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April 15, 2003

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April 14, 2003

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April 12 / 13, 2003

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April 11, 2003

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David Vest
The Corporate War on Iraq

Paul de Rooij
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Now What?

Michael Berry
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April 10, 2003

Zoltan Grossman
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The Night After

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The Telltale Signs of Empire

David Krieger
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Jeremy Brecher
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The Unseen War

Geoffrey Neale
Ashcroft's War on the Constitution: A Patriot Attack on America

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April 9, 2003

David Lindorff
Secret Bechtel Docs Reveal: Yes, the War Is About Oil

Doug Lummis
Saving Private Lynch: Hollywood and War

Susan Davis
The New York Times and the Peace Movement

David Vest
Smoking Gun? You're Watching It

John Chuckman
America's Sovereign Right to Do as It Damn Well Pleases

Akiva Eldar
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War Web Log 4/9

 

April 8, 2003

David Lindorff
Killing the Messengers: It Doesn't Matter If It's Deliberate or Accidental

Richard Lichtman
Dr. Phil in the Trenches

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Jason Leopold
FERC and Wall Street: Conversations May Have Violated Federal Law

Anthony Gancarski
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Journalists Die, the Networks Lie, Iraqis Ask "Why?"

Ahmad Faruqui
Wallowing in Hypocrisy

Wallace Gagne
Baghdad Babble

Harry Browne
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War Web Log 4/8

M. Shahid Alam
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April 7, 2003

Todd Chretien
Wooden Bullets & Grenades: Oakland Cops Attack Peace Protesters and Dock Workers

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Harry Browne
War and Peace Summit a Royal Farce

Gideon Levy
America is Not a Role Model

Diane Christian
A Scene from an Obscene War

Jules Rabin
Remembering Deir Yassin

James Davis
Oddsmaking in Dublin: Will Bush Shake Gerry's Hand?

Robert Fisk
The Twisted Language of War

Patrick Cockburn
Slaughter on the Road to Dibagah

John Mackay
War and Art

Seth Sandronsky
Wars and the Color Line

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War Web Log 4/7

 

April 5, 2003

Alexander Cockburn
The Iraqi Humanitarian Relief is in Shambles

Anne Gwynne
A Drowning in Salem

Uri Avnery
Roadmap to Nowhere

Chris Floyd
Hell for Leather: Bombs, Bullets, Bibles and Bush

William Cook
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Gila Svirsky
A Busy Day for Bulldozers

Mike Ferner
Back from Baghdad: What Next for the Peace Movement?

Joanne Mariner
Civilian Deaths and Official Apologies

John Stanton
Bush Takes His Killing Orders from the Lord

Romi Mahajan
Learning to Count the Dead

Aluf Benn
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Mary Ellen Peterson
Gay Marine Refuses to Fight

William MacDougall
Country Music and the Crimes of Patriotism

Ron Jacobs
War and Occupation

Bernie Pattison
Aborigines and the Different God

Mark Engler
Iraq War as Arms Expo

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Jeffrey St. Clair
Flesh and Its Discontents: the Paintings of Lucian Freud

Norman Madarasz
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April 4, 2003

Anthony Gancarski
Colin Powell's Shame

John Chuckman
Was Einstein Right About Israel?

David Krieger
The Meaning of Victory

Tom Gorman
The Mantra of the Troops: Support or Treason?

Adam Federman
The Absence of War

Vijay Prashad
There Are No More Arguments

Tom Stephens
The End of the Innocence

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War Coverage: a Dishonest Reality Show

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The Deadly Mihrab

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April 3, 2003

Uri Avnery
A Crooked Mirror: Presstitution and the Theater of Operations

David Vest
Can You Hear the Silence?

Anthony Gancarski
Colin Powell Telemarketer

David Lindorff
Takoma: the Dolphin Who Refused to Fight

Michael Roberts
War, Debts and Deficits

Ramzy Baroud
Now That Iraqis Are Being Killed Is Israel Any More Secure?

Jo Wilding
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Anton Antonowicz
Cluster Bombs on Babylon

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April 16, 2003

End of History

More in a Moment

by WALLACE GAGNE

Look up. Up in the sky. It's a Kurd. It's a Hussein. It's weapons of mass destruction. Sorry. Another false positive. Another bungle. Only Vigoro. Liquid Plumber. Saddam's moustache wax. A-1 Steak Sauce.

Here's Paul. Here's Wolf. Here's Paul Wolfenblitzer, Alka Frankenselzer, Tommy Blitzenfranker. He's got Breaking News, Censored News, Good News, Military Approved News, A News Flash, Police State Okayed News, Freedom Fried News, Sounds Like News But Really Isn't News. Whatever.

It's Day 27. It's Year Zero. It's Up To The Minute. Everybody's happy. Looking good. Take'n a Ba'ath Party. A Bubble Bath Party. A sponge bath.

Where's martial law. Where's law and order. Prez sez lettem be. Lettem party.

Muslim moshpit. Good visuals. Happy Baghdad. Happy America. Celebratory welcome. We come in peace. Smoke a peace pipe with Jessica Lynch. A lynch mob. Mob rule. Gimme a great big F. Gimme a great big U. Gimme Starbuck's, Big Macs, Freedom Fries and 401ks.

We took Kirkuk. Bombed Ramadi. Shot two children. Issued playing cards. Go fish. Iraq's most wanted. Deal me a hand. Wow. It's Udai Hussein. It's Qusai Hussein. It's Super Hussein. 55 pickup. Here's our guy. Ahmad Chalabi. Future leader. Future hero. Forty years, on the lam. Convicted for fraud. Nailed for theft. What a player. Man on the move. Ahmad's got game. It's 911. It's 711. It's 8 Mile Road. The Angry Inch. Hawks are happy. Hawks are crowing. The Big One. Big Fat Victory. Ken Cakewalk Adelman. Dick Pearlhanded Perle. Chestpains Cheney. Jubilant. Bill Berlin Wall Kristol. Vindicated. War is good. Work works.

Saddam's tired. Saddam's bushed. George is bushed. George Bush is Saddam Hussein. It's the day before. The day after. The day before the day after. Here's Hardball. Here's Crossfire. Here's the Capitol Gang. Butch Cassidy. The Hole in the Wall Gang. Be the first to know. Is Baghdad burning. There's mayhem in Mosul. A wonderful moment. Mad as hell. Back to Basra. Armageddon. Battle of the Titans. Clash of Kultures. It's Francis Spellman. Francis Fukuyama. End of history. End of Fukuyama. Here's Hegel. Quote Nietzsche. Hail Heidegger. Ask Ari. Fleischer. The answer's yes. The answer's no. The fourth estate. Fourth World War. Pax Americana.

Wallace Gagne lives in Tokyo. He can be reached at: w-s-gagne@nifty.com

Today's Features

Uzma Aslam Khan
The Unbearably Grim Aftermath of War: What America Says Does Not Go

Robert Jensen
Self-Determination in Iraq? Then the US Must Leave

Dr. Susan Block
The Rape of Iraq

Ron Jacobs
Aiming at Syria: Stop Them Before They Kill Again

Robert Fisk
The Final Sacking of Baghdad

Col. Dan Smith
Post-War Iraq: Asking the Right Questions

Ali Abunimah and Hussein Ibish
A Cycle of Chaos and Confrontation: Misadventures of the NeoCons

Steve Perry
War Web Log 4/15

 

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