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Today's
Stories
July
21 / 22, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
Giuliani and the Dogs of War
Werther
How to Read a National Intelligence
Estimate
Ralph
Nader
Atomic Blowback
David
Keen
Buy Hard: How to Sell an Endless War
Fred
Gardner
Karl Rove, Pothead: When Good Drugs Happen to Bad People
Gary
Leupp
Edelman's Edict: Is Hillary "Reinforcing Enemy Propaganda?"
Robert
Fantina
Fear in Iraq
Saker
The Future of Palestine: an Interview with Jonathan Cook
Rannie
Amiri
Nasrallah in the Crosshairs: How will the Third Lebanon War Start?
Mike
Whitney
The Crisis in Hedgistan
Dr.
Susan Rosenthal, MD
The Hidden Injuries of Powerlessness: Linking Alienation and
Dissociation
Monica
Benderman
Facing the Truth
Dan
Bacher
Deltagate: the Politics of Fish Kills
Michael
Baney
Fujimori's Long Race From Justice
Missy
Beattie
Here, There and Everywhere
Ron
Jacobs
Tremble, Tyrants
Thomas
Naylor
California Split: an Open Letter to Schwarzenegger
July
20, 2007
Eliza
Szabo
Fatal Neglect: Civilian Casualties
in Afghanistan
Pam
Martens
Doctoring the News: CNN's Sanjay Gupta, Laura Bush and Merck
Alan
Farago
Winners and Losers in the Housing Market Crash
Harvey
Wasserman
Lies and Leaks: The Earthquake That Screamed "No Nukes!"
Marjorie
Cohn
Iraqis will be the Deciders
Dave
Zirin
White Noise and the Black Athlete
Anthony
DiMaggio
American Public Opinion and Israel
Scott
Liebertz
Oaxaca on Edge
Linn
Washington, Jr.
British Cops Assault Rape Allegations
Bill
Piper / Anthony Papa
Flying High?: The Political Junkets of Bush's Drug Czar
Ramzy
Baroud
Bush's War Policy: When Time Heals Nothing
Website
of the Day
The Prankster Art of Mark Jenkins
July
19, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
The Next Invasion of Iraq
Remi
Kanazi
Is This Ben Gurion or Hell?: a Palestinian Adventure Through
Israel's Largest Airport
Winslow
T. Wheeler
The Surging Costs of the Iraq War
Sharon
Smith
Democrats and Health Care: Behind the Rhetoric
Dave
Lindorff
Killing Cabbies in Iraq
Conn
Hallinan
Have Gun, Will Travel: Mercenaries in Iraq and Afghanistan
D.
K. Wilson
The Michael Vick Case Pulls Back the Veil on Who We Really Are
Joshua
Frank
Democrats as Leviathan: Another Step Toward War with Iran
Norman
Solomon
The Ghost of Wayne Morse
Russell
Hoffman
Rattling the Reactor: Quakes, Fires and Leaks at the World's
Largest Nuke
Ray
McGovern
Bush's Wooden Headedness Kills
Website
of the Day
Protesting Power
July
18, 2007
Brenda
Norrell
Spy Towers on the US Border
Col.
Dan Smith
How the US Could "Lose" Saudi
Arabia
Martha
Rosenberg
Lord of Crookharbour: the Trial of Conrad Black
Conn
Hallinan
Bombing and Spraying Afghanistan
Binoy
Kampmark
The SIM Card Terror Case
Patrick
Bond /
Rehana Dada
Who Killed Sajida Khan?
Tom
Johnson
The Long Road ... to Nowhere
Paul
Craig Roberts
A Free Press or a Ministry of Truth?
Bob
Quellos
Pushing the Poor Out of House and Home
Felice
Pace
Falling for Lieberman's Iran Resolution
Robert
Weissman
National Health Insurance: More Humane and More Efficient
CP
Newswire
Shocking Report Showing Involvement of US Psychologists in Torture
Website
of the Day
Gilad Atzmon Live!
July
17, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
Just Another Day in Iraq: 100 Fathers,
Mothers and Children Killed
Marjorie
Cohn
Out of Control: Executive Power Plays
Evelyn
Pringle
Inside Bush's FDA
David
Rosen
Moral Hypocrisy on the Hill: the Christian Right, Sexual Scandal
and the Pleasures of the Courtesan
Susan
Miller
Width Matters: Displacement and Israel's Wall
Franklin
Lamb
Did the UN Cave to Israel on Lebanon's Shabaa Farms?
Don
Monkerud
Considering Victory in Iraq
Harvey
Wasserman
Nuclear Surge
Russell
Hoffman
Japan Dodges a Radioactive Bullet
Dave
Lindorff
Feingold Turns to Dross
Dave
Zirin
Reclaiming Sports as True Fiction
Website
of the Day
Che at the UN: 1964
July
16, 2007
Gary
Leupp
Cheney Urges Bush to Strike Iran
Ellen
Cantarow
The Untold Story of Iraqi Women
Paul
Craig Roberts
Impeach Now
Allan
J. Lichtman
The D.C. Madam's Public Service
Dan
Bacher
Cheney and the Klamath: Was the Veep Behind the Nation's Worst
Salmon Kill?
Patrick
Cockburn
The Killing of Khalid W. Hassan
Manuel
Garcia, Jr.
Property is Racism
James
Brooks
AIPAC and Mahmoud Abbas: the Undemocratic Road to Defeat
Liaquat
Ali Khan
The Judicial Crisis in Pakistan
Julie
Flint
Suleiman Jamous in Limbo
Website
of the Day
Free Suleiman Jamous!
July
14 / 15. 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
Support Their Troops?
Andy
Worthington
Gitmo's Tangled Web: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Majhid Khan, Dubious
US Convictions and a Dying Man
Ralph
Nader
Lawlessness, Waste and Incompetence
Robert
Fantina
The Illegalities of the Iraq War
Ron
Jacobs
Architecture as Military Strategy
Joshua
Frank
Eat, Fight, Screw, Pray: An Interview with Joe Bageant
Conn
Hallinan
Guns, Foundations and Free Trade: How the Right Targets Africa
Dr.
Susan Rosenthal, MD
War and Dissociation
John
Ross
No En Nuestro Nombre!: a Letter to the Mexican Antiwar Movement
Fred
Gardner
Who's Afraid of Cannabidiol?
Rannie
Amiri
A Primer on Israeli Doublespeak
Charles
Modiano
ESPN's Rap Sheet: Pacman as Black Man
Anthony
DiMaggio
America's Parochial Press
China
Hand
Executive Orders and Coercive Diplomacy
Missy
Comley Beattie
Reprobate Rhetoricians
Dr.
James J. Murtagh, Jr.
Harry Potter Battles Big Brother
Kenneth
Rexroth
On Thomas More's "Utopia"
Poets'
Basement
Engel, Davies and Orloski
Website
of the Weekend
GOP Sex Hypocrites: a Slideshow
July
13, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
The Decider in Denial
Winslow
T. Wheeler
Bush's Iraq Benchmarks Assessment: Grading on a Curve for the
Wrong Test
Imran
Khan
When Dictators Serve US Interests
Todd
Chretien
The Wal-Mart of Garbage
Sam
Husseini
Killing the Constitution
Dr.
Herman Mindshaftgap
Why, in Truth, There is No Surge
Anthony
Papa
The Hard Road Home
D.
K. Wilson
The Wonderful World of Mike Greenberg and Barry Bonds
David
Michael Green
In the Last Throes, Judiciously
Website
of the Day
Strange Attraction: Mrs. Thompson and Mr. Wolfowitz
July
12, 2007
Paul
Craig Roberts
Restoring the People's Power
Robert Jensen
Lessons
from the Lal Masjid Tragedy
Dr. Susan Block
Hookergate II: The Senator and the Veep
Joshua Frank
The Liberal Thrashing of Ward Churchill
John Chuckman
How Terror Lost Its Meaning
Corporate Crime
Reporter
The Problem with Bribeline
Mike Whitney
Demonizing Putin
Nicola Nasser
Will New Delhi's Palestinian Policy be Neutralized?
Richard Rhames
Requiem for the Paxilated
William S.
Lind
Not Fourth Generation Warfare
Website of the Day
Video: World's Largest Nuclear Explosion
July
11, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
The Benchmark Blame Game
Richard
Neville
Is This Man a Psychopath? Bomber McNeill, the Faceless Pol Pot
of the Sky
Debra
McNutt
Privatizing Women: Military Prostitution and the Iraq Occupation
John
V. Walsh
A Plea to Ralph Nader
Scott
Liebertz
Where's the Outcry? Mexico's Monitor Radio vs. RCTV
George
C. Wilson
Beware the Iran Hawks
James
McEnteer
My Impossible Dream Candidate
Philip
Rizk
Submission or Resistance in Gaza?
Johnny
Hazard
Mexico Commemorates a Fraud
Dave
Lindorff
On the Road with Impeachment
Website
of the Day
Sly Stone's Higher Power
July
10, 2007
James
Ridgeway
True North: Big Oil in the Arctic
Tariq
Ali
New Clashes in Islamabad: Judges and Jihadis Torment the Regime
Javed
Hussein
Pakistan's Waco?: The Storming of the Red Mosque
William
Blum
Neocons, Theocons, Demcons, Excons and Future Cons
Ralph
Nader
Grown in China
Jay
Arena
New Orleans, Public Housing and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Anthony
DiMaggio
A Begrudging Reversal: The New York Times and the "Anti-War"
Turn
Eva
Liddell
Has Ann Coulter Got the Hots for John Edwards?
Jerry
Kroth
Democratic Defectors and the Israel Lobby
Alice
Woodward
White Supremacy and the Jena Six
Nikolas
Kozloff
Where's Jerry?: On Cheney Impeachment, Rep. Nadler's a No Show
Paul
Shannon
It's Time to Reform Sex Offender Laws
Website
of the Day
March for Remembrance
July
9, 2007
Fidel
Castro
The Killing Machine: Reflections from
a Target of the CIA
Diana
Johnstone
King Sarko the First
John
Walsh
Will the Greens Seize the Moment?
Uri
Avnery
The Jordanian Option
Ramzy
Baroud
The Palestinian Left: a Lost Opportunity?
John
Ripton
The New West Bank Palestinian State
Stephen
Lendman
Making Gaza Scream
Bruce
Jackson
Bush Going Down: the Correct Way to Affix a Stamp
Michael
Donnelly
What's the Matter with Winchester?
Doug
Giebel
Wanted: Old Men with Nothing to Lose
Website
of the Day
Ron Paul on This Week with George
July 7 / 8, 2007
Saul
Landau
Blame the Puppet
Ismael
Hossein-zadeh
Parasitic Imperialism
Fawzia
Afzal-Khan
What Lies Beneath: Dispatches from the Frontlines of t he Burqa
Brigade
Alan
Maass
Will "Sicko" Spark a Movement?: a Film, Militant Nurses
and a New Opportunity for Single Payer Health Care
John
Ross
The Fire Last Time
Pat
Williams
The Supreme Court and Mr. Peanut
Rannie
Amiri
The Unbreakable Mordechai Vanunu
Farzana
Versey
Does the Taj Mahal Deserve to be a Wonder of the World?
Bart
Gruzalski
Bush, the Revolution and the Iraq War
Paul
Rockwell
An Army of None
Reza
Fiyouzat
Tax Cuts for the Rich Only Benefit the Economy of the Rich
Monica
Benderman
Americans, Honestly!
Kenneth
Couesbouc
Total War: From Clausewitz to Clinton and Bush
Dave
Lindorff
Poll: Impeach the Bastards
Charles
Modiano
History's Hit Job on Thomas Paine
Missy
Beattie
King Cretin
Dal
LaMagna
A Peacemaker's View of Baghdad
Jean
Gerard
Those So-Called Oil Contracts in Iraq
Anne
Dachel
Autism: an Epidemic of Fairly Recent Origin
Ron
Jacobs
Modes and Melodies of Resistance
Poets'
Basement
Gibbons, Orloski, Engel and Buknatski
Website
of the Day
Van Morrison and Bob Dylan in Athens
July 6, 2007
Daniel
Ellsberg
When the Crimes of the White House
are Unpunishable
Gary
Leupp
The Cracks in Cheney's World
Harvey
Wasserman
Leonard Peltier vs. Scooter Libby: the Hero and the Henchman
Omer
Subhani
Our Dead are Not the Same: Ignoring Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan
Marjorie
Cohn
Compassion, Conspiracy and Commutation
Christopher
Brauchli
Kingly Edicts: Bush's Executive Orders
David
Michael Green
Scalia Time: the Wrecking Ball Court
China
Hand
Catfish Blues: Food Safety, the FDA and the Emerging Trade War
with China
Renee
Saucedo
and Todd Chretien
The New Challenges Facing the Immigrant Rights Movement
Corporate
Crime Reporter
The Crime Wave Behind the Media Curtain
Website
of the Day
Jean Bricmont on the Humanitarian Interveners
July
5, 2007
Andy
Worthington
Two Americas, Both Unjust: Scooter
Libby vs. the "Enemy Combatants"
Mike
Stark
Double Standards of North Carolina "Justice"
Norman
Solomon
The Keyboard Hawks: a Bloody Media Mirror
Michael
Schwartz
Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month
Susie
Day
Killer Lesbians Mauled by Killer Court (and Media Wolfpack)
Jacob
Hornberger
A Tangled Web of Lies: Bush and the Libby Case
Bill
Hatch
Smoking with Arnold: The Strange Return of Toxic Mary Nichols
Don
Fitz
When Building Green Ain't So Green
John
Wright
The Crisis of Imperialism
Website
of the Day
Anti-Flag and Tom Morello: "This Land is Your Land"
July
4, 2007
St.
Clair / Frank
Obama's Nuclear Ambitions
Vijay
Prashad
Democrat (Punjab): Obama and Outsourcing
Carl
G. Estabrook
The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Exist
Ron
Jacobs
Texas Wants to Kill Another Man, the Law be Damned: the Disturbing
Case of Kenneth Foster
David
R. Dow
The Quality of Bush's Mercy: the Ghosts of Texas
Claudia
Johnson
Is My Doctor a Terrorist?
William
S. Lind
What Israel's Defeat in Lebanon Means for Defense Industry Fat
Cats
Gregory
Afghani
Truth and Tenure: Finkelstein and the Perils of Impeccable Scholarship
Paul
Edwards
End It Now!
D.
K. Wilson
The Sliming of Tank Johnson
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Thank You, Mr. President: Bush/Cheney for Dummies
Thomas
Jefferson
The Spirit of Resistance: Lethargy is the Forerunner of the Death
of Public Liberty
Cindy
Sheehan
Call Out the Instigator
Website
of the Day
Springsteen: 4th of July, Ashbury Park
July 3, 2007
Bill
Quigley
Injustice in Jena: Black Nooses Hanging
from the "White" Tree
Gary
Leupp
Civil Strife in Palestine: a Broader Context
Lynda
Brayer
Norman Finkelstein and the Catholic Church
Richard
Thieme
Mind Wars: Brain Research, Nanotech and the Military
Helen
Redmond
They Don't Come Back the Same: the Mind of the Returning Iraq
War Vet
David
Swanson
Scooter and the Commuter: When Presidents Pardon Their Own Crimes
Jacob
Hornberger
Martha Stewart vs. Scooter Libby: Commutation as Cover-Up
Ayesha
Ijaz Khan
Pakistan's New Jihad
Franklin
Lamb
The Edginess of Lebanon
Ray
McGovern
Unimpeachably Impeachable: Start with Cheney
Kevin
Zeese
The Air Force vs. Rev. Lennox Yearwood
Dave
Lindorff
Nancy Pelosi and the Low Bar Democrats
Website
of the Day
A Military Guide to the Iraq War
July 2, 2007
Andy
Worthington
The Guantánamo Whistleblowers
Nina
Serrano
The Assassination of a Poet: Memories of Roque Dalton
Jack
Hirschman
The Nation and the Assassin: a Shameful Blunder
Paul
Craig Roberts
Enter Turkey
Bill
Williams
The Commissar Two-Step at DePaul
Anthony
Papa
A Taste of the Gulag: What Paris Learned
Sonja
Karkar
Who Will Save Palestine?
Louay
Safi
Steve Emerson's Fantastic Obsession
Anthony
Gregory
When Killer Cops Walk
Monica
Benderman
In Consideration of War
Website
of the Day
Dylan's Masters of War, at West Point, 1990
June
30 / July 1, 2007
John
Ross
Free Frida Kahlo!
Alan
Farago
Fakery, Inflation and the Housing
Market
Peter
Quinn
The Political Paranoia Over Immigration: Two Centuries and Counting
Christopher
Brauchli
Cheney Does the Constitution
Robert
Fisk
Abu Henry and the Mysterious Silence
Uri
Avnery
A Dark Summit
Judith
Siers-Poisson
The Politics and PR of Cervical Cancer
Saul
Landau
Israel is Bad for Jewish Ethics
Abbas
Zaidi
The Ad Hominem World of Pakistan Politics
Ron
Jacobs
Ending the War, Organizing for Change
Ralph
Nader
Move Over Oprah: a Summer Reading List
Donald
Worster
Which City is Worse Off Today, New York or New Orleans?
Mike
Whitney
The Fed's Role in the Bear Stearns Meltdown
Jacob
Hill
Fast Track to Trade Failure
Kenneth
Couesbouc
Why Global Trade is Rarely Fair
Missy
Beattie
Kakistocracy
Mohammad
Kamaali
Envoy for the Quartet
Ramzy
Baroud
Finding Lessons in Gaza's Bloodshed
Leonard
Peltier
A Gathering at Oglala
Phyllis
Pollack
Seven Hours of Banging with the Stones
Poets'
Basement
Reed, Orloski and Buknatski
Website
of the Weekend
A Podcast Interview with Cpt. Ward Boston on the USS Liberty
June
29, 2007
St.
Clair / Frank
Toward a New Environmental Movement
Brian
Cloughley
Losing the War in Afghanistan: One Civilian Massacre at a Time
Patrick
Cockburn
End the Occupation: an Open Letter to Gordon Brown
Gilad
Atzmon
The Peace Envoy: Tony Blair on Work Release
Dave
Lindorff
Subpoenas, Executive Privilege and Liberal Pipedreams
Jennifer
Matsui /
Carl Kandutsch
Electric Larryland
Kevin
Zeese
A Different Kind of Peace Candidate
Daniel
Klimek
Fasting for Justice at DePaul
David
Michael Green
The Founding Fathers Never Met Dick Cheney
John
Chuckman
The London Car Bomb
Website
of the Day
BAM!
June
28, 2007
Bill
Quigley
How to Destroy an African American
City in 33 Steps
Vijay
Prashad
Once More on the New York Times
Margaret
Kimberley
The Whitening of Marianne Pearl: When White Actors Play Black
Characters
Winslow
T. Wheeler
House of Pork: Changing Lightbulbs in the Democrats' Bordello
Philip
Rizk
The Failing of Gaza
D.
K. Wilson
The Black Villains Club
Bill
Williams
Strange Calculus at DePaul
Mahmoud
El-Yousseph
The Deportation of Yardlin Jimenez
Richard
Rhames
The Liberation of Paris
Paul
Krassner
Bong Hits for Repression: the Giant Sucking Sound of the Supreme
Court
Website
of the Day
Free
Lightnin' Hopkins
June 27, 2007
Marjorie
Cohn
Targeting Dissent: FBI Spying on the
National Lawyers Guild
Dr.
Susan Rosenthal, MD
Sick and Sicker: Two Models of Health Care Rationing
Alan
Farago
Bush and the Everglades: Rebranding Failure as Success
Carla
Blank
"America, the Beautiful": the Queen, Jamestown and
the Eye of the Beholder
Matthew
Abraham
The Smearing of Robert Trivers, Dershowitz-Style
Sunsara
Taylor
The Deadly Consequences of Compromise: Abortion Rights Under
Assault, Where's the Women's Movement?
Russell
D. Hoffman
16 Dirty Secrets About Nuclear Power
Robert
Weissman
Blackstone and Capital's Grand Scam
Sen.
Russ Feingold
Secrecy and the Federal Death Penalty
Paul
Buchheit
The Footprints of Democracies
Website
of the Day
Anarchy for the USA: an Interview with Josh Wolf
June
26, 2007
Jonathan
Cook
Divide and Rule, Israeli-Style
Ralph
Nader
Sicko and the Politics of Health Care
Corporate
Crime Reporter
Which Side Are You On, Michael Moore?
Ron
Jacobs
Are the Neocons Really Going?
Martha
Rosenberg
Mad Cow in God's Country
John
Chuckman
China's New Weapons
Denny
Haldeman
Ethanolics Anonymous
Anthony
DiMaggio
Free Speech Hypocrisy at the Supreme Court
Stephen
Fleischman
The Tightrope Economy
William
S. Lind
Legitimacy, Toujours Legitimacy
Website
of the Day
The CIA's Family Jewels
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.
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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
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June
15, 2007
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Farago
View from the Construction Crane:
Sex, Taxes and Real Estate Scams in Miami
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Worthington
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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
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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
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Black Power Through Low Power Radio
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Silvia Cattori
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Richard Gott
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Firmin DeBrabander
How the Neocons Misread Machiavelli
William S. Lind
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Keith Rosenthal
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Roberts
The Neocon Threat to American Freedom
P. Sainath
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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
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Confessions of an Anti-Nuke Jerk
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Schueller
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The
War on Journalists
Paul Craig
Roberts
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Uri Avnery
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Norman Solomon
The Silence of the Bombs
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Groundhog Day in Pakistan
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Poetry and Politics in Nassau County
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CounterPunch Diary
Giuliani
and the Dogs of War
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Even as the Iraq war claims yet another
casualty, in the form of Senator John McCain, another Republican
sets himself up for political destruction by insisting that America,
should persist in this unpopular enterprise. McCain, once hailed
as his party's all-but-inevitable nominee for the presidency,
is near the end, out of money and firing senior members of his
campaign staff, who retaliate by denigrating those left on the
sinking ship.
It's been obvious for months
that the path to the White House in 2008 does not lie in endorsing
Bush's disastrous enterprise. Yet McCain did so and is now having
to pay the bill, voyaging to Iraq and insinuating from inside
a vast security cordon, his venerable torso encased in body armor,
that it was as safe to stroll around Baghdad and its suburbs
as Phoenix, in his home state of Arizona. Most Americans scoffed
with incredulity at this claim, one so obviously at odds with
reality that CounterPunch coeditor Jeffrey St Clair speculated
to me that McCain was setting the stage for a sudden turnaround
on the war in the fall, saying that though he'd given Bush every
chance, quitting time was here.
But, as often in life, satisfactory
explanations from the pages of Machiavelli are no match for the
bray of confident miscalculation. Flag-wagging isn't a vote-getter
this campaign season, at least yet. Most Americans don't like
the war, want the troops out, will vote for politicians who promise
to get them home and punish those who don't. John McCain's treasury
is empty. Money is flowing into the campaign accounts of the
libertarian Republic peace candidate, Ron Paul, a remote outsider
whose polling numbers shoot up on the rare occasions he can shoulder
his way into the Republican debates.
Now, undeterred by McCain's impending political extinction as
a the prime pro-war candidate, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani
is seizing the battle standard from the senator's stricken hand.
Giuliani named his list of foreign policy advisers last week.
This is an important political ritual, whereby political commentators
can run their eyes down the list and assess at a glance what
sort of headway the candidate is making in winning the support
of the political establishment, starting with Henry Kissinger.
Giuliani's list is heavily freighted with pro-war types, including
the apex neo-con, Norman Podhoretz.
No candidate lofting tossing
the name Podhoretz into the laptops of the press corps, is aiming
at the peace vote. Podhoretz is former editor of the American
Jewish Committee's Commentary magazine, the neocons' in-house
journal. He's been touting war on Islam and pretty much everywhere
on the planet else barring Israel ever since the mid-70s, when
he worried that America would quit its support for Israel just
as it slunk out of Vietnam. He denounced the Democrats as pro-Arab,
pro-gay, pro-terror pinkoes and stumped for Reagan. His wife,
Midge Decter, became a moving spirit in the Committee on the
Present Danger, his so-in-law Elliot Abrams went to work for
Reagan, plead guilty to lying to Congress about the US role in
the Reagan-era shuttle of arms and money, labeled the Iran-Contras
scandal. These days Elliot in the Bush White House and Norman
is now at Giuliani's elbow.
By publicly identifying Podhoretz
as one of his foreign policy advisers, Giuliani is not only emphasizing
his view that the United States should stay in Iraq for the long
haul. He's saying that he esteems the counsel of a man who is
calling for an immediate attack on Iran. In "The Case for
Bombing Iran", an essay in the June edition of Commentary,
Podhoretz trundled his mid-70s arsenal of calumny out of the
museum, rehabbed for current conditions: "Looking at Europe
today," he wailed, "we already see the unfolding of
a process analogous to Finlandization [a vintage neo-con slur
from the Cold War years]: it has been called, rightly, Islamization."
Podhoretz set for the choices in what he calls the Fourth World
War. Either bomb Iran now, or "we could wake up one morning
to find that Iran is holding Berlin, Paris or London hostage
to whatever its demands are then."
Given their track record it's
not implausible to argue, as many do, that by attacking Iran
at some point in the coming months Bush and Cheney will try to
revive their administration's fortunes and the presently abysmal
prospects of Republican candidates--not just the presidential
candidate--in the 2008 elections. Even though the ordinary folk
are not enthused, there's considerable bipartisan support for
such an attack among the political elites.
The Israel lobby has been publicly
pushing for it for over a year. Senator Joseph Lieberman recently
put up a resolution in Congress stigmatizing Iran as the prime
instigator of the deaths of US personnel in Iraq and such supposed
Democratic liberals as California's two senators--Dianne Feinstein
and Barbara Boxer--voted for it. Last week, around 70 Democrats
let it be known they could not approve any plan for Iraq that
didn't schedule an immediate start to withdrawal of US troops
from Iraq. Good for them, but that leaves two thirds of the Democrats
in the House NOT supporting such a plan. Plus every Republican
except Ron Paul, the only Republican in the House to vote with
the 70-odd Democrats on this issue.
Giuliani--now vying with Governor
Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and the (to me) entirely unconvincing
former Tennessee senator and actor Fred Thompson for the front-runner's
spot on the Republican side for the presidential nomination--seems
to have realised soon enough that waving the Iraqi battle standard
isn't a vote-getter in the sticks. No sooner had he fronted Poddy
as the Wise Man at his elbow than he also attacked Bush's strategy
in Iraq, saying it was draining resources and attention from
the true war on terror--which is the default option for Democratic
contenders such as HRC. Staking his future on the war option,
even as McCain's bier is hauled from the field, is a posture
that may play well in New York and Washington, but probably not
in the hinterlands of New Hampshire and Iowa, where Giuliani
will have first to make his mark.
Vick, Pit
Bulls and Pigs
The federal indictment of Atlanta
Falcons quarterback Michael Vick on conspiracy charges associated
with his pit bull breeding and training operation at Bad Newz
Kennels in Smithfield, Virginia, contains searing descriptions
of dreadful cruelty towards these creatures. Tears stained the
venerable cheeks of Senator Bobby Byrd as the former Klan Grand
Cyclops* bewailed the monstrous conduct of the black football
star and his co-conspirators.
Indeed, the cruelties as laid
out in the indictment are horrible and Vick and his coconspirators
deservedly face serious penalties, if convicted on the charges.
But there are the usual double standards lightly vaulted over
by those busy savaging Vick.
Judi Giuliani, the current
wife of a candidate, hasn't caught much heat for her infamous
past as a dog torturer and killer. Judi's job at US Surgical
was allegedly to demonstrate her company's staple stitches' efficacy
on cuts made on drugged dogs. According to Patricia Feral, president
of the Connecticut-based Friends of Animals, US Surgical's reps
did sales-demonstration stapling on hundreds of dogs through
the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Feral says the dogs were "either
put to death following the sales demonstrations because they
can't recover from them, or they die during them." The stapling
had to be done on live dogs because, as one US Surgical CEO put
it back in the 1980s, "A dead dog doesn't bleed. You need
real blood-flow conditions, or you get a false sense of security."
For institutionalized cruelty
to animals, consult any book on the meatpacking business. I recommend
Dead
Meat, put out in the mid-1990s by Four Stories, Eight Windows
Press. It contained Sue Coe's extraordinary paintings and drawings
of slaughter houses, along with the journal of this intrepid
artist as she and her sister traveled from one abattoir to the
next, at considerable risk to their lives. I wrote a 17,000 word
introduction ( "A Short, Meat-Oriented History of the World,
From Eden to the Mattole") to this volume, an essay ultimately
published in its most complete form in New Left Review in 1996
which you can find in NLR's online archive. Here's a paragraph
from it to remember next time you slice into your pork chop:
Such is the swollen empire
of pork in North Carolina. Its reeking lagoons surround darkened
warehouses of animals trapped in metal crates barely larger than
their bodies, tails chopped off, pumped with corn, soy beans
and chemicals until, in six months, they weigh about 240 pounds,
at which point they are shipped off to abattoirs to be killed,
sometimes by prisoners on work release from the county jail.
Near the town of Tar Heel, in Smithfield's Carolina Foods abattoir,
half the workforce are Latin American immigrants; a number of
others are prisoners. The sows are killed after about two years
or whenever their reproductive perfor- mance declines. It takes
maybe eight to ten people to run a sow factory, overseeing two
thousand sows, boars and piglets. A computerized 'fin- ishing'
farm, where the pigs are fattened, may just require a part-time
caretaker to check the equipment and clean up between arriving
and departing cohorts of hogs. The noise in these factories is
ghastly, and many workers wear ear pads against the squealing
and crashing of the animals in their cages. When the Raleigh
News and Observerdid a series on North Carolina's pig barons
in early 1995-following a pioneering arti- cle in Southern Exposure
in 1992-readers were told they could call the paper's number
in Raleigh, 5495100, extension 4647and listen to a recording
of this terrible sound. Thus do we travel toward necropolis from
Olmsted's visit to Porkopolis nearly a century and a half ago.
Just how high or low on the
Klan totem pole is Grand Cyclops? As far as I can see, they were
regional grandees. Here's the Klan's definition, in its "Order
and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, 1868:
Titles: Section 1.
The officers of this Order
shall consist of a Grand Wizard of the Empire and his ten Genii;
a Grand Dragon of the Realm and his eight Hydras; a Grand Titan
of the Dominion and his six Furies; a Grand Giant of the Province
and his four Goblins; a Grand Cyclops of the Den and his two
Night Hawks; a Grand Magi, a Grand Monk, a Grand Scribe, a Grand
Exchequer, a Grand Turk, and a Grand Sentinel.
Section 2. The body politic
of this Order shall be known and designated as "Ghouls."
Territory and Its Divisions
Section 1. The territory embraced
within the jurisdiction of this Order shall be coterminous with
the states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas,
Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee; all combined constituting
the Empire.
Section 2. The Empire shall
be divided into four departments, the first to be styled the
Realm and coterminous with the boundaries of the several states;
the second to be styled the Dominion and to be coterminous with
such counties as the Grand Dragons of the several Realms may
assign to the charge of the Grand Titan. The third to be styled
the Province and to be coterminous with the several counties;
provided, the Grand Titan may, when he deems it necessary, assign
two Grand Giants to one Province, prescribing, at the same time,
the jurisdiction of each. The fourth department to be styled
the Den, and shall embrace such part of a Province as the Grand
Giant shall assign to the charge of a Grand Cyclops.
A Big Mile
Marker on our March into the Police State
If you haven't checked out
the executive orders flowing from Bush's White House like sewage
into a pig-rearing lagoon, try this appalling order, signed by
Bush on July 17. I remarked here last week that the sort of solidarity
work done in the 1980s here in relation to Nicaragua and El Salvador
would have one instantly facing serious federal conspiracy charges
today. Bush's dictats have thus far aroused only trivial commentary
in the press.
"Executive Order: Blocking
Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts
in Iraq," White House Office of the Press Secretary, July
17, 2007
By the authority vested in
me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
States of America, including the International Emergency Economic
Powers Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)(NEA), and section 301
of title 3, United States Code,
I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President
of the United States of America, find that, due to the unusual
and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign
policy of the United States posed by acts of violence threatening
the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote
economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide
humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the interests
of the United States to take additional steps with respect to
the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 of May
22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order 13315 of August 28,
2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive
Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order 13364 of November
29, 2004. I hereby order:
Section 1.
(a) Except to the extent provided
in section 203(b)(1), (3), and (4) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(1),
(3), and (4)), or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses
that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding
any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior
to the date of this order, all property and interests in property
of the following persons, that are in the United States, that
hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter
come within the possession or control of United States persons,
are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn,
or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary
of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State
and the Secretary of Defense,
(i) to have committed, or to
pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence
that have the purpose or effect of:
(A) threatening the peace or
stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or
(B) undermining efforts to
promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq
or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people;
(ii) to have materially assisted,
sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical
support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act
or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests
in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or
(iii) to be owned or controlled
by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of,
directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests
in property are blocked pursuant to this order.
(b) The prohibitions in subsection
(a) of this section include, but are not limited to,
(i) the making of any contribution
or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the
benefit of any person whose property and interests in property
are blocked pursuant to this order, and
(ii) the receipt of any contribution
or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.
Sec. 2.
(a) Any transaction by a United
States person or within the United States that evades or avoids,
has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate
any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
(b) Any conspiracy formed to
violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
Sec. 3. For purposes of this
order:
(a) the term "person"
means an individual or entity;
(b) the term "entity"
means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation,
group, subgroup, or other organization; and
(c) the term "United States
person" means any United States citizen, permanent resident
alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or
any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign
branches), or any person in the United States.
Sec. 4. I hereby determine
that the making of donations of the type specified in section
203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the
benefit of, any person whose property and interests in property
are blocked pursuant to this order would seriously impair my
ability to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive
Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, and I hereby
prohibit such donations as provided by section 1 of this order.
Sec. 5. For those persons whose
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this
order who might have a constitutional presence in the United
States, I find that, because of the ability to transfer funds
or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons
of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render these
measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures
to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared
in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315,
there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made
pursuant to section 1(a) of this order.
Sec. 6. The Secretary of the
Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the
Secretary of Defense, is hereby authorized to take such actions,
including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ
all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary
to carry out the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the
Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers
and agencies of the United States Government, consistent with
applicable law. All agencies of the United States Government
are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within their
authority to carry out the provisions of this order and, where
appropriate, to advise the Secretary of the Treasury in a timely
manner of the measures taken.
Sec. 7. Nothing in this order
is intended to affect the continued effectiveness of any rules,
regulations, orders, licenses, or other forms of administrative
action issued, taken, or continued in effect heretofore or hereafter
under 31 C.F.R. chapter V, except as expressly terminated, modified,
or suspended by or pursuant to this order.
Sec. 8. This order is not intended
to, and does not, create any right, benefit, or privilege, substantive
or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities,
or entities, its officers or employees, or any other person.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 17, 2007.
You can find this online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Here's Bush's simultaneous message to the Congress:
"Message to the Congress
of the United States Regarding International Emergency Economic
Powers Act," White House Office of the Press Secretary,
July 17, 2007
Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act,
as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), I hereby report that
I have issued an Executive Order blocking property of persons
determined to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of
committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose
or effect of threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the
Government of Iraq or undermining efforts to promote economic
reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian
assistance to the Iraqi people. I issued this order to take additional
steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive
Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order
13315 of August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps
taken in Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive
Order 13364 of November 29, 2004. In these previous Executive
Orders, I ord ered various measures to address the unusual and
extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy
of the United States posed by obstacles to the orderly reconstruction
of Iraq, the restoration and maintenance of peace and security
in that country, and the development of political, administrative,
and economic institutions in Iraq.
My new order takes additional
steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive
Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315 by blocking
the property and interests in property of persons determined
by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary
of State and the Secretary of Defense, to have committed, or
to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence
that have the purpose or effect of threatening the peace or stability
of Iraq or the Government of Iraq or undermining efforts to promote
economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide
humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people. The order further
authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with
the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, to designate
for blocking those persons determined to have materially assisted,
sponsored, or provi ded fi nancial, material, logistical, or
technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such
an act or acts of violence or any person designated pursuant
to this order, or to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted
or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly,
any person whose property and interests in property are blocked
pursuant to this order.
I delegated to the Secretary
of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State
and the Secretary of Defense, the authority to take such actions,
including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ
all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary
to carry out the purposes of my order. I am enclosing a copy
of the Executive Order I have issued.
GEORGE W. BUSH
The White House,
July 17, 2007.
This is to be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/
Go from this executive order
to the exchanges between Hilary Clinton and under-secretary of
defense Eric Edelman, described by Gary
Leupp in his piece on this site today. Clinton had asked
Defense Secretary Gates for information on contingency plans
for withdrawal from Iraq. Edelman answered
"Given the express will
of the Congress to implement a phased redeployment of United
States forces from Iraq and the importance of proper contingency
planning to achieve that goal, I write to request that you provide
the appropriate oversight committees in Congress---including
the Senate Armed Services Committee---with briefings on what
current contingency plans exist for the future withdrawal of
U.S. forces from Iraq. Alternatively, if no such plans
exist, please provide an explanation for the decision not to
engage in such planning."
Edelman replied, to the Senate
committee:
"Premature and public
discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces
enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies
in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon
and Somalia. [S]uch talk understandably unnerves the very same
Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks."
Note the words "reinforces
enemy propaganda" That could easily fall among the indictable
conspiracies the Executive Order has in mind.
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