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23, 2003
Uri
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Lynne Stewart's Big Win: Ashcroft
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Singham
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Steve
Perry
Better Late Than Never: the Press, the Dems, and Bush's Lies
John Stanton
Avoiding Plato's Republic in America: Is Anarchy the Only Hope?
Patrick
Bond
Bush and South Africa: a Petro-Military-Commerce Mission
Harry Browne
A Victory for a Disarming Irishwoman
Paul
Beaulieu
When the WTO Comes to Montreal
Robert
Fisk
The Sons are Dead, But the Resistance
Will Grow
William
Witherup
Georgie Porgie
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of the Day
Lieberman & Falwell:
True Love at Last
July
22, 2003
Diane
Christian
Bad Guy / Good Guy: War Forces;
Peace Frees
Jeremy
Brecher
Solidarity and Student Protests in Iran
Steve
Kretzmann
and Jim Vallette
Plugging Iraq into Globalization
Sam
Smith
Greening the Golden Triangle
James
Plummer
Smile, You're on Federal Camera
Lucretia
Stewart
This Day Shall Not Define My Life:
January 18, 2003
Website
of the Day
Iraq Coalition Casualties
July
21, 2003
Edward
Said
Imperial Arrogance and the Vile Stereotyping
of Arabs
Ron
Jacobs
Shut Up and Shoot
Allan J.
Lichtman
Why is George Bush President?
Elaine
Cassel
How's the Occupation Going? Ask the People of Iraq
Christopher
Brauchli
History Recapitulates: Guantanamo and the Japanese Internment
Camps
Bruce
Jackson
Third and Arizona, Santa Monica
Website
of the Day
John Dean: Taking Apart Bush's State of the Union Speech, Claim
by Claim
July
19 / 20, 2003
Arthur
Mitzman
Will the Pax Americana be More Sustainable
Than the Dot.com Bubble?
Julian
Bond
We Shall be Heard
Cynthia
McKinney
Bush's Racial Politics at Home and Abroad
Mel
Goodman
What is to be Done with the CIA?
Jason Leopold
Tenet Blames Wolfowitz
Mickey
Z.
History Forgave Churchill
Doug Giebel
Impeachment as the Message
Jon
Brown
Whipping the Post
Mano Singham
Cheney's Oil Maps
Steven
Sherman
Nickle, Dimed and Slimed at UNC
Robin Philpot
Liberia: History Doesn't Repeat Itself, It Stutters
Khaldoun
Khelil
Capturing Friedman
Jeffrey
St. Clair
You Must Leave Home, Again: Gilad Atzmon's A Guide to the Perplexed
Lenni
Brenner
Sitting in with Mingus
Vanessa
Jones
Three Dog Night
Adam
Engel
Video Judas Video
Poets'
Basement
Foley, Smith and Curtis
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of the Weekend
Illegal Art
July
18, 2003
David
Vest
Drowning in Deep Doo-Doo
Rahul
Mahajan
Deceit Runs Deep
John Chuckman
Enron-style Management in a Dangerous World
Harold
A. Gould
The Bush-Musharraf Conclave
Alvaro
Angarita
In the Eye of the Storm: Colombia's War on Journalists
David
Grenier
Sovereignty and Solidarity in Indian Country...Rhode Island
Dave Lindorff
Bush and Hitler: a Response to the Wall Street Journal
Website
of the Day
Murder of a Whistleblower? Timeline in David Kelly Affair
July
17, 2003
Ron
Jacobs
Sometimes Even the President of the
United States Has to Stand Naked
Lisa
Walsh Thomas
Bush Country: the Venom and Adulation of Ignorance
Martin
Schwarz
Bush Pre-emptive Strike Doctrine is the Bane of Non-Proliferation
Watchdogs
Heidi
Lypps
Better Justice Through Chemistry? Forced
Drugging and the Supreme Court
Norman
Madarasz
Third Ways and Third Worlds: Lula at the Progressive Governance
Conference
Pankaj
Mehta
Criminalizing the Palestinian Solidarity Movement
Marjorie
Cohn
Bush, War Lies & Impeachment: the
Boy Who Cried Wolf
Hammond
Guthrie
(Dis) Intelligence Revisited
Website
of the Day
No Force, No Fraud: the Soul of Libertarianism
July
16, 2003
Jason
Leopold
Wolfowitz Told White House to Hype
Dubious Uranium Claims
William
Cook
Defining Terrorism from the Top Down
Elaine
Cassel
Judge Brinkema v. Ashcroft: She Whom
Must Not Be Obeyed
Jason
Leopold
How Can They Justify the War If WMDs Are Never Found?
Linda Heard
Bondage or Freedom?
Raymond
Barrett
From Detroit to Basra
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Back to the Future in Guatemala:
The Return of Gen. Ríos Montt
July
15, 2003
Kathleen
and Bill Christison
Why We Resigned from VIPS
Elaine
Cassel
Ashcroft's War on Legal Whistleblowers:
the Ordeal of Jesselyn Radack
Chris
Floyd
Barge Poles: Oil Wars and New Europe's Mercenaries
Jason
Leopold
CIA Warned White House Last October that Niger Docs were Forgeries
Gaius Publius
Considering the Obvious: Fool Us Once, Fool Us Twise...Please
John
Troyer
The Niger Syndrome
Becky Gillette
No Conspiracy at Coffeen Nature Preserve: a Response to David
Orrr
Uri
Avnery
The Bi-National State: The Wolf Shall
Dwell with the Lamb
Website
of the Day
Cost of Iraq War
July
14, 2003
Lisa
Taraki
Hot Days in Ramallah
Walter
Brasch
Bush: the Pretend Captain
SOA
Watch
Training Colombia's Killers in the US
Dan Bacher
Yurok Tribe Denounces Klamath River Salmon Killers
Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Intelligence Unglued
Website
of the Day
Coalition for Democratic Rights and Civil Liberties
July 12 / 13, 2003
Arthur
Mitzman
The Double Wall Before the Future
Standard
Schaefer
The Coming Financial Reality: an
Interview with Michael Hudson
John Feffer
A Fearful Symmetry: Washington and Pyongyang
Ron
Jacobs
Shades of Gray in Iran
Elaine
Cassel
Judicial Terrorism Against the Bill of Rights
Tom
Stephens
Civil Liberties After 9/11
David Lindorff
New White House Slogan: "Case Closed. Just Move On"
Jason
Leopold
The Mini-War Against Iraq Prior to 9/11
Lee Sustar
What's Behind the Crisis in Liberia?
Mickey
Z.
AIDS Dissent and Africa
Sam Hamod
Semitic is a Language Group, Not a Race or Ethnic Group
Ramzy
Baroud
Awaiting Justice on an Old Blanket
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Savage Incongruities: the Photographic Life of Lee Miller
Adam
Engel
Parable of the Lobbyist
Robert
Sanders
A Review of Ralph Lopez's American Dream
Poets'
Basement
Albert, Witherup, Guthrie
July
11, 2003
Conn
Hallinan
The Coin of Empire
Tim
Wise
God Responds to Bush
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
The Two Faces of Bush in Africa
Edward
S. Herman
Whitewashing Sandra Day O'Connor
David Orr
Coffeen-gate: What's Going on at the Sierra Club Foundation?
David
Lindorff
An Iraq War & Occupation Glossary
Website
of the Day
Dead Malls
July
10, 2003
Ron
Jacobs
Dealing with the Devil: the Bloody
Profits of General Dynamics
Sean
Donahue
Bush and the Paramillitaries: Coddling Terrorists in Colombia
Yemi
Toure
Who Outted Bush in Afrika?
Robert
Jensen
Politics and Sustainability: an Interview
with Wes Jackson
Ali
Abunimah
US Leaves Injured Iraqis Untreated
Joanne
Mariner
Federal Courts, Not Military Commissions
Website
of the Day
Electronic Iraq
July
9, 2003
David
Lindorff
Is the Media Finally Turning on
Bush?
David
Krieger and Angela McCracken
10 Myths About Nuclear Weapons
Mickey
Z.
Why Speak Out?
Lee Sustar
The Great Medicare Fraud
John
Chuckman
The Worst Kind of Lie
Gary Leupp
"Pacifist" Japan and the Occupation of Iraq
Website
of the Day
Hail to the Thief:
Songs for the Bush Years
July
8, 2003
Elaine
Cassel
Bully on the Bench: the Pathological
Dissents of Scalia
Alan
Maass
Nights of Fire and Rage in Benton Harbor
Chris
Floyd
Troubled Sleep: Getting Used to the American Gulag
Linda
S. Heard
America's Kangaroo Justice
Brian
Cloughley
They Tell Lies to Nodders
Charles
Sullivan
Bush the Christian?
Saul
Landau
The Intelligence Culture in the National Security Age
Website
of the Day
Occupation Watch
July
7, 2003
William
Blum
The Anti-Empire Report
Harvey
Wasserman
The Nuke with a Hole in Its Head
Ramzy
Baroud
Peace for All the Wrong Reasons
Simon
Jones
What Progressives Should Think About
Iran
Lesley
McCulloch
Fear, Pain and Shame in Aceh
Uri
Avnery
The Draw
Steve
Perry
Bush's Wars Web Log 7/3
July
4 / 6, 2003
Patrick
Cockburn
Dead on the Fourth of July
Frederick
Douglass
What is Freedom to a Slave?
Martha
Honey
Bush and Africa: Racism, Exploitation
and Neglect
Jeffrey
St. Clair
The Rat in the Grain: Amstutz and
the Looting of Iraqi Agriculture
Standard
Schaefer
Rule by Fed: Anyone But Greenspan in 2004
Lenni Brenner
Jefferson is for Today
Elaine
Cassel
Fucking Furious on the Fourth
Ben Tripp
How Free Are We?
Wayne
Madsen
A Sad Independence Day
John Stanton
Happy Birthday, America! 227 Years of War
Jim
Lobe
Bush's Surreal AIDS Appointment
John Blair
Return to Marble Hill: Indiana's Rusting Nuke
Lisa
Walsh Thomas
Heavy Reckoning at Qaim
David Vest
Wake Up and Smell the Dynamite
Adam
Engel
Queer as Grass
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Uzma
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Francis Boyle
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July
24, 2003
Pat Robertson's Supreme
Fatwah
Just
Another Day in Bush's America
By HARVEY WASSERMAN
Ayatollah Pat Robertson is praying for the departure
of at least three Justices of the United States Supreme Court.
And the Bush Junta continues its relentless attack on the foundations
of American democracy. The "shock and awe" of this
ever-escalating blitzkreig has been the root of Bush's strength,
keeping the opposition off balance and on the defensive.
But cracks are showing in a totalitarian
assault that needs total victory. The regime has grossly overreached
its minority non-mandate. Its procession of Big Lies, such as
Saddam's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, are generating
just the kind of blowback that can shatter a tyranny, even one
in control of the mass media.
Have we turned a corner?
Robertson's "prayer" for the
"removal" of three Supreme Court Justices reeks of
a "fatwah"---a call to murder. Islamic Ayatollahs issued
a similar death threat against Salmon Rushdie, whose "Satanic
Verses" they deemed blasphemous. In fact, he merely lampooned
the Ayatollahs. Against all odds, Rushdie still lives.
Robertson has condemned the Court for
supporting a woman's right to choose and for guaranteeing the
right of citizens to make love in ways Robertson doesn't like.
Appointed for life, the Supremes can retire or die. So if one
of his followers kills them, who will Robertson thank first?
God?
Robertson and his fellow Ayatollahs,
Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell, hate more than just gays:
they hate America, specifically the Bill of Rights, the Constitution,
diversity of opinion and ethnicity, freedom of worship, the idea
that all people are created equal.
Their messiah, George W. Bush, is under
fire for running the most secretive, dishonest and repressive
administration in US history.
With his signature lack of integrity,
Bush blames anyone and everyone for his recent whopper about
Saddam Hussein's nukes. He stuck a knife in Tony Blair's back.
He trashed the CIA. He fingered an obscure White House functionary.
Along the way he illegally outed a covert agent, the wife of
Joseph Wilson, the highly respected researcher who long ago told
Bush Saddam-had no nukes. When investigative reporter Sy Hersh
originally broke this story, the Administration used the word
"terrorist" to describe him.
Meanwhile, Bush has skulked away from
the 9/11 inquest. Cheney's energy policy and Bush's stock frauds
remain shrouded in state secrecy. This is a supremely cynical
gang of thieves, addicted to secrecy, happy to stab anyone, any
time.
Along with a crashing economy, Bush's
polls are in a tail spin. But his strategy remains the same:
attack attack attack. Every phrase of the Constitution, every
guarantee in the Bill of Rights, every icon of social welfare,
every shred of environmental protection, no matter how eminently
sane or universally accepted, is under relentless assault. For
example:
· In Head Start, the junta assaulted
a much-loved program that has helped millions of American children
for decades.
· In attacking the global treaty
on the ozone layer, Bush is pushing methyl bromide, a marginal
pesticide, one of the last chemicals in use that does serious
ozone damage. Global consensus for this treaty is even more solid
than on global warming; experts everywhere are stunned.
· In indicting Greenpeace USA
for a peaceful action against rainforest mahogany in Miami harbor
last year, the junta has served notice it will aggressively prosecute
non-violent civil protests.
· The junta used Homeland Security
forces to hunt down Texas Democrats resisting an outrageous redistricting
ordered by GOP radical Tom DeLay. Congressional districts are
traditionally redesigned every ten years. But with a new majority
in the state legislature, the GOP is demanding a coup.
· Congressional Republicans called
out the Capitol police against Democrats who dared try to caucus
outside a committee hearing.
· Bush's horrific ultra-right
judicial appointments have outraged even moderate Democrats,
prompting the GOP leadership to contemplate trashing traditional
Senatorial safeguards they used against Bill Clinton.
· California's first-ever gubernatorial
recall will cost taxpayers $30 million. Bought by a Republican
extremist millionaire with virtually no grassroots support, the
recall is aimed at the Democratic party in its strongest state---and
at the state itself.
· ESPN and Rush Limbaugh will
now turn professional football into a Republican bullhorn. Limbaugh's
infamous racism will apply to many of the players whose performances
he'll describe.
· Major media continue to present
no-talent hate mongers like Ann Coulter and Charles Krauthammer
as if they were serious reporters or scholars, when their sole
claim to air time is one-note contempt for anything green or
humanist.
But despite its total grip on the government
and media, the junta's popularity sags. It plunged into a desert
quagmire with no exit strategy for one obvious reason: Iraqi
oil is the Bush Energy Plan. With the economy in free fall, Bush
must drive down gas prices for the 2004 election. So US troops
will spill every last drop of their blood to secure every last
drop of that oil.
The Bush strategy is to hog tie its critics
over every inch of turf, no matter how safe it once seemed. Given
the horrors of the US concentration camp at Guantanamo, it seems
all too clear the junta is capable of using the Patriot Act and
Homeland Security apparatus for Soviet-style arrests and Latin-style
disappearances even of moderate critics and internal opponents.
Yet America's pro-democracy movement
has exploded at the grassroots, through the internet and over
the few talk radio outlets remaining open to diversity. .
Tom Paine described an earlier crisis
in American democracy as a time to try our souls. Today yet another
aggressive and intolerant tyranny has decided to up the ante.
Will we have the strength and wisdom
to win again?
Harvey Wasserman
and Bob Fitrakis's SUPERPOWER OF PEACE v BUSH ET. AL. will be
available through www.freepress.org
in September. He can be reached at: NonukesHW@aol.com
Weekend Edition Features for July 19 / 20, 2003
Arthur
Mitzman
Will the Pax Americana be More Sustainable
Than the Dot.com Bubble?
Julian
Bond
We Shall be Heard
Cynthia
McKinney
Bush's Racial Politics at Home and Abroad
Mel
Goodman
What is to be Done with the CIA?
Jason Leopold
Tenet Blames Wolfowitz
Mickey
Z.
History Forgave Churchill
Doug Giebel
Impeachment as the Message
Jon
Brown
Whipping the Post
Mano Singham
Cheney's Oil Maps
Steven
Sherman
Nickle, Dimed and Slimed at UNC
Robin Philpot
Liberia: History Doesn't Repeat Itself, It Stutters
Khaldoun
Khelil
Capturing Friedman
Jeffrey
St. Clair
You Must Leave Home, Again: Gilad Atzmon's A Guide to the Perplexed
Lenni
Brenner
Sitting in with Mingus
Vanessa
Jones
Three Dog Night
Adam
Engel
Video Judas Video
Poets'
Basement
Foley, Smith and Curtis
Website
of the Weekend
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