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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
Jack McCarthy
Hitchens
Mind-Meld
and Hot Bodies
Steve
Perry
Afghan
Puzzle Palace
RAWA
We Do Not Accept
the Northern Alliance
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
November 5, 2001
Patrick Cockburn
Living
in the Minefields
David Price
Terror
and Indigenous People
November 3, 2001
Declan McCullagh
Nancy Oden Interview
Daniel
Wolff
The
Memphis Blues Again
Mark Weisbrot
War on Civilians
Dave Marsh
How
the RIAA (and the FBI) Cheat Musicians
Robert Jensen
Speaking
Out Against
War on Campus
November 2, 2001
CounterPunch
Wire
Green
Party Leader Detained at Maine Airport; Prevented from Boarding
Any Plane
Alexander Cockburn
FBI Eyes
Torture
November 1, 2001
Dean Baker
Dying
for Patents
Sami Amarah
US Attempts
to Recruit
Russian Vets of Afghan War
Molly Secours
Where
Are the Voices of Reason? Let the Women
Be Heard
William Blum
Unleashing the
CIA
October 31, 2001
Tom Turnipseed
Terrorize
the Poor,
Subsidize the Rich
Chris Clarke
Thank God
for Berkeley
Steve
Perry
The
Silent Genocide
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November
15, 2001
Kill, Kill, Kill
By Russell Mokhiber and
Robert Weissman
In a recent interview with the Pakistani newspaper
Dawn, Osama bin Laden justified the killing of innocent Americans
this way :
"If an enemy occupies a Muslim territory
and uses common people as human shield, then it is permitted
to attack that enemy. For instance, if bandits barge into a home
and hold a child hostage, then the child's father can attack
the bandits and in that attack even the child may get hurt. America
and its allies are massacring us in Palestine, Chechnya, Kashmir
and Iraq. The Muslims have the right to attack America in reprisal."
That's the traditional justification
for killing, isn't it?
They kill us, we kill them, they kill
us, we kill them.
What ever happened to "thou shalt
not kill"?
Equally unimpressive is President Bush's
justification for killing: we are in a war with terror.
Okay, then what about terror committed
by us?
We kill innocents, they kill innocents.
It's all terror.
Last week, Bush said we don't target
innocent civilians.
Oh yeah? What about the nuclear attack
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the fire bombing of Dresden? What
about U.S. support in the 1980s for the contra war in Nicaragua,
and the CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports -- actions which killed
thousands and led to a judgment against the United States at
the World Court?
Civilian targeting, and terror, pure
and simple.
Most despicable are those in our media,
who sit comfortably in their modern offices, staring at their
computers, and hit the keys advocating more killing of innocents
thousands of miles away.
Here's our short ten worst list, in order
of repulsiveness:
Michael Kelly (Washington Post): "American
pacifists are on the side of future mass murders of Americans,"
they are "objectively pro-terrorist," "evil"
and "liars."
Jonathan Alter (Newsweek): Wondered whether
torture would "jump-start the stalled investigation into
the greatest crime in American history." Urges pacifists
to shut up because "it's kill or be killed."
Bill O'Reilly (Fox TV): "The US
should bomb the Afghan infrastructure to rubble -- the airport,
the power plants, their water facilities, the roads. The Afghans
are responsible for the Taliban. We should not target civilians,
but if they don't rise up against this criminal government, they
starve, period."
A.M. Rosenthal (Washington Times): In
addition to Afghanistan, wants to bomb Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Iran,
and Syria.
Ann Coulter (ex-National Review): Her
response to terrorism is to "invade their countries, kill
their leaders, and convert them to Christianity."
Steve Dunleavy (New York Post) "
"The response to this unimaginable 21st-century Pearl Harbor
should be as simple as it is swift -- kill the bastards. A gunshot
between the eyes, blow them to smithereens, poison them if you
have As for cities or countries that host these worms, bomb them
into basketball courts."
Rich Lowry (National Review): "If
we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that
is part of the solution."
Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post):
"We are fighting because the bastards killed 5,000 of our
people, and if we do not kill them, they are going to kill us
again."
Thomas Friedman (New York Times): "We
have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules."
And the perverted "give war a chance."
George Will (Washington Post): "The
Bush administration is telling the country that there is some
dying to be done. ... The goal is not to 'bring terrorists to
justice,' which suggests bringing them into sedate judicial settings
-- lawyers, courtrooms, due process, all preceded by punctilious
readings of Miranda rights. Rather, the goal is destruction of
enemies."
Of course, the peace voices have been
shunned by the big media corporations.
After September 11, Clear Channel, the
nation's largest owner of radio stations, sent out an internal
memorandum with a list of songs the stations were not to play,
including John Lennon's "Imagine."
In response, Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono,
took out a full page ad in the New York Times with eight words
from the song: "Imagine all the people living life in peace."
Then she took out a billboard on Time
Square that said: "Give Peace a Chance."
"What John wrote is a very strong
and beautiful message," Ono said. "I think they (Clear
Channel) wanted everyone to be in a kind of attack mode."
John Lennon: "Give Peace a Chance."
Thomas Friedman: "Give War a Chance."
You decide.
Russell Mokhiber
is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter.
Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based
Multinational Monitor. They are co-authors of Corporate
Predators: The Hunt for MegaProfits and the Attack on Democracy
(Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1999).
(c) Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
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