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Now Available from CounterPunch for Only $11.50 (S/H Included) Today's Stories December 11, 2003 James M. Carter The Merchants of Blood: War Profiteering from Vietnam to Iraq December 10, 2003 Kurt Nimmo The War According to Newt Gingrich Pat Youngblood / Robert Jensen Workers Rights are Human Rights Jeff Guntzel On Killing Children CounterPunch Wire Ashcroft Threatens to Subpoena Journalist's Notes in Stewart Case Dave Lindorff Gore's Judas Kiss December 9, 2003 Michael Donnelly A Gentle Warrior Passes: Craig Beneville's Quiet Thunder Chris White A Glitch in the Matrix: Where is East Timor Today? Abu Spinoza The Occupation Concertina: Pentagon Punishes Iraqis Israeli Style Laura Carlsen The FTAA: a Broken Consensus Richard Trainor Process and Profits: the California Bullet Train, Then and Now Josh Frank Politicians as Usual: Gore Dean and the Greens Ron Jacobs Remembering John Lennon   December 8, 2003 Newton Garver Bolivia at a Crossroads John Borowski The Fall of a Forest Defender: the Exemplary Life of Craig Beneville William Blum Anti-Empire Report: Revised Inspirations for War Tess Harper When Christians Kill Thom Rutledge My Next Step Carol Wolman, MD Nuclear Terror and Psychic Numbing Michael Neumann Ignatieff: Apostle of He-manitariansim Website of the Day Bust Bob Novak   December 6 / 7, 2003 Alexander Cockburn The UN: Should Be Late; Never Was Great CounterPunch Special Toronto Globe and Mail Kills Review of "The Politics of Anti-Semitism" Vicente Navarro Salvador Dali, Fascist Saul Landau "Reality Media": Michael Jackson, Bush and Iraq Ben Tripp How Bush Can Still Win Gary Leupp On Purchasing Syrian Beer Ron Jacobs Are We Doing Body Counts, Now? Larry Everest Oil, Power and Empire Lee Sustar Defying the Police State in Miami Jacob Levich When NGOs Attack: Implications for the Coup in Georgia Toni Solo Game Playing by Free Trade Rules: the Results from Indonesia and Dominican Republic Mark Scaramella How to Fix the World Bank Bruce Anderson The San Francisco Mayor's Race Brian Cloughley Shredding the Owner's Manual: the Hollow Charter of the UN Adam Engel A Conversation with Tim Wise Neve Gordon Fuad and Ezra: an Update on Gays Under the Occupation Kurt Nimmo Bush Gives "Freedom" Medal to Robert Bartley Tom Stephens Justice Takes a Holiday Susan Davis Avast, Me Hearties! a Review of Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean" Jeffrey St. Clair A Natural Eye: the Photography of Brett Weston Mickey Z. Press Box Red Poets' Basement Greeder, Orloski, Albert T-shirt of the Weekend Got Santorum?   December 5, 2003 Jeremy Scahill Bremer of the Tigris Jeremy Brecher Amistad Revisited at Guantanamo? Norman Solomon Dean and the Corp Media Machine Norman Madarasz France Starts Facing Up to Anti-Muslim Discrimination Pablo Mukherjee Afghanistan: the Road Back December 4, 2003 M. Junaid Alam Image and Reality: an Interview with Norman Finkelstein Adam Engel Republican Chris Floyd Naked Gun: Sex, Blood and the FBI Adam Federman The US Footprint in Central Asia Gary Leupp The Fall of Shevardnadze Guthrie / Albert RIP Clark Kerr December 3, 2003 Stan Goff Feeling More Secure Yet?: Bush, Security, Energy & Money Joanne Mariner Profit Margins and Mortality Rates George Bisharat Who Caused the Palestinian Diaspora? Mickey Z. Tear Down That Wal-Mart John Stanton Bush Post-2004: a Nightmare Scenario Harry Browne Shannon Warport: "No More Business as Usual"   December 2, 2003 Matt Vidal Denial and Deception: Before and Beyond Iraqi Freedom Benjamin Dangl An Interview with Evo Morales on the Colonization of the Americas Sam Bahour Can It Ever Really End? Norman Solomon That Pew Poll on "Trade" Doesn't Pass the Sniff Test Josh Frank Trade War Fears Andrew Cockburn Tired, Terrified, Trigger-Happy December 1, 2003 Fawzia Afzal-Khan Unholy Alliances: Zionism, US Imperialism and Islamic Fundamentalism Dave Lindorff Bush's Baghdad Pitstop: Memories of LBJ in Vietnam Harry Browne Democracy Delayed in Northern Ireland Wayne Madsen Wagging the Media Herman Benson The New Unity Partnership for Labor: Bureaucratizing to Organize? Gilad Atzmon About "World Peace" Bill Christison US Foreign Policy and Intelligence: Monstrous Messes November 29 / 30, 2003 Peter Linebaugh On the Anniversary of the Death of Wolfe Tone Gary Leupp Politicizing War on Fox News: a Tale of Two Memos Saul Landau Lying and Cheating: Bush's New Political Math Michael Adler Inside a Miami Jail: One Activist's Narrative Anthony Arnove "They Put the Lie to Their Own Propaganda": an Interview with John Pilger Greg Weiher Why Bush Needs Osama and Saddam Stephen Banko, III A Soldier's Dream Forrest Hylton Empire and Revolution in Bolivia Toni Solo The "Free Trade" History Eraser Ben Terrall Don't Think Twice: Bush Does Bali Standard Schaefer Unions are the Answer to Supermarkets Woes Richard Trainor The Political Economy of Earthquakes: a Journey Across the Bay Bridge Mark Gaffney US Congress Does Israel's Bidding, Again Adam Engel The System Really Works Dave Lindorff They, the Jury: How the System Rigs the Jury Pool Susan Davis Framing the Friedmans Neve Gordon Arundhati Roy's Complaint for Peace Mitchel Cohen Thomas Jefferson and Slavery Ben Tripp Capture Me, Daddy Poets' Basement Kearney, Albert, Guthrie and Smith     November 28, 2003 William S. Lind Worse Than Crimes David Vest Turkey Potemkin Robert Jensen / Sam Husseini New Bush Tape Raises Fears of Attacks Wayne Madsen Wag the Turkey Harold Gould Suicide as WMD? Emile Durkheim Revisited Gabriel Kolko Vietnam and Iraq: Has the US Learned Anything? South Asia Tribune The Story of the Most Important Pakistan Army General in His Own Words Website of the Day Bush Draft November 27, 2003 Mitchel Cohen Why I Hate Thanksgiving Jack Wilson An Account of One Soldier's War Stefan Wray In the Shadows of the School of the Americas Al Krebs Food as Corporate WMD Jim Scharplaz Going Up Against Big Food: Weeding Out the Small Farmer Neve Gordon Gays Under Occupation: Help Save the Life of Fuad Moussa   November 26, 2003 Paul de Rooij Amnesty International: the Case of a Rape Foretold Bruce Jackson Media and War: Bringing It All Back Home Stew Albert Perle's Confession: That's Entertainment Alexander Cockburn Miami and London: Cops in Two Cities David Orr Miami Heat Tom Crumpacker Anarchists on the Beach Mokhiber / Weissman Militarization in Miami Derek Seidman Naming the System: an Interview with Michael Yates Kathy Kelly Hogtied and Abused at Ft. Benning Website of the Day Iraq Procurement   November 25, 2003 Linda S. Heard We, the Besieged: Western Powers Redefine Democracy Diane Christian Hocus Pocus in the White House: Of Warriors and Liberators Mark Engler Miami's Trade Troubles David Lindorff Ashcroft's Cointelpro Website of the Day Young McCarthyites of Texas November 24, 2003 Jeremy Scahill The Miami Model Elaine Cassel Gulag Americana: You Can't Come Home Again Ron Jacobs Iraq Now: Oh Good, Then the War's Over? Alexander Cockburn Rupert Murdoch: Global Tyrant   Hot Stories Alexander Cockburn Behold, the Head of a Neo-Con! Subcomandante Marcos The Death Train of the WTO Norman Finkelstein Hitchens as Model Apostate Steve Niva Israel's Assassination Policy: the Trigger for Suicide Bombings? Dardagan, Slobodo and Williams CounterPunch Exclusive: 20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians Steve J.B. Prison Bitch Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber True Lies: the Use of Propaganda in the Iraq War Wendell Berry Small Destructions Add Up CounterPunch Wire WMD: Who Said What When Cindy Corrie A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter I Can't Hear From Gore Vidal The Erosion of the American Dream Francis Boyle Impeach Bush: A Draft Resolution Click Here for More Stories.     Subscribe Online Search CounterPunch

December 11, 2003 The Political Errors and Insincerities of War A Soldier's Declaration By SIEGFRIED SASSOON I am making this statement as an act of willful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow-soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed. On behalf of those who are suffering now I make this protest against the deception which is being practiced on them; also I believe that I may help to destroy the callous complacence with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share, and which they have not sufficient imagination to realize. Siegfried L. Sassoon, July 1917   Weekend Edition Features for Nov. 29 / 30, 2003 Alexander Cockburn The UN: Should Be Late; Never Was Great CounterPunch Special Toronto Globe and Mail Kills Review of "The Politics of Anti-Semitism" Vicente Navarro Salvador Dali, Fascist Saul Landau "Reality Media": Michael Jackson, Bush and Iraq Ben Tripp How Bush Can Still Win Gary Leupp On Purchasing Syrian Beer Ron Jacobs Are We Doing Body Counts, Now? Larry Everest Oil, Power and Empire Lee Sustar Defying the Police State in Miami Jacob Levich When NGOs Attack: Implications for the Coup in Georgia Toni Solo Game Playing by Free Trade Rules: the Results from Indonesia and Dominican Republic Mark Scaramella How to Fix the World Bank Bruce Anderson The San Francisco Mayor's Race Brian Cloughley Shredding the Owner's Manual: the Hollow Charter of the UN Adam Engel A Conversation with Tim Wise Neve Gordon Fuad and Ezra: an Update on Gays Under the Occupation Kurt Nimmo Bush Gives "Freedom" Medal to Robert Bartley Tom Stephens Justice Takes a Holiday Susan Davis Avast, Me Hearties! a Review of Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean" Jeffrey St. Clair A Natural Eye: the Photography of Brett Weston Mickey Z. Press Box Red Poets' Basement Greeder, Orloski, Albert T-shirt of the Weekend Got Santorum?   Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /