ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 83   COMPILED BY BULATLAT.COM      

U.S. soldier in Afghanistan before the occupation (left). Afghan children face Canadian soldier (right).

• For all The Grand Rhetoric,
  We Have Failed to See Through our Mission in Afghanistan  By Independent UK

• Regarding the Torture of Others  By Susan Sontag

• The Other Prisoners  By Luke Harding

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From our Previous Alternative Readers (Numbers 1-82)

• Torture, Incorporated: Let the Wall of Silence Fall  By Virginia Tilley

• Pentagon Ban on Pictures of Dead Troops Is Broken  By Bill Carter

• Photo of GIs' Caskets Costs Worker Her Job  By Jessica Kowal

• Why the Media Owe You an Apology on Iraq  By Rick Mercier

• Bush Puts a 'Cancer on the Presidency'  By Robert Scheer

• Daniel Ellsberg Sees a New Trend -- Telling All While the Issue is Hot  By Matthew B. Stannard

• The "War Against Terror" Has Failed  By Gilles Kepel

• Bush Tries to Rally Faltering Coalition   By Paul Koring

• Iraq Charges Against Bush Acquiring Critical Mass   By Alan Elsner

• Bush's Brand New Enemy is the Truth   By Sydney Blumenthal

• Cheney, Energy and Iraq Invasion  By Larry Everest

• Bush Questions

• Tragedy in Haiti By Noam Chomsky

• Message from Ramsey Clark

• Rice Imperialism: The Agribusiness Threat to Third World Rice Production   By Matthew Clement

• America's Empire of Bases   By Chalmers Johnson

• After Neoliberalism: Empire, Social Democracy, or Socialism?  By Minqi Li

• Analysis of U.S. War Policy After September 11^th By Ray O. Light

• Hawks Tell Bush How to Win War on Terror  By David Rennie

• The Terror Threat at Home, Often Overlooked   By Kris Axtman

• Bible Belt Missionaries Set Out On a 'War for Souls' in Iraq  By David Rennie

• The Martial Plan  By James Ridgeway

• Iraq Through the American Looking Glass By Robert Fisk

• Toll on U.S. Troops in Iraq Grows as Wounded Rolls Approach 10,000 By Roger Roy

• US Reorganising Military Might for Service Anywhere in World  By the Press Trust of India 

• The Silence Of Writers By John Pilger

• Who are Iraq's Guerrillas?   By Stratfor

• The U.S. Military: Bringing Hope "To Every Corner of the World" By Ben Moxham

• Imperialism - Intensification of the Struggle for a New Re-division of the World  By Harpal Brar

• The Other Casualties   By Jonathan Darman

• Car Bomb Kills 4 in Fallujah   By Slobodan Lekic

• US Soldiers to America: Bring Us Home Now Interviews by Jay Shaft

• The Axis of Oil: How a Plan for the World's Biggest
  Pipeline Threatens to Wreak Havoc   By Philip Thornton and Charles Arthur

• Dominance and its Dilemmas   By Noam Chomsky

• Oil, War And A Growing Sense Of Panic In The US: Don't tell me that America would have invaded Iraq if its chief export was beetroot   By Robert Fisk

• Inside The Resistance By Zaki Chehab

• Theatre Of War   By Rory McCarthy

• Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President: Sorry you didn't go when you had the chance By Max Cleland

• The Unbuilding of Iraq By John Barry and Evan Thomas

• Demonstrators Gather in Cities Around the World to Demand Pullout from Iraq   By Jack Garland

• Answers please, Mr Bush By Michael Moore

• AWOL State of Mind: Calls from soldiers desperate to leave Iraq flood hotline By Leonard Greene

• 9-11- New Books, Videos, the Growing Movement for Truth and Accountability  By Carol Brouillet

• A Deadly Franchise: The Global War on Terror is a Smokescreen Used by Governments to Wipe Out Opponents  By Naomi Klein

• America Two Years after 9/11: 25 Things We Now Know By Bernard Weiner

• Concerning the Joint 9/11 Inquiry   By Kristen Breitweiser

• Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush By Gail Sheehy

• Political Complicity and the 9/11 Joint Inquiry   By Michel Chossudovsky

• September 11^th And The Bush Administration: Compelling Evidence for Complicity   By Walter E. Davis

• Doha Declaration Nearly Decided: The Fate Of Medicine Access In Poor Countries   By Sanjay Basu

• WTO's Attack on Public Education   By Yves Engler

• Stigmatizing Dissent   By Samir Hussain

• Enslaved By Free Trade  By George Monbiot

• It's Official - Saddam Was Not an Imminent Threat   By Clare Short

• Postwar Deaths of U.S. Troops in Iraq Exceeds Combat Toll   By Terence Neilen

• Rising Toll Shows U.S. Challenges: 139 Deaths Since May 1 Reflect Shift in Fighting   By Bradley Graham

• The Danger of American Fascism   By Henry A. Wallace

• 50 years later, Iranians remember US-UK coup By Dan De Luce

• Going It Alone - America's wooden stance: King is only player on board By Clyde Prestowitz

• U.S. to Send Signal to North Koreans in Naval Exercise By Steven R. Weisman

• Saudis in Iraq 'Preparing For a Holy War'   By Mark Huband

• Democracy in the NPA And Lack of It in AFP  By Prof. Jose Maria Sison

• Cancer in the Military Establishment   By Capt. Danilo P. Vizmanos, PN (ret.)

• Reforming the Military   By Luis Teodoro

• Reforming the Armed Forces  By Capt. Rene N. Jarque PA (ret.)*  

• Protest Action by Hundreds of Soldiers Exposes Rottenness of US-Arroyo Regime  By Prof. Jose Maria Sison

• Towards Cancun WTO Ministerial: Abandoning Agriculture  By Devinder Sharma

• Investment Agreement in the WTO: Opening Pandora's Box? by Kavaljit Singh

• Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit  By John E. Peck

• Africa and the War on Terror  By Mukoma Ngugi

• Liberia: Ripe for Colonizing ?  By James Ridgeway

• What’s Behind Liberia’s Crisis: How Washington Set the Stage for War    By Lee Sustar

• When Uncle Sam Comes Calling in Africa   By Suraya Dadoo

• Bush, the Rainforest and a Gas Pipeline to Enrich his Friends; Plan would enrich Bush corporate campaign contributors   By Andrew Gumbel

• US Warned it Faces 'Third Gulf War' in Iraq   By Charles Clover

• Notes on the Antiwar Movement   By Barbara Epstein

• The New Geopolitics   By Michael Klare

• Mr. Bush, You Are A Liar  By William Rivers Pitt

• If One War 'Fact' On Iraq Is False, What Of Others? By Jay Bookman

• US positions its forces for first strike against North Korea 

• Occupation, Resistance and the Plight of the GIs: Bring 'Em Home!   By Gary Leupp

• A Third World Country Can Still Defeat a US Military Aggression, Argues German Sociologist

• US fails post-war Iraq examination  By Jim Lobe

• Descending into the quagmire By Daniel Smith

• Special Forces 'Prepare for Iran Attack'   By Robert Fox

• Guerrilla War in Iraq   by Dr. George Friedman

• From Liberation to Counter-Insurgency    By Jim Lobe

• Court Ponders if U.S. Firm Liable for Abuse Abroad   By Reuters

• Bush Lied and Soldiers Died  By Wayne Francis

• Save Our Spooks  By Nicholas D. Kristof

• Straw, Powell Had Serious Doubts Over Their Iraqi Weapons Claims : Secret transcript revealed  By Dan Plesch and Richard Norton-Taylor

• Unease Grows in Washington Over Fruitless Weapons Search    By Jim Lobe

• WMD Just a Convenient Excuse for War, Admits Wolfowitz    By David Usborne

• Next Stop Tehran?   By Simon Tisdall

• Pentagon Eyes Massive Covert Attack on Iran   By The ABC News

• White House Keeps Pressure on Iran   By The Associated Press and Reuters

• America's Forgotten Empire: What 50 Years of Imperialism in the Philippines Can Teach Us about Iraq  By Mark Lewis 

• Clash of the Political Titans  The Independent

• Bush Ally Set to Profit From the War on Terror   By Antony Barnett and Solomon Hughes

• Now in Open, 'Empire' Talk Unsettling   By Jay Bookman 

• Proud to be American? Not While it Chooses Bombs Over Bread By Frida Berrigan

• New Furor Over Halliburton   By Larry Margasak

• Intelligence Officers Challenge Bush By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

• Bush to Propose U.S.-Middle East Free Trade Accord, Aide Says  By Heidi Przybyla 

• Real American Agenda Now Becoming Clear   by Haroon Siddiqui

• Media Monopolies Have Muzzled Dissent  By Ian Masters 

• The Evil Genius of Empire: Will Iraq Arise Again?    By James Petras

• American To Oversee Iraqi Oil Industry By David Teather

• Commentary : The Dangers of Disinformation in the War on Terrorism  By Maud S. Beelman

• Special Report - Advisors of Influence: Nine Members of the Defense Policy Board Have Ties to Defense Contractors   By André Verlöy and Daniel Politi 

• How American power girds the globe with a ring of steel: New bases take Pentagon's armed presence far and wide  By Ian Traynor

• The Silence about September 11 By William Rivers Pitt

• Meet an American war criminal  By Wayne Madsen

• Diary from Baghdad: Belgian Doctor Treats Injured British Cameraman

• Iraqis Fought Bravely, but Without Direction   By John Chalmers

• Hans Blix: War Planned 'Long in Advance'   News24.com

• Baghdad's Easy Fall Fuels Arab Conspiracy Theories  By Paul Taylor

• The invasion and occupation of Iraq will be catastrophic  

• Genocidal War: Lessons for the Future  By James Petras

• Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates  By Arundhati Roy

• Total War: Resistance, Humanitarian Aid and the Media  By James Petras

• 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

•  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 Joshu