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March 6, 2002

Edward Said
Thoughts About America

March 5, 2002

CounterPunch Wire
Ann Coulter At It Again:
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Bill Christison
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Delkhasteh and Wright
What Should We be Fighting For? An Open Letter
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Mariya Tsvekova
Putin's Georgian Gambit

March 4, 2002

Ralph Nader
Dick Cheney: A Dinosaur
in the Age of Mammals

Uri Avnery
How Israel Will Torpedo
the Saudi Peace Plan

Southern / Kubrick
Stangelove Scenario
for Shadow Govt. Bunker

David Vest
Grammy's of Constant Sorrow

March 3, 2002

Bernard Weiner
War on Terrorism for Dummies

Paul Cox
Boycott Mel Gibson's
"We Were Soldiers"

Frederick Hudson
Toward a Nonviolent Africa:
Bill Sutherland's Quest

Eric Schaeffer
Dear Christie Whitman:
Take This Job and Shove It

John Chuckman
Why the Rest of Planet is Unnerved by America

March 2, 2002

Alexander Cockburn
Sweat, Sex, Feet and
the Working Class

March 1, 2002

Brendan Sexton III
What's Wrong With Black Hawk Down: an Actor Speaks Out

Terry Diggs
Why Twain's Pudd'nhead
Wilson Still Matters

David Krieger
Nuclear Terrorism
and US Nuclear Policy

February 28, 2002

James T. Phillips
Baghdad, Spring 1992

Gideon Samet
Sharon Must Go

Rep. Ron Paul
Before We Bomb Iraq

M. Shahid Alam
Samuel Huntington:
Peddling Civilizational Wars

St. Clair / Cockburn
Rumble from the Jungle:
Ecuadorian Farmers Fight
DynCorp's ChemWar

February 27, 2002

Eric Hobsbawm
The Future of War and Peace

John Troyer
About that WTC Memorial

Mokhiber / Weissman
Wired for Democracy
or Business?

Alexander Cockburn
Daniel Pearl: Should His
Editors Have Sent Him There?

February 26, 2002

Jonathan Steele
Kabul's Loss

Vasily Streltsov
The Pentagon in
the Transcaucusas

CounterPunch Wire
How Corporations Use Shadowy "527" Groups to Influence Politicians

Lt. Col. Robert Bowman
ABM Treaty: Alive or Dead?

Rep. Dennis Kucinich
A Prayer for America

February 25, 2002

John Clarke
Interrogated at US Border

Blankfort, Poirier, Zeltzer
ADL Blinks, Settles Spying Case

Alex Lynch
Naked from Sin:
The Ordeal of Nahla
and Sami Al-Arian

John Chuckman
Ashcroft Speaks in Tongues

February 24, 2002

David Vest
Skate Date

February 23, 2002

Tom Turnipseed
Axis of Evil and
Media Monopolies

Bahour/Dahan
Cracks in the Occupation

February 22, 2002

Alexander Cockburn
Axel of Evil: Sex Crimes
and the Constitution

February 21, 2002

Gary Leupp
The Philippines: Second Front in US's Global War

David Vest
Reagan Clone Project?

Mokhiber and Weissman
Chicago School and Corporate America: Rotten to the Core

February 20, 2002

Bernard Weiner
The Shallow Throat Document

Kay Lee
The Prison Guard Who Never Owned Up to His Crimes

February 19, 2002

David Orr
Waylon Jennings, the Duke,
and the Navajo

John Chuckman
The Devil and Georgie Bush

Prudence Crowther
Giblet Gravitas

Ramzi Kysia
Caught in the Iraq DMZ

February 18, 2002

Ron Jacobs
The US and Iran

George Lewandowski
Empire in Declline

Lenni Brenner
Life and Death of a Folk Hero

February 17, 2002

Robert Fisk
Lost in a Pit of Desperation

February 16, 2002

Phillip Cryan
Colombia in War Time

February 15, 2002

C.G. Estabrook
From New York to Porto Alegre

Robert O'Brien
The View from Porto Alegre

Mokhiber/Weissman
Resisting the Assassins

February 14, 2002

Levy and Easton
Ante Pavelic
Real Butcher of the Balkans

Joan Claybrook
Dear Jeb Bush,
About You and Enron

John Chuckman
Time for a Woman Prez

Alexander Cockburn
Banning the Koran

February 13, 2002

Sen. Russ Feingold
War Powers and
the War on Terror

Tom Turnipseed
Bush's Folly

George Monbiot
American Imperialism

February 12, 2002

Uri Avnery
The Great Game:
Oil, Sharon and Iran

Tommy Ates
Black Land Loss

February 11, 2002

Walt Brasch
The Synergizing of America

John Troyer
Enron's Deep Throat?

February 9, 2002

John Blair
Criticize Cheney, Go to Jail

 


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March 6, 2002

Berezovsky Fingers Putin in Bombings

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New allegations are made today that the Russian state has been sponsoring acts of terrorism which have killed hundreds of innocent Russian citizens in order to create a pretext for Russia's ongoing war in Chechnya, and to justify a crackdown on civil liberties and press freedoms inside Russia.

Today, independent investigators and film-makers came forward with documentary evidence linking explosions in apartment blocks in 1999, which killed over 300 people, with Russia's security services.

French television journalists Charles Gazelle and Jean-Charles Deniau have uncovered new evidence linking these explosions to Russia's security services. This is revealed in a new documentary film being compiled by them, extracts of which were shown in London today.

"After we had interviewed eye-witnesses and others involved in these attacks, we were convinced that there was some kind of cover-up," said Deniau. "In any liberal democracy these allegations would warrant a full-scale investigation at the highest level."

These allegations were backed up by journalist Yuri Felshtinsky who is co-author of 'Blowing Up Russia', a book which documents in detail acts of terror, abductions and contract killings organised by the Federal Security Services of the Russian Federation.

Said Felshtinsky: "We spent two years painstakingly combing through the inconsistencies and contradictions in the official account of these bombings. There is compelling evidence that the state security agencies effectively declared war on the Russian people - unleashing the first and second Chechen wars to divert Russia away from the path of democracy and towards militarism and dictatorship."

Also speaking up was Tatyana Morozov, whose mother died in the explosion that destroyed an apartment building in Moscow and killed 94 on September 9. Morozov and her sister are taking legal action against the Russian Government in a bid to force them to open the records and conduct a proper investigation. "We want to know what really happened on that night, and who murdered our mother. The longer this goes on and the more we run into official silence, the more I believe our own leaders were behind this atrocity," she said.

Sergey Yushenkov, co-chairman of the all-Russia movement, 'Liberal Russia', said that moves to open an investigation into the bombings had twice been blocked in the state Duma, and that he was now determined to bring the case to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

Boris Berezovsky, one-time Kremlin loyalist and now outspoken critic of Russia's increasingly repressive regime and co-chairman of Liberal Russia, said: "Ever since President Putin came to power, people have been asking: 'Is he really a democratic President of Russia or simply an old-style dictator putting on a show for the West? Does he authorise these acts of terror or just turn a blind eye? Why does he continue to block investigations into the deadliest terrorist attacks in our history?'

"Today, fittingly on the anniversary of Stalin's death, I am calling for an open and independent investigation into the 1999 bombings - applying the same rigour with which the Lockerbie and Oklahoma bombings were investigated and the evidence marshalled that brought Slobodan Milosevic to trial in The Hague."