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Coming Soon! From Common Courage Press Recent Stories May 20, 2003 Linda Heard The Cage of Occupation Edward Said The Arab Condition   May 19, 2003 CounterPunch Wire "Terror" Slut Steve Emerson Eats Crow Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity A Letter to Kofi Annan on Powell's Missing Evidence Ross Vachon Dennis Miller's New Gig: the Last Refuge of Goofy? John Chuckman Blair's Awkward Lies Matt Vidal Corporate Media and the Myth of the Free Market Michael S. Ladah The Fine Print to Bush's Road Map Robert Fisk Bush's Eternal War Backfires Elaine Cassel Clarence Thomas, Still Whining After All These Years Jonathan Freedland Ann Coulter's Appalling Magic Steve Perry Play It Again, O-Sam-a   May 17 / 18, 2003 Uri Avnery The Children's Teeth Peter Linebaugh An American Tribute to Christopher Hill Gary Leupp Nepal Today Rock and Rap Confidential The Republican Plot Against the Dixie Chicks Walter Sommerfeld Plundering Baghdad's Museums Ron Jacobs Condy Rice's Yipping Tirades Thomas P. Healy Dubya Does Indy Tarif Abboushi Bush, Sharon and the Roadmap Francis Boyle Debating US War Crimes in Iraq Mark Davis An Interview with Richard Butler Richard Lichtman American Mourning Michael Ortiz Hill Overcoming Terrorism Adam Engel Uncle Sam is YOU! Alan Maas The Best News Show on TV Poets' Basement Reiss, Guthrie, Albert Elaine Cassel Good Enough for an Alien Website of the Weekend The 37 Americans Who Run Iraq Song of the Weekend Talkin' Sounds Just Like Joe McCarthy Blues   May 16, 2003 Leah Wells In Iraq Water and Oil Do Mix Ben Tripp Fear Itself Sharon Smith The Resegregation of US Schools Ramzy Baroud Does Defeat Have to be So Humiliating? Sam Hamod A Nation of Fear Phil Reeves Baghdad Pays the Price Robert McChesney The FCC's Big Grab Mark Engler Those Who Don't Count Steve Perry We're All Extras in Bush's Movie Website of the Day Iraq and Our Energy Future   May 15, 2003 Ayesha Iman and Sindi Medar-Gould How Not to Help Amina Lawal: The Hidden Dangers of Letter Writing Campaigns Julie Hilden Moussaoui and the Camp X-Ray Detainees: Can He Get a Fair Trial? Tanya Reinhart Bush's Roadmap: a Ticket to Failure Laura Carlsen Here We Go Again: NAFTA Plus or Minus? Kenneth Rapoza The New Fakers: State Dept. Undercuts New Yorker's Goldberg Stew Albert A Story I Will Tell Steve Perry Bush's Little Nukes Website of the Day Strip-o-Rama   May 14, 2003 Cindy Corrie A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter I Can't Hear From Jason Leopold The Pentagon and Hallburton: a Secret November Deal for Iraq's Oil David Lindorff Fighting the Patriot Act: Now It's Alaska John Chuckman Giggling into Chaos Jack McCarthy Twin Towers of Journalism: Racism and Double Standards Wayne Madsen Assassinating JFK Again M. Junaid Alam The Longer View Paul de Rooij The New Hydra's Head: Propagandists and the Selling of the US/Iraq War James Reiss What? Me Worry? Steve Perry More on Saudi Arabia Bombings Website of the Day A Tribute to Ted Joans   May 13, 2003 Saul Landau Clear Channel Fogs the Airwaves Michael Neumann Has Islam Failed? Not by Western Standards Uri Avnery My Meeting with Arafat Steve Perry The Saudi Arabia Bombing Jacob Levich Democracy Comes to Iraq: Kick Their Ass and Grab Their Gas William Lind The Hippo and the Mongoose: a Question of Military Theory The Black Commentator Fraud at the Times: Blaming Blacks for White Folks' Mistakes Stew Albert Asylum Hammond Guthrie An Illogical Reign Website of the Day Sy Hersh: War and Intelligence   May 12, 2003 Chris Floyd Bush, Bin Laden, Bechtel, and Baghdad Dave Lindorff America's Dirty Bombs Sam Hamod and Elaine Cassel Resisting the Bush Administration's War on Liberty Uzi Benziman Sharon and Sons, Inc. Jason Leopold The Decline and Fall of Thomas White Rich Procter George Jumps the Shark Federico Moscogiuri Going to Israel? Sign or Else Steve Perry Bush's War Web Log 5/12 Book of the Day Fooling Marty Peretz Website of the Day T-Shirts to Protest In           Hot Stories Cindy Corrie A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter I Can't Hear From Elaine Cassel Civil Liberties Watch Michel Guerrin Embedded Photographer Says: "I Saw Marines Kill Civilians" Uzma Aslam Khan The Unbearably Grim Aftermath of War: What America Says Does Not Go Paul de Rooij Arrogant Propaganda Gore Vidal The Erosion of the American Dream Francis Boyle Impeach Bush: A Draft Resolution Click Here for More Stories.   Subscribe Online Search CounterPunch

May 21, 2003 Two Morning Poems, May 2003 By LARRY KEARNEY 1 It's hard to wake up in a country run by pissants with war- heads. with dead eyes. with pissy bullies' mouths. with bad talk badly said. with no pleasure except in that which is power and futile. with no joy. at all. with no knowledge. with no quickness or silver brightness or soft acquiescence. respect. depth. courtesy. love. humility. music. grace. dignity. eros. beauty or common decency. but language is language. here. and. so I wake up talking to myself. 2 I don't mind leaving anymore but would rather not leave my children to the human brutality as is. trickling down. I feel I should have done something. we all should have done something. have we not children? are they not flesh? Larry Kearney can be reached at: defoe43@comcast.net Today's Features CounterPunch Wire "Terror" Slut Steve Emerson Eats Crow Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity A Letter to Kofi Annan on Powell's Missing Evidence Ross Vachon Dennis Miller's New Gig: the Last Refuge of Goofy? John Chuckman Blair's Awkward Lies Matt Vidal Corporate Media and the Myth of the Free Market Michael S. Ladah The Fine Print to Bush's Road Map Robert Fisk Bush's Eternal War Backfires Elaine Cassel Clarence Thomas, Still Whining After All These Years Jonathan Freedland Ann Coulter's Appalling Magic Steve Perry Play It Again, O-Sam-a   Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /