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March 23, 2002

Saeed Vaseghi
The US and Iran's Quest
for Democracy

Brian J. Foley
Does Pedophilia Scandal Spell an Opportunity for Catholics?

Sheperd Bliss
American Soul and Empire

James Packard Winkler
Occupation and Terror:
Politics from a Gun Barrel

M. Shahid Alam
A New International Division
of Labor

T.W. Croft
Enron's Attack on Our
Economic Security

March 22, 2002

Robert Jensen
Corporate Power is a
Threat to Democracy

Tommy Ates
The Future of Black Academia

Rep. Ron Paul
Why are We in Ukraine?

March 21, 2002

McQuinn, Munson, & Wheeler
Stars and Stripes:
Killing for the Flag?

John Chuckman
How Change is Wrought

David Vest
Hail to the Chaff

March 20, 2002

Kay Lee
Censorship at Angelfire

Robert Jensen
The Politics of Pain
and Pleasure

Sheperd Bliss
Notes from Hawai'i:
Trouble in Paradise

Rick Giambetti
Prozac and Suicide:
an Interview with
Dr. David Healy

Philip Farruggio
Bullies

Lori Allen
Live from Ramallah:
The Madness of Occupation

March 19, 2002

Tariq Ali
Nuke Iraq?

Phyllis Pollack
Roger Daltrey's LA Surprise

Amir Ahmadi
War-Mongering Academics:
The New Tartuffe

Ben White
Bomber Blair

Fran Shor
Child-Murderers and Madmen

March 18, 2002

Tom Turnipseed
Crazy is Cool

Dave Marsh
DeskScan:
What's Playing At My House

Armen Khanbabyan
The Pentagon in the Caucasus:
Georgia Is Only the Beginning

Gabriel Ash
Abdullah v. Osama

Bernard Weiner
Middle East for Dummies

Alexander Cockburn
Tipping in America

March 17, 2002

David Vest
The Politics of Packaging

Tariq Ali
The Left's New Empire Loyalists

March 16, 2002

Chris Floyd
Ashcroft's Secret Snatches

March 15, 2002

Doron Rosenblum
Israel's Settler Warlords

Alex Lynch
Rhetorical Attacks On Iraq

Norman Madarasz
Neo-Con Propaganda
and the National Review

Paul-Marie de La Gorce
Making Enemies

March 14, 2002

Dr. Susan Block
RIP Danny Pearl

Francis Boyle
Bush Nuke Plan Violates International Law, Again

Wayne Saunders
Memo to Paul McCartney:
There Are Two Kinds
of Freedom, Sir

H.P. Albarelli
Anthrax Cover-up?

March 13, 2002

Amira Hass
Are the Occupied Protecting the Occupier?

CounterPunch Wire
National Review Editors Suggest Nuking Mecca

Mokhiber / Weissman
Personal Responsibility
for Corporate Elites?

Robert Fisk
Arabs Don't Want US
to Strike Iraq

Alexander Cockburn
When Billy Graham Wanted
to Kill One Million People

March 12, 2002

Kay Lee
Dangerous Changes in
California's Prisons

John Patrick Leary
The Return of Otto Reich

Wole Akande
US is Being Discredited
in the Eyes of Africa

March 11, 2002

Hani Shukrallah
This is the Way the World Ends

Tommy Ates
Bush's New Nuke Policy:
Target Allies and Enemies

Lidia Andrusenko
The Great Chicken War:
Bush v. Putin

Dave Marsh
10 CDs Playing On My Desk

John Chuckman
Footprints in the Dust

Norman Madarasz
Max Steel in a Time of Chaos

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DeskScan:
What's Playing at My House

By Dave Marsh

1. Patty Griffin, 1000 Kisses (ATO advance);

2. Mike Ireland and Holler, Try Again (Ashmont advance);

3. The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street Demos (Tropical Disease bootleg);

4. Caitlin Cary, While You Weren't Looking (Yep Roc);

5. Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, New Ground (Vanguard);

6. The Harmonizing Four, That Old Time Religion/Spirituals That Will Live Forever (Vee Jay/Collectables);

7. BoyzIIMen, Legacy: The Greatest Hits Collection (Universal);

8. The Mooney Suzuki, People Get Ready (Estrus);

9. Eddie Boyd, 7936 South Rhodes, (BCD UK);

10. Lara Croft Tomb Raider, soundtrack (Elektra)

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