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September 7, 2002
Kurt Nimmo
War Talk
in the Post Office
September 6, 2002
Sadanand Nanjundiah
Hanan
Ashrawi in Colorado:
Another Smear Campaign
Gary Webb
CIA, Contras
and Crack
Dark Alliance Restored
Neve Gordon
Bush's
Wars Undermine Democracy
Maria Engqvist
Colombia's
War on Unions
The Coca-Cola Killings
John Stanton
The Ministry
of Fear:
The Department of Homeland Security
Jeffrey St. Clair
Stolen
Trust
Gale Norton, Indians and the Case of the Missing $10 Billion
September 5, 2002
Ben Tripp
Jesus vs.
George the Second
William Hughes
McKinney's
Defeat:
Undue Meddling
Gavin Keeney
Beaux
Reves, Citoyens!
Wayne Saunders
War
Begins; Nobody Notices
Irit Katriel
Drunk
with Power:
Israeli Chief of Staff Calls Palestinians a "Cancerous Demographic
Threat"
Gary Leupp
Who's Afraid
of Iraq?
September 4, 2002
Sam Bahour
Perfecting
the Violence of Curfew: Parents, Children and the Israeli Lockdown
David Krieger & Marissa
Zubia
Top 10
Reasons to Oppose Yucca Mountain Dump
Steen Sohn
Wiretapping
Journalists
Robert Jensen
Rape is
"Normal"
Mokhiber and Weissman
Thirsty
for Justice
The Rush to Privatize Water
George Monbiot
Trouble
in the Pipeline
Kathleen Christison
Thomas
Friedman Bashes
the Palestinians...Again!
September 3, 2002
Bernard Weiner
The Charnel
House Future
Why Bush & Co Must be Stopped
Anthony Gancarski
America
Strikes Back
Lynchings, Zionists and the Occasional Flag Tie
Nabil Amro
Leadership
& Legitimacy:
An Open Letter to Arafat
Robert Fisk
A Forgotten
Holocaust:
The British in Palestine
Uri Avnery
The Return
of the Dinosaurs
September 2, 2002
Francis Boyle
Flashback:
US War Crimes During the Gulf War
Lou Cohan
Confessions
of a Downloader
Philip Farruggio
Labor
Day Antidote to Apathy
William Blum
Cuban Political
Prisoners
in the US
September 1, 2002
Dave Marsh
No Surrender:
Springsteen's The Rising
August 31, 2002
Gavin Keeney
Return to the Charterhouse
of Parma
David Vest
Porkland:
Confronting Republicans & Police in Portland
Ralph Nader
The Highway
Lobby
M. Shahid Alam
CNN Reporting
(poem)
Neve Gordon
Sharon's
Subjugation Strategy
Dr. Susan Block
The Gangbang
Asthete
The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
Jensen / Mahajan
Iraq Debate:
Ultra Hawk vs. Hawk
August 30, 2002
Kurt Nimmo
Clueless
at the State Dept.
Jay Diamond
Opie,
Anthony & Enron
Carol Norris
"Eat
All Your McAfrika Burger Honey!"
Alexander Cockburn
American
Journal:
Hitchens, Kissinger, Springsteen, Haggard & Elvis
August 29, 2002
Wayne Madsen
Bush's
Bizarro World
Michael Donnelly
A Real
Healthy Forests Initiative
Anis Shivani
Progressive
Irrelevance?
Matt Siegfried
What's
Behind Bush's War Moves Against Iraq?
William Hughes
Power
to the Laity
Chris Floyd
The Secret
Sharers:
The CIA and the Murder of Frank Olson
August 28, 2002
Will Youmans
The Fake
Debate on Iraq
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Islam
and Politics
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nature
Can't Wait
William Ring
War on Iraq:
The Brightest Scenario
August 27, 2002
Sam Bahour
The Violence
of Curfew
Wenonah Hauter
From Johannesburg:
Pacts with the Devil: Public-Private Partnerships and the Global
Environment
Jerre Skog
Wanted:
"Our Kind of Guy"
in Iraq!
Uri Avnery
Letter
to a Pilot
Resources:
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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
The Memphis Blues Again:
Six Decades of Memphis Music Photographs
Photos by Ernest Withers
Text by Daniel Wolff
The New Intifada:
Resisting Israel's Apartheid
Edited by Roane Carey
A Pocket Guide to
Environmental Bad Guys
by James Ridgeway
and Jeffrey St. Clair
The
Phoenix Program
by Douglas Valentine
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A User's Manual
by Cockburn
and St. Clair
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CounterPunch
Special Report:
9/11 One Year After
September
7 / 8, 2002
A
Year Later: It's Happening Here
Milestones
on the Road to a Military Government in the United States
by Bill Christison
"We have a war going
on." How many hundreds of times
in the past year have you heard this tired excuse, mouthed as
often by Democrats as Republicans to avoid serious debate? The
speaker, generally self-righteous, always believes or at least
pretends that he is supporting some policy vital to the fight
against evil, either abroad or in the fatherland. The Bush administration
itself chose to initiate open-ended, lengthy, and large-scale
wars rather than treat the events of September 11 as a crime,
and that opened the door. Since most U.S. citizens liked calling
it war, our leaders then began using the "fact" of
war to justify any other actions they wanted to take. At the
same time they refused even to consider changing any of Washington's
own provocative and hate-inducing foreign policies. Click
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The Tenth Crusade
by Alexander Cockburn
Amid the elegies for the dead and the ceremonies
of remembrance, seditious questions intrude: Is there really
a war on terror; and if one is indeed being waged, what are its
objectives?
The Taliban are out of power. Papaver
somniferum, the opium poppy, blooms once more in Afghan pastures.
The military budget is up. The bluster war on Iraq blares from
every headline. On the home front the war on the Bill of Rights
is set at full throttle, though getting less popular with each
day as judges thunder their indignation at the unconstitutional
diktats of Attorney General John Ashcroft, a man low in public
esteem. Click Here to Continue.
Neighborhood Watch
by Susan Davis
"There are Lots of Neighbors on
Anxiety Street."
(Illinois proverb, 20th-century)
Dear Mr. Ashcroft,
I am writing to you hoping that I can
become a charter member of your TIPS neighborhood surveillance
program. So you'll know my qualifications, I'm a fiber optic
cable installer for a major telecommunications company, and I
spend a lot of time around other people's houses, driveways and
yards. Also, my granddaddy was a Pinkerton in Chicago, and my
dad turned in his high school history teacher in 1953. I hope
you'll think I'm eligible for this work. I understand it's a
strictly state-run volunteer operation. Click
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When War
Came Home
by Bruce Jackson
9/11 was the
first time we were attacked on our own soil by anyone other than
the British. Who, other than reenactors who play dress-up remembers
or cares about the War of 1812? Hawaii was an American territory
in 1941, not a state, and in that time before jet travel it was,
to most Americans a faraway island abstraction. Click
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Losing Ground Zero
by Gavin Keeney
The next (newest) wave of proposals for Ground
Zero (the World Trade Center site and immediate environs) is
upon us, courtesy of His Majesty Herbert Muschamp and The
New York Times. This round of dreams was sponsored by The
Times, at Muschamp's bidding, to counter the deplorable and
all-but universally panned proposals released in July 2002 by
the LMDC (Lower Manhattan Development Corporation) in league
with the Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey. The Port
Authority, the "owner" of the so-called ground beneath
Ground Zero, has recently been subject to a well-meaning attempt
by the City to reclaim that imaginary ground by trading the stewardship
of the site for the ground beneath LaGuardia and JFK airports.
This plan, which seems to be going nowhere, requires the approval
of both the governor of New Jersey and the governor of New York.
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Looking Back on September 11
by David Krieger
As we approach the first anniversary of the terrorist
attacks of September 11, it is worth reflecting on how little
has been accomplished and how much has been lost in the past
year. We have demonstrated that our military machine is powerful
and can smash poor countries farther back into the stone age,
but we are not capable of finding Osama bin Laden, nor of putting
an end to terrorism. We have demonstrated that civil liberties
can be curtailed in the effort to combat terrorism, but our airports
seem no safer today than they were on the day of the terrorist
attacks. Click Here to Continue.
Bush and War
One American's Open Letter to the World on Remembering 9/11
by Mike Leon
Fitchburg, Wisconsin. In a few days this nation will begin to mark
9/11, an attack known by the date on which it occurred, requiring
no elaboration of its human toll. Click
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Levellers and 9/11
by Peter Linebaugh
On September 11, 1648, the Levellers submitted
the Large Petition with 40,000 signatures to Parliament. The
deed was decisive because it set in motion the terrible events
that culminated four months later in the execution of Charles
Stuart, King of England, and because the Levellers, the first
popular democratic political party in European, if not world,
history, announced their opposition to the enclosures of the
commons, or the privatization of the English land. Click
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September 11: One Year On
That's Entertainment!
by William McDougal
The day that sent shockwaves around the
world. The BBC marks the anniversary of September 11 with a series
of special reports and commemorative broadcasts from across the
globe.
BBC Programme Information
7-13 September 2002
As the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks
of September 11 approaches, broadcasters are preparing to go
toe to toe to see who will win the broadcasting war of attrition
which will mean wall-to-wall coverage of the anniversary of the
al Qaeda attacks on America. Click
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How American Muslims Really Responded to the Events of
September 11
by Riad Z. Abdelkarim
and Jason Erb
As our nation approaches the one-year anniversary
of the September 11 terrorist attacks, American Muslims around
the country will join their fellow citizens in pausing and reflecting
upon the horrors of that day and its aftermath. Some media pundits
and other well-known figures-including notable evangelist Franklin
Graham-have recently accused Muslims of remaining silent after
the terrorist attacks. Such charges, which have been covered
widely but superficially in the mainstream media, deserve serious
analysis. Click Here to Continue.
The Trouble with Normal
by Jeffrey St. Clair
It is the second plane that haunts the mind, curving
on a course that seems to descend right out of a waking nightmare.
Even before it struck that ugly steel and glass tower, there
was already a dreadful familiarity to it. Somehow we'd seen its
shape before. The Hindenburg in flames. JFK's head blooming open
on the Zapruder film. The Challenger space shuttle exploding
live before our eyes in the stratosphere on an impossibly sunny
Florida day. The Waco fire incinerating women and children in
the winds of West Texas. The events of 9/11 played out like a
horrifying novelty show, seared into the brainpan of the nation
by thousands of instant replays. Click
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Rise Up...Dump Bush
by Tom Stephens
Since September 11, 2001, our government has placed
us in further danger with policies that inflame the conditions
giving rise to terrorism. This sad anniversary offers us an opportunity
to begin taking back our democracy. Above all, we must work for
peace and social justice in order to create a brighter future
for our children. The U.S. response to the September 11 crimes
against humanity has led us into even greater peril. Under these
crisis conditions, George W. Bush's incompetence and Dick Cheney's
arrogance threaten our survival. Click
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