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Recent Stories May 8, 2003 Julie Hilden When It's a Crime to Visit Your Son Mickey Z. Partisan Protests? Mark Zepezauer Evil is as Evil Does David Lindorff The Coming Senior Revolution Abu Spinoza The Detention of Dr. Huda Ammash Ben Tripp The Other "F" Word Norman Madarasz God in the Service of the Security State: a Dispatch from Brazil Stew Albert Pushovers Steve Perry Bush's War Web Log 5/08 Website of the Day Department of Sexual Security   May 7, 2003 Alexander Cockburn Quoting Under the Influence: Breasts, Martinis, Hitchens David Krieger Winning the War; Alienating the World Sen. Robert Byrd Bush's Troubling Speech Bruce Jackson Bill Kunstler's Last Big Speech Steve Perry Bush's War Web Log 5/07 Website of the Day The Truth About Bush's Military Records   May 6, 2003 Paul de Rooij An Activist in the Trenches: an Interview with Gretta Duisenberg Anthony Gancarski Money to Burn: in Defense of Bill Bennett John Stanton Bush's War on Jesus Sam Hamod W. Bush: the Little Snot, the Little Bully Robert Fisk Bush Says the War is Over: Tell It to the Shi'a Kathleen Christison A Roadmap to Nowhere Steve Perry Bush's War Web Log 5/06   May 5, 2003 Gary Leupp Phase Two: Syria and Iran Jorge Mariscal The Militarization of US Culture Ishmael Reed A Family Values Man Tarif Abboushi Sharon's Confidence: Bush Won't Come to Shove on Roadmap Leila Matsui Regime Change Begins at Home...Literally Steve Perry Bush's Wars Sam Smith Coalition of the Shilling   May 3, 2003 Ron Jacobs Tears of Rage: Remembering May 1970 Elaine Cassel William Bennett, a Freudian Perspective Sam Hamod Understanding the Shi'a of Lebanon Scott Fleming Getting Shot on the Oakland Docks Mickey Z. Cuba and Puerto Rico: 100 Years of Terror William S. Lind Don't Take Col. John Boyd's Name in Vain Dr. Bruce Blair The New Nuclear Terrorism Threat Joanne Mariner Cluster Bombs Over Iraq Anthony Gancarski Hot Fun in the Summertime Ilian Pappe Searching Jenin William MacDougall America's Kids Are All Right: Pre-Teen Conservative Commentators Seth Sandronsky Incarcerated and Invisible Rich Procter Over Our Dead Bodies Lenni Brenner How Bob Dylan Found His Voice Adam Engel American Bulk Poets' Basement Reiss, Guthrie, Albert Steve Perry Bush's War Web Log 5/03   May 2, 2003 Caoimhe Butterly Crowd Control American-style Neve Gordon US: No Right to Know About the Disappeared John Chuckman Tom Friedman's Life as a Pet Hamster Bradley Burston Betting on Abu-Mazen...To Lose Harvey Wasserman Bush's Military Defeat John Troyer Question Those Writing History Saul Landau The Cuba Conundrum Steve Perry Bush's War Web Log 5/02 Website of the Day Moussaoui's Quiz   May 1, 2003 Jeffrey St. Clair Santorum: That's Latin for Asshole Iain Boal A May Day Message to the FCC: "We Are Many; They are Few" Diana Johnstone About Cuba Sam Hamod Killings at Al Fallujah, City of Mosques Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Intelligence Fiasco Lee Sustar Greed Air: Airline Workers Agree to Pay Cuts, While Bosses Stuff Their Pockets Peter Linebaugh May Day at Kut and Kienthal Stew Albert Straight Shooters Steve Perry Bush's War Web Log 5/01 Website of the Day South Bay Mobilization   April 30, 2003 Ashley Smith Under Uncle Sam's Thumb: a History of Washington's Occupations Steve Perry Bush's War Web Log 4/30 Gary Leupp Shooting Schoolboys: Preliminary Thoughts on the Fallujah Massacre Robert Jensen Fighting Alienation in the USA Wayne Madsen The Four Horsemen of Propaganda Ahmad Faruqui Bush's Strategic Myopia About the Middle East Gabriel Kolko Iraq, the US and the End of the European Coalition Adolfo Perez Esquivel A Nobel Laureat's Letter to Bush: "You Talk of Freedom; You Detest Freedom"     April 29, 2003 Gary Leupp Disorder and Opportunity: the Results of the Iraq War Uri Avnery Don't Envy Abu-Mazen Anthony Gancarski Brush with the Law Mickey Z. POWs: Then and Now CounterPunch Wire How to Spin Israel on the Hill: Internal Lobbying Documents Robert Fisk Did the US Murder Journalists? Chris Floyd Bush Telegraphs His Punches on Syria Wayne Madsen About Those Iraqi Intelligence Documents Wallace Gagne Pilgrimage or Demolition Derby? Eliot Katz Playing Catch with Cracked Globes Steve Perry Bush's War Web Log 4/29     Hot Stories Elaine Cassel Civil Liberties Watch 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 Click Here for More Stories.   Subscribe Online Search CounterPunch

May 10, 2003 Gosh Yes America By JAMES REISS (Tune: "God Bless America") Gosh yes America, I see big birds Fly beside you And guide you With the bombs that they scatter like turds. From cruise missiles Winging over Making whistles As they fall, Gosh yes America, Your big birds all Spread freedom everywhere In one fireball. Gosh yes America, Feathered with steel Built by Boeing, You're going To shoot ducks on the ground--it's surreal. From the urban Roosts of Satan To exurban Cuckoo nests, Gosh yes America, My right wing rests On Armageddon now, Which God requests. James Reiss is a Professor of English & Editor at Miami University Press. In 2001 Carnegie Mellon University Press published his fourth book, Ten Thousand Good Mornings, which was nominated for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His previous poetry books are The Parable of Fire (CMU Press, 1996), Express (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983), and The Breathers (Ecco Press, 1974). He edited Self-Interviews: James Dickey (Doubleday, 1970). He can be reached at: reissja@muohio.edu   In Child'sPlay By HAMMOND GUTHRIE Take a deep breath-- far and away, yet near to home. As far and away--and as near to home in West Palm Beach, where, in the closet, little Christina's body was kept by her mother following her stepfather's corrective hands As far and away--and as near to home in Evertt, Washington, where the sweet Roxanne was found under an alley waste of wrongful death Oh God, sometimes I wake up screaming! As far and away--and as near to home in Chicago, where Tony wanted to know who took the food stamps-- anointing his lover's son with lighter fluid in search of the truth Oh vacant heart in the hear and know where mothers throw their infants through plate glass floors and the bodies are found on Mother's Day And as near to home and shore as Union City, where Michael and Alex screamed their mother's name from the back seat of a South Carolina lake bottom Oh sweet Lord I wake up screaming your name-- So close to this given heart do we indulge in after-cover silence as if to drown out the innocent horror screaming to us from the cellars next door As far and away and as close to home in Gresham, Oregon-- where a lifeless mother strangled her baby daughter with her tennis shoe laces before strolling to a funeral home to make her confession Oh yes indeed...... Sometimes I wake up screaming that I'm only dreaming, dreaming of this horrid light that screams in serial refrain: What on earth do we tell them? Before we tell them not to tell-- and Before we tell them What will happen if they do Before we spank them blue in the face Or brand them scalding red-- Before we drown them dead Before all of this and more.... Before their precious bodies hit the wall Before they become all motionless and mute Sitting alone on the bathroom floor Before we turn up the volume To block out the call-- Before time's heart cracks all around us And there's nothing-- Nothing to tell them at all. *Taken from "Child'sPlay"--for gallery installations of moderate scale consisting of one live performance by the artist, taped audio texts, altered photographs, interactive sculpture and performance video. Hammond Guthrie is the author of AsEverWas: Memoirs of a Beat Survivor. He is the editor of the great online journal The 3rd Page. He can be reached at: writenow@spiritone.com (C) 2003-- Hammond Guthrie     I Want To Know Why By SAM HAMOD I want to know why F16s aren't weapons Of mass destruction, Why cluster bombs Are o.k. if we use them Against children, especially Since they're such A beautiful, attractive Bright yellow, But not If someone uses them Against our troops, Why precision cruise missiles Go off target 30% Of the time, Why collateral damage Is always The other guy, but Wounded and killed is When our men are hit, Why the other country Is always The bad guy, Why tax cuts Should always benefit The rich, Why Israeli children Are always more Important than Palestinian children, Why America should Tell the world What to do, even It's wrong and based On a lie, I want to know why We have sent Colin Powell To the UN To lie, I want to know why President Bush feels He has the right To "punish" Other nations Just because they Disagree with him, I want to know What happened to The American way Of fairness, freedom Of speech, and the Agreement To disagree- And most of all, I want to know 2 things- What planet GW Bush Is from, because he Sure as hell didn't come From the America founded Franklin, Washington, Lincoln And Eisenhower And Where have all The brave Americans gone, And where have those that Remain, parked Their brains and their hearts. Sam Hamod is an expert on world affairs, especially the Arab and Muslim worlds, former editor of THIRD WORLD NEWS (in Wash, DC), a former professor at Princeton University, former Director of The National Islamic Center of Washington, DC, an advisor to the US State Department and author of ISLAM IN THE WORLD TODAY. He is the editor of www.todaysalternativenews.com, and may be reached at shamod@cox.net   Empire by STEW ALBERT Dry drunken George our once and future king, in his empire, a billionaire Bloomberg buys New York in a post 9/11 fire sale and kicks the sick and walking wounded off the almost nothing that is left of Welfare. Let them find work in fever and pain. In his empire Viet Kids in an Oakland High School are dragged from class by Homeland Security questioned and threatened for hours cause in classroom chatter they dissed dry drunken George. In his empire a collapsing Oregon with dying schools is urged to spend millions on pubic relations because Doonesbury is damaging its image. Dry drunken George is public relations. It's the terror stupid, Karl Rove boasts. You can't defeat a wartime president and this war is never gonna end. Not drinking booze anymore dry drunken George toasts his victory with blood. He is the the King. He is the Count. Stew Albert manages the Yippie Reading Room. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com Yesterday's Features Julie Hilden When It's a Crime to Visit Your Son Mickey Z. Partisan Protests? 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