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March 31, 2002
Maha Sbitani
The
Israeli Army Took Over My House
Robert Fisk
Lies Leaders Tell When
They Want to Go to War
March 24/30, 2002
Alexander Cockburn
The Year
of the Yellow Notepad:
Plagiarism and History
Rep. Ron Paul
Slavery and the Draft
Fidel
Castro
A
Better World is Possible
Edward Said
What Price Oslo?
José
Saramago
Justice
and Democracy Denied
Azmi Bishara
Talking to Tanks
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Clearcutting
Montana
Alexander Cockburn
50 Years of James Bond
Wilhelm
Reich
Gethsemane
Claud Cockburn
The Horror of It All
Dave Marsh
What's
Playing at My Houe
David Vest
Remembering Tammy Wynette
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Waylon
Jennings:
an Honest Outlaw
March 23, 2002
Mokhiber/Weissman
A
Corporate Lawyer
Speaks Out
Saeed Vaseghi
The US and Iran's Quest
for Democracy
Brian
J. Foley
Does
Pedophilia Scandal Spell an Opportunity for Catholics?
Sheperd Bliss
American Soul and Empire
James
Packard Winkler
Occupation
and Terror:
Politics from a Gun Barrel
M. Shahid Alam
A New International Division
of Labor
T.W. Croft
Enron's
Attack on Our
Economic Security
March 22, 2002
Robert Jensen
Corporate Power is a
Threat to Democracy
Tommy
Ates
The
Future of Black Academia
Rep. Ron Paul
Why are We in Ukraine?
March 21, 2002
McQuinn,
Munson, & Wheeler
Stars
and Stripes:
Killing for the Flag?
John Chuckman
How Change is Wrought
David
Vest
Hail
to the Chaff
March 20, 2002
Kay Lee
Censorship at Angelfire
Robert
Jensen
The
Politics of Pain
and Pleasure
Sheperd Bliss
Notes from Hawai'i:
Trouble in Paradise
Rick Giambetti
Prozac
and Suicide:
an Interview with
Dr. David Healy
Philip Farruggio
Bullies
Lori Allen
Live
from Ramallah:
The Madness of Occupation
March
19, 2002
Tariq
Ali
Nuke
Iraq?
Phyllis
Pollack
Roger
Daltrey's LA Surprise
Amir Ahmadi
War-Mongering
Academics:
The New Tartuffe
Ben White
Bomber
Blair
Fran Shor
Child-Murderers
and Madmen
March
18, 2002
Tom Turnipseed
Crazy
is Cool
Dave Marsh
DeskScan:
What's Playing At My House
Armen
Khanbabyan
The
Pentagon in the Caucasus:
Georgia Is Only the Beginning
Gabriel
Ash
Abdullah
v. Osama
Bernard
Weiner
Middle
East for Dummies
Alexander
Cockburn
Tipping
in America
March
17, 2002
David
Vest
The
Politics of Packaging
Tariq
Ali
The
Left's New Empire Loyalists
March
16, 2002
Chris
Floyd
Ashcroft's
Secret Snatches
March 15, 2002
Doron Rosenblum
Israel's Settler Warlords
Alex Lynch
Rhetorical
Attacks On Iraq
Norman Madarasz
Neo-Con Propaganda
and the National Review
Paul-Marie
de La Gorce
Making
Enemies
March
14, 2002
Dr. Susan
Block
RIP
Danny Pearl
Francis
Boyle
Bush
Nuke Plan Violates International Law, Again
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Saunders
Memo
to Paul McCartney:
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of Freedom, Sir
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March
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/ Weissman
Personal
Responsibility
for Corporate Elites?
Robert
Fisk
Arabs
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to Strike Iraq
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Cockburn
When
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to Kill One Million People
March
12, 2002
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Dangerous
Changes in
California's Prisons
John Patrick
Leary
The
Return of Otto Reich
Wole Akande
US
is Being Discredited
in the Eyes of Africa
March
11, 2002
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This
is the Way the World Ends
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Bush's
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Target Allies and Enemies
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The Great
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Bush v. Putin
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March 31, 2002
Live from Bethlehem
Tanks, Guns, and F-16s
By Kristen Schurr
Last night, 30 March 2002, 20 of us stayed in
Al Azzeh refugee camp of 5,000 inside of Bethlehem with several
families expecting an invasion by the Israeli military. We went
two to a house. There is no land to build on, so any new homes
are built atop existing ones. At the house I stayed in, we watched
Arfat on television most of the night giving a press conference
inside his compound in Ramallah. At 10pm he was given one hour
to surrender by Israeli military or they would go in shooting.
This has not yet happened and he has said he will not go alive.
Television stations showed five dead,
shot at point blank range inside Arafat's compound. The family
I was with stays up most of the night and sleeps during the morning
daylight hours. The shooting at nights requires them to quickly
move from one room to the next, and to always be ready. They
do not jump when they hear the popping of F-16s. They simply
get up and move as the noise becomes louder.
There was a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
The bomber was from Nablus, which is further north from Bethlehem.
The families inside of Al Azzeh refugee camp expected Israeli
military to invade the camp and disappear all of the men aged
16 to 50 years old.
Israeli snipers continued to fire into
the camp throughout the night. They fired at Palestinians and
internationals alike as we scurried across roads to get inside
of the houses, which are litered with bullet holes. Many of the
windows are protected by bags of sand. We met the mother of a
14 year old Palestinian girl who was shot by Israeli snipers
as she opened the front door of her house inside the camp two
weeks ago. I was expected to address a conference at Columbia
University in NYC via telephone at 3:30 am Palestinian time,
but my cel phone was unable to function.
All international media has been asked
to leave Bethlehem. Now the Palestinian people need all people
from around the globe as much as ever. I write this quickly to
you all from Dehesha refugee camp because invasion of Bethlehem
is now imminent. It is expected within the next two hours. It
is now 1:30 pm. We are told that if Arafat is assasinated the
Israeli military will fully re-occupy the entire West Bank, of
which Bethlehem is a part. We will return to Al Azzeh camp within
the hour to stand in solidarity with our Palestinian families
as the invasion unfolds.
Yesterday Beit Jala, the town without
lights at night that stands across the valley from an Israel
settlement fully lit conected by a bridge that only Israelis
are allowed to use, was invaded in order to be at the highest
point surrounding Bethlehem. Parts of Beit Jala are under curfew.
It is still impossible to get to Ramallah, where Palestinians
and internationals are asking for assistance. Some are blocking
tanks, others defied the curfew by donating blood. As here in
Bethlehem, in Ramallah internationals are also riding along inside
of ambulences.
We are here in solidarity with the Palestinian
people in order to bring attention to the brutal military occupation,
sanctions, killings, and daily humiliation Palestinians face
at the hands of Israeli military and government. Bethelehem,
according to those who live there, is virtually deserted. Streets
that once swarmed with life are mostly shut down now. All schools
are evacuated. Teachers say they are not afraid. Many Palestinians
say all they have left is their will.
We have been thanked and fed and described
as peace prophets. Our presence is necessary and deeply appreciated.
We request that as many of you who receive this help in any way
you can. I can only ask that we all please raise awarness of
this situation, work on divestment campaigns, and tell Bush and
the US government that their funding of the Israeli military
is a terrorist atrocity which must not be stood for. We will
update you as much as possible.
Thank you so much for your caring and
interest. A suicide bomber has just hit Haifa, which is about
90 km from Tel Aviv.
Salaam.
Kristen Schurr
is from New York City.
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