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Stories
February 26
/ 27, 2005
Noam Chomsky
Nuclear
Terror at Home
February 25,
2005
Roger Burbach
Murder
in the Amazon
Behzad Yaghmaian
Iranian Distrust of America: 50 Years in the Making
Kurt Nimmo
Conclave of the Brats
Joshua Frank
Diagnosing the Green Party
John Farley
How to Stop the War in Iraq: Punish Pro-War Politicians
Lawrence Reichard
The D'Aubuisson Memorial: Flowers of Evil
Pratyush Chandra
The Royal Coup in Nepal and Global Imperialist Designs
David Smith-Ferri
When
the Battlefield has No Borders
Website of
the Day
The 2005 Election in 3-D
February 24,
2005
Omar Waraich
The
Galloway Saga: Smearing an Anti-War Politician
Brian Cloughley
Bribing and Twisting Amerian Journalists: Valerie Plame &
30 Pieces of Silver
Tom Wright
Torture Nation: Abu Ghraib, a Year Later
Sharon Smith
The Anti-War Movement After Kerry: Learning All the Wrong Lessons
Dave Lindorff
Do These Roosting Chickens Have Flu?
Fred Feldman
Lynching Ward Churchill
James Reiss
On Hearing About a Plot to Assassinate President Bush
Diane Christian
Bad
Blood: Ritual & Sexual Torture in Iraq
Website of
the Day
The Gray Line
February 23,
2005
Werther
The
Poisoned Well: What the CIA's Nazi Files Can Tell Us About Iraq
W. John Green
A Salvador Option for Iraq? How Negroponte Changes the Ground
Rules
James Petras
A New Face to Bush Foreign Policy?
Conn Hallinan
Cornering the Dragon: the Return of the China Lobby
Joe Pietri
Cannabis: the Goose that Lays Golden Eggs (For Consumers and
Cops)
Louis Proyect
Hunter Thompson and the "New" Journalism
Alexander Cockburn
Hunter
S. Thompson and Gonzo
Website of
the Day
Did You Make the Blacklist? Why Not?
February 22,
2005
Naseer Aruri
The
Politics of the Hariri Assassination: Remapping the Middle East
Richard Manning
The
Economy of Hunger: Starvation is Part of the Economic Plan
William A.
Cook
Righteous
Racism Running Rampant
Paul Craig Roberts
The Agents of Instability
Ken Krayeske
Dr. Thompson is Out
Dave Zirin
How the Owners Destroyed the NHL
Kirkpatrick
Sale
Imperial
Entropy: the Collapse of the American Empire
February 21,
2005
Hunter S. Thompson
"He
Was A Crook"
John Ross
Mexico:
the Pentagon's Proxy Army in Iraq
Ward Churchill
What Did I Really Say? Why Did
I Say It?
Dr. Teresa
Whitehurst
Military Recruiting on Channel One: Geometry 101, Brought to
You by the US Navy
David Swanson
Fighting for a Living Wage, State by State
Dave Lindorff
All the News That's Fit to Fake
Stew Albert
Fear and Loathing: HST
Michael Neumann
Strategies
in Palestine: a Shrinking Pie in the Sky
February 19
/ 20, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Back
to Salem: Paul Shanley and the Return of "Recovered Memory"
Kathleen Christison
Struggling
for Justice in Palestine
Ted Honderich
On Being Persona Non Grata
Gary Leupp
Self-Hating Gays: Welcome to the White House & Welcome to
Commit Suicide
Don Santina
Reparations for the Blues
Jennifer Roesch
John Negroponte: Dirty Warrior
Scott Richard
Lyons
Ward
Churchill and the Identity Police
Chris Clarke
Ward Churchill and Liberal Outrage
George Beres
Censorship in the Land of Wayne Morse: Gagging W. Churchill in
Oregon
Harry Browne
The Belfast Heist: the Plot Unravels
Manuel García,
Jr.
Who Killed Rafik Hariri?
Mark Scaramella
Lessons from the Hidden Afghan War
Michael Donnelly
Whatever Happened to John Edwards?
John Pilger
First, They Attack the Past
Norman Madarasz
Death Wish for Reform in Brazil?
Surendra Devkota
The Monarchy in Nepal
Deborah Rich
How Anti-GMO Ballot Measures May Miss the Mark
Fred Gardner
When Dr. Tod Met Merle Haggard
CounterPunch
News Service
About King Mswati: Political Developments in Swaziland
Richard Oxman
CounterPunching Arthur Miller
Poets' Basement
Albert, Giebel, Tripp, Engel and Orkin
February 18,
2005
Ben Moxham
In
East Timor, the Nightmare Continues
Dave Lindorff
The
Scum Also Rises: the Bloody Career of John Negroponte
Larry Birns
Negroponte: a Resume of Death Squads, Deceptions and Bribery
Gregory Elich
N, Korea's Phantom Nukes and the US's Subversion of Diplomacy
Samuel Logan / John Meyers
The Future of Colombia's Paramilitary Death Squads
Nicole Colson
Shock and Awe on Civil Liberties: From Lynne Stewart to Ward
Churchill
Suzan Mazur
Whose National Security Are We Talking About?
Mickey Z.
"One
Man Has Stopped Killing"
February 17,
2005
Joshua Frank
Hogtying
of the Deaniacs
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bush's
Willing Sychophants: the Conservative Media
Robert Fisk
Under
the Shadow of Death in Lebanon
Christopher
Brauchli
Where
Time Stands Still: Kinsey and Darwin in Cobb County, GA
Dr. Teresa
Whitehurst
Military
Recruitment TV: Why Send Them to College, When Your Kid Can be
Cannon Fodder?
Alison Weir
Russia, Israel and Media Omissions
Ahrar Ahmad
A Review of Shahid Alam's "Is There an Islamic Problem?"
Saul Landau
An
Interview with Cuban VP Ricardo Alarcon: "The US Tramples
the Laws It Wrote"
Website of the Day
Petition to Support Ward Churchill
February 16,
2005
Robert Fisk
Lebanon:
a Battlefield for the Wars of Others
Kevin Zeese
Creating a Real Ownership Society: Share the Wealth; Protect
Retirement
Gary Leupp
Meanwhile, in Nepal...
Ron Jacobs
Why the Iranian Opposition Should Not Trust the Bush Administration
Jessica Leight
Oil-Flush Chavez Begins to Strut His Stuff
Greg Moses
Houston, You've Got a Problem: Documenting Voting Irregularities
in Texas
Mark Engler
The Last Porto Alegre
Jack McCarthy
Where's the Outrage About Pat? Buchanan Does a Churchill
Bill Christison
US
Foreign Policy Dangerously Slanted Toward Israel
Website of the Day
The
World is Melting: a Photo Survey by Gary Braasch
February 15,
2005
CounterPunch
News Service
Dean
a "Safe" Moderate, Says NYT Citing CounterPunch
Robert Fisk
The
Killing of Mr. Lebanon
Uri Avnery
"Sharm-al-Sheikh,
We Have Come Back Again"
Stan Cox
Fighting Big Pharma in Little Digwal
Mickey Z.
Radio
Active North of the Border: an Interview with Chris Cook
Dave Zirin
Bashing Bush: Jose Canseco Comes Clean
Nadia Martinez
Ending
World Poverty? Opening at the World Bank, Apply Now
Lila Rajiva
"Little Eichmanns" and the 'Harijan': the Danger of
Magical Thinking in Politics
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
American Job Sell Out
February 14,
2005
Robert Jensen
Ward
Churchill: Right to Speak Out; Right About 9/11
Brian Cloughley
Kuwait's Freedom, Bush-style
Patrick Cockburn
Outcome
of the Iraqi Elections: Shortages, Corruption, Guerrilla War
Gary Leupp
Post-election Iraq: What Next?
Michael Donnelly
Sacred Nature: Just Another Commodity?
Dave Lindorff
When Bush Came to My Neighborhood
Elaine Cassel
The
Lynne Stewart Verdict
February 12
/ 13, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Ward
Churchill's Genes
Saul Landau
Alarcon
Speaks: an Interview with the Vice President of Cuba
Paul Craig
Roberts
Nothing
to Fear But Bush Himself
Patrick Cockburn
Two Years After the Fall of Saddam, the Resistance Controls All
Major Roads into Baghdad
John Feffer
Bush
v. N. Korea: Round Two
Mickey Z.
Right to Remain Silent; Duty to Speak
Kurt Nimmo
Viva la Cucaracha!
Fred Gardner
Waiting for Raich
Dave Zirin
Fighting the New Republic(ans)
John Chuckman
Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Ben Tripp
A Leftist on the Bush Payroll
Carol Norris
"Buddy, Can You Spare a Dwarf?"
Robert Fisk
No Middle East Peace Without Justice
Frank / Chowkwanyun
Muzzled Activist in an Age of Terror: the Case of Sherman Austin
Mike Whitney
Condi's Euro Tour
Deborah Frisch
A Psychologist's Defense of Ward Churchill
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Reading Khomeini in Colorado
Christine TenBarge
What's So Special About Ward?
Ron Jacobs
Curtis Mayfield's Train to Jordan
Dr. Susan Block
Chemistry of Love: a Valentine's Greeting
Poets' Basement
Louise, Smith-Ferri, Ford and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Free Sherman
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Manuel Garcia,
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The
Eight Percent War
Kurt Nimmo
Ann
Coulter's Racism: Where's Geronimo When You Really Need
Him?
Dave Lindorff
Guckert
or Gannon? The Perfect Plant; He Fit Right In
Larry Birns
War is Peace; Slavery is Freedom: Democracy According to Elliott
Abrams
Bill Quigley
Twenty Questions: a Social Justice Quiz
Tom Barry
Bush's State of Delusion
Jennifer Van
Bergen
Lynne
Stewart's Conviction Hurts Us All
February 10,
2005
Dave Lindorff
What
Academic Freedom?
Christopher Brauchli
The Love of Slaughter: From Rwanda to Iraq
Patrick Cockburn
In Baghdad, It's Easy to Get Killed
Nicole Colson
Have the Democrats Surrendered on Abortion Rights?
Suzan Mazur
More
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Michael Donnelly
Salvaging an Opposition
Mike Stark
Driving Ossie Davis: "Give Them a Little Truth, a Little
Hope"
Greg Moses
Taking
Jesus Back from the Hijackers
Website of
the Day
The Missionary Positions
February 9,
2005
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Duck
and Cover Redux: Bunker Busters and City Levellers
Mickey Z.
What Ward Churchill Didn't Say
John Ross
Hecho
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Tom Barry
Ambassador of Lies: Elliott Abrams, the Neocon's Neocon
Conn Hallinan
The
Coup in Nepal: Nursing the Pinion
Patrick Cockburn
Sistani's Vision for Iraq: Cricket is Fine, But Chess is "Absolutely
Forbidden"
Steen Sohn
Danish PM Says It's OK for Israel to Violate UN Resolutions
Tim Wise
Reflections on Empire and Uppity Indians
Website of
the Day
Support Antiwar.com
February 8,
2005
Patrick Cockburn
Shia/Kurd
Coalition to Dominate New Iraqi Govt.: "It's an Electoral
Pact, Not a Party"
Brian Cloughley
Out
of the Mouths of Generals: "It's Fun to Shoot Some People"
Steve Breyman
Against the Selfishness of the "Ownership Society"
Harry Browne
"Don't
Get on that Plane!": Soldiers Seek Asylum in Ireland
Doug Giebel
"We Love Free Speech in America": the People, the President
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Nate Collins
The Censorship of Ward Churchill and Dancehall Reggae: It's the
Same Beast
Dave Lindorff
It's Time for a Labor-Oriented Newspaper
David Smith-Ferri
Sanctions and the Health Crisis in Iraq
February 7,
2005
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bush's
War on Jobs
Carolyn Baker
The New McCarthyism on Campus: Churchill and the Attack on Higher
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Joshua Frank
Marc Cooper's Hit List: First Mumia; Now Ward Churchill
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Warning: More Hate Speech from W. Churchill
Patrick Cockburn
The
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Mike Whitney
Tom Friedman: Scribe for New Age Imperialism
Stacie Jonas
Pinochet: Fit to be Tried
Dave Zirin
A Miserable Super Sunday: Clinton, Bush and the FBI
Tariq Ali
Imperial
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February 5
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Alexander Cockburn
Ward
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Kurt Nimmo
A Ward Churchill Kind of Day
Joshua Frank
Liberals Trash Ward Churchill
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Patrick Cockburn
Sistani's Triumph; Allawi's Bust
Laura Carlsen
Bush, Rice and Latin America
Dave Lindorff
How the NYT Killed the Bush Bulge Story
Pamela Olson
West Bank Story
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The Future of Sudanese Refugees in the West
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Roger Burbach
World Social Forum: a Tale of Two Presidents
Robert Fisk
History by Laptop
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James Forman and the Liberal-Labor Syndrome
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Gay Marriage: a Report from Canada
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Chairman Bob Avakian: a Revolutionary Life
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Republican Heroes: a New Breed of Good Guy
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Weekend Edition
February 26 / 27, 2005
Second Thoughts on the Hotel Rwanda
Boutros-Ghali:
a CIA Role in the 1994 Assassination of Rwanda's President Habyarimana?
By
ROBIN PHILPOT
With war still raging in the Eastern
Congo for the fourth time since 1996, serious questions must
be asked about the UN's inability to respond effectively. Former
UN Secretary General Boutros-Ghali has been raising such questions
ever since Washington vetoed his second mandate at the UN in
November 1996. For the English version of my book Rwanda 1994,
Colonialism Dies Hard, I interviewed Boutros-Ghali about
the wars that have wreaked havoc on Central Africa and especially
Rwanda and the former Zaire. His observations about the UN and
the possible role of the CIA in the April 6, 1994 assassination
of two African heads of state are stunning.
In March 2004, the former Secretary
General declared to the French daily Libération
that a major problem at the UN was that the Department of Peacekeeping
Operations was very infiltrated by the American authorities.
Here, briefly, is how the UN is infiltrated and the impact.
"The US authorities have
taken control of the UN system through financial administration
and the appointment of officers and staff who are paid directly
by the United States. The UN doesn't have the means to appoint
senior officers and specialist staff. When these people are selected
and paid by a foreign government, they are obviously more loyal
to that government than to the UN. As a result, reports presented
to the Secretary General and to the Security Council are purged
and modified." To find out more about this analysis, Boutros-Ghali
recommends reading the paper entitled Multilateralism Besieged
that he presented on behalf of the South Centre in October
2004 (www.southcentre.org).
"In practical terms,"
he added, "in the case of Rwanda, the Department of Peace-Keeping
Operations (DPKO) would send me reports on the situation based
on information provided by my special envoy Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh,
General Romeo Dallaire and others. But these reports would be
purged, modified and drafted according to a specific foreign
policy."
Asked about the famous fax sent by General Dallaire to the UN
headquarters in January 1994 describing a plan to eliminate many
Tutsis, Boutros-Ghali replied: "That story is greatly exaggerated.
There was not only one fax. Every day the UN would receive faxes
saying 'We heard there's a plot afoot' And that leads to another
weakness of the UN. The UN has no intelligence service. Member
countries are much more informed about what's going on than the
UN Secretary General. Moreover, they refuse to share their information!"
Boutros-Ghali insisted that
he does not wish to understate his own responsibility in Rwanda.
"I said publicly that I failed in Rwanda. I did not succeed
in convincing Security Council members to act. The United States
with the strong support of Great Britain did everything they
could to prevent the UN from intervening, and a majority of countries
followed their lead." It should be noted that Boutros-Ghali
declared on at least two occasions, including once to me in November
2002, that the "Rwandan genocide was 100 percent American
responsibility".
Why did the United States and
Great Britain oppose intervening in Rwanda when it could have
been helpful and necessary?
Boutros-Ghali: "Is this
not a repetition of Fashoda?" The reference is to the fort
on the Upper Nile (now in Sudan) where French and British troops
met in September 1898. France was trying to dominate Africa from
Dakar to Djibouti while the British wanted to build a railway
to link its 'possessions' from 'The Cape to Cairo'. France withdrew
and conceded Fashoda to the British.
"Central Africa has been
the scene of an Anglo-American conflict with France. After all,
what has happened in the Congo: war and at least 100,000 Hutus
killed. That whole affair has been suppressed. The report on
those deaths was never published. The French supported Mobutu,
while the Americans and the British were behind Uganda and Rwanda,
and they won. The background to these wars is a repetition of
Fashoda. It began with Rwanda, and before that Uganda, which
is part of the Anglo-American block. Uganda has no political
parties, but it is never criticized, never denounced. () If there
had been no foreign aggression by a Uganda against Rwanda in
1990, there would have been no war and no genocide."
Boutros-Ghali is astonished
by the silence concerning the assassination on April 6, 1994,
of the heads of state of two African countries, Rwanda and Burundi,
which triggered the massive killing.
"It is a very mysterious
scandal. Four reports have been made on Rwanda: the French Parliament
Report, the Belgian Senate Report, Kofi Annan's UN report, and
the Organization of African Unity report. All four say absolutely
nothing about the shooting down of the Rwandan President's plane.
That just goes to show the power of the intelligence services
that can force people to be quiet."
The only partial exception
is the seven year investigation conducted by the French anti-terrorist
judge Jean-Louis Bruguière. That investigation has implicated
current Rwandan President Paul Kagame and the Rwandan Patriotic
Front for having planned, ordered and carried out the April 6
assassination. But the silence continues since the Bruguière
report has not been officially filed, only having been leaked
to Le Monde.
According to Boutros-Ghali
there's much left to be found out. "Judge Bruguière,
who I invited to a conference in Monaco, told me that according
to his investigation, the CIA was involved in that assassination.
The Anglo-American intelligence apparatus is much stronger than
France's. Perhaps the French secret service decided that they
have no interest in making the Bruguière report public
at this time."
If the CIA was involved in
the assassination of Rwandan President Habyarimana in April 1994,
as the French judge has claimed, then it is easier to understand
why the Official Story about the Rwandan tragedy continues to
call that terrorist attack an "accident" or a "crash".
Worse still, considering the terrible consequences that exceed
the wildest predictions of any sorcerer's apprentice, serious
questions remain unanswered about the efforts made and means
used to erase the tracks leading to the criminals involved in
the killing of the two African heads of state, and to misinform
and mislead international public opinion about the real causes
of the Rwandan tragedy that followed.
Second thoughts
about Hotel Rwanda
Moreover, those who, like most
of the movie critics, have been smitten by the two films about
Rwanda now showing, "Hotel Rwanda" and the documentary
"Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire"
should read, or reread, two important books that help put it
all in perspective. The first one, to help come to grips with
the wild imaginings about the devil and his cold hands, is Black
Skin, White Masks (1952) by the great anti-colonialist writer
and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. The following excerpt is particularly
relevant: "In Europe, Evil is represented by the Black man.
The hangman is black, Satan is black, people talk of darkness,
and when one is dirty, he is black be it physical or to
moral dirt. People would be surprised to see the very large number
of expressions, if they were all recorded where the Black man
is equated to sin."
The second book, "The
Africa that Never Was" (1970) is the product of a comprehensive
study of mainly British literature on Africa from 1560 to 1960.
The authors, Hammond and Jablow, identify a set of conventions,
metaphors and images that pervade the literature and cinema
that together were developed during, and helped to legitimize,
slavery and colonialism. Together they offer a fantasy vision
of a continent and a people that never existed and never could
exist. The authors show for example, that unlike for the tales
about bloody wars in Europe, nobody in the literature on Africa
finds, or attempts to find, social, economic, political, international
or institutional reasons for the wars. Based on the literature,
people just seem to like killing each other in Africa.
It is sad to see that these
colonialist views pervade modern literature and film about Africa
and especially Rwanda.
Robin Philpot is a Montreal writer. Rwanda 1994:
Colonialism dies hard, the English adaptation of the French language
book Ça ne s'est pas passé comme ça à
Kigali is now published in its entirety on line by the Taylor
Report at www.taylor-report.com.
Robin Philpot can be reached at rphilpot@sympatico.ca.
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