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topic by Sandra 11/28/2001 (15:46)

reply top Hello folks, I’ve been away for several days and have taken awhile to catch up. Here’s my latest compilation of articles to check out with their urls. As ever, if you have trouble accessing any of these, e-mail me privately and I’ll send it to you. I've provided brief intros or summaries to each article. -------------------------------------------------- http://www.counterpunch.org/estabrook11.html November 17, 2001 American Crusades By C. G. Estabrook A generation ago the US launched wars against poor countries in Southeast Asia and killed millions; Americans were told that it was a necessary step in the crusade against communism. Now in the midst of a war against a poor county in Southwest Asia, we are told that it is a necessary step in what the president called a 'crusade against terrorism.' ------------------- http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1117-03.htm Published on Saturday, November 17, 2001 in the Independent/UK Forget the Clichés, There is No Easy Way for the West to Sort This Out by Robert Fisk Afghanistan – as the armies of the West are about to realize– is not a country. You can't 'occupy' or even 'control' Afghanistan because it is neither a state nor a nation. ------------------- http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1117-05.htm Published on Saturday, November 17, 2001 The Greatest Danger Comes from Within by Jeff Milchen My home of Boulder, Colorado made national headlines recently over conflicting interpretations of a powerful icon, the U.S. flag. It seems that the meaning of a symbol—even one over 200 years old—can be changed in a matter of weeks by the way it’s employed. ------------- http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11931 In Elkader, Iowa Jeff Biggers, Pacific News Service November 19, 2001 Viewed on November 20, 2001 ELKADER, IOWA -- Nestled among the blue herons in the Turkey River Valley in northeastern Iowa, this hamlet couldn't be farther from the deserts of Islamic Algeria. Snow flurries darken the last days of autumn; the maple trees have lost their leaves. American flags adorn a vibrant main street. But with 1,500 souls, Elkader's tidy burg of Victorian houses and brick churches holds the distinction of being the only town in the United States named after an Islamic revolutionary. And it takes seriously its role as a model town for world diplomacy. ------------------ http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h-col.html Say No to a Palestinian 'State' by Ran HaCohen, Antiwar.com, Nov. 13, 2001 Imagine the following scenario: after ages of discrimination, the United States decides to compensate African-Americans generously and to solve their problems once and for all. All African-Americans are locked up in prison, and the prisons are declared to be an independent African-American state. Sound crazy? That is just what the US and Israel are now planning – for the Palestinians. --------------- http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1117-08.htm Published on Friday, November 16, 2001 in the Las Vegas Review-Journal Terrorism a Matter of Perspective by Barbara Robinson What a wonderful country we have in America. We have achieved greatness and amassed tremendous power. America is the heart of democracy and I am proud to be an American. Prior to Sept. 11, life in America was idyllic and we took for granted that it would always be that way. One of the best things about the America of my youth is that the nation educated its populace. It expected its citizens to challenge the country to greatness, as it did during the civil rights era, which made America better. While many think it strange that terrorism has reached America's shores, this is not the first time terrorism has struck this nation; it's merely the first time everybody has suffered from it. ----------- http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11936 Terrorizing the Bill of Rights Nat Hentoff, Village Voice November 19, 2001 Viewed on November 20, 2001 Congress has overwhelmingly passed, and the president has enthusiastically signed, an anti-terrorism bill that, as the ACLU says, gives 'enormous, unwarranted power to the executive branch unchecked by meaningful judicial review.' ------------- http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1117-07.htm Published on Saturday, November 17, 2001 Terrorizing the Constitution by John Buell I am not surprised that John Ashcroft would seize any real or imagined pretext to inflict draconian damage on civil liberties. Much more astounding has been the almost complete capitulation by Democrats in Congress to his radical agenda. If grass roots activists can’t summon the courage to resist, all Americans may pay a high price for the loss of these liberties. -------------- http://mirror.icnetwork.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=11427607&method=full The Mirror (London) 16 November 2001, pp. 6,7 WAR ON TERROR: FALSE VICTORY By John Pilger THERE is no victory in Afghanistan's tribal war, only the exchange of one group of killers for another. The difference is that President Bush calls the latest occupiers of Kabul 'our friends'. ---------- http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1117-04.htm Commondreams.org Published on Saturday, November 17, 2001 “The O’Sama Factor”: Bin Laden Mimics Fox's Bill O’Reilly by Dennis Hans The few Americans still not persuaded that Osama bin Laden is certifiably mad should read the interview he gave November 7 to Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir. Believe it or not, bin Laden actually claimed that U.S. citizens are responsible for the foreign policy of their government! ----------- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4301095,00.html The perils of saying 'I told you so' Neither jingoists nor pessimists got their predictions right Mark Lawson Saturday November 17, 2001 The Guardian Four of the least justifiable words in the language are: 'I told you so.' ------------ http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/11/silverstein-k-11-12.html The Road to Baghdad Ken Silverstein In 1998, a group of 40 conservatives wrote an open letter to President Clinton calling for the United States to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Today many of the signers of that letter hold important government posts, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his chief deputy Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard Perle, chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. ----------- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4300122,00.html They think it's all over But a host of Afghan challenges remain Leader (Editorial) Friday November 16, 2001 The Guardian Intelligence failures in the Afghan war are not confined to the CIA and MI6. There have been times since September 11 when some British politicians and press commentators have appeared to be in danger of losing their collective wits. ----------- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4301679,00.html This raging colossus The new US ruthlessness may turn out to be a greater threat than the Islamist fanaticism that provoked it Madeleine Bunting Monday November 19, 2001 The Guardian ----------- http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1117-09.htm Published on Friday, November 16, 2001 by the Cox News Service To Shave is Afghan Idea of Civil Liberty; What is Yours? by John Young In came the Northern Alliance. Out came the scissors. A primitive last-stand defense? No. Scissors came out in barber shops: symbols of the unshackling from the Taliban. ------------ http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=105811 Troop deployment causes rift with US War on Terrorism: Troops By Kim Sengupta and Andrew Grice 20 November 2001 Plans to station thousands of Western troops in Afghanistan have created a dangerous rift between American and British officials and are threatening to cause a confrontation with the Northern Alliance. ----------- http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011203&s=glenn FEATURE STORY | December 3, 2001 The War on Campus by DAVID GLENN 'They're using state resources to the practical effect of aiding and abetting the Taliban'--and they should be fired. ---------- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4300180,00.html We created this political vacuum The promise not to abandon the Afghans is unlikely to mean much Michael Clarke Friday November 16, 2001 The Guardian After all the Taliban fervour about fighting to the death, they have mainly just run. They were not even thinking straight. ----------- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4301648,00.html Why we must show the dead Photographs of war's victims always lead to readers' complaints. Eamonn McCabe explains how the decision to publish is made Eamon McCabe Monday November 19, 2001 The Guardian Every time there is a tragedy or a war, an outcry follows about why newspapers choose to publish photographs of dead bodies. In my time as picture editor, I had furious letters about Armenia, Africa, Lockerbie, Kosovo and the Gulf war. The arguments made the same three points. Would you publish that picture if he or she were white? How could you do that to the dead person's family? How would you like it if that were your son or daughter? --------- http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/11/20/partisan/index.html Salon.com 'Wrapping themselves in the flag with their hands in the cookie jar' By Anthony York November 20, 2001 Emboldened Democrats and progressives are still wary of attacking Bush, but they accuse his party of trying to use wartime popularity to ram through regressive measures.