ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 24

Costs of War

Compiled by BULATLAT.COM  

• 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

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From our Previous Alternative Readers (Numbers 1-22)

• 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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