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June 14, 2002
Mark Weisbrot
US Trade
Policy:
"Do as We Say, Not as We Did"
Starhawk
The Boy Who Kissed the Soldier
David Krieger
Farewell
to the ABM Treaty
Tom Turnipseed
The Fear Factor to Promote
War and Trample Truth
Steve Perry
How the
Bush Adminstration Buried Coleen Rowley
June 13, 2002
Linda Belanger
Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict:
The Story Behind the Headlines
Amira Hass
Indefinite
Siege
Mokhiber / Weissman
Time to Put Lives Over Patents
Robert Fisk
Bush's Weird
War
Stanton / Madsen
Democracy
in Crisis:
What is to be Done?
Roldan Tomasz Suárez
Venezuela:
Five Facts
About the Coup
June 12, 2002
Fran Shor
Dirty Bombs, Blowback
and Imperial Projections
Dave Marsh
Shelley
Stewart, Radio and the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement
Chris Floyd
Murder, Inc.
June 11, 2002
Omar Barghouti
On Dance, Identity and War
Robert Fisk
The Bush
Afghan Gang:
Murderers, Gangsters, Stooges
Minerva Wright
The Donkeys of the Holy Land
David Krieger
Stopping
a Nuclear War
in South Asia
June 10, 2002
Jeffrey St. Clair
Executioner's Last Songs
June 8/9, 2002
Gavin Keeney
Mademoiselle
M.
Or Getting Screwed in Paris
Susan Davis
Sleepless
in the Suburbs
Curing Insomnia: a new use for The Nation?
George Sunderland
"Send
in the Weekly
Standard": The Screaming Pundits Assault Corps
June 7, 2002
Michael Colby
Bush to the Nation:
You're All Cops Now
Tanweer Akram
Howard
Zinn's "Terrorism
and War": a review
David Krieger
New Security Challenges
Sam Bahour
The Palestinian
Intifada:
A Very American Struggle
Tom Turnipseed
A Crisis of Confidence
in US Leadership
June 6, 2002
Michael Colby
White House
vs. EPA:
Political Hot Air and
Global Warming
Ron Jacobs
The Indo-Pakistan Conflict:
It's Just a Shot Away
Francis Boyle
Take Sharon
to The Hague:
Prosecute Israeli War Crimes
at Jenin
CounterPunch Bulletin
60 Minutes and President Chavez's
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Mark Weisbrot
Spying
and Lying:
The FBI's Shameful Past
June 5, 2002
Robert Fisk
Berlusconi the Censor
Danielle Brian
Nuclear
Plants and Terrorism
Ardeshir Cowasjee
For What Do We Fight?
George Monbiot
Kashmir
on the Brink
Michael Neumann
What is Antisemitism?
June 4, 2002
Dave Marsh
Bono the Useful Idiot
William Evan / Francis
Boyle
Kashmir:
Invoking Intl. Law to Avoid Nuclear War
Cockburn / St. Clair
The Future Wellstone Deserves
June 3, 2002
Ramdas / Makhijani
India,
Pakistan and Nukes:
A Road Map to Peace
Fran Shor
Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan
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June 15/16, 2002
A Minor Detail
by Karl Kraus
[Editors'
Note: Karl Kraus (1874-1936) was
a Viennese satirist, famed but mostly inaccessible to those unacquainted
with the German language. There are translations, including Dicta
and Contradicta, translated by Jonathon McVity, and a collection
put together by Harry Zohn and published under the title In These
Great Times by Carcanet (NY) in 1985. Here's a squib Kraus wrote
in 1915.]
Wanted:
a father-in-law to go into the women's war business with me.
Am 33 years old and well known as a women's wear salesman. No
matchm: Box 3378, Berlin S.W.
I suppose "Cherchez la femme" no longer
applies here. Go find mama, boy! Where is she? He doesn't speak
of marrying into the business, because the father-in-law himself
isn't in business yet. Normally such people at least said they
wanted to find a business and were therefore looking for a wife.
After all, they needed a living pretext. This is now eliminated;
the father-in-law is the vestige of an obsolete stage of development
which still had sentimentality and included a wife in the inventory.
That's over with.
Wanted: a father-in-law. The daughter
can be dead if she likes. If she is present at the wedding, fine;
if not, that's all right too. He'll just take the father-in-law
as his sleeping partner. This is an innovation in women's wear:
wear without women.
The glow of classical greatness suffuses
our time. Where is the woman whom such a fate will befall, who
will perhaps read this ad without knowing that in the final analysis
it concerns her? Where does the woman's wear live? Where does
this ready-made apparel of a woman live? Where is she, that I
may implore her to go into hiding and kill herself sooner than
become the cadaver of this hyena? Men are now dying accidental
deaths; women will give birth because two men want to go into
business. A heroic age is dawning. Do not mourn what has been.
Come, O dawn! Two scoundrels will in these great times shake
hands over the dead life of a girl.
'Die Nobensache' (1915)
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