ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 49

Understanding the U.S. War State COMPILED BY BULATLAT.COM

• Understanding the U.S. War State  By John McMurtry

• A Coalition of Weakness   By Erik Leaver and Sara Johnson

• Raw, Devastating Realities That Expose the Truth About Basra  By Robert Fisk

• Beyond the Drumbeat: Iraq, Preventive War, ‘Old Europe’ By Arno J. Mayer

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From our Previous Alternative Readers (Numbers 1-48)

• An Annotated Critique of President George W. Bush's March 17 Address Preparing the Nation for War  By Stephen Zunes

• The twenty lies of George W. Bush   By Patrick Martin

• Genocide and Everyday Life in the USA   By James Petras 

• A Militarily Limited Coalition   By Col. Dan Smith (Ret.)

• Top US firms vie for post-war Iraq contracts; Billions in profits seen from seizing oil fields  By Bill Vann

• Archaeologists warn of Iraq war’s devastating consequences By Sandy English

• The Aftermath – Has Already Begun By John Cory

• The deep politics of regime removal in Iraq: Overt conquest, covert operations  By Larry Chin

• Bush lays out his "vision" for the Middle East; US imperialism's rendezvous with disaster   By Bill Vann

• Betting on War with a Pair of Kings By William Rivers Pitt

• Gaining an Empire, Losing Democracy? By Norman Mailer

• US Arms Control Hypocrisy is the Real Threat to Security  By Ira Chernus

• Euro Intel Experts Dismiss 'War On Terrorism' As Deception  By Christopher Bollyn

• The Hypocrisy of the Humanitarian Case for War By Amin Saikal

• US firms given contracts to 'rebuild' Iraq By The Hindu

• A War Crime or an Act of War?    By Stephen C. Pelletiere

• The War and Premeditated Genocide : What is at Stake?  By James Petras 

• "Blood on His Hands"  By John Pilger

• Report from Iraq: Bombing the Starving, Sick & Homeless By Charlie Clements, M.D.

• Inside Bush's Brain: A Pathology of Fear and Lies By Wayne Saunders

• Mandela Blasts Bush on Iraq, Warns of 'Holocaust'  By Toby Reynolds

• SOUTH AFRICA: Mandela Rebukes Bush Over Crisis With Iraq   By Rachel L. Swarns

• Mandela: US out to get Iraq's oil resources  By Agence France-Presse

• America's dangerous new style of war  By Dinah Po Kempner

• The Wartime Deceptions: Saddam Is Hitler And It's Not About Oil  By Robert Fisk

• A presidency at the brink  By Robert Kuttner

• Comment: No beginning or end to war  By Günter Grass

• 'Sorry State of the Union': Hundreds Rally in Cold To Oppose Possible War   
  by Manny Fernandez

• Nobel Laureates Sign Against a War Without International Support    By William Broad

• February 12: A Day of Poetry Against the War    An Open Letter from Sam Hamill

• Editorial: A Stirring in the Nation   By New York Times

• A world against the war  By Andy McSmith

• Global protest delivers a resounding 'No'   By Jo Dillon, James Morrison and Andrew Buncombe

• Anti-war demonstrators rally around the world: Organizers put turnout in Washington at 200,000   By CNN

• WORLD VIEWS: 'European street' says 'no' to U.S. war on Iraq;
  Canadians call U.S. international 'bully'    By Edward M. Gomez

• Veterans Speak Out on Bush's Iraq-Attack   Signed By Veterans

• Raise Voice Against US Imperialist War: Stand in Solidarity with the People of Iraq   By the Forum Against Imperialist Globalisation (FAIG)

• Sept. 11 Families Call for Alternatives to Iraq War  By Andrew Hammond

• "No to War!" Is Anyone Listening? By Alexander Cockburn

• Applause for Pope's anti-war sermon   By Richard Owen

• American's Human Shield Plan For Iraq: Ex-Marine's Peace Protest    By Sky News (Britain)

• Pope: War in Iraq Should Be Last Resort By Nicole Winfield

• Pope Voices Opposition, His Strongest, to Iraq War   By Frank Bruni

• Pope condemns any war on Iraq By CNN

• The changing face of peace: New antiwar movement attracts unlikely allies By Jennifer Carnig

• Pope "Deeply Worried" Over Iraq By The Associated Press

• Pope Urges End to 'Menacing Tensions' in 2003 By Shasta Darlington

• The Christmas Bombings By James Carroll

• 2003: A Year of Imperial Wars, Economic Crises and Popular Uprisings By James Petras

• Bishops defy Blair with tough anti-war message  By Sophie Goodchild

• Pope makes plea for peace By BBC News

• Pope Laments Wars in End-of-Year Message By Associated Press

• Little Christmas cheer in Bethlehem By BBC News

• Blair Slammed Over Iraq War By His Own Priest  By Tom Newton Dunn

• Lawyers Statement on UN Resolution 1441 on Iraq

• Legal Challenge against War Filed in British Court  By Sanjay Suri

• Friends and allies: Why the US cannot bully all By the Leader, The Guardian

• World Survey Says Negative Views of U.S. Are Rising By Adam Clymer

• Commentary: Anti-war protesters are flowing in from the mainstream  By Marjie Lundstorm

• Antiwar Effort Gains Momentum: Growing Peace Movement's Ranks Include Some Unlikely Allies  By Evelyn Nieves

• Speaking against war: A group of celebrities will issue a statement today protesting an attack against Iraq By Hilary E. MacGregor

• U.S. anti-war protests spread: Marchers hit streets of Houston, other cities; over 140 arrested  By Cynthia Lee

• Labor Should Oppose War With Iraq  By Paul Felton

• ACTION ALERT: Common Myths in Iraq Coverage By Fair.org

• A Modest Proposal By Noam Chomsky

• The Face of Empire By William K. Tabb

• Collateral Victory By Christian Caryl

• The Bloodstained Path By Dennis Kucinich

• Bush's Desire To Be the New Churchill is a Threat to Us All  By Paul Kennedy

• Iraq: The Economic Consequences of War  By William D. Nordhaus

• A New Age of Empire in the Middle East, Courtesy of the US and UK  By Sasha Lilley

• INDONESIA: State terrorism and the Bali bombings  By John Pilger

• US Military in Puerto Rico, An Occupying Army   By Elizabeth Roebling

• "It's The Oil, Stupid!"  By Joseph Clifford

• War Plan in Iraq Sees Large Force and Quick Strikes By David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker

• UN resolution: Dangerous ambiguity By Ian Urbina

• U.N.'s Iraq Vote Sets Stage for More Friction By Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay

• A glimmer of European defiance: France and Russia have ensured Bush has no UN mandate for war By Jonathan Steele

• Iraqi Oil, American Bonanza? In a Post-War Iraq, U.S. Companies Could be Major Players By John W. Schoen

• Iraqi Cancers, Birth Defects Blamed on U.S. Depleted Uranium By Larry Johnson

• Saddam's Merry Dance Cannot Hide the Sad Inevitability of Events By Robert Fisk

• From War on Terror to Plain War: United States: Energy and Strategy By Michael 

• George Bush Crosses Rubicon - But What Lies Beyond?   By Robert Fisk

• UN Security Council Split on Meaning of Iraq Vote  By Thalif Deen

• A Doomsday Scenario By Joseph Stiglitz

• Wars and Economic Depressions  By Jayati Ghosh

• U.S. Pilots in Gulf Use Southern Iraq for Practice Runs  By Michael R. Gordon

• US Weapons Secrets Exposed  By Julian Borger

• Americans rally against war in Iraq; Protestors march in front of the White House  By Kevin Anderson

• Fear of U.S. Power Shapes Iraq Debate : As U.N. Considers War Resolution, a Distrust of American Policy Emerges  By Glenn Kessler and Walter Pincus  

• Why I Oppose the US War on Terror: an ex-Marine Sergeant Speaks Out  By Chris White

• America is Lost in a Hobbesian Swirl of Self-Interest: Brainwashing in the United States   By Ann Pettifer

• A Patriotic Left By Michael Kazin

• Somebody Blew Up America By Amiri Baraka

• America's For-Profit Secret Army By Leslie Wayne

• A Plan for Iraq : U.S. Has a Plan to Occupy Iraq, Officials Report By David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt

• The Spoils of War By Helen Caldicott

• The Anvil of War and the Ailing American Economy    By Ahmad Faruqui

• The Bush Plan For Empire: The president's real goal in Iraq  By Jay Bookman

• International Law and the Thesis of "Anticipatory Self-Defense"  By Peter Mark

• U.S. Bolstering Forces in Gulf: Pentagon Says It Is Not Preparing a Surprise Attack on Iraq  By a Washington Post Staff Writer

• Bush War Plan: "Blind and Improvident"  By Senator Robert Byrda

• West Point Honors Grad Says: Bush is a Threat to World Peace  By David Wiggins

• Seven Reasons to Oppose a U.S. Invasion of Iraq  By Stephen Zunes

• Letter from Ramsey Clark to UN Security Council 

• An Open Letter To America From Chilean Ariel Dorfman 

• The US Wants to Close the Dragnet around Sison. The Netherlands has closed his bank account and taken away his housing. What’s next: extradition?  By  Bert De Belder

• NDFP condemns US "terrorist" tag On the CPP, NPA and Jose Ma. Sison 
  Statement of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Executive Committee

• An Open Letter from Peace Advocates in Japan
  By the Japan Network for a Peaceful, Sovereign and Free Philippines (JNPSFP)

• Hands Off the Communist Party of the Philippines! 
  By The Leading Committee of the Revolutionary Marxist Organization A/synechia

• Japanese Peaceniks Defend Jose Maria Sison, Calls for Peace Talks in the Philippines
  And Junks Bush’s War of Terror 
  By the Japan Network for a Peaceful, Sovereign and Free Philippines (JNPSFP)

• Filipino and Canadian Human Rights Organizations Demand Justice at Dutch Consulate  
  By the B.C. Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (BCCHRP)

• Joema is no terrorist: HK groups throw support to Sison 
  By the United Filipinos in Hong Kong (UNIFIL-HK) and Asian Students Association (ASA)

• European Parliament Members Support Call To Defend Rights of Professor Sison   
  By the Committee to Defend Filipino Progressives Abroad (DEFEND)

• Dutch Clergymen Express Support for Prof. Sison   
  By the Committee to Defend Filipino Progressives Abroad (DEFEND)

• Unity Statement: Resume Formal Peace Talks Now!
  Signed by more than 200 signatories

• No to All-Out War, Yes to Peace Negotiations 
  A Petition signed by more than 500 signatories

• Bush Asks Congress For Unlimited Power to Make War  By The Associated Press

• Bush Unveils Global Doctrine of First Strikes  By David E. Sanger

• Drain the swamp and there will be no more mosquitoes by attacking Iraq, the US will invite a new wave of terrorist attacks  By Noam Chomsky

• The Colder War  By John Pilger

• What War Looks Like By Howard Zinn

• Changes Wrought By 9/11: Not What You Expected  By Don Hazen and Tai Moses and Lakshmi Chaudhry

• The Truth About Sept. 11 By Ted Rall 

• One Year Later: Unintended Consequences of 9/11 and the War on Terrorism  By John Tirman

• The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder  By Gilbert Achcar

• Slouching Towards 9/11 By Frank Rich

• The Cost of Bush's War By Seumas Milne 

• With Talk of Conflict with Iraq, Americans Remember the Human Cost of Vietnam  By Duncan Campbell

• November Surprise?, Vacationing Bush Plots End of Iraq By James Ridgeway and Mondo Washington

• U.S. Must Face the Truth : Know Who is The Terrorist -- 25 Classic Quotes on Western Hegemony By Truthteller

• The U.S. and the Kurds of Iraq: A Bitter History  By Maggy Zanger

• The Logic of Empire By George Monbiot

• What, If Anything, Does Iraq Have to Hide? By Scott Ritter

• An Assessment of the Balikatan Exercises By Danilo P. Vizmanos

• A Pattern Of Deception & Disinformation By Danilo P. Vizmanos

• Bush and the Billionaire: How Insider Capitalism Benefited W. By David Corn

• Bush and Harken By Jason Leopold

• The 'Gate-less Community By Joshua Green

• Titans of the Enron Economy By Scott Klinger & Holly Sklar

• A Boost That Goes Nowhere By Joseph Stiglitz

• Corporate Socialism By Ralph Nader

• If This is a Hangover, the Exuberance was Rational By James K. Galbraith

• Cry, the Derided Country: A Friendliness Index for a Lonely America By Diane Baldwin

• The Eagle has Crash Landed, Pax Americana is Over By Immanuel Wallerstein

• What the U.S. Flag Means to Me By S. Brian Willson

• Political Deception: The Missing Link Behind 9-11 By Michel Chossudovsky

• In Search of Moral Clarity By Wiliam Rivers Pitt

• Bush's `Titanic War on Terror' By Robert Fisk 

• Gangsters, Murderers And Stooges Used To Endorse Bush's Vision of `Democracy' By Robert Fisk

• Deconstructing the War on Terror: Race, Gender and History By Benjamin Evans

• Some Say U.S. Rigged Afghan Elections By Associated Press | New York Times

• Why Dick Cheney's Secrecy Scheme For Pre-9/11 Information Makes No Sense By John W. Dean

• Clues Before Sept. 11 Were Plentiful By The Associated Press | New York Times

• Unheeded Warnings By Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK

• Bush Knew Of Hijack Threat By CBS News.com

• NATO Sets Move: Expansion to the East By The International Herald Tribune/Associated Press

• Watch Out, Central Asia! By Jared Israel

• U.S. Congress Urged to Oversee Foreign Military Training By Jim Lobe

• U.S. Armed Forces Push for Offensive Biological Weapons Development By Austin and Hamburg

• Cheney's Former Company Wins Afghanistan War Contracts By Pratap Chatterjee

• Why We Have Become Suicide Bombers By Dr. Erad Sarraj

• U.S. -Israel-Palestine By Noam Chomsky

• The Real Aim By Uri Avnery

• Camp Bondsteel and America's Plan to Control Caspian Oil By Paul Stuart

• U.S. Troops Land in Georgia By Associated Press

• American Navy `Helped Venezuelan Coup' By Duncan Campbell

• AFL-CIO and Venezuela: Return of Labor Imperialism, or a Mistaken Reaction By Kim Scripes

• Press Freedom Took a Hit in `War on Terrorism,' Watchdog Says By Reporters without Borders

• Justice for Benjaline `Beng' Hernandez By Reporters without Borders

• Another Bush Coup? America's Dirty Hands in Venezuela By William Rivers Pitt

• How the Associated Press (AP) Gutted Its Venezuelan Coup D’Etat Scoop By Jared Israel

• Venezuela Coup Linked to Bush Team by Ed Vulliamy

• Israel's Aggression: Made in the USA by Chris Kromm

• Israel and the US: A Unique Relationship by James F Petras

• Israel's State Terrorism by Lev Grinberg

• Not in our name by John Pilger

• The Big Lie: Palestine, Palestinians and International Law by Francis Boyle

• Statement of Artists for Palestine 

• Imperialist Globalization and Terrorism by Prof. Jose Maria Sison

• The Philippines: `Second Front' in the U.S.'s Global War by Prof. Gary Leupp

• Balikatan 02-1: An Exercise in Power Politics by Capt. Dan Vizmanos, PN (Ret.)

• Rejoinder to Pro-Balikatan Arguments by Capt. Dan Vizmanos, PN (Ret.)

• Special Operations Military Training Abroad and Its Dangers by John Rudy and Ivan Eland

• Overextended Military: Is This the Bush Administration or Clinton Administration II? by Ivan Eland

• New U.S. Military Bases: Side Effects or Causes of War? by Zoltan Grossman 

• A Brief History of US Interventions: 1945 to the Present by William Blum

• History of U.S. Violence Across the Globe: Washington's War Crimes by Anthony Arnove and Alan Maass

• Sovereignty, too  by Sunstar

• A Different Perspective by Robert Macklin

• Final Terms of Reference for the Balikatan 02-1

• Full Text of the Proposed Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (MLSA)

• US Military Intervention Prejudices GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations by Jose Maria Sison

• What US Military Advisers Do by Roland G. Simbulan

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