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May 10, 2002 Jack McCarthy Snitch Envy: Hitchens, Brock and Whitaker Chambers John Jonik Tobacco and Teens: Criminalizing the Victiims Vijay Prashad Fettered Histories: Tariq Ali and Ahmed Rashid on Islam Bill Christison A Former CIA Analyst Details The Disastrous Foreign Policies of the United States Omar Barghouti Israel's Best Interest May 9, 2002 Alex Lynch American Mainstream Media: Institutionalized Subjectivity Alexander Cockburn The Armey Plan: Palestine to Ft. Worth? May 8, 2002 James Masterson Hysteria and Panic About France Robert Fisk The Solution to this Filthy War: Foreign Occupation Edward Hammond and Jan van Aken Pentagon Pushed for Offensive BioWeapons Development David Vest From Ground Zero to the Bronx May 7, 2002 Patrick Cockburn Bone Apart: The Graveyard of Napoleon's Defeated Army Philip Farruggio Muffler Shop Medicine Norman Madarasz French Elections: Pandora's Ballot Tom Turnipseed A Travesty of Justice May 6, 2002 Fran Schor Invasion of Iraq: Coming Soon Dave Marsh Love Hurts John Chuckman The Paradoxes of Israel Rep. Ron Paul End Corporate Welfare, Pull the Plug on the Ex-Im Bank Hussein Ibish Devastation Only Feeds Resistance to Israeli Rule May 5, 2002 Jeffrey St. Clair High and Dry in the Mojave May 4, 2002 Robert Fisk Sharon the Merciless and Arafat the Corrupt Sam Bahour New United States of Israel Alexander Cockburn Extreme Solutions: Priests and Palestinians 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

May 11, 2002 The Holy Lands: A Peace Vision by Joady Guthrie The Jews of the Holy Land decide they've had a Jewish state long enough; having gathered in enough of themselves. Now the Jewish state is causing more divisiveness than it's any longer worth. They decide a modern Democratic Republic of the Holy Land would be better than a pseudo-Israel that tries to recreate ancient Judea and Samaria. They tire of being the only officially quasi-racist country. They are tired of the wars and guerilla wars conducted against them. They pull down the Star of David flag, and hoist up a flag bearing the symbols of the three monotheistic religions. One main objective is to restore safety to the world's religious pilgrims, of all three faiths, and, secondly, to tourists! Another objective is peace forever. No longer do the Jews there think about a place of safety for the world's Jews, because that safety is not obtainable there for them, given the divisiveness over who possesses which portions of the poor Holy Land, and over the means by which whoever obtained said possessions. Perhaps in several generations time, this will come to pass. Such a vision certainly could only come true if pragmatically it was THE VISION that guaranteed greater peace. It's a vision of the citizens of the Holy Land seeing themselves as the custodians or stewards of the Holy Land in its entirety. One thing I like about this vision: Jewish settlers could remain living in the West Bank. All of today's Jewish and Palestinian lands would be united as one. Within this framework a lot of things could be worked out. Joady Guthrie, the second youngest child of folk singer Woody Guthrie, lives in Albany, California.