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May 7, 2002
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CIA
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Tom Turnipseed
A Travesty of Justice
May 6, 2002
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The
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Rep. Ron Paul
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Only Feeds Resistance to Israeli Rule
May 5, 2002
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High and Dry in the Mojave
May 4, 2002
Robert
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Sharon
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and Arafat the Corrupt
Sam Bahour
New United States of Israel
Alexander
Cockburn
Extreme
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May 3, 2002
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Democracy and
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Wayne
Madsen
Dispatch
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Le Pen's Strange Coalition
Yigal Bronner
A Journey to Beit Jalla
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John Troyer
Hatemongers Try to Cleanse History:
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Kathleen Christison
Before There Was Terrorism
May 2, 2002
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Why We Refuse to Fight
Carol
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Subterranean
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A Peek Inside Colin Powell's Personal
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May 1, 2002
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Michel, Lazarus
French
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Baruch Kimmerling
The Battle of Jenin as
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Edward
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Hiding
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Inside Gaza
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Corporate
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Prisoners of the Infinite
April 30, 2002
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Chomsky,
Letters to the Writer and the Peace Movement
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The FBI and the Music
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Something
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Apartheid in the Holy Land
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May
7, 2002
Bone Apart:
Little
Remains of Napoleon's Defeated Army
By Patrick Cockburn
in Moscow
The remains of 2,000 soldiers from Napoleon's
army, killed by cold, hunger and disease during the French emperor's
disastrous invasion of Russia in the winter of 1812, have been
discovered in a mass grave in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.
It is the first such grave to be found
and is expected to yield evidence revealing how 450,000 soldiers
from the army that Napoleon led into Russia died during the retreat
from Moscow. "Some of the bodies were in postures which
showed they had frozen to death," said Rimantas Jankauskas,
an anthropologist and anatomist at Vilnius University, who led
the Lithuanian-French excavation team at Vilnius, then known
by its Polish name of Wilno.
Workers discovered the remains last autumn
when digging trenches to lay telecommunications cables at the
site of a former Soviet base. At first it was thought that they
might date from the Second World War, but then buttons, medals
and scraps of French uniform from the Napoleonic era were unearthed
among the bones in a 300ft trench, probably dug by the French
as part of their defensive works.
The skeletons were of males aged between
15 and 25.
None of the bones showed signs of recent
battle wounds.
Above is Charles Minard's map of Napoleon's
disastrous Russian campaign. Drawn in 1861, the graph illustrates
the relative size of Napoleon's Army by the width of the bands
during the invasion (top/gold) and retreat (black). Minard also
charts the freezing temperatures encountered during the retreat.
Many consider this one of the greatest statistical maps ever
made and, of course, a profound anti-war statement.
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