Old War Stories - 2002
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"'Terror Cordon' Plan For UK Cities" from the BBC News.
"Coffee, Tea, Or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts..." by Nicholas Monahan.
"Power And Vulnerability" by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
"My Brother's Fight For Democracy" by Marwan Bishara.
"Knesset Moves To Bar Arab Members" by Chris McGreal.
"Operation Provoke War" by Maria Tomchick.
"Multilateralist Cowards" by Sheldon Richman.
"German TV Airs Documentary Charging American War Crimes In Afghanistan" by Stefan Steinberg.
"Ethnic Cleansing: Past, Present And Future" by Ran HaCohen.
"Antiwar: Some Thoughts..." by Brendan O'Neill.
"America Tore Out 8000 Pages Of Iraq Dossier" by James Cusick and Felicity Arbuthnot.
"United States: Reports Of Torture Of Al-Qaeda Suspects." Human Rights Watch warns President George Bush that "acts of torture may be taking place with U.S. participation or complicity."
"U.S. Decries Abuse But Defends Interrogations" from the Washington Post. "While the U.S. government publicly denounces the use of torture, each of the current national security officials interviewed for this article defended the use of violence against captives as just and necessary."
"Today's Army" by Steve Rubenstein. "The game does not include any dismemberment or disfigurement."
"Killing A Child Any Place, Any Time, Is A Terrorist Act" by James Glaser.
"Vatican: Inspection In Iraq Should Cover Israel" from Arabicnews.com.
"Vatican Terms War Against Iraq As Aggression" from Dawn.com.
"The Murder Of My Terrorist Cousins" by Ramzy Baroud.
"Failure Of The 82nd Airborne" by Dan Plesch.
"The Secret War On Iraq" by John Pilger.
"The War Against Reason" by Harold Pinter.
"Cool War: Economic Sanctions As A Weapon Of Mass Destruction" by Joy Gordon.
"U.S. Blocks Inspections" by Charley Reese.
"US Pilots In Friendly Fire Were On Drugs, Says Lawyer" by Claire Smith.
"Iraq Indicates Names Of Arms Suppliers In Document" by Evelyn Leopold.
In his latest, John Pilger argues that American leaders wanted a "new Pearl Harbor" and viewed September 11 as an "opportunity."
"Zionism Doesn't Define Jews - It Divides Us" by Gabor Mate.
"The Israelization Of America" by James Brooks.
"U.S. Enlists Algeria In Terror Battle" by Barry James.
"Israel's Demographic Obsession" by Will Youmans.
"Anti-war Protesters Are Flowing In From The Mainstream" by Marjie Lundstrom.
"Congressman, Families Demand WTC Collapse Data" by Timothy Williams.
"I Want My Country Back" by Harry Browne.
"Bodies? What Bodies?" by Patrick J. Sloyan.
"This War Brought To You By Rendon Group" by Ian Urbina.
"Unilateral Power -- By Any Other Name" by Norman Solomon.
"Israel's Killing Of British Citizen Iain Hook" from Electronic Intifada.
More on Kissinger: "Guerrillas Of The Week" from Guerrilla News Network.
"Pursue The Truth About Sept. 11" by Antonia Zerbisias.
"Weapons Of Mass Distraction" by Geov Parrish.
"Misinterpreting Osama's Message: Erring On The Side Of Danger" by Diane Perlman.
"Full Text: Bin Laden's 'Letter To America'" from The Observer.
"How The War Party Put Iraq On The Side Of The Angels" by Chad Nagle.
"The Latest Kissinger Outrage" by Christopher Hitchens.
"Kissinger's Back...As 9/11 Truth-Seeker" by David Corn.
"On The Meaning Of Evil" by Kurt Leege.
"War, Whatever" by Paul Gilfeather.
"What Does Bush Fear?" from Phoenix.com.
"Muslims File Disciplinary Complaint Against Alan Dershowitz" from MLDEF.
"Tricked And Bamboozled Into War" by Simon Tisdall.
"Mounting Signs Of Early US Invasion Of Iraq" by Chris Marsden.
"Afghan Police Shoot Student Protesters" by Peter Symonds.
"City Of Maan Under Third Day Of Curfew" from Palestine Chronicle.
"Army Helicopters Bombard Jordanian Town" from PINA.
"MI6 'Halted Bid To Arrest Bin Laden'" by Martin Bright.
"The Enemy Within" by Gore Vidal.
"Citizenship In Emergency" by Elaine Scarry.
"The Anti-war '60s All Over Again?" by Alexander Cockburn.
"Resolution 1441" by Justin Podur.
"Pawn Takes Knight" by Sheldon Richman.
"Report From Basra: Iraq's Oil Belt Prepares For War" by Jeremy Scahill.
"Goodbye And Good Riddance: The End Of The Two-state Solution" by Will Youmans.
"The Bomb Is Back" by Jonathan Schell.
"The Odd Coupling" by Stuart Reid.
"Botox, The Naked Empire, And War On Iraq" by Frank Bardacke.
"No Child Unrecruited" by David Goodman.
"'Fix' Backfires As Army Halts Pakistan Assembly" by Ahmed Rashid.
"US Weapons Secrets Exposed" by Julian Borger.
"Secrets And Lies" by Ruth Rosen on Daniel Ellsberg's new book. "...secrecy is the greatest threat to democracy."
"In Democracy's Wake - The Anti-War Protest In Washington DC" by William Rivers Pitt.
"What About The Children?" by Charley Reese.
"Why I Oppose The US War On Terror: An Ex-Marine Sergeant Speaks Out" by Chris White.
Side by side: Geov Parrish and Justin Raimondo in Mother Jones.
"Pictures From The Joint Israeli Palestinian Demonstration In Abu Dis" from Indymedia News.
"Israel May 'Transfer' Palestinians During The War On Iraq" by Will Youmans.
"To War With Speed Of Demons And Lie Of 'Liberation' On The Lips" by Pierre Tristam.
"Last Days Of The Republic" from the Berkshire Eagle.
"The FBI's Radical Fundamentalist Unit In Washington D.C." by Steve Moore.
"House Panel Rushes To Join The (War) Party" by Chad Nagle.
"One Year After The Terror Attacks: Still No Official Investigation Into September 11" by Patrick Martin.
"New Blood" by Geov Parrish.
"The Voice Of America" by Simon Tisdall.
"Dessert Storm - Iran, Iraq, Whatever" by Richard Cummings.
"Inspection As Invasion" by George Monbiot.
1.5 Million Italians march against war -- a UPI report.
"March For Democracy" by John Pilger.
"This War Is Wrong And We Won't Stand For It" by Simon O'Hagan.
"Congress Overwhelmed With Anti-war Calls" from Democracy Now!
"Al Gore, Warmonger Lite" by Justin Raimondo.
"Prosecute Sharon For War Crimes, Israeli Women Say" by Robert Fisk.
"Bush's War Plans Are A Coverup, Byrd Says" by Paul J. Nyden.
"America's War On Terror -- And History" by Richard Reeves.
"A New, Post-9/11, Middle East" by David Hirst.
"America, Meet Your Leaders" by Harry Browne.
"Law In Disorder" by David Chandler.
An interview with Scott Ritter by Jon Wiener.
"The Bush Administration Wants War" by David North.
"Cronies In Arms" by Paul Krugman.
"American Historians Speak Out" at TomPaine.com.
"Spy Scandal Has Reduced America's Control Of Mission" by James Bone.
"Scott Ritter" by Bill Berkowitz.
"Westward The Course Of Empire" by Philip S. Golub.
"In Pursuit Of The Unknowable" by Brendan O'Neill.
"Relatives Protest At War Plans" by Duncan Campbell.
"America's War Against Its Better Self" by Zeynep Toufe.
"This War Is A Failure" by John Pilger.
"What War Looks Like" by Howard Zinn.
"Afghanistan Back To Dog Bush" by Jim Lobe.
John Pilger detects the "beginnings of a new rejection."
"Inside Iraq" by John Pilger.
"Who Gave Mankind The Gift Of WMD?" by Patrick J. Buchanan.
"Global Interventionism: The Price We Pay" by Justin Raimondo.
"Briefing Depicted Saudis As Enemies" by Thomas E. Ricks.
"Launch Iraq Attack? No Way!" from Capital Times.
"The Saddam In Rummy's Closet" by Jeremy Scahill.
"Iraq: Why The West Keeps Going Back" by Brendan O'Neill.
"Friendly Fire Deaths Linked To US Pilots On 'Speed'" by Andrew Buncombe.
"US Army Stunned By Spate Of Murders At Special Forces' Base" by Andrew Buncombe.
"War And Forgetfulness" by Norman Solomon.
"FBI's Sept. 11 Leak Probe Irks Senators" by John Bresnahan.
"Israel's War For Terrorism" by Ran HaCohen.
"Well, They Look Like Al-Qaeda" by Jason Burke.
"The Deep Roots Of Israeli Mendacity" by Stephen Gowans.
"New Base Ready In Kuwait" from World Tribune.com.
"Constructive Dissent (Slouching Towards Apocalypse)" by Heather Wokusch.
"US Ships Al Qaeda Suspects To Arab States" by Faye Bowers and Philip Smucker.
"How Oppression Abroad Means Repression At Home" by Bill Christison.
"Afghan Leader Risks Revolt As US Troops Replace Local Guards" by David Rennie.
"Slow Death On The Jail Convoys Of Misery" by Jim Rissman.
"Crashing The Wedding Party" by Marc Herold.
"Afghan Villagers Ask: Why Us?" by Carlotta Gall.
'Terror' School Protesters Sentenced. By Bill Wallace and Jim Houston.
"The Eagle Has Crash Landed" by Immanuel Wallerstein.
"Rise Of A New Imperialism" from John Pilger's new book.
"Britain Denounces 'Blundering' US Hunt For Al-Qaeda" by Christina Lamb.
"The War On Freedom: How And Why America Was Attacked, September 11, 2001." A new book by Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed.
"US Dirty Bombs: Radioactive Shells Spiked with Plutonium" by John LaForge.
"Media Sizzle For An Army Of Fun" by Norman Solomon.
"Deep Ideological Crisis" by Irit Katriel.
"US Warplanes Massacre Villagers In Central Afghanistan" by Peter Symonds.
"Why Is The US Government Protecting Anthrax Terrorist?" from the World Socialist Website.
"Anthrax? The FBI Yawns" by Nicholas D. Kristof.
"The First Fireball" by John Berger.
"Terrorism As Foreign Policy" by Stephen Gowans.
"Conservatives For Kidnapping" by Lew Rockwell.
"2 FBI Whistle-blowers Allege Lax Security, Possible Espionage" by James V. Grimaldi.
US Military May Have Trained WTC Terrorists. By Jerry Isaacs.
"Anti-U.S. Militants Showing Up All Over" by Eric Margolis.
"Hatfill Teaching Bioterrorism Course" by Dave Altimari and Jack Dolan.
"The Anthrax Case: What The FBI Knows" by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg.
"Analysis: Bush Speech Seen Spurring M. East Radicals" by Alistair Lyon.
"Feds Oppose Suits Vs. Airlines" by John Lehmann.
"A Break-in For Peace" by Howard Zinn.
"Why Is The US Media Blacking Out Documentary On War Crimes In Afghanistan?" by Kate Randall.
"How Jews Can Support Israel. Support The People Not The Government." By Ran HaCohen.
"Law And Orders: The Assault On Trial By Jury" by Ron Sullivan.
"'US Had Role In Taleban Prisoner Deaths'" by Andrew McLeod.
"Press Release" from Physicians for Human Rights. PHR calls for investigation into alleged killing of Taleban prisoners.
"Veterans Wage Peace In Iraq" by Scott Laderman and Barry Riesch.
Fox News: Key Senate Democrats back Bush on Iraq.
"Kashmir - Whose 'War On Terrorism'?" by Mick Hume.
"The Left Is Anti-war - But Pro-imperialist" by Brendan O'Neill.
"Anthrax: What Was Known And When?" Judicial Watch sues to find out why the White House went on Cipro on September 11.
"Howard Zinn's 'Terrorism And War'" by Tanweer Akram. The reviewer calls for broad-based opposition to the war on terrorism based on "new alliances surmounting the traditional divisions between left and right."
"You're All Cops Now" by Micheal Colby.
"The Screaming Pundits Assault Corps" by George Sunderland.
"The Sandals Of Destruction" by Julian Manyon.
"Delhi Prepares For Nuclear War" from Financial Times.
"Absent Dangers: Forgotten 'Threats'" by Christopher Montgomery.
"Cheney Vow That US Will Take Battle To Saddam" by Toby Harnden.
"Presidio Officer Relieved Of His Duties" by Kevin Howe. Air Force combat veteran blasts Bush for having advance knowledge and failing to warn Americans.
"Building A Better Bomb" by Michael Scherer.
"Meanwhile, Back In Afghanistan" by Fran Shor.
"New Evidence That US Government Suppressed September 11 Warnings" by Patrick Martin.
"Don't Let Them Fool You, Folks: They Knew." by Harley Sorensen.
"Crisis For American Jews" by Edward Said.
"How Britain's Armaments Fuel War And Poverty" by John Pilger.
"Why South Asia Won't Be Calmed" by Brendan O'Neill.
"Knowledge (and Power)" by Christopher Hitchens.
"A Firestorm Is Coming" by Robert Fisk.
"Why Shouldn’t Third World States Have Nuclear Bombs?" by Brendan O'Neill.
"Why Future Terror Attacks Are Inevitable" by Stephen Gowans.
"Dick Cheney's Obscenity" by Brian Foley.
"Liar, Liar" by Paul Street.
"Follow The Money: Bush, 9/11 And Deep Threat" by Fran Shor.
"John O'Neill: The FBI's sharp-dressed, sharp-tongued expert on Al Qa'ida, who died in Twin Towers" by Rupert Cornwell.
"No Warnings" by John Sugg.
"Bush: The Ignored Warning That Will Come To Haunt Him" by Gordon Thomas.
"Palestinian Enslavement Entering A New Phase" by Ran HaCohen.
"Why Terrorist Attacks Are Not Inevitable" by Scott Peterson.
"The Limits Of Intelligence Oversight" from the Federation of American Scientists.
"Just Three Minutes From Nuclear Strike, India And Pakistan Hold Councils Of War" by Peter Popham.
"War In Afghanistan: A $28 Billion Racket" by Stephen Gowans.
"Riddle Of The Spores" by George Monbiot.
"Ashcroft Flying High" from CBS News. This story from last July reveals that the FBI advised Attorney General John Ashcroft not to fly commercial airlines for the remainder of his term.
"I Want To Say Something" by Jeff Kingham.
"Palestine, Israel And Corruption" by Sherri Muzher.
"The Axis Of Nonsense" by Andrew Murray.
"How A Dirty Commie Turned Me Into A Right-Wing Peacenik" by Wally Conger.
"Wolfowitz And The Consolidated World State" by Russ Stein.
"Bush Told In August Of Specific Threat To US" by Andrew Buncombe.
"Knowing Much, Bush Did Little To Protect America" by James Ridgeway.
"World Bank Chief In Talks Over Massive Central Asian Pipeline" from AFP.
"US Media Cowed By Patriotic Fever" by Matthew Engel. Dan Rather admits media failure in "war on terrorism" coverage.
"U.S. Warned In 1995 Of Plot To Hijack Planes, Attack Buildings." This story from CNN, written one week after the September 11 attacks, attracted little attention at the time.
"Palestine's Petain?" by Charles Glass.
"U.S. Hit Squads Signal New Twist To Afghan War" by Eric Margolis.
"Thousands Who Backed Wrong Side Held In Afghan 'Auschwitz'" by Mark Baker.
"US Mideast Power Plays" by Robert Jensen and Rahul Mahajan.
"Unheeded Warnings: FBI Agent's Notes Pointed To Possible World Trade Center Attack" from Newsweek.
"Book: U.S. Military Drafted Plans To Terrorize U.S. Cities To Provoke War With Cuba" from ABC News.
"Invasion Of Iraq: It's Sooner Than You Think" by Fran Schor.
"The Future Of War" by Harvard Professor Stephen Peter Rosen. A frank discussion of military strategy for maintaining the new American Imperial Order.
"Whisper Of Betrayal As Arafat Is Shunned" by Alan Philps in Ramallah.
"No Hero's Welcome" by Phil Reeves in Ramallah.
"Killing And Taking Possession" by Ran HaCohen.
"There Is No News Today" by Ali Abunimah.
"Rep. Dick Armey Calls For Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestinians" from CounterPunch.
"Refuseniks Provide A Glimmer Of Hope" by Faisal Kutty.
"I Met Her In Venezuela" by Richard Cummings.
"Caracas Red-handed" by Geov Parrish.
"Who's Anti-Semitic?" by Richard Cohen.
"We Have No Orders To Save You." Human Rights Watch on Indian state complicity in Gujarat anti-Muslim violence.
"Opposition Cries Foul Over Musharraf's 98% Victory" by Zahid Hussain.
"Hiding History: National Academy Of Sciences Suppresses Documents On Chem/Bio Weapons" by Edward Hammond.
"Sharon's Plan Is To Drive Palestinians Across The Jordan River" from telegraph.co.uk.
"A Letter To A Young Muslim" by Tariq Ali.
"The Torturer's Apprentice." William F. Schultz on Alan Dershowitz's latest book.
"Once Upon A Time In Jenin" by Justin Huggler and Phil Reeves.
"Home Brew? Biowarfare, Terror Weapons And The US" by Francis A. Boyle.
"Oracle At Jenin" by Jennifer Loewenstein.
"Something Stinks" by Uri Avnery.
"Word Games And Body Bags" by Irit Katriel.
"Are We On The Road To War?" by Conn Hallinan.
"Building The Terror Infrastructure" by Gideon Levy.
"Red Cross Stepping In To Feed Taliban Prisoners" by Susan B. Glasser.
"Behind The Carnage In Palestine" by Norman G. Finkelstein.
"With The Wounded And The Homeless In Nablus" by Kristen Schurr.
"Fear And Learning In America" by Robert Fisk.
"Amid The Ruins Of Jenin, The Grisly Evidence Of A War Crime" by Phil Reeves.
"From The Interior Of The Prison" by Jennifer Loewenstein.
"The Struggle For Freedom In Palestine" by M. Junaid Alam.
"Eyewitness To Invasion" by Matthew Rothschild.
"Our Friends In Jenin" by Seumas Milne.
"Collateral Damage: Two Venues, One Logic" by Robert Higgs.
"US-Sponsored State Terror" by Fran Shor.
"Terrorism v. Taylorism" by Nick Ring.
"In The Eye Of The Storm" by Jennifer Loewenstein.
"Hollywood Hurrah" by John Pilger.
"Israel and Hamas" by Rezeq Faraj.
"Not In Our Name" by John Pilger.
"Anthrax Whodunit May Have Political Subplot" by Tom Siegfried.
"FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS CHARGE MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES IMPEDE ANTHRAX INVESTIGATION" from ABC News.
"When Nation-building Destroys" by Brendan O'Neill.
"Israeli Democracy's Decline" by Baruch Kimmerling.
"The US Twists Arms In The Middle East" by Dan Plesch.
"It Takes An Empire" by Emily Eakin.
"The Auschwitz Logic" by Ran HaCohen.
"Permanent Installation In Central Asia" by J. Eric Duskin.
"New US Paper Aims At Afghan War Truth" by Duncan Campbell.
"Rage Doesn't Obey Orders" by Khaled Amayreh.
"Against Negotiations" by Ran HaCohen.
Film Review: "Yugoslavia, The Avoidable War" by Stephen Holden.
"Attorney Says Lawsuit the 'Only Way' to Expose Airlines" from WBUR. Lawyer for victims' families charges airlines sought Congressional protection on the day of the terrorist attacks.
"The Taliban Fish Have Swum Away" by Isabel Hilton.
"From U.S., The ABC's of Jihad" from the Washington Post.
"Operation Enduring War" by Howard Zinn.
"Letter From Israel - Postmodernism Alive And Killing" by Ran HaCohen.
"Should We Go To War Against These Children?" by John Pilger.
"The New Tartuffe" by Amir Ahmadi.
"Why The 'War On Terror' Won't Work" by Bill Christison.
"What Should We Be Fighting For?" by Mahmood Delkhasteh and Simone Wright.
"Physicians For Human Rights Reveals Appalling Conditions At Shebarghan Prison In Afghanistan" - Press Release.