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November 2, 2001

Alexander Cockburn
FBI Eyes Torture

November 1, 2001

Dean Baker
Dying for Patents

Sami Amarah
US Attempts to Recruit
Russian Vets of Afghan War

Molly Secours
Where Are the Voices of Reason? Let the Women
Be Heard

William Blum
Unleashing the CIA

October 31, 2001

Tom Turnipseed
Terrorize the Poor,
Subsidize the Rich

Chris Clarke
Thank God for Berkeley

Steve Perry
The Silent Genocide

October 30, 2001

Rep. Ron Paul
War on Terror
Bad as War on Drugs

Jeffrey St. Clair
Flying Blind:
The Predator's Problem

Ali Abunimah
Dear Colin Powell

St. Clair/Cockburn
Atomic Trains Grounded

Maud Hurd
We Need a Real
Stimulus Package

Dr. Susan Block
We're All Afghans Now

Tariq Ali
Busted in Munich

Francis Beer
Toward the Terrorist
Anti-World

October 29, 2001

Alexander Cockburn
The Left and the Just War

John Pilger
Hidden Agenda
of the War on Terror

David Krieger
Nukes on the Loose

Jack McCarthy
Neo-Nazis and 9/11

Marina Kalashnikova
The Brzezinski Interview

Richard Manning
Terrorism:
a definitive history

October 27, 2001

Edward Said
A Vision to Lift the Spririt

October 26, 2001

CounterPunch Wire
Genocide Scholar Gagged
Over Comments on the
Bombing of Afghanistan

Rahul Mahajan
Poisoning the Well

Sen. Russ Feingold
Why I Opposed the
Anti-Terrorism Bill

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Five Days That
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By Alexander Cockburn
and Jeffrey St. Clair
Photos by Allan Sekula

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The Memphis Blues Again

By Daniel Wolff

The singer is Big Maybelle; the man in the sparkly suit, Rufus Thomas. The place: a jook joint somewhere around Memphis. The photographer: Ernest C. Withers. Big Maybelle had a hit with "Gabbin Blues" in 1953, around when this picture was made. Thomas was a DJ on the all-black WDIA radio station in Memphis and was cutting "Bear Cat" over at Sun Records with Sam Phillips. He'd go on to do "The Funky Chicken" at Stax.

Withers was (and still is) a commercial photographer on Beale Street who covered segregated Memphis. He took pictures of all the r&b stars from a young Aretha Franklin cozying up to Sam Cooke to Muddy Water congratulating a local Little League team to Marvin Gaye hiding behind security.

Withers' music photographs have just come out in a new book: The Memphis Blues Again: Six Decades of Memphis Music Photographs. Selected, identified, and with an introduction by Daniel Wolff.

"I am a photographer, and when you're a photographer, you make a shining light of an image." Ernest C. Withers