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March 31, 2002
Maha Sbitani
The
Israeli Army Took Over My House
Robert Fisk
Lies Leaders Tell When
They Want to Go to War
March 24/30, 2002
Alexander Cockburn
The Year
of the Yellow Notepad:
Plagiarism and History
Rep. Ron Paul
Slavery and the Draft
Fidel
Castro
A
Better World is Possible
Edward Said
What Price Oslo?
José
Saramago
Justice
and Democracy Denied
Azmi Bishara
Talking to Tanks
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Clearcutting
Montana
Alexander Cockburn
50 Years of James Bond
Wilhelm
Reich
Gethsemane
Claud Cockburn
The Horror of It All
Dave Marsh
What's
Playing at My Houe
David Vest
Remembering Tammy Wynette
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Waylon
Jennings:
an Honest Outlaw
March 23, 2002
Mokhiber/Weissman
A
Corporate Lawyer
Speaks Out
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
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Saunders
Memo
to Paul McCartney:
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of Freedom, Sir
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Anthrax
Cover-up?
March
13, 2002
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Hass
Are
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CounterPunch
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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
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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
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March 31, 2002
Last Night the Israeli Military
Tried to Kill Me
By Jordan Flaherty
I'm staying in the al azzeh refugee camp, in Bethlehem,
along with about twenty other international civilians. We're
here to act as human shields, because we've heard an Israeli
invasion is imminent. It's 1:30pm right now, on Easter Sunday,
and some are expecting the invasion within the next two hours.
I'm staying with a lovely family. They
have been so hospitable to us. As with most residents of the
camp, they've been here since 1948, when they were expelled from
their village in what is now Israel. The village is now a national
park in Israel.
On the hill above the camp is a Israeli
miltary snipers post. The main street that runs down the village
is in plain sight of the snipers post. To get where we were staying
in the village, most of us had to cross this street. It was a
quick, low, dash across the street. As I ran, the sniper fired.
I heard at least six shots fired in the short distance I ran,
exposed. The shots began as I came into view, and stopped shortly
after I made it to the other side. They were clearly aimed at
me. And, by the sound of them, they were close. All night long,
there was the sound of gun shots, as the military shot into our
village. We stayed clear of the windows. Some of the windows
were blocked with sandbags.
The gun and bullets were, no doubt, paid
for by my tax dollars. Which is, of course, why we are here.
Meanwhile, there are others of us in
the other two camps in Bethlehem. Also, some of us are riding
in the ambulances, which the military has been firing at. Again,
the idea is to use our priviliged status as international civilians
to act as human shields against these outright violations of
international law and human decency. There are about 100 international
observers from the US and Europe here. Mostly US, British, and
Italian. Deheisha refugee camp has mostly Italians staying there.
There is also about sixty international
observers in Ramallah. Yesterday, they defied curfew and went
to the hospital to give blood. There were gunshots, but they
made it. Today, we have just heard they are trying to block the
Israeli tanks from reaching the hospital.
When the Israeli military comes, we expect
them to act as before: taking all the men in the camp, stripping
them down, arresting them, torturing them. We will tell the military
that we live here with them, we are Americans, and if they take
them, they must take us as well.
For more info email: jerusalem.indymedia.org
Jordan Flaherty
is from Brooklyn, NY.
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