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April 22, 2002

Irit Katriel
Word Games and Body Bags

Rep. Cynthia McKinney
We Come for Peace

Daniel Bar-Tal
Is There a Way Out?
Occupation, Terror
and Understanding

David Wilson
A Week of Coups, But Now
The Freedom Train Hits Town

Shaik Ubaid
Today I Was a Palestinian

April 21, 2002

Michelle Campos
Suckered Again in Israel

Mike Leon
200,000 in DC Protest Say:
"We Are All Palestinians Today"

C.G. Estabrook
Sex and Power in Catholicism

Kathy Kelly
Gimme Some Truth Now
A Walk Through Jenin

April 20, 2002

Philip Farruggio
Drowning in a Sea of Apathy

Kristen Schurr
Leaving Nablus

Bernard Weiner
Israel and the Intifada
for Dummies

Jean-Guy Allard
A Coup Signed by Otto Reich

Chris Floyd
The "Grandeur" That Was Rome:
A Letter from the Front

April 19, 2002

Eric Flint
Free the Books!

David Krieger
A Peace Proposal:
Bring in the Children

Jeff Paterson
Advice to Recruits from
a Gulf War Vet

Jeffrey St. Clair
From Sen. "Lunkhead" to Bush Energy Czar: A Year in the Life of Spencer Abraham

April 18, 2002

Tom Turnipseed
Latin America's Dilemma:
The Propaganda of Otto Reich

Sam Bahour
Bush is Playing Russian
Roulette with Palestinians

M. Shahid Alam
A Colonizing Project
Built on Lies

Alexander Cockburn
Austin Cultural Limits:
Willie Nelson, Film and BBQ

April 17, 2002

Norman Finkelstein
Behind the Carnage in Palestine

Kristen Schurr
With the Wounded
and the Homeless in Nablus

Norman Madarasz
Undoing Chavez:
The View from South America

Brian Wood
Combing The Ruins of Jenin

George Monbiot
Chemical Coup: The CIA's Attempt to Undermine the UN's Weapon Inspector for Iraq

Robert Fisk
Fear and Learning in America

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Published March 15, 2002

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  • How They Worked for Apartheid Regime and Spied on NAACP:
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  • From Teddy Roosevelt to George W.
  • St. Clair on Musicians Against the Death Penalty & The Legacy of the Mekons.


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Read Whiteout and Find Out How the CIA's Backing of the Mujahideen Created the World's Most Robust Heroin Market and Helped to Finance the Rise of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden

Whiteout:
CIA, Drugs & the Press

by Alexander Cockburn
and Jeffrey St. Clair

The New Crusade:
America's War on Terrorism

By Rahul Mahajan

The Memphis Blues Again:
Six Decades of Memphis Music Photographs
Photos by Ernest Withers
Text by Daniel Wolff

The New Intifada:
Resisting Israel's Apartheid

Edited by Roane Carey

 

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The Phoenix Program
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April 22, 2002

DeskScan
By Dave Marsh

(What's playing in my office):

1. 1000 Kisses, Patty Griffin

2. Become You, Indigo Girls (Epic)

3. Here I Stand: 20 Greatest Hits, Wade Flemons (Collectables) (The title track's just another "Louie Louie" knockoff-except it's from 1958, five years earlier than the Kingsmen! I guarantee you nobody in
Kalamazoo knew who Richard Berry was.)

4. By the Hand of the Father, Alejandro Escovedo (Texas Music Group advance)

5. The Righteous Ones, Toshi Reagon (Razor & Tie)

6. Fishing Clothes: The Jewel Recordings 1965-69, Lightnin' Hopkins (Westside UK)

7. Sidetracks, Steve Earle (E Squared)

8. Fast, Custom (Artist Direct)

9. Another Happy Ending, The Clarks (Razor & Tie advance)

10. This World Just Won't Leave You Alone, Star Room Boys (Slewfoot)

Dave Marsh coedits Rock and Rap Confidential. He can be reached at: marsh6@optonline.net

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