All Posts

post a reply | post a new topic

Author

Topic: New recommended articles

topic by Sandra 11/29/2001 (16:16)

reply top http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11938 Beyond Osama: The Pentagon’s Battle With Powell Heats Up Jason Vest, Village Voice November 20, 2001 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The simmering conflict within the Bush administration over how to prosecute the next phase of the 'war on terrorism' suddenly flared up last week as the Taliban fled Kabul. 'Where to go next and how big it should be is what's being argued right now—and Baghdad is what's being debated at the moment,' said a senior Pentagon official. 'This is both an internal discussion at the Pentagon, and one between departments. Our policy guys are thinking Iraq. Our question is, do we make a move earlier than anyone expects?' --------------- http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11883 Message From the UK Laura Flanders, WorkingForChange.com November 7, 2001 George W. Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act into law at the end of October. The acronym stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. -------------- http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11590 Muslims Ask: Why Do They Hate Us? Chris Toensing, AlterNet September 25, 2001 In December 1998, I met a waiter in the quiet Egyptian port of Suez. As I sipped tea in his cafe, he pulled up a chair to chat, as Egyptians often do to welcome strangers. Not long into our amiable repartee, he looked me in the eye. 'Now I want to ask you a blunt question,' he said. 'Why do you Americans hate us?' I raised my eyebrows, so he explained what he meant and, in doing so, provided some insights into why others hate us. ----------- http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11950 Internet Samizdat Releases Suppressed Voices, History Jeff Cohen, AlterNet November 20, 2001 Days after their son Greg died in the World Trade Center terror, Phyllis and Orlando Rodriguez wrote a letter to the New York Times that counseled against 'violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands dying, suffering and nursing further grievances against us. It is not the way to go. It will not avenge our son's death. Not in our son's name. Our son died a victim of an inhuman ideology. Let us not as a nation add to the inhumanity of our times.' ----------- http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11959 CORN: Bush's Hollow Victory David Corn, AlterNet November 26, 2001 That wasn't so hard. The Taliban appears routed. And, as I write, experts are declaring Osama bin Laden will be located -- and, as seems to be the reasonable preference of the Bush Administration, killed rather than apprehended -- within days, if not hours. ----------- http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11955 Stop the Presses Alan Pittman, Eugene Weekly November 21, 2001 In 'America's New War' the first U.S. casualty may be the First Amendment. The military, Bush administration propaganda and the media itself have squelched news in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Asked at a press conference whether he would lie to the media about the war, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld quoted Winston Churchill about disinformation around the D-Day invasion. 'Sometimes the truth is so precious it must be accompanied by a bodyguard of lies.' Rumsfeld is about the only source the U.S. media has for covering the Afghan war. The military has refused to allow journalists to accompany troops and pilots fighting in Afghanistan or even interview them after their missions. ----------- http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=106319 Patrick Cockburn: The Northern Alliance has won, so don't expect it to give up power 'It is the guns which will count. They are the symbol of the new Afghanistan just as they were of the old' 23 November 2001 Few political movements have come so far so fast. A month ago, the Northern Alliance was clinging on by its fingertips in a few strongholds amid the crags of the Hindu Kush mountains. Today, it is master of Kabul, seems about to take Kunduz and is preparing to attend talks with other Afghan leaders in Bonn on Monday. The aim is to set up an interim government for Afghanistan, uniting all factions and ethnic groups. --------------- http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=107115 Lawrence Freedman: America may find itself stuck with a long-term role in Afghanistan 'We'll now see if the famed network of caves making up bin Laden's redoubt is indeed formidable' 28 November 2001 The arrival of US marines at Kandahar airport signals that the war has moved to a new stage. First, it indicates that the defeat of the Taliban is considered to be so close there is no risk of American forces getting caught up in a prolonged and bloody battle to gain control of Afghanistan. Second, it suggests the Americans do not think that Osama bin Laden has escaped and that by moving quickly and decisively they can catch him. ------------ http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1125-05.htm Published on Sunday, November 25, 2001 in the Observer of London Aftershocks That Will Eventually Shake Us All by Fred Halliday A new international order may not have emerged from the cauldron of 11 September, but it is not too early to discern the outlines of the emerging world. September did not change everything: the map of the world, the global pattern of economic and military power, the relative distribution of democratic, semi-authoritarian and tyrannical states remains much the same. Many of the problems which are least susceptible to traditional forms of state control (the environment, migration, the drugs trade, Aids) long predated 11 September. --------------- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=107369 How our Afghan allies applied the Geneva Convention Prisoners massacred, the dead plundered for boots, guns and even gold teeth Justin Huggler in Mazar-i-Sharif 29 November 2001 The bodies of the dead lay everywhere. Some were laid out in roads to be taken away, others were still lying on the ground where they died, slowly beginning to decay in the morning sun. An Afghan soldier leant over a body, his hands working intently in the dead man's mouth, clutching a long thin instrument. He was trying to wrench the fillings out of the corpse's teeth even as the flesh began to rot around them. --------------------- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=107549 Humanitarian air drops criticised after US aid kills woman in her home By Stephen Castle in Brussels 30 November 2001 The European Commission criticised America yesterday for distributing aid by air drops after an Afghan civilian was killed by a bundle of humanitarian supplies which crushed her home. The incident, near Mazar-i-Sharif, has strengthened criticism of a policy which Europeans have long regarded as ineffective. ----------------- http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=107010 Legacy of civilian casualties in ruins of shattered town By Justin Huggler in Khanabad 27 November 2001 We were picking our way through the bombed-out ruins of Khanabad when we heard the explosion. When we got there, struggling through the collapsed remains of houses, an old man sat in his blood blinking and shaking his head in bewilderment. Beside him, a 15-year-old boy lay bleeding and unconscious. They had trodden on one of the American cluster bombs that litter the fields and roadside around Khanabad. ------------------ http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/common/FullStory.html&cf=tgam/common/FullStory.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20011126&dateOffset=&hub=headdex&title=Headlines&cache_key=headdexThearts¤t Toronto Globe & Mail You can root for the home team without CNN By DAVID MACFARLANE Monday, November 26, 2001 I have not read the fine print of the new antiterrorist bill, and so I'm not sure whether it's actually legal for me to say this or not. And you should be careful. If the Liberals are as good at protecting our civil liberties as they have been at protecting our environment, you could be looking at five to 10 for reading what I am about to say. You can turn the page now if you want and I won't think any the less of you. These are perilous times, and we must all face them as we each see fit. But, if you're still with me, here goes . . . . I'm getting really, really tired of CNN. Maybe in this, the new world order, it's seditious of me to say so. Maybe it's treason. Maybe I'm going to be stopped at the border and asked questions about socialist health-care systems, the medicinal use of marijuana, Farley Mowat, and the suspiciously low-key approach that our public-supported broadcaster took to acknowledging American Thanksgiving last week. And then, once the Canadian officials are through grilling me, I'll still have to deal with the Americans. ------------------- The endless news cycle of fear CNN, MSNBC and Fox News drop other stories to dwell on terrorism Tim Goodman, Chronicle Television Critic Sunday, November 25, 2001 ©2001 San Francisco Chronicle A strange thing happened on Nov. 12. And no, it wasn't the crash of Flight 587. Anthrax disappeared from television. Gone. Like it was invisible. URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/11/25/PK231180.DTL /cgi-bin/object.cgi?object=/chronicle/pictures/2001/11/25/dd_condit.jpg&paper=chronicle&file=PK231180.DTL&directory=/c/a/2001/11/25&type=printable/cgi-bin/object.cgi?object=/chronicle/pictures/2001/11/25/dd_condit.jpg&paper=chronicle&file=PK231180.DTL&directory=/c/a/2001/11/25&type=printabl e