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Jan.
31 / Feb 1, 2004
Conn
Hallinan
Nepal, Bush & Real WMDs
January
30, 2004
Saul
Landau
Cuba High on Neo-Con Hit List
Michael
Donnelly
Bush's Second Front: The War in
the Woods
Elaine
Cassel
Worse Than Jacko: Child Abuse at Gitmo
David Vest
More Halliburton News, Brought to You by Halliburton
Mike
Whitney
The Kay Report: Still Defending Aggression
David
Miller
The Hutton Whitewash
Sam
Husseini
How Many People Must Die Because of This "Mistake",
Senator Kerry?
January 29, 2004
Patricia
Nelson Limerick
John Ehrlichman, Environmentalist
Ron
Jacobs
Homeland Security and "Legalized"
Immigration
Rahul Mahajan
New Hampshire v. Iraq
Greg
Weiher
Bush Calls for Preemptive Strike on
Moon and Mars
Norman
Solomon
The State of the Media Union
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Does NH Mean Anything?
January
28, 2004
Kathy
Kelly
Bearing Witness Against Teachers of
Torture and Assassination
January
27, 2004
Steve
Philion
Ritter Was Right: My Exchange with
CNN's Aaron Brown
Daniel
Ellsberg
Leak Against This War: Expose the
Lies from the Inside
C.G.
Estabrook
Can George Ever Really be Elected
President?
Josh
Frank
Hot Coals in Vermont: Dean's Smoke
Screens
Greg
Moses
Racism 101 All Over Again
Gilad
Atzmon
Blood, Soil and Art
Mike
Ferner
"We're All Lied To": an
Interview with Bruce Cockburn in Baghdad
Hammond
Guthrie
General Disorders of the Day
January
26, 2004
Sean
Donahue
The Toxic Career of Rand Beers: Kerry's
Drug War Zealot
Gary
Leupp
David Kay's Admission
January
24/5, 2004
Patrick
Cockburn
Iraq's Shia: "Our Day Has
Come"
Laura
Flanders
State of the Conservative Union
Simon Helweg-Larsen
Enter Berger: Signs of Hope in
Guatemala
Dave
Lindorff
Ground Control to Maj. George
Susan Davis
The Birdwatcher Menace
Alexander
Cockburn
The Fog of Cop Out: McNamara 10,
Morris 0
January
23, 2004
Yonathan
Shapira
An Israeli Pilot Speaks Out
Standard
Schaefer
Italian Philosopher Giorgio Agamben
Protests US Travel Policy
Josh
Frank
In Defense of Polluters: Howard Dean's
Vermont
William
A. Cook
Rule by the Corrupt and the Capricious
January
22, 2004
Sam
Smith
Howards End?
Patricia
Koyce Wanniski
Lost in Space
Alexander
Lukin
Putin and the Clans
Katherine
van Wormer
Dry Drunk Confirmed: O'Neill's
Revelations and Bush's Mind
Forrest
Hylton
The Prisoner, the President and the
Mafia
January 19, 2004
Justin E. H. Smith
Inside
America's Prisons: From Corrections to Retribution
Richard W. Behan
The GOP, Inc.
Ray McGovern
Bush's
State of the Union: Humility or More Hyperbole?
Werther
SOTUS:
the Stalin Moment of America's Nomenklatura
Phillip Cryan
Media Collusion in Colombia's War
Lee Sustar
A New Strategy to Reverse Labor's Decline?
Arthur Versluis
Great Lakes as Commodity: Privatizing Water
Uri Avnery
Anti-Semitism:
a Practical Manual
Steve Perry
Fresh Crack from Hawkeye State
January 17 / 18, 2004
Fadi Kiblawi and Will
Youmans
The
Use and Abuse of MLK Jr by Israel's Apologists
Joshua Muldavin
and Joseph Nevins
Blaming the Symptoms
Jeffrey St. Clair
Bad Days at Indian Point: Inside America's Most Dangerous Nuclear
Plant
Brian Cloughley
Iron Hammers in Iraq
Saul Landau
Fog of War: Vietnam and Iraq
M. Shahid Alam
Lerner, Said and the Palestinians
Richard Manning
Food Poisoning as Background Noise
Marjorie Cohn
The Guantanamo Concentration Camp
Mike Whitney
Scalia and Opus Dei: Radicals on the Court
Sadik Kassim
Meet Our New Saddam: Islam Karimov
Carol Norris
Arnold
and Bush's Numbers Don't Add Up
Joe Quandt
Suicide
Bombers: The Clash of Absurdities
David Krieger
Imagining MLK Jr at 75
Bruce Jackson
Making War, Making Movies
Ron Jacobs
Revolution in the Air: a review
Richard Edmondson
Rupert Murdoch and My Sister
Richard Forno
Apologizing for Preemption: Evil, Perle and Frum
Poets' Basement
Holt, Mickey Z, Albert & Guthrie
January 16, 2004
Kathy Kelly
A Visit
to Umm Qasr Prison
William S. Lind
More
Thoughts on 4th Generation Warfare
Gillian Russom
So.
Cal Grocery Strikers Speak Out: "We Need Action!"
Ari Shavit
Survival
of the Fittest? An Interview with Benny Morris
Adi Ophir
Genocide Hides Behind Expulsion: a Response to Benny Morris
Dave Lindorff
The General's Henchman: Michael Moore Smears Kucinich
Steve Perry
Iowa Death Trip 2
January 15, 2004
Veteran Intelligence
Professionals for Sanity
Memo
to the President: Your State of the Union Address
John Chuckman
Dry
Hole in the Oval Office: President from Podunk Drilling, Inc
Chris Floyd
Mind Over Matter
Gil-Scott Heron
Whitey on the Moon
Gary Leupp
The
Silk Road: Random Thoughts on the Bam Earthquake and Satan
January 14, 2004
Greg Moses
Happy
Birthday, Dr. King: To Write Off the South is to Surrender to
Bigots
Kurt Nimmo
Bush and the Supremes: Amputating the Bill of Rights
Dave Lindorff
Preview of Iowa? Pennsylvania Straw Poll Spells Trouble for Traditional
Dems (and Dean)
Jason Leopold
O'Neill Claims Backed by Rumsfeld / Wolfowitz War Letters to
Clinton
Alexander Cockburn
Bush,
Oil and Iraq: Some Truth at Last
January 13, 2004
William S. Lind
How 2004
Looks from Potsdam
M. Junaid Alam
Do Iraqis Have a Right to Resist?
Mickey Z
Snipers:
No Nuts in Iraq
Adolfo Gilly
Chonchocoro:
The Prisoner and the Presidents
Steve Perry
You Love God, Right?
January 12, 2004
Ben Tripp
No Stan
for the Kurds
Norman Solomon
The
Dixie Trap: Democrats and the South
Mike Whitney
O'Neill's Revenge
Jason Leopold
From the Very First Instant It Was About Iraq
Uri Avnery
Syria's
Peace Proposal
January 10 / 11, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Bush
as Hitler? Let's Be Fair
Susan Davis
Dangerous Books
Diane Christian
On Lying and Colin Powell
Lisa Viscidi
Exhumations: Unearthing Guatemala's Macabre Past
Daniel Estulin
Destroying History in Iraq
Saul Landau
Homeland Anxiety
Elaine Cassel
Who's Winning the War on Civil Liberties?
Bruce Jackson
Making the Shit List
Christopher Brauchli
Baptizing Hitler's Ghost
Francis A. Boyle
The Deep Scars of War
Lee Ballinger
Cold Sweat: Sweatshops and the Music Industry
Patrick W. Gavin
Hillary's Slur: Mrs. Lott?
Ramzy Baroud
What Invaders Have in Common
Michael Schwartz
Inside the California Grocery Strike
Gary Johnson
An Interview with Former Heavyweight Champ Greg Page
Dave Zirin
An Interview with Marvin Miller on Unions and Baseball
Mark Hand
A Review of Resistance: My Life for Lebanon
Poets' Basement
Thomas, Daley, Curtis, Guthrie and Albert
January 9, 2004
David Lindorff
The
Misers of War: Troop Strength and Chintzy Bonuses
Kurt Nimmo
Saddam's Defense: Summon Bush Sr. to the Stand
Mike Whitney
Orange Jumpsuits for the Bush Clan?: The Carnegie Report on Iraq's
Non-existent WMDs
Deb Reich
Palestinians and Israelis: This War is Unwinnable
David Vest
Disabled
Vets Fire Back at Rumsfeld
January 8, 2004
Neve Gordon
Israeli
Refuseniks Sentenced to Jail
Lenni Brenner
Dr.
Dean and the Godhead
Ray McGovern
Bush: Driving Without Breaks
Mark Scaramella
Inside
the DA's Office: Lies, Errors and Tedium
Yves Engler
Bush's Mexican Gambit
James Hollander
Journalists
Under Fire: the Death of José Couso in Baghdad
January 7, 2004
Democracy Now!
Uncharitable
Care: How Hospitals are Gouging and Even Arresting the Uninsured
Greg Weiher
The
Bush Administration's Ongoing Intelligence Problem
Ben Tripp
The Word of the Year, 2003
Dave Lindorff
Dean and His Democratic Detractors
Michael Leon
The NYT Does Chomsky
Bob Boldt
God Talk
Ramon Ryan
Small
Victories and Long Struggles: the 10th Anniversary of the Zapatista
Uprising
January 6, 2004
Dave Lindorff
RNC
Plays the Hitler Card: MoveOn Shouldn't Apologize for Those Ads
Ron Jacobs
Drugs
in Uniform: Hashish and the War on Terrorism
Josh Frank
Coffee and State Authority in Colombia
Doug Giebel
Permanent Bases: Leave Iraq? Hell No, We Won't Go
John Chuckman
Sick Puppies: David Frum's New Neo-Con Manifesto
Rannie Amiri
The Politics of the Iranian Earthquake
John L. Hess
A Record
to Dissent From
Thacher Schmid
A Cheesehead's Musings on the Sunday NYT
David Price
"Like
Slaves": Anthropological Thoughts on Occupation
January 5, 2004
Al Krebs
How
Now Mad Cow!
Kathy Kelly
Squatting
in Baghdad's Bomb Craters
Jordy Cummings
The Dialectic of the Kristol Family: Putting the Neo in the Cons
Fran Shor
Mad Human Disease: Chewing the Fat Down on the Farm
Fidel Castro
"We Shall Overcome": On the 45th Anniversary of the
Cuban Revolution
Gary Leupp
North
Korea for Dummies
January 3 / 4, 2004
Brian Cloughley
Never
Mind the WMDs, Just Look at History
Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan
The Wrong War at the Wrong Time
William Cook
Failing to Respond to 9/11
Glen Martin
Jesus
vs. the Beast of the Apocalypse
Robert Fisk
Iraqi Humor Amid the Carnage
Ilan Pappe
The Geneva Bubble
Walter Davis
Robert Jay Lifton, or Nostalgia
Kurt Nimmo
Ashcroft vs. the Left
Mike Whitney
The Padilla Case
Steven Sherman
On Wallerstein's The Decline of American Power
Dave Lindorff
Bush's Taiwan Hypocrisy
William Blum
Codework Orange!
Mitchel Cohen
Learning from Che Guevara
Seth Sandronsky
Mad Cow and Main Street USA
Bruce Jackson
Conversations with Leslie Fiedler
Standard Schaefer
Poet Carl Rakosi Turns 100
Ron Jacobs
Sir Mick
Adam Engel
Hall of Hoaxes
Poets' Basement
Jones, Albert & Curtis
January 2, 2004
Stan Cox
Red Alert
2016
Dave Lindorff
Beef, the Meat of Republicans
Jackie Corr
Rule and Ruin: Wall Street and Montana
Norman Solomon
George Will's Ethics: None of Our Business?
David Vest
As the Top Wobbleth
January 1, 2004
Randall Robinson
Honor
Haiti, Honor Ourselves
David Krieger
Looking
Back on 2003
Robert Fisk
War Takes an Inhuman Twist: Roadkill Bombs
Stan Goff
War,
Race and Elections
Hammond Guthrie
2003 Almaniac
Website of the Day
Embody Bags
December 31, 2003
Ray McGovern
Don't
Be Fooled Again: This Isn't an Independent Investigation
Kurt Nimmo
Manufacturing Hysteria
Robert Fisk
The Occupation is Damned
Mike Whitney
Mad Cows and Downer George
Alexander Cockburn
A Great Year Ebbed, Another Ahead
December 30, 2003
Michael Neumann
Criticism
of Israel is Not Anti-Semitism
Annie Higgins
When
They Bombed the Hometown of the Virgin Mary
Alan Farago
Bush Bros. Wrecking Co.: Time Runs Out for the Everglades
Dan Bacher
Creatures from the Blacklight Lagoon: From Glofish to Frankenfish
Jeffrey St. Clair
Hard
Time on the Killing Floor: Inside Big Meat
Willie Nelson
Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth?
December 29, 2003
Mark Hand
The Washington
Post in the Dock?
David Lindorff
The
Bush Election Strategy
Phillip Cryan
Interested Blindness: Media Omissions in Colombia's War
Richard Trainor
Catellus Development: the Next Octopus?
Uri Avnery
Israel's
Conscientious Objectors
December 27 / 28, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
A
Journey Into Rupert Murdoch's Soul
Kathy Kelly
Christmas Day in Baghdad: A Better World
Saul Landau
Iraq
at the End of the Year
Dave Zirin
A Linebacker for Peace & Justice: an Interview with David
Meggysey
Robert Fisk
Iraq
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Scott Burchill
The Bad Guys We Once Thought Good: Where Are They Now?
Chris Floyd
Bush's Iraq Plan is Right on Course: Saddam 2.0
Brian J. Foley
Don't Tread on Me: Act Now to Save the Constitution
Seth Sandronsky
Feedlot Sweatshops: Mad Cows and the Market
Susan Davis
Lord
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Cratched Does California
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Crumblecake and Fish
Norman Solomon
The Unpardonable Lenny Bruce
Poets' Basement
Cullen and Albert
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December 26, 2003
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December 25, 2003
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Jinglebells, Hold the Schlock
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"Wrong, Wrong,
Wrong"
Nepal,
Bush and Real WMDs
By CONN HALLINAN
Tucked into the upper stories of the Himalayas,
Nepal hardy seems ground zero for the Bush Administration's next
crusade against "terrorism," but an aggressive American
ambassador, a strategic locale, and a flood of U.S. weaponry
threatens to turn the tiny country of 25 million into a counter
insurgency bloodbath.
More than 8,000 Nepalese have died since
a civil war broke out in 1996, and the death rate has sharply
increased with the arrival of almost 8,400 American M-16 submachine
guns, accompanied by U.S. advisors, high tech night fighting
equipment, and British helicopters.
For most Americans, Nepal, birthplace
of the Buddha and home to Everest, the world's high mountain,
is a charming tourist haven. For the native Nepalese, 42 percent
of whom, according to the World Bank, live below the poverty
line, Nepal is a land enchained by caste, riven with ethnic rivalries,
and dominated by a feudal landlord class.
The central protagonists in the current
war are King Gyanendra, who abolished an elected parliament last
year, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPNM), which is
leading a rural insurrection, and a group of five political parties
that found themselves out in the cold when the monarchy took
over.
The Bush Administration has concluded
that the civil war threatens to make Nepal a "failed state"
and a haven for international terrorists, leading it to place
the NCPM on the State Department's "Watch List," along
with organizations like al Qaida, Abu Sayaf, and Lebanon's Hezbollah.
U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, Michael E.
Malinowski, compares CPNM leader, Baburam Bhattarai, to Nazi
propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels. Malinowski, whose track
record includes service in Afghanistan and Pakistan, advocates
an all-out military offensive aimed at the insurgency, recently
told theNew York Times that the CPNM, "literally have to
be bent back to the table."
But it was the Nepalese government's
attempt to crush rural unrest that sparked the civil war in the
first place, and virtually no one thinks there is a military
solution to the insurrection. "The government forces, under
the present policies, could win a couple of battles here and
there," writes analyst Romeet Kaul Watt in The Kashmir Tribune,
"but will never win the war."
The present war finds it roots in both
the ongoing poverty of a nation that is 85 percent rural, and
the failure of the government to institute land reform measures
following the restoration of representative government in 1990.
King Mahendra, father of the present
King, dismissed an elective government in 1960. He ruled until
his death in 1972, when his son, King Birendra, took over, and
eventually restored democracy. But when conditions did not improve
in rural areas, peasants began agitating against onerous rents.
The government responded by sending the military into the countryside---Operation
Romeo and Operation Kilo Sera II---that did little more than
radicalize poor farmers and recruit members for the CPNM.
The war, like most civil wars, has been
brutal. While most of the civilian deaths are attributed to government
forces, Amnesty International accuses both sides of "unlawful
criminal deaths." The CPNM has assassinated government supporters
and police, and occasionally bombed Kathmandu. The government
has "disappeared" opponents, razed villages, and executed
CPNM members and their supporters.
Over the past two years the Royal Nepal
Army has beefed itself up to 72,000, but it isn't large enough
to win a war against the CPNM's 4,000 core members and 15,000
or so militia supporters. In any case, most of the Army is concentrated
near the capital, Kathmandu.
However, with the recent influx of U.S.
M-16s, Belgium FAL submachine guns, and British helicopters,
the army has grown more aggressive, and death rates have climbed.
A government massacre of 19 villagers set off the latest round
of fighting. In the first month following the collapse of a seven-month
cease-fire, civilian deaths tripled. According to the Nepal human
rights group, Informal Sector Service Centre, 800 of the 1,100
deaths since the end of the cease fire have been inflicted by
government forces.
A major culprit in the escalating death
rate is the appearance of modern assault rifles, the real "Weapons
of Mass Destruction."
Since 1990, more than five million people
have died in wars around the globe, upwards of 90 percent of
them from AK-47s, M-16s, FALs, German G3s, and Israeli Uzis.
According the Red Cross, more than 60 percent of civilian casualties
are caused by submachine guns, and the United Nations Development
Program estimates that small arms kill 300,000 people a year.
Modern assault rifles are far more deadly
than the previous generations of weapons because they combine
rapid-fire power with high velocity ammunition. The combination
of "Rounds Per Minute" (RPM)-the AK-47 delivers 600
RPMs, the M-16 up to 950 RPMs---and the enormous speed of the
bullets, is a deadly one. Fatalities from wounds have skyrocketed,
particularly in places where medical care is primitive.
At $13.3 billion a year, the U.S. is
the number one arms dealer in the world, far ahead of the Russians
($5 billion) and the French ($1 billion). The bulk of that--$8.6
billion-goes to developing countries like Nepal.
Besides killing and wounding civilians,
these small but savage wars inflict enormous indirect damage.
Studies on Cambodian and Bosnian refugees by Richard F. Mollica,
a psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School, found that
more than two-thirds suffered from clinical depression and almost
40 percent from Post Traumatic Stress Disorders.
But efforts to curb the small arms trade
have met with stiff resistance. A recent proposal by Canada to
ban the sale of small arms to "non-state actors" was
derailed by the Americans, who have used such forces as an extension
of foreign policy in places like Afghanistan and Central America.
Our ally in this war hardly fits the
alleged aim of promoting democracy the Bush Administration talks
so much about. One of King Gyanendra's first acts was to dismiss
the elected government of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Dueba for
alleged "incompetence."
Kathmandu has been the focus of demands
for democracy and the reinstatement of parliament ever since,
including one demonstration that drew 8,000 in late December.
The Nepalese daily,Rajdhani, reported Jan. 25 that the five political
parties had thrown their support behind a growing student movement
demanding a republic. According to Rajdhani, "The parties
decided to support protests of women, labourers, farmers, intellectuals
and different professional organizations as well."
Krishna Sitaula, central committee member
of the Nepal Congress Party, warned that the attempt by the King
to impose an autocracy would backfire and hinted that the insurrection
in the countryside and the protests in the cities might have
common ground. "Right now, the country is moving towards
a republic," he said, adding,"Maoists will give up
violence and join us in the movement." Whether the CPNM
would actually do that is by no means clear.
The U.S. has once again aligned itself
with absolutism in its war on "terror," a war that
is not only costing Nepalese lives, but has wrecked the economy
and tanked the lucrative tourist trade. For the second year in
a row, the Nepalese economy shrank.
It is also heating up an area of the
world with explosive potential. Nepal borders both India and
China( Tibet). Both generally support the royalist forces, but
neither is too happy about the growing U.S. involvement.
According to the Asia Times, last summer
Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwai Sibal warned against "outside
assistance" to Nepal, and the Indian press is grumbling
about the U.S. ignoring a 1950 Friendship agreement---one that
greatly favored India---between New Delhi and Kathmandu. Publicly
India and China have soft-pedaled their opposition to U.S. intervention,
but if the war expands, it could spill over into both countries.
Tibet is restless under Peking's rule, and northern India has
a number of long-standing separatist movements.
According to the New York Times, the
U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) is exploring
ways to add another $14 million in "insurgency relevant"
aid to the $17 million in current U.S. military aid. AID was
one of the main funnels for the U.S. government's support for
the South Vietnamese regime
While it seems a stretch to compare Vietnam
to Nepal, replace "terrorism" with "Communism,"
and the parallels are disturbingly similar. In his book "In
Retrospect," former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
admitted that the U.S. was "wrong, terribly wrong,"
about Vietnam. He recently told Doug Saunders of the Globe &
Mail(Canada) pretty much the same thing about the U.S. in Iraq:"It's
just wrong what we're doing. It's morally wrong, it's politically
wrong, it's economically wrong."
One can only hope that 30 years from
now we don't read similar words about U.S. intervention in Nepal.
Conn Hallinan
is a provost at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He
can be reached at: connm@cats.ucsc.edu
Weekend
Edition Features for January 10 / 11, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Bush
as Hitler? Let's Be Fair
Susan Davis
Dangerous Books
Diane Christian
On Lying and Colin Powell
Lisa Viscidi
Exhumations: Unearthing Guatemala's Macabre Past
Daniel Estulin
Destroying History in Iraq
Saul Landau
Homeland Anxiety
Elaine Cassel
Who's Winning the War on Civil Liberties?
Bruce Jackson
Making the Shit List
Christopher Brauchli
Baptizing Hitler's Ghost
Francis A. Boyle
The Deep Scars of War
Lee Ballinger
Cold Sweat: Sweatshops and the Music Industry
Patrick W. Gavin
Hillary's Slur: Mrs. Lott?
Ramzy Baroud
What Invaders Have in Common
Michael Schwartz
Inside the California Grocery Strike
Gary Johnson
An Interview with Former Heavyweight Champ Greg Page
Dave Zirin
An Interview with Marvin Miller on Unions and Baseball
Mark Hand
A Review of Resistance: My Life for Lebanon
Poets' Basement
Thomas, Daley, Curtis, Guthrie and Albert
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