#4793 Invasion as Marketing Problem: The Iraq War and Contempt for Democracy
by Noam Chomsky in CounterPunch, 14 November 2003
Establishment critics of the war on Iraq restricted their comments regarding the attack to the administration arguments they took to be seriously intended: disarmament, deterrence, and links to terrorism.
They scarcely made reference to liberation ...
#4796 Voiding the Palestinians: An Allegory
by M. Shahid Alam in CounterPunch, 14 November 2003
Those who are familiar with the tragedy of Palestinian dispossession will have read--as I have--in the events of August 12 and 13, 1949, at the Nirim military outpost in the Negev, an allegory of that dispossession. In two days, this nameless girl, a ...
#4797 Visions of Concrete: Of Walls and Land Theft
by Juliana Fredman in CounterPunch, 14 November 2003
They offered the family a blank check to leave their home to the bulldozers. Muneera and Hani refused and now all they can see is concrete. They tell us the story in a lovely living room, insisting on serving us sweet tea despite their own Ramadan fa ...