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May 28, 2004

Rafael Rodriguez Cruz
Curtain of Silence on the Cuban 5

Greg Moses
Bush's Misleading Speech on Abu Ghraib

Dave Lindorff
Dissing Independent Contractors: Those Who Do the Dirty Work

Norman Solomon
Leaping for Lies at the Times

Rep. Bill Delahunt
Bush's Cruel New Rules on Cuba

Paul McGeough
Chalabi Baba and the 40 Thieves

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
India and Nehru: 40 Years After

Alexander Cockburn
NYTs: "Maybe We Did Screw Up...a Little"

May 27, 2004

Amy Goodman / David Goodman
Fatal Errors: the Lies of Our Times

Douglas Valentine
Ragging the Dogs of War at the NYTs

John L. Hess
The Times Confesses...Kind Of

Stew Albert
Dellinger, the Wrestling Pacifist

Dave Dellinger
a 1993 Interview

Christopher Brauchli
Tax Breaks for Scions...to Hell with Poor Kids

Rampton / Stauber
Banana Republicans: Pumping Irony

May 26, 2004

Ron Jacobs
Goodbye, David Dellinger: He Was a Friend of Ours

Robert Fisk
The Things Bush Didn't Say in His Speech

Zeynep Toufe
New Draft UN Resolution Permits Perpetual Occupation

Conn Hallinan
Bush and Sharon: the Oil Connection

Tom Stephens
2 + 2 is On My Mind: More Morons and War Crimes

Derek Medley
Protesting Gov. Bigot

CounterPunch Wire
FBI Abducts Artist; Seizes Art

Andrew Cockburn
The Trail to Tehran

 

May 25, 2004

Joe Bageant
The Covert Kingdom: On Earth as It is in Texas

Col. Dan Smith
A Question of Human Dignity

Gary Handschumacher
Visiting Lori Berenson: Time to Bring Her Home

Toni Solo
A Developing War in the Andes

Marc Estrin
September Song: Disturbing Questions About 9/11

Stephen Banko, III
A Vietnam Vet on "Supporting the Troops"

Website of the Day
The Wizard of Whimsy

May 24, 2004

Ron Jacobs
Dan Senor is Safe!

Kurt Nimmo
Dirty Tricks & TortureGate: the Missing Taguba Pages

Sam Hamod
Gen. Zinni: "Wrong War, Wrong Place, Wrong Time"

Mike Whitney
The Wedding was a Bomb

Stan Goff
Open Season on MAMs

Image of the Day
A Photo from Abu Ghraib We Didn't See on the Front Page of the NYTs

 

May 22 / 23, 2004

Paul de Rooij
Colin Powell, a Political Obituary

Jeffrey St. Clair
When War is Swell: Bush and the Carlyle Group

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
Her Son Was Told He Wouldn't See Combat; Now He's Dead: an Interview with Sue Niederer

Brian Cloughley
America is Committing War Crimes in Iraq

Saul Landau
Democracy in Latin America: Great for Investors; Not So Good for People

Brandy Baker
Feminists Stand By Their Man: Abortion, Judges and Kerry

Randall Robinson
Bushwhacked in the Caribbean

Uri Avnery
The Rape of Rafah

Ben Tripp
Assume the Worst

Bruce Anderson
News from Ecotopia: the Truth About the Wine Business

Josh Ruebner
Why I Burned My Israeli Military Papers

Peter Wolson, Ph. D.
Exhibitionistic Revenge at Abu Ghraib

Chloe Cockburn
In Defense of "Troy": What Hector Could Teach Rummy

Linda Burnham
Sexual Domination in Uniform: an American Value

Adrien Rain Burke
War of the Necrophiliacs: Spc. Sabrina Harman and Her Corpse

David Krieger
Charting a New Course for US Nuclear Policy

Ron Jacobs
Turnaround

Poets' Basement
Ford, Albert & LaMorticella


May 21, 2004

Ray Close
The Canards of the Apologists

Christopher Brauchli
"The Object of Torture is Torture"

Amira Hass
Darkness at Noon

Jack McCarthy
Camilo Mejia: Can the Son of a Sandinista Get a Fair Trial from the US Army?

Bill Kauffman
Nader v. Bush

Omar Barghouti
No More Tears for America

Ghali Hassan
Moral Failure of the "Free World" in Gaza

Christopher Reed
How the CIA Taught the Portuguese to Torture

Website of the Day
Eric Idle on the Bush Administration: Fuck You, So Very Much

 

May 20, 2004

Andrew Cockburn
The Truth About Chalabi

Kathy Kelly
A Visit from the FBI

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Brown and Bored of Education in India

Tom Stephens & John Philo
The War Crimes of Bush, Cheney & Co.

Sam Bahour / Michael Dahan
Genocide by Public Policy

Robert Ovetz
Ending the Race for the Last Turtle

Billy Wilson
The Most Important Thing I Learned at School This Year

Website of the Day
Rafah Today

May 19, 2004

Elizabeth W. Corrie
Caterpillar Should Do the Right Thing, Now

Bill and Kathleen Christison
The US Can't Win

Vijay Prashad
For Whom the Polls Toll: the Indian Elections of 2004

Ray Hanania
Israeli War Crimes: Who to Believe, AIPAC or Amnesty Intl.?

Greg Moses
Man President Kisses Up at AIPAC

Michael Gillespie
Who is Kenneth deGraffenried?

Josh Frank
Homes Destroyed; Death Toll Mounts: But Where's John Kerry?

Gary Corseri
Out of Iraq and Plato's Cave

Kevin Alexander Gray
If Malcolm Were Alive

 

May 18, 2004

Neve Gordon
The Gaza Debacle

Doug Stokes
Imperial Policing: Why Abu Ghraib Shouldn't Surprise Us

Bob Wing
The Color of Abu Ghraib

Vanessa Jones
Man on a Leash

Thomas P. Healy
Chemical Trespass: the Body Burden

Zeynep Toufe
Torture and Moral Agency: the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

Kenneth Roth
Mistreatment of Detainees in US Custody: a Letter to Bush

Elaine Cassel
Pre-empting the Bill of Rights: The Other War, One Year Later

Website of the Day
Truth Against Truth

 

May 17, 2004

Kurt Nimmo
The John-John Ticket: Kerry Woos McCain

Laura Santina
Military Conditioning and Abu Ghraib

Mickey Z.
With Friends Like These: More Election 2004 Madness

Frederick B. Hudson
Police Terror: Three Mothers Search for Justice

Shakirah Esmail-Hudani
Inside Abu Ghraib: the Violence of the Camera

Boris Leonardo Caro
The Revelations of Mr. W.

Alex Dawoody
Iraq: From Saddam to Occupation

Victor Kattan
On Watching the Execution of Nick Berg

Ron Jacobs
Rumsfeld's Sovereignty Shell Game

 

 

May 15 / 16, 2004

Alexander Cockburn
Green Lights for Torture

Douglas Valentine
ABCs of American Interrogation: Phoenix Program, Revisited

John Stanton
Kings of Pain: UK, US and Israel

Ben Tripp
Torture: a Fond Reminiscence

Brian Cloughley
Where are You Heading, America? Taking a Closer Look at the Patriot Act

Justin E. H. Smith
Islam and Democracy: the Lesson from Turkey

Brandy Baker
Equal Opportunity Torture: Lynddie England, the Right and Feminism

John Chuckman
Peep Show on Capitol Hill: Sex, Lies and Videotape

Bill Glahn
RIAA Watch: Goon Squad

John Holt
Fencing the Sky

Ron Jacobs
The Power of Patti Smith

Brian J. Foley
Why the Outrage Over Abu Ghraib?

Robin Philpot
Re-writing the History of the Rwandan Genocide

Eric Leser
The Carlyle Empire

Ray Hanania
From Abu Ghraib to Nick Berg: There's No Such Thing as a Good War Crime

Jeff Halper
Dozers of Mass Destruction

Joe Surkiewicz
Inside the Baltimore Detention Center

John Whitlow
Iraq Goddamn

Michael Leon
Invitation to a Beheading: Why Bush Should Watch the Berg Video

Poets' Basement
Krieger, Ford, LaMorticella, Smith and Albert

 

 

 

May 14, 2004

Dr. Susan Block
Bush's POW Porn

Ron Jacobs
Secret History of the War on Drugs

William Blum
God, Country and Torture

Michael Donnelly
The People v. Corporate Greed: A Victory on the North Coast

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
India Shines

Stephen Gowans
Building Democracy in Iraq and Other Absurdities

 

 

 

May 13, 2004

Dave Lindorff
Where is Kerry?

Colm O'Laithian
Torture and Degradation: Revenge American Style?

Saul Landau and Farrah Hassan
Wal-Mart: Scrooge with Hi-Tech Accounting Practices

Ralph Nader
An Open Letter to Bush on the Inhumane Treatment of Iraqi Prisoners

Willliam James Martin
Deir Yassin Massacre Recalled

Marc Salomon
Reality TV Bites

Forrest Hylton
Law 'n Order in La Paz: All Quiet on the Southern Front?

 

May 12, 2004

Blanton / Kornbluh
Prisoner Abuse: Cheney Warned in 1992

Virginia Tilley
So, Who's to Blame?

Bruce Jackson
James Inhofe, the Dumbest Senator of Them All

Thomas P. Healy
No Enemies: Making Peace with Bert Sacks

Linda S. Heard
Racism and Ignorance: a Lethal Cocktail in Iraq

Norman Solomon
Spinning Torturegate

Lisa Viscidi
The People's Voice: Community Radio in Guatemala

Jack Heyman
View from the Bay Bridge: Longshoremen Plan Mass Workers March on DC

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Rummy's Reprieve

CounterPunch Wire
Teamsters Corruption Scandal: Hoffa Exec. Assistant Alleged to Have Quashed Investigation into Mob Influence

Christopher Brauchli
Detention Camp, USA

William S. Lind
Bush's Waterloo?

 


May 11, 2004

Mark Engler
On the "Necessity" of Torture

Ray McGovern
More Troops? A March of Folly

Kurt Nimmo
Dirty Nukes and Jefferson's Grand Experiment

Mickey Z.
Less Than Hero

Christopher Reed
Torture on the Homefront: America's Long History of Prison Abuse

Dennis Hans
When John Negroponte was Mullah Omar

Bruce Jackson
Pete Seeger at 85

Mike Whitney
Killing al Sadr

Simon Helweg-Larsen
Shrinking the Guatemalan Military

William A. Cook
The Unconscious Country: Righteous Indignation, Nakedly Displayed

 

 

May 10, 2004

Robert Fisk
From Hollywood to Abu Ghraib: Racism and Torture as Entertainment

Wayne Madsen
The Israeli Torture Template: Rape, Feces and Urine-Soaked Cloth Sacks

Col. Dan Smith
The Shame of Abu Ghraib

Joe Bageant
John Ashcroft, Keep Your Mouth Off My Wife!

Ron Jacobs
Rummy's Prisongate Blues: Don't Leave Mad; Just Leave

Ben Tripp
Getting in Touch with Your Inner Savage

Ray Hanania
Why They Hate Us: Racism, Bigotry and Abuse

Reza Fiyouzat
"
Mishandled" Invasions

Diane Christian
Images & Abstractions & Genitals

Website of the Day
Crushing Iraqi Skulls with Tanks for Sport?

 

May 8 / 9, 2004

Cockburn / St. Clair
Torture: as American as Apple Pie

Adam Jones
America's Srebrenica: What About the Hundreds of POWs Suffocated and Shot at Kunduz?

Douglas Valentine
Who Let the Dogs Out?: Torture, the CIA and the Press

Kurt Nimmo
Rush Limbaugh and the Babes of Abu Ghraib

Brian Cloughley
Humpty Dumpty is Falling

Lucia Dailey
Forbidden Games

Joanne Mariner
* * * *: Redacting Moussaoui

Mickey Z.
Please Forgive U.S.? (There Are No Innocent Bystanders)

John Chuckman
The Thing with No Brain

Doug Giebel
Someone Knew: There Were No WMDs

Norm Dixon
How the Bush Gang Exploited 9/11

Sam Bahour
A Guiding Light Falls on Ramallah

Susan Davis
Disorderly Conduct as Fine Art

Dave Marsh
In a Pig's Eye: Alan Lomax, Dead But Still Stealing

Laura Flanders
Life with Dick and Lynne

Dave Zirin
Fans Push Spiderman Off Base

Carolyn Baker
Why I Won't Vote in 2004

Prince
"Ain't No Sense in Voting"

Dr. Susan Block
Onan for Two: Liberating Masturbation

Poets' Basement
Smith, Sleeth, Ford, Albert and Saska

 

 

May 7, 2004

Human Rights Watch
10 Prisons; 9,000 Prisoners: US Detention Facilities in Iraq

Ron Jacobs
UnAmerican? I Wish It Were So

Robert Fisk
An Illegal and Immoral War

Ahmad Faruqui
The 50th Anniversary of Dien Bien Phu

Alexander Zaitchik
From Terrell Unit in Texas to Abu Ghraib: Doesn't It Ring a (Prison) Bell?

Mike Whitney
The Price of Victory

Norman Solomon
This War, Racism and Media Denial

M. Shahid Alam
A Comic Apology

 

May 6, 2004

Jeffrey St. Clair
They Did It for Jessica: Smeared with Shit; Kicked to Death

Kathy Kelly
May Day in Pekin Prison: Prison Labor for the War Machine

Werther
The Sunk Cost Fallacy: War as Vegas Casino Game

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Totalitarian Democracy

Robert Fisk
"Smoke Him": Video Shows Wounded Men Being Shot by US Helicopter

John Janney
Torturing the Way to Freedom?

Christopher Ketcham
Outlaw Heterosexual Marriage Now!

Alan Farago
Dead Oceans: So Long, Thanks for the Fish

Sam Hamod
Bush on Arab TV: Worthless and Demeaning

James Brooks
Sullen Spring

William S. Lind
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May 5, 2004

Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba
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Kerry: a Lost Cause for Progressives?

Will Youmans
Deal with the Devil: a Palestinian Zionist and the End of the World

Patrick B. Barr
Terrorists R Us: the Powerful are Exempt from the Label

Lawrence Magnuson
Nightline's All-American Morgue

Greg Moses
Pocketbook of Denuded Ideals

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Tormenting Prisoners, Torturing Truth

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Weekend Edition
May 29 / 31, 2004

Torture

The Logical Outcome of Bush's War for Democracy?

By SAUL LANDAU

Most US citizens don't reflect on the reasons for anti-American sentiment throughout much of the world. But policy makers once focused precisely on this theme. In 1947, George Kennan, who headed policy planning for the State Department, assumed this antipathy when he wrote: "We have about 60% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concept. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better."

In protecting and expanding US privilege through power, US Presidents used more than idealistic slogans; moralistic rhetoric emanated from the White House. Simultaneously, the presidential promoters of democracy, freedom, self-determination and peace, since World War II, have consistently altered the destiny of third world peoples who did not obey Washington. Until 1989, "fighting communism" justified armed intervention in Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, The Dominican Republic, Laos, Cambodia, Grenada and Panama (just some examples). As the United States emerged as a world empire its leaders categorically denied all imperial intentions. Indeed, President George W. Bush follows a parade of presidential disavowers of empire in repeatedly assuring the world of inherent US goodness; evil is externally located.

So, when he announced that US troops would invade Iraq, he pledged not only to rid the world of the evil Saddam Hussein and his fabled weapons of mass destruction and Al-Qaeda links, but also to make Iraqis recipients of democracy and freedom.

Evidence about WMDs and terrorist links didn't overwhelm the President, but he knew his brain trust would find compelling arguments elsewhere. Led by sneering Vice President Dick Cheney and smug Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and surrounded with Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, former Defense Policy Board Chair Richard Perle and Cheney's Chief of Staff Scooter Libby, this so-called neo con (neo-conservatives, or those who could con others in a new way) clan pushed Bush to war against Iraq (evil).

On March 19, 2003 Bush made war. On May 1, he declared victory. Then, the Iraqi resistance to occupation surfaced and casualties increased. Bush snarled: "bring 'em on," (meaning "send 'em in") and blamed the "insurgency" on foreign zealots. In April 2004, US casualties numbered 129 dead and thousands wounded. The Pentagon quietly admitted that the core of the insurgency was Iraqi, not foreign.

Reporters discovered that Iraqi exiles on Pentagon payroll had supplied the nonsense that Bush then propounded to Congress as solid evidence that Saddam had WMDs. Ahmed Chalabi, "our man in Baghdad" (while living in Washington), was the source of false intelligence before the war. Bush then appointed him to the governing council in Iraq where he possessed neither a constituency nor qualifications. Indeed, Jordan wants him extradited for embezzling some $200 million.

Because the causes seemed so flaky, the move to war divided Americans. Before it started millions demonstrated their opposition in the streets. The rifts have grown deeper. In April, Spanish voters defeated the pro war party of President Jose Maria Aznar. On May 3, incoming Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero voiced the opinion of Spain's majority.

"The mission in Iraq, which is showing itself every day to be a failure, should serve as a lesson to the international community: preemptive wars, never again; violations of international law, never again." The real and most efficient fight against terrorism is through the cooperation of all democratic countries, all free countries, in the United Nations with the cooperation of all and not via unilateral interventions, which only lead to failure."

Zapatero's words appeared on newspaper pages alongside photographs showing US troops torturing Iraqi men and women. On May 5, wire services reported that 25 prisoners had died in in US-controlled prisons in Afghanistan and Iran. On that day, Bush lectured an Arab TV interviewer. He did not apologize for the abuses. He abhorred the systemic torture by US troops in Iraq, but called it an "isolated incident;" acts committed by "a few people" who "don't represent the America I know."

Rumsfeld dismissed the dirty deeds as "un-American." Yet, US troops had repeatedly done far worse in Vietnam and Korea. Indeed, wars produce atrocities as day follows night and the United States has initiated more wars since 1950 than any nation in the world.

Apologies hardly suffice! But contrast Bush's petulant moralistic pose to the language of the investigation by the 800th Military Police Brigade. According to Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba, "US Army Soldiers have committed egregious acts and grave breaches of international law at Abu Ghraib/BCCF and Camp Bucca, Iraq." He said that "key senior leaders" had "failed to comply with established regulations, policies, and command directives in preventing detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib (BCCF) and at Camp Bucca during the period August 2003 to February 2004."

Ion other words, those ordered to win Iraqi hearts and minds committed "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses."

Taguba mentioned "the following acts:"

"-- Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet;

-- Videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees;

-- Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing;

-- Forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them naked for several days at a time;

-- Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped;

-- Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them;

-- Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture;

-- Writing "I am a Rapest" (sic) on the leg of a detainee alleged to have forcibly raped a 15-year old fellow detainee, and then photographing him naked;

-- Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee's neck and having a female Soldier pose for a picture;

-- A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee;

-- Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and frighten detainees, and in at least one case biting and severely injuring a detainee."

Taguba blames those in command. MP's and the contract workers (mercenaries), he says, had received encouragement from their superiors to soften up prisoners before interrogation.

But the sadistic pornography trail of Abu Ghraib leads back to the White House. Iraq is George Bush's war. If Saddam constituted evil, how to explain the stench of sin that now arises from Bush's legions of "good"? Indeed, months before Seymour Hersh's May 3 New Yorker story revealed the scandal, Army criminal investigators had interviewed 50 plus military, contract and Iraqi detainee witnesses. The Abu Ghraib horror photos and videos circulated in national security sectors months before this became public. Did Rumsfeld keep this from the President or did Bush know and do nothing?

Adults shoulder responsibility. Bush passed the buck. Military heads rolls; more will follow. But the torture issue goes beyond acts committed by frightened, frustrated, angry and sadistic US troops - encouraged by their superiors. Like the massacre of My Lai and others in Vietnam, abuses at Iraqi prisons follow from war itself - especially a war based on false premises.

In the second week of May, the US body count neared 800; the wounded near 10,000. The mission of transforming Iraq to our political model fades as the repulsive torture photos travel through the Muslim world. Instead of victory in Iraq we turn backwards to past foolish wars.

In 1968, the Vietnamese launched their Tet Offensive proving wrong the US military estimate of their feeble status. Vermont Senator George Aiken advised the disconsolate President Lyndon Johnson to "just declare victory and come home."

Six plus years later, tens of thousands of dead US soldiers and millions of Vietnamese, the United States cut and ran. In 1975, Congress cut off funds for the war. US officials in Saigon frantically burned documents and money. US Embassy guards thrust bayonets at desperate Vietnamese trying to escape the new Vietnamese government.

History threatens to repeat itself in Iraq. Having again launched an unjustified imperial war under the axiom of disavowing empire, the chief imperialist himself goes into denial. "Freedom, liberty, democracy," chanted Bush in his rare and incoherent press conference in April. Bush the triumphant of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln last May has turned defensive, seeking to place blame on others for his own foolish and bloody deeds. John Kerry has the moral and political duty to now call unequivocally for the rapid withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. Such a move would overwhelm Bush, the "decisive" coward, who thinks "honoring the fallen" means having more fall. He is unfit to hold office.

Saul Landau directs the Digital Media Arts program at Cal Poly Pomona University. His new book, The Business of America, will be published in May.



Weekend Edition Features for May 22 / 23, 2004

Paul de Rooij
Colin Powell, a Political Obituary

Jeffrey St. Clair
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Brian Cloughley
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Chloe Cockburn
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