Wars
of the Laptop Bombers
Today's
Stories
February 19
/ 20, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Back
to Salem: Paul Shanley and the Return of "Recovered Memory"
Kathleen Christison
Struggling
forr Justice in Palestine
Ted Honderich
On Being Persona Non Grata
Jennifer Roesch
John Negroponte: Dirty Warrior
Scott Richard Lyons
Ward Churchill and the Identity
Police
George Beres
Censorship in the Land of Wayne Morse: Gagging W. Churchill in
Oregon
Harry Browne
The Belfast Heist: the Plot Unravels
Manuel García, Jr.
Who Killed Rafik Hariri?
John Pilger
First, They Attack the Past
Norman Madarasz
Death Wish for Reform in Brazil?
Fred Gardner
When Dr. Tod Met Merle Haggard
February 18,
2005
Ben Moxham
In
East Timor, the Nightmare Continues
Dave Lindorff
The
Scum Also Rises: the Bloody Career of John Negroponte
Larry Birns
Negroponte: a Resume of Death Squads, Deceptions and Bribery
Gregory Elich
N, Korea's Phantom Nukes and the US's Subversion of Diplomacy
Samuel Logan / John Meyers
The Future of Colombia's Paramilitary Death Squads
Nicole Colson
Shock and Awe on Civil Liberties: From Lynne Stewart to Ward
Churchill
Suzan Mazur
Whose National Security Are We Talking About?
Mickey Z.
"One
Man Has Stopped Killing"
February 17,
2005
Joshua Frank
Hogtying
of the Deaniacs
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bush's
Willing Sychophants: the Conservative Media
Robert Fisk
Under
the Shadow of Death in Lebanon
Christopher
Brauchli
Where
Time Stands Still: Kinsey and Darwin in Cobb County, GA
Dr. Teresa
Whitehurst
Military
Recruitment TV: Why Send Them to College, When Your Kid Can be
Cannon Fodder?
Alison Weir
Russia, Israel and Media Omissions
Ahrar Ahmad
A Review of Shahid Alam's "Is There an Islamic Problem?"
Saul Landau
An
Interview with Cuban VP Ricardo Alarcon: "The US Tramples
the Laws It Wrote"
Website of the Day
Petition to Support Ward Churchill
February 16,
2005
Robert Fisk
Lebanon:
a Battlefield for the Wars of Others
Kevin Zeese
Creating a Real Ownership Society: Share the Wealth; Protect
Retirement
Gary Leupp
Meanwhile, in Nepal...
Ron Jacobs
Why the Iranian Opposition Should Not Trust the Bush Administration
Jessica Leight
Oil-Flush Chavez Begins to Strut His Stuff
Greg Moses
Houston, You've Got a Problem: Documenting Voting Irregularities
in Texas
Mark Engler
The Last Porto Alegre
Jack McCarthy
Where's the Outrage About Pat? Buchanan Does a Churchill
Bill Christison
US
Foreign Policy Dangerously Slanted Toward Israel
Website of the Day
The
World is Melting: a Photo Survey by Gary Braasch
February 15,
2005
CounterPunch
News Service
Dean
a "Safe" Moderate, Says NYT Citing CounterPunch
Robert Fisk
The
Killing of Mr. Lebanon
Uri Avnery
"Sharm-al-Sheikh,
We Have Come Back Again"
Stan Cox
Fighting Big Pharma in Little Digwal
Mickey Z.
Radio
Active North of the Border: an Interview with Chris Cook
Dave Zirin
Bashing Bush: Jose Canseco Comes Clean
Nadia Martinez
Ending
World Poverty? Opening at the World Bank, Apply Now
Lila Rajiva
"Little Eichmanns" and the 'Harijan': the Danger of
Magical Thinking in Politics
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
American Job Sell Out
February 14,
2005
Robert Jensen
Ward
Churchill: Right to Speak Out; Right About 9/11
Brian Cloughley
Kuwait's Freedom, Bush-style
Patrick Cockburn
Outcome
of the Iraqi Elections: Shortages, Corruption, Guerrilla War
Gary Leupp
Post-election Iraq: What Next?
Michael Donnelly
Sacred Nature: Just Another Commodity?
Dave Lindorff
When Bush Came to My Neighborhood
Elaine Cassel
The
Lynne Stewart Verdict
February 12
/ 13, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Ward
Churchill's Genes
Saul Landau
Alarcon
Speaks: an Interview with the Vice President of Cuba
Paul Craig
Roberts
Nothing
to Fear But Bush Himself
Patrick Cockburn
Two Years After the Fall of Saddam, the Resistance Controls All
Major Roads into Baghdad
John Feffer
Bush
v. N. Korea: Round Two
Mickey Z.
Right to Remain Silent; Duty to Speak
Kurt Nimmo
Viva la Cucaracha!
Fred Gardner
Waiting for Raich
Dave Zirin
Fighting the New Republic(ans)
John Chuckman
Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Ben Tripp
A Leftist on the Bush Payroll
Carol Norris
"Buddy, Can You Spare a Dwarf?"
Robert Fisk
No Middle East Peace Without Justice
Frank / Chowkwanyun
Muzzled Activist in an Age of Terror: the Case of Sherman Austin
Mike Whitney
Condi's Euro Tour
Deborah Frisch
A Psychologist's Defense of Ward Churchill
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Reading Khomeini in Colorado
Christine TenBarge
What's So Special About Ward?
Ron Jacobs
Curtis Mayfield's Train to Jordan
Dr. Susan Block
Chemistry of Love: a Valentine's Greeting
Poets' Basement
Louise, Smith-Ferri, Ford and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Free Sherman
February 11,
20055
Manuel Garcia,
Jr
The
Eight Percent War
Kurt Nimmo
Ann
Coulter's Racism: Where's Geronimo When You Really Need
Him?
Dave Lindorff
Guckert
or Gannon? The Perfect Plant; He Fit Right In
Larry Birns
War is Peace; Slavery is Freedom: Democracy According to Elliott
Abrams
Bill Quigley
Twenty Questions: a Social Justice Quiz
Tom Barry
Bush's State of Delusion
Jennifer Van
Bergen
Lynne
Stewart's Conviction Hurts Us All
February 10,
2005
Dave Lindorff
What
Academic Freedom?
Christopher Brauchli
The Love of Slaughter: From Rwanda to Iraq
Patrick Cockburn
In Baghdad, It's Easy to Get Killed
Nicole Colson
Have the Democrats Surrendered on Abortion Rights?
Suzan Mazur
More
on the Assassination of Lumumba from Mr. Garsin of Kinshasha
Michael Donnelly
Salvaging an Opposition
Mike Stark
Driving Ossie Davis: "Give Them a Little Truth, a Little
Hope"
Greg Moses
Taking
Jesus Back from the Hijackers
Website of
the Day
The Missionary Positions
February 9,
2005
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Duck
and Cover Redux: Bunker Busters and City Levellers
Mickey Z.
What Ward Churchill Didn't Say
John Ross
Hecho
en Mexico: the Iraqi Election
Tom Barry
Ambassador of Lies: Elliott Abrams, the Neocon's Neocon
Conn Hallinan
The
Coup in Nepal: Nursing the Pinion
Patrick Cockburn
Sistani's Vision for Iraq: Cricket is Fine, But Chess is "Absolutely
Forbidden"
Steen Sohn
Danish PM Says It's OK for Israel to Violate UN Resolutions
Tim Wise
Reflections on Empire and Uppity Indians
Website of
the Day
Support Antiwar.com
February 8,
2005
Patrick Cockburn
Shia/Kurd
Coalition to Dominate New Iraqi Govt.: "It's an Electoral
Pact, Not a Party"
Brian Cloughley
Out
of the Mouths of Generals: "It's Fun to Shoot Some People"
Steve Breyman
Against the Selfishness of the "Ownership Society"
Harry Browne
"Don't
Get on that Plane!": Soldiers Seek Asylum in Ireland
Doug Giebel
"We Love Free Speech in America": the People, the President
and Ward Churchill
Nate Collins
The Censorship of Ward Churchill and Dancehall Reggae: It's the
Same Beast
Dave Lindorff
It's Time for a Labor-Oriented Newspaper
David Smith-Ferri
Sanctions and the Health Crisis in Iraq
February 7,
2005
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bush's
War on Jobs
Carolyn Baker
The New McCarthyism on Campus: Churchill and the Attack on Higher
Ed
Joshua Frank
Marc Cooper's Hit List: First Mumia; Now Ward Churchill
Mickey Z.
Warning: More Hate Speech from W. Churchill
Patrick Cockburn
The
Kidnapping Gangs of Iraq
Mike Whitney
Tom Friedman: Scribe for New Age Imperialism
Stacie Jonas
Pinochet: Fit to be Tried
Dave Zirin
A Miserable Super Sunday: Clinton, Bush and the FBI
Tariq Ali
Imperial
Delusions
February 5
/ 6, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Ward
Churchill and the Mad Dogs
Kurt Nimmo
A Ward Churchill Kind of Day
Joshua Frank
Liberals Trash Ward Churchill
P. Sainath
Mumbai's Man-Made Tsunami
Patrick Cockburn
Sistani's Triumph; Allawi's Bust
Laura Carlsen
Bush, Rice and Latin America
Dave Lindorff
How the NYT Killed the Bush Bulge Story
Pamela Olson
West Bank Story
Behzad Yaghmaian
The Future of Sudanese Refugees in the West
Saul Landau / Farrah Hassen
A Threatened UN in King George's Court
Roger Burbach
World Social Forum: a Tale of Two Presidents
Robert Fisk
History by Laptop
David Swanson
James Forman and the Liberal-Labor Syndrome
Justin E.H. Smith
Gay Marriage: a Report from Canada
Cacie Hart
The "State" of the Union: More War and a Ban on Love
Ron Jacobs
Chairman Bob Avakian: a Revolutionary Life
Mickey Z.
Viewing America from the Outside
Ben Tripp
Republican Heroes: a New Breed of Good Guy
Ben Sonnenberg
France at the End of the Devil's Decade: Renoir's Rules of the
Game
Poets' Basement
Smith-Ferri, Davies, Collins, & Albert
Website of
the Weekend
John Trudell: How to Earn a 17,000 Page FBI File
February 4,
2005
Brian Cloughley
The
Army Symphonist: "Sometimes the Only Way to Change the Behavior
of Someone Like That is to Kill Them"
Bill Christison
Election
Parallels: Vietnam, 1967; Iraq, 2005
Elaine Cassel
Did Zoloft Make Him Do It?
Jacob Levich
Chomsky and the Draft
Kanak Mani Dixit
Return of the Royalists in Nepal
Ron Jacobs
The
Downward Spiral in Iraq
February 3,
2005
Ward Churchill
On
the Injustice of Getting Smeared: a Campaign of Fabrications
and Gross Distortions
Sharon Smith
Resisting
Soldiers Need Our Support
Mickey Z.
Leslie
Gelb Asks Iraq: Who's Your Daddy?
Mike Whitney
President of Alienation: a Desperate State of the Union
Jenna Orkin
9/11 the Sequel: the Toxic State of Lower Manhattan
Saul Landau
Elections Won't Prevent Civil War in Iraq
Yitzhak Laor
Strange is the Silence
Dave Lindorff
The
Assault on Social Security: a New Campaign of Lies
February 2,
2005
David Domke
/ Kevin Coe
Bush's
Brand of Christianity
Noam Chomsky
Iraq
After the Elections
M. Shahid Alam
O'Reilly's
Fatwah on "Un-American" Professors: FoxNews Puts Me
in Its Crosshairs
Richard Oxman
Ringing in 1984 with Ward Churchill and Derrick Jensen
Joshua Frank
The Suckering of Howard Dean
Dave Lindorff
A History Lesson from the NYT
Nina Hartley
Feminists for Porn
Website of the Day
War is a Racket
February 1,
2005
Joshua L. Dratel
The
Torture Memos
Patrick Cockburn
New Doubts About Allawi
Robert Fisk
"The Only Decent Food We Get is at Funerals"
Uri Avnery
The Stalemate
Col. Dan Smith
"W" Stands for Withdrawal
Alison Weir
Making America as "Secure" as Israel
Alan Farago
Heaven and Hell in the Everglades
Ray Hanania
Low Voter Turnout of Iraqi Expatriates: Less Than 10% of Qualified
Voters
Paul Craig
Roberts
American
Police State
Website of the Day
Statisticians Refute Official Rationale for Exit Poll Errors
January 31,
2005
Dave Zirin
Mr.
Frank's Fatwah: New Republic Writer Calls for Death & Torture
of Arundhati Roy and Stan Goff
Robert Fisk
Amid
Tragedy, Defiance
Chyng Sun
Gonzales: Chief Prosecutor of Porn?
Greg Moses
The Real Scandals of the Texas Election
Mike Whitney
Cheney at Auschwitz
Ali Tonak
Turkey and the EU: Fantasies and Ultimatums
Patrick Cockburn
A
Victory for the Shia
Website of
the Day
Voting by the Script: Where Did the 8 Million Voter Turnout Figure
Come From?
January 29
/ 30, 2005
Manuel Yang
/ Peter Linebaugh
A
Dialogue About Murder in Toledo
Gabriel Kolko
Wilsonian
and Neoconservative Myths
Patrick Cockburn
Baghdad: City of Empty Streets
Robert Fisk
This Election Will Change the World, But Not as the US Wanted
Linn Washington,
Jr.
Con Job: Bush Pledges on Racism Lack Realism
Bernard Chazelle
Why the Children of Iraq Make No Sound When They Fall
Gary Leupp
"This Kind of Subject Matter": Bush's New Ed Secretary
vs. Vermont's Lesbians
JoAnn Wypijewski
The Passion of Paul Shanley
Alexander Cockburn
The Case of Father Jerry
Ron Jacobs
Ballot of the Puppets in Iraq
Brian Cloughley
Smart Bombs; Wrong House: Iraq's Civilian Dead
Fred Gardner
Peron May Split
Sister Dianna
Ortiz
Memo to Bush from a Survivor of the Guatemalan Torturers: Stop
the Torture!
Tom Reeves
How Bush Brings Freedom to the World: the Case of Haiti
Fran Quigley
Report: Haiti Now "More Violent and More Inhuman"
Suzan Mazur
"Mr. Garsin from Kinshasa": an Old Hand Weighs In on
the Murder of Lumumba
Kurt Nimmo
Condi Rice and the Neocon Plan for the Palestinians
Lenni Brenner
Holocaust History: Beyond the UN's Rhetoric
Gilad Atzmon
The
Politics of Auschwitz
Luis Gomez
Power and Autonomy in Bolivia
Mark Gaffney
NASA Searches for a Snowball in Hell: Why Velikovsky Matters
Ben Tripp
Lament of the Mnemonopath
Richard Oxman
Meet the Fuqers
Poets' Basement
Louise, Collins, Shanahan and Albert
Website of
the Weekend
Chemical Industry: Deceit and Denial
January 28,
2005
Rachard Itani
Tsunami
Aid By the Numbers: the US Really is a Miser
Jensen / Youngblood
Iraq's
Non-Election
Patrick Cockburn / Elizabeth
Davies
Attacks on Polling Places Leave 13 Dead
Dave Zirin
The Great Donovan McNabb: Proud "Black Quarterback"
Dave Lindorff
Suicide by State Execution?
Karyn Strickler
A Corporate Death Penalty Act?
Jorge Mariscal
Fighting
the Poverty Draft
January 27,
2005
Seymour Hersh
We've
Been Taken Over By a Cult
Cockburn /
Sengupta
The
US's Bloodiest Day in Iraq
Dave Lindorff
Juke Box Journalism: Shilling for Bush
Ignacio Chapela
/ John F. García
The Laws of Nature
Mike Whitney
The Widening Chasm Among Conservatives
Dr. Teresa
Whitehurst
Those Liberal Southern Baptists!
Ray McGovern
Reining In Cheney
Russ Wellen
Marginalizing Bin Laden
Christopher
Brauchli
The
FBI's Carnival of Errors
Website of
the Day
Informed Eating
January 26,
2005
Saree Makdisi
An
Iron Wall of Colonization: Fantasies and Realities About the
Prospects for Middle East Peace
Scott Fleming
In Good Conscience: an Interview with Concientious Objector Aidan
Delgado
Dave Lindorff
Filling Saddam's Shoes: the Puppet Regime Return's to Torture
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Salazar and Obama: Two Dismal Debuts
Toni Solo
The
US and Latin America: a Not-So-Magical Reality
William James Martin
Condoleezza Rice: Confused About the Middle East
William A.
Cook
Bush's Second Inaugural Address: the Lost Ur-Version
Eric Hobsbawm
Delusions
About Democracy
Alexander Cockburn
The CIA's New Campus Spies
January 25,
2005
Brian Cloughley
Iraq
as Disneyland
Mike Roselle
Satan is My Co-Pilot
Josh Frank
/ Merlin Chowkwanyun
The War on Civil Liberties
John Chuckman
Freedom on Steroids
Paul Craig
Roberts
A
Party Without Virtue
Dr. Teresa
Whitehurst
The
Intolerance of Christian Conservatives
James Petras
The
US / Colombia Plot Against Venezuela
Website of the Day
Lowbaggers for the Environment
January 24,
2005
Fred Gardner
Last
Monologue in Burbank
Lori Berenson
On the Politicization of My Case
Uri Avnery
King
George
January 22
/ 23, 2005
Jennifer Van
Bergen / Ray Del Papa
Nuclear
Incident in Montana
Alexander Cockburn
Prince
Harry's Travails
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Company That Runs the Empire: Lockheed and Loaded
Stan Goff
The Spectacle
Saul Landau
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
Gary Leupp
Official Madness and the Coming War on Iran
Fred Gardner
Is GW Getting the Runaround?
Phil Gasper
Clemency Denied: the Politics of Death in California
Stanley Heller
A Kill-Happy Government: Connecticut Chooses Death
Greg Moses
The Heart of Texas: an Inauguration Day Betrayal on Civil Rights
Justin Taylor
The Folk-Histories of John Ross
Daniel Burton-Rose
One China; Many Problems
Elaine Cassel
Try a Little Tyranny: Questions While Watching the Inaugural
Mike Whitney
Failing Upwards: the Rise of Michael Chertoff
Mark L. Berenson
My Daughter Has Been Wrongly Imprisoned
Christopher
Brauchli
It Doesn't Compute: a $170 Million Mistake
Gilad Atzmon
Zionism and Other Marginal Thoughts
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Day of the Rats
Mark Donham
The Secret Messages of Rahm Emmanuel
Ben Tripp
Adventures in Online Dating
Walter Brasch
Hollywood's Patriots: Soulless Kooks, Mr. Bush?
Poets' Basement
Wuest, Landau, Ford, Albert & Drum
January 21,
2005
Dave Lindorff
A
Great American Journalist:
John L. Hess (1917-2005)
Sharon Smith
The
Anti-War Movement and the Iraqi Resistance
Don Santina
Baseball, Racism and Steroid Hysteria
Ron Jacobs
Locked Out and Pissed Off: Protesting the Bush Inauguration
Kurt Nimmo
The Problem with Mike Ruppert
Don Monkerud
Once They Were Cults: Bush's Faith-Based Social Services
Alan Farago
Swimming Home from the Galapagos
Derek Seidman
An
Interview with Army Medic and Anti-War Activist Patrick Resta
January 20,
2005
Paul Craig
Roberts
Dying
for Sycophants
William Cook
The
Bush Inauguration: A Mock Epic Fertility Rite
Joshua Frank
The Democrats and Iran: Look Who's Backing Bush's Next
Eric Ruder
Why Andres Raya Snapped: Another Casualty of Bush's War
Mike Whitney
Coronation in a Garrison State
Robert Jensen
A Citizens Oath of Office
Peter Rost
Bush Report on Drug Imports: Good Data, Bad Conclusions
David Underhill
Is It Torture Yet?: the Eclectic Fool Aid Torture Test
James Reiss
Adieu, Colin Powell: Pea Soup in Foggy Bottom
CounterPunch
Staff
Voices
from Abu Ghraib: the Injured Party
January 19,
2005
Marta Russell
Social
Security Privatization & Disability: 8 Million at Risk
Mike Ferner
Marines
Stretching Movement: Protesting Urban Warfare in Toledo
Nancy Oden
The
Nuremberg Principles, Iraq and Torture
Tony Paterson
A Catalogue of British Abuses in Iraq
Dave Lindorff
Bush's Divide-and-Conquer Plan to Destroy Social Security
Doug Giebel
BS and CBS: When 60 Minutes Helped Promote WMD Fantasies
Alexander Cockburn
Will
Bush Quit Iraq?
January 18,
2005
Paul Craig
Roberts
How
Americans Were Seduced by War: Empire and Militant Christianity
Jennifer Van
Bergen
Federal
Judge: Abu Ghraib Abuses Result of Decision to Ignore Geneva
Conventions
Douglas Lummis
It's a No Brainer; Send Graner: a Rap for Our Time
Ron Jacobs
Syria Back in the Crosshairs?
Seth DeLong
Enter the Dragon: Will Washington Tolerate a Venezuelan-Chinese
Oil Pact?
Lance Selfa
Stolen Election?: Most Democrats Didn't Even Bother to Inquire
Paul D. Johnson
Mystery Meat: a Right-to-Know About Food Origins
Elisa Salasin
An Open Letter to Jenna Bush, Future Teacher
January 17,
2005
Heather Gray
Misconceptions
About King's Methods for Social Change
Robert Fisk
Hotel Room Journalism: the US Press in Iraq
Dave Lindorff
What the NYT Death Chart Omitted: Civilians Slaughtered by US
Military
Jason Leopold
Sam Bodman's Smokestacks: Bush's Choice for Energy Czar is One
of Texas's Worst Polluters
Gary Leupp
A Message from the Iraqi Resistance
Douglas Valentine
An Act of State? the Execution of Martin Luther King
Harvey Arden
Welcome to Leavenworth: My First Encounter with Leonard Peltier
Greg Moses
King
and the Christian Left: Where Lip Service is Not an Option
January 15
/ 16, 2005
James Petras
The
Kidnapping of a Revolutionary
Robert Fisk
Flying Carpet Airlines: My Return to Baghdad
Ron Jacobs
Unfit for Military Service
Brian Cloughley
Smack Daddies of the Hindu Kush: Afghanistan's Drug Bonanza
Fred Gardner
The Allowable-Quantity Expert
Dr. Susan Block
The Counter-Inaugural Ball: Eros Day, 2005
John Ross
Zapatista Literary Llife
Suzan Mazur
Unspooking Frank Carlucci
M. Shahid Alam
America's New Civilizing Mission
Frederick B. Hudson
Jack Johnson's Real Opponent: "That I Was a Man"
Mike Whitney
Bush's Grand Plan: Incite Civil War in Iraq
Tom Crumpacker
A Constitutional Right to Travel to Cuba
Bob Burton
The Other Armstrong Williams Scandal
John Callender
La Conchita and the Indomitable 82-Year Old
Lila Rajiva
Christian Zionism
Saul Landau
An Imperial Portrait: a Visit to Hearst's Castle
Doug Soderstrom
A Touch of Evil: the Morality of Neoconservatism
Poets' Basement
Davies, Louise, Landau, Albert, Collins and Laymon
January 14,
2005
Robert Fisk
"The
Tent of Occupation"
Lee Sustar
Bush's Social Security Con Job
José
M. Tirado
The Christians I Know
Dave Zirin
The Legacy of Jack Johnson
Sheldon Rampton
Calling John Rendon: a True Tale of "Military Intelligence"
Tracy McLellan
Under the Influence
Yves Engler
The Dictatorship of Debt: the World Bank and Haiti
Tom Barry
Robert
Zoellick: a Bush Family Man
Website of
the Day
Ryan for the Nobel Prize?
January 13,
2005
Mark Chmiel
/ Andrew Wimmer
Hearts
and Minds, Revisited
Joe DeRaymond
The Salvador Option: Terror,
Elections and Democracy
Greg Moses
Every Hero a Killer?...Not
Dave Lindorff
The Great WMD Fraud: Time for an Accounting
Jorge Mariscal
Dr. Galarza v. Alberto Gonzales: Which Way for Latinos?
Christopher Brauchli
Gonzales and the Death Penalty: the Executioner Never Sleeps
Gary Leupp
"Fighting
for the Work of the Lord": Christian Fascism in America
January 12,
2005
Robert Fisk
Fear
Stalks Baghdad
Josh Frank
The
Farce of the DNC Contest
Jack Random
Casualties
of War: the Untold Stories
John Roosa
Aceh's Dual Disasters: the Tsunami and Military Rule
Carol Norris
In the Wake of the Tsunami
Mike Whitney
Pink Slips at CBS
Alan Farago
Can
the Everglades be Saved?
Paul Craig
Roberts
What's
Our Biggest Problem in Iraq...the Insurgency or Bush?
January 11,
2005
Tom Barry
The
US isn't "Stingy"; It's Strategic: Aid as a Weapon
of Foreign Policy
James Hodge
and Linda Cooper
Voice
of the Voiceless: Father Roy Bourgeois and the School of the
the Americas
Linda S. Heard
Farah Radio Break Down: Joseph Farah's Messages of Hate and Homophobia
Derrick O'Keefe
Electoral Gigolo?: Richard Gere and the Occupied Vote
Gila Svirsky
A Tale of Two Elections
Harry Browne
Irish
"Peace Process", RIP
January 10,
2005
Ramzy Baroud
Faith-Based
Disasters: Tsunami Aid and War Costs
Talli Nauman
Killing
Journalists: Mexico's War on a Free Press
Uri Avnery
Sharon's Monologue
Dave Lindorff
Tucker
Carlson's Idiot Wind
Dave Zirin
Randy
Moss's Moondance
Dave Silver
Left Illusions About the Democratic Party
Charles Demers
Plan Salvador for Iraq: Death Squads Come in Waves
William A.
Cook
Causes
and Consequences: Bush, Osama and Israel
January 8 /
9, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Say,
Waiter, Where's the Blood in My Margarita Glass?
John H. Summers
Chomsky
and Academic History
Greg Moses
Getting Real About the Draft
Walter A. Davis
Bible Says: the Psychology of Christian Fundamentalism
Victor Kattan
The EU and Middle East Peace
John Bolender
The Plight of Iraq's Mandeans
Robert Fisk
The Politics of Lebanon
Fred Gardner
Situation NORML
Joe Bageant
The Politics of the Comfort Zone
Mickey Z.
I Want My DDT: Little Nicky Kristof Bugs Out
Ben Tripp
CounterClockwise Evolution
Ron Jacobs
Elvis and His Truck: Out on Highway 61
Saul Landau
Sex
and the Country
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Time to End the Blackout
Ellen Cantarow
NPR's Distortions on Palestine
Richard Oxman
Bageantry Continued
Poets' Basement
Gaffney, Landau, Albert, Collins
January 7,
2005
Omar Barghouti
Slave
Sovereignty: Elections Under Occupation
Kent Paterson
The Framing of Felipe Arreaga: Another Mexican Environmentalist
Arrested
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Old
Vijay Merchant and the Tsunami
David Krieger
Cancel the Inauguration Parties
Gideon Levy
New Year, Old Story
Dave Lindorff
Ohio Protest: First Shot Fired by Congressional Progressives
Christopher
Brauchli
Privatizing the IRS
Roger Burbach
/ Paul Cantor
Bush,
the Pentagon and the Tsunami
January 6,
2005
Brian J. Foley
Gonzales:
Supporting Torture is not His Greatest Sin
Greg Moses
Boot
Up America!: Gen. Helmly's Memo Leaks New Bush Deal
Petras / Chomsky
An
Open Letter to Hugo Chavez
Alan Maass
The Decline of the Dollar
Dave Lindorff
Colin Powell's Selective Sense of Horror
Jenna Orkin
The EPA and a Dirty Bomb: 9/11's Disastrous Precedent
P. Sainath
The
Tsunami and India's Coastal Poor
January 5,
2005
Alan Farago
2004:
An Environmental Retrospective
Winslow T.
Wheeler
Oversight
Detected?: Sen. McCain and the Boeing Tanker Scam
Jean-Guy Allard
Gary Webb: a Cuban Perspective
Fred Gardner
Strutting, Smirking, As If The Mad Plan Was Working
David Swanson
Albert Parsons on the Gallows
Richard Oxman
The Joe Bageant Interview
Bruce Jackson
Death
on the Living Room Floor
January 4,
2005
Michael Ortiz
Hill
Mainlining
Apocalypse
Elaine Cassel
They
Say They Can Lock You Up for Life Without a Trial
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CounterPunch Diary
Back
to Salem: Paul Shanley and the Return of "Recovered Memory";
Ward Churchill's Genes (Cont.); Gannon and Gay Closetry in the
Bush White House; Tsunami Relief and Australia
By
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Off goes former Father Paul Shanley
to state prison in Massachusetts for twelve to fifteen years,
convicted of "digitally raping" and otherwise sexually
abusing Paul Busa two decades ago. Shanley's now 74; the earliest
he can hope for parole is when he's 82, at which point the DA
could determine that he is still, though frail, "a sexually
dangerous person" and should be confined for whatever years
remain. A DA in Massachusetts exercised just that option in the
case of another ex-priest, James Porter, who was released last
year after pleading guilty in 1993 to molesting twenty-eight
children. At the time of his death in February at the age of
70, Porter was in civil confinement, with the state seeking to
keep him behind bars indefinitely.
So Shanley must know that most
likely he will never see the light of day, unless through a barred
window. He has more pressing concerns, namely the distinct possibility
that he will be murdered in prison, a hope expressed by more
than one person present at his sentencing, where Christian compassion,
always rationed in Massachusetts, was in short supply. "I
want him to die in prison, whether it's of natural causes or
otherwise. However he dies, I hope it's slow and painful,"
declared Shanley's accuser, Paul Busa, a 27-year-old firefighter,
in a written statement read in court.
The menacing words "or
otherwise" were no doubt intended to evoke the fate of John
Geoghan, a priest sent to a Massachusetts prison in 2002 for
fondling a 10-year-old. Although Geoghan was being kept in "protective
custody," he was strangled to death by a man serving a life
term for killing a gay man. There have been allegations that
prison guards were complicit in his murder. Paul Busa's father,
Richard, is a corrections officer, and other relatives, including
Paul's wife, are in Massachusetts law enforcement.
In his written statement Busa
said that Shanley "is a founding member of NAMBLA and openly
advocated sex between men and little boys." It's this supposed
distinction, as the man who created the North American Man Boy
Love Association, that has earned Shanley his throne in the Ninth
Circle of the damned. It was one of the credentials in his résumé
as presented in a two-and-a-half-hour PowerPoint presentation
to the press in April 2002 by Roderick MacLeish Jr., the personal-injury
lawyer representing Busa. At that presentation MacLeish released
Shanley's ample diocesan file to the media, which hurriedly repeated
MacLeish's allegations without pausing to scrutinize the file.
Had they done so, they would
have found nothing to buttress the claims that Shanley founded
NAMBLA, or was ever a member, or had ever advocated sex between
men and little boys, or had a thirty-year record of child abuse
complaints made against him or a history of being moved from
parish to parish. Yet all these allegations have become the common
currency of Shanley's biography, and if guards usher a murderer
into his cell, the killer will probably have the NAMBLA charge
at the top of his mind. Shanley's defense counsel, Frank Mondano,
has said that during jury selection every potential juror was
aware of the Shanley scandal, and what they most commonly "knew"
was that Shanley was somehow involved with NAMBLA.
When my colleague JoAnn Wypijewski
began to report on the Shanley case in 2002, the first thing
she did was read the 1,600-page diocesan file that MacLeish had
brandished. It became clear to JoAnn that in a case that had
consumed the press, most conspicuously the Boston Globe, which
ran almost daily stories on the priest scandal for years, she
seems to have been the only reporter to have taken the trouble
to look at the church dossier.
What she found in the documents
were many, many pages of Shanley's fervent defense of homosexuality
as a normal human variation and the uproar these arguments provoked
in the Church. (Shanley, like many in his generation, found support
for his assertions in Alfred Kinsey's 1950s sex surveys.) In
terms of sexual abuse, the Church file has one complaint from
the 1960s, which Shanley denied and his superior, rightly or
wrongly, determined to be baseless; then nothing until the early
1990s, when a few accusers imputed various abuses to the priest
dating back to the 1960s or '70s.
But nowhere was there any support
for the claim that Shanley was a founder of NAMBLA or had attended
a NAMBLA meeting; JoAnn, despite many discoveries about Shanley's
active sex life as a priest, found no external evidence to back
the charge. For her fascinating report on Shanley, see the September/October
2004 issue of Legal Affairs and jw01292005.html.
What landed Shanley in prison
was not anything in the Church's file but the uncorroborated
"recovered memories" of one man, Paul Busa. This case
is a throwback to the early 1990s and before, when people were
put behind bars for lifetimes on the basis of memories elicited
by leading questions of psychotherapists. Ultimately, after years
of patient effort by a few journalists, psychoanalysts, psychological
researchers and advocates for justice, "recovered memory"
as a tool of the latter-day Inquisition fell into well-deserved
disrepute. In the state that gave us Salem in the seventeenth
century and the Amiraults (all wrongly sent to prison on charges
brought by Middlesex county DA Martha Coakley) in the twentieth,
Shanley's case has reintroduced recovered memory to the courtrooms
of the twenty-first.
In Shanley's trial, prosecution
witnesses would not confirm Busa's claim that he was regularly
taken from religious-instruction classes by Shanley. Nor would
they confirm that they had ever seen the priest alone with Busa,
or had seen anything untoward in the years 1983-89, during which
Busa claims abuse. These claims were based on memories that became
active in 2002, following Busa's conversation with his girlfriend
about the nearly identical recovered memories of his friend Gregory
Ford. Ford was dropped by the prosecution in the same case, as
were two others, their stories apparently deemed by the DA too
vexed for courtroom use.
No facts relative to the charges
intruded into the courtroom; only emotion. Superior Court Judge
Stephen Neel should have dismissed the charges, as requested
by the defense. In the atmosphere of Massachusetts it would have
taken courage to do that, and truly extraordinary courage for
anyone on the jury (which included a therapist) to have insisted
that memories are not evidence, and that there was far more than
reasonable doubt in this case.
Churchill's
Genes and Jews in Nazi Germany
Dear Mr Cockburn,
As someone writing form Germany,
the possibility of misunderstanding me is great, but I risk the
following comment nonetheless - purely for the sake of accuracy:
In your article you stated:
"I couldn't care less
if Churchill is 100 per cent Indian, or 3/16ths Cherokee, which
is what I believe he says is his Indian component. Didn't the
Nazis kill people for that amount of Jewish blood in their veins?"
According to the Nürnberg
laws (and in actual practice) one could lead a normal life (to
the extent one could call life in Nazi Germany "normal")
with one-quarter "Jewish blood" - provided one was
raised with no ties to Judaism, Jewish organizations, etc. One
couldn't join the NSDAP or the SS, but one had the normal rights
and duties (military, etc.) of a German citizen. I personally
know many "quarter Jews" who lived "normal"
lives (which included things like years as a German POW in the
Soviet Union) in the Third Reich.
There were even jokes at the
time about the Jewish grandmother being the most beloved member
of a family - for the culture and money she brought with her
- without being a danger...
Arguments are stronger when
they are accurate - even as concerns the most inhuman society
in known history...
Karl Brehmer, Ph.D.
Rostock, Germany
The Gannon
Scandal
It's early days yet, but the
Gannon affair bears all the marks of being a ripe and delicious
scandal with long-term potential. Perhaps because of the confluence
between rightwing attitudes and sexual repression there's always
been an equation in Washington between closetry and the ranker
reaches of the fascist mindset. The Gannon scandal has all the
right ingredients: a fake journalist (how could they tell?),
with militarystud as one of his email addresses; a supposed breach
in national security; intimations of gay closetry in the upper
reaches of the Bush White House (and I doubt Laura Bush will
prove as protective a den mother as Nancy Reagan). This weekend
CBS links Gannon with Karl Rove and there have been some alleged
sightings of Bush spokesman Scott McLellan in the gay bars of
Austin, where there's always confusion on exactly what lies behind
those manly Wranglers. What better commentator could one hope
to find on this matter than a gay, anti-war libertarian. And
so without further ado we usher you to our friend Justin Raimondo,
who is indeed a gay, anti-war libertarian. Take a look at his uproarious
resume of the Gannon Affair.
Tsunami
Relief and Australia:
More Than You May Ever Want To Know
From: registrar.powell@justice.wa.gov.au
Date: February 16, 2005 7:38:18 PM PST
To: alexandercockburn@asis.com
Subject: Tsuami Relief
Dear Alexander Cockburn,
perth
western australia
registrar.powell@justice.wa.gov.au
Your figures on Austalian contributions
to Tsunami relief are wrong. Some weeks ago the BBC broadcast
similar figures and subsequently broadcast a correction which
was also wrong The population of Australia is 22 million. Contributions
from the public have totalled 350 million. The Australian government
have contributed 1.1 billion. A billion in Aust. and the U.K
has more zeros than the USA billion. So you do the calculations.
The real story in Aust. is what effect this will have on contributions
to other charities this year
From: accockburn@asis.com
Date: February 17, 2005 7:41:38 AM PST
To: registrar.powell@justice.wa.gov.au
Thanks for this. Mine came
via Rachard Itani from The London Observer. I'll correct them.
Best Alex C
On 17-Feb-05, at 10:42 AM,
Alexander Cockburn wrote:
Rachard, I wrote back to the
guy saying I'd do a little correction in a CP piece I did quoting
you. Cd you do your calculations again for Australia? Best Alex
Date: February 17, 2005 1:00:11 PM PST
To: accockburn@asis.com
Alex,
The calculations and figures
quoted in the article and used by you in quoting it were not
wrong at the time of writing. We live in a dynamic world in which
numbers change constantly. These include population numbers,
donations promised and donations actually delivered.
Having said that, I'm afraid
that some of the figures quoted by the registrar are factually
wrong.
1- The population of Australia
is reported at "19,913,144 (July 2004 Est.)" by the
CIA World Fact Book, as good a source as any for general purposes.
(http://www.cia.gov/cia/)
The Australian Government's own bureau of statistics reports
the country's population "on 18 February 2005 at 06:24:56
(Canberra time)" to be "20,267,299". (The figure
changes every second on that site: http://www.abs.gov.au/.
So, the 22 million figure advanced by "registrar.powell"
does not correspond to his or her own government's officially
published statistics. The 20,267,299 figure, by the way, according
to the Australian government's bureau of statistics, is a "projection
based on the estimated resident population at 30th June 2004
and assumes... an overall population increase of one person every
2 minutes and 9 seconds." The Factbook figures are also
an estimate as of July 2004, which means that the fact-book actually
overstates Australia's population by 3.467 million people according
to the Australian government's methodology. (Working backwards,
this methodology leads us to calculate that the Australian government
estimated the country's population to be about 16,799,913 as
of July 2004.)
2- It would be totally meaningless
to do so now, but were we to use the registrar's figure of 22
million Australians as of July 2004, the Australian contribution
per head of population would have dropped from $5.23 to $4.733.
Australian private donations may have reached $350 million by
the time the registrar wrote, but I fail to see the significance
of this. Private donations from all of the other countries listed
in the article have also increased by now, and in fact, donations
from private and public sources in other countries have also
not only increased, but would in some cases completely alter
the rankings quoted in the article. But so what? The ranking
was not the object nor the central theme of the article. It was
mainly used to show how confused people can be when reacting
to disaster, and how little reason they use.
3- The Australian government
HAS NOT "contributed $1.1 billion" as the registrar
states: it has perhaps pledged $1.1 billion, an altogether different
proposition. Based on consistent past experience, only a minute
fraction of this figure is ever likely to be actually disbursed,
and will most likely be disbursed to the wrong people, on the
wrong projects, and may in fact consist of nothing but soft loans,
or payments to Australian consultants, aid personnel, etc. It
would also be interesting in this respect to find out whether
this official pledged figure includes the cost of "military"
involvement, i.e. the cost to get them to and from the tsunami
relief areas, etc. Aid should be what actually reaches the people.
(In calculating foreign aid, beauty is most definitely in the
eye of the beholder.)
3- I'm not sure whether the
registrar is speaking in Australian or American dollars. If he's
using Australian dollars, he should adjust his numbers downward
by approximately one third. Also, a"billion in Australian
and the U.K." does not have "more zeroes than the USA
billion." In both cases, it amounts to one thousand million,
or 1,000,000,000. A total donation of $350 million by private
Australian individuals would amount to $17.27 per capita if quoted
in US dollars, or to about $13.70 if converted into U.S. dollars.
If one were only interested in a contest of donation rankings
between countries (which would be a sad commentary on the human
condition) one would have to update the table used as a reference
in my article.
I could go back and update
the whole table, but I trust you would agree that this would
be a waste of time, especially since the article only uses the
tsunami donations to question people's morality (if not their
ability to use reason) when reacting to different kind of disasters,
natural vs. man-made. How much a particular country's population
has given, or government has pledged, is another story altogether.
However, if you would still like me to do so, I'd be happy to
try updating the figures, even though by now the figures probably
make no sense. From the many comments that I have received, it
is interesting how most Americans who reacted to the article
were stuck on the figures, and most non-Americans got the argument
for what it was: a comment on morality, reason, and misplaced
or at least confused human compassion. Your own comments that
quoted my article were absolutely right on. I'd be nearly tempted
to write a commentary on how irate and irrational most American
comments have been in reaction to the news that "they are
not most definitely number one, the best, the most, the ultimest..."
but that was not my object in the first place, and I would do
so only within the context of another commentary that would require
such a comparison, not as an exercise in "American hatred",
as many Americans who e-mailed back comments have suggested.
Israelis and Americans have both fallen into the trap of equating
any analysis or criticism of government action or socio-political
issues affecting their propagandist self-image as either anti-semitism
or anti-americanism! It seems that some people read CP or similar
sites for the sole purpose of jumping on any analytic criticism,
taking it out of context, and trying to squash it.
4- Finally, I agree with the
registrar that "the real story", whether in Australia
and elsewhere, is indeed "what effect this will have on
contributions to other charities this year." People have
most definitely over-given and badly given to the tsunami "victims"
and many will have little disposable income to give to other
more pressing, prevalent and endemic disasters that they consistently
all but ignore (e.g. infectious diseases that kill multi-millions
every year) which was the gist of my argument.
Best,
Rachard
Footnote: I wrote the first
item in this column on Shanley's fate right after his sentencing
and it ran in the print edition of The Nation that went to press
last Wednesday.
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