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Recent Stories April 3, 2003 Uri Avnery A Crooked Mirror: Presstitution and the Theater of Operations David Vest Can You Hear the Silence? Anthony Gancarski Colin Powell Telemarketer David Lindorff Takoma: the Dolphin Who Refused to Fight Michael Roberts War, Debts and Deficits Ramzy Baroud Now That Iraqis Are Being Killed Is Israel Any More Secure? Jo Wilding From Baghdad with Tears Anton Antonowicz Cluster Bombs on Babylon Alison Weir Israel, We Won't Forget Rachel Corrie Bruce Jackson Hating Wolf Blitzer's Voice Eliot Katz War's First Week Steve Perry War Web Log 04/03   April 2, 2003 Alexander Cockburn The Politics of Casualties David Lindorff Making America Safer...for Iraqi Fighters William Blum Some Observations on the Recent Behavior of the Empire Gustavio Sierra The Morning After the Slaughter at Nasser Patrick Cockburn Playing Into Saddam's Hands Robert Jensen Peter Arnett: Whipping Boy of the Pentagon Jeremy Brecher Uniting for Peace Update N.D. Jayaprakash The Siege of Basra LaDawn Haglund You Can Jail the Resisters, But You Can't Arrest the Resistance Robert Fisk Truth and Subterfuge Jemima Khan I'm Ashamed to be British Steve Perry War Web Log Stew Albert Total War Website of the Day Traitor List: Sign Up Now!   April 1, 2003 Jason Leopold Rumsfeld: "Get Me Rewrite" William S. Lind The Pitfalls of War Planning Jorge Mariscal Latinos on the Frontlines, Again Paul de Rooij Arrogant Propaganda Jo Wilding From Baghdad: "I Am His Mother" Tarif Abboushi Operation Embedded Folly Lee Sustar Labor's War at Home Akiva Eldar Israeli Dreams of Iraqi Oil Bernard Weiner The Vietnam Connection Robert Fisk The Graveyard at Baghdad's North Gate Steve Perry War Web Log 04/01 Website of the Day A Collectible War   March 31, 2003 David Lindorff Liberating Iraqis from Their Homes Neve Gordon A Different Kind of Despair John Chuckman Absurdities and Contradictions Ron Jacobs Bernie Sanders Voting Maybe on War Wayne Madsen The Siege of Washington Mark Franchetti Slaughter at the Bridge of Death Robert Fisk Blood and Bandages of the Innocent Robin Cook Send Our Soldiers Home Anthony Gancarski Investigate Perle Uri Avnery The Devil's Dictionary Steve Perry War Web Log 03/31   March 29, 2003 Kathy and Bill Christison "Like Being Autistic with Power": an Interview with Jeff Halper Ben Tripp "My Empire for a Map!": Geography American Style Ann Harrison The War on Protesters: San Francisco's Berserk Cops Kurt Nimmo Dead People: Don't Go There Chris Floyd Blood on the Tracks: Cheney the War Profiteer Ann Pettifer Israelis: Victims No Longer? Jo Wilding Dispatch from Baghdad: Nowhere is Safe Ramzy Baroud Horror Chamber: Inside the Al-Amiriya Shelter David Krieger Perle is Gone, But the Looting Continues John Gershman Dreams of Empire; Eulogies for International Law Robert Fisk Bombing the Phone System Brice Abel War, Bush and the Jesus Torilla Tom Stephens The Chickenhawk Circle of Hell Alexander Cockburn "War Not Going According to Plan"   March 28, 2003 Robert Fisk Bitter Truths About Basra Daniel Wolff A Road Trip in Wartime Chris Clarke We Never Spit on Any Baby Killers David Lindorff Saddam, a Hero Made in Washington Pierre Tristam Icarus on Crack: American Hubris and Iraq Jason Leopold Richard Perle: the Enterprising Hawk Saul Landau Technological Massacre Carol Norris The Mother of All Bombs Riad Abdelkarim, MD Iraq War Lingo 101 Adam Engel Schlock and Awe Steve Perry War Web Log   March 27, 2003 Anthony Gancarski Somebody Blew Up Baghdad Rahul Mahajan The New Humanitarianism: Basra as Military Target Simon Jones A Letter from Uzbekistan William S. Lind No Exit Diane Christian A Day of Reckoning The Black Commentator Onward Embedded Soldiers: the Press and the War Mickey Z. Remembering the Real Moynihan: Genocide in East Timor Richard Thieme The Problem of Empathy Jason Leopold Energy Scams: Bilking California Out of Billions Tariq Ali A Naked Display of Imperial Power Alexander Cockburn Up the Creek   March 26, 2003 Bruce Jackson A Battlefield from Hell Pablo Mukherjee Watch Their Lips David Krieger Shock But Not Awe Linda Heard Winning Hearts and Minds Bush-Style Imad Jadaa The Beautiful Face of America Adam Engel Buckets of Blood Patrick Cockburn Kurds Unimpressed David Lindorff POWs, Torture and Hypocrisy Robert Fisk The Coup That Didn't Happen April Hurley, MD A Doctor's Outrage in Baghdad Gloria Bergen Chretien's Shame Reema Abu Hamdieh The Smell of Death Surrounds Me   March 25, 2003 Jeffrey St. Clair Life During Wartime Gary Leupp What Democracy Looks Like: the Streets of Cairo Bill and Kathleen Christison An Interview with Hanan Ashrawi Bruce Jackson Why Protest? Why Write? Uri Avnery Bitter Rice: Thoughts and Warnings on the War Jason Leopold Blood Indicator: Casualties and the Stock Market Ralph Nader A Pre-emptive War on a Defenseless Country   March 24, 2003 Alexander Cockburn Ominous Signs David Lindorff Peacekeepers at Ground Zero Diane Christian Blood Sacrifice Kathy Kelly The Morning After Shock and Awe John Stanton US Bombs Iran Wayne Madsen How to Live with a Rogue Superpower Anthony Gancarski Iraq and the Death of the West David Vest Earth vs. Bush Ahmad Faruqui The Liberation of Iraq in Perspective Robert Fisk We Bomb, They Suffer     March 22 / 23, 2003 Edward Said The Other America Saul Landau The Threats of Empire Kathleen and Bill Christison On the Road in the West Bank Joanne Mariner Suing Seymour Hersh Ann Harrison The Battle of San Francisco Robert Fisk A Cauldron of Fire Hani Shukrallah The Gates of Hell Chris Floyd Memory Lane Kathy Kelly Imagine Chicago Under This Kind of Attack Ramzi Kysia Bombing Away a Chance for Joy Linda Heard Baghdad Burns While Bush Does Lunch Bradley Burston Could the US be at War for Years? Salvador Peralta Mass Murder as Liberation? Tom Gorman Now That's a Coalition! Jorge Mariscal Johnny Mack, When Are You Coming Back? Cindy Milstein The Grassroots Go Global Josh Frank Blocking Portland's Bridges Elaine Cassel The Case of Elizabeth Smart: Kidnapping and Insanity Gordon Solberg Drowning in Niceness: the Lessons of Elizabeth Smart Tom Crumpacker Getting to Know the Real Havana Poets' Basement Dobie, Guthrie, Alam, Wechsler   March 21, 2003 Ben Tripp Blood for Oil: the Exchange Rate Cathy Breens Report from Baghdad: Mothers, Kids and Crash Kits Scott Handleman Fourth Generation Protesting: Shutting Down San Francisco Vanessa Jones Paint Them Red Brian J. Foley Patriotic Protest for Professors Zoltan Grossman After Saddam, a War on Iraqi Rebels? Philip S. Golub Inventing Demons Richard Lichtman On the Current Experience of Terror Milan Rai Blitz-Coup Pepe Escobar A Cheap Family Farce Floyd Rudmin The Nightmare at the Back Door: Nuclear Plant's as Terror Targets Chris Floyd See Rome (poem) Website of the War Iraq Body Count   March 20, 2003 Jo Wilding From Waiting to War: a Day and a Night in Baghdad Stephen Banko I Was a Soldier Once Kevin Alexander Gray How Did We Become an Outlaw Nation? Shane Claiborne Nomadic Solidarity: Glimpses of Life in Baghdad on the Eve of War Kathy Kelly Waiting on the Baghdad Skies to Crack Anthony Gancarski Michelle Makin's "Liberty Shields" Rahul Mahajan and Robert Jensen Myths and Facts About the War on Iraq Jason Leopold Cheney's Lies About Halliburton and Iraq Ron Jacobs If War is Business as Usual, There Should be No Business as Usual Chuck O'Connell Predictions About the Iraq War Douglas Herman US Air Force Veteran on the Coming Air Campaign Ralph Nader Come On Democrats, Stand Up for Peace William Hughes War is Theft Sima Saeedi Dispatch from Iran Hammond Guthrie John Philip Sousa Website of the Day Iraq Body Count   Hot Stories Gore Vidal The Erosion of the American Dream Francis Boyle Impeach Bush: A Draft Resolution Click Here for More Stories. Burn Your Sweatshop Clothes! Buy Union Made Apparel! Subscribe Online Search CounterPunch

April 4, 2003 The Deadly Mihrab By HAMMOND GUTHRIE The human belt is set to go an incredibly difficult business volunteers fused and mindfully set The smartest of bombs can not pretend to be a pregnant woman without an escape plan Spreading around the world This weapon with but one message "No One Is Safe--Anywhere" in the here and then again Forbidden by the Prophet the bottom line is not entirely clear for those bent on starting out in Paradise As Paradise seems to exists only for those with a day or two's notice on where to detonate themselves Hammond Guthrie is the author of AsEverWas: Memoirs of a Beat Survivor. He can be reached at: writenow@spiritone.com (C) 2003 Hammond Guthrie Today's Features Uri Avnery A Crooked Mirror: Presstitution and the Theater of Operations David Vest Can You Hear the Silence? Anthony Gancarski Colin Powell Telemarketer David Lindorff Takoma: the Dolphin Who Refused to Fight Michael Roberts War, Debts and Deficits Ramzy Baroud Now That Iraqis Are Being Killed Is Israel Any More Secure? Jo Wilding From Baghdad with Tears Anton Antonowicz Cluster Bombs on Babylon Alison Weir Israel, We Won't Forget Rachel Corrie Bruce Jackson Hating Wolf Blitzer's Voice Eliot Katz War's First Week Steve Perry War Web Log 04/03   Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /