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September 16,
2004
Patrick Cockburn
US
Offers Conflicting Accounts of Baghdad Bloodbath
Landau / Hassen
Meet
the New Villain: Syria
September 15,
2004
Patrick Cockburn
Hell
on Haifa Street
Ron Jacobs
Oppose War, Not Just Bush
David Lindorff
Blanking Out Dissent
Joanne Mariner
Talking About Darfur: Is Genocide Just a Word?
Angela Godfrey-Goldstein
An Open Letter to Madonna: Please Don't Support Israeli Apartheid
Dave Zirin
Is the NFL Ready for Us?
Yigal Bronner
"They
Are Building Walls Around Us"
September 14,
2004
Gary Leupp
The
Problem of Chechnya
Jennifer van
Bergen
What's
Wrong with Torture?
Stan Goff
Wake Up and Smell the Jungle Rot
Patrick Cockburn
The
Punishment of Fallujah: US Precision Strickes...on Ambulances
Anis Memon
Nader
in Michigan
Michael Donnelly
The Nuance Comes Off: Former Naderites Beg for Kerry Votes
Werther
Zell Miller: the Peckerwood Pericles
Website of
the Day
Osama Bin Forgotten?
September 13,
2004
Gabriel Kolko
Elections,
Alliances and the American Empire
Phillip Cryan
How Do You Say "Death Squad?": Language in Colombia's
War
Patrick Cockburn
One of Baghdad's Bloodiest Days: "I'm a Journalist! I'm
Dying! I'm Dying"
Noah Leavitt
The War on Civil Liberties
Robert Jensen
Highjacking Catastrophe: Bush, the Neo-Cons and 9/11
Mike Whitney
Alan Greenspan: Fed-Master to the Wealthy
John Chuckman
Stop Talking About the "Election"
Mike Burke
Kerry/Edwards Website Censors Discussion of Israel/Palestine
Issues
CounterPunch
Wire
The Quotations of David Cobb: "I Don't Care How Many Votes
I Get"
Website of the Day
Keep It In Your Pants: the Bush Plan to Combat Teen Promiscuity
Sex,
Drugs & the Blues!
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September 11
/ 12, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Swatting
at Flies
Fred Gardner
Yet Another Prozac Scandal
Saul Landau
When Our Assassins Go Free
Jennifer Van Bergen
How to Beat Bush: a Simple Strategy for the Average American
Roger Burbach
/ Jim Tarbell
The Real Dead Enders: Iraq and the Crisis of Empire
Christopher Reed
9/11 in an Historical Context: a Minor Event When Compared to
Worldwide War Casualties
Francisc Catalin
An ABC of American Interventions
Carl Estabrook
Big Science and Government Terror
Bernard Chazelle
Anti-Americanism: a Clinical Study
Sharon Smith
Third Party Blues
Dave Lindorff
Perhaps This Time We're the Silent Majority
Mike Whitney
Fallujah: an Iraqi Beslan?
Frederick B.
Hudson
Their Sons Perished in the Flames, But Not Their Faith
Mickey Z.
Round Up the Usual Suspects: a Look Back at 9/11
Ron Jacobs
Redneck Music for the New Century
Greg Moses
Soap Opera Moments in Texas School Funding Trial
Benjamin Dangl
/ Andrew Kennis
An Interview with Leslie Cagan
Poets Basement
Del Papa, Albert, Gelman
September 10,
2004
Patrick Cockburn
Disappointment
at Samarrah?
Michael Donnelly
Democrats v. Democracy
Alan Farago
Mosquitoes in a Hurricane
Doug Giebel
Karl Rove's Terror Playbook
Mike Whitney
Bob Graham's Political Tsunami
David Domke
God's
Will, According to the Bush Administration
September 9,
2004
Joe Bageant
Karaoke
Night in Bush's America
Ed Kinane
Abducted in Baghdad
Peter Bohmer
The Cuban Revolution: Present and Future
Todd May
The Emerging Case for a Single-State Solution
Jeremy Scahill
The New York Model: Indymedia and the Text Message Jihad
Joshua Frank
Green House Party Gasses
Fran Shor
The Crisis in Public Dissent: When Protest is Considered a Terrorist
Act
Patrick Cockburn
Welcome
to the Dirtiest City in the World: Despair in Baghdad
Website of
the Day
Liberty Street Protest: No to War at Ground Zero
September 8,
2004
Patrick Cockburn
This
Doesn't Smell Like Victory: A War on Two Fronts in Iraq
Dave Lindorff
Bush Confuses; Kerry Mute: Spinning 1000 Dead
Bulent Gokay
Russian and Chechnia After Beslan
Lisa Viscidi
Land Reform and Conflict in Guatemala
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Byrd's Eye View
Mike Whitney
Afghanistan: American's Drug Colony
Stan Goff
Body
Count: 1001
Website of
the Day
Bush and the Love Doctors
September 7,
2004
Diane Christian
Hostage Tactics: a Game of Mortal Poker
Joshua Frank
Greens
Unravel from Within
Patrick Cockburn
Fallujah
Erupts Again: US Death Toll in Iraq Nears 1000
Ron Jacobs
Bush and Putin: "We're Not Girlie Men"
Chris Floyd
Cry Havoc: Bush's Own Personal Janjaweed
Dr. Carol Wolman
No Blood for Oil at Paul Bunyan Day Parade
John Ross
The
Politics of Darkness North / South
September 6,
2004
Alexander Cockburn
An
Anti-Labor Day That Lives in Infamy: How Many Democrats Voted
For Taft-Hartley?
Ralph Nader
The
Cruel Legacy of Taft-Hartley: a Labor Day Call for Rights for
Working People
Lee Sustar
What's Driving the Attack on Pensions?
Kathleen and
Bill Christison
Dual
Loyalties: the Bush Necons and Israel
September 4-5,
2004
Alexander Cockburn
Elephants
and Gramsci
Ted Honderich
The
Way Things Are
Sasan Fayazmanesh
The
Holy Empire: Who We Are and What We Do
Douglas Valentine
What the World Should Know About Guantanamo
Patrick Cockburn
New Iraqi Police State Flexes Its Muscles
Gary Leupp
Neo Cons Under Fire
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: the Hempstead T-Shirt
William A.
Cook
The
Day of the Lemming
Dave Zirin
Kobe Bryant and the Price of Freedom
John Chuckman
The Day the World Ended
Karyn Strickler
God Save the Endangered Species Act
Vanessa Jones
Bad Day with an Ikea Cup
Mike Whitney
Kerry: the "Better" War Candidate
Mark Donham
Dear John (Kerry): Start Explaining and Fast
Mickey Z.
McBypass Nation: Feeling Clinton's Pain
Alan Farago
Can the Everglades be Fixed?
Poets' Basement
Landau and Albert
September 3,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: Jesus Told Him Where to Bomb
Rahul Mahajan
Bush's RNC Speech: an Annotated Response
Carl Estabrook
The
Book of Slaughter and Forgetting
Joshua Frank
The Florida of the Northwest: Oregon Dems Sabotage Nader Again
Gary Leupp
Music to My Ears: Sunday's March
James Hollander
Deja Vu in Manhattan: Assisted Political Suicide?
Mark Engler
Republicans
Among Us: a Week at the RNC, Inside and Out
Jesse Sharkey
Making Students and Teachers Pay for the Crisis in Education
Jane Stillwater
Calling the Cops on Your Own Kid
Stephen Green
Serving
Two Flags: the Bush Neo-Cons and Israel
September 2,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: Part 3: More Pricks Than Kicks
Max Gimble
Et Tu, Menchu? Extrajudicial Killings and Clandestine Graves
in Guatemala
James Petras
President Chavez and the Referendum: Myths and Realities
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush and the Afghan Electoral Model: "If They Want to Vote
Twice, Let Them"
Todd Chretien & Jessie
Muldoon
Will the Democrats Expel Zell Miller?
Jack Random
Spite and Venom Day: the Turncoat and the Profiteer
Alan Maass
The Real Vietnam
Christa Allen
Contre Bush
Website of
the Day
[Redacted]
September 1,
2004
Alexander Cockburn
The
Stench of Doom
Kathleen and Bill Christison
Poor Larry Franklin
Dave Lindorff
Kerry's Litmus Test
Josh Frank
Protest in White: Not All of New York Rises Up
John L. Hess
Moles, Scoops and Flip Flops
Mike Whitney
Deconstructing Arnold
Jack Random
Kindergarten Night at the RNC
Andrew Wilson
War on the Pachyderms: Why Do Elephants Hate Us?
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: Part Two: Mark His Words
August 31,
2004
Joseph Nevins
Escapism
and Global Apartheid: The Dominican Republic & the NYTs
Matt Vidal
Beyond
Bush's Rhetoric on the Economy
Neve Gordon
Kerry and the Middle East
Dave Lindorff
Bush
the Peace Candidate?
Mike Whitney
NPR Leads the Charge for War Against Iran
Jack Random
Opening Night: Playing the War Card
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: the Life and Crimes of George W. Bush (Part One)
CounterPunch Photo of the Day
Pete Seeger in NYC
August 30,
2004
Justin Podhur
The
Disappeared Mayor
Shaun Joseph
The
Hypocrites at TheNaderbasher.com
Mike Whitney
Israeli Moles in the Pentagon: What More Could They Possibly
Want?
Ron Jacobs
Live, From New York: the Majority of Protesters Claimed No Candidate
David Lindorff
Sunday in Manhattan: the Sound of Marchin', Chargin' Feet, Boy
Dave Zirin
USA Basketball: The Team White America Loved to Hate
Sam Husseini
Israeli Spying on the US: a Long History
August 28 /
29, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Zombies
for Kerry
Patrick Cockburn
Najaf Ceasefire Good for Iraq, But Weakens Allawi and US
Ray McGovern
Blowing Smoke on Intelligence
Dr. Juan Romagoza
From El Salvador to Abu Ghraib: Reflections of Torture Survivor
Ray Hanania
An Israeli Spy in the Pentagon? Ridiculous!
Fred Gardner
Eddie Lepp Busted by DEA: Facing Life for Growing Medical Pot
Diane Christian
Big Men: the Better Leader Lets You Live
William S. Lind
The Desert Fox
Paul D'Amato
The Left Takes a Dive for Kerry
Joshua Frank
Greens at the Crossroads
Mickey Z.
Media Declares War on Anti-War Protests
Winslow T. Wheeler
Sen. McCain's Pork Chops: an Exchange
Justin E.H.
Smith
The New Age Racket and the Left
Thomas St. John
Burning Slaves at the Stake: On "Sinners in the Hands of
an Angry God"
Ali Tonak
Help the NYPD?
Mark Engler
New York Says "No"
Justin Felux
Haiti: the Attica of the Americas
Poets' Basement
Gelman, Albert, Ford and Hamod
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"
August 26,
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
Pinochet:
the Al Capone of the Southern Cone
Website of
the Day
The Kerry 527 Ad You'll Never See
August 25,
2004
Amelia Peltz
Can
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
August 21 /
22, 2004
Cockburn /
St. Clair
"They
Want Blood:" The Bi-Partisan Origins of the Total War on
Drugs
Landau / Hassen
Failing
the Mission? Form a Commission
Brian Cloughley
The
Bush Team in Iraq: Moral Cowardice, as Practiced by Experts
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
Elemental and NaturalForests, Fire and Recovery
Elizabeth Schulte
The Crisis in Affordable Housing
Poets' Basement
Adler, Albert, Virgil, Ford and Krieger
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Alexander Cockburn
Behold,
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Marcos
The
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Norman Finkelstein
Hitchens
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Steve Niva
Israel's
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Dardagan,
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Steve
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True Lies: the Use of Propaganda
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Wendell
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September 16, 2004
Meet the New
Villain
The
Neo-cons Threaten Syria
By
SAUL LANDAU and FARRAH HASSEN
"The Organization
is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its
Members...All Members shall refrain in their international relations
from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity
or political independence of any state, or in any other manner
inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."
Article 2, Chapter 1,
Charter of the United Nations
Those invaders of Iraq are at it again.
Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
and their neo con staff led by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith,
have conjured up another villain: Syria.
They want to punish Bashar
Al-Assad's regime for Saddam-like crimes weapons of mass destruction
and fomenting terrorism. Although, their aggressive verbal assault
might have as its real design the deflection of criticism over
spying and leaking from the Vice President's office. Justice
Department investigators focus on Cheney's top aides as likely
culprits who fed journalist Robert Novak the name of undercover
CIA operative Valerie Plame. When Novak "outed" her,
Plame abandoned her mission and career. The Bushies thus showed
other potential truth-tellers the high cost of "embarrassing"
the Administration by telling the truth. Plame's husband, Ambassador
Joseph Wilson, had publicly demolished Cheney's "Saddam
tried to buy uranium in Africa" story.
More recently, the FBI has
named a Cheney aide and members of the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as involved in spying for Israel. This
Israeli lobby that claims to represent the Jewish population
has for decades distracted attention away from Israeli aggression
and manipulation of US policies by accusing Israel's unfriendly
neighbors of terrorism--first Iraq, now Syria and Iran.
The "t" word took
on new meaning in early September when Russian troops and Chechen
separatists together killed 300 plus people and Israeli forces
assassinated 14 Palestinians in Gaza. In this terrifying atmosphere,
Syria should have won status as a major non-issue. Nevertheless,
the Israeli lobby's influence overcame the headlines. So, by
the Fall of 2003, the Israeli lobby convinced liberal Democrats
like California Senator Barbara Boxer and Los Angeles Congressman
Henry Waxman to generate support for the Syria Accountability
and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act, legislation that punished
Damascus for alleged terrorist connections and accumulation of
WMD. Indeed, the vast majority in Congress right, left and center
-- voted for the legislation without engaging in any fact-finding
or serious debate. Bush signed the Act into law in December and
in May 2004 banned US exports to Syria and Syrian flights from
entering or leaving US territory.
The US Committee for a Free
Lebanon led the anti-Syria charge. Founded as an Israeli front
in 1997, under Ziad K. Abdelnour, the Free Lebanon Committee
worked with AIPAC and the neo cons to push for anti-Syria sanctions.
In lashing out at Syria, Washington was in effect punishing Damascus
for having helped the United States. In so doing, Washington
demonstrated its unpredictable nature to other regimes in the
region.
In the early 1990s, Syria actively
promoted Washington's attempt to organize a peace meeting in
Madrid. Even more baffling, Syria provided crucial intelligence
to the CIA to prevent an Al-Qaeda attack against US personnel
in Bahrain in the post 9/11 period.
As if to prove that no good
deed goes unpunished, Bush resorted to arm-twisting diplomacy
to attack Syria at the United Nations. During the pre-Iraq invasion
period, this kind of behavior had soured believers in the rule
of law and the efficacy of the United Nations. On September 2,
Washington pushed the Security Council to approve Resolution
1559 (9 out of 15 votes affirmative), which targetsbut doesn't
specifically name --Syria for maintaining troops in Lebanon and
interfering in the upcoming Lebanese presidential elections.
This time, France co-sponsored
the Resolution, a dramatic turnabout from its 2003 refusal to
back Washington's Iraq invasion. A spokesman from Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon's office welcomed the resolution,
but lamented that it fell short of sanctioning Damascus. The
Security Council's action did, however, express contempt
for the UN's founding principles: respect for  sovereignty and non-interference
in domestic affairs. The resolution called for "all remaining
foreign forces to withdraw from Lebanon" and "a free
and fair electoral process in Lebanon's upcoming presidential
election conducted according to Lebanese constitutional rules
devised without foreign interference or influence."
Lebanon had not requested Security
Council action. Indeed, on the following day, September 3, Lebanon's
Parliament amended its Constitution (96-29) and extended pro-Syrian
President Emile Lahoud's six-year term, which was to expire on
November 24.
Rather than inquire into Syria's motives for maintaining its
Lebanese force, the mainstream press simply printed the White
House spin as news: Syria as an evil occupying force. How ironic,
in light of the current US occupation of neighboring Iraq and
the history of Israeli troops in Syria's Golan Heights.
History has not intruded on
Bush's explanation of global good and evil, but had he offered
appropriate background one could understand why Syria became
involved in the 1975-1990 Lebanese War. In May 1976, with Arab
League backing, President Hafez al-Assad sent troops to Lebanon
to help Christian militias. By doing so, Syria countered Israel's
foe, the PLO, who had allied with Lebanese National Movement.
In October 1976, Arab leaders
negotiated a cease-fire between Syria and the PLO. The agreement
called for Arab forces -- mainly Syrians -- to remain in Lebanon
to maintain order. Assad used this accord as a lever in Lebanese
politics, and Lebanese territory as a buffer against Israel.
But Assad couldn't end the
Civil War in which foreign and domestic interests sought advantage.
Instead, from late 1976 on, outside powers supported rival Lebanese
militia factions as they destroyed their own country.
In 1982, to demolish the PLO's
military wing, Israel invaded Lebanon and worked with Christian
Maronites in carrying out massacres of Palestinians at the refugee
camps at Sabra and Shatilla. Israel also hoped to force
Assad's withdrawal of Syrian troops, whose proximity to Israel
created security discomfort. Israeli troops remained as occupiers
in southern Lebanon until May 2000 (except for a strip along
the Lebanon-Syria border), when the Israeli public demanded an
end to the occupation.
But Syria, less concerned with
public opinion, remained in Lebanon, which makes Israel uncomfortable.
Israel's behavior has helped Arab states forge alliances. But
Israel with US support-- has also convinced some of the most
rabid anti-Israel regimes to abandon the PLO. In turn, the "Arab
street" has responded by fomenting religious and ethnic-based
violence, which has destabilized parts of the region.
Byzantine? No, pre-Byzantine.
Contemporary Middle East politics have pre-colonial roots, pre-dating
the European ouster of the Ottoman Empire. As Bush discovers
daily in Iraq, US war makers had little historical context for
establishing their peace. Nevertheless, the planners of the Iraq
invasion, some of whom may have had links to espionage operations,
have offered up the "blame Syria" scenario.
They demand harsh US actions
against that country to "fight terrorism" and usher
in US-style democracy. Like Iraq, Syria has had a stable and
secular, albeit authoritarian government. Hafez Al-Assad ruled
from 1971-2000; Bashar, his son, from June 2000-present.
The media has not even covered
the barest historical bones that we have outlined. Nor has the
press commented on the selective enforcement of Security Council
resolutions related to the Middle East. Iraq got punished for
deeds similar to those committed by Israel: invading neighbors,
accumulating destructive weapons and human rights violations.
In October 2003, Israel bombed
Syria to punish Damascus for backing terrorism. Israel furnished
no evidence. The Security Council did not condemn Israel for
that act of aggression. But the Council now demands the withdrawal
of foreign forces from Lebanon, without mentioning Israel's continued
occupation of Syria's Golan Heights. In 1981, the Council passed
Resolution 497, calling Israel's jurisdiction there "null
and void and without international legal effect." Since
1967, Israel has occupied Palestinian territories acquired by
force, directly violating Resolutions 242 and 338.
State Department spokesman
Tom Kasey called the decision to extend the Lebanese president's
term "a crude mockery of democratic principles." A
Syrian diplomatic source said that "after the Florida election
in 2000, the Bush Administration has some nerve telling other
people how to follow democratic rules."
The Lebanese Parliament's vote
to change the Constitution, benefiting Syria, reflects more of
a quest for stability than anti-democratic tendencies. But no
democrat should condone continued Syrian influence in Lebanese
politics. However, even if Syria wanted to withdraw, it would
not erase several centuries of colonialism, from the Ottomans
through the British and French. Arabs have had imperial rule
stamped indelibly into their political culture. Between the two
World Wars, France ran Syria and manipulated its Constitution
to suit its imperial purposes. France supported Christians over
Muslims in Lebanese politics and, along with the United States
and England, consistently backed Israeli interests.
Ironically, when Middle East
politics take anti-Israeli turns, the United States preaches
"democracy." In fact, Washington's "appointocracies"
in Iraq and Afghanistan rule through US power, not popular mandate.
Washington's verbal "commitment" to democracy has
led "the Arab street" not only in Damascus -- to become
highly skeptical of US motives.
Saul Landau is the Director of Digital Media and
International Outreach Programs for the College of Letters, Arts
and Social Sciences. His new book is The
Business of America.
Farrah Hassen was one of the filmmakers for SYRIA:
BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE.
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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