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January
30, 2002
Michael
Ratner
Memo
to Bush: Adhere to
the Geneva Convention
Jay Moore
Proud
to be an American?
Susan
Block
The
Great Pretzel Swallower
and Guantanamo Porn
January
29, 2002
Gary Leupp
Why
This War Was, and Remains, Utterly Wrong
Alexander
Cockburn
The
Birds of Kandahar
Patrick
Cockburn
Afghan
Opium Trade
Back in Business
January
28, 2002
Larry
Chin
Brosnahan
for the Defense
Mokhiber/Weissman
Tyranny
of the Bottom Line
George
E. Curry
Civil
Rights Nominee Called Affirmative Action "Racist"
Sen. Russ
Feingold
Campaign
Finance Reform?
Think Enron
John Chuckman
Liberal?
Media?
January
27, 2002
Mokhiber
and Weissman
Enron's
Drip, Drip, Drip
Tom Turnipseed
MLK
Jr.'s Dream Perverted
January
26, 2002
Norman
Madarsz
Adieu,
Bourdieu
January
25, 2002
National
Lawyers Guild
Know
Your Rights
Alexander
Cockburn
You
Call This Terrorism?
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Energy Crisis Hoax:
It Wasn't A Shortage,
It Was a Shakedown
Tariq
Ali
Kashmir,
Klinghoffer,
the Kurds and Chomsky
Nadine
Strossen
Protecting
MLK Jr.'s Legacy:
Justice and Liberty After 9/11
January
24, 2002
Robert
Fisk
Turkey
Targets Chomsky
Dean Baker
Lying
on Top:
Ken Lay One of Many
David
Vest
Idiot
Wind
January
23, 2002
Terry
Waite
Guantanamo
Prisoners:
Justice or Revenge?
Molly
Secours
The
Case of Abu-Ali:
Racism and the Death Penalty
Robert
Jensen
Speak
Out, Get Slimed
A Photographic Journal of Life
in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann
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January
30, 2002
"After
Last Night's Speech,
We Could All Use a Dose of Xanax"
Free Noelle Bush!
By Jack McCarthy
Poor Noelle Bush.
Too bad she didn't get caught naked and
humping in the parking lot of the Tallahassee Mall like her brother
Jebby Jr last October. Or making an unwanted entrance through
the bedroom window of a love interest like her older, spurned
brother George P, who then drove his car across the young woman's
front lawn.
Unlike her brothers, Noelle's mug shot
appeared in newspapers across the country
after she was arrested for allegedly (a word her uncle and father
hate when it comes to the accused) trying to secure a script
of Xanax by fraudulent means.
The wearied look on Noelle's face suggests
more than spiritual deflation from getting busted. She has the
haunted face of someone looking to come down from another drug.
Perhaps like the daughter of the rich white Judge in the film
"Traffic," it was crack. Or maybe she was crashing
from ecstasy. Xanax is very popular with young suburban drug
users, especially to ease the crash from ecstasy.
But then again, perhaps Noelle read an
advanced copy of her uncle's ghastly "State of the Union,"
address in which he all but declared war on Iran, Iraq and North
Korea, the "Axis of Evil."
And unlike Tim Russert and other media
stars, who practically goose-stepped during post-speech analysis,
maybe Noelle, like Reagan's daughter Patty Davis, is revolted
by the hypocrisy of Klan Bush.
Many media hacks are urging W to start
another war against Iraq and finish the job his father didn't.
What almost nobody points out is that,
as the Financial Times's Alan Friedman documents in his excellent
book, "Spiders Web," Saddam's initial tinkering the
dreaded nuclear, chemical and biological warfare materials occured
with the express approval and complicity of Bush Sr.
If the whole country had read Spiders
Web, we'd all be phoning in scripts for Xanax.
Which is why I say: "Free Noelle."
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