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Today's Stories Sept. 30 / 0ct. 1, 2006 Weekend Edition Paul Craig Roberts The New Face of Class War September 29, 2006 Bruce Jackson Chavez's Reading, Bush's Reading Michael J. Smith The Lobby Debate Does Manhattan Emira Woods Oil Trip: Record Profits for Exxon, Deprivation for Africa William S. Lind The Sanctuary Illusion: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq as Theme Parks for 4GW David Swanson Mommy, What's Waterboarding? Jonathan Cook Bad Faith and the Destruction of Palestine Website of the Day Jesus: the Recruitment Tapes September 28, 2006 Sen. Russ Feingold The Flaws in the Military Commissions Act Ron Jacobs The Generals, the Democrats and Iraq: One Policy, Two Parties Mokhiber / Weissman Scenes from Laura's Book Festival: Elmo Will Not Save You Lee Sustar A Left Challenge to Lula Robert Jensen Finding My Way Back to Church--and Getting Kicked Out John Chuckman America Has Just Lost Two More Wars Evelyn Pringle Inside America's Nursing Homes: a Hidden Tragedy of Neglect and Abuse Nicola Nasser Bush and Islam: Words vs. Deeds Uri Avnery Political Corruption in Israel Website of the Day Art Against the Empire September 27, 2006 Patrick Cockburn A Final Explosion Looms in Mosul Camilo Mejia Blowback From Iraq: Giving Terrorism a Reason to Exist Pat Williams Tax Burdens and Cheaters in the Rockies: Send Those IRS Mercenaries in Search of Montana's Land Barons and Oil Drillers Ben Terrall Failing Haiti: Another Bungled UN Mission Ridgeway / Ng Paul Weyrich Explaines His Opposition to the Patriot Act: a Short Film Joe Allen Where are the Mass Protests? Andrew Wimmer Don't Disappear Into a Black Hole Franklin C. Spinney Rumsfeld's AutoCarterization: Skullduggery in the Pentagon's Budget Website of the Day Model Nukes: the Photo Contest September 26, 2006 Hani Shukrallah The American Mind: When Historical Analysis is Reduced to Whim William Blum If It's Election Season, It Must Be Time for a Terror Alert Niranjan Ramakrishnan Torturing the Obvious Barbara Becnel Witness to an Execution: a Slow and Very Painful Death Paul Rockwell Judicial Complicity in US War Crimes: the Watada Case Dave Lindorff Bush and Iran: Going to War to Save His Own Ass? Rich Gibson Lessons from the Detroit Teachers' Strike Anthony Papa The Danger of Meth Registries: "Have a Cold? Prove It, Then Sign Here" Nate Mezmer New Orleans is Back ... Without Blacks: Monday Night Football at the Superdome Uri Avnery Mohammed's Sword Website of the Day Only YOU Can Stop the Sale of Public Lands to Mining, Timber and Real Estate Corporations September 25, 2006 Patrick Cockburn The Most Dangerous Place in the World: a Journey to Iraq's "Taliban Republic" Jonathan Cook Human Rights Watch: Still Missing the Point on Lebanon Joshua Frank Did Maria Cantwell's Campaign Try to Buy Off Aaron Dixon? Paul Craig Roberts Is the Bush Administration Itching to Nuke Iran? Robert Jensen Defending Chavez on FoxNews Dave Lindorff Horowitz on Campus: This Mouth for Hire Norman Solomon Media Tall Tales for Next War Dr. Charles Jonkel Save a Grizzly, Visit a Library: "People like the Croc Hunter are Worse Than the Most Bloodthirsty Slob Hunter Michael Dickinson "The King's New Clothes:" a Play Written in a Turkish Jail Alexander Cockburn Flying Saucers and the Decline of the Left Website of the Day Great Bear Foundation   September 23 / 24, 2006 Weekend Edition Jonathan Cook How Israel is Engineering the "Clash of Civilizations" Jeffrey St. Clair Star Wars Goes Online ... Crashes Dr. Anon A Doctor's Life in Baghdad Tom Barry Oil and Political Opportunism Carl G. Estabrook The Darfur Smokescreen Laura Carlsen Mexico's Two Presidents Todd Chretien The Axis of Lesser Evilism Dr. Charles Jonkel From Grizzly Man to the Croc Hunter: the Global Media and the Death of Bears Debbie Nathan I Was Disappeared By Salon Fred Gardner Dustin Costa Struggles Against Invisibility Fred Wilhelms The Money Belongs to the Artists Who Created the Music Seth Sandronsky The Cruel Economics of Health Care in America Ralph Nader Mavericks at Work Rev. William Alberts "Specks" and "Logs" and 9/11 Jon Van Camp Who is Hezbollah? Heather Gray Conservatives and Technology David Vest Jerry Lightfoot, RIP Jeffrey St. Clair Playlist: What I'm Listenting to This Week Poets' Basement Landau / Davies Website of the Weekend Meet Me In The Morning: C. Wonderland & J. Lightfoot Video of the Weekend Is It a Bird? A Missile? Or, Just Perhaps, a Friggin' Plane?   September 22, 2006 Patrick Cockburn Republic of Fear: Torture in Bush's Iraq, Worse Than Under Saddam Michael Donnelly It's the Manipulated Economy, Stupid! Ramzy Baroud The Next Palestinian Struggle Evo Morales "We Need Partners, Not Bosses": Address to the United Nations Stanley Howard Torture and Justice in Chicago Sarah Leah Whitson Hezbollah's Rockets and Civilian Casualties: a Reply to Jonathan Cook JoAnn Wypijewski Conservations at Ground Zero Website of the Day Cockburn in Atlanta: the Video Interview September 21, 2006 Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad "No Nation Should Have Superiority Over Others:" UN Address Justin E. H. Smith Ending the Death Penalty: Outline of an Abolitionist Program Rick Kuhn Australian Government Steps Up Attacks on Muslims: "I Certainly Don't Want That Type of People in Australia" Mike Roselle Ed Wiley's Long March: the Elementary School vs. the Strip Mine Amira Hass In the Name of Security: What Israeli Police Files Reveal About the Occupation of Palestine Deborah Rich From the Kitchen of Dr. Frankenstein: the Consumption of Gene-Engineeered Foods Mickey Z. 10 Reasons Cars Suck Saul Landau Terrorism at Sheridan Circle Website of the Day Stop the Decapitation of Mountains! September 20, 2006 Sharon Smith Elections, Detentions and Deportations Christopher Reed Goodbye Koizumi, Hello Abe John Ross Mexico: Does AMLO Have a Future? Joshua Frank A Wasted Campaign: How Jonathan Tasini Helped Hillary Clinton and Distracted the Antiwar Movement Arthur Neslen The Clenched Fist of the Phoenix: What Made Israel Burn Lebanon, Again? Norman Solomon The Hollow Promise of Digital Technology Michael Carmichael The Vatican's Tyrant Evelyn Pringle The Merck Vioxx Litigation: a Scorecard Hugo Chavez Rise Up Against the Empire: Address to the United Nations Website of the Day Before You Enlist: Watch This Video! September 19, 2006 Patrick Cockburn Deadly Harvest: Lebanese Fields Sown with Israeli Cluster Bombs Jeff Leys Economic Warfare: Iraq and the IMF Brian M. Downing War, Taxes and Democracy Col. Dan Smith Dispelling Brutality Liaquat Ali Khan Presidential Incitements: Did Bush's Speech Violate Geneva Conventions on Genocide? Ron Jacobs Just Sign on the Dotted Line: Iraqi Oil and Production Sharing Agreements Nik Barry-Shaw / Yves Engler Canada in Haiti: Torture, Murder and Complicity Lucinda Marshall Air Paranoia: the Great Toothpaste and Hair Gel Scare Saul Landau The Pinochet Syndicate Photo of the Day Hold That Bridge! Website of the Day Scenarios for an Iranian War September 18, 2006 Carl Boggs Crimes of Empire Uri Avnery Peace Panic Mike Stark / Jim Bullington Ann Richards, the Original Texacutioner Joshua Frank Corporate E. Coli John Murphy The Price of Free Speech Ramzy Baroud Murdoch Almighty Dave Lindorff On Constitution Day Bill Quigley Showing Conviction at Echo 9 Website of the Day Tutorial: How to Hack a Diebold Voting Machine   September 16 / 17, 2006 Weekend Edition Tariq Ali A Bavarian Provocation Eliza Ernshire Death and Tears in Nablus Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon (Part 7): To Tilted Park Mairead Corrigan Maguire A Nobel Laureate Visits with Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu Brian Cloughley "Let Them Drink Coke!": Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan Ben Tripp November Prognostication: Republicans Sweep! Laura Carlsen Bush and Latin America: War on Terrorism or Fight for Social Justice Ralph Nader Terror on the Road Ron Jacobs Shooting Sgrena John Chuckman Imperial Entropy Robert Fisk The American Military's Cult of Cruelty Gary Leupp The Pope's New Crusade: Defender of the West, Scourge of Islam Lawrence R. Velvel The Pretexter in Chief: Learning About Bush from Hewlett-Packard Missy Comley Beattie The Insecurity of Immorality Adrienne Johnstone Deporting Widows: the Nightmare of a Kenyan Immigrant Mickey Z. Why I Hate America Jeffrey St. Clair Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week Poets' Basement Kearney, Orloski, Engel, Louise and Davies Website of the Weekend Still Life with Killpecker September 15, 2006 Diana Johnstone In Defense of Conspiracy: 9/11, in Theory and in Fact Diane Christian On Retaliation William S. Lind General Puffery: When the Military Brass Deceives Lee Sustar Bosses Take Aim at Undocument Workers Dave Lindorff Retroactive Immunity for Bush? Ramzy Baroud Presidential PR: Lost in the Bush Spin Cycle Mokhiber / Weissman The Cesspool Jeffrey St. Clair Glow, River, Glow: Radioactive Leaks and Plumbers at Hanford Website of the Day F-22: The Most Expensive Piece of Junk Ever Built? September 14, 2006 Franklin Lamb Israel's Use of American Cluster Bombs: a Walk Through the Rubble Tim Wilkinson Alan Dershowitz's Sinister Scheme Dick J. Reavis Mexico's Time of Troubles: Who Benefits? Sam Husseini 9/11 Five Years Later: a Conspiracy to Silence Doug Giebel Democracies of Death: Why John Adams Wouldn't Recognize His Own Country Bill Berkowitz The Messaging Strategy of the Iraq War Diane Farsetta What Media Democracy Looks Like Mary Turck Targeting Refugees and Human Rights Workers in Colombia Patrick Cockburn Amnesty Intl Accuses Hizbollah of War Crimes, But Katyusha Damage "Much Less" Than Israel Claimed J.L. Chestnut, Jr. Ah, Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Website of the Day The Shocking Truth About Inequality September 13, 2006 Jack Bratich Eyes Put a Spell on You: Signs of Surveillance in the Public Secret Sphere John Ross Welcome to the Nightmare: Al Qaeda de Mexico? Christopher Brauchli "You Had to Have Been There": Teaching Iraq and Iran Dave Lindorff Mourning in America: Bush Weeps? Who are They Kidding? Antony Loewenstein My Israel Question Al Krebs The Gates Foundation and African Agriculture Leonard Peltier Crazy Horse in Chains Jim Bensman My Adventures with the FBI: How I Was Targeted as a Terrorist Website of the Day FreedomWalk: Take a Moment for Leonard Peltier September 12, 2006 Norman Finkelstein Kill Arabs, Cry Anti-Semitism Seth Sandronsky The War on Nurses John Walsh Khatami Comes to Harvard Alan Maass "Islamic Fascism": the New Hysteria David Krieger Troubling Questions About Missile Defense Nate Mezmer September 12th, America Kathleen Christison The Coming Collapse of Zionism September 11, 2006 Uri Avnery State of Chutzpah Patrick Cockburn Palestinians Forced to Scavenge Rubbish Dumps for Food Col Dan Smith The Centrality of War in the Presidency of George W. Bush Dr. Susan Block Beyond Terror Anthony Alessandrini Forgetting 9/11 Dave Lindorff Bush After 9/11: Five Years of High Crimes and Misdemeanors Niranjan Ramakrishnan What Happened? Joshua Frank Proving Nothing: How the 9/11 "Truth" Movement Helps Bush & Cheney Jean Bricmont The End of the "End of History" Sprague / Emesberger "You Are a Dog. You Should Die": Death Threats Against Lancet's Haiti Investigator Website of the Day Web Piracy   September 9/10, 2006 Weekend Edition Alexander Cockburn The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts: How They Let the Guilty Parties of 9/11 Off the Hook Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon: In the Footsteps of Vladimir Putin (Part Six) Greg Grandin Good Christ, Bad Christ: Testament of the Death Squads Peter Stone Brown Bob Dylan's Swing Time Waltz in the Face of the Apocalypse Ralph Nader X-Raying Greed Brian Cloughley Rumsfeld at the American Legion: Dead Babies and Nazi Propaganda Col. Chet Richards Crossroads at the Litani David Model Tailoring the Case Against Iran: Cut from the Same Old Pattern Dave Himmelstein From Bil'in to Birmingham Ron Jacobs War and the Power of Words Fred Gardner Is Medical Pot Image a Turn-Off to Teens? Mike Whitney America's Economic Meltdown Josh Gryniewicz In the Belly of the Bentonville Beast: Working for Wal-Mart Daniel Gross / Joe Tessone An IWW Story at Starbucks Joe Bageant Inside the Iron Theater Nicole Colson The Colbert Factor: Some Truthiness, At Last Alexander Billet Thirty Years of "White Riot": Long Live The Clash! Poets' Basement Engel, Louise, Buknatski, Davies, & Orloski   September 8, 2006 Uri Avnery "I'm a Leftist, But ...": the Liberals' War on Lebanon Paul Craig Roberts Books Are Our Salvation Bill Quigley Judge Says: "No Clowning Around Our WMDs!" Robert Jensen Parallel Purges: Academic Freedom in Iran and the US Norman Solomon Perception Gap: The War on Terror as Others See It Keith Bolin   September 8, 2006 Uri Avnery "I'm a Leftist, But ...": the Liberals' War on Lebanon Paul Craig Roberts Books Are Our Salvation Bill Quigley Judge Says: "No Clowning Around Our WMDs!" Robert Jensen Parallel Purges: Academic Freedom in Iran and the US Norman Solomon Perception Gap: The War on Terror as Others See It Keith Bolin The Future of the Family Farm Kristin S. Schafer The Global Trade in Deadly Pesticides Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon (Part Five) Patrick Cockburn Gaza is Dying Website of the Day Help the Bismark 3! September 7, 206 Marjorie Cohn Why Bush Really Came Clean About the CIA's Secret Torture Prisons Sharon Smith Downward Mobility: No Recovery for Workers René Drucker Colín The Fraud in Mexico Michael Donnelly Bush Family Values: About Those Nazi Appeasers John Borowski Scholastic Peddles a Fictitious Path to 9/11 to Kids Lucinda Marshall Bombing Indiana Charles Sullivan Katrina and the New Jim Crow: Ethnic Cleansing in New Orleans Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon: Part Four Jonathan Cook How Human Rights Watch Lost Its Way in Lebanon Website of the Day Rasta! Reggae's Joe Hill   September 6, 2006 Stephen Soldz Protecting the Torturers: Bad Faith and Distortions frm the American Psychological Assocation Dave Zirin Cops vs. Jocks: the Shooting of Steve Foley Ramzy Baroud The Gaza Maze: Who Gained Most from the Fox Reporters' Kidnapping Noel Ignatiev Democrats, Pwogs and the Lesser Evil Folly Dave Lindorff Bombing Without Regrets: The US and Cluster Bombs Norman Solomon Spinning Troop Levels in Iraq Binoy Kampmark The Death of Steve Irwin and the Politics of the Zoo Jeffrey St. Clair A Premature Burial: the Remaking of Cataract Canyon (Part Three) John Ross The Death of Mexican Presidency Website of the Day Flaming Arrows   September 5, 2006 Jonathan Cook Will Robert Fisk tell us the whole story? Time For A Champion of Truth to Speak Up Patrick Cockburn Better Not Meet at the Casbah Mike Whitney The Worst Secretary of Defense in U.S. History? You Be the Judge Roland Sheppard The Civil Rights Movement is Dead and So is the Democratic Party James Petras As Bush Regime Faces Twilight Slide, How Much Havoc Can Paulson Wreak? Alexander Cockburn Will Bush Bomb Teheran?   September 4, 2006 Clancy Sigal The Women Who Gave Us Labor Day Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon: Part 2 Anthony Alessandrini The Great Debate about Aroma Coffee: Why I Boycott Dennis Perrin The Great Debate in Tarrytown: Straight Zion, No Chaser Daniel Cassidy 'S lom to Slum Paul Craig Roberts The War Is Lost   September 2 / 3, 2006 Uri Avnery When Napoleon Won at Waterloo Jeffrey St. Clair A Premature Burial: the Remaking of Cataract Canyon Ralph Nader The No-Fault White House Noam Chomsky Viewing the World from a Bombsight Allan Lichtman Arrested Democracy: Letter from the Baltimore County Jail Stanley Heller When Criticism of Cluster Bombs is "Anti-Semitic" Rana el-Khatib Invasion's Child: the Making of Issa Peter Montague Taking on the Pentagon: Chemical Weapons to Burn Laura Carlsen Mexico on a Collision Course Dr. Susan Block Bush Hate Rising Joe Bageant Roy's People: Why Progressives Need to Listen to Orbison, Not Policy Wonks Scott Stedjan / Matt Schaaf A New Generation of Landmines? Gary Leupp The Emperor Has Been Exposed Stephen Fleischman The Great American Oligarchy Paul Balles Has Ahmadinejad Already Checkmated Bush? Ingmar Lee Canada's $450 Million Gift to Bush: the Softwood Lumber Slush Fund Jane Stillwater Burning Man: the Good, the Bad and the Evil Twin Ron Jacobs Dylan Faces the Apocalypse, Again St. Clair / Bossert Playlist: What We're Listening to This Week Poets' Basement Grima, Engel, Orloski and Davies Website of the Weekend To New Orleans: a Photo Journal   September 1, 2006 Uri Avnery Olmert Agonistes Paul Craig Roberts Of Wolves and Men (and Impotent Democrats) Bill Ayers Exclusionary Signs of the Times Kevin Zeese The Best War Ever Xochitl Bervera The Forgotten Children of New Orleans Norman Solomon Bush vs. Ahmadinejad: a TV Debate We'll Never See Alexander Cockburn Hezbollah Denounces Nasrallah Interview as a Fake Richard Neville Rupert Murdoch's Victims Website of the Day The Uranium Flood   August 31, 2006 David MacMichael Can the Iran Nuke Crisis be Defused? John Ross Diary of the Mexican Earthquake Edward Said Mahfouz, 9/11 and the Cruelty of Memory Amira Hass The Burden of Collaboration Missy Comley Beattie Circle in a Spiral: Families at War Lee Sustar The Case of Elvira Arellano: Racism, Divided Families and Deportation Jonathan Cook Israeli Myths: Deception as a Way of Life Website of the Day The Case for Impeachment: CSPAN   August 30, 2006 Paul Craig Roberts The Five Morons Revisited George Salzman The Revolutionary Surge in Oaxaca Dave Lindorff I Am a Curious Yellowcake: the Armitage Confession and the Niger Question Leigh Davis Privatizing New Orleans' Schools Alan Maass The Crimes Katrina Exposed: an Interview with Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Slonsky Mike Whitney Pop Goes the Bubble!: the Great Housing Crash of '07 Eliza Ernshire Murder on Rucarb Street Website of the Day CNN = iPoop2? August 29, 2006 Saul Landau Misreading Cuba, for 47 and a Half Years Jeffrey Buchanan Human Rights and the Realities of Returning to New Orleans: Lip Service and Profiteering Dave Lindorff War? What War? James Brooks The US Peace Movement and Hezbollah John F. Burnett Katrina and the Media: "I Know Y'All Want Our Story, But We Need Help" Walter A. Davis J'Accuse: the Media and Jonbenet Ramsey Rich Gibson Detroit Teachers Strike Again Amira Hass The Accidental Immigrant Paul Craig Roberts Bush Turns His Terror War on the Homeland   August 28, 2006 John Walsh With Lieberman's Loss, the Lobby Takes a Second Hit Sibel Edmonds / William Weaver Hillary Clinton: a Fool's Vessel Ramzy Kysia For Israel's Security? A Visit to Houla, Lebanon Ron Jacobs An Interview with Nativo Lopez Gideon Levy The Reservists' Protest Missy Beattie Yes, Virginia, There is a Rumsfeld Virginia Tilley Putting Words in Ahmadinejad's Mouth August 26 / 27, 2006 Weekend Edition Uri Avnery America's Rottweiler Alexander Cockburn Israel on the Slide Jordan Green Profiting from Disaster: Greed Has Stallled Gulf Coast Recovery, But Made Some Very, Very Rich Azmi Bishara Israel at a Loss Ray Close Why Bush Will Choose War Against Iran: Reflections of a Former CIA Analyst Gary Leupp The Lebanon Ceasefire and the Coming Assault on Iran Ralph Nader AIDS in Black America Joe Allen Free Gary Tyler: Thirty Years of Injustice Fred Gardner The Miraculous Resurrection of Dr. John Lee Dave Lindorff The Crime of Frag Weapons David Krieger Why are There Still Nuclear Weapons? Stephen Fleischman Jurassic White House: the Reptilian Brain of George W. Bush Mary Turck Elections and Lessons from Mexico Walter Brasch Sports Afoul: Canned Hunts Jim Scharplaz Oil and the American Farmer Israel Shamir The Grapes of Wrath Alexander Cockburn About That Nasrallah Interview Charles Henderson Scientology: a Typically American Religion? Jeffrey St. Clair Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week Poets' Basement Grima, Ford and Mickey Z.   August 25, 2006 Elena Everett The Women of New Orleans After Katrina Juan Cole Iran's Nuclear "Threat" Chris Moore Religious Motives Behind Iraq War Deception?: Revelations from the Watada Court Martial James Marc Leas How Lebanese Civilians Thwarted Israel's War Plans Salah Obeid The Price of Ignoring the Elephant Claudio Albertani Mexico Piquetero Tom Barry Gangster Diplomacy: Elliot Abrams in Jerusalem Website of the Day Congress, the Defense Budget and Pork: a Snout to Tail Charcuterie August 24, 2006 CounterPunch News Service Penis Pump or Bomb? Bum Rap at O'Hare Uri Avnery Stop the Cancer, End the Occupation Nermeen al-Mufti "The Strong Do as They Can": an Interview with Noam Chomsky Norman Solomon The Mythical End to the Politics of Fear Megan Wiles American Responsibility and Palestine Laura Santina Busting Loose of the War Engine: a Female Perspective Mike Whitney Restarting the 34 Day War Seth Sandronsky Millionaires Make a Killing as Killings Continue Christopher Brauchli Consider the Uighurs: Freedom in a Cage   August 23, 2006 Dr. Trudy Bond Calling Dr. Mengele: APA Whitewashes Torture By Shrinks Ramzy Baroud The Real Terrorism Plot Ron Jacobs The Liberal Warmongers are at It Again Heather Gray Palestinian Sense of Place: You Can't Bomb It Away Amira Hass The Occupier Defines Justice Mavis Anderson Castro's Health and US Meddling Ingmar Lee The Great Game Goes On: India's Occupation of Ladakh Francis Boyle Statement on Behalf of Lt. Watada John Ross Mexico Approaches the Combustion Point August 22, 2006 Gilad Atzmon Israel Must Win Jack Heyman The Iron Heel Revisited: Cops as Provocateurs on the Docks Eamon McCann Bereft Belfast Mother Charges Security Firms with Wanton Murder in Iraq Sharon Smith Bush's Failing War on Terror: When in Doubt, Go Racist Edward S. Herman Faith-Based Analysis Ramzi Kysia My Journey to South Lebanon Bill Quigley Trying to Make It Home: New Orleans One Year After Katrina August 21, 2006 Jonathan Cook Caught in a Net of Delusion Paul Craig Roberts Artificial Recovery; Real Job Losses Kathy Kelly Israel's "Proportionate Response": Measured Amid the Wreckage Mike Roselle Irony Runs Through It: Making a Ruckus Lenni Brenner Mayor Bloomberg: the Flying Faker Maher Osseiran Osama's Confession; Osama's Reprieve   August 19 / 20, 2006 Weekend Edition Uri Avnery The 155th Victim Eliza Ernshire Terror and Freedom on the West Bank Virginia Tilley Inside 1701: What the UN Ceasefire Resolution Actually Says Kathy Kelly Funerals at Qana: a Journey to Southern Lebanon Marc Levy You are What You Dream: "Before you talk of heroes you must feel, taste, touch, smell the horror." Stephen Bradberry / Jeffrey Buchanan Hopes and Homes: Subject to Seizure on the Katrina's Anniversary Barbara Rose Johnston Banking on Violence: Guatemalan Genocide and US Security William Blum Perpetual Fear: Saved Again, Praise the Lord! Stephen Fleischman Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon Ralph Nader The Legacy of John Kenneth Galbraith Dave Lindorff Busted, Again: Bush is Two Times a Criminal Fred Gardner When Cannabis Failed to Sell David Krieger Nuclear Insecurity Dan La Botz The Minutemen: Mad at the Wrong Guys Poets' Basement Davies / Engel   August 18, 2006 Brian M. Downing American Generals and Iraq: Time to Call for a Rapid Withdrawal John Blair Divine Strike in the Bible Belt: Will They Bomb Bedford? Alan Hart The Lebanon War, a Post Mortem Craig Murray Hitting a Nerve: the Hair Gel Terror Hype Chris Dols Confronting Madison's NaziFest Emily Kirksey The Cuban Mirage: Self-Deception in Miami and Washington Joaquín Bustelo Forging a New Strategy for Immigrant Rights: Report from Chicago William S. Lind Beaten: Why the IDF Lost in Lebanon Podcast of the Day The F-22 PodCast Website of the Day Burn a Brick for Jesus   August 17, 2006 CounterPunch News Service "Goodbye to the Unipolar World": an Interview with Hasan Nasrallah Barucha Peller This Pain Has No Ceasefire Ramzy Baroud Lebanon: a Critical Battlefield for the New Middle East Rothem Shtarkman Gen. Dan Halutz: Inside Trader Craig Murray The UK Terror Plot: What's Really Going On? Samar Assad Gaza: One Year After Disengagement Mike Ferner Lt. Watada's Challenge Arnold Kohen A Second Rebirth for East Timor? Kevin Zeese Does the Invasion of Lebanon Foretell a Regional War? Missy Comley Beattie Open Wounds Uri Avnery From Mania to Depression Video of the Day Neil Young: After the Garden Website of the Day Art for Peace   August 16, 2006 Merav Yudilovitch Apocalypse Near: an Interview with Noam Chomsky on Lebanon Robert Fisk Behind the Lies of Bush and Blair: It Falls to Assad to Tell the Truth Mark Williams The Missiles of August: The Lebanon War and the Democratization of Missile Technology John Ross End Game Engulfs Mexico Christopher Brauchli The Poor Are Such a Nuisance John Walsh AIPAC Congratulates Itself for Slaughter in Lebanon Ron Jacobs Gee, Your Hair Smells Terror-ific!: Shampoo, Fear and Elections Rachard Itani It Ain't Over: What Did and Didn't Happen in Lebanon Felice Pace Forest Fires in the Klamath Mountains: The Real Threat is Not What You Expected Niranjan Ramakrishnan Lieberman the Enabler Frank, Sharma and Peterson Venezuela's Revolution of Hope: "In Two Years, Everything Has Changed!" Jonathan Cook Real Photo Fakers; Real War Crimes Website of the Day You Too Can Paint Like Jackson Pollock!   August 15, 2006 Andrew Ford Lyons Why Hezbollywood Was Born: Digitally Erasing a Massacre Binoy Kampmark Terrorism and the Art of Flying Robert Fisk Israel Wasn't Hoping for This Ralph Nader Bush to Israel: Take Your Time Destroying Lebanon Todd Chretien The US Antiwar Movement: Weak, Passive, Distracted Chris Floyd It's Bigger Than the Neo-Cons Mark Engler WTO: Best Left for Dead? George Galloway "You Don't Give a Damn:" the SkyNews Debate Laray Polk What's More Obscene: War or Sex? Trish Schuh Operation Change of Location?: Where Were the IDF Soldiers Captured? Website of the Day Jesus Never Existed August 14, 2006 Uri Avnery What the Hell Happened to the Israeli Army? Karim Makdisi The Flaws in the UN Resolution Kathy Kelly Approaching a Ceasefire Robert Fisk The Truce That Won't Last Norman Solomon Who's Afraid of Hillary Clinton? MoveOn, for One Sunsara Taylor Ned Lamont and the Antiwar Movement: False Hopes, Bad Terms and Ticking Clocks Robert Jensen Outside the Frame: The Limits of George Lakoff's Politics Mike Whitney The Litani Gambit: Ceasefire or Trojan Horse? P. Sainath An Indian Farmer About to Commit Suicide Writes a Note of Clarification Goretti Horgan The Raytheon Nine: Irish Antiwar Protesters Face "Terrorism" Charges Christopher Reed London Fog: Doubts Hang Over Terror Plot   August 12 / 13, 2006 Weekend Edition Jean Bricmont The De-Zionization of the American Mind Norman Finkelstein Should Alan Dershowitz Target Himself for Assassination? Robert Fisk How the London Terror Scare Looks from Beirut Adrian Grima Forget the 50 Civilians: Watching Lebanon from Malta Barucha Peller Letter from Lebanon: the Proximity of Death Omar Barghouti The UN, Lebanon and Palestine Adam Engel Tearing Down the Master's House: an Interview with Derrick Jensen Conn Hallinan How the Irish Could Save the Middle East John Stauber Meet the GOP's Latest Smear Machine: Vets for Freedom Rev. William Alberts Bush's Primetime Lies Still Go Unchallenged by the Press Fred Gardner Hollywood Does Cannabis: "Weeds," the First Season Lucinda Marshall Penis Politics: Does Dick Cheney Want Us All to Fly Nude? Ron Jacobs Kill the Precedent: an Interview with Rapper Nate Mezmer CounterPunch News Service Kerala Throws Out Coke and Pepsi Poets' Basement Katz, Davies and Orloski August 11, 2006 Col. Dan Smith Crimes Against Peace: Beyond Nuremberg John Ross Class War in Mexico City's Gridlock Michael Donnelly Sore Loserman, Redux William S. Lind Collapse of the Flanks Linda Milazzo Chertoff's New Math: Hair Gel Plot Might Have "Killed 100s of Thousands" Rep. Cynthia McKinney Something is Happening Around the World Azmi Bishara When the Skies Rain Death Henri Picciotto Jewish Dissidents Must Challenge Israel CounterPunch News Wire The Warrior Lawyer: Tom Crumpacker, 1934-2006 Dave Lindorff War Crimes in Lebanon Jonathan Cook From High Wycombe to Nazrareth: How I Found Myself with the Islamic Fascists   August 10, 2006 Uri Avnery The Buck Stops Where? Dave Marsh Who Are Mr and Mrs Lamont? Gabriel Kolko Reflections on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Arthur Versluis How Neocons' Nazi Hero Schmitt Spawned Bush's Totalitarian Lunge Jennifer Loewenstein Awakening the Resistance August 9, 2006 Linda Schade Incumbents Beware: Peace Voters Mean Business Jackie Mason Defends Mel Gibson; Ridicules Abe Foxman Jonathan Cook Hypocrisy and the Clamor Against Hizbullah Gilad Atzmon Operation Security Roof Charles Hirschkind Doing the Lebanese a Favor Tom Barry Right-wingers Ramp Up War on Migrants Cockburn & St. Clair The Sweetness of Lieberman's Defeat   August 8, 2006 Patrick Cockburn Requiem for Baghdad Paul Larudee The Lebanese Nakba and Israeli Ambitions Joan Roelofs The Malleable US Constitution: a Deterrent to Democracy? Dimi Reider An Interview with IDF Refusenik Sgt. Zohar Milchgrub John A. Murphy The Democrats: a Party on the Run ... from Its Own Members! Eliot Katz The View from the Big Woods: In Which a NYC Antiwar Poet Takes a Summer Vacation in Canada's Boreal Forest Tim Llewellyn Into the Valley of Death Website of the Day Galloway Speaks!   August 7, 2006 Uri Avnery The Junkies of War Karim Makdisi The Draft UN Resolutions: the View from Beirut Nadia Hijab What Israel and the US Wanted May Not Be At All What They Get Sharon Smith Birth Pangs and Dead Babies Magan Wiles Encounter at an Israeli Checkpoint George Beres A New Kind of Bigotry: Lebanon War Exposes Strange Religious Bedfellows Rachard Itani Nice Try, Mr. Bolton Norman Solomon Some Nukes Are A-Okay with the US Media Stan Cox Presidential Doping Scandal Erupts! Mickey Z. 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No Sir!": the Story of the GI Anti-War Movement Fred Gardner Dr. Denney Sues the DEA Catherine Norris Seeking Justice Abroad: Spanish Courts Issue Arrest Warrants for the Butchers of Guatemala Imraan Siddiqi The Smokescreens of War: Moral Superiority, 9/11 and Islamic-Fascism Missy Comley Beattie One Year After the Death of Chase Comley Ira Kay Where is Geography? 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Weekend Edition September 30 / October 1, 2006 Extract from a Diary in Turkish Police Custody My Escape Attempt in Prison Transfer By MICHAEL DICKINSON Friday 15th Sept. 2006 8.30 Surprise, surprise! I was in the toilet when I heard my cellmates calling me. Out I came, and they said "You're being released!" I didn't believe it, but there were some screws on the other side of the door, who told me through the hatch to get my stuff together and get ready to leave. What a change in feeling; whereas before I had been lying on my bunk in a depressed state, wondering about my predicament, thinking about making a complaint about not being able to make a phone call myself, and about the situation of my residence permit running out before my two months or so in detention is over, and what to do about the rent on my flat, when suddenly it was all over already... I got dressed quickly. The guys were all congratulations and I kissed them each goodbye, taking messages from some to call a friend, post a letter, and the address of the cell so I could send them some books, went to the door, but the screws had gone so I had to sit and wait. Told the guys about the 2012 World Strike for a moneyless world, which they liked; got given the nickname 'Diyarbakirli Michael' because of my shalvar baggy trousers; and gave my top bunk bed to Yavus instead of the floor. Sitting having a tea, my meager possessions packed in a torn plastic bag given by Yavus, watching tv and chatting, the time seemed to be dragging, and I worried that it had just been a joke. Hussein hammered on the door and eventually a screw came and said they were coming, and eventually they did and I said goodbye again to my old/new friends as the door was shut on them and I was marched away down the corridor. Hussein said some friends must have put pressure on for my release, and I think it is probably so. I handed over my prison identity card at one desk in the corridor; signed at another office to get my money 310,000 000 TL , and got quizzed in another about my father and mother's name to make sure they had the right person, and was then marched along with another guy who is being released, to the visitor's chamber (the side from where Charles Brown from the consul spoke to me the other day.) The guard locked us in and said someone would be coming to take us in about an hour's time (!) Still haven't got my residence permit or my phone, bag and other things, but of course (?) I will retrieve them before we leave this dreadful place. Don't expect I am totally Scot-free will probably still have to face trial at a future date, but oh to be home again on my own tonight! Saturday 16th September 2006 (2pm) Oh yeah? As if! In fact it was out of the frying pan and into the fire. None of my things were returned; phone, credit card, and all the stuff that had been in my bag nothing except the money they'd already given me (even the keys of my flat!) Thye said the office was closed at five, but I could retrieve my stuff on Monday morning. "That might be a problem," said one of the 3 young casually dressed policemen I was being handed over to. They led me out to a dirty beat-up old minivan and put me in the back. When I asked if they were taking me home they told me to shut up, so I did, and the slow old van bypassed Kadikoy and went over the bridge to the European side. I heard them mention Bayrampasha several times the name of the prison on that side, which Sinan had said was worse than Umraniye. It was about 12 pm by this time and my heart had sunk to lower depths. Eventually we were at the gates of the prison and 2 guys got out and went inside leaving me and the driver, who turned the jalopy round in the drive to face the road; an area of seedy flats and shops (closed) and a 2 star hotel on the corner. As we waited I weighed up my position: they had my residence permit, I had nothing but the 340 million, no house keys; but I felt it important for somebody to know that I'd been moved (why?) Would I just meekly put me away here, when actually, I might have the means of escape at this moment. If I did, and managed to get away, I could at least get a taxi back to Kadikoy and get to a friend and tell him what had happened. I shifted myself near to the back door and reached what I thought was the handle, but turned out to be the little switch that was the door lock. I flicked it backwards and forwards a couple of times, but the driver didn't look round, sitting smoking a cigarette. In the dark I looked more carefully and saw the handle half-way down. Yes or no? I thought. I decided yes, reached out, slid the door open and slipped out. I took off at full pelt down the drive, round the corner and down the street. The driver was quickly out and after me, yelling for me to stop. "Goodbye!" I managed, as I ran with all my might down the dark street, then across and down a hill, the cop pounding and shouting "Dur!"behind me. And then there was a terrific explosion as he fired his gun at me. "Like wow!"I thought, and a terrified cat streaked across my path. I turned another corner into a side street, but the cop was almost on me and I turned and stopped. We were both out of breath, and he was livid, screaming at me, and I screaming at him that I wanted my rights. Who was he, and why had they brought me here? He took my arm and marched me up the hill and back to the van, both of us panting, he cursing me with every name under the sun. A creepy old man accompanied us praising the cop and hung around the van after I had been roughly pushed inside to the back seat by the cop who then realized that he had a nasty cut/graze near his elbow where he'd fallen in the chase, and he showed it to me, furious, saying he was going to kill me. I said it looked nasty and he should put something on it. His fury grew and grew and he forced me to put my hands behind my back and handcuffed them tightly, then, as I was defenseless, began to hit me on the head. I put my face down on the seat, worried that he might break my glasses, and he hit me on the back and spine, saying that he was going to fuck me and torture me. "Ah yes, this is Turkey!" I said; but of course that wasn't very wise. "Look at me!"he said. "I will burn out your eyes with my cigarette!" And then hitting my head again, we repeated the process of me ducking down on the seat and getting pummeled again. The old man came back with some gauze and plaster, and cop dressed his wounded arm. I told him he should have it cleaned first, but I shouldn't have bothered. The other 2 cops came back out of the prison with a group of Iranian men prisoners, all handcuffed at the front, who joined me in the back, and off we went, the driver telling them about the chase, and how the firing of his gun had damaged it, and for the rest of the journey screaming back epithets at me, promising my imminent death. Eventually we stopped outside a building which I now know to be the 'Yabancilar Sube', where foreigners who have been arrested in Istanbul are held, (mostly for having out of-date visas,) in a large room, totally packed with all nationalities and colors, waiting to be deported to their own countries, sometimes having to wait for very long periods. Me and the Iranians had to sit in the hall outside the closed metal door. There was a film on the tv about vampires (nasty ones) being staked and beheaded by stars such as Juliette Lewis. The cop driver was now in his element, surrounded by sadistic warders, and leered and loomed above me, threatening me and kicking me. "God is watching,"I told him, and he dragged me out onto the stairs and cuffed me around the head and pulled my beard, saying he could easily smash my face against the wall, me with my hands still linked behind my back. Returned to the hall, I stared too long at the little Hitler behind the desk (who was staring disdainfully at me) and he exploded. "What are you looking at? Do you want more!" An excuse for the wounded one to start kneeing me again. The poor Iranians didn't know where to look. Eventually they were escorted into the room where the foreigners are held, which even at this time of night was noisy with a babble of different languages (it holds 400 men!), but I (being English and older?), was taken instead to a windowless office off the hall, where I was told to sleep on a row of 3 chairs. It was very uncomfortable and narrow, and with the light on all night I hardly slept a wink. But I noticed that the 3 other rows of seats were used by the duty guards for a snooze. Judging by their snores they had little difficulty in dropping off. I felt like getting up and prodding them awake like one of my cellmates did to me and others snorers during the night in Umraniye prison. But, of course, I didn't. Michael Dickinson is an English teacher who lives and works in Istanbul. He can be reached through his webpage at the Saatchi gallery.

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