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August 28,
2004
Alexander Cockburn
Zombies
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August 27,
2004
Gary Leupp
Neocon
Musings
Robin Cook
The
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Diane Christian
Disarming
Michael Donnelly
Situational Democracy: the Show Me the Green Party?
Jack Random
4F and Other Heroes: an Army of War Resisters
Mike Ferner
"To the Swift Boats!"
Mazin Qumsiyeh
7000 Palestinian Political Prisoners
Veronza Bowers, Jr.
"You Won't Be Leaving Tomorrow"
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2004
M. Shahid Alam
The
Clash Thesis: a Failing Ideology?
Diane Christian
War
Rules: Bush is No Sun Tzu
Derek Seidman
"They're As Bad As Wal-Mart:" Starbucks Workers Get
Organized
David Lindorff
Court to RNC Protesters: Drop the Rally
Christopher
Brauchli
Signs of Dissent: the Bush in the Bubble
Stew Albert
Reporting Suspicious Activity
Mark Donham
Judgement in Athens: Give the Koreans Their Day in Court
Saul Landau
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August 25,
2004
Amelia Peltz
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I Have 9.8 Seconds of Your Time?
Noah Leavitt
Defining and Redefining Torture
Ron Jacobs
Takin' It to the Streets: It's Not About the Election, It's About
Democracy
James Brooks
Coronado Crosses the Jordan
Akiva Eldar
How to Win the Jewish Vote: Turn Gaza into a "Mini-Afghanistan"
Gemma Araneta
Chavez's New Brand of Populism
Philip Cryan
Uribe's Boys: the Death Squads of Colombia
CounterPunch Wire
Cheney Opens the Closet Door
August 24,
2004
Jeremy Scahill
John
Kerry: the Warchurian Candidate
Gary Leupp
"We
Want Them to Go Away"
David Domke
God
Willing: an Echoing Press and Political Fundamentalism
William Loren Katz
The Meaning of Hugo Chávez: Black and Indian Power in
Venezuela
Jonah Gindin
With Chavez? Reading the International Private Media
Fran Schor
Denying Atrocities: From Vietnam to Fallujah
Joe Bageant
Driving
on the Bones of God
Website of the Day
The Great America Lockdown: a Primer for the RNC
August 23,
2004
Winslow Wheeler
Don't
Mind If I Do: Porkbarrel and the War on Terror
John Pilger
Bush
May Be the Lesser Evil
Stan Goff
Swift
Boat Dogfight
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
Notes
from the West Bank: Build, Demolish, Rebuild
Mike Whitney
The Unraveling of Afghanistan
William Blum
Brave
New World of Iraqi Sovereignty
Ralph Nader
A Letter to the Washington Post: a Shameful and Unsavory Editorial
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22, 2004
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"They
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Drugs
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Failing
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Brian Cloughley
The
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Josh Frank
Nader as David Duke? The ADL Wants You to Think So
Mike Whitney
Reincarnating Mengele: the Torture Doctors of Abu Ghraib
Ron Jacobs
Day Labor Blues
Mickey Z.
Shooting at Whales: 40 Years After Tonkin
Fred Gardner
Dr. Wolman Comes Out: The Cannabis Consultants
Dave Zirin
Uprising in Athens: Iraqi Soccer Team Gives Bush the Boot
Josh Saxe
Witnessing Police Brutality in LA
Yanar Mohammed
Letter from Baghdad: a Democracy of Killings and Bombings
Helen Williams
Ali's Story: a Taste of Reality from Baghdad
Michael Donnelly
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Elizabeth Schulte
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Norman Finkelstein
Hitchens
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Steve Niva
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Weekend
Edition
August 28 / 29, 2004
An
Israeli Spy in the Pentagon?
Why
Would They Bother?
By
RAY HANANIA
When I heard that Israel had a man working
in the Pentagon as a spy, providing secret information to its
powerful lobbying arm in Washington, I was surprised.
Why does Israel need a spy
to steal secret information when it has several key people there
already who hold top positions and can share instead of steal
sensitive data?
Paul Wolfowitz? Richard Pearle?
Paul Bremer?
Didn't we invade Iraq in part
to satisfy the Israeli lobby that pressured the weakling administration
of President Bush?
Isn't American foreign policy
in the Middle East already pretty much directed by Israel's needs
and agenda?
If you say that, you are automatically
labeled anti-Semitic. That only puts you in the company of such
people at Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, most civil rights leaders
in the United States who advocate for Palestinian rights and
even the Pope who has been forced to say he's not sure if he
did or did not watch Mel Gibson's movie, "The Passion of
the Christ."
I haven't had time to watch
Gibson's film. I've been too busy wondering why the United States
is pursuing it's self-destructive and very pro-Israel foreign
policies in the Middle East?
This latest spying incident
-- given only superficial coverage in many pro-Israel American
newspapers -- supposedly involves an aide to a top deputy working
for Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense.
Normally, spies are immediately
identified and "outted," but not this aide.
But who needs to name him anyway?
There have been so many Israeli spies.
This "spy," though,
supposedly was providing Israel with sensitive information about
Iran's nuclear plant, which Israeli officials have threatened
to destroy in a bombing raid. The raids would no doubt rely on
American-made fighter jets, American-made missiles and American-trained
fighter pilots, strategies, maps and intelligence. Why would
they need a spy? Israel has often attacked its Arab neighbors,
destroying things it doesn't like but that it has, like nuclear
plants. Iraq has responded if Israel attacks its nuclear plant,
Iran will attack Israel's nuclear plant at Dimona. Israel's
Dimona nuclear facility "secretly" manufactures some
300 nuclear weapons that don't have to be inspected by the International
community because the United States says they don't have to be
not be inspected!
Another reason to wonder why
Israel needs to spy on this country.
The whole thing is absurd.
The fact is Israel's current
government has so much influence over America's current government
that it doesn't need to spy and steal information. It can just
ask for it, or just take it.
In fact, it could just change
American foreign policy and direct the Bush administration to
do Israel's dirty work, like we already did in Iraq.
Let's face it. As soon as Bush
was elected, his aides told him to ignore the Palestine-Israel
conflict, which was teetering on violent conflict but still could
have resumed peace talks, and instead concentrate elsewhere.
Former Presidents Jimmy Carter
and Bill Clinton both say Bush made a crucial mistake by walking
away from the Middle East peace process. But why rely on them
when you can get secret information from the Pentagon that would
bolster Israel's new government's right-wing policies?
You have to give the Israelis
credit. The way they brilliantly made it seem that America had
to attack and invade Iraq because that's where Osama Bin Laden
was hiding.
Too bad things like the real
terrorist threat continue to exist and Bin Laden, as everyone
else except in Washington and the Bush administration know, is
still hiding somewhere in Afghanistan where he continues to plot
major terrorist threats against the United States.
But why invade Afghanistan
and capture Bin Laden? He's too smart to plan attacks against
Israel.
Ray Hanania is a Palestinian American journalist
and columnist based in Chicago. His columns are archived on the
web at www.hanania.com.
Weekend
Edition Features for August 7 / 8, 2004
James Petras
The
Anatomy of "Terror Experts": Meet the Mandarins of
Abu Ghraib
Fred Gardner
Run
Ricky Run: Football, Pot and Pain
Justin Delacour
Anti-Chavez Pollsters Panic: Fix Numbers; Reinvent Venezuela
Brian Cloughley
Persecuted by All; Supported by None: Who Would Be A Kurd?
Joshua Frank
The
Outsider: a Talk with Ralph Nader
Iain A. Boal
On "Shame": Warmed-Over Orientalism and Racist Projection
Chris Floyd
All About Eve: Open Season on Women in DC and Rome
Andrew Fenton
Fighting for Democracy and Justice in Haiti
Aseem Shrivastava
Saga of an Anguished Afghan
Neil Corbett
See Cuba: Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar, Mr. Bush
Carol Miller
/ Forrest Hill
Rigged Convention; Divided Party: How David Cobb Won with Only
12% of the Vote
Tarek Milleron
Breaking the Principled Voter
Donald Macintyre
The
Battle of Najaf
Ron Jacobs
Spirits of The Dead: Why I Love My Petty Bourgeois Tendencies
Mickey Z.
Kid
Gavilan's Grave: Propaganda Scores a TKO
Poets' Basement
Adler, Ford and Albert
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