ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 64   COMPILED BY BULATLAT.COM

Africa Watch

The current crisis in Liberia is just the tip of the iceberg: the recolonization of vast areas of Africa reminiscent of the scramble by imperialist countries of the continent at the turn of the 20^th century. The current silent war in Africa is being played by the world’s sole superpower, however, and the war for oil profit is just part of it.

Armed Liberian rebels (left) on a rampage inside capital Monrovia as U.S. 'peacekeepers' disembark from a helicopter.

• 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

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From our Previous Alternative Readers (Numbers 1-63)

• 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 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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