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October 6, 2001 Kevin Gray The Trap: Blacks and 9/11 October 5, 2001 Ronnie Gilbert Déjà Vu: The FBI's War on Civil Liberties Patrick Cockburn Taliban Cluster Bombs Dave Marsh John Brown, Woody Guthrie and the Secret Music of 9/11 Babak Nahid A Suspect's Perspective October 4, 2001 David Vest Send in the Cons Robin Blackburn Road to Armageddon Noam Chomsky Chatting with Chomsky Tony Blair The Dossier on bin Laden Norman Madarasz Canada Kow-Tows to US Lorenzo Ervin No Palestinian Ever Called Me Nigger October 3, 2001 Peter Bell Hitchens and Coulter: Love at Last? Patrick Cockburn Waiting Is the Hardest Part Jeff Chang Clear Channel Fires Davey D! John Chuckman War on Terror: Crusade Without a Definition Mahajan/Jensen Tough Talk Won't Solve Problems of Terrorism Ariel Dorfman: America the Wounded Lennie Brenner Dr. Watson in Afghanistan Steve Perry: Ashcroft's Scare Tactics October 2, 2001 Patrick Cockburn: Inside an Afghan Hospital Richard Manning: A Vietnam Vet on Patriotism St. Clair/Cockburn: Tarnished Star, Tom Ridge in Vietnam October 1, 2001 Noam Chomsky: Memo to Hitchens Hizam Bitar: Refuting Michael Kinsley David Grenier: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Douglas Valentine: Homeland Insecurity Carl Estabrook: Stop Bush's Killing Mahajan/Jensen: Food, Fear and War Patrick Cockburn: Ready to Strike Cockburn/St. Clair: Things Could Be Worse Terry Allen: Early Profit-taking and 9/11 Resources: 100s of Links About 9/11 CounterPunch: Complete Coverage of 9/11 and Its Aftermath Five Days That Shook The World: Seattle and Beyond By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair Photos by Allan Sekula (Click Here to Order from CounterPunch Online at 20% Off Amazon.com's price!) INSIDE Subscribe Online! EXCLUSIVE TO COUNTERPUNCH SUBSCRIBERS Published Oct. 3, 2001 8-Page Special Issue Aftermath Diary Ashcroft's Onslaught on Civil Liberties Ridge Long Groomed for Cheney's Job Those CIA Killing Bids Never Stopped The Not-So-Great Mayor Giuliani Crop Duster Ban Will Save Lives Madeleine Albright's Deadly Legacy How the Bin Laden Women Fled Bel Air Tom Ridge's Vietnam Same as Kerrey's? A CounterPunch Journey to Ramallah A Word About God Nostrodamus Jam-maker Search CounterPunch Read Whiteout and Find Out How the CIA's Backing of the Mujahideen Created the World's Most Robust Heroin Market and Helped to Finance the Rise of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden Whiteout: CIA, Drugs & the Press by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair A Pocket Guide to Environmental Bad Guys by James Ridgeway and Jeffrey St. Clair The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine Al Gore: A User's Manual by Cockburn and St. Clair Buy This Explosive New Book at an Amazing Discount!  Reviews of Gore: a User's Manual Private Warriors by Ken Silverstein CounterPunch's Booktalk New Stories: CounterPunch's Top 100 Nonfiction Books in Translation Estabrook: I Wonder Who's Kissinger Now? Cockburn on Global Warming Hot Air Is Bad For You Spy v. Spy: A Suicide in Arlington Cockburn On The Road: From Texas to Petrolia Vest on Condit: If You Can't Lie No Better Than That Bruce Babbitt: I Was Wronged by CounterPunch! McCarthy on Florida: Silence Over The Republican's Dead Intern CounterPunch Special Report The Crimes of Bob Kerrey Will the Democrats Doom the Arctic Wildlife Refuge? From New Orleans to Midland Bruce Babbitt: Sleaze Cashes In Fear and Torture: Inside a Genoa Jail Katharine Graham: She Needed Fewer Friends Scenes from the Drug War Nuked Baltimore? Condit and the Lie Detector Angelina Jolie and the French Revolution Edward Said: Israel Sharpens Its Axe Rest Easy, John Lee The Battle for Public Power Hitchens v. Kissinger CounterPunch Special Report: The Crimes of Bob Kerrey by Douglas Valentine Meet the Secret Rulers of the World: the Truth About Bohemian Grove Hell Hath No Fury Like a Dragon Scorned Tariq Ali: What Blair's Victory Means for Britain's Left Indian Affairs Trout and Ethnic Cleansing The Jeffords Jump Defunct Dems Pearl Harbor Revisited Jesse Jackson and the Movement Kerrey the Throat Slitter Hate Crime Follies Curtains for Jeb Bush? Kerrey and His Liberal Defenders Shocked About Kerrey? You Shouldn't Be The F-22 Fighter: Tiffany's On Wings Linebaugh: a May Day Meditation

October 7, 2001 Hitchens' Slurs By John Pilger http://www.johnpilger.com The Guardian in London has apologized to playwright Harold Pinter and myself for smears by Christopher Hitchens, the Washington-based commentator. Hitchens wrote in the Guardian on September 26 that Pinter and I supported "that renowned Muslim-hater Slobodan Milosevic" In the same article he wrote that if one of the hijacked aircraft had crashed into the Capitol or White House, "I would be ... reading Pinter and Pilger on how my neighborhood had been asking for it." Neither Pinter nor I have written any such thing. Hitchens immediately apologized to Pinter (Guardian letters September 28), saying he had been "informed that Harold Pinter had made an incautious statement in the wake of September" and that he had tried unsuccessfully to have the reference deleted before publication. He maintained that he did not misrepresent me. But when two Guardian editors combed all my recent work, including a column cited by Hitchens, they found nothing to back up his smears. In fact, I attacked Milosevic during and in the aftermath of the Nato bombing of Yugoslavia (see my Guardian and New Statesman columns for 1999 on http://www.johnpilger.com). As for the September 11 atrocities, I wrote in the Guardian on September 21: "Nothing justifies the killing of innocent people in America, and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else." Hitchens is, of course, entitled to his opinions, which have included calling the critics of US policy "fascists." But he is not entitled to fabricate, no matter how urgent his need to smear those with whom he disagrees.