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August
4, 2003
Bruce
Jackson
News that Isn't News: How the NYT's
Pimps for the White House
August
2 / 3, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Meet the Real WMD Fabricator: Rolf
Ekeus
Tamara
R. Piety
Nike's Full Court Press Breaks Down
Francis
Boyle
My Alma Mater, the University of Chicago, is a Moral Cesspool
David
Vest
Sons of Paleface: Pictures from Death's Other Side
Neve Gordon
Nightlife in Jerusalem
Uri
Avnery
Their Master's Voice:
Bush, Blair and Intelligence Snafus
Robert
Fisk
Paternalistic Democracy for Iraq
Jerry
Kroth
Israel, Yellowcake and the Media
Noah Leavitt
What's Driving the Liberian Bloodbath: Is the US Obligated to
Intervene?
Saul
Landau
The Film Industry: Business and Ideology
Ron Jacobs
One Big Prison Yard: the Meaning of George Jackson
Thomas
Croft
In the Deep, Deep Rough: Reflections on Augusta
Amadi Ajamu
Def Sham: Russell Simmons New Black Leader?
Poets'
Basement
Vega, Witherup, Albert and Fleming
August
1, 2003
Joanne
Mariner
Stopping Prison Rape
Alex Coolman
Who Moved My Soap: Trivializing
Prison Rape
Steve
J.B.
Prison Bitch
Stan Goff
Injury and Decorum: The Missing Wounded in Iraq
Wayne
Madsen
Europe Unplugs from the Matrix
Robert
Fisk
Wolfowitz the Censor
Elaine
Cassel
Ashcroft Loses Big in Puerto Rico
Website
of the Day
Stop Prisoner Rape
July
31, 2003
Ray
McGovern
The Prostitution of Intelligence
Brian
Cloughley
Wolfowitz's Operative Statement
Sheldon
Hull
The RIAA's Jihad:
The Devil's Music (Industry)
Elaine
Cassel
The Next Time You Crack a Lawyer Joke, Think of These Attorneys
Sheldon
Rampton
and John Stauber
True Lies: Propaganda and Bush's
Wars
Hammond
Guthrie
Speculation Blues
Website
of the Day
Army of One?
July
30, 2003
David
Lindorff
Poindexter the Terror Bookie
Marjorie
Cohn
Why Iraq and Afghanistan? It's About
the Oil
Elaine
Cassel
How Ashcroft Coerces Guilty Pleas
in Terror Cases
Zvi
Bar'el
The Hidden Costs of the Iraq War
Lisa Walsh
Thomas
Killing Mustafa Hussein: Death of a Child, Birth of a Legend?
Sean
Carter
Pat Robertson's Prayer Jihad: God, Sodomy and the Supremes
ND Jayaprakash
India and Ariel Sharon
Steve
Perry
Bush's Top 40 Lies
Website
of the Day
Bring Them Home Now!
Congratulations
to CounterPuncher Gilad Atzmon! BBC Names EXILE Top Jazz CD
July
29, 2003
Jeffrey
St. Clair
"Journalist Spotted! Journalist
Dead!" Guatemala Bleeds; US Press Yawns
Thomas
J. Nagy
The Belligerent Dr. Pipes
Kurt Nimmo
Tom Delay Goes to Jerusalem
Chris
Floyd
Dead Reckoning: Bush Warriors Sign Off on War Crimes
Robert
Fisk
Another Botched Raid; Another Massacre
Jason Leopold
Did Chalabi Help Write Bush's State of the Union Address?
Conn Hallinan
Food Bully: Bush's Biotech Shock and Awe Campaign
Dan
Bacher
Sacramento's War on Free Speech
Ray
McGovern
Cheney Chicanery
Website
of the Day
Julie Hilden Caught on Tape
July 26 / 27, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
NYT's Screws Up Again; Uday and
Qusay Deaths Bad for Bush; Gen. Hitchens at the Front
Gary
Leupp
Faith-Based Intelligence
Saul Landau
A Report from Syria
Stan
Goff
Bring 'Em On Home, Now!
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Book Cooking at Boeing
Andrew
Cockburn
The Sons Are Dead; Now the Blood Feud
Begins
Jason Leopold
CIA Points the Finger at the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans
Robert
Fisk
The Power of Death
Joanne
Mariner
Monsieur Moussaoui
Standard
Schaefer
Joblessness and the Invisible Hand
M. Shahid
Alam
The Global Economy Since 1800: a Short History
Harry
Browne
Northern Ireland: the Other Faltering Peace Process
Fidel Castro
Moncada, 50 Years Later
Lula
Democracy Requires Social Justice
Edward
S. Herman
Refuting Brad DeLong's Smear Job on Noam Chomsky
Ron Jacobs
Guided by a Great Feeling of Love: a Review of Gordon's The Company
You Keep
Julie
Hilden
A Photographer, an Offer and Cameron Diaz's Topless Photos
Adam Engel
Man Talk
Poets'
Basement
Keeney, Witherup, Short, Nimba, Guthrie and Albert
Hot Stories
Steve
J.B.
Prison Bitch
Sheldon
Rampton and John Stauber
True Lies: the Use of Propaganda
in the Iraq War
Wendell
Berry
Small Destructions Add Up
CounterPunch
Wire
WMD: Who Said What When
Cindy
Corrie
A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter
I Can't Hear From
Elaine
Cassel
Civil Liberties
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Michel
Guerrin
Embedded Photographer Says: "I
Saw Marines Kill Civilians"
Uzma
Aslam Khan
The Unbearably Grim Aftermath of War:
What America Says Does Not Go
Paul de Rooij
Arrogant
Propaganda
Gore Vidal
The
Erosion of the American Dream
Francis Boyle
Impeach
Bush: A Draft Resolution
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August
4, 2003
The
Rules of Engagement
Marriage
Insecurity from Sharon to Bush
By
MICKEY Z.
As July turned into August, the thoughts of repressed
white men turn to...marriage?
In Israel (a.k.a. the Holy Land), the
Knesset hurriedly passed a law preventing Palestinians who marry
Israelis from obtaining Israeli citizenship or residency. (FYI:
Anyone else who marries an Israeli remains entitled to Israeli
citizenship.) As reported by Justin Huggler of the Guardian,
"Israeli Arabs who marry Palestinians from the West Bank
or Gaza Strip will either have to move to the occupied territories,
or live apart from their husband or wife. Their children will
be affected too: from the age of 12 they will be denied citizenship
or residency and forced to move out of Israel."
The ostensible reason for this racist
legislation is this: The Israeli Arab community, already 20%
of the population, is growing faster than the Jewish population...and,
over the past 10 years, more than 100,000 Palestinians have become
Israeli citizens through marriage (mostly to Israeli Arabs).
Of course, those in favor of the law
cloaked their bigotry in the garb of anti-terrorism. "We
are in a state of war--not with the English, or the Americans,
or the Dutch, or the Slovaks--we are at war with our neighbors,
the Palestinians," Gideon Sa'ar, of the Likud Party, said
before the vote. "It's a tragic reality."
"This law comes to address a security
issue," said Gideon Ezra, a cabinet minister. "Since
September 2000 we have seen a significant connection, in terror
attacks, between Arabs from the West Bank and Gaza and Israeli
Arabs."
By "significant," Ezra apparently
means the 20 (out of 100,000) Israeli Arabs who allegedly have
been involved in "suicide bombings or other militant attacks."
Moving west to that other Holy Land,
the Vatican issued a 12-page set of guidelines (signed by the
CEO, I mean, pope) condemning same-sex marriage. Displaying its
notorious sensitivity, the Vatican declared homosexual relationships
to be "gravely immoral," equated the adoption of children
by gay couples with "doing violence," and called on
politicians to defend "the common good of society."
The ostensible reason for this document
(released in 7 languages) is this: "Only traditional marriage
between men and women can fulfill God's plan for the reproduction
of the human race." As far as I know, no mention was made
of 3gravely immoral2 priests "doing violence" to the
children they abuse and how that might impact upon "the
common good of society." Maybe next time...
Finally, crossing the pond to god's country,
President (sic) Bush had this to say: "Marriage is between
a man and a woman, and I think we ought to codify that one way
or the other. We've got lawyers looking at the best way to do
that."
Despite the fact that his predecessor,
noted liberal Bill Clinton, signed the Defense of Marriage in
1996, the ostensible reason for Bush's statement was to bring
about "a definition of marriage."
Afterwards, White House Press Secretary
Scott McClellan helped clarified things: "The president
(sic) doesn't believe in casting stones. He believes we ought
to treat one another with dignity and respect."
The holy trinity of Bush, the pope, and
the Knesset surely have lawyers looking at the best way to do
that, too.
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.
Weekend Edition Features for August 2/3, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Meet the Real WMD Fabricator: Rolf
Ekeus
Tamara
R. Piety
Nike's Full Court Press Breaks Down
Francis
Boyle
My Alma Mater, the University of Chicago, is a Moral Cesspool
David
Vest
Sons of Paleface: Pictures from Death's Other Side
Neve Gordon
Nightlife in Jerusalem
Uri
Avnery
Their Master's Voice:
Bush, Blair and Intelligence Snafus
Robert
Fisk
Paternalistic Democracy for Iraq
Jerry
Kroth
Israel, Yellowcake and the Media
Noah Leavitt
What's Driving the Liberian Bloodbath: Is the US Obligated to
Intervene?
Saul
Landau
The Film Industry: Business and Ideology
Ron Jacobs
One Big Prison Yard: the Meaning of George Jackson
Thomas
Croft
In the Deep, Deep Rough: Reflections on Augusta
Amadi Ajamu
Def Sham: Russell Simmons New Black Leader?
Poets'
Basement
Vega, Witherup, Albert and Fleming
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