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Today's
Stories
November 1,
2005
Bill Quigley
Why
Are They Making New Orleans a Ghost Town?
October 31,
2005
Elaine Cassel
Libby's
Lies
Mark Weisbrot
Pop Goes the Bubble: Bernancke and the Fed
Mike Whitney
Carry On, Patrick Fitzgerald
Norman Solomon
After the Libby Indictment, the Press Acquits Itself
Farooq Sulehria
Trading Weapons While Kashmir Burns
Nicole Colson
Scapegoating Immigrants
Madis Senner
Dhafir Sentenced to 22 Years: Another Erosion of Civil Rights
Paul Craig
Roberts
Scooter
and the Neocons
October 29 / 30, 2005
Cockburn /
St. Clair
The
Libby Indictment: Gotterdammerung for the Bushies?
Peter Linebaugh
The
Wedges of Hephaestus
Tim Wise
Framing the Poor: Katrina, Conservative Myth-Making and the Media
John Chuckman
Bushspeak: Dark and Garbled Words
Steven Higgs
Green Hoosiers: Forging a New Democracy in the Heartland
Brian Cloughley
The Fifth Afghan War
M. Shahid Alam
Israel and the Consequences of Uniqueness
Nikki Robinson
Crack Down at Kent State
Ralph Nader
Let the PIRGs Begin!: Student Activism Thrives
Joe DeRaymond
Requiem for Bethlehem Steel?
Joshua Frank
Karl's Great Escape: Did Rove Rat on Scooter?
Laura Santina
Tongue-Tied on Iraq: Why Aren't the Dems Screaming Bloody Murder?
Fred Gardner
Death of an Organizer
Michael Dickinson
Insult Your Country
Ron Jacobs
Autumn in America
Dr. Susan Block
Fear and Sex: a Halloween Greeting
Vanessa S. Jones
Self-Portrait, 1994. Bronte Beach
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement
Marbet, Gardner, Ford, Albert, Engel, Krieger & St. Clair
Website of
the Weekend
Red State Update
October 28,
2005
Jared Bernstein
Inflation
Up; Wages Down: Fastest Decline in Wages on Record
Virginia Tilley
Embracing
the Anti-Aparthied Movement in Israel/Palestine
Phil Gasper
The
Race to Execute Tookie Williams
Jennifer Matsui
It's Mardi Graft Time!
Manual Garcia,
Jr.
Is the US Really Against Torture?
Monica Benderman
In the Name of Justice
Jason Leopold
Fitzgerald
Focuses on the Forgeries
Dave Lindorff
Suddenly, Bush Endorses Right of Fair Trials
Otober 27, 2005
Saul Landau
The
Scandal Isn't the Leak, But the Illegal War
Stuart Hodkinson
Bono
and Geldoff: "We Saved Africa" Oh No, They Didn't!
Ingmar Lee
Stop
the Troops!: No Glory or Honor in Iraq
Lila Rajiva
License
to Bill: Gates Does India
Ilan Pappe
The
Last Moment of Hope
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Waiting for Fitzgerald
Michael Donnelly
Look Who's Talking Now: the GOP on Perjury
Ron Jacobs
Escape the Weight of Your Corporate Logo
Cockburn / St. Clair
White House in Meltdown
October 26,
2005
Kathy Kelly
For
Whom They Toll
Gary Leupp
Dialectics
of the Plame Affair
Mike Marqusee
Empire of Denial
Eric Ruder
War Crimes in Afghanistan
Patrick Cockburn
Iraq: a Constitutionally Divided Nation
Joshua Frank
Fitzgerald v. the Bushies: Hold Your Elation in Check
J.L. Chestnut, Jr.
The Legacy of Rosa Parks
Website of
the Day
Decent Work in America: the 2005 Work Environment Index
October 25,
2005
Paul Craig
Roberts
Condi
and Syrian Regime Change: Could Somebody Recommend a President?
Ken Sengupta / Patrick Cockburn
Attack on the Palestine Hotel
Conn Hallinan
Sleight of Hand: Iran, India and the US
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Pulling the Court Strings
Jackie Corr
Barbara Bush: Poster Gorgon of the Houston Astros
Robert Day
Talk to Strangers
John Sugg
Judith
Miller and Me
October 24,
2005
Dave Lindorff
Revoke
Judy Miller's Pulitzer
Michael Donnelly
Shades of Iran/contra
Patrick Cockburn
A Nation Stands on Trial
Mike Whitney
Apres Rove
Norman Solomon
Iraq is Not Vietnam, But...
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
US
Foreign Policy and Palestine
October 22
/ 23, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
When
Divas Collide: Maureen Dowd v. Judy Miller
Billy Sothern
Letter
from the Circle Bar, New Orleans
Saul Landau
Bush, an Assessment
Ralph Nader
An
Open Letter to Bush on Harriet Miers
Behrooz Ghamari
Whose Justice Does Saddam's Trial Serve?
Brian Cloughley
Bush the Strategist: Pyrrhus Without a Victory?
Diana Barahona
Venezuela's National Workers' Union
Fred Gardner
Dershowitzed!
Lee Sustar
What the War on Terror is Really About
Patrick Cockburn
Murder of Saddam Trial Defense Lawyer
Laura Carlsen
Mexico City Seamstresses Recall 1985 Quake
James Petras
China Bashing and the Loss of US Competitiveness
Joshua Frank
Invading Iran: Who is to Stop Them?
Manuel Garcia,
Jr.
Disasters are Us
Michelle Bollinger
When Abortion Was Illegal
Missy Comley
Beattie
CSI: Iraq
Kona Lowell
Intelligent Design: Making High School Fun
Ben Tripp
Tanks for the Memories
Jeffrey St. Clair
Playlist: What I'm Listening To This Week
Poets' Basement
Albert and Engel
Website of
the Day
Indictment Watch
October 21,
2005
Dave Lindorff
The
Democrats' Abortion Hypocrisy
Winslow T. Wheeler
Paying for Their Mistakes: Incompetence, Deception and the Defense
Budget
Col. Dan Smith
The Destruction of the National Guard
Norman Solomon
Media at Crossroads: 25 Years After Reagan's Triumph
Madis Senner
Abusing Katrina
Michael Donnelly
Richard
Pombo: DeLay in Cowboy Boots
October 20, 2005
Dave Lindorff
Impeachment
Comes to NYC
Ray McGovern
16
Fatal Words: Cheney's Chickens Come Home to Roost
Jeremy Brecher
/
Brendan Smith
Attack Syria? Invade Iran?: By What Constitutional Right?
Patrick Cockburn
Saddam Refuses to Recognize Court
Kevin Zeese
Was the Iraqi Constitution Vote Fixed?
Ross Eisenbrey
Millions Would Lose Pay and Protections Under Enzi Amendment
Randy Shields
James McMurtry Makes It in Dayton
Justine Davidson
Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture: a Small Victory
After Lucas
Cranach
Judy and Holofernes
Joe Allen
The
Scandalous History of the Red Cross
October 19,
2005
Christopher Reed
Koizumi and the Rape of Nanking
Stephen Soldz
Bush
and Avian Flu: the Excuses Begin to Fly
Chet Richards
War
and Intelligence
Patrick Cockburn
Saddam on Trial
Scott Richard
Lyons
Multicultural
Columbus?
Ralph Nader
An Interview with Rev. William Sloane Coffin
Website of
the Day
Shocking Video: Why Birds May Be Taking Viral Vengeance on Humans
October 18,
2005
Chet Flippo
Merle
Haggard: "Let's Get Out of Iraq"
Ron Jacobs
Dual Devotions: the Catholic Church and the US Flag
Keeanga-Yamahtta
Taylor
A Tale of Two Cities: From DC to Toledo
Dave Lindorff
Judy Miller: Little Miss Run Amok
Virginia Rodino
A Winter Patriot: Reflections on the Antiwar Movement
Thomas Healy
The Weather in Goshen: Still Radical After All These Years
Ralph Nader
A New New Orleans
Stephen Lendman
The Sorrows of Haiti
Patrick Cockburn
On the Eve of Saddam's Trial: a Divided Iraq
October 17,
2005
Peter Linebaugh
Spinoza
and the Black Limos
Norman Solomon
Judith Miller, the Fourth Estate and the Warfare State
Cockburn /
Sengupta
"If
the Sunnis Don't Like It, That's Their Problem"
Mike Whitney
Miller's Confession: Last Gasp Before Indictments?
Uri Avnery
Iraq Now: What Awaits Samira?
Harold Pinter
Torture & Misery in the Name of Freedom
Website of
the Day
Al Joudi v. Bush
October 15
/ 16, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Ayatollahs
of the Apocalypse
Patrick Cockburn
"This Constitution Won't Get Me a Job"
Saul Landau
Two Terrorists and a Lush: Osama, Posada and Bush's Drinking
Neve Gordon
"Beyond Chutzpah": Exposing Grave Moral Distortions
Moshe Adler
Poverty in New York City
Christopher Brauchli
Lynndie England's Burden
Diane Farsetta
The Emperor Doesn't Disclose: the Fight Against Fake News
Sam Husseini
Notes on Current Reporting About Judith Miller
Monica Benderman
From Chaos to Conscience to Peace
Mickey Z.
POW Abuse by US: Nothing New Going On Here
Douglas C.
Smyth
George W. Bush, the Honorius of Our Time
Lee Sustar
Will Delphi Bust the UAW?
Fred Gardner
Cannabinoids Arrive in Realm of Established Fact
Elizabeth Schulte
A Former Panther's Georgia Campaign: an Interview with Elaine
Brown
Joshua Frank
Will the Democrats Save Harriet Miers?
David Vest
Down with Formalism! Up with Values!
Ben Tripp
Epistle II: the Reawakenign
Poets Basement
Engel, Albert, Ford and Louise
Website of
the Weekend
The
Hidden Canyon
October 14,
2005
Farrah Hassen
A
Somber Ramadan in Syria
Ron Jacobs
The
Black Panthers: They Haven't Forgotten; Neither Should We
Sasha Kramer
USAID
and Haiti: the Friendly Face of Imperialism?
Katrina Yeaw
The Student Struggle in Italy
Nicole Colson
Bird Flu: Militarizing Health Care
Raúl Zibechi
Survival and Existence in El Alto
Nikolas Kozloff
Hugo
Chávez and the Politics of Race
Website of the Day
LA Filmmakers Cooperative
October 13, 2005
Jeremy Scahill
Mr.
Bush Goes to Tikrit (Sort Of)
Jeff Birkenstein
A
Thoreau for Our Time: Why Cindy Sheehan Matters
Brendan Smith / Jeremy Brecher
Harriet Miers: Bush or the Constitution?
Stan Cox
Did You Know This About Iraq?
Anis Memon
The Curious Case of Russ Feingold
Gary Leupp
Miller, Libby and the June Notes
Dave Zirin
A Tribute to August Wilson
Matthew Koehler
America's Endangered Forests
Werther
The
Two-Headed Monster
Website of
the Day
Hurricane Song
October 12, 2005
Omar Waraich
Britain
and the Quake: Mean and Stingy
William Cook
Voices
Behind the Entombment Wall
Phil Gasper
Countdown
to a Legal Lynching
Dave Lindorff
Impeachment Now and Then: Clinton, Bush and the Polls
Matt Vidal
Capital, Power and Class
John Gautreaux
New Orleans will Never be the Same
Diana Johnstone
Srebrenica
Revisited: Using War as an Excuse for War
Mark Weisbrot
The IMF Has Lost Its Influence
Brian J. Foley
Gitmo Tribunals Endanger Public Safety
Website of
the Day
Columbus Day Lies
October 11,
2005
Roger Morris
/ Steve Schmidt
Strategic
Demands of the 21st Century
Lila Rajiva
Live from New Orleans: Abu Ghraib
Bill Quigley
New
Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again
Paul Craig Roberts
Natural Born Liars
Dave Lindorff
Recruiters in Schools: No Lie Left Untried
Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
Suspect Thy Neighbor
Mitchel Cohen
Showdown at Chuck E. Cheese
Tariq Ali
Pakistan will Never Forget This Horror
Website of
the Day
L'Heure Americaine
October 10,
2005
Cindy and Craig
Corrie
Rachel's
Words Live
Joshua Frank
Washington's War Dems
Gideon Levy
The Beautiful Life Without Arafat
Alan Wallis
The Fight for Free Speech at Union Square
Mickey Z.
In Defense of Liars
CounterPunch News Service
Vermont Independence Convention
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
Police State is Closer Than You Think
Website of the Day
Dylan's Chronicles
October 8 /
9, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Rhetoric
and Reality in the Business of Getting Rid of Black People
Ralph Nader
Katrina
and the Growls of Greed
Jennifer Van Bergen
New American Law: Legal Strategies in the Dharfir Case
Saul Landau
An Oily Religious Dream
Jeff Halper
Setting Up Abbas
Lenni Brenner
The Millions More Movement and Zionism
Nikolas Kozloff
Bird Flu and Bush
Brian Cloughley
Training Soldiers in Iraq
Alice Slater
A Nobel Prize for Chernobyl?
John Gautreaux
A View from Cajun Country
Fred Gardner
Does the Controlled Substances Act Mean What It Says?
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Leveethan Approach
M.G. Piety
Rot in the Ivory Tower: Collusion, Cover-Up and Kierkegaard
Tom Gorman
The Hitchens Doctrine
Mike Whitney
Bunker Days with George
Aseem Shrivastava
Beyond the Wasteland: Lessons from Afghanistan
Ben Tripp
Religion, an Epistle
Poets' Basement
Albert, Engel and Ford
October 7,
2005
Larry Johnson
The
Plame Case: the Real Issues
Will Youmans
Why
Do We Hate Our Freedom? Recruiters and Thugs on Campus
Dave Lindorff
Bird Flu: Evolution or Intelligent Design?
Judith Scherr
Haiti's Children's Prison
Russell D. Hoffman
Nukes for Peace, Revisited?: Nobel Prize Debacle
Jared Bernstein
Katrina and Jobs
Jennifer Van
Bergen
New
American Law: the Case of Dr. Dhafir
Website of
the Day
FBI Witchhunt
October 6, 2005
P. Sainath
"Take
That, Tom Friedman": Indian Masses Reject NYT's Neoliberal
Idol Again
Scott Parkin
When Antiwar Activists Get Mugged
Paul Craig
Roberts
Blundering
into Syria
Andréa Schmidt
Haiti's Biometric Elections: a High-Tech Experiment in Exclusion
Dave Lindorff
Easy
Money in the Big Easy
Joshua Frank
In Defense of Lew Rockwell
M. Junaid Alam
Jackboots at George Mason
Matthew Koehler
Cock and Bull on the Bitterroot
Robert Pollin
Is
the Dollar Still Falling?
October 5,
2005
Heather Gray
Militarization is Not an Answer for
Reconstruction: the Case of the Philippines
Robert Jensen
Is
Bush a Racist?
Ramzy Baroud
Bush's Final Choice: America or
the Empire
Col. Dan Smith
Keeping Promises to Iraq: "Everything
is Bad"
Dave Zirin
Barry
Bonds Laughs Last
Paul Craig Roberts
Liberal Guilt? How the Neocons
Took Over
Alan Maass
Doing
the Right Wing's Dirty Work
October 4, 2005
Nikolas Kozloff
Shocking the Two Party System:
a Political Opportunity for Sheehan and the Antiwar Mvt.
Mike Roselle
Houston,
You've Got a Problem
Joshua Frank
The Scoop on Harriet Miers
John Chuckman
War
Porn: What the Gruesome Images Say
Alan Farago
Storm Warning for Jeb: Developers,
Hurricanes and the Keys
Mickey Z.
An
Interview with Thaddeus Rutkowski
Christine & Ethan Rose
Home Depot Exploits Hurricane Victims
Gary Leupp
An
Earlier Empire's War on Iraq: a Lesson from Roman History
Website of the Day
Rodney
Crowell on Bob Dylan
October 3,
2005
Vijay Prashad
Desperation at Holyoke
Paul Craig
Roberts
Condi
Rice: Gunslinger
Joshua Frank
An Interview with Cindy Sheehan
Seth Sandronsky
The
Hiring Crisis for Black Teens
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Great Green Scare

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November 1, 2005
An
Interview with Kent State's Dave Airhart
"I was in the
Marine Corps Infantry. I Learned Absolutely Nothing of Value
in the Rest of the World."
By RON JACOBS
Last
week, military recruiters set up a climbing wall and information
table at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. The local student
antiwar organization, the Kent State Antiwar Committee (KSAWC),
which is part of the Campus Antiwar Network (CAN), called for
a protest against the presence of the recruiters. To understand
what happened next, I will quote from the KSAWC press release
that was published in Counterpunch and elsewhere after the protest.
IRAQ WAR veteran and Kent State
student, Dave Airhart, is under attack for opposing the war he
considers "unjust" and attempting to stop any more
students from being used as "cannon fodder." On October
19, the Kent State Anti-War Committee (KSAWC) stood around the
Army recruiters, who had brought a rock-climbing wall to entice
students over to talk with them. A member of KSAWC and former
Afghanistan and Iraq War veteran, David Airhart decided to show
his opposition against the war by exercising his rights of free
speech. After filling out liability forms Airhart climbed the
rock wall.
Once he reached the top he
took out a banner, which he held under his jacket, and draped
it over the wall. The banner read: Kent, Ohio for Peace.
Airhart was forced to climb
down the back of the wall because a recruiter was coming up the
front, yelling at him. As he was climbing down another recruiter
came up the back and proceeded to assault Airhart both verbally
and physically by pulling his shirt, forcing him off the wall.
Airhart was fined $105. by city police for disorderly conduct
and told that he will have to go to judicial affairs at the university
where he will face probation or expulsion
I contacted David a day or
two after he was cited and asked him for an interview. He agreed
immediately.
Ron: To begin with, were you surprised at the apparent
vehemence of the university's response to your action?
David: Yes. I figured that they would be more understanding
in the fact that I was using my freedom of speech to illustrate
KSWAC's opposition to the war.
Ron: What is your current status with the university
and the Kent authorities?
David: I have paid my fine with the Kent City Police.
There is a Judicial Affairs hearing for my case on Nov. 8, at
1:30pm.
Ron: Have they backed off from their threats to
expel you?
David: It is still a possibility that I will be banned
from campus indefinitely, or expelled.
Ron: Oh yeah, what are you studying?
David: I am studying cultural anthropology.
Ron: Let's go back to your military service. Why did
you join the service in the first place?
David: I watched too many war movies, and I had an
overly romanticized view of
what combat might be like.
Ron: What branch were you in and did you have any
special training?
David: I was in the Marine Corps Infantry. I learned
absolutely nothing of value in the rest of the world. I learned
how to shoot guns and how to get yelled at a lot.
Ron: Jump school? Medic?
David: Nope.
Ron: I see that you served in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
How long were you in both places?
David: I was in Afghanistan for 7 months , starting
Christmas day of 2003, and in Iraq for 6 months, starting at
the beginning of the war in March 2003.
Ron: Did you do more than one tour either place?
David: No.
Ron: What was a typical week like in country?
David: In Iraq: Mostly doing vehicle check points where
we would search vehicles for weapons. We also patrolled cities
such as An-Nasiriyah. We searched homes. We would knock on the
door. If nobody answered, we would break through the door.
We would throw all of their stuff around looking for munitions
and stuff to make bombs with.
In Afghanistan: We didn't
do much, we just guarded various prisons and manned watchtowers.
I spent most of my time with a psychiatrist at this time, mostly
to get out of doing stuff.
Ron: What was your impression of the Afghani and
Iraqi people?
David: Most of the people that I met were really friendly.
They seemed scared, anticipating the worst. The ones I met
were cooperative.
Ron: Did it change as you spent more time in their
countries?
David: No, not really.
Ron: Now, the big question. What made you decide
to oppose the US wars in these countries?
David: Mostly personal reasons. Like the fact that
most of the dead bodies that I saw were women and children, innocent
civilians. Also, most of my friends that were killed were killed
by friendly fire from close air support. It is obvious that
there is some hidden agenda behind Bush's motivation for going
to war in Iraq, because they had nothing to do with the 9-11
attacks, and there were no weapons of mass destruction. We should
know the real reasons that we are fighting and dying over there.
At the very least, we should know that, be it a good or bad
reason, it is important that we know why. If it is that crucial
that it stays a secret, it is probably too crooked to be worth
fighting for anyway.
Ron: Was there any one incident that you were involved
in or heard about that
made you decide to speak out?
David: Mostly all the murders of innocent civilians.
I guess, the different fliers and anti-war groups at Kent that
appealed to me.
Ron: I'm fifty years old and the name Kent State
has a huge emotional attachment to it, because of the murders
that happened there on May 4, 1970. When those students were
killed by the National Guard that day I was living in Frankfurt,
Germany. My dad had been stationed there since March of that
year, right after he came back from Vietnam. A bunch of us students
at the high school and junior high on base protested the whole
thing. We were joined by GIs and Germans, who protested the
invasion of Cambodia and the murders at Kent (and later that
month at Jackson State in Mississippi) in their own way. Does
the history of protest at Kent State influence your group's organizing?
David: Absolutely. We feel that since we are at Kent
State and have such a history of anti-war activity, we get a
lot of media attention whenever we have a protest or anti-war
action. We try to use that to our advantage. Unfortunately,
the amount of active anti-war protesters at Kent is very small.
So we also try to use the fact that Kent State has had a reputation
for having a major anti-war population, we try to remind students
that if they are against the war, to not be silent about it.
Not only do we have a war to stop, but it would be nice to know
that people are perpetuating this tradition.
Ron: Do you find that people you talk to in your
antiwar work listen to you more than your fellow antiwarriors
who have never been in the service? Why or why not do you think
this is?
David: Yes, I think so. I think that anti-war statements
have more of an impact if they come from someone who has been
there and actually seen with their own eyes the horrible things
that are going on.
Ron: How do most people that you talk to during
your antiwar work respond? I don't mean the Campus Republicans
or other hardcore war supporters, but just the regular students
and townspeople?
David: Unfortunately it seems like most of them are
indifferent, more concerned with personal things. This is frustrating,
being that this is Kent State, and there is a lot of activist
that count on Kent State to be a strong force in the antiwar
movement.
Ron: What's next?
David: I'm going to try to keep doing things that
help build the antiwar movement and to get its presence felt
to as large of a population as possible. However, this time
we will try to do it in a way that doesn't put any of our members
at risk of being expelled. We will try to use this incident
to show the administration at Kent State how terrible it is that
they allow our campus to be a supplier of fresh bodies for Bush's
war machine. Hopefully they will realize that it is the administration
who is putting us students in danger through allowing recruiters
on campus, not KSAWC. KSAWC is trying to protect ourselves and
the entire campus from being sent to die in an unjust war. We
will continue to do actions that aid in removing military recruiters
from campus.
Ron: And what do you have to say to other folks
who might be thinking about joining the military?
David: If they want, I can kill a couple of their
friends and then give them some money for college, if that is
what they really want. At least that way they wouldn't have
to spend four miserable years in an oppressive organization where
they deprive you of most of your rights and use you for whatever
they feel like. I would also point out that the GI Bill is only
$1004 per month. And it is only good for 36 months. That is
the extent of what the military pays for your college. So if
they are joining for college money, there are better and safer
routes to take to afford college. If they are just romantic
thrill seeking warrior types, I'd recommend joining the Iraqi
resistance for they are fighting for a more noble cause.
Thanks, David. Good Luck.
Tell Carol Cartwright, Kent
State's President, to back off Dave Airhart:
Carol.cartwright@kent.edu
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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