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March 26, 2003
Bruce Jackson
A Battlefield from Hell
Pablo
Mukherjee
Watch Their Lips
David Krieger
Shock But Not Awe
Linda
Heard
Winning Hearts and Minds Bush-Style
Imad Jadaa
The Beautiful Face of America
Adam
Engel
Buckets of Blood
Patrick Cockburn
Kurds Unimpressed
David
Lindorff
POWs, Torture and Hypocrisy
Robert Fisk
The Coup That Didn't Happen
April
Hurley, MD
A Doctor's Outrage in Baghdad
Gloria Bergen
Chretien's Shame
Reema
Abu Hamdieh
The Smell of Death Surrounds Me
March 25, 2003
Jeffrey St. Clair
Life During Wartime
Gary
Leupp
What Democracy Looks Like: the Streets
of Cairo
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
An Interview with Hanan Ashrawi
Bruce
Jackson
Why Protest? Why Write?
Uri Avnery
Bitter Rice: Thoughts and Warnings on
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Jason
Leopold
Blood Indicator: Casualties and the Stock
Market
Ralph Nader
A Pre-emptive War on a Defenseless Country
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Alexander Cockburn
Ominous Signs
David
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Peacekeepers at Ground Zero
Diane Christian
Blood Sacrifice
Kathy
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The Morning After Shock and Awe
John Stanton
US Bombs Iran
Wayne
Madsen
How to Live with a Rogue Superpower
Anthony Gancarski
Iraq and the Death of the West
David
Vest
Earth vs. Bush
Ahmad Faruqui
The Liberation of Iraq in Perspective
Robert
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March 22 / 23, 2003
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The Other America
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The Threats of Empire
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On the Road in the West Bank
Joanne Mariner
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Ann Harrison
The Battle of San Francisco
Robert Fisk
A Cauldron of Fire
Hani Shukrallah
The Gates of Hell
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Baghdad Burns While Bush Does Lunch
Bradley Burston
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Salvador Peralta
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Now That's a Coalition!
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Johnny Mack, When Are You Coming Back?
Cindy Milstein
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Josh Frank
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Elaine Cassel
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Gordon Solberg
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Tom Crumpacker
Getting to Know the Real Havana
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March 21, 2003
Ben Tripp
Blood for Oil:
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Cathy Breens
Report from Baghdad: Mothers, Kids and Crash Kits
Scott Handleman
Fourth
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Vanessa Jones
Paint Them
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Brian J. Foley
Patriotic Protest
for Professors
Zoltan Grossman
After Saddam, a War on Iraqi Rebels?
Philip S. Golub
Inventing Demons
Richard Lichtman
On the Current Experience of Terror
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Floyd Rudmin
The Nightmare at the Back Door: Nuclear Plant's as Terror Targets
Chris Floyd
See Rome (poem)
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Kevin Alexander Gray
How Did We Become
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Shane Claiborne
Nomadic
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Kathy Kelly
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Jason Leopold
Cheney's
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If War is Business as Usual, There Should be No Business as Usual
Chuck O'Connell
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Sima Saeedi
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March
26, 2003
Moynihan
and East Timor
Daniel Patrick
Murderer
By MICKEY Z
We
have lost a great American, an extraordinary senator, an intellectual
and a man of passion and understanding for what really makes the country
work." Hilary Clinton was speaking of the man she replaced in the
Senate, Daniel Patrick Murderer, um, Moynihan.
We'll surely be inundated with maudlin eulogies in the coming days,
but I read enough about Senator Murderer when he retired in 2001.
"Consistently
ahead of the curve," crowed Al Gore. "Larger-than-life,"
added Bill Clinton.
"Quite
simply a great man," concluded pundit Michael Barone.
Even
the New York (com)Post declared Pat, "a gentle genius."
To
begin the deconstruction of such malodorous myth-making, I'll begin
with a geography question: What nation has the largest Muslim population?
Nope, not Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, or Saddam Hussein's Iraq-it's Indonesia.
With a populace more than 90 percent Islamic, this Asian dictatorship
has conveniently avoided America's notorious anti-Muslim bent by holding
claim to the South Pacific's largest supply of oil and the world's most
abundant reserve of natural gas. Therefore, while Palestinian Muslims
are labeled terrorists for having the audacity to revolt against more
than fifty years of Israeli repression, Indonesian Muslims can get away
with murder. Literally.
Some
more geography: East Timor is an island nation, a former Portuguese
colony just above Australia, that has been the target of a relentless
and murderous assault by Indonesia since December 7, 1975-an assault
made possible through the sale of U. S. arms to its loyal client-state,
the silent complicity of the American press, and Pat Moynihan's skill
at keeping the UN uninvolved. Over one-third of the East Timorese population
(more than 200,000 humans) has lost their lives due to war-related starvation,
disease, massacres, or atrocities. Proportionally, the depth of this
slaughter is on par with the omnipresent Nazi Holocaust and like the
Chinese "liberation" of Tibet, the culture of entire people
is slowly being erased.
Here's
where the "gentle genius" fits in. After having served as
an advisor to Richard Nixon (an excellent venue for honing skills of
genocide), Moynihan was appointed United States Ambassador to the United
Nations under President Ford. It was during this time that the U.S.-backed
Indonesian invasion of East Timor took place. Taking orders from Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger, our Moynihan bragged to the Australian ambassador
to the UN that he was "under instructions from Kissinger personally
not to involve himself in discussions on Timor with Indonesians."
In
his book, A Dangerous Place, Senator Pat further detailed his role in
the East Timorese genocide: "The United States wished things to
turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The Department
of State desired that the United Nations prove utterly ineffective in
whatever measures it undertook.
This
task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable
success."
"He's the kind of senator the founding fathers hoped we would produce-a
philosopher-politician," Michael Barone opined. When one contemplates
the genocide perpetrated upon African slaves and Native Americans by
the rich white land-owning men Barone reveres, I must concur: The late
great Senator Daniel Patrick Murderer would have indeed make them proud.
Mickey
Z. is the author of The
Murdering of My Years: Artists and Activists Making Ends Meet and
an editor at Wide Angle. He
can be reached at: mzx2@earthlink.net
.
Today's Features
March 26, 2003
Pablo
Mukherjee
Watch Their Lips
David Krieger
Shock But Not Awe
Linda
Heard
Winning Hearts and Minds Bush-Style
Imad Jadaa
The Beautiful Face of America
Adam
Engel
Buckets of Blood
Patrick Cockburn
Kurds Unimpressed
David
Lindorff
POWs, Torture and Hypocrisy
Robert Fisk
The Coup That Didn't Happen
April
Hurley, MD
A Doctor's Outrage in Baghdad
Gloria Bergen
Chretien's Shame
Reema
Abu Hamdieh
The Smell of Death Surrounds Me
Website of the War
Iraq
Body Count
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