback The Iraqi Alamo: a CNN/CIA Production Tracy McLellan The War Comes Home M. Junaid Alam We are the Barbarians William Loren Katz Iraq, the US and an Old Lesson   April 27, 2004 James Davis The Colombia 3 Acquitted Dave Lindorff Chalabi as Prosecutor Bruce Schneier Terrorist Threats and Political Gain Cockburn / Sengupta British Generals Resist Calls for More Troops to Aid Americans in Iraq Walt Brasch Presidential Letters: The Day I Was Asked to Feed an Elephant Saul Landau The Empire in Denial and the Denial of Empire April 26, 2004 Patrick Cockburn Crossing the Shia Line: US Troops Prepare to Enter Najaf Wayne Madsen Trading Places: Will the US Go the Way of the USSR? Grover Furr Protest, Rebellion, Commitment Elaine Cassel Lies About the Patriot Act Mickey Z. Inspired by Pat Tillman? Greg Moses Bremer's De-De-Ba'athjfication Gambit Gila Svirsky Anarchy in Our Souls Uri Avnery Vanunu and the Terrible Secret April 24 / 25, 2004 William A. Cook Tweedledee and Tweedledum: Kerry and Bush Melt into One Jeffrey St. Clair Stryking Out: a General, GM and the Army's Latest Tank Brandy Baker A Revitalized Women's Movement? Let's Hope So Robert Fisk A Warning to Those Who Dare Criticize Israel in the Land of Free Speech Ben Tripp October Surmise: a Case of Worst Scenarios Nelson Valdés "Submit or Die": Iraq and the American Borg Lucson Pierre-Charles Haiti's Return to the Future Kurt Nimmo The CIA Killed Pat Tillman Mark Scaramella Does Anybody Know Anything? Patrick Cockburn The Return of Saddam's Generals Gary Engler Welcome to La Paz: a Vacation in Tear Gas Col. Dan Smith Whistling in the Dark: Israel, Palestine and Bush Greg Weiher Iraq is Utterly Unlike Vietnam... Elaine Cassel Life on the Outside: a Review Vanessa Jones Letter from Australia: Why an Independent Won Sydney Jim French Agriculture's Bullied Market Hammond Guthrie Al Aronowitz, Bob Dylan and The Beatles Poets' Basement Jones, Holt, Albert, LaMorticella April 23, 2004 Ron Jacobs The Only Solution is Immediate Withdrawal Dave Lindorff Imagination Deficit Disorder Mokhiber / Weissman Contractors and Mercenaries: the Rising Corporate Military Monster Norman Solomon Country Joe Band, 2004: "What Are We Fighting For?" Cynthia McKinney All Things Are Not Equal: the Perils of Globalization CounterPunch Wire A Bitch Called Wanda Karyn Strickler Sierra Club, Inc. Hammond Guthrie Yellow Caked in the Face Paul de Rooij Graveyard of Justifications: Glossary of the Iraqi Occupation   April 22, 2004 Patrick Cockburn When Terror Came to Basra: "I Saw a Minibus of Children on Fire" Tanya Reinhart The Wall Behind Disengagement Lance Selfa Why is Kucinich Still in the Race? Josh Frank Street Fighting Man? Kucinich's Pulled Punches Sen. Robert Byrd Bush Owes America Answers on Iraq William S. Lind Why We Get It Wrong Mickey Z. Undoing the Latches Robert Jensen Why They Fast: Remembering the Victims of the World Bank John L. Hess The New York Times from 30,000 Feet   April 21, 2004 Gary Leupp Yeats on Iraq Alfredo Castro Colombia's Forgotten Prisoners Dr. Susan Block Bush's Taliban Drug Deal William A. Cook George 1 to George 2 Jack Random Iraq and Vietnam Jean-Guy Allard Alarcon Meets the Editors Mike Whitney Charade in the Desert Bill Christison Only Major Policies Changes Can Help Washington Now     April 20, 2004 Dave Lindorff Bush and Kerry Share a Problem Stan Cox Wal-Mart's Magic Numbers Bruce Anderson On Listening to Air America Joseph Kalvoda Czech Mate for Condi Greg Moses Yesterday's Intelligence Stan Goff The Democrats and Iraq Website of the Day Santorum Happens     April 19, 2004 Kurt Nimmo The "Central Hand" of the Resistance Mike Whitney Bob Woodward's Imperial Trifles Douglas Valentine 52 Pick-Up and the 100-to-1 Rule John Chuckman The Sharon Annex: Evil Does Often Triumph Doug Giebel Welcome to the Club Rahul Mahajan Hospital Closings and War Crimes     April 16 / 18, 2004 Robert Fisk Bush Legitimizes Terror Saul Landau Subverting Brazil and Cuba Dave Lindorff Paying for War: $2,150 per Family and Counting Brandy Baker Fallujah's Collateral Damage Mickey Z. The Left Attacks from the Right Bruce Jackson The Bush Press Conference: Gott Mit Uns Norman Solomon How the "NewsHour" Changed History Alexander Cockburn Bush, Kerry and Empire   April 15, 2004 Greg Moses Follow the Families, Not the Script Virginia Tilley The Carnage According to Gen. Kimmitt: Just Change the Channel Ron Jacobs They Coulda Been Champions of the World: Hurricane Carter and Ron Kovic Michael Neumann A Happy Compromise: Hate Crimes Reporting in the Toronto Globe and Mail   April 14, 2004 Tom Reeves Return to Haiti: an American Learning Zone Reza Fiyouzat Japan and Iraq Ron Jacobs What Bush Really Said Diane Christian The Real Passion   Hot Stories Alexander Cockburn Behold, the Head of a Neo-Con! Subcomandante Marcos The Death Train of the WTO Norman Finkelstein Hitchens as Model Apostate Steve Niva Israel's Assassination Policy: the Trigger for Suicide Bombings? Dardagan, Slobodo and Williams CounterPunch Exclusive: 20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians Steve J.B. Prison Bitch Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber True Lies: the Use of Propaganda in the Iraq War Wendell Berry Small Destructions Add Up CounterPunch Wire WMD: Who Said What When Cindy Corrie A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter I Can't Hear From Gore Vidal The Erosion of the American Dream Francis Boyle Impeach Bush: A Draft Resolution Click Here for More Stories.     Subscribe Online

May 6, 2004 Totalitarian Democracy: a New Poem By LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The first fine dawn of life on earth The first light of the first morning The first evening star The first man on the moon seen from afar The first voyage of Ulysses westward The first fence on the last frontier The first tick of the atomic clock of fear The first Home Sweet Home so dear The sweet smell of honeysuckle at midnight The first free black man free of fright The sweet taste of freedom The first good orgasm The first Noble Savage The first Pale Face settler on the first frontier The last Armenian and the last Ojibway in Fresno The first ball park hotdog with mustard The first home run in Yankee Stadium The first song of love and forty cries of despair The first pure woman passing fair The sweet smell of success The first erection and the first Resurrection The first darling buds of May The last covered wagon through the Donner Pass The first green sprouts of new grass The last cry of Mark Twain! on the Mississippi The First and Last Chance Saloon The ghostly galleon of the half-moon The first cry of pure joy in morning light The distant howl of trains lost in book of night The first morning after the night before thinking The last new moon sinking The last of the Mohicans and the last buffalo The last sweet chariot swinging low The first hippie heading for the hills The last bohemian in a beret The last beatnik in North Beach with something to say The last true love to come your way The last Wobbly and the last Catholic Anarchist The last paranoid Lefty The last Nazi The first bought vote in the first election The last hand caught in the last cookie jar The last cowboy on the last frontier The last bald eagle with nothing to fear The last buffalo head nickel The last living member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade The last Mom and Pop grocery The last firefly flickerng in the night The first plane to hit the first Twin Tower The last plane to hit the last Twin Tower The only plane to ever hit the Pentagon The birth of a vast national paranoia The beginning of the Third World War (the War Against the Third World) The first trip abroad by an ignorant president The last free-running river The last gas and oil on earth The last general strike The last Fidelista the last Sandinista the last Zapatista The last political prisoner The last virgin and the last of the champagne The last train to leave the station The last and only great nation The last Great Depression The last will & testament The last welfare check for rent The end of the old New Deal The new Committee on Unamerican Activities The last politician with honest proclivities The last independent newspaper printing the news and raising hell The last word and the last laugh and the Last Hurrah The last picture show and the last waltz The last Unknown Soldier The last innocent American The last Ugly American The last Great Lover and the last New Yorker The last home-fries with ketchup-to-go The last train home at midnight The last syllable of recorded time The last long careless rapture The last independent bookstore with its own mind The last best hope of mankind The lost chord and the lost leader The last drop of likker The cup that runneth over quicker The last time I saw Paris Texas The last peace treaty and the Last Supper The first sweet signs of spring The first sweet bird of youth The first baby tooth and the last wisdom tooth The last honest election The last freedom of information The last free Internet The last free speech radio The last unbought television network The last homespun politician The last Jeffersonian The last Luddite in Berkeley The last Bottom Line and the last of Social Security The first fine evening calm and free The beach at sunset with reclining nudes the lovers wrapped in each other The last meeting of the Board The last gay sailor to come aboard The first White Paper written in blood The last terrorist born of hate and poverty The last citizen who bothered to vote The first President picked by a Supreme Court The end of the Time of Useful Consciousness The unfinished flag of the United States The ocean's long withdrawing roar The birth of a nation of sheep The deep deep sleep of the booboisie The underground wave of feel-good fascism The uneasy rule of the super-rich The total triumph of imperial America The final proof of our Manifest Destiny The first loud cry of America über alles Echoing in freedom's alleys The last lament for lost democracy The total triumph of totalitarian plutocracy CODA Cut down cut down cut down Cut down the grassroots Cut down those too wild weeds in our great agri-fields and golf courses Cut down cut down those wild sprouts Cut down cut down those rank weeds Pull down your vanity, man, pull down the too wild buds the too wild shoots Cut down the wild unruly vines & voices the hardy volunteers and pioneers Cut down cut down the alien corn Cut down the crazy introverts Tongue-tied lovers of the subjective Cut down cut down the wild ones the wild spirits The desert rats and monkey wrenchers Easy riders and midnight cowboys in narco nirvanas Cut down the wild alienated loners fiddling with their moustaches plotting revolution in hopeless cellars Cut down cut down all those freaks and free thinkers Wild-eyed poets with wandering minds Soapbox agitators and curbstone philosophers Far out weirdos and rappers Stoned-out visionaries and peace-niks Exiles in their own land! O melting pot America! Lawrence Ferlinghetti's latest book of poems, AMERICUS, BOOK I, is now available from City Lights. For more information on Ferlingheitti, see his website at http://www.citylights.com/CLlf.html Weekend Edition Features for April 24 / 25, 2004 William A. Cook Tweedledee and Tweedledum: Kerry and Bush Melt into One Jeffrey St. Clair Stryking Out: a General, GM and the Army's Latest Tank Brandy Baker A Revitalized Women's Movement? Let's Hope So Robert Fisk A Warning to Those Who Dare Criticize Israel in the Land of Free Speech Ben Tripp October Surmise: a Case of Worst Scenarios Nelson Valdés "Submit or Die": Iraq and the American Borg Lucson Pierre-Charles Haiti's Return to the Future Kurt Nimmo The CIA Killed Pat Tillman Mark Scaramella Does Anybody Know Anything? Patrick Cockburn The Return of Saddam's Generals Gary Engler Welcome to La Paz: a Vacation in Tear Gas Col. Dan Smith Whistling in the Dark: Israel, Palestine and Bush Greg Weiher Iraq is Utterly Unlike Vietnam... Elaine Cassel Life on the Outside: a Review Vanessa Jones Letter from Australia: Why an Independent Won Sydney Jim French Agriculture's Bullied Market Hammond Guthrie Al Aronowitz, Bob Dylan and The Beatles Poets' Basement Jones, Holt, Albert, LaMorticella WWW http://www.counterpunch.org   Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /