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Today's
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January 9/11, 2009
George Ciccariello-Maher
Oakland's Not for Burning?
January 8, 2009
Jean Bricmont /
Diana Johnstone
Gaza Seen From Paris
Franklin Lamb
How Dershowitz Misstates, Misrepresents and Misapplies the Law
Paul Craig Roberts
The Difficulty of Being an Informed American
Kevin Alexander Gray
Give Burris His Seat
Chris Floyd
The Enduring Priorities in Obama's Time of Change
Ewa Jasiewicz
Riding on Fire in Gaza
Steve Conn
Sanjay Gupta and Obama
Harvey Wasserman
Kill the Nuclear Stimulus!
Wayne S. Smith
An Opening to Cuba?
Linda Mamoun
Re-settling Gaza: the Real Goal of the Israeli Invasion?
Adam Turl
Unions and Young Workers
Chris Papaleonardos
Mourning Maria Dimitriadi
Website of the Day
On the Wing
January 7, 2009
Saree Makdisi
What Kind of Security Will This Barbarism Bring Israel?
Franklin Lamb
Bend Over Professor Dershowitz, It's Time for Your Check Up
William Blum
America's Other Glorious War
Belén Fernández
The Trauma Vortex: Israel's Monopoly on Psychological Suffering
Lawrence Davidson
What is New About Gaza?
Allan Nairn
Adm. Dennis Blair and the Church Killings in East Timor
Jonathan Cook
What is Israel's Objective?
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
Watching the War on BBC
Deepak Tripathi
Bush, as He Leaves
Cal Winslow
Now is the Hour to Defend Democracy in the Labor Movement!
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
To Students Planning Careers: Be Mindful
Dr. Hannah Safran
No More Recycled Military Solutions
Website of the Day
CNN: Israel Broke the Ceasefire First
January 6, 2009
Pam Martens
It's All One Big Lie
Victoria Buch
Real Estate War in Gaza: the History and "Morals" of Ethnic Cleansing
Neve Gordon
Israel's New War Ethic
Tami Sarfatti /
Yonatan Mendel
What Silence Says:
Gaza is Still Waiting on Obama
Mike Whitney
The Gaza Bloodbath
Alan Farago
After the Fall
Gary Leupp
A Hamas Coup d'Etat in 2007?
Larry Everest
Silent Partner: the US-Backed War on Gaza
Ron Jacobs
The New Iraqi Sovereignty
David Macaray
Union-Busting is Alive and Well
Stephanie Basile
Where's Anna's Money?
Stacey Warde
An Uncle's Unrest
Website of the Day
Israeli Refusenik on Gaza
January 5, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
Will There be a Recovery?
Sousan Hammad
Phoning Home to Gaza
Wajahat Ali
Flying While Brown
Mats Svensson
Longing in Gaza
Jen Marlowe
Abeer's Baby
Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Gaza Phone Tag
Brian Cloughley
Israel is Immune From Criticism
Faheem Hussain
Gaza and India: a View From Pakistan
William Cook
Consider the Realities of Gaza
Dr. Trudy Bond
The Madness Among Us
Christopher Ketcham
The Revenge of the Blogger at the National Press Club: a Rotten Washington Interlude
Steve Early
Who Rules SEIU?
Dave Lindorff
When It Comes to Terrorism and POW Cases, Equal Justice Under Law is a Joke
Website of the Day
The Endangered Fish of the Colorado River Basin
January 2 - 4, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
Diary of 2008: an Incredible, Hope-Filled Year
Uri Avnery
Molten Lead in Gaza
Jonathan Cook
The Real Goal of the Gaza Assault
Paul Craig Roberts
Whatever Happened to Western Morality?
Brian Eno
Stealing Gaza: an Experiment in Provocation
Ralph Nader
America Must Stop Shirking Its Responsibility on Gaza
Omar Barghouti
UN Complicity in Israel's Massacre in Gaza
Graham Usher
Where Pakistan's Generals and the ISI Draw Their Lines
P. Sainath
The Economy is Worse Than It Appears
Belén Fernández
Pardon Our Dust: Israel's PR Campaign for Gaza
Deb Reich
Shiv'a in Gaza, December 2008
Gary Leupp
Defacing Mr. Jefferson's Wall: Preachers and the Inauguration
Michael Yates
Top Chef or Top Wage Thief? Tom Colicchio and the Economics of Restaurants
Joanne Mariner
How to Close Guantánamo
Seth Sandronsky
Funding the Israeli Military: the US Pipeline
Cynthia McKinney
We Lived to Tell the Story
Sonja Karkar
Israel's Dogs of War
Deepak Tripathi
Gaza in Perspective
Robert Fantina
Obama, Afghanistan and Israel
John Ross
The Year No One Can Remember
Norm Kent
The Heat on Duval Street: Why Head Shop Raids are Unfair and Unjust
Larry Portis
Syria and the Arab Barbie Doll--Before the Deluge
Richard Rhames
Is Conscience Dead?
Dee C. Lubell
We Come From the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright
David Yearsley
A Gay German at the Courts of the Medici and Hanover, and of Course the BBC
Lorenzo Wolff
Joe Ely, the Fighting Rooster of Rock
Marc Catone
Looting Lennon's Legacy
Poets' Basement
Five Poems by
Grzegorz Wróblewski
Website of the Weekend
Earth in High Rez
January 1, 2008
Jennifer Loewenstein
If Hamas Did Not Exist
Oren Ben-Dor
The Self-Defense of Suicide
Wajahat Ali
The U.S. Response to the Gaza Crisis: Unfair and Unbalanced
Saul Landau
In Cuba No One Man Could Steal $50 Billion From Other People
David Michael Green
What to Expect While We're Expecting
Website of the Day
Morbid Anatomy
December 31, 2008
Pam Martens
Wall Street's Collapse and the Ownership Society
Neve Gordon /
Jeff Halper
Where's the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?
Ted Honderich
The First Casualty of Israel's War
Brian Cloughley
Five Little Girls on a Sofa: Gaza's One-Sided Images
Ron Jacobs
What is Hamas, Really?
Vijay Prashad
Hot Rod and His Sikh Warrior:
Blago's Indian Connections
Franklin Lamb
Mr. Mubarak, Tear Down That Wall!
Mike Whitney
My Brilliant Career
David Macaray
What Really Killed the Auto Bailout
Richard Thieme
The Betrayal of the Commons
Mary Lynn Cramer
Who Wins What in Gaza?
Stephen Lendman
The Troubling Case of the Fort Dix Five
Worthy Group of the Day
Western Shoshone Defense Project
December 30, 2008
Paul Craig Roberts
May We No Longer Be Silent
Tariq Ali
The Gaza Ghetto and Western Cant
Robert Bryce
The $775,000-a-Year GI
Jonathan Cook
Electioneering with Bombs
Gary Leupp
The Fishbarrel War
Dave Lindorff
Tough Guys Don't Walk: Will Cheney Seek a Pardon?
Brian McKenna
Ted Downing and Troublemaker Anthropology
John Walsh
The End of the Green Party
Ramzy Baroud
Gaza and the World
Bob Sommer
The Education of David Frost
Worthy Activist of the Day
Support Marie Mason
December 29, 2008
Jennifer Loewenstein
Israel's Attempted Endgame in Gaza
Neve Gordon
What, Exactly, is Israel's Mission?
Joshua Frank
Obama and the "Special Relationship"
George Salzman /
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
The War Against Palestine: Exception From Humanity
Norman Solomon
A Hundred Eyes for an Eye
Ewa Jasiewicz
Gaza Today: "This is Just the Beginning"
Rob Larson
The Banks Laugh All the Way to the Bank
Kenneth Libby
Arne Duncan's Dark Years in Chicago
Robert Weissman
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008
Elsa Johnson
High Noon at Black Mesa: Bush's Farewell Gift to Peabody Coal
Nicola Nasser
Resolution 1850: Bush's Parting Gift
Belén Fernández
Hanukkah Games
Worthy Group of the Day
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
December 26-28, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
The Medusa's Head
Dr Eyad Al Serraj
The Boming of Gaza: "An Earthquake on Top of Your Head"
Jeffrey St. Clair
Cancerous Air
Bradley Simpson
Obama's New Intel Chief, Dennis Blair, Ran Interference for Indonesia's Butchers
Ralph Nader
Government Without Laws
Gary Leupp
Obama and the Graveyard of Empires
Ellen Cantarow
Richard Falk, Israel and the NYT
Matt Landon
The Great Coal Ash Flood: a Report From Swan Pond Road
David Macaray
SAG's Terrible Dilemma
Patrick Bond
End of Neoliberalism? Sorry, Not Yet
Norm Kent
Invoking Bigotry: Obama and Rick Warren
Brian T. Ketcham
Fuel Efficiency is Easy--Just Don't Let Detroit Tell You How to Do It
Rannie Amiri
War Clouds Over Gaza
Larry Portis
Changing the Ethnic Vocabulary
Richard Rhames
Welcome to Soup Kitchen America
Stephen Lendman
29 Red Flags: Early Suspicions About Bernard Madoff
James L. Secor
Unheralded Coup
Ramzy Baroud
Iraq, the Plot Thickens
Harold Pinter
Art, Truth and Politics: the Nobel Lecture
Cpt. Paul Watson
Tracking the Cetacean Death Star
Howard Lisnoff
Nixon's Cambodian Shock Treatment
Michael Dee
The Bill of Rights, Killed in Action by the War on Drugs
Steve Conn
Eight Predictions for 2009
Poets' Basement
Valentine, Kaung, Moser and Graham
Worthy Group of the Weekend
United Mountain Defense
December 25, 2008
Judy Gumbo Albert
What Were Those 1960s Terrorists Thinking, Anyway?
Rev. William E. Alberts
The Sole of Christmas
Hannah Mermelstein
Caution: Settlers Ahead
Worthy Group of the Day
Citizens' Coal Council
December 24, 2008
Bill Quigley
Five Bailout Lessons From Katrina
Saul Landau
Then and Now: Venezuela and Cuba, 1960-2008
Sam Smith
Evangelism and Politics
Brian Cloughley
Torture, Slaughter and Lies
John Ross
Where's al-Zaidi's Pulitzer?
Eric Walberg
Cold War Shivers
Norm Kent
What Will Obama Do About Marijuana?
Stephen Martin
Reasons for Cheerfulness
Worthy Group of the Day
Collateral Repair Project
December 23, 2008
Michael Hudson
The Ponzi Paradigm
Michael Yates
The Tombstone Economy
Chuck Spinney
The New York Times Flames Out in Defense Dogfight
Vijay Prashad
India's Reckless Road to Washington, Through Tel Aviv
Brian Horejsi
Interior Decorating: Obama, Salazar and the Future of America's Public Lands
David Macaray
Obama's Best Pick?
Neil Watkins /
Sarah Anderson
Ecuador's Conscientious Default
David Michael Green
Hey, Reagan Democrats! Now Do You Get It?
Worthy Group of the Day
Focus on the Corporation
December 22, 2008
Pam Martens
Madoff's Money Trail Leads to Washington
Gary Leupp
Base Alienation:
Obama's Team of Rivals
Mike Whitney
Bail Out the Economy?
More Pay is the Only Way
Karl Grossman
Lost in Space: NASA at 50
Niall Meehan
Conor Cruise O'Brien: Historian, Politician, Censor
Steve Conn
Where Would Larry Summers Dump the Guantanamo Mess?
Uri Avnery
Israeli Elections:
Spot the Difference
Corey D. B. Walker
The Politics of Freedom
David Swanson
The Purloined Constitution
Worthy Group of the Day
Socialist Worker
December 19 - 21, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
An Ethnic Cleansing in America
Jeffrey St. Clair
Salazar and the Tragedy of the Common Ground
Paul Craig Roberts
Country Without Mercy
Patrick Cockburn
The Baathist "Coup Plot"
Felice Pace
Green Myopia: Obama's Appointments Reveal What's Wrong with the Environmental Movement
Diane Farsetta
The Pentagon's PR Slush Fund
George Ciccariello-Maher
By the Time I Get to Arizona: ICE Raids and Resistance in Flagstaff
Eric Bergoust
Extinct Lifestyles: Redefining Prosperity
Marjorie Cohn
Torture Without Regrets:
Cheney's Unrepentent Confession
Stan Cox
Clothes and Commentaries That Don't Fit
Michael Donnelly
Clinton III: Continuity We Can Believe In
Robert Weissman
The Auto Bailout
Ralph Nader
Excluded Democracy: Scholastic and the Two Party System
Alan Farago
Shock and Awe Economics
Sam Smith
Not All Public Work is the Same
Timothy G. Hermach
What Happened on the Way to the Inauguration?
Seth Sandronsky
Who's Not Getting By and Why
Rannie Amiri
All Quiet on the Gazan Shore
David Yearsley
Bach as Jihadi
Martha Rosenberg
Wyeth's Pay-to-Play
Dave Lindorff
White House Lied About Iraqi Yellowcake Buy (But That's Not the Biggest Scandal)
Christopher Brauchli
Weekend at Bernie's: the Confinement of Mr. Madoff
Missy Beattie
President Meathead
Richard Rhames
Corporatizing the Kids
Stephen Martin
Full-Spectrum Dominance of the Big Lie
Paul Krassner
Milk and Twinkies
Lorenzo Wolff
Does Coldplay Give a Shit Anymore?
Poets' Basement
Kathwari, Halling and Payne
Worthy Group of the Weekend
Heartwood
December 18, 2008
Phillip Doe
The Man in the Hat: Salazar and the Status Quo
Ronnie Cummins
Vilsack: Another Shill for Monsanto
Jesse Sharkey
No School Left Unsold:
Arne Duncan's Privatization Agenda
Saul Landau
Postcard from Venezuela
Peter Morici
What's Next for the Fed?
Dave Lindorff
Prosecuting Bush and Cheney for Torture
Panos Petrou
Days of Rage in Greece
Jeff Cohen /
Norman Solomon
The 2008 P.U.-litzer Prizes: the Stinkiest Media Performances of the Year
Worthy Group of the Day
Organic Consumer Alliance
December 17, 2008
Peter Lee
Pushing Pakistan Over the Edge
Conn Hallinan
Angels and Demons in Mumbai
Mike Whitney
Bernanke's Fatal Flaw
Jeff Halper
Obama and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Alan Farago
The Audacity of Parkland
Peter Morici
The Big Hole
Norm Kent
Obama Lights Up
Col. Douglas MacGregor
The Price of Expediency
Margaret Kimberley
Blacks and Gay Rights
Ron Jacobs
The Myth of the Good Guy:
Waiting on a President to Do the Right Thing
Worthy Group of the Day
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
December 16, 2008
Vicente Navarro
A Forgotten Genocide: the Case of Spain
Patrick Cockburn
Each Shoe was Worth a Thousand Words
Thomas Michael Power
Back to the Pump: an Economic and Environmental Dead End
Jason Hribal
Orangutans, Resistance and the Zoo: the Story of Ken Allen and Kumang
Farzana Versey
Straw Warriors and the Pantomime of Patriotism
Wajahat Ali /
Ahmed Rashid
Indian Muslims: Defining Their Loyalty
Mats Svensson
The Order to Destroy has been Given
Paul Fitzgerald /
Elizabeth Gould
Mumbai Terror's Afghan Roots
David Macaray
Workplace Violence and Termination Etiquette
Howard Lisnoff
Left Control of Academia? The Case of William Felkner
Worthy Group of the Day
AWR: the Last, Best Hope for Saving the Big Wild
December 15, 2008
Andy Worthington
Hit Me Baby One More Time: a History of Music Torture in War on Terror
Franklin Lamb
Why Hezbollah Stiffed Carter
Karl Grossman
Dr. Chu's Nuclear Prescription
Brian Cloughley
Land of the Free (To Torture and Imprison Without Trial)
Mary Lynn Cramer
Stiglitz's Foolishly Flawed Morality
Steve Early
From Nicky Pockets to Blago:
Why Pay-to-Play is Bad for Labor
Thomas Christie
Pentagon Train Wreck Awaits Obama
Ken Paff
Remembering Ron Carey: a Great Labor Leader
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
What is India to Do?
Dave Lindorff
A Hero of Our Time: Muntadar al-Zaidi
Alan Farago
The Artless Dodger
Worthy Group of the Day
Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund
December 12 / 14, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
Hail to Chicago, Beacon of American Values
Michael Hudson /
Jeffrey Sommers
The End of the Washington Consensus
David Price
The Leaky Ship of Human Terrain Systems
Jeffrey St. Clair
Nukes Up the Hudson
Frank Barat
An Israeli in Gaza: an Interview with Jeff Halper
John Ross
Writing a Thesis in Blood
Binoy Kampmark
Humanitarian Imperialism: Obama and the Genocide Task Force
David Macaray
Killing the Auto Bailout: a Dagger to the Heart of Organized Labor
Ralph Nader
Antidotes to Plunder: a Holiday Reading List
Eamonn Fingleton
Whatever Happened to Iris Chang?
Lawrence Velvel
Why Blagojevich Might Be Acquitted
Behzad Yaghmaian
The Housing Crisis: a Timebomb China Can't Defuse
Sam Husseini
Putting the Pro in Protest
Tom Barry
Incentives to Detain:
How Immigrants Drive Prison Profits
Howard Lisnoff
Why I Went to Jail
Laura Carlsen
Mexico's Immigration Problem
Raj Patel
The WTO and Other Fairy Tales
Ron Jacobs
The Manufacturing of History
Paul Watson
Risky Business Down Under
David Yearsley
They Also Serve Who Only Pull or Tread
Lorenzo Wolff
So You Want Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star...
Kim Nicolini
Finally, a Vampire Movie You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
Susie Day
Proposition 1984: the Problem with Heterosexuals
Poets' Basement
Gibbons, Lerch and Crete
Worthy Group of the Weekend
Energy Justice
December 11, 2008
Patrick Cockburn
Total Defeat for U.S. in Iraq
P. Sainath
After Mumbai
Vicken Cheterian
The Zarqawi Generation
Ray McGovern
Will Obama Buy Torture-Lite?
Dedrick Muhammad
Post-Racial Racism at the Post: the Undying Obsession with Black Family Values
Lee Sustar
Victory at Republic
Peter Morici
The Big Drag
Ayesha Ijaz Khan
Must They Hate Us So?
George Wuerthner
Another Subsidy to Big Timber?
Christopher Brauchli
Mr. Berg's Strange Obsession
Worthy Group of the Day
Animal Balance
December 10, 2008
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Whose Interests Will Shape Obama's Change?
Mary Lynn Cramer
The Multi-Trillion Dollar Question
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Nuclear Weapons Obsolescence
Joshua Frank
Breaking the Stranglehold on Middle East News Coverage
Jack Ely
Stop Sobbing About Free Music Downloads: a Message to the Music Industry from the Lead Singer of the Kingsmen
Steve Conn
An Obama Public Works Program?
Lee Sustar
Republic Workers Target Bank of America
Glen Ford
The Die is Cast
Stephen Lendman
The Persecution of Syed Fahad Hashmi
Nadia Hijab
The Face of America
Dave Lindorff
We All Need a Union
Website of the Day
This One's For You, Senator Dodd
December 9, 2008
Mike Whitney
Card Check
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Us vs. Them
Ghada Karmi
The UN Resolution That Time Forgot
Dave Lindorff
A Car Dealer Explains Why the Bailout is a Raw Deal
Steve Breyman
Notes on a Green Economy: Managing Stuff in the 21st Century
Lee Sustar /
Nicole Colson
Raising the Stakes at Republic
Rev. William E. Alberts
God of Our Fathers
Martha Rosenberg
Bill Richardson: Secretary of Bloodsports
Sam Husseini
How Holbrooke Lied His Way Into a War
David Macaray
The UAW in Peril
Website of the Day
This Toxic Life
December 8, 2008
Steve Early
Is Obama Backing Off a Crucial Pledge to Labor?
Michael Hudson
Obama's Favoritism: Wall Street, Not the Auto Industry
Patrick Cockburn
Talking to a Lashkar Militant
Diane Farsetta
An Officer and a Conflicted Man: McCaffery, the Pentagon and Fleishman-Hillard
Paul Craig Roberts
Chapters in Imperial Hypocrisy
Daniel Gross
The Chicago Sit-Down Strike
Saul Landau
To Bail or Not to Bail?
Harvey Wasserman
Why John Bryson is Unfit for Energy Secretary
Mike Ferner
The New Generation of "Non-Lethal" Weapons
Norman Solomon
The Silent Winter of Escalation
David Michael Green
The Other Foot
Website of the Day
The Remains of Detroit
December 5 / 7, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
Honeymoans From the Left
Brian Cloughley
Shambles in Afghanistan
Paul Craig Roberts
Muslim Revolution: How Washington Arrogance Helped Drive the Mumbai Attacks
Liaquat Ali Khan
Mumbai and the Kashmir Tinderbox
Farzana Versey
Mumbai's Charge of the Lightweight Brigade
Peter Lee
Pakistan Nears the Breaking Point
Peter Morici
Slouching Toward a Depression?
Ralph Nader /
Toby Heaps
Junk Cap-and-Trade
Yinon Cohen /
Neve Gordon
Obama Could End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Will He Meet the Challenge?
Wajahat Ali
Perverse Justice: the Holy Land Foundation Convictions
Johnny Barber
Aswad's Story:
Illegal Detention and the Declaration of Human Rights
Alan Farago
Fallout from the Pass-Through Economy
Jeremy Scahill
Obama Doesn't Plan to End Occupation of Iraq
Mike Whitney
Powergrab in Ottawa
Ranjit Hoskote
Jahiliyya Versus Jihad
Carl Finamore
Thank God I'm an Atheist! (Or Boy is Bill O'Reilly in for a Big Surprise)
Marjorie Cohn
Obama and Women's Rights
Norm Kent
Tommy Chong, the Unanticipated Warrior
Missy Beattie
What Lies Ahead
Binoy Kampmark
Committing Suicide On-Line: the Briggs Case
David Macaray
The Best and the Brightest Redux: Too Many Brains, Not Enough Humility
Nancy Stohlman
Relational Activism
Ron Jacobs
Irreverent Politics Then and Now
David Yearsley
Thematics From the Golden Past
Lorenzo Wolff
Troubled Songs of Home and War
Poets' Basement
Orloski: The Door Opener
Website of the Weekend
In Prison My Whole Life
December 4, 2008
Ece Temelkuran
Inside the Ergenekon Case
Ralph Nader
Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Who Will Seize the Moment?
Harry Browne
The Bush-Obama National Security Strategy
Eamonn Fingleton
The American Car Industry: a Riposte to the Knockers
Conn Hallinan
The Syria Attack
Mike Whitney
Fiasco in Somalia: Another CIA Cock-Up
Stewart J. Lawrence
Obama and Latinos: Richardson, Alone, is Not Enough
Paul Fitzgerald /
Elizabeth Gould
Message to Obama: Stop Killing Afghanis
Karyn Strickler
Show Us the Green, Before We Show You the Money
Jennifer Matsui
Obama-Cola: the Great National Temperance Beverage
Website of the Day
"He Ain't Got Laid in a Month of Sundays..."
December 3, 2008
Andrew Cockburn
What's Wrong with the U.S. Military
Sheldon Rampton
Mormon Homophobia: Up Close and Personal
Robert Weissman
Nationalize GM
Yifat Susskind
From Mumbai to Washington
William Blum
The Obama Bummer:
Vote First, Ask Questions Later
Alan Singer
The Ghost of the Defunct Economist
David Macaray
Trampled Under Foot at Wal-Mart
Martha Rosenberg
Born With a Statin Deficiency? Line Forms to the Left!
Mats Svensson
The Crimes Have No Period of Limitations
Website of the Day
Why Bill Richardson's Nomination Should be Opposed
December 2, 2008
Jeremy Scahill
Obama's Kettle of Hawks
Paul Craig Roberts
The New Arms Race
Ayesha Ijaz Khan
The Mumbai Terror Attacks: Is Pakistan to Blame?
Sarah Anderson /
John Cavanagh
Skewed Priorities: How the Bailout Dwarfs Spending on Other Global Crises
William Blum
The Mythology of the War on Terrorism
John Ross
Mexico's Drug War Goes Down in Flames
Dave Lindorff
A Tale of Two Terror Attacks
Nicola Nasser
A Peace Process That Makes Peace Impossible
Steve Conn
Operation Redskin Removal
Robert Bryce
Coal Hard Facts
Website of the Day
Country, Funk, Soul
December 1, 2008
Patrick Cockburn
From Baghdad to Mumbai, by Way of Pakistan
Damien Millet /
Eric Toussaint
Obama's Economic Team:
Records of Failure
Vijay Prashad
The Fires in South Asia
Deepak Tripathi
Obama's Foreign Crises
Joshua Frank
Madam Secretary Clinton and the Middle East
P. Sainath
The Unlikely Martyrdom of Free Market Jihad
Alan Farago
The Right's War on Regulators
Binoy Kampmark
Sydney's Ball and Chain
Chris Genovali
Silent Fall
David Michael Green
Hope You Die Before You Get Old
Stephen Martin
The Chinese are Coming, the Chinese are Coming!
Website of the Day
Robert Rubin: Coward, Liar or Both?
November 28-30, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
In Time of Trouble
Mike Whitney
The Obama "Dream Team": Rubin Clones and Other Fakers
Ted Honderich
What is the Meaning of Obama's Election?
Tom Kerr
Preserving Filthy Lucre (Or Becoming My Dad)
Mike Ely
The Conquest of New England
David Yearsley
Hymns of the Conquest
Deepak Tripathi
Uproar in Police-State Britain
Sonja Karkar
Gaza's Death Throes
Ramzy Baroud
Salvation in a News Broadcast
Robert Weitzel
Israel's Settlement on Capitol Hill
Robert Roth
Can We Create a Movement for Change?
Carlos Fierro
Obama and the End of Racism?
David Macaray
How to Kill a Union
David Rosen
A New Sexual Agenda
James Cockcroft
Indigenous People Rising
Stan Cox
The Most Disappointing Gift
Steve Conn
Talking Turkey About College Basketball
Stephen Martin
The Electromagnetic Pulse and Economic Warfare
Richard Rhames
Busty Bimbettes, Bombs and Brand Obama
Kim Nicolini
Women as Products and Cannibalistic Achievers
Lorenzo Wolff
A Battle Cry for the Confused and Vulnerable
Poets' Basement
Woods, Harrison and Corseri
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Weekend Edition
January 9-11, 2009
The Anti-Semitism Canard
The American Peace Movement and Israel
By CATHERINE FENTON
As the local peace group I belong to begins to stumble on the question of Israel's invasion of Gaza, I happen to be reading Rick Perlstein's "Nixonland".
Déjà vu whirled through my mind as I read the following description of events at the 1967 National Conference for a New Politics, after a thirteen-point manifesto was introduced:
"…another clause ordered condemnation of 'the imperialistic Zionist war' in the Middle East. The Reverend William Sloane Coffin Jr., chaplain of Yale University, was among those who insisted the thirteen points be adopted without discussion as a gesture of interracial unity. Jewish delegates who considered the Six Day War a struggle for national survival walked out."
Has anyone or anything been as effective at wreaking havoc within the anti-war movement, as Israel's wars?
In 2006, Israel invaded Lebanon and the images of Lebanese children wrapped in plastic as they were pulled out of the bombed earth hurt my mind. The Jewish members of my group refused to march. As Condi Rice was on television, juxtaposed in my mind with the dead children, she talked nonsense about wanting a "lasting peace". When someone is bleeding, first thing you do? Stop The Bleeding. Worry about forging a "lasting" solution to what caused the bleeding later. I became enraged by Rice's words, but the Jewish members of my group still would not march. We were all knew to the group, and no one wanted to make waves, so no one marched.
On the internet, I found that a group called the "ad-hoc coalition" was having a demonstration against Israel's attack on Lebanon in Union Square Park. I went, alone.
Two-and-a-half years later, here we are again.
My group is having our monthly meeting this weekend. Already, two of our Jewish members are not attending. One of them emailed that she knew we would be "talking about Israel" and that this "hurt her too much." I do not know what is going to happen when we discuss upcoming demonstrations against Israel's invasion of Gaza. But early signs are not promising. And we are not alone. I know of other peace groups having the same issues.
How is the Peace movement going to deal with this? American Jews have long been at the forefront of liberal movements in this country. We need only look to the civil rights movement to see this. Yet, it is always upon Israel which we stumble.
What conversation can we have? What can each of us say? I know that I would like an explanation on how it is not anti-American to march in protests against America's wars, and to chant things like "George, pull out, just like your daddy shoulda" (I know, it's my favorite too). Yet it is anti-Semitic to criticize Israel's foreign policy. They either both are, or neither are, but you cannot have it both ways.
And perhaps there are things my Jewish friends in the peace movement would like to say to me. As long as it doesn't start with "you don't understand what it's like to be Jewish" I'm willing to listen. I don't need to understand what it's like to be Jewish. Let's face it; you don't understand what it's like to be Palestinian. We can both understand what it is like to be human. To watch your child die.
There needs to be some way for people in the peace movement to talk about this. At this point, I feel that if you are happy to march against the United States, but feel comfortable accusing myself and others of "anti-Semitism" if we protest Israel's foreign policy, then you must be anti-American. What other conclusion can I draw?
And I don't want to march with people who are actually anti-American, rather than critical of American foreign policy. It's bad PR and plays right into the hands of the hard-right.
Catherine Fenton is a freelance writer. She can be reached at: cathfenton@gmail.com
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