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Today's
Stories
February 5 - 7, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
The Free Market Fetish
February 4, 2010
Barbara Rhine
Keep What You Have, But Leave the Rest
Barry Lando
Master of Treachery: Kissinger on Iraq
David Macaray
Black Lung Rising
Shamus Cooke
China's Wage Rates for U.S. Workers
P. Sainath
India's Farm Suicides: a 12-Year Saga
Christopher Brauchli
Sammy the Mouth Alito: Chucking Precedent at the Surpeme Court
Ramzy Baroud
Will Israel Target Gaza or Lebanon First?
Suzan Mazur
The Peer Review Prison
Harry Clark
The Invention of the Jewish People
Andy Worthington
Swiss Take Two Gitmo Uighurs
Website of the Day
Selective Compassion
February 3, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
The Crisis is Not Over
Kathleen Christison
Zionism Laid Bare
Franklin Spinney
The Pentagon Goes Intellectually AWOL
Dean Baker
No Way Out: Roadblocks on the Way to Recovery
Marc Levy
No Medal Jacket
Kathy Kelly
Banning the Homeless in Colorado Springs
Gareth Porter
Talking with the Taliban: US and Karzai Clash
Joshua Frank
Blackwash: How the Coal Ash Industry Manipulated EPA Reports
Rannie Amiri
Saada War Rages On
Gregory Vickrey
Short-Changing the Health Care Debate ... For Now
Website of the Day
Mt. Reagan?
February 2, 2010
Michael Hudson
The Bernanke Disaster
Boadiba
Boadiba's
Earthquake Diary
Chris Floyd
War, Budgets and Blind Ambition
Paul A. Passavant
The Symbolic Politics of the GOP:
State of the Union or Civil War?
Mike Whitney
Bair's Damning Testimony
John Ross
Who's Who in Mexico's Narco Wars?
Jonathan Cook
Israel is Criminalizing Dissent
Susan Galleymore
Wasting Good Waste
Dave Lindorff
Talk Now With the Taliban
Tolu Olorunda
Words as Weapons
Ron Jacobs
I See Hawks and Earthworms
Website of the Day
Cop Watch: Guerrilla Video Primer
February 1, 2010
Michael Hudson
Obama's Junk Economics
Stan Goff
The Murderous Mystique of JSOC: How Secret Becomes Special
Patrick Cockburn
The Case Against Tony Blair
Saul Landau
Universal Disorientation: the Modern Media and Haiti
Dr. Carol Paris, MD
Staying When They Tell You to Leave: What I've Learned Doing Civil Disobedience for Single Payer
Marshall Auerback
A Proposal for Genuine Financial Reform
Harvey Wasserman
Will Obama Guarantee a New Nuclear Reactor War?
Johanna Berrigan
Destruction, Hope and Faith in Port au Prince
Peter Gelderloos
More Wood for the Fire
David Michael Green
An Ugly Week for the Human Race (and Other Living Things)
Martha Rosenberg
If You Liked Bovine Growth Hormone, You'll Love Beta Agonists
Kevin Zeese
Health Care: a Better Idea
Alan Farago
Where Nature Saves the World ... From Us
Website of the Day
Demolishing Flint
January 29 - 31, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
The Oldest Game in Washington
Daniel Ellsberg
A Memory of Howard Zinn
Bill Quigley
Hell and Hope in Haiti
Franklin Spinney
Turning Sun Tzu on His Head: the Eikenberry Cables and the Escalation in Afghanistan
Jeffrey St. Clair
Showdown in the Malheur Marshes
Steve Early
The Night They Drove Old Labor Down
Joe Bageant
The Annotated Obama
P. Sainath
Memories of Maharaj
Jordan Flaherty
The New Politics of Post-Katrina New Orleans
Joshua Frank
Why the Stimulus Falls Short: an Interview with Doug Henwood
Winslow T. Wheeler
The New Pentagon Budget: Spending Even More, Buying Even Less
Brian M. Downing
Negotiating an Afghan Agreement?
Wajahat Ali
Dissent as Democracy: an Interview with Howard Zinn
William Loren Katz
Changing History: Howard Zinn, John Hope Franklin and Ivan Van Sertima
Dave Lindorff
SOTU Whoppers: Obama's Fog Machine
Jim Goodman
The Political Capital is Gone, Now What About Political Will?
Judith Scherr
Sending in the Marines: a Q & A with the State Dept. on Haiti
Kerry Kennedy / Monika Kalra Varma
Human Rights and Haiti
Anthony Papa
The Ordeal of Cameron Douglas: Punished for Being an Addict
David Macaray
A Man for All Seasons
Roger Burbach
Indigenous Challenges to Ecuador's Neo-Liberal Model
Belén Fernández
Police Perform Halftime Show at Zelaya Airport Farewell
Nikolas Kozloff
Chávez and Earthquakes
Dr. Susan Block
Defending the G-Spot: Yes, Virginia, It Does Exist
Windy Cooler
Salinger and Zinn:
Dead Together, But Read Together?
Charles R. Larson
The Last Cargo Cult: Econ. 101 with Mike Daisey
Mikita Brottman
Theaters of Death: Losing it at the Movies
David Yearsley
Fancy Footwork
Lorenzo Wolff
The
Stoic Soul of Bill Withers
David Rovics
He Fades Away: the Life and Music of Alistair Hulett
Poets' Basement
Cirino, Holt and Farrelly
Website of the Weekend
Arrest Blair
January 28, 2010
Bill Quigley
Haitians are Helping Haitians
Peter Hallward
The Fourth Invasion:
Securing Disaster in Haiti
Tanya Golash-Boza
Struggling for Dignity and Survival in Haiti
Shamus Cooke
Taxing the Rich Wins in Oregon
Dave Lindorff
In Liberty County Jail
Ray McGovern
Obama Put Politics First on Afghanistan
Uri Weiss
Distorting the Basic Law:
Apartheid at the Israeli High Court
Thomas M. Power
Logging for Electricity?
Cecil Brown
The Greensboro Sit-In and Obama
Wajahat Ali
Muslims Helping Haiti
Harvey Wasserman
The Late, Great Howard Zinn
Website of the Day
Hayduke, Take a Walk on the Wild Side
January 27, 2010
Daniel Kovalik
Obama's War for Oil in Colombia
Paul Craig Roberts
Rule by the Rich
Dean Baker
We Won't Get Tarped Again!
Uri Avnery
The Two-Headed Monster
Sasha Kramer
Fear Slows Aid Efforts in Haiti
Vijay Prashad
Plan of Death in Haiti
Nikolas Kozloff
Hugo and the Shockwave: the U.S., Latin America and Haiti
Mark Weisbrot
Haiti: Where Security Kills
Jonathan Cook
Holocaust Day Invited Raises Storm in Israel
Bob Fitrakis /
Harvey Wasserman
Et Tu, ACLU?
Binoy Kampmark
Gordon Ramsay in India
Website of the Day
White House Die In
January 26, 2010
Michael Hudson
Myths of Recovery
Joan Roelofs
It's the Whole System
Patrick Cockburn
The Hanging of the Henchman
Mike Roselle
Photographing Mountain Top Removal: an Interview with Antrim Caskey
Brian M. Downing
Return of the Trust Busters
David Macaray
Big Brother is Alive and Well ... and He's Signing Your Paycheck!
Bouthaina Shaaban
Haiti -- Gaza: Varieties of Compassion
Kevin Zeese
Remodeling the Antiwar Movement
Richard Morse
The Press Only Likes Fresh Blood and the Blood in Haiti is Drying
Fidel Castro
We Send Doctors, Not Soldiers
Farzana Versey
Making Haiti: Survival, Charity Tourism and the Marketplace
Jonathan Cook
Israel's "Army-Owned" University
Website of the Day
Bagram: an Annotated Prisoners List
January 25, 2010
Michael Hudson
Will Obama Put Muscle Into the White House's New Populist Play?
Anthony DiMaggio
Supremely Swindled
JoAnn Wypijewski
Judges' Shock Ruling Okays Fantasist's "Repressed Memories" Fraud
Nadia Hijab
Aiding Yemen
Robert Jensen
Great Television, Bad Journalism: Media Failures on Haiti
John Maxwell
Boojum Hunting in the Caribbean
Richard Morse
Tweets From Port au Prince:
We are Far From Normal
Marilyn Langlois
Standing Shoulder-to-Shoulder in Haiti
Dan Bacher
Has Obama Sold Out to Big Ag?
James L. Secor
The Mental Paralysis of the Left
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Putting the "Pro" Back Into Progressive
Website of the Day
Glenn Beck's "Revolution Holocaust"
January 22/24, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
The Great Leap Sideways
Russell Feingold
The Supremes Have Opened the Floodgates
Ralph Nader
The Supremes Bow to King Corporation
Christopher Ketcham
Freedom of Speech for a Fiction
Manuel Garcia, Jr
Corporate Personhood and Political Free Speech
Paul Craig Roberts
How Wall Street Destroyed Health Care
Jeffrey St. Clair
Poison Letters
Nikolas Kozloff
A Thorn in the Side of the U.S. Military in Haiti
Jean Damu
Haiti: Blood, Sweat and Baseball
Mitchel Cohen
Haiti and Toxic Waste
Paul Buccheit
The Tragedy of Haiti ... and Us
Conn Hallinan
Something About Yemen
Steven Higgs
The Mystery of the Eli Lilly Rider
Rob Stone, MD
Face Time With Rahm on Health Care
Saul Landau /
Nelson P. Valdes
The Preventive Coup
Ron Jacobs
Just Walk Away From the Democrats
Vijay Prashad
The Killings in Bengal
P. Sainath
India:
Self-Slaughter Every 30 Minutes
M. Shahid Alam
Inviting David Brooks to My Class
George Wuerthner
Why Grass-Fed Beef Won't Save the Planet
Missy Comley Beattie
Could a Woman Who Posed Nude Get Elected?
Jean Sabaté
Russia's Ruined Far East Metropolis
Shamus Cooke
Company Unionism
Stephen Fleischman
The Founding Fathers and the Luck of the Draw
Michael Donnelly
Gitmo Closes
David Michael Green
How to Wreck a Presidency
Michael Dickinson
Art on Trial in the Capital of Culture
Charles R. Larson
In the Aftermath of 9/11
David Yearsley
From the Liberace Museum to Persian aub Zam Zam
Lorenzo Wolff
Catching Ziggy on the Lower East Side
Poets' Basement
Ahmad and Corseri
Website of the Day
Hitler Finds Out Scott Brown Won Mass. Senate Seat
January 21, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
Security Fools
Alan Farago
Fat Tires in the Everglades
Richard Morse
Earthquake in the Red Zone
Stewart J. Lawrence
The Prospects for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Harvey Wasserman
The Weimar Democrats
Carl Finamore
Class Clowns
Ramzy Baroud
Iran and Latin America: the Press Stirs the Pot
Marshall Auerback
Obama Still Doesn't Get It
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Pakistan Love Story
Adam Federman
Did Commercial-ization Kill the Bees?
Website of the Day
How Free Market Theory Destroyed the Free Market
January 20, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
A Richly Deserved Humiliation
James Bovard
How the Patriot Act Perpetuates Official Robberies
Mary Lynn Cramer
Class and Party Differences in Massachusetts
Dean Baker
Making the Banks Pay
Uri Avnery
The Turkish Incident
Kathy Kelly
Tough Minds and Tender Hearts
Jeb Sprague
Haiti's Classquake
Ron Jacobs
Revolution Not a Tea Party
John V. Walsh
Why I Voted for the Republican in Massachusetts
Bouthaina Shaaban
A Wise Strategy for Obama
Gail Dines
The Ideal Partner?
Website of the Day
Water Insecurity in the Colorado Basin
January 19, 2010
Michael Hudson
Wall Street's Power Grab
John Maxwell
No, Mister, You Can't Share My Pain
Stephen Soldz
The Guantánamo Suicides
Richard Morse
Tweets from Port au Prince: "A Hungry Man is an Angry Man..."
Björn Kumm
The Tragedy of Toussaint L'Ouverture
Gary Leupp
Blowback of the Drones
Eric Toussaint /
Sophie Perchellet
Haiti's Odious Debt
Nikolas Kozloff
Chile's New Right
Benjamin Dangl
Profiting From Haiti's Misery: If the Marines Don't Kill You, the Loans Will
Dave Lindorff
The Blackout on Cuban Aid to Haiti
Robert Roth
The Politics of an Earthquake
Website of the Day
Break Up the Big Banks--ASAP
January 18, 2010
Petra Bartosiewicz
The Intelligence Factory: How America Makes Its Enemies Disappear
Nelson P. Valdés
The Rescue Operation's Priorities in Haiti
Bill Quigley
Why the U.S. Owes Haiti Billions
Richard Morse
I See No Evidence of a Government Presence Here: Tweets from Port au Prince
Tolu Olorunda
More Than Aid, Haiti Needs Allies
John Ross
The Silence of the Sub
Manuel Garcia, Jr. The Murder of Masoud Alimohammadi: Assassinating the Iranian H-Bomb
Ralph Nader
Privatizing Everything
Franklin Lamb
How McCain was Greeted in Lebanon
Frederick B. Hudson
Plucking the Chords of Change
Website of the Day
Senator Centerfold
January 15-17, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Bum Rap for Harry, Not for Bubba Bill
Richard Morse
The Streets are Now Haiti's Living Room, Bedroom and Morgue
Bill Quigley
Ten Things the U.S. Can and Should Do for Haiti
Patrick Cockburn
Crushing Haiti, Now as Always
Jeffrey St. Clair
On the Firing Line
Anthony DiMaggio
Remaking an American Myth:
Haiti, U.S. Aid and Humanitarian Relief
Tom Reeves
Haiti, Where America Never Learns
Daniel Wolff
Haiti's Ongoing Emergency
Alan Nasser
Obama's Latest Ruse: the Bank Tax
Saul Landau /
Nelson P. Valdes
A Coup in Honduras ... So Twentieth Century!
Andrew Oxford
Afghanistan's Soft-Spoken Rebel
Michael Donnelly
Big Greens and Real Greens: Biodiversity in the Age of Big Money Environmentalism
Russell Mokhiber
Democrats Going Down in Flames
Darwin Bond-Graham
The Green Drillers
Missy Beattie
War Dealer
David Ker Thomson
The Attention Economy
Gary Leupp
War on Yemen
Ron Jacobs
The Untold Story of Afghanistan
Clifton Ross
Nicaragua Now: Living the Farce
Jordan Flaherty
Her Crime? Sex Work in New Orleans
Marshall Auerback
Why Placating the Tea Baggers Protects the Status Quo
Marjorie Cohn
Keeping Same Sex Marriage in the Dark
Joe Bageant
Bass Boats and Queer Marriage
Tariq Ali
Remembering Daniel Bensaîd
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Too Soon to Fail?
Charles R. Larson
Iran at the Seams
Kim Nicolini
Vampires in Hard Times
David Yearsley
Histories of Western Music, From Grout to Kleinzahler
Poets' Basement
Garcia and Bryan
Website of the Weekend
Green Tags: Words That Stick
Support Haiti Action
January 14, 2010
Ashley Smith
The Incapacitation of Haiti: Before and After the Quake
Harvey Wasserman
Hard Core Green: How to Kick Corporate Butt
Dean Baker
The Case for Bernanke: a Really Bad Joke
Brian Cloughley
Selective Compassion
Brock L. Bevan
One Night in Sana'a: Parties, French Girls and Security in Yemen
Don Monkerud
The Health Insurance Monopoly
Winslow T. Wheeler
More Pentagon Spending
Gideon Levy
Only Shrinks Can Explain Israel's Behavior
Adam Federman
The Exxon Clause
James McEnteer
This Week in Stupid
Brian Concannon Jr
Working with the Haitian Government
Website of the Day
Protest at Wall Street
January 13, 2010
Patrick Haenni /
Sami Amghar
The Myth of Muslim Conquest
Jonathan Cook
The Iron Dome
Cecil Brown
Knocking on Woods: What Tiger Woods Jokes Tell Us About the American Character
Steven Higgs
Mercury and the "Environmental Soup"
Paul de Rooij
A People's Cartoon History of Gaza
Richard Forno
What Happens When They Change Targets?
Dr. Trudy Bond
Psychologists in an Age of Torture
Daniel Drennan
A Black Panther in Beirut
Martha Rosenberg
The "Good Cancer" Spin
Brenda Baletti, Gilson Rego and Antonio Sena
Battle in Amazonia
Website of the Day
Haiti Aid: Artists for Peace and Justice
January 12, 2010
Bill Salganik
The Myth of "Cadillac" Health Plans
Uri Avnery
The Quiet American Goes to Yemen
Dean Baker
Big Bank Theory
Dan Kovalik
Chiquita Lauded for Human Rights Abuses
Raza Naeem
Yemen's Memories of Revolution and Resistance
George Wuerthner
Up in Smoke: Why Biomass Wood Energy is Not the Answer
Dave Lindorff
Looking for Those Green Shoots
David Macaray
I am Blacker Than Rod Blagojevich
Tolu Olorunda
Bono Bombs, Again
Patrick Bond
Copenhagen Inside-Out
Website of the Day
Unfortunate Checkout Aisle Juxtapositions: Tiger and Abdulmutallab
January 11, 2010
Patrick Cockburn
Only Fools Rush Into Yemen
Gareth Porter
Potemkin Tunnels: Iran Uses Fear of Secret Nuclear Sites to Avert Attacks
John Ross
Mexico Welcomes 2010 With Bombs and Riots
Gregory V. Button
TVA Health Assessment Report on Coal Ash Raises Troubling Questions About the Agency
Ralph Nader
The Last of the Prairie Populists:
Losing Byron Dorgan
Tom Barry
Not Systemic Failure, Failed System
Mikita Brottman
The Healing Powers of Facebook
David Michael Green Lost in the White House
David Swanson
Obama as the Secret Decider
Kevin Zeese
The Baucus 8 Are Free
Website of the Day
Solitary Watch: News From a Nation in Lockdown
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Weekend Edition
February 5 - 7, 2010
Why Clarence Thomas was AWOL at the State of the Union
Thomas in Hiding
By DON MONKERUD
In a rare admission by a Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas admitted yesterday that he never attends State of the Union addresses. He was absent for President Obama's speech to Congress and the nation on January 27.
"Presidents mostly say things that I don't agree with or can't understand, so what's the point?" Thomas said. "I hope they don't think they are going to teach me anything. Besides, I need my shut-eye and these speeches drone on for over half-an-hour."
Speaking at the Shooting Range for the Six-Gun Law School in Lawless, Florida, Thomas said he carefully read the Constitution once long ago and found no requirements that a Supreme Court justice do good or attend meetings.
"When Reagan appointed me, or was it President Bush? Anyway, he agreed that I would never have to do anything," Thomas said. "I do get to make up my own reasons for decisions and do it all with the help of those, what do you call them, associaters? No, judicial assistants."
Critics have long questioned Thomas's attentiveness during Court hearings when they found him snoring, drooling and with his eyes closed. Off camera he explained, "I was only resting my eyes."
Thomas's law school address carefully not planned to interfere with his daily nap schedule-10 to 2, 1 to 3 and 4 to 5-included members of local Baptist churches who are seeking quickie law degrees to accompany child-kidnapping trips to Haiti. Despite his skin color, which some Baptists disagree with, many fundamentalists find him a role model.
"Anyone who hates human rights, the environment, and illegal aliens, and loves guns and God is okay in my book," said Doggie Code, leader of The Family, a secret society that sponsors the National Prayer Breakfast. "He's got power and that's what we love. He marches to his own drummer."
In his speech, Thomas urged fundamentalists to amass more money if they want to control the political process. Money is what made America great and in America "money talks," hence his agreement with the Court's decision that corporations have the right to buy and control the political process in "our new democracy."
"I'm a Divine Righter myself but rules are rules when it comes to the Constitution," said Thomas. "My guiding philosophy is, 'Don't Know-Don't Tell," but I also believe "Money Rules."
Don Monkerud is an California-based writer who follows cultural, social and political issues. He can be reached at monkerud@cruzio.com. |
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