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Recent Stories April 21, 2003 Elaine Cassel An Administration in Contempt Edward Said Give Us Back Our Democracy Gary Leupp Easter Thoughts on Liberation, Jesus and Kanaka WaiWai Roger Witherspoon Why Michigan Needs Affirmative Action Uri Avnery At Midnight, a Knock on the Door Steve Perry Bush's War Web Log 4/19   April 19, 2003 Gary Leupp The Rape of History Saul Landau Shop, Go to Church, Support Bush's War, Wait for Armageddon Michael J. Fellows Off With Their Heads: the Constitution According to Scalia Pablo Mukherjee Roadmap to Resistance Omar Barghouti Sharon's Bloody Beat Anthony Gancarski Tony Blair: the Most Powerful Man in the World Mickey Z. Animals: the Other Collateral Damage Will Potter When Police Attack Journalists William MacDougall America's In-Bedded Journalism Neve Gordon Haunted by History Adam Engel Wal-Mart and Peace Dr. Susan Block Art Bombs: American Libertines for Peace Poets' Basement Albert, Buono, Guthrie Steve Perry War Web Log 4/19 Song of the Weekend Baghdad to Basra   April 18, 2003 Uri Avnery Operation "Syrian Freedom": This One's Not About Oil Jorge Mariscal "They Died Trying to Become Students": the Future of Latinos in an Era of War and Occupation Mickey Z: Coalition of the Unindicted: Only Losers Get Tried for War Crimes Hussein Ibish Syria and the Road to World War IV Reza Ladjevardian Tarqeting Iran? Do It With TV, Not Cruise Missiles Matania Ben-Artzi You Are Not Protecting My Son's Rights: a Letter to the President of Israel's Supreme Court Bruce Jackson Jews Like Us Joe Allen My Lai Revisited Carl Estabrook Support Our Euphemism Steve Perry War Web Log 4/18 Website of the Day Meet the Victims of War   April 17, 2003 Jeffrey St. Clair Patriot Gore: the Fatal Flaws in the Patriot Missile System Joanne Mariner Looting Antiquity: the Legal Implications for the Pentagon Issam Nashashibi Zalmay Khalilzad: the Neocon's Bagman to Baghdad Wayne Madsen Another Sign of the "End Times" for American Journalism Robert Fisk The Army of Occupation Boris Kagarlitsky Virtual Saddam Takes Aim Biljana Vankovska A Personal View of Iraq: Where is the Truth? Dan Brook Oil War: Fueling the Empire Stanley Heller Bomb and Steal: This is What Privatization Looks Like Tim Robbins A Chill Wind is Blowing Through This Nation Harold A. Gould Iraq After the War Steve Perry War Web Log 4/17   April 16, 2003 Michel Guerrin Embedded Photographer Says: "I Saw Marines Kill Civilians" Jason Leopold Halliburton's Bloody History: They'll Work for Anyone Kurt Nimmo The Destruction of Iraq: Hey, It's Good for Business Stephen Green Dancing to Sharon's Beat: the Road to Unilateral Pre-emption Diane Christian The Devil in Bush's Details Carol Norris Mourning Iraq Anthony Gancarski They Call Themselves Economists? Michael Sells Nero in Baghdad Alexander Cockburn Contract with Iraq Ninan Koshy India's Devious Middle Path Through the Iraq War Brenda Norrell Lakota Leader: World Must Resist American Empire Wallace Gagne End of History; More in a Moment Stew Albert On the Road Again Steve Perry War Web Log 4/16   April 15, 2003 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   April 14, 2003 Chris Floyd Bush's War Without End Uri Avnery Gunboat Democracy: This is Only the Beginning Wayne Madsen Americans: The New Mongols of the Mideast? Shahid Alam Iqra: Iraq is Free Hani Shukrallah Day of the Chicken Hawks Terry Jones The Iraq Gravy Train John Chuckman The Iraq War's Trashiest Piece of Propaganda Patrick Cockburn US has a Lot to Answer For: Violence, Misery and Poverty in Iraq Steve Perry War Web Log 4/14   April 12 / 13, 2003 Carol Lipton Wag the Kennel: the Kenneth Joseph Story Wayne Madsen Meet the New Butcher of Baghdad: Maj. Gen. Buford Blount III John Brown "They Got It Down": the Toppling of the Saddam Statue Kathy and Bill Christison Final Thoughts from Palestine William Blum Our Vulnerable Warmongers' Rush to Justify Devastation Wallace Gagne Let the Stealing Begin Ann Harrison Rosenthal Update: Judge Delays Ruling in Medical Pot Mistrial Case Henry Miller What is the Greatest Treason? Jeffrey St. Clair Render Unto Cesar Zeljko Cipris Mocking Militarism: On Ishikawa Jun's Song of Mars Ishikawa Jun The Song of Mars Jamey Hecht Chairman of the Sandwich Board Adam Engel Hell of a Town: Mayor Bloomberg and the News Poets' Basement Chang Yang-Hao, Adam Engel and Hammond Guthrie Steve Perry War Web Log 4/12   April 11, 2003 Omar Barghouti From Saddam to Uncle Sam Ron Jacobs Greed is Rewarded David Vest The Corporate War on Iraq Paul de Rooij Propaganda Stinkers: Fresh Samples from the Field Anthony Gancarski Foreign Aid: Embezzlement as Public Policy Mas'ood Cajee Franklin Graham: Spiritual Carpetbagger Michael Neumann Now What? Michael Berry The Neo-Cons Have a Dream Stew Albert Oh Freedom Steve Perry War Web Log 4/11 Website of the Day About Those Dancing Crowds   April 10, 2003 Zoltan Grossman The Perils of Occupation: the Easier the Victory, the Harder the Peace Uri Avnery The Night After Wayne Madsen The Telltale Signs of Empire David Krieger Before You Become Too Flushed with Victory, Think of Ali Ismaeel Abbas Jeremy Brecher What Can the World Do Now That Tanks Prowl Baghdad? Robert Jensen The Unseen War Geoffrey Neale Ashcroft's War on the Constitution: A Patriot Attack on America Jeffrey St. Clair Last Tango in Baghdad Hammond Guthrie Rumors of War Joseph Heller Nately's Old Man Steve Perry War Web Log 4/10 Website of the Day The Third Page   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 Gary Bauer and AIPAC: an Unholy Alliance with the Christian Right Ray Hanania Suicide Bombers without the Suicide: Racism, Hypocrisy and the War on Iraq Steve Perry 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 John Brown Why Uncle Ben Hasn't Sold Uncle Sam: a Former Foreign Service Staffer on Bush's Policy Failures Ben Terrall Report from the Oakland Docks: "The Cops Had No Reason to Open Up on Them" Jason Leopold FERC and Wall Street: Conversations May Have Violated Federal Law Anthony Gancarski Conyers Heeds the Call on Perle Linda Heard Journalists Die, the Networks Lie, Iraqis Ask "Why?" Ahmad Faruqui Wallowing in Hypocrisy Wallace Gagne Baghdad Babble Harry Browne Report from the Protests at the Bush/Blair Summit Larry Kearney I Understand There's a Boy in a Baghdad Hospital Steve Perry War Web Log 4/8 M. Shahid Alam The Israelization of America   April 7, 2003 Todd Chretien Wooden Bullets & Grenades: Oakland Cops Attack Peace Protesters and Dock Workers David N. Gibbs Spying, Secrecy and the University: The CIA is Back on Campus 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 Steve Perry 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 Would You Have Sent Your Son (or Daughter) Off to War If... 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 After Iraq, US Vows to Deal with Other Mideast Regimes 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 Adam Engel Li'l Box of Love: a Novelini Poets' Basement Tripp, Albert, Katz Jeffrey St. Clair Flesh and Its Discontents: the Paintings of Lucian Freud Norman Madarasz Canada and the War   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 Mickey Z. Makes Me Sic (Sic): Copy Editing Bush Speak Pierre Tristam War Coverage: a Dishonest Reality Show Hammond Guthrie The Deadly Mihrab Steve Perry War Web Log 04/04   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 From Baghdad with Tears Anton Antonowicz Cluster Bombs on Babylon Alison Weir Israel, We Won't Forget Rachel Corrie Bruce Jackson Hating Wolf Blitzer's Voice Eliot Katz War's First Week Steve Perry War Web Log 04/03   Hot Stories 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. Burn Your Sweatshop Clothes! Buy Union Made Apparel! Subscribe Online Search CounterPunch

April 21, 2003 The Taliban from Texas by BOB RIEDEL (to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas" -- anon., 1836, public domain) There are Taliban from Texas who want to run the world Their crossbone-spangled banner's triumphantly unfurled They trample on the Bill of Rights and mock democracy The Taliban from Texas have it in for you & me They'll say you are a traitor if you don't toe the line Their friends at Exxon Mobil all think that's very fine "Support the troops" means "shut your mouth & never raise a fuss" Those Taliban from Texas will be the end of US. They're pocketing a tax cut as big as all outdoors To pay for Fox cheerleaders and other sundry whores They worship "G.I. Jesus" and not the Prince of Peace The Taliban of Texas want to be your thought police. Bob Riedel is a contributing writer to the New York Press. He can be reached at: BRiedel166@aol.com Yesterday's Features Uri Avnery Operation "Syrian Freedom": This One's Not About Oil Jorge Mariscal "They Died Trying to Become Students": the Future of Latinos in an Era of War and Occupation Mickey Z: Coalition of the Unindicted: Only Losers Get Tried for War Crimes Hussein Ibish Syria and the Road to World War IV Reza Ladjevardian Tarqeting Iran? Do It With TV, Not Cruise Missiles Matania Ben-Artzi You Are Not Protecting My Son's Rights: a Letter to the President of Israel's Supreme Court Bruce Jackson Jews Like Us Joe Allen My Lai Revisited Carl Estabrook Support Our Euphemism Steve Perry War Web Log 4/18 Website of the Day Meet the Victims of War   Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /