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Today's Stories August 4 / 5, 2007 Alan Farago The Candidates and the Collapsing Economy August 3, 2007 Gabriel Matthew Schivone An Interview with Noam Chomsky on Responsibility, War Guilt and Intellectuals Jonathan Cook Israel's Jewish Problem in Tehran Patrick Cockburn Sunnis Walk Out of Iraq Government Little Steven Van Zandt Die, Greedy Swine! Die! Die!: How the Record Companies are Killing Rock Music Christopher Brauchli Bush Makes Putin Look Like James Madison D. K. Wilson Two Sides and a Middle: Michael Vick Ain't the One to Ask Linda Ford and Ira Glunts Maxwell's Silver Hammer: Syracuse University Enlists in the Global War on Terror Kelly Overton The Casualties of Green Scare: the Feds' War on the Animal Rights Mvt. Monica Benderman In Freedom's Name Manuel Garcia, Jr. Minneapolis Bridge Collapse: Was Cheney at the Scene? Website of the Day A Cinematic Look at the Police State in Action   August 2, 2007 Paul Craig Roberts The Return of the Robber Barons Stanley Heller Report from the Land of Apartheid Eric Ruder Fighting PTSD; Fighting the Army Robert Fantina Still Getting It Wrong: the NYT and Iraq Alan Farago The Toxic Mortgage Waste Crisis Chris Floyd Chertoff, Chiquita and Death Squads Franklin Lamb Lebanon's Crucial Special Elections Sen. Russ Feingold Closing the Book on the Abramoff Era Anthony Papa Drug Treatment isn't a Silver Bullet Norman Solomon The Big Guns of August Website of the Day Louie, Louie Video Contest   August 1, 2007 Debbie Nathan More Secret Payments by Former NYT Reporter to Web Porn Star Surface in Nashville Courtroom Fred Gardner Ciao, Michelangelo Gary Leupp Why Iraq's Best-Loved Athlete Can't Go Home David Rosen America's Top 10 Political Sex Scandals Winston Warfield Is the Tillman Case Still a Coverup? Daniel McBride Lessons from Bomber Harris: If the US Strikes Pakistan Glen Ford The Corporate Plan to Crush Black Resistance Thomas P. Healy The Toxic Career of Indiana's Environmental Commissioner John V. Whitbeck The Five Percent Solution David Krieger Nuclear Weapons and the University of California Website of the Day The Tragic Story of Hisham Mohammed   July 31, 2007 Kathy Kelly Dancing in the Darkness: the Story of Abu Mahmoud Clancy Sigal The Ghosts of Passchendaele Paul Krassner Assholes of the Week: From Baby Doll to Cheney Joe DeRaymond Return to the Republic of Death? Diane Christian "Winning": What Bush Could Learn from the Shade of Achilles Chris Floyd Good News is No News: Why the Bush Adm. Buries Accounts of Extremist Recantations Ramzy Baroud Bush's Real Agenda in Palestine Alan Farago Battle for the Soul of Florida Fidel Castro In Spite of Everything: Reflections on the Pan American Games Dan Bacher The Fish Terminator: Schwarzenegger's Campaign to Build the Delta Canal and More Dams   July 30, 2007 Marjorie Cohn: Independent Counsel Time Patrick Cockburn Four Million Iraqis on the Run Peter Quinn Irish in America Uri Avnery A Warning to Tony Blair John Ross Zapatista Intergalatica Lands on Earth Ron Jacobs Free the San Francisco 8 David Vest Farewell, Old Friend: Another Legend of the Blues is Gone Jeffrey St. Clair T99 Nelson: Seduced by a Legend of the Blues Website of the Day Collateral Repair Project   July 28 / 29, 2007 Alexander Cockburn Now the NYT is Selling "Bloodbath" as a Rationale to Stay in Iraq Ralph Nader Rotten Justice Robert Fantina American Lies and Iraqi Nationalism Fred Gardner Prohibitionists Attack, Reformers Fundraise   Yves Engler Handwashing and the Bottomline   July 27, 2007 John Ross Bombing Pemex--or Not? Arthur Neslen Gaza was a Gas for Blair Dave Lindorff Declaring the US a Battlefield: Martial Law is Now a Real Threat Julene Blair The Environmentalist Within Christopher Brauchli Bush Uses Children as Shock Troops in His War on Socialized Medicine Jesse Hagopian Fund the Wounded, Not the War Charles Modiano Manufacturing a Villain: Sports Illustrated's Vilification of Barry Bonds Bill Day The Hollow Environmentalism of Leonardo DiCaprio Walter Brasch Leaders Afraid to Lead M.D. Mitchell Farm Based Camps Website of the Day Fighting Sarcoma   July 26, 2007 Kathleen Christison The Siren Song of Elliot Abrams Andy Worthington Why the Pentagon's Gitmo Study is a Joke Clancy Chassay How the Bush White House Seeks to Destroy Lebanon Marjorie Cohn Showdown Over Executive Privilege Susie Day Apartheid Americana David Price Tour de Witch Hunt: Drugs, Diaries and Purges Marie Trigona Argentina's "Dirty War" Crimes Trial: The Torturer Priest Norman Solomon Media Spin on Iraq: We're Leaving (Sort Of) William S. Lind How to Win in Iraq Natsu Saito Ward Churchill and the Regents at the University of Colorado John Stauber Netroots and the Iraq War: Does Ending It Matter to Them Anymore? Website of the Day Sticking It to the Man   July 25, 2007 Andy Worthington Gains and Losses at Gitmo Gary Leupp Bush Speechwriter, Michael Gerson, Calls for Attack on Syria Ray McGovern The Sad Decline of John Conyers Dr. Susan Block Bonobo Bashing in the New Yorker Joshua Frank Hillary's Neocon: the Imperial Vision of Richard Holbrooke Tina Richards What Harry Reid Doesn't Know About His Own Bill Ben Terrall Indonesia's Bloody Brand of CounterTerrorism Farzana Versey God Acquitted!: Lessons from the Case of Darwood Ibrahim Mohammad Ali Salih A Bomb in My Briefcase? Laura Carlsen A Strange Homecoming: Reflections on the First US Social Forum Ron Jacobs Come to Kennebunkport! Sunsara Taylor Knocked Up is F**ked Up Website of the Day Wal-Mart's Flip Flops: Feet Killers July 24, 2007 Saul Landau How to Walk in Bushtime Kathy Kelly The Plight of Iraqi Refugees in Jordan Russell Mokhiber The Michael Vick / George Bush Thing M. Shahid Alam Islam Now, China Then Patrick Cockburn and Anne Penketh Meeting in Baghdad Dave Lindorff Overcoming John Conyers Binoy Kampmark You Tube You Can't: Failure of a Medium Richard Neville Murdoch's Transplant: a Warning to the Wall Street Journal Cindy Sheehan We Must Move Beyond Politics as Usual Evelyn Pringle Anti-Depressants and Birth Defects: Why is the CDC Downplaying the Risks? Norman Solomon Media Corrections We'd Like to See CP Newswire Reading Harry Potter Not Sinful Website of the Day Sea Islands Black Heritage Festival   July 23, 2007 Andy Worthington Narcolepsy on Gitmo Detainees Uri Avnery A Trap for Fools Patrick Cockburn Turkish Prime Minister Threatens to Invade Northern Iraq Sousan Hammad The Children Without a Title John Walsh Todd Gitlin's Nader Fixation Harvey Wasserman Spinning Kashiwazaki: PR Flacks Rush to Aid of Crippled Nuke Martha Rosenberg The Life and Times of a Hog-Hanging Farmer Collin Baber Here Come the MRAPs: Resurrecting Apartheid Armor for Iraq Reza Fiyouzat Iran's Forgotten Anti-Nuke Movement Stephen Lendman Saving a President: Scare-Mongering and Executive Orders Website of the Day The Port Huron Project   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 Adam Engel Radical Language: an Introduction Thomas Naylor California Split: an Open Letter to Schwarzenegger Poets' Basement Landau, Ford and Engel Website of the Weekend Surge in Action   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? 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Weekend Edition August 4 / 5, 2007 Double Standards in U.S. Aid to the Middle East Mediated Terrorism By ANTHONY DiMAGGIO Once again, the U.S. is presiding over a major global human rights catastrophe, although one wouldn't know this by following American media or political commentary. As the U.S. announces plans for increasing military aid to despotic allies in the Middle East, media elites have resorted to some of the worst manipulation and misinformation in justifying funding. In a July 31 story, the New York Times announced the Bush administration's plans to allocate as much as $30 billion in aid to major Middle Eastern allies such as Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. The aid plan includes technological subsidies in the form of satellite-guided bombs, missiles, and upgraded naval ships. The proposal would include a 25% increase in aid to Israel over the next decade; total subsidies would increase from $24 billion to a projected $30 billion. Egypt is set to receive an estimated $13 billion. The aid initiative has been billed in the media as a major effort to stem terrorism, promote stability, and further cement American power in the region. The New York Times claims that the aid proposal is intended "to serve as a bulwark against Iran's growing influence in the Middle East," as "the new weaponry [sent to allies] would counterbalance Iran's regional ambitions." Other claims uncritically transmitted by the New York Times include Democratic Representative Tom Lantos and Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burn's claims that the package subsidies are exclusively for "defensive," rather than offensive military purposes, as well as Condoleeza Rice's disingenuous statement that such aid is intended to promote "moderation and reform" within the Egyptian and Saudi governments. An Associated Press/CBS story from July 30 quoted Bush administration officials' hopes that the subsidies will aide in "promoting stability…in a Middle East threatened by terrorism" from groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas. All this, CBS reports, is being pursued in the name of "bolster[ing] forces of moderation" and aiding regimes in "their ability to secure peace and stability in the Gulf region." Cable news coverage was similar in its framing of the aid package. On CNN Newswroom, co-host Don Lemon claimed that the main goals of U.S. include: "boosting civility, fighting terror and undercutting the likes of al Qaeda." Newsroom guest Richard Haasss of the Council on Foreign Relations spoke sympathetically of U.S. goals in regards to the aid package, claiming that "Iran has emerged as the biggest threat, not simply to U.S. interests in the region, but the Saudi, Egyptian, and other moderate Arab interests. So partially, this is to give them confidence and capacity against Iran." It is fair to conclude that some of the media commentary mentioned above does accurately describe the motivations of American leaders. It is true, for example, that U.S. leaders are attempting to strengthen client regimes in an attempt to counterbalance regional "enemies" such as Iran and Syria, and Hamas and Hezbollah. This is where the truth of the media's claims end, however. Contrary to media propaganda, there is no available evidence suggesting that states like Iran or Syria have plans to attack any American allies in the region. And even those groups that are verbally or militarily hostile to Israel pose only a marginal threat (relatively speaking) to Israeli national security. There is no evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, nor is there any evidence of an Iranian plan to attack Israel with conventional or unconventional weapons. Quite the contrary, it is the U.S. and Iran that have publicly threatened to undertake preventive strikes on the Iranian regime. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's talk of wiping Israel off the map is just that – talk. Such loud pronouncements bear little resemblance to the reality that it is Israel, not Iran, which has the power and desire to strike first. Whatever one thinks of the Islamist ideologies of Hamas and Hezbollah, these groups do not pose threats to Israel's existence. Hamas has openly advocated negotiated peace settlements with Israel, despite the refusal of the U.S. and Israel to engage in such offers. Even Hezbollah, which has recently engaged in terrorists attacks against Israel, does not pose a threat to the extent typically portrayed by Israeli and American leaders. In the 2006 Israeli-Lebanon war, Hezbollah fired over 4,000 Katyusha rockets into Israeli cities, killing a total of 43 Israeli civilians. By contrast, Israeli bombing of Lebanon killed an estimated 1,100-1,200 Lebanese civilians. Israel reportedly used white phosphorus chemical weapons against civilians with impunity, and in light of strong international protest. Human Rights Watch condemned Hezbollah and Israel for killing civilians, which raises serious questions about how increased military aid to Israel can prohibit future terrorism in light of Israel's terrorist attacks on civilians. If Hezbollah's terrorist acts killing over 40 Israelis are deplorable, surely Israel's killing of 28 times as many civilians should not be rewarded either. But one shouldn't look to the mainstream press to raise such a crucial point, or to ask why the U.S. should even be considering an increase in aid to Israel in light of the public's strong opposition to such an increase. Robert Haass of the Council of Foreign Relations complains to Wolf Blitzer on CNN's Situation Room that increased military aid to Egypt and Saudi Arabia is "irrelevant" because "The Iranian threat is Hamas, [and] Hezbollah militias. It's not the Iranian Air Force. There's a mismatch between what the United States is doing [in allocating this aid package] and the Iranian threat to Saudi Arabia." Haass is mistaken in assuming that increased U.S. aid is intended to assist allies in defending from external "threats" such as Hezbollah and Hamas. While the mainstream press is right in claiming that the aid packages to U.S. allies are for defensive purposes, the real enemy such aid is aimed at is domestic, not foreign. Corrupt authoritarian rulers in Saudi Arabia and Egypt require U.S. aid in order to defend their regimes from the increasing threats of their own populations, rather than from phantom outside "threats" discussed in American political and media propaganda. Despite Bush's and preceding administration's hollow claims about supporting democracy in Iraq, U.S. leaders have cynically propped up murderous, unpopular dictatorships that side with American foreign policy interests over domestic ones. While media reports dogmatically repeat official statements about the need to prop up "moderate" governments in the Middle East, the aim of U.S. policy is really the opposite. Far from reinforcing democracy, the only thing that U.S. aid is "stabilizing" in Egypt and Saudi Arabia is continued government repression and terror. A brief review of the human rights records of these countries in recent years drives this fact home clearly. In Egypt, human rights organizations regularly condemn the government for a laundry list of offenses committed against its people. Human Rights Watch has documented the following abuses: - The use of "arbitrary detention and trials [of suspects] before military and state security courts"; an estimated 10,000 people "remain in prolonged detention without charge under the terms of law." - Reliance on false confessions, extracted through torture, to be used against suspected "enemies" of the state. The Egyptian government has been attacked for serving as one of numerous states that conducts secret interrogations of U.S. and allied detainees in the "War on Terror." Egypt's brutality in its interrogation practices makes it a popular choice for American leaders looking to circumvent the protections provided to prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. - "Regular police brutality against demonstrators." In just one of many documented human rights violations, Egyptian human rights workers reported that activists were beaten for protesting a government decision to punish senior judges who had "publicly criticized election irregularities and campaigned for greater judicial independence." - The government's continued reliance on a national press law that allows for the detainment of reporters who criticize President Hosni Mubarak or friendly foreign leaders. Punishable offenses include any actions that are deemed to "cause harm or damage to the national interest" however that may be defined. - Continued government attacks on the homeless and street children. While such individuals have committed no crimes, they are often arbitrarily detained under the charge of "being vulnerable to delinquency." They face "beatings, sexual abuse, and extortion by police and adult suspects, and police at times deny them access to food, bedding, and medical care." - Routine repression of labor. The Egyptian government has closed the offices of numerous trade union services dedicated to advising workers over their rights to organize and protest in support of increased wages and benefits. Such attacks against labor have been labeled "a serious blow to Egyptian civil society and workers' rights" by human rights advocates. Saudi Arabia's record is also deplorable. The regime is notorious for its repression of women, who have long been viewed as second class citizens. The country's human rights record has been deteriorating even further in recent years. As Human Rights Watch reports, violations include "Abitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment, and [reliance on] the death penalty." Rabbah al-Quwa'i was one of those arbitrarily arrested for "harboring destructive thoughts" in writings he posted that were critical of al Qaeda. Extreme religiously-inspired punishments are common under the medieval Saudi monarchy. In another example of blatant contempt for the populace, Saudi religious police broke into the home of Salman al-Huraisi (without a warrant) and beat him to death. Huraisi was suspected of possessing alcohol, which is designated a crime in the Wahhabi Kingdom under the rule of Sharia (Islamic law). The Saudi dictatorship has been attacked for infringing upon individual legal guarantees, curtailing freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly, and for forbidding any religious practices outside of Wahhabist interpretations of Islam. Saudi religious police break into private homes and gatherings to arrest and deport non-Muslims conducting religious services. Such deplorable human rights records make a mockery of U.S. media promises to promote stability and moderation, and fight terrorism in the Middle East. To the contrary, the U.S. has acquired a well deserved reputation for enabling terrorism by actively supporting the dictatorships discussed above. As the largest provider of aid, the U.S. Congress struck down a 2006 proposal to cut military and economic support to Egypt by $100 million, in response to efforts aimed at punishing Egyptian leaders for human rights violations. U.S. plans to increase aid to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Israel reveal American political leaders' contempt for democracy abroad. In 2006, the Bush administration declined to pressure the Egyptian government toward human rights reforms, as Condoleeza Rice claimed that democratic change must be pursued by the Egyptian people, rather than by the United States. One might be inclined to forgive those who are incensed by such hypocritical comments, in light of enthusiastic U.S. economic and military support for Egyptian and Saudi terrorism, cynically pursued alongside pronouncements of the Bush administration's "vision" of imposing democracy and human rights in Iraq and throughout the region. Saudi Arabia and Egypt do not receive massive foreign aid from the U.S. because they are bastions of freedom, justice, and democracy. These regimes are supported by leaders concerned primarily with gaining control over the regions' major oil reserves, an inconvenient fact quietly conceded in declassified government records and official policy statements. It is this obsession with the strategic power conferred by oil that we must consider if we are to understand overarching U.S. policy in the region. A unified Shia front transcending colonial borders imposed in Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia would pose a major challenge to U.S. dominance in the region. U.S. aid to Saudi Arabia should be understood in this light as an effort to prevent Shia unification across these three states – so as to preserve dominance of the oil rich regions in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and neighboring states. U.S. assaults on Islamist resistance movements (whether they are against Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, the Iranian clergy, or other groups) should also be understood within this general framework as an attempt to prevent this valuable natural resource from falling into the hands of those who are antagonistic to U.S. imperial interests. On a more optimistic note, we should recognize that U.S. dominance of Middle East oil and support for terrorist, authoritarian regimes is hardly inevitable. The final aid package to Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Egypt will not be considered for Congressional approval until September of this year. This leaves a lot of time to mobilize in opposition to the current U.S. plan. Anthony DiMaggio has taught Middle East Politics and American Government at Illinois State University. He is the author of the forthcoming book – Mass Media, Mass Propaganda: Examining American News in the "War on Terror" (December 2007). He can be reached at adimag2@uic.edu

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