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Today's
Stories
May 10,
2007
Tariq Ali
Adieu,
Blair, Adieu
May 9, 2007
Jeff Leys
Iraq
and Afghanistan Supplemental Spending, 2008
Patrick Cockburn
An Interview with Iraq's Foreign Minister on Iran and Iraq
Glen Ford
No Black Plan for America's Cities
Paula Rothenberg
Feminism Then and Now
Kathryn Weber
A Conversation with Norman Finkelstein
John Chuckman
The Likely Historical Significance of the War in Iraq
Jordan Flaherty
Looking for Justice in Jena, Louisiana
Dave Lindorff
Pelosi's Toothless Threat to Sue Bush
Stephen Lendman
Criminalizing Speech: the War on Free Expression in a Post-9/11
World
Website of
the Day
"Fifth and Market": a Short Film About the Iraq War
May 8, 2007
Dave Lindorff
The
Great Oil Robbery
Patrick Cockburn
The Horrific Stoning Death of a Yazidi Girl Sparks Waves of Revenge
Killings
Corporate Crime Reporter
Snuff Politics: Democrats Escalate Attack on Single Payer
Ralph Nader
The People's Crusade of Mike Gravel
Malini Johar Schueller
Decoding Harlan Ullman: Shock and Awe as Sexual Fantasy
Juan Santos
The Hate Equation: Targeting Migrant Children in LA
Dave Zirin
Jason Whitlock, the Clarence Thomas of Sportswriters?
Joshua Frank
The Price of Fire in Latin America
Evelyn Pringle
Serotonin Syndrome
Eamonn McCann
Irish Peace Dividend for Discredited Premiers
Website of the Day
The Pagan Science Monitor
May 7, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
The
Great Wall of Baghdad Rises
Monica Benderman
Land of Opportunity
Greg Moses
Hutto Prison Rebuffs UN Rapporteur
Rannie Amiri
The Sham at Sheikh: Iraq Regional Conference a Flop
Fitrakis / Wasserman
Media Silence on Kent State Revelations
Fred Wilhelms
Another Royalty Forfeiture From SoundExchange: And This Time
It's Secret!
Ramzy Baroud
The Hourglass of Blood: Darfur Revisited
Bruce K. Gagnon
The Democrats Don't Own the Antiwar Movement
T. W. Croft
Home Movies from a Weekend in Paris--And Related Dreamscapes
Sonja Karkar
Prizes for Supporting Israel?
Website of the Day
Posada Carriles: the Declassified Record
May 5 / 6, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Trying
to Catch Up with the Voters
William Blum
How America Has Changed Iraq
Uri Avnery
Exercise in Escapism
Franklin Lamb
Harvard's Twisted Report on Israel's Invasion of Lebanon
Fred Gardner
Elective Surgeries Kill
Lawrence R.
Velvel
The American Moral Meltdown Accelerates
Missy Beattie
Lying and Dying: The Moral Sensibility
of Military Recruiters
Robert Fantina
Bush's Veto: Hypocritical Words and Actions
Carla Blank
American Massacres and the Media
Linn Washington,
Jr.
The Long Ordeal of Harold Wilson
Stephen F. Jackson
Taking It to Drummond: Paramilitaries and Mining Companies in
Colombia
P. Sainath
The Jailing of Indian Farmers
Anthony Papa
Time to End New York's War on Itself
James T. Phillips
Blather Cancer
John Ross
Last Days of the Willie Loman of the EZLN
Stephen Lendman
Chavez's Oil Policy Sparks Panic at Wall Street Journal
Ben Terrall
Iggy Pop at 60
CounterPunch
Newswire
Advice from a Geezer Assassin
Poets' Basement
Valentine, Engel and Davies
Website of
the Weekend
Mountain Justice Summer
May 4, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
How
the Surge is Failing
Col. Dan Smith
From Watergate to Gonzogate
Norman Solomon
FOX on Wall Street
Azmi Bishara
Why is Israel After Me?
Ron Jacobs
Sitting in on Senator Kohl and the War
Dave Lindorff
Clinton and Byrd are Calling for Revocation of the Wrong AUMF
Kevin Zeese
The Democrats Cave to Bush
Bob Fitrakis
Why Four Died in Ohio: Kent State, Gov. Rhodes and the FBI
Janet Kauffman
"Stop the Mudness!" Bare Earth is Scorched Earth
Website of
the Day
Let Us Gather in Missouri!
May 3, 2007
Jeff Halper
The
Livni-Rice Plan for the Middle East: a Just Peace or Apartheid?
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush's
Best and Brightest: From Dr. Keroack to Bernard Kerik
Dave Zirin
Talking Sports from Death Row: an Interview with Kevin Cooper
Corporate Crime
Reporter
Big Pharma Gets Its Hooks into Seton Hall Law School
Robert Fisk
Olmert Comes Undone
Mike Ferner
Bush Veto, Right for the Wrong Reasons?
Mike Whitney
A Stock Market Post-Mortem
Pham Binh
The Democrats and War Funding
Dave Lindorff
Kucinich's Impeachment Train: Look Who Just Stepped Aboard
Michael A.
Johnson
Tenet on 60 Minutes
Website of the Day
Olivia Wilde: the Interview
May 2, 2007
Saul Landau
Would
Jesus Wear a Rolex on His TV Show?
Dr. Susan Block
Hookergate II: Madame Julia's Big Black Book of Cheesy Republican
Sex Acts
Carla Blank
Historical Amnesia: Worst U.S. Massacre?
Margaret Kimberly
The Candor of Mike Gravel: "These People Frighten Me"
Kevin Zeese
Durbin Gives Edwards More to Apologize For
Carlos Villareal
How "Law and Order" Covers for Bigotry in the Immigration
Debate
Michael Dickinson
Trouble in Turkey: Criminalizing Political Art
Tim Shorrock
A Raw Deal Between Washington and Seoul: Corporate Interventionism
as Trade Policy
Alevtina Rea
The Myth-Makers of Estonia
William S.
Lind
General Incompetence: Col. Yingling and the Military Brass
Website of the Day
Good News: Rost's "ZubeGate Exposé Prompts Congressional
Inquiry
May 1, 2007
Andrew Cockburn
How
Rumsfeld Micromanaged Torture
Fred Gardner
Affirmative Abstinence: Adios, Randall Tobias, the Man Who Turned
His Wife's Suicide into a Sales Pitch for Prozac
Chase Madar
Are Working Class Jobs Bad for Your Health?
Ralph Nader
Cheney and the BYU 25: Faith, Accountability and Protest in Utah
John V. Walsh
Edgy Dems Snarl at Their Antiwar Base
Joshua Frank
Obama, Incorporated
Leslie Radford
The Migrant Trap and the Migrant's Way Out
Shaun Harkin
An Interview with Nativo López on Immigration Bills and
Protests
Dave Lindorff
Murtha Talks Impeachment
Peter Rost,
MD
Inspector General Requests Meeting with Pfizer Whistleblower
Peter Linebaugh
May Day and Magna Carta
Website of
the Day
Impeachment? Why Bother?
April 30,
2007
Frank Menetrez
Dershowitz
v. Finkelstein: Who's Right and Who's Wrong?
Paul Craig
Roberts
Incompetence at the Top: Tenet and His Masters
Ray McGovern
Tenet's Self-Serving Apologia
Manuel Garcia,
Jr.
Fire Collapses Oakland Freeway as Steel Supports Fail
Diana Johnstone
The Three Rs of "Sarko the American"
Sherwood Ross
A So-Called "Liberal" Answers His Death Threats
Peter Rost, MD
Did Pfizer Illegally Market Its New HIV/AIDS Drug?
Robert Jensen
Anti-Capitalism
in Five Minutes
Kevin Zeese
While Congress Voted for War, the Peace Movement Protested Inside
the Senate
Jane Stillwater
Dalai Lama and Costco
Website of
the Day
Francis Boyle: Impeaching Bush
April 28
/ 29, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Is
Global Warming a Sin?
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Versailles on the Potomac
Fred Gardner
Fuel for a Killer: What Drugs Had Cho Taken?
David Orchard
and Michael Mandel
Afghanistan and Iraq are the Same War
Alan Maass
The War on Hip Hop: an Interview with Dave Marsh
Joe Bageant
Why Are Leftists So Damn Afraid of God?
Robert Fantina
The Rhetoric of Dick Cheney: Lying as Art Form
Hanan Ashrawi
Palestine and Peace: the Looming Challenges
Ron Jacobs
Return of the Guitar Army
Nicole Colson
The Surpeme Court Targets Abortion Rights
Ben Terrall
Tracking Torture
Missy Beattie
Quit Your Day Job, George
Harvey Wasserman
The Lesson of Chernobyl
Cindy Beringer
The Horrors of Hutto: Inside Texas' For-Profit Immigrant Prison
Mike Roselle
The Dog Philosophy: What Kant Can't Tell Us About Why We Love
Wilderness
RAWA
Freeing Afghanistan
James McEnteer
Where the Movie Villains are American: Screening Films in Bolivia
Poets' Basement
For Stew Albert
Website of the Weekend
Rudy and Donald: the Drag Smooch
April 27, 2007
Eva Liddell
How
Can Women Defend Themselves Against Stalkers?
Phyllis Bennis
and Robert Jensen
Moving Beyond Anti-War Politics
Mike Whitney
Where's the Beef?: Padilla and the Zucchini Prosecution
Michael F.
Brown
Biden and Pelosi: Failing to Hold Israel Accountable for War
Crimes in Lebanon
Jordan Flaherty
Forgotten Mississippi
Margaret Kimberly
John McCain, Cold-Blooded Senator
Christopher Brauchli
The Dangers of Unstable People
Jacob Mundy
Stalemate in the Western Sahara?
Website of the Day
Yee Speaks
April 26, 2007
Andrew Cockburn
Wolfowitz's
War
Franklin Lamb
Giuliani
Plays the Islamic Terror Card
Patrick Cockburn
Al-Qa'ida Group Behind US Deaths in Iraq
Roger Morris
Dispatches From the Front
Henry Siegman
The Three Nos of Jerusalem
Alevtina Rea
A Sister City Debate in Rachel Corrie's Hometown
Paris
Are You a Hip Hop Apologist?
Nikolas Kozloff
White Racism and the Aymara in Bolivia
Alan Farago
Dow 13,000 Disconnect
Matthew S. Miller
The Limits to Lakoff
Website of
the Day
PBS: Blaming Blacks Again
April 25, 2007
Sharon Smith
The
Rights of Children in America
David Price
The Long Lost War
Diana Johnstone
Who Wants Sarko? New or Old France?
Brendan Cooney
Cho and Cheney: Killer Looks
Sonja Karkar
Israeli Democracy, For Jews Only?
Brian Concannon
Wolfowitz and Haiti
Lee Gaillard
Baptism Under Fire: Can the Osprey Fly?
Leah Fishbein
Women Under Siege
Dave Lindorff
The First Shoe Drops
Neal Galloway
US Agricultural Policy is Destructive at Home and Abroad
Website of the Day
Anti-War Student Movements: a Short History
April 24,
2007
Ishmael Reed
How
Imus' Media Collaborators Almost Rescued Their Chief
Lila Rajiva
Tragedy and Irony After Virginia Tech
Paul Craig Roberts
The War Goes Ever On
Patrick Cockburn
Sunnis Protest Baghdad's "Prison Wall"
Ralph Nader
The Corporate Debasement of Earth Day
Mike Whitney
Housing Bubble Boondoggle
Website of the Day
"Refugees"
April 23,
2007
Saul Landau
The
Courage to Withdraw
Patrick Cockburn
Time of the Death Squads: Iraq as Revenge Tragedy
Robert Fantina
Changing Sentiments
Sam Husseini
The Gonzales Distraction
Corporate Crime Reporter
Bought-and-Paid-For Journalism at the Philly Inquirer
Elizabeth Lalasz
Sick and Getting Sicker
Harvey Wasserman
Earth Day, Incorporated
Dave Lindorff
Huge Win for Impeachment in Vermont: Are You Listening Sen. Leahy?
Gary Leupp
Maoist Homophobia in Nepal?
Stephen Lendman
A Short History of the Christian Right
Website of the Day
No to OLF
April 21 / 22, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Bring
Back the Posse
Fred Gardner
Prozac
Madness
Kristoffer Larsson
The Islamic Threat to Europe: By the Numbers
Barbara Rose
Johnston
Nuclear War and Its Consequences
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
The Heart of Whiteness: Racism, Wealth and IQ
John Scagliotti
Unlocking Closets, Locking Free Speech
Marjorie Cohn
Gonzo Justice: Counting on Alberto
Patrick Cockburn
Sadr Raises the Stakes
Diana Johnstone
The Absent Middle East
Ron Jacobs
Explaining the Spectre
Evelyn Pringle
How Iraq Was Looted
BANCO
Travesties of Justice in a Black City in Michigan: the Persecution
of Rev. Pinkney
Paul Richards
Thinking Big in the Northern Rockies
Dan Bacher
Zapatistas in the Colorado River Delta
Ben Terrall
Showdown at Chevron: SF Protest Against New Iraq Oil Law
Sherwood Ross
How the Taliban Defeated the Pakistani Army in Waziristan
Remi Kanazi
Bill Maher's "Towel-Headed Hos"
Aseem Shrivastava
Behind the Curtain of SEZs
Poets' Basement
Valentine, Reed, Harley and Engel
Website of
the Day
Reading Sappho in New Orleans
April 20,
2007
Doug Peacock
Beginning
of the End for the Yellowstone Grizzly?
Diane Farsetta
Onward, Free Market Soldiers!: Privatizing Public Diplomacy
Tom Clifford
The Surge in Iraqi Civilian Deaths: the Bloodiest 12 Months of
the War
Amira Hass
The
Holocaust as Political Asset
Nicole Colson
Desperation in Gitmo's Camp 6
Sonja Karkar
Double Jeopardy Entraps Palestinians
Heather Gray
The Supreme Court Looks a Lot Like the Taliban
Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban
Syrian Expeditions
Agustin Velloso
Spain and Iraq, Four Years On
Matthew Koehler
Distorting the News in a Timber Company Town
Website of
the Day
Gonzo's Monica
April 19,
2007
Emad Mekay
/
Jim Lobe
Scoring
at the World Bank: Wolfowitz's Quid Pro Quo
Patrick Cockburn
A
Day of Bombs and Blood in Baghdad
Larry C. Johnson
The Hobbesian Hell of Iraq: How Many Dead Equal a Failed Government?
Norman Solomon
Bowing Down to Our Own Violence
Saul Williams
Notes from a Hip Hop Head: an Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey
Sunsara Taylor
From Iraq to the Supreme Court: a New Dark Ages for Women
Harvey Wasserman
How Green is Tom Friedman?
Christopher
Brauchli
Apologies, Incorporated
Anthony Papa
Nightmare Behind Bars: John Valverde's Fight for Freedom
Dave Lindorff
Betraying Thomas Jefferson
Website of the Day
The Best Antiwar Song of the Iraq War?
April 18,
2007
Lila Rajiva
More
Gun Laws or Fewer Idiots? How the Va Tech Administration Failed
Its Campus
Landau / Hassen
Tancredo
as 17th Century Indian Chief?
Charles Fisher
/
Randy Fisher
Don Imus's Firing and the Hip-Hop Culture
Diane Christian
Facing Death Politically
Kevin Prosen
Meeting the Resistance in Iraq
China Hand
Gold Digging: The U.S. Treasury Department's Economic Campaign
Against North Korea
Peter Rost,
MD
The Strange Profits from a Re-Branded Cancer Drug
Justin Akers Chacón
What's Inside the STRIVE Bill
Jerry Kroth
Virginia Tech and Cho Seung Hui: Love and Unhappiness in an Alien
Culture
Sherwood Ross
Massacre at Va Tech: a Brief Glimpse into Daily Life in Iraq
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Bonfire of the Hannities
Alice Cherbonnier
Why South Dakota's "Informed Consent" Law Doesn't Go
Far Enough
Website of
the Year?
"I Hope I Die Before I Get Old"
April 17,
2007
Jean Bricmont
/
Diana Johnstone
The
Elections in France: a Coming Political Tsunami
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bloodbath
in Blacksburg
Frida Berrigan
Militarizing the Border
Alison Weir
The Message of PBS's "Crossroads" Series: Some Muslims
Aren't Bad
John Walsh
Why is the Peace Movement Silent About AIPAC?
Jason Hribal
Resistance is Futile: Emily the Cow and Tyke the Elephant
Evelyn Pringle
The Iraq Money Trail
Ben Terrall
Cuban Exiles Get Hero's Welcome; Haitian Refugees Get Shafted
Stan Cox
1040s and Death Certificates
Soren Ambrose
Confidence
Crisis at the IMF
Website of the Day
Go Ahead and Yell: "FIRE!"
April 16,
2007
John F. Sugg
Hate
and Hypocrisy in the Cox Empire
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Escalating
Military Spending: Income Redistribution in Disguise
Carl G. Estabrook
The Politics of the Useful Threat: It Didn't Start with the Neo-Cons
Paul Craig Roberts
The Party of Brownshirts
Uri Avnery
Blood on Our Hands
Ralph Nader
Where Are the Cries of Outrage Over Military Rapes?
Eamon McCann
Shame of the Empire: Simon, Sir Bono and Tinkerbelle
Lee Sustar
Decoding the Democrats
Mike Whitney
Trouble in Squanderville: Bubble People and the Faith-Based Market
Don Fitz
Solar Capitalism?
Stephen Lendman
Ecuador Votes for Revolutionary Change
Website of the Day
Black Mesa Water Coalition
April 14
/ 15, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Ho
Industry Whores
Jorge Mariscal
Gen.
Petraeus's Field Manual: a Traveler's Guide to Big Muddy
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Beautiful and the Dammed: How the West Got Flooded
Dave Marsh
The
Imus Affair, Hip Hop and Politics
Dr. Trudy Bond
Shrinks, Lies and Torture: How Psychologists Became the Pentagon's
Bitches
Joe Bageant
A Feral Dog Howls in Harvard Yard
Fidel Castro
The Terrorist Walks
Alfredo Molano
"More Than Complicated"
Alan Farago
When Miami Crashes
Michael Neumann
Anglophone Fantasies and French Realities
Fred Gardner
Barbara McNair's Unsung Heroism: Bringing Down the Owner of EST
Ron Jacobs
A Conversation with Three Iraq Veterans Against the War
Gail Dines
Racy Sex, Sexy Racism
Linda Ford
Imus and Lady Hoopsters: a Long History of Bias Against Women
Athletes
Missy Beattie
What Would Imus Do?: Iraq, Ho, Ho, Ho
Dan La Botz
Farm Labor Organizer Murdered in Mexico
Giuliana Sgrena
The Lies of Mario Lozano
Laura Carlsen
A Moratorium on Free Trade Agreements
Abu Spinoza
Wolfowitz's Real Crimes
Elizabeth Schulte
Grinding It Out with Quentin Tarantino
Poets' Basement
Davies, Harley, Engel and Landau
Website of
the Weekend
Vonnegut's Final Interview
April 13,
2007
Patrick Cockburn
The
Shattering of Mosul
Stephen Soldz
Aid
and Comfort for Torturers: Psychology and Coercive Interrogations
in Historical Perspective
George Ciccarriello-Maher
The
Failed Chávez Coup: Five Years On
Laith al-Saud
Kirkuk, Oil and the Kurds
Dave Zirin
Memo to Imus
John Ross
Drawing a Line in the Heartland
Ramzy Baroud
America as Proxy
Harvey Wasserman
The Novelist Who Hated War: Peace Be With You, Mr. Vonnegut
Lopez, Olivo and Garcia
Columbia University's Two-Tiered Punishments
Dols, Fukumori,
Judd and Tillett-Saks
Columbia: On the Wrong Side of Justice
Website of the Day
Democrats: an Iraq Scorecard
April 12,
2007
JoAnn Wypijewski
We
May be Rid of Imus, But We're Still Stuck with the Culture
Paul Craig
Roberts
Big Profits from Big Brother
Marjorie Cohn
U.S. Attorneys and Voting Rights
Evelyn Pringle
Bush Family War Profiteering: Will Congress Finally Cut Them
Off?
Ron Jacobs
God
Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut
Norman Solomon
The Awful Truth About Hillary, Barack and John
Joe DeRaymond
The Release of Dennis Counterman: The Justice Game, the Alford
Plea and Death Row
Nicola Nasser
Squeezing Palestinians into an Impossible Mission
Nikolas Kozloff
Chile, a Country Geographically Located in South America "By
Accident"
William S.
Lind
Horatio Hornblower's Worst Nightmare
Siegfried L. Sassoon
A Statement Against the Continuation of the War
Website of
the Day
Where
You Want This Killin' Done?
April 11, 2007
R. T. Naylor
Quebec's
Lessons for the US: How "Wars on Terror" Should be
Fought
Vijay Prashad
The
Generation of IEDs and iPods
Patrick Cockburn
The Myth of Tal Afar
Winslow T. Wheeler
When Will the War Money Really Run Out?
Jack Balkwill
Prison for a Peacemaker: A Vietnam Vet Interviews Kathy Kelly
Alan Farago
Florida's Fundamentally Weak Environmental Movement
Russell D.
Hoffman
The Carbon Offset Tax is Just Another Nuke Bailout
Peter Rost, MD
The Fine Print on Drug Industry Kickbacks
Mike Whitney
Doomsday for the Greenback?
Dave Lindorff
Torture and Selective Outrage
Susie Day
Peter Pace Porks a Peck of Pinko Perverts
Website of the Day
Save the Internet!
April 10,
2007
James G. Abourezk
How
Syria Helped the US in the "War on Terror"-and How
Bush Said "Thanks"
Earl Ofari
Hutchinson
Why Imus Should be Fired-And Why He Won't Be
Joshua Frank
Democrats for War
Lee Sustar
How Concessions by UAW Lost Jobs
Joseph Grosso
Tiger Woods in Dubai: Luxury and Exploitation
Nirmal Ghosh
China and the Fate of the Tiger
Robert Jensen
Impeach the System
Ramzy Baroud
Not an Intellectual Squabble
Paul Rockwell
History Will Vindicate Lt. Ehren Watada
Mario Joseph
and
Brian Concannon
Solidaridad? Chávez in Haiti
Fred Wilhelms
Why the New Royalty Rates Hurt Artists
Website of
the Day
Thaw!
April 9,
2007
Saul Landau
Whining
Imperialists
Uri Avnery
Shalom, Shin Bet
Nicole Colson
Sami Al-Arian's Nightmare: an Interview with Nahla Al-Arian
Gideon Levy
Israel Does Not Want Peace
Corporate Crime Reporter
Big Coal Invokes Reverse Nuremberg Defense
Evelyn Pringle
The Surge in Casualties
Hill Kemp
Mega Lessons from Iraq War, Year 5
Martha Rosenberg
Monsanto's
Desperate Plea: "Regulate Our Competitors!"
Keith Rosenthal
Behind Boston's Recent "Crime Wave"
Jane Stillwater
Green Zone Cabin Fever
Website of the Day
Support Norman Finkelstein
April 7 / 8, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Dead
Dogs Don't Bleed: How Giuliani Lost America
Sara Roy
A Jewish Plea
Arno J. Mayer
Back to Cleopatra's Nose: Bush-Bashing and Empire's Onward March
Jeffrey St.
Clair
In the Realm of the Grizzly Kings
Vicente Navarro
Why Huntington and Beck Are Wrong
Fidel Castro
Where Have All the Bees Gone? And Other Reflections on the Internationalizaton
of Genocide
Fred Gardner
Medical News from the Business Pages
Ralph Nader
The IRS Owes You Money
David N. Rahni
Test Tube Zealots: American Chemical Society Purges Iranian Chemists
Arthur Neslen
When an Anti-Semite is Not an Anti-Semite
Pratyush Chandra
Joseph Stiglitz's "Another World"
Missy Beattie
Enough Already! The Politics of Exasperation
Marc Levy
A Beginner's Guide to Combat
Poets' Basement
Reiss, Holt, Orloski and Louise
Website of the Weekend
Reactor Man
April 6,
2007
Franklin Lamb
Why
is Hezbollah on the Terrorism List?
Gloria La Riva
On the Case of the Cuban Five and Luis Posada Carriles
Corporate Crime Reporter
The Politics of Coal in West Virginia
Ron Jacobs
Good Friday, Beethoven and Patti Smith
Felice Pace
Simon Says: The Pro-Israel Bias of NPR
Walter Brasch
Treason in the White House?
David Swanson
Heroes, Sung and Unsung
Sylvia Syracuse
Roadside Rampage: Salvadoran Murders in Guatemala
April 5, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
A
De Facto Hostage Exchange
Tom Barry
The Fred Thompson Factor
Richard W. Behan
Congressional Complicity
Nicola Nasser
Playing US Politics with Iraqi Blood for Oil
Bernadine Dohrn
The New and Old SDS: Convergence Not Division
Laray Polk
Lucky Dragon: Does the World Really Need a New H-Bomb?
Helen Redmond
Female Chauvinist Pigs?
April 4,
2007
Col. Dan Smith
"Have
You No Sense of Decency?": the Tillman Affair and the Moral
Decay of the Army
Joshua Frank
Democratic
Blood Money: Sen. Feinstein's War Profiteering
Margaret Kimberly
Of Confessions and Torture
Sharon Smith
Circuit City's Guinea Pigs: the Latest Trend in Corporate America
Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV
Martin Luther
King,Jr.
Beyond
Vietnam
Bill Quigley
Incident at Fort Huachuca, the Army's Torture Training Center
Dave Zirin
Picking Chicago's Pockets with the Olympics
Evelyn Pringle
Drug Companies Want Women of Childrearing Years
Peter Rost,
MD
Pfizer's Puny Fine
Website of the Day
Crash of the Honey Bees
April 3,
2007
Patrick Cockburn
US's
Bungled Plan to Kidnap Iran's Top Spook Prompted hostage Taking
Marjorie Cohn
Coming Up Short on Habeas Corpus for Gitmo Detainees
Brian M. Downing
The Army's Road to Iraq
Corporate Crime
Reporter
Coddling
Pfizer: Praise the Criminal, Dis the Whistleblower
Carol Norris
A Psychologist on Sexual Assault: Yes, Virginia, There is a Sollution
Ralph Nader
Tailpipe Blues
Dave Lindorff
I Quit: A Movement of One (Or a Maybe a Million)
Scott Bontz
The Great Depletion
Thomas Dolby
Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Racism and the National Anthem
Website of
the Day
Cockburn on BookTV
April 2, 2007
Gary Leupp
A
Bogus Hostage Crisis
Uri Avnery
Condi
in the Middle East: Olmert and the Pussycat
James Petras
Palestine: The Political Economy of a Disaster
Norman Solomon
McCain in Baghdad: Walking in McNamara's Footsteps
Robert Fisk
War of Humiliation
Stanley Heller
A Neocon Looks Two Conquests Ahead: The Ravings of James Woolsey
Sherwood Ross
How the Pentagon Cheats Iraq Vets Out of Medical Care and Disability
Pay
Monica Benderman
On Keeping Men Alive: Report from Ft. Stewart
Stephen Fleischman
Winners and Losers in a Dog-Eat-Dog System
Anne McElroy
Dachel
Never Mind the Mercury
Website of the Day
Midwestern Common Sense on the War
March 31 / April 1, 2007
Cockburn /
St. Clair
That
Was an Antiwar Vote?
Fred Gardner
How Corrupt is Malcolm Gladwell? Shilling for Enron and Breast
Cancer
Greg Moses
The Pirates of Homeland Security
Gary Leupp
300 vs. Iran (and Herodotus)
Robert Fisk
Shakespeare and War
Roger Morris
The Politics of the Witch Hunt
Conn Hallinan
The Price of Fire: Oil, Water and Resistance in Bolivia
Kristin J.
Anderson
A Protocol for Death
Jason Hribal
California's Most Unhappy Cows
John Ross
Strange Fruit Down South
Christopher Brauchli
Bush and the Politics of Falsehoods: If You're Going to Lie,
Lie Big
David Underhill
War Breeds Stranger Bedfellows
Elizabeth Schulte
The Pentagon's "Don't Ask" Disaster
Ben Terrall
Time for Lula to Stop Doing Bush's Dirty Work in Haiti
Missy Beattie
Guess Who Isn't Coming to Dinner: The Story of King Abdullah
and the O-Word
Sonja Karkar
How Palestine Became Israel's Land
Daniel Wolff
Have You Heard the News?
David Vest
A Romanian Jazz Rebel Drops a Bomb on Paris
Ron Jacobs
Wynton Marsalis Checks In on the Land That Never Has Been Yet
Poets' Basement
Davies, Holt, Wigley and Landau
Website of the Weekend
Kansas City Rocks
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May
10, 2007
Washington
and Posada Carriles
Fighting
Terror Selectively
By MARJORIE COHN
Since the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration
has made the "war on terror" the centerpiece of its
domestic and foreign policy. Bush cries terror where there is
none - as in Iraq and in the communications of ordinary Americans.
Meanwhile, he protects the real terrorists in our midst.
Luis Posada Carriles is a Cuban-born
terrorist who has accurately been called the Osama bin Laden
of the Western hemisphere. He boasted of helping to detonate
deadly bombs in Havana hotels 10 years ago. Declassified FBI
and CIA documents at the National Security Archive reveal that
Posada was the mastermind of a 1976 bombing of a civilian Cuban
airplane that killed 73 people. He escaped from a Venezuelan
prison where he was being tried for his role in the first in-air
bombing of a commercial airliner. Posada then played a central
role in the illegal Iran-Contra scandal.
Posada entered the United States
in March 2005 using false papers and was charged in El Paso with
lying to Immigration and Customs officials. FBI agent Thomas
Rice swore in a June 2005 affidavit that "the FBI is unable
to rule out the possibility that Posada Carriles poses a threat
to the national security of the United States." Yet on April
19, 2007 Posada was released on bail despite being a flight risk.
This stranger-than-fiction
story has a logical explanation. Posada has a long history of
ties to the U.S. government. He became a CIA agent in 1961. The
U.S. government claims his CIA service ended in 1976. But on
April 30, Posada filed a motion in federal court declaring that
he continued to work for the CIA for more than 25 years. That
puts him on the CIA's payroll when he engineered the terrorist
airline bombing. In his motion, Posada asserted the right to
present evidence of his CIA work as a defense to the perjury
charges. The specter of Posada revealing the dirty deeds committed
by the CIA when George H.W. Bush was director of the CIA was
intolerable to Washington.
The government was caught between
a rock and a hard place. There had been intense pressure to try
Posada for his terrorist crimes, as required by Security Council
resolution 1373 and three international treaties. Resolution
1373, passed in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, mandates
that all countries deny safe haven to those who commit terrorist
acts, and ensure that they are brought to justice. These provisions
of resolution 1373 are mandatory, as they were adopted under
Chapter VII of the UN Charter. The treaties require the United
States to extradite Posada to Venezuela for trial or try him
in U.S. courts for offenses committed abroad. The Department
of Justice elected instead to charge him with perjury for lying
about how he entered the United States in 2005.
But the government could not
take the risk that Posada might sing like a canary. On Tuesday,
U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone dismissed all charges
against Posada. In her ruling, Cardone wrote that "the Government
engaged in fraud, deceit, and trickery" by using a "routine"
immigration interview to investigate possible criminal charges
against Posada. But questions about Posada's prior criminal conduct
were relevant to the moral character determination at the immigration
interview. Posada is not a "routine" guy and his lawyer
was present throughout the interview to protect him against self-incrimination.
Cardone found the government's tactics "grossly shocking
and so outrageous as to violate the universal sense of justice."
She then disingenuously claimed, "This Court's concern is
not politics; it is the preservation of justice."
It is shocking and outrageous
that Luis Posada Carriles, whose crimes rival those of al Qaeda,
is now walking free in Miami. And Cardone's decision is deeply
political.
Rep. William Delahunt has called
for a congressional hearing to examine the U.S. government's
role in promoting impunity in the Posada case. Delahunt sent
a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales requesting an explanation
as to why the Justice Department did not invoke the USA Patriot
Act to declare Posada a terrorist and detain him, stating, "The
release of Mr. Posada puts into question our commitment to fight
terrorism."
That commitment is also belied
by the way Washington has dealt with the Cuban Five. These men
peacefully infiltrated criminal exile groups in Miami to prevent
terrorism against Cuba. The Five turned over the results of their
investigation to the FBI. But instead of working with Cuba to
fight terrorism, the U.S. government arrested the five Cubans
and tried and convicted them of conspiracy-related offenses.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta
reversed their convictions, finding they could not receive a
fair trial in Miami. In August 2006, a majority of the full circuit
rejected the earlier ruling and sent the matter back to the panel
where further appeals are pending. The U.S. media has been irresponsibly
silent on the case of the Cuban Five and the irregularities of
the trial.
The Los Angeles Times, however,
showed singular insight on April 20 when it said the release
of Posada "exposed Washington to legitimate charges of hypocrisy
in the war on terror." The editorial criticized the U.S.
for holding men at Guantánamo without due process while
releasing Posada. "The U.S. government has done many odd
things in 46 years of a largely failed Cuba policy," the
Times said, "but letting a notorious terrorist walk stands
among the most perverse yet."
Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson
School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, and the
U.S. representative to the executive committee of the American
Association of Jurists. Her new book, "Cowboy Republic:
Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law," will be published
in July. See http://www.marjoriecohn.com/.
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