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July
9, 2004
Gary
Leupp
The Lie That Will Not Die: Cheney and
the Iraq/al-Qaeda Link
July
8, 2004
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
The Inexplicable John McCain
Toufic
Haddad
Protesting Israel's Apartheid Wall:
a Letter from the Hunger Strikers' Tent
Dave
Lindorff
Liberation as Martial Law
Joshua
Frank
The Fall: How Beltway Dems Sank Howard
Dean
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush & Cheney Play the Hitler Card
James
Petras
The Truth About Jimmy Carter
July
7, 2004
John
Chuckman
Kerry's BBQ: a Deafening Silence
of Meaning
Virginia
Tilley
A Line in the Sand: Azmi Bishara's
Hunger Strike
Susan
Martinez
A Letter to Bill Cosby
Mickey
Z
Elie Wiesel's Strange Parade
Michael
Donnelly
Our Own Private Wilderness: Trusting the Land in the Inland Empire
Sean
Donahue
Boston Social Forum: the Dems aren't the Only Show in Beantown
Diane
Christian
Sovereignty and Freedom in Iraq
July
6, 2004
Lisa
Viscidi
Fleeing Guatemala: Central Americans
Risk Lives to Reach El Norte
Marc
Norton
The Felonious Five Ride Again: the
Supreme Court and Enemy Combatants
James
Brooks
Chemical Warfare on the West Bank?
Ray
McGovern
Porter Goss as CIA Director?
William
Cook
Legacy of Deceit: If Dante Knew of Bush and the Neo-Cons...
July
5, 2004
Forrest
Hylton
US Imperialism in Latin America: Sept.
11, July 4 and Systematic Torture
Chris
White
A Former Marine Sgt. on the Meaning
of Independence Day
Joe
Bageant
Cranky Reflections on the 4th of July
Robert
Jensen
Stupid White Movie: What Michael Moore
Misses About the Empire
Kathy
Kelly
"Two Days an' a Wake-Up"
July
3 / 4, 2004
Elaine
Cassel
Bush's Police State and Independence
Day
Stan
Goff
ABC of Opportunism: "Progressive"
Latin American Leaders Support the Coup in Haiti
Snehal
Shingavi
"We Want Real Justice for Bhopal": Two Survivors Speak
Out
Bruce
Anderson
The Cheney-Leahy Metaphor and the Greens
Sharon
Smith
Twilight of the Greens: the Chokehold of "Anybody But Bush"
Josh
Frank
Ralph Nader's Revolt: an Interview with Greg Bates
Robert
Fisk
Pentagon Tried to Censor Saddam's Hearing
Joe
Bageant
Sons of a Laboring God: Leftnecks Unite!
Brian
Cloughley
Fortress Bush and the One Law Doctrine
Justin
Delacour
The Anti-Chavez Echo Chamber: Venezuela's Media Tycoons
William
S. Lind
Saudi Spillover
Linda
S. Heard
A Joke Called "Justice"
Greg
Moses
"It's Illegal, But It's Our Right": Korean Labor Won't
Back Down
Ron
Jacobs
"Ain't You Proud to be White on Independence Day?"
Toni
Solo
Weary of Indigenous Resistances? Just Pretend They're Not There
Dan
Nagengast
Chicken Manure as Cattle Food: Safe, But Do We Want to Eat It?
Stew
Albert
Brando, a Personal Recollection
Dave
Zirin
From the Black Panthers to Sacheen Littlefeather: a Eulogy for
Our Brando
Patrick
W. Gavin
The Progressive Case for Dodgeball
Steven
Rosenthal / Junaid Ahmad
The Problem is Bigger Than the Bushes: a Review of F911
Poets'
Basement
Kearney, Ford and Davies
Website
of the Day
Global Peace Solution
July
2, 2004
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Suicide Right on the Stage: the Demise
of the Green Party
Douglas
Valentine
Fahrenheit 911: Mocking the Moral Crisis of Capitalism
Gary
Leupp
"Just Because I Could": On Obscenities and Opportunities
Lee
Ballinger
Illegal People: Kerry Opposes Immigrant Rights
Robert
Fisk
Saddam in the Dock: Confused? Hardly
CounterPunch
Wire
"What Law Formed This Court?": a Transcript of Saddam's
Arraignment
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush's Drug Card Lottery: the Price Ain't Right
Saul
Landau
Buzz Words and Venezuela
July 1, 2004
Katherine
van Wormer
Bush's Damaged Mind: the Madness in
His Method
Joe
Bageant
Is Our President a Whackjob? Does It Matter?
William
James Martin
The Dogma of Richard Perle
Dave
Lindorff
Bush's Evacuation Moment
Robert
Fisk
Bread and Circus Trials in Iraq
Alan
Maass
Green Party in Reverse
Website
of the Day
Michael Moore and Israel: Blind or a Coward?
June
30, 2004
Kurt Nimmo
Nicholson
Baker's Checkpoint: a New Kind of Anger About Bush
Tariq
Ali
Getting Away with Murder in Iraq
Jennifer
Van Bergen
Bush and the Detainees
Douglas
Valentine
Apotheosis of the Psychopaths: Instead of Fahrenheit 9/11, Rescreen
The Quiet American
David
Price
Fahrenheit 9/11 Through the McCain-Feingold Looking Glass
Roger
Normand
America's Criminal Occupation of Iraq
Stan
Cox
Sanitized for Your Protection: Ashcroft's
War on Art
Henry
David Thoreau
On the Futility of Bush v. Kerry: All Voting is a Kind of Gaming
Ben
Tripp
Who Dast Call Him Liar: a Rebuttal to Nicholas Kristof
June
29, 2004
Patrick
Cockburn
The Cloak-and-Dagger Handover
Robert
Fisk
Alice in an Iraqi Wonderland
Troy
Selvaratnam
New York Times Boosts Pet Developer
Harry
Browne
Bush in Ireland
Ray
McGovern
The CIA According to Anonymous
Elaine
Cassel
Hamdi, Padilla & Rasul: Who Really
Won?
June
28, 2004
Patrick
Cockburn / Leyla Linton
Grisly Rituals in Iraq
Amira
Hass
Confronting Myths and Deadly Power
June
26 / 27, 2004
Alexander
Cockburn
Venezuela: the Gang's All Here
Patrick
Cockburn
Iyad Allawi, the CIA's New Stooge
in Iraq
Dennis
Hans
Once They Were Sweethearts: Cheney,
the NYTs and the Myth of an Iraq Link to 9/11
Ben
Tripp
Adventures in Fuel Efficiency
Dave
Lindorff
That State Department Terrorism
Report: What They Knew, But Didn't Tell You
Chris
Floyd
Cold Irons Bound: the Russian Gambit
Ali
Tonak
Contamination at Berkeley: Profit Motives,
Academic Freedom and the Case of Ignacio Chapela
Keith
Rosenthal
The Withering of the Anti-War Movement
Bryan
Sacks
The Failure of the 9/11 Commission
Wayne
Madsen
Another Case of Blowback
Thomas
St. John
L. Frank Baum, Racist: Indian-Hating
in the Wizard of Oz
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
American Swadeshi
June
25, 2004
Stephen
Gowans
US to North Korea: "Trust Us"
Saul
Landau
2006 Pentagon Budget as Sacrilege:
Bush Invests the National Treasure in Death and Destruction
Amir
Butler
Iraq: the Deadly Embrace
Jack
McCarthy
Another Times Plagiarism Scandal?
Did Maureen Dowd Lift from the World Weekly News?
Greg
Bates
Chomsky and Zinn Plan to Vote Nader
June 24, 2004
Gary Leupp
John
Lehman on the Iraq / al-Qaeda Links
Patrick Cockburn
A
Day in the Life of Col. Abu Mohammed: Defusing Bombs, Facing
Death Threats
Harry Browne
On
the Rebound: Bush Bounces Back...in Europe
Bill Kaufman
Another
Marxist for Kerry: Joel Kovel's Sad Smear of Ralph Nader
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush,
Cheney and the 9/11 Commission: What Did They Know? What Did
They Tell?
Rick Gioimbetti
Andrea Yates: Victim of Psychiatric Violence?
John Chuckman
Call Center ID Hypocrisy
Diana Johnstone
Kerry
and Kosovo: the Lie of a "Good War"
June 23, 2004
Laura Carlsen
Bush
and Castro Face Off
Dave Zirin
Barry
Bonds vs. Boston: "A Flea Market of Racism"
Kurt Nimmo
From
Saddam, With Love
Patricia Wolff
Foundation Wars
Mahboob A. Khawaja
"They Had Me Arrested and Shackled My Son"
Patrick Cockburn
The
Pretense of an Independent Iraq
Website of the Day
The Road to Abu Ghraib
June 22, 2004
Dave Lindorff
The
Meaning of Putin's Pronouncement: Mutually Assured Pre-emption
Ron Jacobs
Nuclear Plants in US Protectorate of Iraq?
Vanessa Jones
Coogee, Peter Garrett and Valium Earrings
Mickey Z
An Open Letter to the People of Iraq
John L. Hess
Clinton Exhales
Pedro Marset/Ex-Solidarity
Committee for Pacho Cortés
An Exchange on the Case of Pacho Cortés
Bruce Jackson
Saying
No to Prosecutors: Why Steve Kurtz's Colleagues Refused to Testify
Website of the Day
From Boot Camp to Boot Hill
June
21, 2004
Gary
Leupp
Putin's Helpful Remarks
Lucson
Pierre-Charles
Haiti After the Press Went Home: Chaos
Upon Chaos
Cockburn
/ Khan
Saddam May Face Death Penalty
Uri
Avnery
Irreversible Mental Damage
June
19 / 20, 2004
Patrick
Cockburn
Inside the Green Zone: US is Paranoid
and Isolated
Bruce
Anderson
Frozen Gringos
Diane
Christian
Morality and Death: a Meditation
on Bush and Blake
Walter
A. Davis
Passion of the Christ in Abu Ghraib
Josh
Frank
How Democrats Helped Bush Rape Mother
Nature
Col.
Dan Smith
Respectable Genocide?: the Crisis
in Sudan
Brian
Cloughley
A Profound Disruption of the Senses
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush and the Timken Plant, a
Year Later
Prudence
Crowther
Mr. Ashcroft, Deport Me!
Poets'
Basement
Iqbal/Alam, Krieger and Albert
Kathy
Kelly
Dying to See Their Kids
June
18, 2004
Chris
Floyd
Blood Victory
Dave
Zirin
Danielle Green, Basketball Player
& Disabled Vet, Speaks Out Against War
Justin
E.H. Smith
The Christian Question in American
Politics
Gary
Leupp
The "Long-Established" Link?:
Iraq, al-Qaeda, and al-Zarqawi
June
17, 2004
Noel
Ignatiev
Zionism, Anti-Semitism and the People
of Palestine
Kurt
Nimmo
The Bush-Kerry Conundrum
Ed
Cardoni
The Persecution of Steve Kurtz
Ron
Jacobs
Power Relations: Rounding Up Everyone Who Knows More Than They
Do
Dave
Lindorff
Philly Daily News: "Four Wasted Years"
Greg
Moses
Geneva Ignored
Norm
Dixon
How Reagan Armed Saddam with Chemical
Weapons
June
18, 2004
Noel
Ignatiev
Zionism, Anti-Semitism and the People
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Kurt
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The Bush-Kerry Conundrum
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The Persecution of Steve Kurtz
Ron
Jacobs
Power Relations: Rounding Up Everyone Who Knows More Than They
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Dave
Lindorff
Philly Daily News: "Four Wasted Years"
Greg
Moses
Geneva Ignored
Norm
Dixon
How Reagan Armed Saddam with Chemical
Weapons
June
16, 2004
Lenni
Brenner
A Question for Kerry Supporters
Davey
D
Hip Hop Reflections on Reagan
Daniel
Wolff
Why Did Michael Moore Withhold Video Evidence of US Prisoner
Abuse?
Bruce
Jackson
Harry Levin and the Penultimate Manuscript of Finnegans Wake
Patrick
Cockburn
Boom! Boom! Out Go the Lights: Bombings Target Oil and Power
Facilities
Gary
Handschumacher
Mourn Ben Linder, Not His Killer: Reagan's Death Squads
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Turning Haiti into One Big Sweatshop
Mario
Benedetti
Obituary with Cheers
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Ireland Adds a Brick to Fortress Europe
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The Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited
David
Palmer
Richard Armitage, Abu Ghraib and CACI
John
Blair
Lovelock's Misguided Call: Nukes Are No Solution to Global Warming
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God Wins in TKO
Bill
Quigley
Blood-Pouring Peace Activists: State Charges Dropped; Feds Step
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July
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The
Lie That Will Not Die
Cheney
and the Iraq / al-Qaeda Link
By
GARY LEUPP
"In the early 1990s, Saddam
had sent a brigadier general in the Iraqi intelligence service
to Sudan to train al Qaeda in bomb making and document forgery."
(Amazing, unsubstantiated fact
suddenly revealed by Dick Cheney, July 1, New Orleans, after
the bipartisan Bush-appointed 9-11 Commission reported "no
collaborative relationship" existed between Iraq and al-Qaeda.)
Peter S. Canellos writes in the Boston
Globe (June 29): "There has never been such a powerful
vice president. There has never been anyone other than a president
as powerful as Cheney."
The president himself is, almost
by definition, the world's most powerful man, but there is evidence
that the current president, who obviously trails his subordinate
in experience, intellect, attention span and verbal skills, has
delegated so much power to Cheney that the latter now holds that
status. De facto President Cheney, with his former boss
Donald Rumsfeld, has shaped Bush's bellicose foreign policy to
date, sidelining Secretary of State Colin Powell. Powell notes
that after 9-11 Cheney and his "Gestapo office" including
Paul Wolfowitz, "Scooter" Libby, and Douglas Feith
formed a "little government" dedicated to attacking
Iraq, and manipulating information in any way necessary to do
so.
The president, who claims the
Iraqi's tried to kill his dad, and who wants very badly to better
his dad's brutal record in the Persian Gulf, signed on to the
plan. Powell, in a gesture of abject deference to Cheney, read
the duplicitously scripted case for it at the United Nations.
Cheney differs from VPs in
the recent past in that he cherishes no ambitions to the presidency.
If, for some reason, there is a second Bush term, Cheney at 68
wouldn't be a very viable candidate afterwards. He's already
had four heart attacks, and his poll numbers are low. He has
nothing to lose by boldly going where no VP has gone before,
and a golden opportunity to promote his agenda for global change
for as long as he remains in office. That's the agenda most clearly
articulated by the neocons, who Cheney placed strategically throughout
the administration as he was selecting top administration officials
following the bogus 2000 election. It involves building upon
America's unchallengeable, unprecedented power to even further
dominate the world, beginning with Southwest Asia.
The Brave New World these gentlemen
strive to build will brook no constraints imposed by conventional
legality. Hence the near immediate, unilateral U.S. withdrawal
from a host of international agreements following Bush's inauguration,
and the discussion from the outset (long before 9-11) of means
to justify the deeply desired invasion of Iraq. Hence the Cheney-managed
response to 9-11, including efforts to prepare public opinion
for an ongoing, vaguely conceptualized, war on all evil,
with or without direct connection to al-Qaeda, everywhere in
the world, to last well beyond the vice-president's next heart
attack.
Here is a man whose understanding
of "terrorism" was revealed as early as 1986, when,
as a Wyoming Representative in Congress, he voted against a Congressional
resolution urging the South African government to recognize the
African National Congress and free political prisoner Nelson
Mandela. (The vote was 245 to 177 in favor, not strong enough
to override a veto from President Reagan, who famously championed
apartheid South Africa as the U.S.'s closest ally in Africa.)
Why did Cheney vote as he did? Because he thought the ANC and
Mandela were "terrorists." He and his crowd indeed
think lots of decent people (including many, like the
ANC, on the political left) are terrorists. In 2000, as Bush's
running mate, Cheney defended his position, and only very recently
was Mandela's name removed from an official terrorist roster
by the Bush administration.
Beset by charges regarding
Halliburton, the corporation he headed from 1995 to 2000; and
by accusations that he allowed energy company lobbyists to unduly
influence the 2001 energy task force that he headed, Cheney would
be vulnerable indeed were it not for the abject deference of
the mainstream press, post 9-11, to the Bush administration.
Dogged by a possible indictment by a French court, pursuant to
charges of bribery by a Halliburton subsidiary to Nigerian officials
during his tenure as CEO; and by suspicions that one of his minions
leaked the name of whistleblower Ambassador Wilson's CIA wife,
Cheney may yet end his service to the state in disgrace. But
for the time being, he rages against the dying of the light.
Verbally lashing out at his foes, the pious Methodist not only
tells a senior senator critical of Halliburton's Iraq contracts
"Fuck yourself" on the Senate floor but follows up
by telling the world (via Fox News) how good he felt after
his unusual ejaculation. No apologies necessary; Cheney is The
Man. He feels the power and loves it; it's in his grin and his
contemptuous dismissal of logic and reason. We have the Christian
right, he reasons. Those dumb-asses who, God bless 'em,
all on our side. Those bothered by me saying "fuck"
are balanced by the rednecks who think it's fucking cool that
I say "fuck." And whatever happens or gets exposed,
I'm giving lots of opportunities, to my kind of people, to what
Bush calls "my BASE," to make more money.
In this context, Vice President
Cheney, even more (and more creatively) than President Bush,
defends the indefensible war against Iraq, pursuing the original
immediate post 9-11 strategy of linking Saddam Hussein and Osama
bin Laden. He says it over and over again, in steady, studied,
weariedly impatient tones: We know. We have so much evidence!
So much overwhelming evidence of longstanding official contacts
between al-Qaeda and Iraq. The irresponsibility and laziness
of the media, he avers (alluding to what has in fact been criminally
complicit mainstream journalism), has denied the American people
information that would better establish the connection (which,
in fact, in the real world, bogus journalism and political hype
has consistently ingrained in the impressionable public mind).
Cheney knows that tendentious talk, plus racist predispositions,
persuaded the majority long ago that Saddam Hussein, in some
way, attacked the U.S. on 9-11. He knows that all the efforts
of reasonable humans since to challenge this idiotic falsity
have failed to educate a population usefully vulnerable to (officially
deplored) Islamophobia. The ignorance is useful, since it allows
millions disinclined to sort through all the complicated facts
to merely conclude: Saddam and bin Laden both hated the USA.
That's the link. And of course their evilness connects
them, as evil connects everything not American.
The problem is that some politicians
and journalists, to preserve any sense of professional integrity,
have to ask questions, and weigh evidence, and come to conclusions.
And a host of inquiring minds, including the members of the bipartisan
9-11 Commission, have concluded that there was no significant
operational link between al-Qaeda and Iraq. No weapons of mass
destruction, and no al-Qaeda link. These conclusions deeply irritate
Mr. Cheney, not because he thinks they're wrong, but because
he thinks they're disobedient. The aforementioned "little
government" has made great efforts to string together bits
and pieces of information to build a case for war with Iraq,
and to sustain popular support for the costly occupation. For
journalists, academics or politicians to question that case is
brazen anti-Americanism serving the enemy.
So let us not question Cheney
but merely present his case. At present, he maintains that the
story of Muhammed Atta meeting Iraqi operative in Prague before
9-11, widely doubted within and without the administration, remains
plausible. "We just don't know." He emphasizes the
al-Zarqawi link, the master-narrative of which entails
(1) the Jordanian's affiliation
(of some kind) with al-Qaeda prior to 9-11, at which time al-Zarqawi
was in Afghanistan;
(2) his presence in Baghdad
for medical treatment (leg amputation) following the U.S. attack
on Afghanistan, this presence known to and welcomed by the Saddam
regime;
(3) Zarqawi's leadership of
al-Ansar, a largely Kurdish group in the far north, which produced
chemical weapons in 2002-3 in a camp obliterated during the invasion
of Iraq, with Saddam's express approval;
(4) Zarqawi's personal involvement
in the beheading of Nick Berg; and
(5) his ongoing leadership
of "foreign forces" in Iraq that challenge the Coalition
and constitute a greater threat to the success of their democratizing
mission than does indigenous Iraqi resistance.
The other key piece of Cheney
evidence for Iraq-bin Laden links is a series of meetings that
occurred between a senior Iraqi intelligence official and bin
Laden associates in the early 1990s, just as al-Qaeda was taking
shape in Sudan, where bin Laden was headquartered. The bipartisan
Bush-appointed 9-11 Commission reports that there were three
meetings; only the third resulted in a direct encounter between
an Iraqi and bin Laden. The Commission suggests that Saddam was
seeking to persuade bin Laden to refrain from attacks on Iraq,
which bin Laden despised as a secular nation that discouraged
Islamic fundamentalism. It states that bin Laden requested Iraqi
assistance with training and the production of chemical weapons,
and that Baghdad never replied to the request. It further states,
categorically, that there was "no collaborative relationship"
between al-Qaeda and Iraq.
After the Commission released
its preliminary report, and the press asked Cheney for comment,
he immediately faulted "lazy" journalists for not more
fully exposing the collaborate relationship (in his words, "senior
level contacts going back a decade") that he himself continued
to stubbornly posit. On June 18 he told CNBC that he "probably"
had information unavailable to the Commission, although he didn't
explain why any information at all should have been withheld.
On June 20, former secretary of the navy John Lehman and Commission
member told NBC's "Meet the Press" that he had information,
not included in the Commission report, that an Iraqi lieutenant
colonel was "a very prominent member of al-Qaeda" and
had attended an al-Qaeda meeting in Malaysia in 2000. Within
a day or so this report was discredited; turns out someone had
confused (or deliberately conflated) al-Qaeda employee Ahmad
Hikmat Shakir Azzawi with Iraqi intelligence agent Hikmat Shakir
Ahmad.
On July 1 Cheney told a D-Day
Museum crowd of 600 in New Orleans that "In the early 1990s,
Saddam had sent a brigadier general in the Iraqi intelligence
service to Sudan to train al Qaeda in bomb making and document
forgery." This is of course a remarkable charge, a jarring
elaboration of the Commission's finding. But the intelligence
community says it has no such information, and the media has
given the story little play, perhaps because to do so would oblige
reporters to spotlight the disconnect between Cheney's pronouncements
and the verifiable world. And since he is so damned powerful,
and so bristles when you do that, they may hesitate. But anything
trumpeted by the administration as the key or missing link should
have its fragility tested, immediately, before---like a spider
web collecting dust---it becomes more substantial even as it
traps more victims.
Why was this revelation made
in such a venue? What will the follow up be? Probably very little.
The true believers (who want to believe that the taking of Baghdad
was like the storming of the beaches at Normandy, and who may
well also believe that Elvis lives), will have faith that Atta
met Iraqis in Prague, or even Saddam in Baghdad. They'll believe
that an Iraqi general participated in the plans to attack the
Twin Towers. Every logically discredited detail will stick in
the mind of the believer. That's the intention, and the brilliance
of the neocon technique. A relentless cascade of falsehoods,
sometimes reported on page 1 and refuted days later on page 10
(thus sustaining the integrity of the Free Press) will satisfy
the requirements of the Noble Liars. Questioning reporters, academics
and officials---the "assholes---yeah, big time," those
who should fuck themselves, those who are too "lazy"
to effectively propagandize the mission---will incur Cheney's
powerful wrath until his "little government," based
on jerry rigged links and lengthening lies and the intimidated
silence of the corporate press, crashes on the shoals of the
Bush-Cheney war in a sea of accompanying scandals.
Gary Leupp is Professor of History at Tufts University,
and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion. He is the author
of Servants,
Shophands and Laborers in in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan;
Male
Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan;
and Interracial
Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900.
He is also a contributor to CounterPunch's merciless chronicle
of the wars on Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, Imperial
Crusades.
He can be reached at: gleupp@granite.tufts.edu
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