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Read Cockburn and St. Clair's Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press and discover how the CIA gave a helping hand to the opium lords who took over Afghanistan, thus ushering the Taliban into power and helping to finance Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.


CounterPunch: Complete Coverage of 9/11 and the War on Afghanistan

October 22, 2001

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Capital Strikes Back

October 21, 2001

Donald Rumsfeld
The al-Jazeera Interview

Mark Scaramella
Nuclear Anxiety

October 19, 2001

Mohammed Sid-Ahmed
Bush's Palestinian State

Michael Colby
A Mailroom Manifesto

October 18, 2001

Mahajan and Jensen
Avoiding a New Cold War

Patrick Cockburn
US Planes Pound Taliban

Jamey Hecht
Gerald Ford and the CIA

Mokhiber and Weisman
3 Arguments
Against This War

October 17, 2001

Ballinger and Marsh
Music and War Resistance

Steve Perry
The Anthrax Chronicles

Chris Kromm
Operation Infinite Disaster

Susan Block
Sex Not Bombs

David Vest
Osama Speaks

October 16, 2001

Steve Perry
War Without Frontiers

Douglas Valentine
The CIA and Anthrax

Patrick Cockburn
The Battle of Mazar-i-Sharif

John Troyer
Return to Normal?

Moji Agha
A Jihad Against Ignorance

October 15, 2001

Tariq Ali
Alternatives to War

John Pilger
War American Style

Umberto Eco
The Roots of Conflict

Marwan Bishara
Clash of Civilizations? Hardly

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By Alexander Cockburn
and Jeffrey St. Clair
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Ashcroft's Onslaught on
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Ridge Long Groomed for
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Those CIA Killing Bids
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The Not-So-Great
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Crop Duster Ban
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Madeleine Albright's
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How the Bin Laden Women
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A Word About God

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October 22, 2001

The New Newspeak

By Hamit Dardagan

Humanitarian assistance=We bomb you. (Have a nice day.)

Restraint=We bomb you when we are good and ready.

The War Against Terrorism (TWAT)=Terrorism Against The Afghans (TATA)

Our vengeance=Retribution

Their vengeance=Vengeance

Our hatred=Justifiable anger

Their hatred=Insanity

Our violence=We are not responsible for it, they are.

Their violence=We are not responsible for it, they are.

Expressing the view that America should be capable of conduct less vicious than the terrorists'=Anti-Americanism

Expressing the view that America should be capable of conduct more vicious than the terrorists'=Pro-Americanism

Anthrax=No joking matter

AC-130 Gunships=Puff The Magic Dragon

Enduring Freedom=What Afghans do

Bombing with "High Jack This Fags" as bomb-casing graffiti=So offensive to our fellow human beings that we must take all protest about it seriously

Bombing with bombs free of graffiti=So beneficial to our fellow human beings that we can ignore, dismiss or belittle all protest about it (the protestors are in a minority, after all)

When we murder children=1001 Excuses

When they murder children=There is no excuse on Earth for harming, let alone brutally ending, innocent lives

Famine relief agencies=Organizations with questionable agendas and strange methods

Bombing the starving=Ending hunger

Bombing the poor=Ending poverty

Bombing the oppressed=Freeing them

Bombing men armed with rifles=Demonstrating our Air Supremacy

Bombing women=Demonstrating our commitment to feminism

Bombing children=Demonstrating our commitment to the future

Bombing the freezing=Warming them up

Bombing=Our answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

Not bombing=Doing nothing