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August 13, 2003
Linville and Ruder
Tyson Strike Draws the Line
Gary Leupp
Condi's Speech: From Birgmingham
to Baghdad, Imperialism's Freedom Ride
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Stories
August 13, 2003
Joanne Mariner
A Wall of Separation Through the
Heart
Donald Worster
The Heavy Cost of Empire
Standard Schaefer
Experimental Casinos: DARPA and the War Economy
Elaine Cassel
Murderous Errors: Executing the Innocent
Ralph Nader
Make the Recall Count
Alexander Cockburn
Ted Honderich Hit with "Anti-Semitism" Slur
Website of the Day
Defending Yourself Against DirectTV Lawsuits: 9000 and Counting
August 12, 2003
William Blum
Myth
and Denial in the War on Terrorism
Ron Jacobs
Revisionist History: the Bush Administration, Civil Rights and
Iraq
Josh Frank
Dean's Constitutional Hang-Up
Wayne Madsen
What's a Fifth Columnist? Well, Someone Like Hitchens
Ray McGovern
Relax,
It Was All a Pack of Lies
Wendy Brinker
Hubris in the White House
Website of the Day
Black
Mustache
August
11, 2003
Douglas
Valentine
Homeland Security for Whom?
Mickey
Z.
Bush's Progress
Bill
Glahn
RIAA Watch: Meet the New Bitch, Same
as the Old
Elaine
Cassel
Indicting DNA
Dr. Mohammad
Omar Farooq
Civil Liberties and Uncivil Super-Patriotism
Uri
Avnery
Who Will Save Abu Mazen?
Website
of the Day
RIAA Subpoena Clearinghouse
August
9 / 10, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
California's Glorious Recall!
Saul
Landau
Bush and King Henry
Gary
Leupp
On Terrorism, Methodism, "Wahhabism"
and the Censored 9/11 Report
Paul de
Rooij
The Parade of the Body Bags
Michael
Egan
History and the Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Rob Eshelman
A Home of Our Own
Daoud
Kuttab
Life as an ID Card
Philip
Agee
Terror and Civil Society: Instruments of US Policy in Cuba
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Marc Racicot: Bush's Main Man
Walt Brasch
Schwarzenegger, "Hollyweird"
and the Rigtheous Right
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush, Bribery and Berlusconi
Josh Frank
Mean, Mean Howard Dean
Elaine
Cassel
Will the Death Penalty Ever Die?
Sean Carter
Total Recall
Poets'
Basement
Hamod, Engel, Albert
August
8, 2003
John
Chuckman
What the US Says Goes
Roberto
Barreto
Defend the Vieques 12!
Bruce Gagnon
Iraq War Emboldens Bush Space Plans
Elaine
Cassel
The Reign of John Ashcroft
Dave
Lindorff
Snoops Night Out
Website
of the Day
Zero Boy
August
7, 2003
M.
Shahid Alam
It the US a "Terrorist Magnet?"
Toni
Solo
Neo-liberal Nicaragua: a New Banana
Republic
Adam Lebowitz
Hiroshima Commemorated: the View from Japan
Hanan
Ashrawi
When the Bully Whines
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Conscience Takes a Holiday
Jason
Leopold
Wolfowitz Lets Slip: Iraq Not Behind 9/11; No Ties to Al-Qaeda
Mike Kimaid
What's the Score?
Elaine
Cassel
The Smell of VICTORY: Ashcroft's Latest Stinkbomb
Dardagan,
Slobodo and Williams
CounterPunch Exclusive:
20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians
August 6, 2003
Steve
Higgs
Going to Jail for the Cause: It's Not
Easy Confronting King Coal
David
Krieger
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Robert
Fisk
The Ghosts of Uday and Qusay
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush's War on the National Forests
Elaine
Cassel
No Fly Lists
Stan
Goff
Military Equipment and Pneumonia
Hugh Sansom
An Open Letter to Nicholas Kristof on the Nuking of Japan
August
5, 2003
Uri
Avnery
The Prisoner of Ramallah: Arafat at
74
Forrest
Hylton
Terrorism and Political Trials: the
View from Bolivia
Ray
McGovern
"We Cook Estimates to Go"
David
Morse
Poindexter's Gambit
Edward
Said
Orientallism: 25 Years Later
George
W. Bush
My Darn Good Resumé
Hammond
Guthrie
It's Incremental, Watson!
Website
of the Day
National Prayer Day
August 4, 2003
Bruce
K. Gagnon
Another Peace Activist Detained by
Airport Cops: My Story
David
Lindorff
Fear-Mongering About Social Security
Mark
Zepezauer
George F. Will: Descent into Self-Parody
James
Plummer
Tracking You Through the Mail
Mickey
Z.
Marriage Insecurity from Sharon to Bush
Bruce
Jackson
News that Isn't News: How the NYT's
Pimps for the White House
August
2 / 3, 2003
Tamara
R. Piety
Nike's Full Court Press Breaks Down
Francis
Boyle
My Alma Mater, the University of Chicago, is a Moral Cesspool
David
Vest
Sons of Paleface: Pictures from Death's Other Side
Neve Gordon
Nightlife in Jerusalem
Uri
Avnery
Their Master's Voice:
Bush, Blair and Intelligence Snafus
Robert
Fisk
Paternalistic Democracy for Iraq
Jerry
Kroth
Israel, Yellowcake and the Media
Noah Leavitt
What's Driving the Liberian Bloodbath: Is the US Obligated to
Intervene?
Saul
Landau
The Film Industry: Business and Ideology
Ron Jacobs
One Big Prison Yard: the Meaning of George Jackson
Thomas
Croft
In the Deep, Deep Rough: Reflections on Augusta
Amadi Ajamu
Def Sham: Russell Simmons New Black Leader?
Poets'
Basement
Vega, Witherup, Albert and Fleming
August
1, 2003
Joanne
Mariner
Stopping Prison Rape
Alex Coolman
Who Moved My Soap: Trivializing
Prison Rape
Steve
J.B.
Prison Bitch
Stan Goff
Injury and Decorum: The Missing Wounded in Iraq
Wayne
Madsen
Europe Unplugs from the Matrix
Robert
Fisk
Wolfowitz the Censor
Elaine
Cassel
Ashcroft Loses Big in Puerto Rico
Website
of the Day
Stop Prisoner Rape
July
31, 2003
Ray
McGovern
The Prostitution of Intelligence
Brian
Cloughley
Wolfowitz's Operative Statement
Sheldon
Hull
The RIAA's Jihad:
The Devil's Music (Industry)
Elaine
Cassel
The Next Time You Crack a Lawyer Joke, Think of These Attorneys
Sheldon
Rampton
and John Stauber
True Lies: Propaganda and Bush's
Wars
Hammond
Guthrie
Speculation Blues
Website
of the Day
Army of One?
Congratulations
to CounterPuncher Gilad Atzmon! BBC Names EXILE Top Jazz CD
July
30, 2003
David
Lindorff
Poindexter the Terror Bookie
Marjorie
Cohn
Why Iraq and Afghanistan? It's About
the Oil
Elaine
Cassel
How Ashcroft Coerces Guilty Pleas
in Terror Cases
Zvi
Bar'el
The Hidden Costs of the Iraq War
Lisa Walsh
Thomas
Killing Mustafa Hussein: Death of a Child, Birth of a Legend?
Sean
Carter
Pat Robertson's Prayer Jihad: God, Sodomy and the Supremes
ND Jayaprakash
India and Ariel Sharon
Steve
Perry
Bush's Top 40 Lies
Standard
Schaefer
Correction about Bloomberg and Outscourcing
Website
of the Day
Bring Them Home Now!
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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
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
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August
14, 2003
On the Verge of a Great Defeat?
Blowback in Iraq
By TOM TURNIPSEED
The Bush/Cheney administration's military invasion
of Iraq could become the greatest military defeat in United States'
history. U.S. troops are being attacked daily by increasingly
diverse forces in a chaotic guerrilla war. Since the U.S. and
Britain did a preemptive invasion of Iraq against the advice
and vocal opposition of most of the nations and peoples of the
world, it presents a tremendous problem in getting any help from
those who "told us so". The desperation of the U.S.
military plight in Iraq was very clear when General Ricardo Sanchez,
the U.S. commander in Iraq, commented on the daily casualties
of U.S. soldiers in the guerrilla war. General Sanchez said,
"Every American needs to believe this: that if we fail here
in this environment, the next battlefield will be the streets
of America."
Fighting in "the streets of America
" is typical Bush/Cheney fear-mongering hyperbole. It echoes
the top down use of the fear factor by the Bushies. Paul Bremer,
the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq recently said, "I
would rather be fighting them here than fighting them in New
York". Such scare tactics are reminiscent of Bush's false
admonitions of Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction"
and his justification of attacking Iraq to "prevent another
9/11". Ironically, although no "ties to Al Qaeda"
have ever been proven regarding Saddam Hussein's regime as alleged
by the Bush/Cheney regime, the bumbling U.S. war machine has
managed to unite the opposite extremes of Islam against the U.S.
in Iraq.
Fundamentalist Islamic factions are slipping
into Iraq and joining with Saddam's secularists in a serious
and tactically feasible efforts to drive out the U.S. occupiers.
U.S. war policy has been led by a cabal of self-absorbed neo-Zionist
and/or neo-cons, and that further reinforces the resolve of Zionist
hating, Islamic militant leaders who sense they now have the
mightiest military force in world history trapped, just where
they want them, in the kind of a war they just might win in Iraq.
On August 13, Neil MacFarquhar of the
NY Times reported that the American occupation of Iraq is causing
a "rising tide of Muslim militants " to come into Iraq
to drive out the infidels in the same way the Russian invasion
and occupation of Afghanistan stirred an earlier generation of
young Muslims. Surrounded by Islamic states, including Syria,
Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, the Muslim militants are able
to come across the borders into Iraq quite easily because there
is no way for them to be policed. The Times report said that
a fundamentalist group with links to Al Qaeda known as Ansar
al-Islam is the backbone of a underground network that brings
fundamentalist fighters into Iraq and moves them into position
to attack American soldiers as well as Iraqis they believe to
be working with Americans.
Mullah Mustapha Kreikar, who is considered
the spiritual leader of Ansar al-Islam told the Lebanese satellite
channel, LBC, that the fight in Iraq against the U.S. occupation
would be the culmination of all Muslim efforts since the demise
of the Ottoman Empire when the Islamic caliphate collapsed in
the early twentieth century. Mullah Kreikar said, "There
is no difference between this occupation and the Soviet occupation
of Afghanistan in 1979". It appears the chickens are now
coming home roost because it was the United States' CIA that
led the efforts in recruiting Muslim militants, including a young
citizen of Saudi Arabia named Osama Bin Laden, to go to Afghanistan
and drive out the Soviet occupation forces.
We have convenient memories when it comes
to our long term relationship with Iraq and the Islamic peoples
who are uniting to drive our occupying forces out of Iraq. The
people of the United States are caught up in a live-for-the-moment,
let's-all-get-rich-quick culture where politics is controlled
by sound bites and measured by overnight polling. We do not want
to face up to the stark reality of our long-term use of Machiavellian
tactics and betrayals to manipulate Iraq and other nations in
the area to control their governments and gain access to their
oil reserves. The everyday people of Iraq may not want Saddam
Hussein to be their leader anymore, but they are even more united
and passionate about not wanting the United States to control
and occupy their country for its oil.
The majority of the Iraqi people know
that the U.S. supported Saddam Hussein and helped furnish all
kinds of terrible chemical and biological weapons to his regime
in the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s. The Iraqi people know that
in the first Gulf War the U.S. engaged in the devastating destruction
of the life-sustaining infrastructure of Iraq, including the
bombing of multi-purpose dams and sanitation facilities that
resulted in the deaths of many thousands of Iraqis. Iraqis know
we dropped depleted uranium warheads on Iraq in that war and
also in the most recent war this year which has contaminated
their land and caused thousands of deaths from cancer. Iraqis
are also a bit unhappy with Americans because they realize that
U.S. instigated economic sanctions that probably caused the deaths
of 500,000 Iraqi people.
More than anything, the American people
need to know why we are on the brink of suffering the greatest
military defeat in U.S. history..
Tom Turnipseed is an attorney, writer,
and radio talk show host in Columbia, South Carolina tturnipseed@turnipseed.net
www.turnipseed.net http://www.seedshow.com .
Weekend
Edition Features for August 9 / 10, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
California's Glorious Recall!
Saul
Landau
Bush and King Henry
Gary
Leupp
On Terrorism, Methodism, "Wahhabism"
and the Censored 9/11 Report
Paul de
Rooij
The Parade of the Body Bags
Michael
Egan
History and the Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Rob Eshelman
A Home of Our Own
Daoud
Kuttab
Life as an ID Card
Philip
Agee
Terror and Civil Society: Instruments of US Policy in Cuba
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Marc Racicot: Bush's Main Man
Walt Brasch
Schwarzenegger, "Hollyweird"
and the Rigtheous Right
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush, Bribery and Berlusconi
Josh Frank
Mean, Mean Howard Dean
Elaine
Cassel
Will the Death Penalty Ever Die?
Sean Carter
Total Recall
Poets'
Basement
Hamod, Engel, Albert
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