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Today's
Stories
August
27 / 28, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Assassination: as American as Apple
Pie (and Torture)
Diane
Christian
The Politics of Death: Assassination
M.
Shahid Alam
How
to be a Good Victim
Laith
al-Saud
Baghdad Circus: Iraq's Constitutional Process
Diane
Farsetta
School of the Americas Fights Back: PR Plan for Pentagon's "Demonstration
Village"
Saul
Landau
Reagan and Bottled Water: the Privatization of Everything
Tom
Barry
Hurricane Hugo: Relating to Venezuela
Nicholas
Rowe
Barenboim in Ramallah: an Unfinished Symphony
George
E. Bisharat
Enforce the Ban on Settlements
Dave
Lindorff
Another Mother for War: the Exploitation of Tammy Pruett
Fred
Gardner
Pot Shots: Doing the Right Thing, Even If You Are Fearful
John
Francis Lee
The Juggernaut of Jingo
Evan
Jones
I.F. Stone on the Perils of Empire
Ali
Khan
Defining Aggression
Poets'
Basement
Albert, Nettin, Engel, Ford, Krieger, Louise
August
26, 2005
Lee
Sustar
Showdown at Northwest
Ramzy
Baroud
Cindy Sheehan and the Power of the Ordinary
Christopher
Brauchli
The Return of Edwin Meese
Peter
Harley
The Wall as a Good Thing?
John
Snider
Not One of the Gang
Kathleen
Christison
Can Palestine be Put Back in the
Equation?
August
25, 2005
Paul
Craig Roberts
Hegemony Lost: the American Economy
is Destroying Itself
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Loewenstein's Big Mail Bag: Gaza and "the Shame of It All"
J.L.
Chestnut, Jr.
Racial Politics in California They May Vote for You, But They
Won't Have Lunch with You
Chhandasi
Pandya
Libeling Venezuela
Richard
Ward
Impressions from Camp Casey
Norman
Solomon
Exploiting the 9/11 Anniversary: Will the Media Help Bush, Again?
Joshua
Frank
Will the Real Leaders Please Stand Up?
Seth
Sandronsky
GM, the UAW and US Health Care
Lucinda
Marshall
The Democratic Unraveling: How Not to Mention the War
VIPS
Memo to Bush: Try a Circle of Wise Women
Ralph
Nader
It's Time to Make the Iraq War Personal
August
24, 2005
Stan
Goff
Containing the Anti-War Movement: the
Hayden Plan
Rachard
Itani
Papal Double Standards
Elisa
Salasin
The Militarization of Our Children
Ron
Jacobs
Who Would Jesus Assassinate?
John
Chuckman
Robertson and Posada: Bush's Kind of Terrorists
Leibowitz
/ Heller
Gaza: Disengagement or Military Redeployment?
Douglas
Valentine
Suicide as Sacrament
Thomas
Nagy
Congress Should Go to Crawford: an Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan
Alexander
Cockburn
Hitchens Backs Down, Says Sheehan "Not a La Rouchie"
Website
of the Day
Stations of the Cross
August
23, 2005
Rev.
Graylan Scott Hagler
Pat Robertson is Not a Christian
Karen
Kilroy
Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City Protests:
Violent Echoes of Kent State
Stew
Albert
Fascism in America: Are We There Yet?
Joshua
Frank
The Democrats and Cindy Sheehan
Dave
Zirin
Pedaling Away from Principle: Lance Armstrong Cozies Up to Bush
Julia
Olmstead
Our Reckless Chemical Dependence:
A Little Round-Up With Your Precautionary Principle?
CounterPunch
Wire
Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture: a Legal Update
Jason
Leopold
Bush's Lips Move, But He Says Nothing
Diane
Christian
The Politics of Death
August
22, 2005
Sonia
Nettnin
Gaza Stripped, the Occupation Remains
Mike
Whitney
"Shoot to Kill": Tony Blair's First Trophy
Kevin
Zeese
The Latest Falsehood: the US is in Iraq to "Stablize It"
Norman
Solomon
Bush's Bloody Option: Escalate the War in Iraq
Christopher
Brauchli
Secret Talkers
Jeff
Bale
The Left's Challenge in Germany
Greg
Moses
Raw Talk Revival at Camp Casey Two
August
20 / 21, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Can Cindy Sheehan End the War?
Saul
Landau
Terrorism Then and Now: Townley Talks
Kevin
Zeese
an Interview with Tom Hayden
Greg
Moses
A Daytrip without Cindy
Ray
McGovern
Cindy Sheehan and Creative Protest
Fred
Gardner
Merck Gets Whacked
Martin
Smith
Rebellion in the Ranks: the Soldiers' Revolt in Vietnam
Benjamin
Granby
Gaza's Economy: the Key to Sharon's Strategy?
Frankie
Lake
Dirty Tricksters: How the Federalist Society Operates
Joshua
Frank
Failing Nature: the Democrats and the Environment
Ron
Jacobs
When Sympathy is Not Enough
Tom
Crumpacker
Moral Values and the CIA
Mike
Ferner
"All of Our Stories are Sad"
James
Petras
Suicide Bombers: the Sacred and the Profane
Col.
Dan Smith
The President's Dilemma
Dr.
Teresa Whitehurst
What de Menezes Didn't Know
Ben
Tripp
Moses on Top of Old Smokey
Poets'
Basement
Landau, Albert, Engel and Louise
August
19, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
A Short History of Meat, Part 4:
Cutting Up Mochie
Neve
Gordon
After the Withdrawal
Gary
Leupp
The Pandora's Box of Iraq's Constitution
William
S. Lind
Getting Swept
Vijay
Prashad
The Rosa Parks of the Anti-War Movement
Dave
Lindorff
Something Has Happened
Pat
Williams
Social Security and the American West
John
Pilger
Free Speech and the War on Terror
Elaine
Cassel
Judge Roberts and the Death Penalty
August
18, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
A Short History of Meat, Part 3:
Vegetarians, Nazis for Animal Rights, Blitzkrieg of the Ungulates
Greg
Moses
Cindy, the Peace Train and the Little Ditch that Could
Ramzy
Baroud
Theatrics in Gaza: the Disengagement That Isn't
Joshua
Frank
Bush's Emotional Incapacities
Monica
Benderman
For Cindy: There's No Glory in Dying
Paul
Craig Roberts
Courthouse Jackboots: Corrupted Justice
August
17, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
A Short History of Meat: Part Two,
the March to Porkopolis
Robert
Jensen
America's Good Germans?
Carl
G. Estabrook
News Notes from the Global War on Terrorism
Mike
Whitney
Greenspan and the Housing Bubble
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Shaming the Shameless
Norman
Solomon
Slurs, Lies and Innuendos: Blaming the Antiwar Messengers
Dave
Zirin
In Defense of Felipe Alou
Jennifer
Loewenstein
The Shame of It All: Watching the Gazan Fiasco
CounterPunch
Clarification
August
16, 2005
Greg
Moses
Mona in a Field of Crosses at Camp
Casey, Texas
Thomas
Larson
The Unmitigated Gall of Dinesh D'Souza
Diana
Barahona
Uneasy Standoff in Venezuela's Media Wars
Dave
Lindorff
The Inquirer's Minds Don't Want to Know
Rep.
Cynthia McKinney
A Letter to President Bush: Meet with Cindy Sheehan
Elisa
Salasin
Hitchens Slimes Cindy Sheehan
David
Krieger
Amazing Grace and Cindy
Alexander
Cockburn
A Short History of Meat: Part One,
Peter's Dream
Website
of the Day
Reclaiming Appalachia: a Mountain Takeover
August
15, 2005
Greg
Moses
Pilgrims of Protest in Crawford
Paul
Craig Roberts
Slouching Toward Armageddon?
Mike
Whitney
Failing in Iraq
Robert
Jensen
The Challenges We Face
CounterPunch
Wire
Judge Fines Voices in the Wilderness
$20,000 for Taking Medicine to Iraq; Voices Refuses to Pay
Norman
Solomon
Someone Tell Frank Rich the War Isn't Over
Kathleen
Christison
Camp David Redux: Anatomy of a
Frame-Up
August
13 / 14, 2005
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
When Down is Up: the "Stricken"
President
William
Blum
The al-Dubya Training Manual
Gary
Leupp
High Tide for the Neocons?
Jack
Z. Bratich
Secreting the News: Anonymous vs. Confidential Sources
Brian
Cloughley
The Ridiculous Rice
Ron
Jacobs
Klan Justice: Mississippi is Still Burning
John
Farley
"Beyond Chutzpah" Too Hot for Harvard Bookstore?
Dave
Lindorff
Making the World Safer...for Nukes
Tim
Wise
Animal Whites: PETA and the Politics of Putting Things in Perspective
J.L.
Chestnut, Jr.
There's Not One Real Liberal or Conservative in the Senate
John
Gershman
The Bolton Opportunity
Felice
Pace
Saving Northwest Forests: Time for a Fresh Look
Fred
Gardner
Feds Takeover Prosecution of Dustin Costa
David
Krieger
The Fable of the Emperor and the Grieving Mother
Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz
Being a Protestant Fundamentalist
Ben
Tripp
GWAT: a Tone Poem
Poets'
Basement
Reiss, Nettnin, Engel and Louise
August
12, 2005
Christopher
Brauchli
Courting God: Justice Sunday II
Greg
Moses
A Crawford Peace House Morning with
Cindy Sheehan
Ramzy
Baroud
Israel's Nuclear Puzzle
Norman
Solomon
Cindy Sheehan's Message: Repudiating Bush and Dean
Chris
Genovali
Why is a Canadian Politician Trying to End Protections for US
Grizzly Bears?
Chris
Floyd
Cheney and Halliburton, the Stench Gets Worse
Tariq
Ali
Blair's New Authoritarianism
August
11, 2005
Saul
Landau
Globalization and Its Discontents
Dave
Lindorff
Privatization will Harm Same Sex
Couples
Ralph
Nader
Dear Cindy Sheehan: May You Prevail
Where Others Have Failed
Talli
Nauman
Radioactive Border: the Hot Mounds of Samalayuca
Gary
Leupp
Politics of an Outing: Plame, Ledeen and Iran
Sharon
Smith
The New Anti-War Majority
Paul
Craig Roberts
Why is Cheney Lobbying for a Boost
in China's Nuclear Capability?
August
10, 2005
Tim
Wise
Indian Mascots and White Rage
Ron
Jacobs
Rumsfeld's Delusions
Joshua
Frank
Dean and the PDA: Don't Believe the Hype
Cynthia
McKinney
The 9/11 Op-Ed the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Refuses to Run
Rick
Wilhelm
Peter Jennings, Excuse Maker for War and Empire
Stan
Goff
Homegrown Resistance
August
9, 2005
Mike
Ferner
What One Mom has to Say to Bush:
Cindy Sheehan in Dallas
Monica
Benderman
Is Being a Conscientious Objector
Now Criminal?
Mike
Marqusee
Making Excuses for Killing De
Menezes
Rep.
Cynthia McKinney
Strange Fruit and Tree-Shakers
Paul
Craig Roberts
Watching the US Economy Crumble
August
6-8, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
How the British Destroyed India
Jason
Leopold
Halliburton and Iran: Still Doing
Business After All These Years?
Ray
McGovern
Iran, Truth-Tellers and the Devotees
of Preemption
David
Krieger
From Hiroshima to Humanity
Sharon
K. Weiner / Robert Jensen
From Hiroshima to Iraq and Back
Fred
Gardner
The Budtender's View of a Rip-Off
August
5, 2005
Bill
Christison
New NIE Report on Iran's Nukes
will Not Deter US's Posture of Extreme Aggressiveness
Paul
Craig Roberts
Kelo: a Supreme Assault on Personal
Liberty
Alexander
Cockburn
The Taj Mahal as Kitsch; the
Editor and the Water-Walking Guru
August
4, 2005
Tom
Barry
Inside Bush's "World Democracy
Movement"
Lila
Rajiva
John Bolton's New Internationalism
Greg
Moses
Bush Teaches Intelligent Design
in Prison
Alexander
Cockburn
Indian Journal: Why Indian Farmers
Kill Themselves
August
3, 2005
August
3, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Broken Arrows and Iran: a B-52 Pilot
Remembers
Paul
Craig Roberts
The Kelo Calamity: Money, Power and
Eminent Domaine
William
A. Cook
Innocent Victims: From Hiroshima to Lower Manhattan
Dave
Zirin
Bush's Texas Rangers: a Crackhouse for Juiced Players?
Dave
Lindorff
Court Packing and Worker Rights
José
Pertierra
Why Hamdi Isaac Yes and Posada
Carriles No?
August
2, 2005
Ramzi
Kysia
Disengagement and Diaspora: High Walls
and Razor Wire in the Hebron
William
A. Cook
Words Without Meaning: Torturing Bodies
and Language
Paul
Craig Roberts
When Armageddon Gets No Press
Mike
Whitney
Chertoff's Preemptive Crackdown: 600 Arrests, Only 76 Charged
Ron
Jacobs
Be a Hero: Demand That Johnny Come
Home
Norman
Madarsz
Before the Stun Gun: Jean Charles de Menezes, RIP
Tim
Wise
The Faulty Logic of "Terrorist"
Profiling
August
1, 2005
Virginia
Rodino
Why Bono and Geldof Got It Wrong:
War and Global Poverty are Linked
Diana
Barahona
Return to Venezuela: Land Reform
and Neighborhood Doctors
Joshua
Frank
Gitmo's Kangaroo Courts: First Torture Them, Then Rig Their Trials
Mike
Whitney
The Consolidation of Powers: Rubber Stamp Roberts
Norm
Dixon
The Worst Terror Attacks in History
Norman
Solomon
Operation Withdrawal Scam
James
Petras
The Corruption of Lula's Regime
July
30 / 31, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Lost Nuclear Warheads Now in Iran?
JoAnn
Wypijewski
Scenes and Silver Linings from Labor's
Crack-Up: a Special Report from Chicago
Sheldon
Rampton
War is Fun as Hell: the Video Games
Recruiters Play
Jack
Z. Bratich
Fingerprints of Power: a Summer of Double Super Secrecy
Greg
Moses
How to Cool Your Heels in Texas When It's Late July Across the
World
Jordan
Green
From Woolworth to Wal-Mart: Economics and the Race Divide in
a Southern City
Patrick
Cockburn
Getting Out of Iraq: 5,000 US Troops Have Gone AWOL
Brian
Cloughley
The Bush-Cheney Fixation on Iran
Justin
Taylor
Harry Potter and the War on Terror
Saul
Landau
Enhancements for the Imperial Life: Fashionism Takes Command!
John
Walsh
Dems Field Another Pro-War Candidate: Meet Hack the Hawk
Joshua
Frank
Color-Coded Justice: John Roberts's Racial Hang Up
Ron
Jacobs
Who Needs Feminism? We Have Condi Rice!
Fred
Gardner
The Ethan and Gavin Show
John
Chuckman
Friedman on Terrorism: the Dumbest Story Ever Written
Liaquat
Ali Khan
Lessons City Bombers Need to Learn from Newton and Donne
Remi
Kanazi
Annexing Justice in Palestine
Naveen
Jaganathan
The Gurgaon Riots Rock India
Richard
Heinberg
Where is the Hirsch Peak Oil Report?
Max
Watts
Francis Ona, the Napoleon of Mekamui
Ben
Tripp
Write Your Own Editorial!
Poets'
Basement
Whalen & Engel, Landau, Albert and Krieger
July
29, 2005
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Who's the Real Martyr? Judy Miller or Jim DeFede?
P.
Sainath
The Class War in Gurgaon
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
How the West Was Lost: CAFTA
and the Disassembling of America
Dave
Lindorff
Marvelous Marvin Bush
J.L.
Chestnut, Jr.
America's Racist Inventory: Oppression
Breeds Violence
Pat
Williams
Giving Away the Last Best Place
Norman
Solomon
In Praise of Kevin Benderman: a Moral
Leader of the Nation Goes to Prison
Sen.
Russ Feingold
The Bad News About the Energy Bill
July
28, 2005
Paul
Craig Roberts
Departing Iraq
William
S. Lind
The Duke of Alba and George W. Bush
Gilad
Atzmon
Blair the Camera Man
Joshua
Frank
Passing CAFTA: Blame the Democrats
Lila
Rajiva
Vision Mumbai Submerged
Amina
Mire
Pigmentation and Empire: the Emerging
Skin-Whitening Industry
Website
of the Day
Gateway to Underground News
July
27, 2005
Roger
Morris
The Source Beyond Rove: Condoleezza
Rice at the Center of the Plame Scandal
Gary
Leupp
Is Iran Being Set Up?
Paul
Craig Roberts
US Falling Behind Across the Board
Jackie
Corr
Class War on the Ruby River: the Billionaire with His Foot in
His Mouth
Mike
Whitney
The Coming End of the Housing Bubble
Dave
Zirin
Why Lance Armstrong Must Break with Bush
Christopher
Bradley
Why I Have Trouble Reading the News
Norman
Solomon
Thomas Friedman, Liberal Sadist?
Website
of the Day
Stormin' Norman
July
26, 2005
Suren
Pillay
The Enemy Within: When the "Other"
is One of "Us"
JoAnn
Wypijewski
Fission and Fizzle in Chicago: SEIU and
Teamsters Quit the AFL
Patrick
Cockburn
Iraq: the Unwinnable War
David
Anderson
When the Greatest Outrage is the Lack of Outrage: NYC's Subway
Searches
Joshua
Frank
Hillary Clinton: Outflanking Bush from the Right
Lenni
Brenner
Biography as Wish-Fulfillment: Jefferson, Hitchens and Atheism
David
Swanson
Nuking Native Land
July
25, 2005
Paul
Craig Roberts
China-Mart Takes Over
M.
Shahid Alam
Terrorism: America Defines Its Targets
Uri
Avnery
March of the Orange Shirts
Stan
Cox
Kreationism in Kansas
Norman
Solomon
"Wagging the Puppy"
Ramzy
Baroud
London Bombings: Barbaric, But Not
Unexpected
Mickey
Z.
No Gun Ri: 55 Years Later
Website
of the Day
The Birth of a Hummingbird in 15 Images
July
23 / 24, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Islamo-Anarchs or Islamo-Fascists?
Tariq
Ali
The War Comes Home
Robert
Fisk
Something Happened
Dave
Lindorff
Return of the Academic Witch Hunts
Ricardo
Alarcón
Kidnapping in Miami: the UN, the US and the Cuban 5
Col.
Dan Smith
Living in a Twilight Zone: Troop Strength,
Recruitment and the Draft
Brian
Cloughley
The Pentagon's China Hypocrisy
Kevin
Zeese
Growing Republican Opposition to Iraq War
Bill
Quigley
Harrowing Hours in Haiti
Fred
Gardner
The Reverberations of Raich
Rep.
Ron Paul
The Patriot Act is a Threat to Liberty
Joshua
Frank
Framing Abortion: Gonadal Politics and the Democrats
Shivali
Tukdeo
Project Mumbai Makeover: Casualties of Development
Gilad
Atzmon
Blair's "Evil Ideology"
James
Petras
Baghdad: Barbarism and Civilization (a Fiction)
Ben
Tripp
When Being American Was Fun
Poets'
Basement
Krieger, Louise, Buknatski, Albert and Engel
Website
of the Weekend
Remember the West Memphis 3
July
22, 2005
Heather
Gray
Home Grown Axis of Evil: Corp. Agribusiness,
the Occupation of Iraq and the Dred Scott Decision
David
Domke
The American Press and Credibility
Lance
Selfa
Battle of the Insiders: No Heroes in the Plame Leak Scandal
JoAnn
Wypijewski
Is This Really an "Insurgency"
to Shake Up the Labor Movement?
July
21, 2005
Rose
Ann DeMoro
The Top 10 Problems with the "Crisis"
in the Labor Movement
William
Blum
London: Another Casualty in the War on Terror
J.L.
Chestnut, Jr.
Whites Need to Learn Something: Dixie is Everywhere
Christopher
Brauchli
Strange Affairs: Liberals and Alberto
Gonzales
Joshua
Frank
Plame Blame Game: the 5 Ws
Brian
Concannon, Jr.
Haiti's Elections: Time for a Reality Check
Patrick
Cockburn
The True, Terrible State of Iraq
and the Link to London
Website
of the Day
Who Blew Up the Murrah Building?
July
20, 2005
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Judge Roberts: Business as Usual
Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz
Red Christmas
Ray
McGovern
Did Dick Finger Valerie?: the Hand
of Cheney
Chris
Floyd
Judge Dread: John Roberts and the "Enemy
Combatants"
Uri
Avnery
"Silence is Filth"
Dave
Lindorff
Westmoreland's Body Count Goes Up
by One
Norman
Solomon
Gen. Westmoreland's Death Wish
Bill
Quigley
Travels in Haiti with a Wanted Priest
July
19, 2005
Tariq
Ali
An Isolated Regime
John
Ross
Jihad Meets G-8
Davey
D.
More
Clear Channel Censorship: "Don't F--K Around with Tha Police"
Greg
Weiher
Muzzling Saddam: the Old Bait-and-Switch
in Iraqi Jurisprudence
Brian
McKinlay
An "Arse Licker" Goes to Washington: John Howard's
Grand Tour
Norman
Solomon
Nukes for India; Threats for Iran
Dave
Lindorff
Get Back to Where We Once Belonged
Bill
Christison
Bush's Itinerary: First Stop Syria,
Next Stop Iran
Joshua
Frank
Laura's Justice?: Meet Edith Brown
Clement
July
18, 2005
Joshua
Frank
An Interview with Ward Churchill
M.
Shahid Alam
A Muslim Problem: Did Thomas Friedman
Flunk History?
Jude
Wanniski
Memo to Patrick Fitzgerald
Ron
Jacobs
A Weekend to Stop the War
Mike
Whitney
The Straight Line Between Falluja and King's Cross Station
William
MacDougall
From "Bring It On" to "London Can Take It"
Seth
Sandronsky
Temporary Recovery: New Frontiers in Labor Flexibility
Richard
Lichtman
The Consolations of George Lakoff
Paul
Craig Roberts
Can Congressional Republicans End
Bush's Wars?
Website
of the Weekend
Novels of the Neo-Cons
July
15 / 17, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Don't You Dare Call It Treason
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Sticky Fingers: the Making of Halliburton
Paul
Craig Roberts
Economic Treason
Harry
Browne
"What They Do to Us, They Will
Do to You": Shell Oil in Mayo, Ireland
Uri
Davis, Ilan Pappe and Tamar Yaron
A Warning from Israel
Andrew
Rubin
End of the Enlightenment: an Open Letter to Stephen Plaut
Patrick
Cockburn
Iraq's Ghost Battalions
J.L.
Chestnut, Jr.
Changes in Selma: Standing Up to Racism in the South
Fred
Gardner
A Professional Bust
Christopher
Brauchli
An Olympic Feat: How to "Double" Aid with No New Money
Chris
Floyd
The Great Iraq Oil Giveaway
Ben
Tripp
The Dark Incontinent
Col.
Dan Smith
General Abizaid, I'm Glad You Asked
Jason
Leopold
What Did Rove Say and When Did He
Say It?
Jack
Random
Miller Time
Norman
Solomon
War and Venture Capitalism
George
Ochenski
Liberate Montana's Rivers: Come One, Come All!
Website
of the Weekend
Vote for CounterPuncher David Vest
July
14, 2005
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Sticky Fingers: the Making of Halliburton
Subcomandante
Marcos
This is What Will Do and How We Shall Do It: the Sixth Declaration
of the Selva Lacandona
Dave
Lindorff
No More Moral Relativism: the US is a Terrorist State
Joshua
Frank
Rove Agency: Liberals and the CIA
Jude
Wanniski
Those 8 Black Pages: What's the Real Story on Karl Rove?
Dave
Zirin
Storming the Castle
Kevin
Zeese
Exit Strategy: Within Reach?
Robert
Jensen
War Myths and the Press
Reza
Fiyouzat
A Worldwide Call to Free Akbar Ganji
Carol
Norris
Governor Paranoid: Schwarzenegger Comes Unhinged
Website
of the Day
Nate Osborn: Heroic Human Rights Activist and CounterPuncher
July
13, 2005
Brian
Cloughley
Cold Blooded Murders in Iraq
George
Galloway
We Can't Separate the London Bombings
from the Political Backdrop
Carlos
Fierro
A Supreme Waste of Time
Sarah
Knopp
Hate on the Border
Norman
Solomon
"Isolated Pockets of Problems": the Fake Optimism of
Washington's Warriors
Mickey
Z.
Water on the Brain
Jim
Minick
The Right Tree in the Right Place
Pat
Williams
American Indian Education for All
Andrew
N. Rubin
Life Behind the Wall: "We are
No Longer Able to See the Sun Set"
Website
of the Day
"London's Burning": the Mikey Mix
July
12, 2005
Laith
al-Saud
Voices of Resistance: an Interview with
Dr. Mohammed al-Obaidi of Iraq's Peoples' Struggle Movement
Kara
N. Tina
"This is How We Do It": Report
from the Gleneagles Battlefield
William
A. Cook
The London Bombings: Why Has It Come to This?
Jack
Bratich
2 Live Cruise: Tom Cruise v. Big Pharma
Amina
Mire
The Problem with Speaking in the Name of Others
Dick
J. Reavis
Lessons from the Christian Jihadists:
the Virtues of Burning Crosses and Colored Smoke
Kevin
Zeese
Depleted Uranium: States Take Action to Protect Their Vets
Paul
Craig Roberts
No-Think Nation
Website
of the Day
Coke Gags Indian Artist
July
9 / 11, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
After the Bombings
Uri
Avnery
War of the Colors in Israel
Sheldon
Rampton
Blaming Galloway: Rhetoric vs. Reality
in London
Bill
Christison
Hiroshima's 60th Anniversary and Nukes in Iran: an Opportunity
or Just More Hand-wringing from the Peace Movement?
Robert
Fisk
Blair's Alliance with Bush Bombed
Stephen
Winspear
Collateral Damage in London?
Saul
Landau
Mission Accomplished: Iraq is Broken
Behrooz
Ghamari
Thomas Friedman's Muslim Problem
Karl
Beitel
False Promises and Real Debt Relief
Brian
Concannon, Jr.
Throwing Gasoline on Haiti's Fires
Fred
Gardner
Sentencing Season
John
Whitlow
And What Does the Market Say?
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CAFTA: Deepening the Inequities
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Norman
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The Choking of Brazil's Worker Party
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The Inevitability of George W. Bush
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CounterPunch
Diary
Assassination: as American as
Apple Pie (and Torture)
By Alexander Cockburn
More than one CounterPuncher has urged
me to thank Pat Robertson, along the lines of Diane Christian's
excellent piece on our site today, from the bottom of our hearts.
Why? As David Nebenzahl of Oakland wrote us,
Because Robertson's original
loose-cannon remark gives us such clear insight into how things
really work in this world. First of all, his proposal confirms
that this precise thing has been done in the past: Allende, Mossadegh,
... [insert list of assassination targets here] despite
Don Rumsfeld's pious denials. Secondly, he confirms our (the
United States') implicit right to petroleum resources wherever
they may be found, as shown by his comment about how offing Chavez
probably wouldn't disrupt oil deliveries.
What about that list of targets
of assassination bids by the CIA, acting on presidential orders
that David wants us to insert? We could start with the bid on
Chou en Lai's life after the Bandung Conference in 1954; move
on to the disposal in 1960 of Iraq's Kassim by the Ba'athists
helped into power by the CIA, then to the efforts, ultimately
successful in 1961 to kill the Congo's Patrice Lumumba Lumumba,
in which the CIA was intimately involved; to the Kennedy years
saw similar implication in the murder of the Diem brothers in
Vietnam and the first of many well attested efforts to assassinate
Fidel Castro; almost certainly to Omar Torrijos of Panama, downed
in an air crash; to the Reagan White House's the carefully planned
effort to bomb Muammar Q'addafi to death in his encampment in
1986.
In his Killing
Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
Bill Blum has a long and interesting list starting in 1949
with Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader, going on to efforts to
kill Sukarno, President of Indonesia, Kim Il Sung, Premier of
North Korea, Mohammed Mossadegh, Claro M. Recto (the Philippines
opposition leadr), Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Norodom
Sihanouk, José Figueres, Francois "Papa Doc"
Duvalier, Gen. Rafael Trujillo, Charles de Gaulle, Salvador Allende,
Michael Manley, Ayatollah Khomeini, the nine comandantes of the
Sandinista National Directorate, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah,
Lebanese Shiite leader (80 people killed in the attempt), Mohamed
Farah Aideed, prominent clan leader of Somalia, Slobodan Milosevic,
Saddam Hussein.
Hitchens'
"Smoking Gun"
After my remarks about Christopher Hitchens last week, a bunch
of letters flowed in, including this interesting one from Andre
De Angelis:
The latest distortion being
spread by Hitchens is that he has suddenly discovered the smoking
gun to prove that Sadam Hussein had a nuclear enrichment program.
The story goes that Sadam Hussein had one of his nuclear scientists
bury a nuclear centrifuge in his back garden. It's amazing how
so many WMD's apparently were concealed in people's garden.
Jumping onto this possibility with boyish enthusiasm, Hitchen's
reveals he is either that he is an inept researcher or a blatant
propagandist. He cites a ridiculously titled book "The
Bomb in my Garden", by Sadam's Nuclear Mastermind, Mahdi
Obeidi as being the irrefutable proof that we've all been waiting
for.
I just took a look at the book and there is no mention of nuclear
centrifuges, only the mention that 1992 or 1993 Obedi buried
most of the relevant data, drawings and sample components in
his backyard and turned them over to Coalition forces before
emigrating to the United States. Yet Hitchens somehow invents
the idea that Obedi had a whoel nuclear refinement operation
operating underground.
Anyone with a knowledge of nuclear refinement knows that one
solitary centrifuge is as good as useless for producing weapons
grade uranium. A successful facility would need not one but over
a hundred of these things to ever hope of refining U235 to the
98% purity required for a bomb. U235 is only 2-3% abundant in
nature, therefore, even the faster centrifuge in the world would
be unable to produce anything of military value from uranium
ore, operating alone. Such a plant would require a great deal
of space and huge energy resources, which would have made this
operation impossible to hide from any inspectors.
What Hitchens is also unable to answer, is why if there was such
proof doesn't he Bush administration take this information and
spin it for all the propaganda it's worth e especially given
Bush's plummeting approval ratings and the bad news perpetuation
from Iraq? After all, it's not like Hitchens hasn't got connections
to the White House (as Alex pointed out).
Keep up the good work guys,
Regards,
Andre De angelis
Talking of drunken former Trotskyist
popinjays, I was prowling the other day through a box of old
Communist Party literature belonging to the late George Criley,
sent me by his neice, Honey Williams. Among predictable pamphlets
on Lysenko, Dimitrov and other celebrities of the period I
came across Fighting Words, published in 1949, being selections
from 25 years of the Daily Worker.
There were many very fine pieces
of reporting, from Abner Berry on a cotton plantation in Alabama;
from William Allan in Michigan about 288 black workers "sold"
to a canning company for $35, shipped up from Georgia to farm
camps, separated from the pigs by straw bales.
On October 16, 1947 there was
a proud bulletin, titled "Socko!" about the achievement
of the Worker's handicapper, Al. On his second day on the job
Al picked "a phenomenal total of six winners in the seven
races at Jamaica yesterday". Readers putting $10 on each
of Al's picks would have cleared $116. Al's feat on behalf of
the toiler-punters reminds me of the services done to Party
members in the UK in 1949, most of whom probably put their money
on Russian Hero, who won the Grand National at Aintree that year
against odds of 66 to one, the fifth-longest odds in the history
of the race since it began in 1837.
Listening to the Grand National
on the radio was a big feature for our family and many others.
As an 8-year in the library of my grandparents' house Myrtle
Grove, in Youghal, county Cork, I remember the climactic scream
of the BBC's man calling the race as Russian Hero passed the
winning post, and the grateful roars of my father who'd plonked
a quid or two on the horse. In his years on the British Daily
Worker some time earlier he and the rest of the staff often survived
on the excellent predictions of their tipster.
Dipping further into Fighting
Words I found an enthusiastic news lead on May 14, 1948,
"The sun is rising on a new nation, a new state in Palestine
history marches on in Palestine no less than in Greece,
China, or Indonesia. In Palestine, it is the Haganah and its
allies; in Greece, it is the heroic guerilla movement; in China
it is the mighty and victorious People's Army, led by the Communists.
In every case, the enemy is the same the imperialism of
London and Wall Street"
Oh well. Small wonder it was
hard, even in the 80s, to get many old Lincoln Brigaders and
kindred comrades, to speak up on behalf of the Palestinians.
Deeper into Fighting Words
my eye was caught by the title, A Trotskyite Slumming Trip,
published on November 26, 1947. It was by Samuel Sillen, and
took the form of a robust attack on Edmund Wilson. Here it is.
A Trotskyite's Slumming Trip
By Samuel Sillen
November 26, 1947.
The editors of The New Yorker,
with grotesque humor, financed a sort of intellectual slumming
trip by Edmund Wilson through postwar Europe. He left his Baedeker
home, but not his Trotskyism. His report, published in his new
book, Europe Without Baedeker, unutterably dull, is worth nothing
except as a symptom of the moral decay of capitalist apologists.
Wilson felt most at home in
a convent cell at the Hospital of the Blue Nuns in Rome, where
he discussed with George Santayana his quaint "weakness
for Mussolini." Wilson's militant, unabashed hatred of
people naturally accompanies a hatred of the democratic upsurge
in post-Hitler Europe. The author laments his departed friends
Trotsky and Tukhachevsky, waxes homesick for Alexander Barmine,
consoles himself that De Gaulle's big brain, Andre Malraux,
is one of "the most valuable forces still alive on this
devastated continent".
Then he scoots back to America with a dazzling proposal. He wants
us to set up a Board of Breeding. We should not be so "foolish"
as to allow Nazi failures to "discourage us with eugenics".
Wilson offers this bright vista: "If we can produce, from
some cousin of the jackal and the wolf, the dachshund and the
Great Dane, the Pekinese and the poodle, what should we not be
able to do with man?"
Fortified by this dog-theory
of history, Wilson finds a new key to what is "wrong"
with Socialist ideas. It is that Karl Marx was a Jew, "and,
being a Jew, from a family that bad included many rabbis, he
identified the situation of the factory worker with the situation
of the Jew." Marx, says Wilson, mistakenly assumed that
workers released from capitalism would behave in terms of "Jewish
tradition". He did not foresee that "what happens,
when you let down the bars, is that a lot of gross and ignorant
people who have been condemned to mean destinies before, go rushing
for all they are worth after things that they can eat, drink,
sleep on, ride on, preside at and amuse themselves with."
Thus, in one stroke, the Trotskyite
tourist for The New Yorker combines the Nazi view of Marxism
as a peculiarly "Jewish" philosophy, the Bourbons'
contempt for the masses as wild animals, and the hoary capitalist
warning that we must not '"let down the bars"' to the
working class.
This leads up to the inevitability-of-war
thesis. Wilson goes a step further than your run-of-the-mill
warmonger. Not only can't we get along with the Soviet leaders,
but Americans "will never be able to co-operate as peoples"
with the Russians. It is "ridiculous," says Wilson,
to think of the Russian people today as "civilized".
Wilson, borrowing a cue from
De Gaulle's Malraux, evidently aspires to be a braintruster
of the fascist forces. It is not only moral and intellectual
rottenness that we find in his book, but the savagery of desperation.
One might have thought that
Boards of Breeding of not been on Wilson's shopping list, only
two years after the defeat of Nazism, but eugenic selection
ardently backed by American liberals from the start was
big in the late 1940s. In 1949 Garrett Hardin was writing anguished
nonsense about America's declining IQ in his biology textbook.
Malthus is never far away, nor the sterilizer's toolkit, intellectual
and physical.
From: "charlie ehlen"
<cehlen@netzero.com>
Date: August 20, 2005 2:23:33 PM PDT
To: <counterpunch@counterpunch.org>
Subject: Can Cindy Sheehan End the War?
Mr. Cockburn,
Excellent article sir!
I agree that MoveOn etc is
not really anti-war. Just one reason not to be a member of that
group. As to the Democrats (aka Democans), they can go jump off
the highest cliff they can find. To hell with both the Republocrats
and the Democans. A pox on both "parties". We need
a revolution right here in America.
I was lied into the Marines
and then Viet Nam. Maybe because too many of my generation are
still alive and recalling what we went through is a reason enlistments
are down. I sure as hell hope so. Having been through a war,
I can say the I think war is the most pornographic thing humankind
has ever devised. I do not ever want to see any other people
fighting and dying for a lie ever again. I know, that is way
too utopian for this life, but I can still dream, or is that
against the "Patriot" act also? I don't give a holy
shit in hell if it is illegal, I will continue to hope and dream
of a peaceful world. If the criminal gang now in power in the
good old US of A don't like that, they can go screw themselves.
Hey, they are doing that in Iraq right now.
War never does anything but make the rich richer and kills off
many poor and working class young people. Oh, it works as population
control until the war is over. Then look out, my generation proves
that. The baby boomers are the end result of World War Two ending.
Sorry for being so long winded.
Thank you for the article and for your time reading this humble
reply.
Charlie Ehlen
Glenmora, LA
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