home / subscribe / donate / tower / books / archives / search / links / feedback / events
|
|
|
The War So Far: a Failure Worse Than Vietnam by Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad "The need for the White House to produce a fantasy picture of Iraq is because it dare not admit that it has engineered one of the greatest disasters in American history. It is worse than Vietnam because the enemy is punier and the original ambitions greater." Get the answers you're looking for in the subscriber-only edition of CounterPunch ... CounterPunch Online is read by millions of viewers each month! But remember, we are funded solely by the subscribers to the print edition of CounterPunch. Please support this website by buying a subscription to our newsletter, which contains fresh material you won't find anywhere else, or by making a donation for the online edition. Remember contributions are tax-deductible. Click here to make a donation. If you find our site useful please: Subscribe Now! or write CounterPunch, PO BOX 228, Petrolia, CA 95558 |
|
November 15, 2005 Leah Caldwell Tom Andre November 14, 2005 Diana Johnstone Paul Craig Roberts Conn Hallinan Joshua Frank Christopher
Reed
November 11 / 13, 2005 Alexander Cockburn Gwyneth Leech Elmas Mallo Michael Neumann Saul Landau Sam Husseini Brian Cloughley Ron Jacobs Lila Rajiva Michael Donnelly Joe Allen Roland Sheppard Justin E.H.
Smith Ben Tripp St. Clair /
Vest Poets' Basement Website of
the Weekend
November 10, 2005 Peterside,
Ogon, Watts and Zalik Pat Williams Steve Higgs Jimmy Massey Lucson Pierre-Charles Anthony Newkirk Lawrence R.
Velvel Website of the Day November 9, 2005 Gary Leupp Tariq Ali Chris Floyd Elaine Cassel Joshua Frank Alison Weir Diana Johnstone
Paul Craig
Roberts Roger Burbach Ron Jacobs Ralph Nader Jim McGrath David Bloom Stan Goff
November 7, 2005 Dick Reavis Jason Leopold Dave Lindorff Eli Stephens David Swanson M. Junaid Alam Matt Reichel Naima Bouteldja Jeff Halper Website of the Day
November 5 / 6, 2005 Alexander Cockburn Lawrence R.
Velvel Diana Johnstone Roosa / Nevins Niranjan Ramakrishnan John Ross Mike Whitney Mark Engler Juliano Mer-Khamis Ron Jacobs Jill S. Farrell Missy Comley
Beattie Mitchel Cohen Evelyn J. Pringle Reza Fiyouzat Charles Sullivan Zachary Richard Ben Tripp St. Clair / Vest
November 4, 2005 Jeffrey St.
Clair Dave Lindorff Phillip Cryan Christopher Brauchli William S.
Lind Daryl G. Kimball George Beres Peter Montague
November 3, 2005 James Petras Saul Landau Rep. Cynthia McKinney Michael Dickinson Joshua Frank Remi Kanazi Reza Fiyouzat Website of the Day
November 2, 2005 Cockburn /
St. Clair Robert Oscar Lopez John Walsh Brian J. Foley Ramzy Baroud M. Junaid Alam Todd Chretien Bruce K. Gagnon Website of the Day
November 1, 2005 Ron Jacobs Gary Leupp John Ross Bill Quigley Joseph Nevins Dave Lindorff Linda S. Heard Heather Gray Michael Dickinson Jeffrey St. Clair
October 31, 2005 Elaine Cassel Mark Weisbrot Mike Whitney Norman Solomon Farooq Sulehria Nicole Colson Madis Senner Paul Craig
Roberts
Cockburn /
St. Clair Peter Linebaugh Tim Wise John Chuckman Steven Higgs Brian Cloughley M. Shahid Alam Nikki Robinson Ralph Nader Joe DeRaymond Joshua Frank Laura Santina Fred Gardner Michael Dickinson Ron Jacobs Dr. Susan Block Vanessa S. Jones Jeffrey St.
Clair Poets' Basement Website of
the Weekend
October 28, 2005 Jared Bernstein Virginia Tilley Phil Gasper Jennifer Matsui Manual Garcia,
Jr. Monica Benderman Jason Leopold Dave Lindorff
Saul Landau Stuart Hodkinson Ingmar Lee Lila Rajiva Ilan Pappe Niranjan Ramakrishnan Michael Donnelly Ron Jacobs Cockburn / St. Clair
October 26, 2005 Kathy Kelly Gary Leupp Mike Marqusee Eric Ruder Patrick Cockburn Joshua Frank J.L. Chestnut, Jr. Website of
the Day
October 25, 2005 Paul Craig
Roberts Ken Sengupta / Patrick Cockburn Conn Hallinan Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Jackie Corr Robert Day John Sugg
October 24, 2005 Dave Lindorff Michael Donnelly Patrick Cockburn Mike Whitney Norman Solomon Bill and Kathleen
Christison
October 22 / 23, 2005 Alexander Cockburn Billy Sothern Saul Landau Ralph Nader Behrooz Ghamari Brian Cloughley Diana Barahona Fred Gardner Lee Sustar Patrick Cockburn Laura Carlsen James Petras Joshua Frank Manuel Garcia,
Jr. Michelle Bollinger Missy Comley
Beattie Kona Lowell Ben Tripp Jeffrey St. Clair Poets' Basement Website of
the Day
October 21, 2005 Dave Lindorff Winslow T. Wheeler Col. Dan Smith Norman Solomon Madis Senner Michael Donnelly
Dave Lindorff Ray McGovern Jeremy Brecher
/ Patrick Cockburn Kevin Zeese Ross Eisenbrey Randy Shields Justine Davidson After Lucas
Cranach Joe Allen
October 19, 2005 Christopher Reed Stephen Soldz Chet Richards Patrick Cockburn Scott Richard
Lyons Ralph Nader Website of
the Day
October 18, 2005 Chet Flippo Ron Jacobs Keeanga-Yamahtta
Taylor Dave Lindorff Virginia Rodino Thomas Healy Ralph Nader Stephen Lendman Patrick Cockburn
October 17, 2005 Peter Linebaugh Norman Solomon Cockburn /
Sengupta Mike Whitney Uri Avnery Harold Pinter Website of
the Day
October 15 / 16, 2005 Alexander Cockburn Patrick Cockburn Saul Landau Neve Gordon Moshe Adler Christopher Brauchli Diane Farsetta Sam Husseini Monica Benderman Mickey Z. Douglas C.
Smyth Lee Sustar Fred Gardner Elizabeth Schulte Joshua Frank David Vest Ben Tripp Poets Basement Website of
the Weekend
October 14, 2005 Farrah Hassen Ron Jacobs Sasha Kramer Katrina Yeaw Nicole Colson Raúl Zibechi Nikolas Kozloff Website of the Day
Jeremy Scahill Jeff Birkenstein Brendan Smith / Jeremy Brecher Stan Cox Anis Memon Gary Leupp Dave Zirin Matthew Koehler Werther Website of
the Day
Omar Waraich William Cook Phil Gasper Dave Lindorff Matt Vidal John Gautreaux Diana Johnstone Mark Weisbrot Brian J. Foley Website of
the Day
October 11, 2005 Roger Morris
/ Steve Schmidt Lila Rajiva Bill Quigley Paul Craig Roberts Dave Lindorff Dr. Teresa Whitehurst Mitchel Cohen Tariq Ali Website of
the Day
October 10, 2005 Cindy and Craig
Corrie Joshua Frank Gideon Levy Alan Wallis Mickey Z. CounterPunch News Service Paul Craig
Roberts Website of the Day
October 8 / 9, 2005 Alexander Cockburn Ralph Nader Jennifer Van Bergen Saul Landau Jeff Halper Lenni Brenner Nikolas Kozloff Brian Cloughley Alice Slater John Gautreaux Fred Gardner Niranjan Ramakrishnan M.G. Piety Tom Gorman Mike Whitney Aseem Shrivastava Ben Tripp Poets' Basement
October 7, 2005 Larry Johnson Will Youmans Dave Lindorff Judith Scherr Russell D. Hoffman Jared Bernstein Jennifer Van
Bergen Website of
the Day
P. Sainath Scott Parkin Paul Craig
Roberts Andréa Schmidt Dave Lindorff Joshua Frank M. Junaid Alam Matthew Koehler Robert Pollin
October 5, 2005 Heather Gray Robert Jensen Ramzy Baroud Col. Dan Smith Dave Zirin Paul Craig Roberts Alan Maass
October 4, 2005 Nikolas Kozloff Mike Roselle Joshua Frank John Chuckman Alan Farago Mickey Z. Christine & Ethan Rose Gary Leupp Website of the Day
October 3, 2005 Vijay Prashad Paul Craig
Roberts Joshua Frank Seth Sandronsky Jeffrey St. Clair
Subscribe Online
|
November 15, 2005 Logging Lackies vs. Canada's Most Endangered SpeciesForest-Flipping Frenzy Dooms MarmotBy INGMAR LEE It's been particularly dog-eat-dog in Vancouver Island's forests of late. MacMillan-Bloedel begat Weyerhaeuser begat BRASCAN begat Brookfield Asset Management begat Trilon Bancorp Inc. begat Cascadia/Island Timberlands which has now been gotten by Western Forest Products. If WFP survives its current bankruptcy proceedings, it will become the biggest logging corporation on the Canadian west coast with nine sawmills, five remanufacturing mills, a pulp mill, 3,700 employees, and annual cutting rights to 6.8 million cubic metres of timber. Western Forest Products itself recently gobbled the utterly bankrupt Doman Logging empire and now hopes to refinance its massive debt with the help of Tricap Management Inc., another Brookfield subsidiary which has arranged $310 million in loans to replace Western's higher-interest debt. WFP is poised to become the final forest-consuming behemoth in the 150-year gutting frenzy which has thus far laid waste to 80% of Vancouver Islands once magnificent forests. Forestry, one imagines, is a long term project, but these days giant corporations are flipping island forest tenure like tiddly-winks. Every flip has serious ecological consequences. For example, when Washington-based Weyerhaeuser wolfed MacMillan Bloedel in 1998, they immediately proceeded to exterminate Vancouver Island's final ancient fir forests which once covered 20% of the island. They also took out the Island's second and even third growth forests down to 30 year-old pecker-pole stands for their annual million cubic-metre raw-log-to-the-USA export business. The worlds largest logging company gutted our islands forests so ruthlessly that forest workers, communities and First Nations reached a collective critical mass of outrage and began revolting. After a seven-year forest-felling free-for-all, Weyerhaeuser cut and ran away from Vancouver Island in 2005, selling out their steaming stumpfields to BRASCAN, -a giant real estate developer. But when Weyerhaeuser acquired M/B, they also assumed a dreadful responsibility for the imminent extinction of the Vancouver Island marmot, Canada's most endangered species (there are only several wild-born V. I. marmots alive today).This extinction was brought about by years of unregulated private land clearcutting begun by Mac/Blo and continued by Weyerhaeuser. To assuage its culpability for this extinction Weyerhaeuser threw a few bucks a year at the farcical "Marmot Recovery" project which was set up to quietly observe the extinction process while offering Greenwash services to its logging industry financiers. Logging companies have financed the study of the extinction of the Vancouver Island marmot for more than 20 years while incessantly mowing their way up the mountainsides towards the marmot colony sites. Turns out that desperate island deer, (now 80% decimated in a decade by over-hunting,) kept moving up the mountainsides to stay ahead of the logging, and were followed close behind by hungry wolves and cougars. And congregating with all the deer and the marmots in the sub-alpine marmot meadows as the forests fell behind them, the predators became a convenient scapegoat for the extinction. (see Marmot Forest destruction slide show at: http://marmots.org/forest/forest10.html Today, without any habitat protection plans, Marmot Recovery scientists are now focussed entirely on laboratory breeding and predator control. Wolves, cougars and even Golden eagles are slaughtered in the stumpfields in the name of protecting the marmot, while captive marmots are poked and prodded under flourescent laboratory lamps by hopeful mass-production technicians. Just like the liquidation/conversion plantation-management scam for so-called 'sustained-yield' logging, the scientists believe that by seeding fresh laboratory-bred marmot pups across the extinct colony sites every year, they might somehow, someday "take." So what's with Weyerhaeuser's commitment to the marmot? This following is quoted from the www.marmots.org website today:
But Weyerhaeuser doesn't own land on Vancouver Island any more. They sold out to BRASCAN which hasn't listed as a "Recovery Partner" on the Marmot website. Neither has Island Timberlands. Having trashed and now divested themselves of its Vancouver Island holdings, Weyerhaeuser is apparently done with the pesky little rodent. And now even BRASCAN is several companies ago in this sorry saga, so what do they care? And Western Forest Products? What do they know, they had nothing to do with it, eh? So much for 1/3 of the funding of the project. Looks like BC tax-payers are on the hook for a much larger cut of this grotesque hypocrisy. The other Marmot Recovery partner which must receive dishonourable mention is TimberWest, which is also liquidating the final fir forests in marmot habitat. TimberWest, BC's largest private land owner, and also the proud exporter of a million cubic metres of raw-logs to the USA annually, also assumed a defacto responsibility for the extinction of the V.I. marmot by purchasing Greenwash from its partner, the Marmot Recovery project. The current BC government, of which seven of its top ten election financiers were logging corporations, and which does nothing whatsoever to regulate logging on private lands, and much less, to protect the marmot, is the other partner. In case anyone out there believes that there might be a hope in hell for Canada's most endangered species, or any other forest-dwelling creature now lined up for extinction on the once exquisitely forested Vancouver Island, look at the credentials of these Logging Lackeys directing the whole Marmot dog-and-pony show: Marmot Recovery Foundation Board of Directors Linda Coady, Weyerhaeuser/Mac-Blo careerist,--after 20-years as a logging company executive became Vice President of the WWF's Pacific Region. She now Greenwashes for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics as Vice-President, Sustainability for the games. Nancy Wilkin, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Environment (MOE) (According to a Freedom of Information package obtained by me from the British Columbia government, Nancy Wilkin was the highest official in the BC government to authorize the bait-killing of Golden Eagles, -ostensibly to protect the Vancouver Island marmot from predation. It is hard to believe that the eagle-killing went on without the knowledge of then Minister Joyce Murray. The Gordon Campbell government admitted to killing 6 Golden eagles in 2002-2004 John Phillips, Manager, Forestry Programs, TimberWest
Forests Diane Medves, Registered Professional Forester, Weyerhaeuser and Technical Advisor to the Forest Genetics Council of BC. Ingmar Lee is a 21-year veteran treeplanter who
has planted more than 1,000,000 trees in the clearcuts of British
Columbia. He now lives in Pondicherry India. He can be reached
at ingmarz@gmail.com |
from CounterPunch Books! The Case Against Israel By Michael Neumann  Grand Theft Pentagon: Tales of Greed and Profiteering in the War on Terror by Jeffrey St. Clair          Sick of sit-on-the-Fence speakers, tongue-tied and timid? CounterPunch Editors Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair are available to speak forcefully on ALL the burning issues, as are other CounterPunchers seasoned in stump oratory. Call CounterPunch Speakers Bureau, 1-800-840-3683. Or email beckyg@counterpunch.org.               |
