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Today's
Stories
June
26, 2007
Jonathan
Cook
Divide and Rule, Israeli-Style
June
25, 2007
Paul
Craig Roberts
Goodbye to the City on the Hill
Jennifer
Loewenstein
The Triumph of US / Israeli Policy
in Palestine
Bob
Anderson
The Grooming of Bill Richardson: New Mexico's Nuclear Governor
Robert
Pollin
The Realities of Microlending
Patrick
Cockburn
Chemical Ali Faces the Hangman: the Life and Crimes of al-Majid
Eva
Liddell
Why They Want to Fire Ward Churchill
Dan
Bacher
Democrats and the School of the Americas: 42 House Democrats
Back Torture Academy
Larry
Atkins
The Case of the Judge and the $54 Million Pair of Pants: an Embarrassment,
Not an Argument for Tort Reform
Mark
Brenner
SEIU Ends Nursing Home Partnership
James
Rothenberg
Hillary Does Iraq
Website
of the Day
"A Long Train of Abuses"
June
23 / 24, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
Zyklon B on the US Border
Jeff
Taylor
The Foreign Policy of Barack Obama
Oren
Ben-Dor
Israeli Apartheid is the Core of the Crisis in Gaza
Gary
Leupp
In Defense of Academic Freedom: the Ward Churchill Case
Robert
Fisk
The Bumbling Envoy
David
Rosen
The Hidden Cost of War: Genital Injuries, Prosthetic Devices
and the War on Terror
Russell
Mokhiber
Ins and Outs for 2008: Up with Spoilers!
Alison
Weir
USA Today and the USS Liberty
Robert
Fantina
The Floundering Congress
D.
K. Wilson
Of Gangstas and Spearchuckers, Sex and Zulus
Nicole
Colson
Litigating Gitmo
Stephen
Soldz, Steven Reisner and Brad Olson
Torture, Psychologists and Colonel
James
Dave
Lindorff
Exodus of the Puppets: Bush's Incredible Shrinking Coalition
Benjamin
Dangl
Cerámica de Cuyo: a Profile of Worker Control in Argentina
Michael
Dickinson
The Catholicization of Tony
Poets'
Basement
Davies, Engel, Gerard and Orloski
Website
of the Weekend
Incarcerex: a Drug War Video
June
22, 2007
Andy
Worthington
A Tunisian in Gitmo: the Story
of Prisoner 660
Sherwood
Ross
Corporate America's Deadliest Secret: the Big Profits in Biowarfare
Research
Eliana
Monteforte
The Torture Academy
Robert
Weissman
Things Can Be Different
Richard
Rhames
Farmer Preservation
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush and the Uighurs: an Encounter in Albania
Ramzy
Baroud
Chronicle of a Chaos Foretold
Ehud
Krinis, David Shulman and Neve Gordon
Facing an Imminent Threat of Expulsion: Palestinians in S. Hebron
Hills Need Your Help!
David
Michael Green
If Reid Were Rove
Kathryn
Webber
Boycotting DePaul
Website
of the Day
Stop Me Before I Vote Again!
June
21, 2007
Peter
Linebaugh
The Day of the Rope
Natsu
Saito
The Regents and Ward Churchill: Now is the Time to Speak Out
Ron
Jacobs
The Intimidation of a Vet
Saree
Makdisi
The West Chooses Fatah, But Palestinians Don't
John
Stauber
Blessed Unrest: an Interview with Paul Hawken
Scott
Liebertz
Fox News and Venezuela: an Analysis of How the Network Deliberately
Misinforms Its Viewers
Tom
Clifford
The Ghost Prisoners
Robert
Jensen
The Last Sunday?
Michael
J. Smith
Who Among Us Will Step Up to Destroy the Democratic Party?
Jeb
Sprague
Pain at the Pump in Haiti
Website
of the Day
Dion: Hey Paris
June 20, 2007
Omar
Barghouti
A Secular-Democratic State Solution
Andy
Worthington
Repatriated to Torture
Margaret
Kimberley
Supreme Injustices: the Bush Court
Robert
Weissman
Sicko, Part One: the Human Tragedy
Russell
D. Hoffman
Time to Choose: Meltdowns or Solar Power?
Rannie
Amiri
Mideast Alight
Stephen
Lendman
The New York Times vs. Hugo Chavez
Dave
Lindorff
Democratic Disconnect
David
Swanson
Booing Hillary: Platitudes from the Drone Machine
Anne
Dachel
Autism & Vaccines: Why are They Afraid to Look?
Website
of the Day
Revolution By the Book
June
19, 2007
Ralph
Nader
Hillary's Stock and Trade: the NAFTA
Two-Step
Dr.
Shepherd Bliss
Torture's Long Reach
Bill
and Kathleen Christison
Demostrating Against the Catholic Church in Santa Fe
Jeff
Leys
Swarming Congress: Building a Resistance to the 2008 Iraq War
Supplemental Funding Bill
Dave
Zirin
The Unforgiven: Barry Bonds and Jack Johnson
Chris
Floyd
Hitchens Takes a Roll in the Hay
Ben
Terrall
Iraq Union Leaders Speak Out Against the Occupation
Anthony
Papa
Veronica's Story: a Dying Wish to Governor Spitzer
VIPS
Countering Terrorism: How Not to
Do It
Linda Flores
Criminalizing the Classroom
Website
of the Day
Sign On to the Iraq Moratorium
June 18, 2007
John
Ross
The Annexation of Mexico
Paul
Craig Roberts
The Reign of the Tyrants is at Hand
Martha
Rosenberg
Let Cheney at Him: Richardson the Oryx Hunter
Norman
Solomon
War at the Remote
Don
Santina
Memo to the Queen: Bobby Sands Died for Your Sins
Isabella
Kenfield
Landless Rural Workers Confront Lula
James
Brooks
America's Guilty Silence
Eva
Liddell
Planning to Lose: Democratic Stratagems
Sam
Husseini
Clinton Health Care Scam Revisited
Akiva
Eldar
Ariel Sharon's Dream
Website
of the Day
Frank
Zappa: the Cop Interview
June 16 / 17, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
The Psychopathology of Shrinks
John
Halle
Finkelstein and "The Progressive"
Robert
Fisk
Welcome to "Palestine"
Andy
Worthington
Return to Torture?
Uri
Avnery
The Gaza Cage
Fred
Gardner
Paris Hilton's Punishment: a False
Parable
Saul
Landau
Our Gang of Thugs: The 1970s as a
Context for Terrorist Violence
P.
Sainath
Heaven Can Wait: Creditors and the
Widows of Vidharbha
Missy
Comley Beattie
Calling Evil Its Name
Alan
Gregory
When ADM Comes to Town: Killer Tax
Breaks for Wildlife Destruction
Walter
Brasch
Bush and the Philosophy of Swiss Cheese
Website
of the Weekend
Obama Girl
June
15, 2007
Alan
Farago
View from the Construction Crane:
Sex, Taxes and Real Estate Scams in Miami
Andy
Worthington
The Ordeal of Ali al--Marri
Michael
Simmons
Terrorizing Artists in the USA
Franklin
Lamb
Blowback Across Lebanon: The Failed
Sunni Army Solution
Gary
Leupp
The Day After We Attack Iran
John
Ross
Ballot Burning Time in Ol' Mexico
Website
of the Day
The American Rationalist
June 14, 2007
Michael
Donnelly
Charred SUVs and the End of Citizen
Eco--Activism
Faisal
Kutty
Scare Canada: The No--Fly List's False
Sense of Security
Harry
Browne
Ireland's Green Party Sells Out
Charles
Jonkel
From the Arctic to Yellowstone: Bears in a World of Indifference
Steven
Higgs
Murder in a Small Town: "Gay Panic"
in Indiana?
Bruce
Dixon
Black Power Through Low Power Radio
Bruce
K. Gagnon
What Do We Do Now? A 10--Step Plan
for Antiwar Activists
Website
of the Day
Finkelgate
June 13,
2007
Glen Ford
Obama's
Siren Song
Marjorie Cohn
Repression
in Oaxaca
Bill Christison
A Grave Injustice at DePaul University
Charles Jonkel
Bears in a World of Indifference
Silvia Cattori
"I Was Not Prepared for the Horrors I Saw": an Interview
with Hedy Epstein
Richard Gott
Racism and TV in Venezuela
Firmin DeBrabander
How the Neocons Misread Machiavelli
William S. Lind
The Perfect (Sine) Wave: Bombing Railroad Stations in Iraq
Keith Rosenthal
Workers Score a Victory at Harvard
Website of the Day
GOP and Monty Python Explain: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques"
June 12,
2007
Jeffrey St.
Clair
How
to Sell a War
Paul Craig
Roberts
The Neocon Threat to American Freedom
P. Sainath
India's
Plutocrats and the Press
Ralph Nader
The Biggest Scam in the World
Omar Waraich
A Black Day for Pakistan's Press
Dave Lindorff
Things Your Media Momma Didn't Tell You
Harvey Wasserman
Confessions of an Anti-Nuke Jerk
Malini Johar
Schueller
It Takes a Bomb
Ramzy Baroud
War Foretold: Mark Twain and the Sins of Empire
Website of
the Day
Palestinian Chronicle Needs Our Help!
June 11,
2007
Patrick Cockburn
The
War on Journalists
Paul Craig
Roberts
Losing the Economy to Mythology
Uri Avnery
40 Bad Years: the Rot of Occupation
Norman Solomon
The Silence of the Bombs
Eva Liddell
Paris Hilton Doesn't Do Dishes: How Barbie Stood Up to Allen
Ginsberg
Rannie Amiri
Groundhog Day in Pakistan
Rachel Voss
Poetry and Politics in Nassau County
Christopher
Brauchli
A Wild West Tale, Starring Rev. Dobson and Bill O'Reilly
D. K. Wilson
Untangling Michael Vick from the Dogs
Website of
the Day
Paris, Mixed Up
June 9 / 10, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Dissidents
Against Dogma
George Ciccariello-Maher
Behind
Venezuela's "Student Rebellion": Who's Pulling the
Strings?
Saul Landau
An
Interview with Ricardo Alarcon, Vice President of Cuba
Robert Fisk
Believe It or Not in the Middle East
Brian Cloughley
Troop Support: Deceptions and Insipid Sentiments
Ron Jacobs
Condoleezza Rice Names the System
Ward Boston
Searching for the Truth About the USS Liberty
Conn Hallinan
Dark Plots in Byzantine Beirut
Leonard Peltier
The Ongoing War on Native American Religious Practices
Lawrence Davidson
Israel's New Anti-Boycott Task Force
John Ross
Mass Nude-In Complicates Church-State Scuffling in Mexico
Kate Allan
Some People Think the Internet is a Bad Thing
Fred Gardner
Ignorance Marches On
Stephen Fleischman
Little Boy, Fat Man and Iran
Monica Benderman
Reading Tom Paine in a Time of Crisis
Geoff Bailey
A Real Oil Conspiracy: Gouged at the Pump
Missy Beattie
Faith and War
Patrick Dyer
A Democrat Revs Up Ohio's Death Machine
Tim Lengerich
Dispelling the Cowboy Myth: an Interview with George Wuerthner
James Irani
and David Rahni
Perspectives on the Arrests of Iran-Americans in Tehran
Gary Leupp
The Unfair Treatment of Paris Hilton
Michael Tillery
The Heart of a Sportswriter: an Interview with David Aldridge
Michael Simmons
Beating Off the Squares: the Hipness of Anton Rosenberg
Poets' Basement
Laymon, Davies and Ford
Website of the Weekend
This is Sea Shepherd!
June 8,
2007
Serge Halimi
What
Sarkozy Learned About Politics from the US
Patrick Cockburn
The Turkish Incursion
Jeffrey St. Clair
Israel's Attack on the USS Liberty, Revisited
Paul Craig Roberts
The Secret War
William Blum
What If NBC Cheered on a Military Coup Against Bush?
Joshua Frank
Swing-State Strategy: Looking for a Spoiler
Lance Selfa
How the Six Day War Changed the Middle East
Dave Lindorff
A "Criminal Conspiracy" in the White House
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Summer of Love: Flashbacks of a Human Be-In
Website of the Day
Robert Pollin: "Making the Federal Minimum Wage a Living
Wage"
June 7, 2007
Marjorie Cohn
The
Prison is the War Crime
Soldz, Reisner
and Olson:
A Q & A on Psychologists and Torture
Soldz, Reisner
and Olson, et al:
An
Open Letter to Sharon Brehm, President of the American Psychological
Association
Paul Craig Roberts
Losing Iraq, Nuking Iran
Bill Quigley
"How Long Must We Support a Mistake?"
Silvia Cattori
Sailing to Gaza
Carl G. Estabrook
What the June Bug Is: Politics in the Dismal Season
Ellen Taylor
Free the Tweakers!: The Good News About Meth
Corporate Crime
Reporter
BAE Systems, Prince Bandar and the $2 Billion Account at the
Riggs Bank
Brenda Norrell
Torture Training at Ft. Huachuca: Two Priests Face Prison for
Exposing Torture in Arizona
D. K. Wilson
What Gary Sheffield Really Said
Kevin Zeese
Iraq Occupation Coming to a Head Over Oil
Website of
the Day
How the Press Expired
June 6, 2007
Alain Gresh
Countdown
to War on Iran
Gary Leupp
Poddy's Crazy Prayer: Bomb Iran, For Israel and America!
Steven Sherman
The Perils of Humanitarian Intervention
Bruce Dixon
Is Bill Gates Trying to Hijack Africa's Food Supply?
Corporate Crime Reporter
The Professor and the Nukes
Brian M. Downing
The Iraq War and Presidential Politics
Ron Jacobs
Luv n' Hate: a Different Take on the Summer of Love
George Bisharat
The Mirage of the Two State Solution
Nicole Colson
Over to You, Dante: Falwell's Ministry of Hate
Bruce K. Gagnon
From Italy to Guam: A Global Peace Movement is Taking Shape
Website of the Day
How the Democrats Should Treat Bush
June 5,
2007
Michael Neumann
Canada
in Afghanistan
Jonathan Cook
The Shin Bet and the Persecution of Azmi Bishara
David Vest
The Democrats' War
Robert Fantina
America's Cuba Policy
Hoffman, Parsneau and Chowdhury
CounterTerrorism as International Healthcare
John V. Walsh
Shaming the Official Antiwar Movement
Richard Cretan
Yellow Dog: The Strange Love of Martin Amis and Tony Blair
Adam Engel
Days of Dread: an American Tale
William S. Lind
The News from Anbar: Has Al Qaeda Over-Reached?
Myles Hoenig
Free the Oaks! Cut Down Those Yellow Ribbons!
Jim Minick
Lead-Foot Nation
Website of
the Day
Punk Rock Soap Opera
June 4, 2007
Nizar Latif
An
Interview with Moqtada al-Sadr
Diana Johnstone
Sarko
and the Ghosts of May, 1968
Gregory Wilpert
RCTV and Freedom of Speech in Venezuela
Paul Watson
The Anchorage Whale Killing Bureaucrats Summit
Susan Rosenthal,
MD
How Cindy Sheehan Unmasked the Democrats
Richard Ward
The Right of Return to New Orleans
Eva Liddell
Don't Support the Troops
Zahi Khouri
Four Decades of Occupation
Evelyn Pringle
The FDA, GlaxoSmithKline and the Avandia Disaster
China Hand
About Those North Korean Benjamin Franklins ...
Karyn Strickler
George W. Bush: a "Ficeist" Leader
Website of the Day
The Guantanamo Files
June 2 /
3, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
The
Last of the Texas Outsiders
Marc Levy
Iraq
Dead Ahead: a Brief Military History and Civilian Guide to Arlington
National Cemetery
Martin Smith
Camilo Mejía's War: From Foot Soldier for Empire to Rebel
for Peace
Diana Johnstone
Great Power Meddling in Kosovo
John Ross
The Oaxaca Volcano Stews
Uri Avnery
On Generals and Admirals
Sunsara Taylor
This is Not a Story About Cindy Sheehan
Richard Neville
Were the Hippies Right?
P. Sainath
The Farm Crisis and 100,000 Indian Widows
Missy Comley
Beattie
Let's Roar
Nisrine Abiad
and Victor Kattan
The Hariri Tribunal: a Fait Accompli?
Rannie Amiri
Lebanon, Bush and the Three Stooges
Margot Pepper
Deconstructing "Return to Sender"
Eric Stewart
Censorship and Cop Brutality in the New Bison Wars
Ralph Nader
The Halberstam Camp
Dan Bacher
A Victory for the Fish
Shaun Harkin
and Sandy Boyer
Irish War Protesters on Trial
Richard Rhames
Selling Five Acres in Crawford
Frederick Hudson
The Rediscovery of Ella Fitzgerald
Poets' Basement
Lindorff, Landau and Buknatski
Website of the Weekend
Gimme Shelter
June 1, 2007
Dave Marsh
The
FBI and the Godfather (of Soul): James Brown's FBI Files
Saul Landau
Return
to Cuba: 47 Years Later in Havana
David Phinney
How the Baghdad Embassy Was Built: Forced Labor and Worker Abuse
Robert Jensen
The Bigot and the Boycott
Stanley Heller
Arrest Robert McNamara
Yifat Susskind
Indigenous Women Fight Back
Robert Weissman
Corporate Power Since 1980
Paul Buchheit
Africa and Its Discontents
William S.
Lind
The Folly of Maximalist Objectives
Sherwood Ross
78,000 Iraqis Have Been Killed by Coalition Airstrikes
Stephen Lendman
Terrorism Defined
Website of the Day
Desert Autonomous Zone
May 31, 2007
Robert Bryce
The
Language Barrier
Patrick Cockburn
Killing with Impunity: Iraq's Militias Under the Surge
Gary Leupp
Appropriate Disillusionment: the Despair of Cindy Sheehan and
Andrew Bacevich
Kathy Kelly
Being Hope
Marjorie Cohn
The Unitary King George
Chris Kutalik
and Tiffany Ten Eyck
Fallout from the Sale of Chrysler: Jobs, Health Care, Pensions,
All in Jeopardy
Corporate Crime Reporter
Zheng Xiaoyu Meet Lester Crawford
Dave Lindorff
Our Monica: a Hero of the Constitution
Website of the Day
Know Your Rights!
May 30,
2007
James Ridgeway
The
Bi-Partisan Con on Synthetic Fuels
Franklin Lamb
Lebanon and the Planned US Airbase at Kaleiaat
Terrence E. Paupp
Withdrawal Symptoms
Uri Avnery
To the Shores of Tripoli
Alan Maass
and Jeffrey St. Clair
The Green Masquerade: Corporate America's Latest Counter-Attack
Rock and Rap
Confidential
Watching the Detectives: the Political Censorship of Hip Hop
Ralph Nader
Taming the Giant Corporation
Nirmal Ghosh
China, CITES and the Fate of the Tiger
Jean Daniels
Dealing Democrats: Folding to Mr. 28%
Tom Barry
Meet Robert Zoellick: Bush's Pick to Head World Bank
Website of the Day
Petuuche Gilbert on the Rights of Indigenous People
May 29, 2007
Stephen Soldz
Shrinks
and the SERE Technique at Guantanamo
Eliza Ernshire
Refugees
Forever: Inside Bedawi Camp
Ron Jacobs
The Exit of Cindy Sheehan
Dave Lindorff
Whatever Happened to Signing Statements?
Evelyn Pringle
What Qualifies Bush to Lead Iraq War
Mike Whitney
Bush's New Middle East
David Swanson
How We Got Here: The Democrats and the Antiwar Movement
John Holt
Gating Montana, Part Two: the Feedback Loop
Cynthia McKinney
Dreaming of a True Memorial Day
Martha Rosenberg
Mad Cows, Mad Pigs and the Horse Slaughter Lobby
Website of the Day
The Ruminant
May 28, 2007
Bill Quigley
Katrina
Activists: "Less Meeting, More Fighting"
Col. Dan Smith
The Paranoid and the Dead
Cindy Sheehan
Why I Am Leaving the Democratic Party
Dr. Susan Block
Dr. Laura's Little Monster
Jeeni Criscenzo
What I Learned About Being a Dickhead
Douglas Valentine
Memorial Day: a Poem
Website of the Day
Peace TV
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June
26, 2007
Bosses, Democrats and Single Payer Health
Care
Which
Side Are You On, Michael Moore?
By CORPORATE CRIME
REPORTER
Michael Moore has made a great movie.
Sicko.
Everyone should see it.
And take the kids.
The movie's message in a nutshell
-- we need single payer.
In the United States.
Now.
But Senate Democrats are trying
to co-opt the message.
On Capitol Hill today, SEIU
held a rally for a couple of hundred health care workers.
The group was addressed by
six Senators.
None support single payer.
Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland)
-- does not support single payer.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
(D-RI) -- does not support single payer.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon)
-- does not support single payer.
Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada)
-- does not support single payer.
Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri)
-- does not support single payer.
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota)
-- does not support single payer.
We asked Dawn Lee, a spokesperson
for SEIU, whether SEIU supported HR 676 -- the single payer bill
in the House.
She said SEIU takes no position
on that bill.
SEIU -- does not support single
payer.
At the SEIU rally, all spoke
in favor of "universal health care."
That is code for -- keep the
insurance companies in the game.
Single payer would take them
out.
Martese Chism was at a similar
rally in Chicago last month.
Chism is a registered nurse
at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.
She also sits on the board
of the California Nurses Association (CNA).
CNA is pro-single payer.
Chism was attending an SEIU
rally in Chicago in support of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's
"universal health care" bill that would keep the insurance
companies in the game.
Chism says that the SEIU members
who gathered for the rally were being actively misled by SEIU.
"SEIU members are being
led to believe that universal health care means free health care
for all -- single payer," Chism told Corporate Crime Reporter.
"But it doesn't mean that. It means keeping the insurance
companies in the game. I had to leave because I couldn't take
it anymore. The insurance companies and SEIU are misleading people."
CNA president Rose Ann DeMoro
is a touch less subtle.
"Rather than being on
the side of the workers, SEIU continues to be on the side of
the bosses," DeMoro told Corporate Crime Reporter. "And
it's a disgrace."
"And the problem is that
SEIU is giving cover to these Senators -- it makes them look
like they are accomplishing something when in fact they are accomplishing
nothing. These legislators are gutless, and the SEIU is giving
them cover."
DeMoro is using the movie Sicko
to generate public support for single payer around the country.
Unfortunately, the powers that
be in the Democratic Party are working -- with SEIU and other
unions -- to undermine public support for single payer.
And soon, Michael Moore too
will have to choose.
Between single payer -- and
the corporate Democratic Party's candidate for President.
That candidate will be -- if
past is prologue -- opposed to single payer.
And the question will remain,
as always -- which side are you on?
Corporate Crime Reporter
is located in Washington,
DC. They can be reached through their website.
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