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CounterPunch Stories Jan. 2003 / Feb 2003

 


February 28, 2003

Alexander Cockburn
Meet the New Yorker's Chief Hack: Jeffrey Goldberg

Saul Landau
Now It's Personal

Michael Neumann
A Plea for Hysteria

Karima Bennoume
The UN: Tool for Peace or War?

The Black Commentator
The Rev. Sharpton and the Soul of the Democrats

Jennifer Loewenstein
Don't Turn Off the War

Richard Levins
Cuba's Biological Weapons: Why the World Needs More of Them

M. Shahid Alam
Is This a Clash of Civilizations?

Clay Conrad
Juries and Judges: What's Relevant?

Ben Tripp
Speaking in Tongues: a Guide to Gibberish in the Age of Bush

Eliot Katz
To Declare Preemptive War is to Declare a Bankrupt Imagination

Kurt Nimmo
Paying Through the Nose to Kill Iraqi Kids

Matt Vidal
George W. Bonaparte

Mark Zepezauer
Why the Right Hates America

Mickey Z.
The Anti-War Talk I Never Gave

Jerry Kroth
Jung and the Space Shuttle Revisited

Shyam Oberoi
Chronicle of a War Foretold

Ron Jacobs
What If the Firebombing of Baghdad Were a Nightclub Fire?

Poets' Basement
Eliot Katz and Jim Cohn

Website of the Weekend
Defense Tech

February 26, 2003

Carl Estabrook
Israel and the US War on Iraq

Ken O'Keefe
Diary of a Human Shield

Ray McGovern
Colin Powell's Blurry Pictures: A Former CIA Man Asks If Intelligence Analysts Are Still Free to "Tell It Like It Is"

William Hughes
Mona Charen: a True Enemy of Freedom

Linda Heard
Sharon's Bitter Dream of Empire

Fran Quigley
The Survival of Both Peoples

Paul Dean
The Infallible Opinion Poll

Alexander Cockburn
Crowds and Panic; Hitchens and Booze; Lomax and Son House, the Rip-Off Continues

Tom Wells
Peek-A-Boo with Duct Tape

Edward Teague
An Open Letter to Tony Blair: Stand Tall, But Tell the Truth

Jack McCarthy
Press Ganging Sami Al-Arian

Website of the Day
Rummy and Saddam: the Handshake

 

February 25, 2003

Gary Leupp
The Weekend the World Said No to War: Notes on the Numbers

Jason Leopold
Powell Warned Bush About Bloody Price of Unilateral War

Ross Vachon
Joe Lieberman: Yankee Tartuffe

Ahmad Faruqui
Killing with Sanctions, Then Bombs: Estimating Civilian Casualties in Iraq War

Reza Ghorashi
Why War with Iraq? What Should Iranians Do?

Craig Axford
Environmentalism as Homeland Security

Harvey Wasserman
There's Nothing Patriotic About It

Ramzi Kysia
Dispatch from Baghdad: Living Against Disaster

Charles Sullivan
The Failure of Mass Education

Gilad Atzmon
The Birth of the Tragedy: On Reason, Justice and the Victim Mentality

Website of the Day
Lysistrata Project

 

February 24, 2003

Will Potter
War and the Press:
Watchdogs, Lapdogs and Sleeping Dogs

Tariq Ali
The Soft Underbelly of the British Peace Movement

Jules Rabin
An Irregular Letter to Bush:
Days of Shock and Awe

Anthony Gancarski
The Muslim Problem
Peace Protests in the Deep South

Kurt Nimmo
As the Thumbscrew Turns:
The Arrest of Sami Al-Arian

Terry Jones
Colin Powell's Forked Tongue:
First Bomb the Language, Then the Iraqis

Douglas Valentine
A Swath of Righteous Savagery:
a Review of The Quiet American

Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Reflections on the Protest in London
Determination at 1000 Volts

Stephen Green
Who Armed Saddam?

Chris Floyd
Chemical Brothers:
How Bush Turned Medicines into Munitions

Website of the Day
Untitled Magazine

 

February 22 / 23, 2003

Laura Flanders
Security Threat?
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Barred Entry to US

Alexander Cockburn
The Trouble with E-Bombs

Kathy Kelly
Letter from Baghdad
Tight Squeeze

Subcomandate Marcos
A Universal No to the War of Fear

William Cook
Armageddon Anxiety

Jo Freeman
Conservative Women

Michael Colby
Howard Dean is No Green

Ben Tripp
Fact-Checking the Constitution

Joanne Mariner
Pets Unite!

Richard Falk and David Krieger
Iraq and the Failures of Democracy

Uri Avnery
War Crimes and Sharon

Ian Williams
John Bolton in Jerusalem

Michael Wolff
How Sanctions Destroyed Iraqi Education

William Hughes
The Zev and Ari Show

Susanna Sonnenberg
Boxing Missoula

Michael Ortiz Hill
Peace and Humility

Anis Shivani
When Kafka Aligns with Orwell

John Mihelich
The Hidden History of Butte's Working Class

Rich Procter
Bush and His Fabled Gut

Adam Engel
Voice of the Nation

Becky Johnson
The Hopscotch Rebellion

Krieger, Tripp, Ashley
Poets' Basement

Website of the Weekend
The Pedro Martinez of Palestine

 

February 21, 2003

Jeffrey St. Clair
In a Land Where Justice is a Game: Killing Amos King

Anne Gwynne
Raid on Nablus: a Hero in the Midst of Horror

Nelson P. Valdés
Why Americans Can't Travel to Cuba

Jason Leopold
Martin Peretz to Bush: Bomb Iraq

Alan Maass
"A Revolutionary Spirit in a Hostile World":
The Real Martin Luther King, Jr

Jack McCarthy
Hitchens and Booze

Sonia Ebron
Why Black Americans Should Oppose Bush's War

Russell Mokiber and Robert Weissman
12 Reasons to Oppose Bush's War on Iraq

Abu Spinoza
Chomsky's Power and Terror

Website of the Day
Bush AWOL

 

February 20, 2003

Ray Hanania
Blame It on Code Orange: Did Terror Paranoia Cause Chicago Nightclub Panic?

Ben Tripp
Vote for Glitch

William Blum
What the Bush Gang Really Wants

Kurt Nimmo
The IMF Fiddles While La Paz Burns: The New Opium Wars in Bolivia

Pablo Mukherjee
Answering the Moral Warriors

Ian Jones
What Price Relevance?
A View from Iceland

Kamil Madhi
War Will Bring Disaster to Our People, Not Liberation

Aluf Benn
Likud's Cry: "Saddam and Arafat are One"

M. Shahid Alam
Israel's Proxy War

Website of the Day
Whose Florida?

 

February 19, 2003

Steve Perry
Cowboy Dreams:
War as Hollywood Western

Saul Landau
Cuba's View of Bush's War on Terror: an Interview with Cuban VP Raul Alarcon

Jason Leopold
The Origins of Bush's Iraq War Drive: The 1998 Wolfowitz / Rumsfeld Memo to Clinton

Lenni Brenner
Lerner and the WWP:
The Ranting Rabbi Doesn't Speak for All Anti-War Jews

Anthony Gancarski
The Return of Gary Hart:
A Voice of Reason?

Gloria Bergen
Storm Warning!
Imperialist Gangs Stalk Planet Earth

David Krieger
Peace March: We Must Lead This Nation to a More Just Future

Tom Turnipseed
The Peace Movement in South Carolina

Alexander Cockburn
Messy Valentines: Rummy and Frank on the Intrepid

Website of the Day
Protest Photos

 

February 18, 2003

Gabriel Kolko
The Crisis in NATO:
a Geopolitical Earthquake

Dave Lindorff
War, Protest and the Press:
The Failure of American Journalism

Ben Shepard
Afterward to February 15
Breaking Through the Panic

Chris White
A Veteran on the Hypocrisy of Bush's War Plans

Jan Oberg
The Political Fundamentalism of George Bush

Michael S. Ladah
Duct Tape and Plastic Sheets:
Fanning the Flames of Fear

Patrick Cockburn
Kurds Outraged By American Plans to Occupy Iraq

Tom Stephens
Motown Says No to War:
Seeing Through Bush's Bullshit

Mitchel Cohen
Are They Really That Stupid?

Mark Gunnion
The Streets of San Francisco
A Big, Mad Crowd

Aluf Benn
Sharon Eagerly Awaits War on Iraq

Website of the Day
GlamAmericans!

 

February 17, 2003

Ron Jacobs
The Streets Belong to the People
The Liberation of Midtown Manhattan

Joanne Mariner
Scenes from the Streets of New York:
A Cold, But Exhilarating Saturday

Tariq Ali
Regime Change: Here and in Iraq

Vanessa Jones
"Somewhere in Texas a Village Has Lost Its Idiot"

Joe Quandt
An American Crisis:
Let Us, Like the Iraqis, Have No Illusions

Willliam Hughes
Mayor Bully:
Bloomburg's March Restrictions Spark Outrage

Sam Husseini
Compass Roses

Robert Jensen and Rahul Mahajan
People of Conscience can Change History

Wayne Madsen
After the Fall

Anthony Gancarski
Return to the Stone Age?
The Last Days of Bill Buckley

Robert Fisk
The US is a Nation Divided

Ralph Nader
Big Oil and the War on Iraq

Adam Engel
Live from New York, It's:
Lizard Brain on Line for the Log Flume

Website of the Day
Compass Roses

 

February 15 / 16. 2003

Alexander Cockburn
Colin Powell and the Great "Intelligence Fraud"

Rep. Dennis Kucinich
The Whole World is Watching

Edward Said
A Monumental Hypocrisy

Wouter Hijink
Report from Amsterdam
"War: Do Not Feed!"

Linda Heard
At Last! Proud to be British

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Taking a Stand on Iraq

Robert Fisk
The Case Against War

Lev Grinberg
Lessons from Israel
A War Without Legitimacy

Chris Floyd
Cold Fronts:
Bush War Profits

Ahmad Faruqui
Stepping Back from the Brink of War

Norman Madarasz
French Kisses from the Citizens of France

Adam Lebowitz
Scott Ritter in Tokyo

Kurt Nimmo
Bring Us the Head of Osama bin Laden

Forrest Hylton
The Revolt in Bolivia

Col. Dan Smith
Irrelevance and Credibility:
Bush, NATO and the UN

Wayne Madsen
The Lies of Tom Lantos

Ranjit Hoskote
The Invisible Modernities of the Islamic World

Emily Zitter-Smith
Who's Safe Now?
An American in Cairo

Rich Procter
Anybody Remember the Powell Doctrine?

Poets Basement:
Eliot Katz, Scott Handleman, and Bruce Tomczak

Website of the Weekend
Anti-War Posters

 

February 14, 2003

CounterPunch News Service
Slow Lerner: It May Not Help Kids in Iraq, But It Sure Got Michael Lerner Airtime

Andrew Murray
Tony Blair Versus the British People

Ben Tripp
President A**hole

Peggy Thomson
My Close Encounter with Saddam

Gary Leupp
Meet Mr. Blowback:
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, CIA Op and Homicidal Thug

Saul Landau
Bush and Corporate Fraud

Adam Engel
A Civilian Occupation:
The Politics of Israeli Architecture

Anthony Gancarski
Jacksonville in Crisis

Rick Giombetti
Specific Threats to Democracy

Jean-David Levitte
A Warning on Iraq from France:
Make War the Last Option

Ian Gurney
Whose Side is Bush On?

Maria Engqvist
Did the FARC Shoot Down a US Military Plane in Colombia?

Ron Jacobs
This Madness Must Cease

Josh Frank
Call to Washington:
Stonewall Bush

Website of the Day
Rock Out Against War

 

February 13, 2003

Jennifer Berkshire
Columbia and the Signs from Above

Jason Leopold
It's the Oil, Stupid
The Markets of Mass Destruction

Neve Gordon
Arabs and Jews Unite for Peace

Charlie Clements, MD
A Report from Iraq
Bombing the Starving, the Sick, the Homeless

Linda Heard
Oh What a Web They Weave!
Will Hans Get Blixed?

Jeremy Brecher
Alternative to War
Democratic Protest Can Avert Calamity

Senator Robert Byrd
Bush Administration is Reckless

Ray McGovern
CIA Man on the Agency's Days of Shame

Kurt Nimmo
The Propaganda of Anxiety

Website of the Day
The Blue Collar Review

 

February 12, 2003

Alexander Cockburn
The Largest Anti-War Out Cry in History

Tom Gorman
Bill O'Reilly's Fascism, Part 2:
Goebbels Would've Been Proud

Theodore McDowell
Searching for a Christian Response to War:
Iraq: a Call for Repentance and Resistance

Emrah Göker
Turkey and War:
94 Percent Oppose Invasion of Iraq

R.S. Zaharna
The New Bin Laden Tape:
How It Plays in the Arab World

Maria Tomchick
Powell's Evidence Unravels

Harry Browne
The View from Dublin:
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Iraq

Aviv Lavie
Partners in Pain:
Arabs Study the Holocaust

Bernard Weiner
Artistic Sign Language:
Symbols of the Coming Bush Fall

Mano Singham
What War Looks Like

Charles Sullivan
Manifest Destiny Rides Again

Nick Ring
A Student's View of the New Bin Laden Tape

Website of the Day
Petition: Allow New Yorkers to Say No to War!

 

February 11, 2003

Douglas Valentine
An Act of State: the Execution of Martin Luther King

Wayne Madsen
In Material Breach of the Constitution
Bush's War on the Soul of America

Mahir Ali
The Dupes of War: Blessed are the Peacemakers

Gordon Solberg
We Want Our Country Back

Wayne Saunders
Inside Bush's Brain: a Pathology of Fear and Lies

Joshua Ruebner
An Iron Triangle:
Raytheon-Israel-Congress

John Troyer
An 80s Flashback: Of Shuttles and Air Raids

Lee Waters
Inside the Bush White House
"Armageddon is Long Overdue!"

Website of the Day
Electronic Iraq

February 10, 2003

John Stanton
Pretext Operations: Template for Iraq

Sharon Smith
Bush's War on Women

Mark Donham
Speed Bombers: This is Your Military on Drugs

Mark Engler
CAFTA: Free Trade vs. Democracy

Paul Lafarque
Of Dream and Revolution

Elaine Cassel
Did the Beltway Sniper Case Cause the Supreme Court to Deny Death Penalty Appeals?

Ron Jacobs
Scenario for the Future?
China and US Regime Change

M. Shahid Alam
Bastard

Website of the Day
Poets Against the War

 

February 8 / 9, 2003

Bill Christison
The US Gameplan for Iraq

Intelligence Officers for Sanity
Memo to Bush on Iraq

Olive Lowell
Homeland Insecurity
Champaign-Urbana Shaken by New INS Rules

Michael Neumann
Nonviolence: Its Histories and Myths

Alison Weir
A Thousand Professors

David Krieger
On the Brink of War

Muqtedar Khan
The Logic of the Hawks

Anthony Gancarski
Pakistan on the Brink?

Jason Leopold
GAO Surrenders to Cheney

Anis Shivani
A Post-Liberal Theory of Consciousness for the Starbucks Habitué

David Vest
Dive Bomber

Norman Madarasz
The New Brazilian Cinema

Poets' Basement
Handleman, Smith, Engel

Website of the Weekend
Cities for Peace

 

February 7, 2003

Edward Hammond
Gassing Iraq: Pentagon Plans to Use Biochemical Weapons in Iraq War

Kurt Nimmo
The Call to Empire Act

Saree Makdisi
Voting Under Lockdowns
Israeli Elections

Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Corporations, War and You

Jorge Mariscal
Bush and the Return of Manifest Destiny

Johnny Boyd
The New McCarthyism:
Bush's America For Better or Worse

Ben Feinberg
Remembering the "War in the Gulf" on TV

Don Mokerud
Bush's Faith-Based Diplomas?
"Please, God, Let Me Graduate!"

Alex Koroknay-Palicz
It's Time to Lower the Voting Age

Website of the Day
Guernica and Powell

 

February 6, 2003

Linda Heard
Powell at the UN: Spiel, Stunts and Special Effects

Anthony Gancarski
Peggy Noonan, Space Case
The Columbia and the Manufacture of Tragedy

Robert Fisk
You Wanted to Believe Him: Powell Does Beckett

Robert Jensen
Powell at the UN:
Smoking Guns and Big Guns

William Hughes
Colin Powell's Big Flop

Ali Abunimah
Dissecting Powell's Speech:
Hearsay and Old Allegations

Phyllis Bennis
Powell vs. Blix
The Case for War Remains Unmade

Rahul Mahajan
Responding to Colin Powell
Is This All You've Got?

Paul de Rooij
Where Are the Incubators, Gen. Powell?

Website of the Day
Iraq: the War Game

 

February 5, 2003

Joanne Mariner
A Test for Democracy
Can Moussaoui Get a Fair Trial?

Paul Dean
Bush and the Invisible Alien Theory: Evidence, Absence of Evidence and Evidence of the Absence of Sense

Ramzy Baroud
The Demons of War
Attacking Iraq Means a Double Disaster for Palestinians

Jake Bashir
The Columbia Wasn't the Star Ship Enterprise
Time to Cancel the Shuttle Show

Neve Gordon
Free Israel's Prisoners of Conscience
How You Can Help Conscientious Objectors

Clay S. Conrad
The Feds. v. Ed Rosenthal (and Juries)
How to Survive as a Juror

Richard Procter
Rightwing Screech Monkeys: Who is the Patriot? Who is the Traitor?

Website of the Day
Hitchens Interview:
I'm Voting for Bush

 

February 4, 2003

Adam Engel
Shock the Monkeys, Days of Awe

Gary Leupp
How God (and the Devil) Created JOBS

Anthony Gancarski
Just Say No to Anthrax (and Other Urban Myths)

Kurt Nimmo
Dirty Bombs? Don't Worry We've Got a Pill

William MacDougall
Not in My Name? Nice Sentiment, Sorry About the Slogan

Fareed Marjaee
Phil Berrigan's Dream: War Is Not Inevitable

Kurt Leege
Freedom's Just Another Word...Or Pair of Jeans

Saul Landau
Terrorists On the Run:
Toward Bush?

Rosemary and Walt Brasch
Tragic Inequalities: Which Deaths Count?

Website of the Day
The Face Behind Bush's Mask

 

February 3, 2003

James Davis
Watching the Fragments Fall:
Shuttle Crash as Entertainment

John Stanton
Hubris and Shady Contractors:
Why NASA's O'Keefe Should Resign

Saul Landau
Bush and Mexico:
A New Butt-Kisser

Milan Rai
Oil and War

Jason Leopold
How Reliant Energy Bilked California Consumers and Got Away with Only a Slap on the Wrist

Robert Jensen
The Message from Porto Alegre:
Restrain the Empire!

Neve Gordon
and Catherine Rottenberg
The Empire Strikes Back: Sharon and Settlers Destroy the Infrastructure of Palestinian Existence

Edward J. Steele
War Dollars: What's a Few Zeroes Among Friends?

CounterPunch Wire
More Signs of Protest:
British Version

Website of the Day
Masturbate for Peace!

 

February 1 / 2, 2003

Alexander Cockburn
Railroading Rosenthal; PeeWee and the Sex and the Sex Police

Jeffrey St. Clair
Star Whores: Astronomers & Apaches on Mt. Graham

Dian Hardison
Former NASA Engineer: "I Fucking Warned Them"

Jerry Kroth
Jung & the Shuttle: Symbol & the Sychronicity with the Columbia Disaster

Dave Lindorff
Bush & HItler: The Strategy of Fear

Behzad Yaghmaian
Report from Istanbul: the Peace Movement in Turkey

Alan Maass
Emptying Death Row

Forrest Hylton
The Weight of Forgetting: the Bolivian Blockades in Context

Kurt Nimmo
Inventing Crimes: FBI/CIA Entrapment

Matt Taibbi
Iraqt-Up: At Peace Rallies, Hundreds of Thousands Go Missing

Jeremy Scahill
Live from Baghdad: FoxNews: Paying Saddam

Don Atapattu
Songs of Protest

Brian J. Foley
An Immodest Proposal

Lawrence McGuire
Poker at Camp David

Adam Engel
Just Do It: Outrunning the President

 

January 31, 2003

Jason Leopold
SEC Should Probe the Sale of Army Secretary's Mansion

Mark Gaffney
Israel's Nukes: the Case of Mordechai Vanunu

Anthony Gancarski
Rep. Corrine Brown: A Good Fit for Her District?

Ron Jacobs
A Threat to Its Neighobrs and World Peace
Iraq vs. the US

Fran Quigley
The Mother of a US Soldier Speaks Out for Peace

Aaron Maté
All They Want is War

Phil Gasper
Are SUVs Really the Reason for Bush's War?

Wayne Madsen
Bush and Adolf: Compare and Contrast

Bernard Weiner
The Five Fingers of Focus:
Bush and Co.'s Real Motives

Chris Floyd
Kean Insight: Bush, bin Laden, BCCI and the 9/11 Commission

Website of the Day
All About Joe

 

January 30, 2003

Muqtedar Khan
Heavy Rhetoric, Wistful Thinking and Hydrogen Cars: a response to Bush's State of the Union

William Hughes
An Open Letter to France:
Justice is On Your Side

David Wilson
Meet the Gloucester Weapons Inspectors: the Protest at the Fairford Stealth Bomber Base

Anthony Gancarski
Free Press? "There's No Damn Thing"

Josh Frank
Who Would Jesus Bomb?: 10 Reasons to Oppose War on Iraq

Abu Spinoza
Iraq: Web Resources

Dr. Gerry Lower
Class Warfare Against the Poor

Natalie Johnson Lee
Green Party Response to Bush's State of the Union

Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Stealing Money from Kids

Maria Tomchick
Bush's Smallpox Boondoggle

Paul di Rooij
War: It's Already Started

Website of the Day
Tie Yourself to the Mast Brave Odysseus: Ashcroft Sings!

 

January 29, 2003

Sheldon Hull
An Extended Promo with No Payoff: Notes on the State of George W. Bush

Emily Zitter-Smith
Watching TV in Cairo

Linda Heard
Showdown at the Crawford Corral

Mike James
Smear Pete Townshend, Cover Up Blair's Cabinet:
Alleged Pedophiles in Britain's War Room

Kathryn Casa
The Other State of the Union

Brian Cloughley
WMD: Okay, Where Are They?

Gloria Bergen
Work That Kills

Mark Weisbrot
Another World is Possible

Alexander Cockburn
Yes, That Was the President

Philip Farruggio
My Flag Held Hostage

Adam Engel
Domicide

Website of the Day
Code Pink: Women for Peace

 

January 28, 2003

Kurt Nimmo
Bin and Laden the CIA;
Bush and Mass Murder

Jennifer Berkshire
Porto Alegre Diary 4:
Another Left is Possible

Adam Lebowitz
The War on Terror:
The View from Japan

Pierre Tristam
Warfare as Entertainment

Elaine Cassel
Bringing Down the Curtain on Defense Attorneys:
The Lynn Stewart Case

Ben Roberts
The Sorry State of the Union

Terry Jones
Bombing Mr. Johnson's Garage

Robert Fisk
The Wartime Deceptions

CounterPunch Wire
And the Signs Said...

Walter Miale
Corporate Journalism and the War

Philip Farruggio
Inside Jr's War Room

CounterPunch Website of the Day
Who Dies For Bush's Lies?

 

January 27, 2003

Walt Whitman
Respondez! Respondez!

Jennifer Berkshire
Porto Alegre Diary 3: Lula, Savior or Sell Out?

Chris Floyd
Street Legal

Linda Heard
Are You a Friend of Freedom?

Agustín Velloso Santisteban
Spain and the War on Iraq

Rich Procter
We Can Stop This War
A National Rifle Association of Peace

Saul Landau
A Guide to Bush's Political Bipolar Disorder

Ralph Nader
Protecting Public Education from Corporate Tax Giveaways

Robert Fisk
The Human Cost of War

 

January 25 / 26, 2003

Ron Jacobs
Iraq War as Football Game

Bill and Kathy Christison
Too Many Smoking Guns: Israel, American Jews and the War on Iraq

Chris Clarke
Collateral Damage: Draft Resistance and the Peace Mvt.

Bruce Jackson
Killing an Oak Tree: a Gratuitous Death

Jennifer Berkshire
Porto Allegre Diary II: Building the Party, Lula Style

Forrest Hylton
Left Turns in South America

Edward Said
When Will Arabs Resist?

William A. Cook
Israeli Democracy: Fact or Fiction?

Anthony Gancarski
America Never Was America to Me

Subcomandante Marcos
Zaps to Basques: Lighten Up!

Ellen Cantarow
Music Lives in Palestine

Marta Russell
Extinguishing Frida Kahlo

Adam Engel
Man in the Black Suit: a novelini

 

January 24, 2003

Anne Gwynne
Murder in Zawatta

Thomas Mountain
The War You Never Heard About: Holocaust of the Horn

Alwyn Moss
Military Might Threatens the Planet: When Wisdom Lags Behind Technopower

Jennifer Berkshire
Porto Alegre Diary I
Why Are We Here?

Jason Leopold
Bush as a B-Grade Nixon
Selling a War No One Wants

Kurt Nimmo
Bush Will Attack Iraq:
Chemical Weapons or Not

William M. Evan
What If Saddam Went Into Exile?

Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Peace as a Civil Right

David Vest
The Bush Balloon is Wheezing
What a World, What a World

Wayne Madsen
Rumsfeld's Dementia

 

January 23, 2003

Linda Heard
Flying High: US Pilots Pop "Go Pills", Then Go Kill

Ann Gwynne
Nablus Under Lockdown

The Black Commentator
Condoleezza Rice: Devil's Handmaiden

N.D. Jayaprakash
India's Nuclear War Plans

Aviad Albert
Ambushed in the Hebron Hills

Kelly Nolan
The Price of Despair: "Prison Suicides Save Money"

January 22, 2003

Harold Pinter
God Bless America

Tom Gorman
How Alec Baldwin Outted the Fox Blowhard
Bill O'Reilly's Fascism

Richard Thieme
"Why Are So Many of Your Heroes Assassinated?"
Whistleblowers and Team Players

Kurt Nimmo
Rambo vs. Bin Laden

Ellen Cantarow
We the People:
"How Did Our Oil Get Under Their Sand?"

Reza Ladjevardian
Dissenting Voices in Iran

Joanne Mariner
Hamdi, Enemy Combatants and the Courts

Brett Eartheart
From Baghdad with Love

 

January 21, 2003

Anne Gwynne
Life and Death in a Closed Village
Nablus: Another Nakba

Robert Jensen
Soundstage Journalism
From the Streets Into the Studios

Bill and Kathleen Christison
The Peace Movement's Big Mistake:
Oil Isn't the Only Reason for Opposing the War

Stanley Heller
Freezing for Peace

Jonathan Power
Listen to McNamara's Lament
The Moral Arguments Against War

Ramzy Baroud
Searching for Truth in Jenin

 

January 20, 2003

John Stanton
Bush's Ugly America

Annie C. Higgins
Swept Clean

Ron Jacobs
Itching for a Fight

Phil Gasper
Will War Free the Kurds?

Tom Crumpacker
Democracy for Cubans and Americans

Ralph Nader
The Pentagon Connection

Bruce Jackson
Bush, Blacks and Jews

Rich Procter
Democratic Yelling Points

 

January 18 / 19, 2003

William Hughes
Rockin' DC
100,000 Plus for Peace

Wayne Madsen
Deceptions & Illusions
How the Press Downplayed the Protests

Alexander Cockburn
American Journal
Paranoid? North Korea?

Kevin Gray
Born Again
Can MLK's Legacy Be Reclaimed from Its Abusers?

Edward Said
An Unacceptable Helplessness

Saul Landau
Mt. Whitney Towers Above Death Valley

Eric Ruder
Death Row Shut Down
How Victory Was Won

Anthony Gancarski
Is the Vatican Part of the Axis of Evil?

Ray Hanania
Likud and Hamas: the Ties that Bind

Walt Brasch
Bush Dances with the Supremes

Carol Norris
Rumsfeld's Paradigm Shift
No Evidence is Evidence

Adam Engel
The Armageddon Jamboree

Anis Shivani
Is It Time to Move to Canada?

Krieger, Smith Carson
Poets' Basement

 

January 17, 2003

Francis A. Boyle
Draft Impeachment Resolution Against George W. Bush

Yigal Bronner
Conscientious Objectors Abused by the IDF

Jason Leopold
When Bush First Vowed to "Take Out" Saddam

CounterPunch Wire
Gov. Ryan Nominated for Nobel Prize

JoAnn Wypijewski
Workers Against War

Carl Estabrook
Roe 30 Years Later
Abortion and the Left

Bernard Weiner
Inside Saddam's War Diary
Hot Damn! It's Showtime!

Maria Tomchick
A Tax Cut That Would Sink the Economy

William Hughes
Give Me That Old Time Republic

 

January 16, 2003

Gary Leupp
Hawai'i, January 16, 1893
The Rosy Dawn of US Imperialism

Ron Jacobs
Hypocrites, Pharisees, and Martin Luther King, Jr

Steven Higgs
The Tea Party
Thinking About Revolutionary Change

Alexander Cockburn
The Right Not to be In Pain

Adam Engel
American School Marm Tells All

 

January 15, 2003

Anthony Gancarski
NFL: No Faith Left
Fourth and Long in Jacksonville

Marc A. Catone
I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag (2003 Version)

Julie Remold & Eva Neuberg
Eyewitness in Brasilia
Lula Takes Over

Robert Fisk
The Suez Lingers:
New Crisis, Old Lesson

Pierre Tristam
From Giuliani to Bush

William Cook
Rush to the Left

Mark Hand
Meet the Republicrats:
A Merger We Can Trust

Matthew Albright
War on Germany?

Gabriel Kolko
The Perils of the Pax Americana

Leah Harris
A Note on MEMRI and Translations

 

January 14, 2003

Fran Quigley
A Real Patriot
Standing Up to the School of the Americas

Krystal Kyer
Meditation on Sylvester Park

William Hughes
War on Iraq
What's In It for Us?

Ramzi Baroud
Native Americans and Palestinians

Robert Fisk
Blood Money
Israeli Loan Negotiator Implicated in Massacre

Wayne Madsen
Moon Shadow
The Rev, Bush & Korea

Deena Metzger
Two Weeks to Avert War
Roads to Peace

 

January 13, 2003

Jason Leopold
The Return of Voo-Doo Economics

Elaine Cassel
Once a Con, Always a Con:
When Doing Time Isn't Enough

Rich Procter
Economic Chickenhawks

Ron Jacobs
A Blast from the Past:
Where the Home in the Valley Met the Damp Dirty Prison

Maria Tomchick
North Korea's Warlike Noises (And What They Mean)

Chris Floyd
Monsters Inc.: the Pentagon's Plan to Creat Mutant "Super-warriors"

Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Corporate Black Caucus?

 

January 11 / 12, 2003

Omar al-Qattan
How Muhammad Migrated to America

Saul Landau
"The Coup Lacked Professionalism"

David Bloom & Bill Weinberg
Palestinian Solidarity Activists

Subcomandante Marcos
Zapatistas to Invade Spain!

Gary Leupp
Gallic Nukes

Carl Estabrook
Democracy or Corporations?

Annie Higgins
Life Story of the Olives

Lenni Brenner
CIA as Art Patron

Kevin Summers
Australia Will Be There!

Brad Carlton
NPR: Spinners of Venezuelan Fairy Tales

Carol Norris
Bush's Un-Mandate

Jackie Corr
Ferdinand Pecora:
an American Hero

Philip Farruggio
My Flag Held Hostage

Lee Sustar
Gangs of New York:
Whitewash of Epic Proportions

Sydney Smith / Shahid Alam
Poets' Basement

January 10, 2003

Anthony Gancarski
What Does Charlie Want?
Notes on Shared Sacrifice and the Draft

Jason Leopold
Dead Man Walking in the Pentagon:
Will Rummy Fire Thomas White?

Kurt Nimmo
The Folly of Total War

Muqtedar Khan
Bush's Nuclear Policy:
Moral Clarity or Double Standard?

William Hughes
Chutzpahgate:
Is it the End of Sharon?

Bill Christison
Behind the Power Curve:
Lost in the Folds of Iraq and North Korea

Makeda Mikael
John Malvo: the View from Antiqua

Josh Frank
CEO Bush and the Muddling of American Minds

Dan Ross
A Vietnam Vet on the Way of Peace

Adam Engel
Dual Use for the Weird Uncle Sam Society

 

January 9, 2003

Tom Gorman
Blaming the Victim:
Sanctions as Scapegoat

William MacDougall
McDonald's Worker Resistance:
Shaking the Golden Arches

Chris White
Is War Still a Racket?
An ex-Marine Compares Gen. Smedley Butler's 1933 to 2003

Deb Reich
Calling All 9 Million

Gloria Bergen
War and Carnage in the Workplace

Steve Niva
Sharon's Fingerprints on Latest Suicide Bombing

Jack McCarthy
None Dare Call It Liberal Lottism

 

January 8, 2003

Jeffrey St. Clair
Under the White Robe:
The Ghosts of Pickering's Past

Elaine Cassel
Maryland's Death Penalty:
Race and Prosecutors

Wayne Madsen
Big Oil and James Baker Target the Western Sahara

Ritt Goldstein
The Price of Oil? War

Uri Avnery
Let the Purges Begin
Crushing Dissent in Israel

Sean Carter
The Presidential Application

Adam Engel
Dear Mr. President, Who ARE You?

Michael S. Ladah
An Appeal for Bethlehem

 

January 7, 2003

Jeffrey St. Clair
Pentagon Inc.:
The Godmother of Boeing

Michael Neumann
Blame Yourself:
American Power and Jewish Power

Ahmad Faruqui
Why is Capitalism in Crisis?

Annie Higgins
A Missive to America from Jenin

Mrs. Ra'ida Rafiq Abu Hasan
A Letter to Bush from the Mother of a Slain Palestinian

Saul Landau
Grand Theft Bush:
It's About the Budget, Stupid!

Ralph Nader
The Malpractice Crisis

Carol Norris
The Rose Parade You Didn't See

 

January 6, 2003

Chris White
Deceptions in Military Recruiting: an Ex-Insider Speaks Out

Tim Llewellyn
Baghdad Before

Steve Perry
Trent Lott's Big Sin:
He Was Sooo Old-School

Walter A. Davis
Death's Dream Kingdom: the American Psyche after 9/11

Anthony Gancarski
Come Fly With Me:
If 9/11 Was a Joke, TSA Was the Punchline

Bernard Weiner
Ellsberg's Secrets and Bush's War

Kurt Nimmo
Desperately Seeking Emmanuel Goldstein

Asif Devji
Yes, Virginia, Santa Really Is American

 

January 4 / 5, 2003

Jeffrey St. Clair
Something About Butte

Saul Landau
The Bush Vision and the Culture of Power

Annie Higgins
Six Soldiers

Michael Ortiz Hill
Bush's Armageddon Obsession

Francisco Armada and Carlos Mutaner
Venezuela: Chomsky's Tropical Nightmare

James T. Phillips
Targeting Americans

Jack Bice
A Fresh World Vision

Robert Fisk
Double Standards in the War on Terror

Chris Clarke
Is a Blue Rose a Rose?

Frank Fugate
How the West (Bank) Was Won

Anis Shivani
Bleak Prospects for Dems

Ben Tripp
Does Bush Know Korean?

Adam Engel
Les Miserable and the Hackers from Hell

 

January 3, 2003

William Hughes
Israeli Court Ignored Nuremberg Precedents

Linda Heard
The Human Face of Dolly

Mark Hand
Searching for Daniel Brandt

Mokhiber / Weissman
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2002

Jason Leopold
How Enron Helped the Sec. of the Army Build an $8 Million Fortress

Patrick Carkin
A History of US Relations with North Korea

 

January 2, 2003

Dr. Werther
Third Reich Syndrome: George Will and the Collapse of Historical Knowledge

Kurt Nimmo
Bush's Master Plan for the Internet

Robert Jensen
We Won't Be Fighting for Freedom in Iraq

Krystal Kyer
Not Another Draft!

M. Shahid Alam
Why 9-11 and Why Now?

Mark Weisbrot
Can the Courts Tackle Corporate Crime?

Alan Maass
Another Kick in the Teeth for the Unemployed