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A Photographic Journal of Life
in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann
November 15, 2001
George
Monbiot
Blasting
Our Way
Toward Peace
Steve Perry
Taliban to
the Hills?
November 14, 2001
Jensen/Mahajan
The
Press Must Press Harder on Afghanistan
David Vest
The Great Unificator
Harry
Browne
Preventing
Future Terrorism
November 13, 2001
Peter Mahoney
Veteran's
Day, 2001
Rep. Ron
Paul
Expanding
NATO
Is a Bad Idea
November 12, 2001
Robert Jensen
Goodbye to
All That...
Patriotism
Nancy
Oden
My
Day at the Airport
CounterPunch Wire
East Timor
10 Years
After the Massacre
C.G. Estabrook
Instead
of Terror
Alexander Cockburn
Wide World
of Torture
November 11, 2001
Douglas
Valentine
Homeland
Insecurity: The Politics of Terror in America
November 10, 2001
Grover Furr
Seeking an Opposition
to the Afghan War
Bruce
Kyle
Anatomy
of a Green Smear:
Backstabbing Nancy Oden
November 9, 2001
Karen Snell
Torture By
Proxy
John Troyer
A
New Kind of Activism
Tariq Ali
Q &
A About the War
Michael
Colby
Schoolgirl
Gets Booted
for Anti-war Views
November 8, 2001
Mokhiber/Weissman
The
Cipro Rip-Off
Mitchel Cohen
The Smear Campaign
Against Nancy Oden
Steve
Perry
American
Roulette
November 7, 2001
Bahour/Dahan
Placebo Peace
Plan
Tom Turnipseed
Bush
Gives Billions
to His Oil Buddies
Cockburn/St. Clair
Greens, Airports
and
National ID Cards
Dr. Susan
Block
Ayatollah
Asscroft
Brian J. Foley
Bombing Campaign
Not "Self-Defense" Under International Law
November 6, 2001
Mark Scaramella
Where's
That Red Cross Money Going
C.G. Estabrook
Our Torturers
Sheperd
Bliss
Scott
Nearing on War
Rep. Ron Paul
Underwriting
the Taliban
Tariq
Ali
The
General Who
Came to Dinner
Evan Ravitz
Stop the War
Through
Direct Democracy
Steve
Perry
Hunger
in Afghanistan
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November
15, 2001
Hitchens Mind-Meld and Hot Bodies
By Jack McCarthy
The psychic toll of the Sept 11th attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the recent plane crash
of an American Airlines jet in Queens New York may well be incalculable.
Still there are signs everywhere that
mental illness and morbidity are the toll so far.
In a recent column I read somewhere on
the internet, Christopher ("How I learned to stop worrying
and love bombing") Hitchens flippantly berates the left
for its squeamishness about indiscriminate bombing in Afghanistan
or against any enemies of western civilization.
If you didn't see the by-line you would
have thought you were reading another racist PJ O'Rourke outburst.
But it could be that since Hitchens has been bedding down at
the American Spectator there's been some kind of mind-meld occurrence.
This is the same Hitchens who once wanted
a war crimes trial for Bill Clinton for bombing Afghanistan and
Sudan--or is it? I demand a DNA test!
Then there's the New York Times whose
new motto might well be "All the Morbid News Fit to Print."
EXTRA! EXTRA!
HOT BODIES ON THE BEACH
In a story on the crash of American Airlines
Flight 587 in Queens New York, written by N.R. Kleinfield(11/13)
we are provided in morbid details that Hannibal Lecter could
well appreciate that,
"Rescue workers pulled bodies, and
body parts out of piles..."
"..transported them up to Beach
130th st in orange bins wrapped in black body bags."
And were those bodies hot!
"Dozens of bodies were too hot to
wrap.."
As Ed McMahon might have asked the Lecter
Times:
"How Hot Were They?"
Answer:
"..They melted the body bags."
So you are asking, what did they do with
the bodies so hot they melted body bags?
"..They were left on stretchers
in the street to cool."
One wonders what was edited out of this
story.
"One man was so charred you'd of
thought he was a human burnt cork!"
"One woman's forehead was so hot
you could have thrown slabs of bacon and eggs and eat breakfast
right at the scene."
"Unlike the evaporated bodies of
those who died at the world trade center and pentagon, these
were hot charred corpses, resembling nothing so much as an over-microwaved
piece of chicken."
All has indeed changed since 9/11. CP
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