Wars
of the Laptop Bombers
Today's
Stories
February 25,
2005
Roger Burbach
Murder
in the Amazon
February 24,
2005
Omar Waraich
The
Galloway Saga: Smearing an Anti-War Politician
Brian Cloughley
Bribing and Twisting Amerian Journalists: Valerie Plame &
30 Pieces of Silver
Tom Wright
Torture Nation: Abu Ghraib, a Year Later
Sharon Smith
The Anti-War Movement After Kerry: Learning All the Wrong Lessons
Dave Lindorff
Do These Roosting Chickens Have Flu?
Fred Feldman
Lynching Ward Churchill
James Reiss
On Hearing About a Plot to Assassinate President Bush
Diane Christian
Bad
Blood: Ritual & Sexual Torture in Iraq
Website of
the Day
The Gray Line
February 23,
2005
Werther
The
Poisoned Well: What the CIA's Nazi Files Can Tell Us About Iraq
W. John Green
A Salvador Option for Iraq? How Negroponte Changes the Ground
Rules
James Petras
A New Face to Bush Foreign Policy?
Conn Hallinan
Cornering the Dragon: the Return of the China Lobby
Joe Pietri
Cannabis: the Goose that Lays Golden Eggs (For Consumers and
Cops)
Louis Proyect
Hunter Thompson and the "New" Journalism
Alexander Cockburn
Hunter
S. Thompson and Gonzo
Website of
the Day
Did You Make the Blacklist? Why Not?
February 22,
2005
Naseer Aruri
The
Politics of the Hariri Assassination: Remapping the Middle East
Richard Manning
The
Economy of Hunger: Starvation is Part of the Economic Plan
William A.
Cook
Righteous
Racism Running Rampant
Paul Craig Roberts
The Agents of Instability
Ken Krayeske
Dr. Thompson is Out
Dave Zirin
How the Owners Destroyed the NHL
Kirkpatrick
Sale
Imperial
Entropy: the Collapse of the American Empire
February 21,
2005
Hunter S. Thompson
"He
Was A Crook"
John Ross
Mexico:
the Pentagon's Proxy Army in Iraq
Ward Churchill
What Did I Really Say? Why Did
I Say It?
Dr. Teresa
Whitehurst
Military Recruiting on Channel One: Geometry 101, Brought to
You by the US Navy
David Swanson
Fighting for a Living Wage, State by State
Dave Lindorff
All the News That's Fit to Fake
Stew Albert
Fear and Loathing: HST
Michael Neumann
Strategies
in Palestine: a Shrinking Pie in the Sky
February 19
/ 20, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Back
to Salem: Paul Shanley and the Return of "Recovered Memory"
Kathleen Christison
Struggling
for Justice in Palestine
Ted Honderich
On Being Persona Non Grata
Gary Leupp
Self-Hating Gays: Welcome to the White House & Welcome to
Commit Suicide
Don Santina
Reparations for the Blues
Jennifer Roesch
John Negroponte: Dirty Warrior
Scott Richard
Lyons
Ward
Churchill and the Identity Police
Chris Clarke
Ward Churchill and Liberal Outrage
George Beres
Censorship in the Land of Wayne Morse: Gagging W. Churchill in
Oregon
Harry Browne
The Belfast Heist: the Plot Unravels
Manuel García,
Jr.
Who Killed Rafik Hariri?
Mark Scaramella
Lessons from the Hidden Afghan War
Michael Donnelly
Whatever Happened to John Edwards?
John Pilger
First, They Attack the Past
Norman Madarasz
Death Wish for Reform in Brazil?
Surendra Devkota
The Monarchy in Nepal
Deborah Rich
How Anti-GMO Ballot Measures May Miss the Mark
Fred Gardner
When Dr. Tod Met Merle Haggard
CounterPunch
News Service
About King Mswati: Political Developments in Swaziland
Richard Oxman
CounterPunching Arthur Miller
Poets' Basement
Albert, Giebel, Tripp, Engel and Orkin
February 18,
2005
Ben Moxham
In
East Timor, the Nightmare Continues
Dave Lindorff
The
Scum Also Rises: the Bloody Career of John Negroponte
Larry Birns
Negroponte: a Resume of Death Squads, Deceptions and Bribery
Gregory Elich
N, Korea's Phantom Nukes and the US's Subversion of Diplomacy
Samuel Logan / John Meyers
The Future of Colombia's Paramilitary Death Squads
Nicole Colson
Shock and Awe on Civil Liberties: From Lynne Stewart to Ward
Churchill
Suzan Mazur
Whose National Security Are We Talking About?
Mickey Z.
"One
Man Has Stopped Killing"
February 17,
2005
Joshua Frank
Hogtying
of the Deaniacs
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bush's
Willing Sychophants: the Conservative Media
Robert Fisk
Under
the Shadow of Death in Lebanon
Christopher
Brauchli
Where
Time Stands Still: Kinsey and Darwin in Cobb County, GA
Dr. Teresa
Whitehurst
Military
Recruitment TV: Why Send Them to College, When Your Kid Can be
Cannon Fodder?
Alison Weir
Russia, Israel and Media Omissions
Ahrar Ahmad
A Review of Shahid Alam's "Is There an Islamic Problem?"
Saul Landau
An
Interview with Cuban VP Ricardo Alarcon: "The US Tramples
the Laws It Wrote"
Website of the Day
Petition to Support Ward Churchill
February 16,
2005
Robert Fisk
Lebanon:
a Battlefield for the Wars of Others
Kevin Zeese
Creating a Real Ownership Society: Share the Wealth; Protect
Retirement
Gary Leupp
Meanwhile, in Nepal...
Ron Jacobs
Why the Iranian Opposition Should Not Trust the Bush Administration
Jessica Leight
Oil-Flush Chavez Begins to Strut His Stuff
Greg Moses
Houston, You've Got a Problem: Documenting Voting Irregularities
in Texas
Mark Engler
The Last Porto Alegre
Jack McCarthy
Where's the Outrage About Pat? Buchanan Does a Churchill
Bill Christison
US
Foreign Policy Dangerously Slanted Toward Israel
Website of the Day
The
World is Melting: a Photo Survey by Gary Braasch
February 15,
2005
CounterPunch
News Service
Dean
a "Safe" Moderate, Says NYT Citing CounterPunch
Robert Fisk
The
Killing of Mr. Lebanon
Uri Avnery
"Sharm-al-Sheikh,
We Have Come Back Again"
Stan Cox
Fighting Big Pharma in Little Digwal
Mickey Z.
Radio
Active North of the Border: an Interview with Chris Cook
Dave Zirin
Bashing Bush: Jose Canseco Comes Clean
Nadia Martinez
Ending
World Poverty? Opening at the World Bank, Apply Now
Lila Rajiva
"Little Eichmanns" and the 'Harijan': the Danger of
Magical Thinking in Politics
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
American Job Sell Out
February 14,
2005
Robert Jensen
Ward
Churchill: Right to Speak Out; Right About 9/11
Brian Cloughley
Kuwait's Freedom, Bush-style
Patrick Cockburn
Outcome
of the Iraqi Elections: Shortages, Corruption, Guerrilla War
Gary Leupp
Post-election Iraq: What Next?
Michael Donnelly
Sacred Nature: Just Another Commodity?
Dave Lindorff
When Bush Came to My Neighborhood
Elaine Cassel
The
Lynne Stewart Verdict
February 12
/ 13, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Ward
Churchill's Genes
Saul Landau
Alarcon
Speaks: an Interview with the Vice President of Cuba
Paul Craig
Roberts
Nothing
to Fear But Bush Himself
Patrick Cockburn
Two Years After the Fall of Saddam, the Resistance Controls All
Major Roads into Baghdad
John Feffer
Bush
v. N. Korea: Round Two
Mickey Z.
Right to Remain Silent; Duty to Speak
Kurt Nimmo
Viva la Cucaracha!
Fred Gardner
Waiting for Raich
Dave Zirin
Fighting the New Republic(ans)
John Chuckman
Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Ben Tripp
A Leftist on the Bush Payroll
Carol Norris
"Buddy, Can You Spare a Dwarf?"
Robert Fisk
No Middle East Peace Without Justice
Frank / Chowkwanyun
Muzzled Activist in an Age of Terror: the Case of Sherman Austin
Mike Whitney
Condi's Euro Tour
Deborah Frisch
A Psychologist's Defense of Ward Churchill
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Reading Khomeini in Colorado
Christine TenBarge
What's So Special About Ward?
Ron Jacobs
Curtis Mayfield's Train to Jordan
Dr. Susan Block
Chemistry of Love: a Valentine's Greeting
Poets' Basement
Louise, Smith-Ferri, Ford and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Free Sherman
February 11,
20055
Manuel Garcia,
Jr
The
Eight Percent War
Kurt Nimmo
Ann
Coulter's Racism: Where's Geronimo When You Really Need
Him?
Dave Lindorff
Guckert
or Gannon? The Perfect Plant; He Fit Right In
Larry Birns
War is Peace; Slavery is Freedom: Democracy According to Elliott
Abrams
Bill Quigley
Twenty Questions: a Social Justice Quiz
Tom Barry
Bush's State of Delusion
Jennifer Van
Bergen
Lynne
Stewart's Conviction Hurts Us All
February 10,
2005
Dave Lindorff
What
Academic Freedom?
Christopher Brauchli
The Love of Slaughter: From Rwanda to Iraq
Patrick Cockburn
In Baghdad, It's Easy to Get Killed
Nicole Colson
Have the Democrats Surrendered on Abortion Rights?
Suzan Mazur
More
on the Assassination of Lumumba from Mr. Garsin of Kinshasha
Michael Donnelly
Salvaging an Opposition
Mike Stark
Driving Ossie Davis: "Give Them a Little Truth, a Little
Hope"
Greg Moses
Taking
Jesus Back from the Hijackers
Website of
the Day
The Missionary Positions
February 9,
2005
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Duck
and Cover Redux: Bunker Busters and City Levellers
Mickey Z.
What Ward Churchill Didn't Say
John Ross
Hecho
en Mexico: the Iraqi Election
Tom Barry
Ambassador of Lies: Elliott Abrams, the Neocon's Neocon
Conn Hallinan
The
Coup in Nepal: Nursing the Pinion
Patrick Cockburn
Sistani's Vision for Iraq: Cricket is Fine, But Chess is "Absolutely
Forbidden"
Steen Sohn
Danish PM Says It's OK for Israel to Violate UN Resolutions
Tim Wise
Reflections on Empire and Uppity Indians
Website of
the Day
Support Antiwar.com
February 8,
2005
Patrick Cockburn
Shia/Kurd
Coalition to Dominate New Iraqi Govt.: "It's an Electoral
Pact, Not a Party"
Brian Cloughley
Out
of the Mouths of Generals: "It's Fun to Shoot Some People"
Steve Breyman
Against the Selfishness of the "Ownership Society"
Harry Browne
"Don't
Get on that Plane!": Soldiers Seek Asylum in Ireland
Doug Giebel
"We Love Free Speech in America": the People, the President
and Ward Churchill
Nate Collins
The Censorship of Ward Churchill and Dancehall Reggae: It's the
Same Beast
Dave Lindorff
It's Time for a Labor-Oriented Newspaper
David Smith-Ferri
Sanctions and the Health Crisis in Iraq
February 7,
2005
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bush's
War on Jobs
Carolyn Baker
The New McCarthyism on Campus: Churchill and the Attack on Higher
Ed
Joshua Frank
Marc Cooper's Hit List: First Mumia; Now Ward Churchill
Mickey Z.
Warning: More Hate Speech from W. Churchill
Patrick Cockburn
The
Kidnapping Gangs of Iraq
Mike Whitney
Tom Friedman: Scribe for New Age Imperialism
Stacie Jonas
Pinochet: Fit to be Tried
Dave Zirin
A Miserable Super Sunday: Clinton, Bush and the FBI
Tariq Ali
Imperial
Delusions
February 5
/ 6, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Ward
Churchill and the Mad Dogs
Kurt Nimmo
A Ward Churchill Kind of Day
Joshua Frank
Liberals Trash Ward Churchill
P. Sainath
Mumbai's Man-Made Tsunami
Patrick Cockburn
Sistani's Triumph; Allawi's Bust
Laura Carlsen
Bush, Rice and Latin America
Dave Lindorff
How the NYT Killed the Bush Bulge Story
Pamela Olson
West Bank Story
Behzad Yaghmaian
The Future of Sudanese Refugees in the West
Saul Landau / Farrah Hassen
A Threatened UN in King George's Court
Roger Burbach
World Social Forum: a Tale of Two Presidents
Robert Fisk
History by Laptop
David Swanson
James Forman and the Liberal-Labor Syndrome
Justin E.H. Smith
Gay Marriage: a Report from Canada
Cacie Hart
The "State" of the Union: More War and a Ban on Love
Ron Jacobs
Chairman Bob Avakian: a Revolutionary Life
Mickey Z.
Viewing America from the Outside
Ben Tripp
Republican Heroes: a New Breed of Good Guy
Ben Sonnenberg
France at the End of the Devil's Decade: Renoir's Rules of the
Game
Poets' Basement
Smith-Ferri, Davies, Collins, & Albert
Website of
the Weekend
John Trudell: How to Earn a 17,000 Page FBI File
February 4,
2005
Brian Cloughley
The
Army Symphonist: "Sometimes the Only Way to Change the Behavior
of Someone Like That is to Kill Them"
Bill Christison
Election
Parallels: Vietnam, 1967; Iraq, 2005
Elaine Cassel
Did Zoloft Make Him Do It?
Jacob Levich
Chomsky and the Draft
Kanak Mani Dixit
Return of the Royalists in Nepal
Ron Jacobs
The
Downward Spiral in Iraq
February 3,
2005
Ward Churchill
On
the Injustice of Getting Smeared: a Campaign of Fabrications
and Gross Distortions
Sharon Smith
Resisting
Soldiers Need Our Support
Mickey Z.
Leslie
Gelb Asks Iraq: Who's Your Daddy?
Mike Whitney
President of Alienation: a Desperate State of the Union
Jenna Orkin
9/11 the Sequel: the Toxic State of Lower Manhattan
Saul Landau
Elections Won't Prevent Civil War in Iraq
Yitzhak Laor
Strange is the Silence
Dave Lindorff
The
Assault on Social Security: a New Campaign of Lies
February 2,
2005
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/ Kevin Coe
Bush's
Brand of Christianity
Noam Chomsky
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O'Reilly's
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Ringing in 1984 with Ward Churchill and Derrick Jensen
Joshua Frank
The Suckering of Howard Dean
Dave Lindorff
A History Lesson from the NYT
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Feminists for Porn
Website of the Day
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February 1,
2005
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New Doubts About Allawi
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"The Only Decent Food We Get is at Funerals"
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The Stalemate
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"W" Stands for Withdrawal
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Making America as "Secure" as Israel
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Heaven and Hell in the Everglades
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February 25, 2005
Potters for Peace
When
the Battlefield has No Borders
By
DAVID SMITH-FERRI
Given its small population, the rural
northern California county where I live is home to an extraordinary
number of successful artists. Two of these artists, Jan Hoyman
and Doug Browe, also participate in a remarkable organization,
Potters for Peace (www.potpaz.org),
which began twenty years ago when a group of US potters sought
ways to support the work of Nicaraguan potters while simultaneously
opposing US aid to the Contras. While this support has grown
to involve a wide range of cultural, artistic, and technical
exchanges between potters, the organization is increasingly involved
in providing the technical expertise to establish ceramic water
filtration projects, a "high technique, low technology"
system, as Doug puts it, for purifying water.
Last year, as untreated sewage
continued to flow into drinking water supplies in Iraq and outbreaks
of bacteriological diseases such as cholera and typhoid were
reported in Basra, Najaf, Sadr City, and elsewhere, Doug was
returning from two months in Thailand, spent in a refugee camp
on the Burmese border, assisting residents of the camp in the
final stages of a ceramic water filter project. It was his second
trip to the refugee camp. During the first trip, he had located
a source of accessible local clay, supervised the construction
of an adobe kiln, and trained several residents in basic pottery
techniques.
This second trip focused on
the manufacture and firing of the water filters. Ceramic water
filters, as Potters for Peace designs them, are essentially urns
created from a careful mix of clay and a readily available "fibrous"
material--sawdust, rice hulls, straw, etc.--and lined with colloidal
silver. The fibrous material, when sized precisely and mixed
with the clay in the proper portion, produces a porous urn that
will allow the passage of water, but not bacteria--the bacteria
are trapped by the fibers in the clay. The colloidal silver,
which coats the outside of the urn, provides an additional anti-bacterial
barrier. When poured into the filter, water polluted with a bacteriological
disease such as e-coli, typhoid, or cholera, emerges bacteriologically
clean.
It was my twelve year old daughter
who, during a slide-show presentation by Doug of his experiences
in Thailand, first suggested the obvious application of ceramic
water filtration to Iraq. Clearly, low-tech water filtration
is no substitute for reparation of Iraq's water and sewage treatment
systems; but while the US occupation focuses on military goals,
and "rebuilding" seems permanently stalled in the planning
stages or utterly undermined by corruption and violence, a project
which provides clean water to people can prevent illness and
save lives, albeit on a small scale. This at least was our thinking.
Doug and I met several times to discuss our interest in traveling
to Iraq, and the basic raw material and equipment needs of the
project, and I began to do some research.
The project, however, has never
gotten beyond preliminary inquiries because neither of us can
quite imagine leaving our families and traveling to Iraq given
the reality of violence and kidnappings. The news coming out
of Iraq is unremittingly bad. Two years ago, I visited Iraq in
the months leading up to the US invasion. While in Basra, after
spending the morning visiting leukemia patients in a hospital
and having lunch in our semi-air-conditioned hotel, I waded back
out into the sickeningly hot day with two other members of Voices
in the Wilderness (vitw.org).
Hassan, one of the shoeshine boys who slept on the lawn outside
the hotel, flagged us down. He was exultant. "Look what
we've got," he said. Inside the box, of all things, lay
an injured pigeon, captured with a slingshot. The terrified pigeon
lay on its side, struggling to breathe and futilely trying to
right itself and escape. "We'll keep it alive until later,"
the boys told us, "and then meat for dinner!"
I thought at the time that
the abject pigeon was a bloody symbol for Iraq itself. As difficult
as it may have been for people to imagine scaling the sanctions
wall to visit Iraq, it wasn't in actuality that difficult to
do. But the occupation wall is another thing altogether. The
battlefield in Iraq has no borders. As a result, Iraq today is
even more isolated than it was during the sanctions regime, when
isolation was decreed by fiat.
The news is not only bad, it
is also demoralizing. Who hasn't felt worn down by the unremitting
violence? Who doesn't know others--people who had been empowered
two years ago by worldwide opposition to the invasion--who now
feel powerless and are immobilized by it?
It isn't only the lawlessness
in Iraq, the daily reports of people killed or injured by violence,
it is also the ongoing pictures and reports of conditions at
prisons which give a nightmarish quality to popular images of
Iraq and work to keep people at a distance. Consider the recent
news from US-run Abu Ghraib prison. Last week we learned that
Manadel al-Jamadi, a prisoner who died last year in what was
labeled a "homicide," actually died during a CIA interrogation,
while
suspended from his wrists.
We also learned that medical
care at the prison has been so haphazard that "Physician's
assistants and general practitioners amputated limbs, [and] a
dentist did heart surgery Sometimes the hospital ran out of chest
tubes, intravenous fluids or medicines. Medical staff members
improvised, taking tubes from patients when they died and reusing
them, without sterilization" (NYT, 2/4/05). Despite the
availability of psychotropic drugs, the hundreds of people at
the prison who are mentally ill have gone without treatment,
because no psychiatrist has been available to work with them
and prescribe the medication. In at least one case, staff used
a leash to restrain a prisoner..
While opposition to the US
occupation is the central contribution that we can make to the
welfare of people in Iraq, its flipside, concrete and productive
exchanges with Iraqi people, is also vital. For many people,
supporting a worthy humanitarian project is a doorway into Iraq,
a way to make a contribution and to connect positively with people
there; for others, it is a way to revitalize, leading to greater
political involvement. Apart from their intrinsic value, humanitarian
projects can be a focus for education about the effects of US
policies, and they can be rallying points around which political
actions are organized.
In this regard, an opportunity
is about to present itself. Over the next six weeks, US citizens
in cities from Boston to Seattle to Los Angeles will have an
opportunity to talk with and learn from Gino Strada, co-founder
of an extraordinary international medical relief agency, Emergency
- Life support for civilian war victims, currently operating
medical facilities in war zones in Iraq, Afghanistan, Cambodia,
Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Angola. It has conducted and concluded
projects in Rwanda, Eritrea, Algeria, and Palestine (www.emergency.it).
Emergency builds and runs surgical hospitals, rehabilitation
centers for landmine victims, and medical clinics; and it builds
them in places where no one else will, places which need specialist
medical and surgical services: for example in Anabah, in a remote
and dangerous region of Afghanistan.
Strada is in the U.S. on a
book tour (www.emergencyusa.org),
after the recent translation into English of his book, Green
Parrots - A War Surgeon's Diary, a journal of his
experiences as a surgeon for Emergency. Green Parrots
is named after the antipersonnel landmine that looks like
a toy and has maimed or killed many of the children Emergency
has seen in its clinics in Afghanistan, where an estimated ten
million anti-personnel mines and innumerable unexploded cluster
bombs dot the landscape. Strada comes to the US directly from
work in Afghanistan.
Strada's training as a surgeon
and his wide and very personal experience of war and its immediate
consequences give him a unique perspective on modern war and
a powerful incentive to oppose it. He writes "Today there
are many possible causes of war, but there is only one sure outcome:
death, injuries, refugees, orphans. Wherever a war is fought,
whatever weapons are used, it no longer consists of a clash between
armies in a well-defined, limited battlefield. There is no official
battle front. The front is the road, the marketplace, the village:
the people who live there are the victims. 90% of them are civilians.
34% are children. Many armed groups deliberately mix with the
population to avoid identification. Sometimes they actually use
civilians as shields. Quite often, targeting and terrorizing
large civilian groups are part of an army's primary military
strategy."
Emergency has been in Afghanistan for five years
and in northern Iraq--Erbil, Sulaimaniya, and Choman--for ten
years. It has hopes of staffing a medical facility in Karbala,
in South-Central Iraq. Strada's visit to the US is an important
opportunity not only because of the critical medical care his
organization provides, but also because of the information he
can share about the causes and consequences of war around the
globe. Perhaps his visit can be a catalyst for individuals and
groups to initiate or deepen their commitment to people in war-torn
countries such as Iraq, and to oppose US militarism. For information
about Strada's tour, visit http://www.emergencyusa.org/GP/tour.php.
David Smith-Ferri is a member of Voices in the Wilderness,
a campaign to end U.S. economic and military warfare abroad and
at home. He lives in Ukiah, CA. He can be reached at: smithferri@pacific.net
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