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The War So Far: a Failure Worse Than Vietnam by Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad "The need for the White House to produce a fantasy picture of Iraq is because it dare not admit that it has engineered one of the greatest disasters in American history. It is worse than Vietnam because the enemy is punier and the original ambitions greater." Get the answers you're looking for in the subscriber-only edition of CounterPunch ... CounterPunch Online is read by millions of viewers each month! But remember, we are funded solely by the subscribers to the print edition of CounterPunch. Please support this website by buying a subscription to our newsletter, which contains fresh material you won't find anywhere else, or by making a donation for the online edition. Remember contributions are tax-deductible. Click here to make a donation. If you find our site useful please: Subscribe Now! or write CounterPunch, PO BOX 228, Petrolia, CA 95558 |
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October 29 / 30, 2005 Cockburn /
St. Clair Peter Linebaugh Tim Wise John Chuckman Brian Cloughley M. Shahid Alam Nikki Robinson Ralph Nader Joe DeRaymond Fred Gardner Michael Dickinson Dr. Susan Block
October 28, 2005 Jared Bernstein Virginia Tilley Phil Gasper Jennifer Matsui Manual Garcia,
Jr. Monica Benderman Jason Leopold Dave Lindorff
Saul Landau Stuart Hodkinson Ingmar Lee Lila Rajiva Ilan Pappe Niranjan Ramakrishnan Michael Donnelly Ron Jacobs Cockburn / St. Clair
October 26, 2005 Kathy Kelly Gary Leupp Mike Marqusee Eric Ruder Patrick Cockburn Joshua Frank J.L. Chestnut, Jr. Website of
the Day
October 25, 2005 Paul Craig
Roberts Ken Sengupta / Patrick Cockburn Conn Hallinan Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Jackie Corr Robert Day John Sugg
October 24, 2005 Dave Lindorff Michael Donnelly Patrick Cockburn Mike Whitney Norman Solomon Bill and Kathleen
Christison
October 22 / 23, 2005 Alexander Cockburn Billy Sothern Saul Landau Ralph Nader Behrooz Ghamari Brian Cloughley Diana Barahona Fred Gardner Lee Sustar Patrick Cockburn Laura Carlsen James Petras Joshua Frank Manuel Garcia,
Jr. Michelle Bollinger Missy Comley
Beattie Kona Lowell Ben Tripp Jeffrey St. Clair Poets' Basement Website of
the Day
October 21, 2005 Dave Lindorff Winslow T. Wheeler Col. Dan Smith Norman Solomon Madis Senner Michael Donnelly
Dave Lindorff Ray McGovern Jeremy Brecher
/ Patrick Cockburn Kevin Zeese Ross Eisenbrey Randy Shields Justine Davidson After Lucas
Cranach Joe Allen
October 19, 2005 Christopher Reed Stephen Soldz Chet Richards Patrick Cockburn Scott Richard
Lyons Ralph Nader Website of
the Day
October 18, 2005 Chet Flippo Ron Jacobs Keeanga-Yamahtta
Taylor Dave Lindorff Virginia Rodino Thomas Healy Ralph Nader Stephen Lendman Patrick Cockburn
October 17, 2005 Peter Linebaugh Norman Solomon Cockburn /
Sengupta Mike Whitney Uri Avnery Harold Pinter Website of
the Day
October 15 / 16, 2005 Alexander Cockburn Patrick Cockburn Saul Landau Neve Gordon Moshe Adler Christopher Brauchli Diane Farsetta Sam Husseini Monica Benderman Mickey Z. Douglas C.
Smyth Lee Sustar Fred Gardner Elizabeth Schulte Joshua Frank David Vest Ben Tripp Poets Basement Website of
the Weekend
October 14, 2005 Farrah Hassen Ron Jacobs Sasha Kramer Katrina Yeaw Nicole Colson Raúl Zibechi Nikolas Kozloff Website of the Day
Jeremy Scahill Jeff Birkenstein Brendan Smith / Jeremy Brecher Stan Cox Anis Memon Gary Leupp Dave Zirin Matthew Koehler Werther Website of
the Day
Omar Waraich William Cook Phil Gasper Dave Lindorff Matt Vidal John Gautreaux Diana Johnstone Mark Weisbrot Brian J. Foley Website of
the Day
October 11, 2005 Roger Morris
/ Steve Schmidt Lila Rajiva Bill Quigley Paul Craig Roberts Dave Lindorff Dr. Teresa Whitehurst Mitchel Cohen Tariq Ali Website of
the Day
October 10, 2005 Cindy and Craig
Corrie Joshua Frank Gideon Levy Alan Wallis Mickey Z. CounterPunch News Service Paul Craig
Roberts Website of the Day
October 8 / 9, 2005 Alexander Cockburn Ralph Nader Jennifer Van Bergen Saul Landau Jeff Halper Lenni Brenner Nikolas Kozloff Brian Cloughley Alice Slater John Gautreaux Fred Gardner Niranjan Ramakrishnan M.G. Piety Tom Gorman Mike Whitney Aseem Shrivastava Ben Tripp Poets' Basement
October 7, 2005 Larry Johnson Will Youmans Dave Lindorff Judith Scherr Russell D. Hoffman Jared Bernstein Jennifer Van
Bergen Website of
the Day
P. Sainath Scott Parkin Paul Craig
Roberts Andréa Schmidt Dave Lindorff Joshua Frank M. Junaid Alam Matthew Koehler Robert Pollin
October 5, 2005 Heather Gray Robert Jensen Ramzy Baroud Col. Dan Smith Dave Zirin Paul Craig Roberts Alan Maass
October 4, 2005 Nikolas Kozloff Mike Roselle Joshua Frank John Chuckman Alan Farago Mickey Z. Christine & Ethan Rose Gary Leupp Website of the Day
October 3, 2005 Vijay Prashad Paul Craig
Roberts Joshua Frank Seth Sandronsky Jeffrey St. Clair
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Weekend Edition "What the Fuck Am I Supposed to Do?"Autumn in AmericaBy RON JACOBS Let's see. Two thousand plus US dead. Tens of thousands of Iraqis dead. one hundred and sixty-one thousand troops now in Iraq--more than ever. Troops continue to kick in doors of civilian homes. US troops taking over civilian homes in Iraq much like the British did to the colonists in the original thirteen colonies. A constitution written by US policy makers passes muster in Iraq after some very curious manipulation of polling places and vote counts. Lawyers for Saddam Hussein fear for their lives after a member of the defense team is murdered. Government death squads composed of Shia and Kurdish militia men who have thrown their lot in with the US fight with Sunni insurgents and murder them in their sleep. In Syria and Lebanon, questionable witnesses known for their Chalabi-like conniving provide the bulk of the evidence in the United Nation's investigation of the murder of Lebanese businessman al-Hariri. The charges against Damascus lead to calls for regime change. Of course, the fact that Washington routinely murders foreign leaders and their constituents without answering to anyone goes unmentioned. Underlying the whole drama is the reality of that oil and who will control it in the coming decades. The US press pretends that the involvement of some Sunni insurgent groups and the al-Sadr rebel movement in the upcoming election is an indication that the resistance is putting down its arms, when any student of guerrilla war knows very well that a political front is just another aspect of guerrilla strategy. Afghanistan continues to be a problem for Washington, with more US dead there this year than any other year since the troops went in back in 2001. Civil liberties attorney Lynne Stewart's appeal to get her conviction thrown out in part because jurors were threatened by the government fails, despite the fact that the charges were the result of her doing her job. The appeals judge disagreed with that contention, stating that her conversations with her client were not covered by the First Amendment. Big energy corporations release their 2005 fall quarter earnings, revealing that they are the biggest ever in their history. Yet, victims of the hurricanes in Louisiana and Texas are kicked out of their temporary homes because the government hasn't released any funds to help pay the transient housing costs. Of course, the energy companies have already begun their rebuilding efforts--efforts funded by US taxpayers. Oh yeah, here's a little more on those rebuilding funds--the House Republicans (probably with some unspoken Democratic support) voted to obtain the emergency funds by cutting student loan subsidies and child support enforcement funds, and intend to cut food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid before they are through. Like Representative Obey of Wisconsin said: "They are targeting programs for poor people to pay for tax cuts for rich people." (CNN 10/28/2005) In Iran, the new president calls for Israel to be wiped off the map and the west cries foul. While this statement is given more importance than it deserves, Israel continues its military campaign to wipe the nation of Palestine off the map and out of the world's consciousness. Rosa Parks, one of the heroes in the struggle against US apartheid, is lying in state in the Capitol rotunda--a place she was never very welcome when she was alive. The fight against institutional racism that she helped spark finds its target ever more obscured while at the same time more insidious. Witness the response to the destruction of people's lives in Louisiana and Mississippi from the hurricanes for confirmation. When the president finally set his feet on the ground in the stricken area, the first destroyed house he talked about was the mansion owned by that proud Son of the Confederacy, Trent Lott. You know the guy--he's the one who said out loud what many crackers just think: that the US would be a better place if overt racists had won the elections back in the middle part of the last century. Then Rosa Parks wouldn't be lying in state in the white man's capitol building. Speaking of protesters; there's some veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan adventures who attends Kent State University. Yeah, that Kent State--the one where four students were killed for protesting the US invasion of Cambodia back in 1970. That was a watershed--white college kids getting killed by the troops. Anyhow, this veteran got busted at a protest against military recruiters on the Kent State campus and now the university administration wants to expel him from the school. His offense? Climbing the rock wall that the military recruiters brought to campus in an attempt to lure young men and women into joining the army of one. Honor the veterans unless they tell the truth about the war? Long may it wave. Oh yeah, there's also this guy named Jose Padilla who's been in solitary confinement for three years in a federal prison. That in itself isn't too unusual in this prison nation, but the fact that he has never been charged with anything is. He's joined, of course, by several hundred (if not thousand) non-US citizens in other jails maintained by Washington around the world. These prisoners don't even begin to match the numbers stuck inside of prisons in the US. Some are in for violent crimes, some are in for money crimes, and some are in for using drugs. Then there are those who are being detained merely because their papers are not in order or because they don't have any papers that "allow" them to be in the US legally. Yet, somehow you get the feeling that these aforementioned prisoners have already done more time than any crook with friends in the White House will ever do. Yeah, I'm talking about DeLay and Scooter Libby, just for starters. I won't even go into the possibility of the war criminals in Washington getting their day in the world court. Like the hiphop poet KRS-One once said: "What the fuck am I supposed to do?" Ron Jacobs is author of The Way the Wind Blew: a history of the Weather Underground, which is just republished by Verso. Jacobs' essay on Big Bill Broonzy is featured in CounterPunch's new collection on music, art and sex, Serpents in the Garden. He can be reached at: rjacobs3625@charter.net
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