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December 12, 2001
Shahid
Alam
Race
and Visibility
December 11, 2001
Joshua Orton
University
of Wisconsin
Won't Aid FBI Interviews
Philip
Farruggio
Cleansing
the Nation's Soul
Robert Fisk
Why I Was
Beaten
December 10, 2001
Robert
Dunham
Race
and the Death Penalty:
Partners in Injustice
Andy Kershaw
Chamber of
Horrors
Near the Garden of Eden
John Touchie
Isaac's
on Chomsky
December 9, 2001
Jo Dillon
Journalist:
The CIA Wanted
Me Killed
John Chuckman
High-Tech
Puritanism
December 8, 2001
Laurence Tribe
Military Tribunals
Undermine the Constitution
Patrick
Cockburn
The
End of a Strange War
December 7, 2001
John Troyer
Blacklist Me!
Sen. Edwards
v. Ashcroft
Military
Tribunals
George Naggiar
Occupation
as Terrorism
Hugo von
Sponek
and Denis Halliday
Iraq
the Hostage Nation
David Vest
The Coen
Brothers'
Minstrel Show
Alexander
Cockburn
Sharon
or Arafat:
Who's the Terrorist?
December 6, 2001
CounterPunch Wire
Hampshire
College the First
to Condemn the War
Robert
Jensen
University
Teaching After
September 11
Jack McCarthy
Does
Tom Friedman Read
the New York Times?
Sam and
Leila Bahour
The
Psychology of a Suicide Attacker
December 5, 2001
Edward Hammond
The Only
Real Way to
Prevent Biowarfare
Harvey
Wasserman
Atomic
Treason in the House
Carl Estabrook
America's
Israel
Don Williams
Questions
Barbara Walters Didn't Ask George Bush
Cockburn/St. Clair
Liberals
Hail War as
Return of Big Government
Robert
Fisk
The
Last Colonial War?
Bahour/Dahan
It's About
the Occupation
December 4, 2001
Dave Marsh
A
Plea for Byron Parker
Rep. Ron Paul
Keep Your
Eye on the Target
Susan
Herman
Ashcroft
and the Patriot Act
Tariq Ali
The Afghan
King and the Nazis
November 30, 2001
Jordan
Green
Disappeared
in the Southland
Willliam Blum
Rebuilding
Afghanistan?
November 29, 2001
Phillip
Cryan
Defining
Terrorism
Robert Fisk
We Are the
War Criminals Now
November 28, 2001
Tom Turnipseed
A
Continuum of Terror
Patrick Cockburn
Tribal
Council:
Don't Blame It All on Taliban
Robert
Fisk
At
Last, The Truth about the Sabra and Chatila Massacres
Harry Browne
The Bill of
Rights:
They Threw It All Away
Sunil
Sharma
Suffer
Palestine's Children
November 27, 2001
Paul Coggins
Kafka and
the Patriot Act
Tariq
Ali
Tigris
and Euprhates
November 26, 2001
Robert Fisk
Blood and
Tears in Kandahar
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Boeing's
Sweet Deal
CounterPunch Wire
Human
Rights Abuses and
Nuke Waste Shipments
Alexander
Cockburn
Harry
Potter and Terrorism
A Photographic Journal of Life
in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann
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December 12,
2001
Hitchens and Walker:
The Betray Brothers?
By Jack McCarthy
When an unshaven, unkempt, hung-over Christopher
Hitchens stumbled in front of the TV cameras to issue his Orwellian,
convoluted excuse for betraying the confidence of his "friend"
and "Jewish cousin." Sidney Blumenthal, to the congressional
Clinton tribunal humorist Harry Shearer remarked: "Hitchens
looked he just rolled out of bed at a homeless shelter."
Has anyone else noted the similarities
between American Taliban John Walker and Hitchens?
And it's not just the physical appearances
that hits you.
There are also striking similarities
in their attitudes, especially regarding the issue of "betrayal."
The main difference being that Walker is a 20-year-old upstart
and can and should be forgiven for his alleged "betrayal."
By the way, why is no one pointing out
that Walker, like other members of the Islamic Internationale
assembled by the U.S. government to defeat the secular pro-Soviet
Government, might have assumed it was patriotic to fight with
the U.S. created force?
But Hitchens continues to amaze. Hitchens
once again flexes his betrayal muscles in Vanity Fair magazine
in a silly salute to "patriotism."
Here's the same intellectual who wrote
a seminal piece on the misuses of the loaded term "terrorism"
implicitly betrays himself and former political allies by goose-stepping
across the pages of Vanity Fair in a salute to his adopted fatherland.
Then in a recent column in The
Nation Hitchens gloats: "This is the best news for a
long time. It deserves to be said, also, that the feat was accomplished
with no serious loss of civilian life, and with an almost pedantic
policy of avoiding 'collateral damage.'" This comes ontop
of a report by Marc Herold, professor of economics and international
relations at the University of New Hampshire, that more than
ore than 3,500 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan by
U.S. bombs.
Osama: Tale
of the Tapes
Soon after Osama bin Laden released video
tapes explaining why he's at war with the U.S. the Bush administration
successfully browbeat the U.S. media to quit airing Osama bin
Ladens taped messages. A wink and/or a nod by our former Islamic
comrade in arms could well be a signal to launch another attack
on the U.S. Ari Fleisher warned.
Now the administration, curiously, wants
to release its own "captured" video tape in which Bin
Laden allegedly fesses up to pre-knowledge of the Sept.11 events.
One pentagon official says off the record, that the video might
well raise the issue of authenticity.
The question is will the media be brave
enough to raise the question if it does appear that the tape
is propaganda, and the person alleged to be Osama is a fake.
I've seen one picture of the person purported to be Osama and
must say it didn't look the Saudi Smoothie.
At the risk of being called unpatriotic
by Christopher Hitchens and the rest of the born again goosesteppers
infatuated with "Americas New War", and fingering disloyal
dissidents, I say it's probably a fake.
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