Today's Stories

May 8-10, 2009

Paul Wolf
Obama's Axis of Obedience

Neve Gordon
Jailed for Caring

May 7, 2009

Paul Craig Roberts
Criminalizing Criticism of Israel

Chris Floyd
A Full-Court Press for Pakistan War

Andy Worthington
Mixed Messages on Torture

Alan Farago
No Place Like Home: a Stress Test for Land Use, Not Just Banks

Ray McGovern
Deux ex Machina on Torture?

Dave Lindorff
Stain Removal: Impeaching the Torture Judge

Eric Toussaint /
Damien Millet
Why is There Rampant Famine in the 21st Century?

Ana M. Malinow, MD
Why We Need a Single-Payer Health Care System

Jeff Armstrong
Freeing Leonard Peltier: What Would Warren Harding Do?

Norman Solomon
A Green New Deal

Website of the Day
The End of Lake Mead?

May 6, 2009

Doug Peacock
The Fate of the Yellowstone Grizzly

Patrick Cockburn
Afghans to Obama: Get Out, Take Karzai With You

Richard Neville
The Torturer's Apprentice

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
To Power a Nation: Nuclear Bombs or Sunshine?

Winslow T. Wheeler
Of Pork and Baloney: Obama's Defense Budget

Deepak Tripathi
Pakistan in Crisis

Stephen Soldz
A "Natural Reaction": APA Ethics Policy-Maker Endorses Torture

Reuven Kaminer
Nice is Not Enough: Obama vs. Netanyahu and Lieberman

David Macaray
The Chrysler-UAW Deal

Kevin Zeese
Why We Were Arrested at the Senate Finance Committee Hearings

Marjorie Cohn
Stanford Antiwar Alums Call for War Crimes Investigation of Condoleezza Rice

Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
Investigate Psychologist and Health Provider Complicity in Torture

Website of the Day
Who's Behind the Financial Meltdown?

May 5, 2009

William Blum
Torture and Mr. Obama

Uri Avnery
Netanyahu's Plan

Steven Higgs
Autism and Toxic Pollution

Dean Baker
Why Economists Should Learn Arithmetic

Daniel Wolff
The Education of Rachel Carson

Sibel Edmonds
The Broken Congress

Carole King Klein
A New Chance to Save the Northern Rockies

Fidel Castro
Giving One's All

Belén Fernández
Oil and Aguardiente in the Ecuadoran Elections

Dan Bacher
Schwarzenegger's Big Lie About Fish vs. Jobs

Website of the Day
"I Married Isis on the Fifth Day of May"

May 4, 2009

James G. Abourezk
The AIPAC Spy Case

Jeff Leys
Obama's War Budget

Patrick Cockburn
Afghan Ayatollahs Press Marital Rape Law

Andy Worthington
A Start on Guantánamo, But Not Enough

Jaime Avilés
Mexico's Plague-Bringers

David Swanson
An Even Worse Bybee Memo

Paul Craig Roberts
Working with Jack Kemp

P. Sainath
Celeb Crusades and the Death of Politics

Eugenia Tsao
Canada's Obama and the Cult of the Prof

Benjamin Dangl
Protest and Rubber Bullets in Paraquay

Sami Al-Arian
Mourning William Moffitt

Website of the Day
"Soldiers Are Cutting Us Down": Kent State, May 4, 1970

May 1 - 3, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
Game-Changers: Specter Jumps, Souter Quits

Gary Leupp
Dropping the AIPAC Spying Case

Peter Linebaugh
The Key to the Bastille

Jeffrey St. Clair /
Joshua Frank:
Half Life of a Toxic War: Iraq's Wrecked Environment

C. G. Estabrook
Minion of the Long War

Patrick Cockburn
Kabul's New Elite

Mike Whitney
Economy on the Ropes

Pierre Sprey /
Winslow Wheeler
What "Sweeping Overhaul" of the Pentagon?

Andy Worthington
Al-Marri's Plea Deal: Dictatorial Powers Unchallenged

Mairead Maguire
Stand Up to Israeli Apartheid: a Letter to Obama From a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Nadia Hijab
The Israel Boycott is Biting

Diane Farsetta
Life, Death and Water Policy

Michael Calderón-Zaks
The Déjà Vu Flu: Why Much of the Discussion About Swine Flu is Racist

Richard Rhames
When Piggies Come Home to Roost: Swine Flu and the Industrial Meat Gulags

Russell Mokhiber
Inside the Beltway Baucus

Ramzy Baroud
Clinton's Unpromising Start

Rannie Amiri
Understanding Lebanon's June Elections

Deb Reich
No Talking, Dammit!

Steven Higgs
Indiana Criminalizes Dissent: Roadblocks on the NAFTA Highway

Brian Cloughley
Malice in Blunderland

David Michael Green
The Party's Over

Farzana Versey
Sex, Swat and Susan Boyle

Jim Goodman
Think Before You Eat: Agriculture and the Environment

Carl Finamore
New Prescription for a Healthy Union Movement

Christopher Brauchli
The Sounds of Silence: the Texas Option

Susie Day
The Real Cause of Unemployment: Employees!

David Yearsley
Nuts Over Beethoven

Lorenzo Wolff
Three Minutes of Perfection

Peter Stone Brown
Dancing with Dylan

Poets' Basement Dominguez, Orloski and Springate

Website of the Weekend
May Day Europe

April 30, 2009

Ellen Cantarow
Obama and "Two States": Seamless Continuity From Bush Time

Dana L. Cloud
The McCarthyism That Horowitz Built

Paul W. Lovinger /
Jeannette Hassberg
A Nation of Laws

Binoy Kampmark
Swine at the Trough: the Business of Pandemics

Brian Downing
The Perils of Modernization in Afghanistan

Frank Snepp
Tortured by the Past

David Swanson
The Wrong Torture Question

Conn Hallinan
The Coming Asian Storm

Ron Jacobs
Not Dead Yet: an Interview with Jerry Gordon on the State of the Antiwar Movement

John Goekler
The Only Path to a Middle East Picnic?

Jasmine L. Tyler /
Anthony Papa
An End to Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity?

Website of the Day
Emergency Petition: Stop Coal Industry Intimidation of Activists

April 29, 2009

Joann Wypijewski
Death at Work in America

Patrick Cockburn
The Taliban's Roads to Kabul

Andy Worthington
Cheney's Twisted World

Chris Floyd
The Specter Diversion

Dave Lindorff
No More Excuses: a Specter is Haunting the Democrats

Jeremy Scahill
The Nuremberg Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

Doug Henwood
Zionist Lobby Targets Another Tenured Professor: an Interview with William Robinson

Michael Hudson
Will Iceland be Handed Over to a New Gang of Kleptocrats?

Russell Mokhiber
My Ron Pollack Problem--And Yours

Eric Toussaint
Ecuador at the Crossroads

Website of the Day
An Interview with Leslie and Andrew Cockburn on "American Casino"

April 28, 2009

Uri Avnery
A Little Red Light: On Israeli Fascism

Jeremy Scahill
Obama's Iraq: the Picture of Dorian Gray

Dean Baker
The Perfect Gift for Wall Street: a Financial Transactions Tax

Michael D. Yates
At the Factory Gate

Conn Hallinan
Georgian Plots? Saakavili's "Order No. 2"

John Stauber
Beyond MoveOn

Tom Barry
The Failed Border Security Initiative

Harvey Wasserman
Who Pays for America's Chernobyl Roulette?

Jeff Nygaard
Pirates, Profits and Propaganda

Frederico Fuentes
Why the U.S. Still Hates Cuba

Website of the Day
The Man Behind the Hood

April 27, 2009

Pam Martens
The Far Right's Plot to Capture New Hampshire

Patrick Cockburn
Torture? It Probably Killed More Americans Than 9/11

Andrew J. Bacevich Guardian of the Status Quo: Obama's Sins of Omission

Mitu Sengupta
The Bloodbath in Sri Lanka

Franklin Lamb
Hillary Does Beirut: The 165-Minute Swoop-In

Firmin DeBrabander
Crimes of Economic Madness

Dave Lindorff
Wide Open to Pandemic?

Russell Mokhiber
How Corrupt is That?

Mike Whitney
Pinter's Message to Obama

Mark Weisbrot
Overhauling the IMF

Rev. José M. Tirado
Iceland's New Dawn: How the Right Got Trounced

Website of the Day
American Casino

April 24-26, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
Putting the Bush Years on Trial

Marjorie Cohn
Torture Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11

Andy Worthington
Who Ordered the Torture of Abu Zubaydah?

Jeremy Scahill
Are Leading Democrats Afraid of a Special Prosecutor to Investigate Torture?

Chris Floyd
Top of the Heap: the Democrats' Teachable Moment on Torture

Mike Whitney
A Housing Crash Update

Anthony DiMaggio
Obama and the Housing Crisis

Chris Kromm
Democratic Lobbyists Key to Fight Against Employee Free Choice Act

Saul Landau
Seventeen Months in "the Hole:" an Interview with the Leader of the Cuban Five

Dave Lindorff
Free John Walker Lindh

Greg Moses
The Debt Looters

Joshua Frank
Calling for a Coal Moratorium: an Interview with Ted Nace

Fred Gardner
Collective Farming and the Lynch Case

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Homework, Testing and Stealth Apartheid in Education

David Michael Green
Of Tea Parties and Teleprompters

Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Spies: a New Front in Gaza's Conflict

Rannie Amiri
Mubarak's Expanding Enemies List

Laura Carlsen
Mr. President, Calderon is Not Mexico

Richard Morse
The Haitian People Need a Lobbyist

Nikolas Kozloff
Protecting the Bald Eagle: a Task Now Falling to ... Hugo Chavez?

Kent Peterson
The Fight to Save Mexico's Mangroves

Robert Bryce
The Ethanol Scammers Rent a General

Niranjan Ramakrishnan The Financial Experts

Ron Jacobs
Torture is More Than Just "Harsh Tactics"

Richard Rhames
Roman Legends, Book Burning and History's Hunt

Stephen Martin
Wherefore Art Thou American Dream?

David Yearsley
Rodgers, Hammerstein, Michener and Nostalgia's Clammy Embrace

Poets' Basement
Khalil and Mankh

Website of the Weekend
Doug and Andrea Peacock on Grizzlies and Edward Abbey

April 23, 2009

Eamonn Fingleton
How the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Buried the Madoff Scandal for at Least Four Years

Ray McGovern
Obama Plays Hamlet on Torture

Michael Ratner
The Torture Commission Trap

Alan Farago
The Quicksand Economy

Rob Larson
Business Gets Carded

Nadia Hijab
The Real Heroes of Durban

Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Deconstructing the Taliban

Dave Lindorff
Are Members of Congress Being Blackmailed?

Helen Redmond
Selling Out Single-Payer: the "Public Option" Con

Adam Federman
The Battle Over New York's Marcellus Shale

Website of the Day
An Interactive Map of Vanishing Employment Across the Country

April 22, 2009

Chris Floyd
The Fatal Thread: Torture, War and the Imperial Project

Joanne Mariner
Torture Evidence and Terror Blacklists

Vijay Prashad
Obama's Afghan Plan: Fracturing the Antiwar Movement

Gareth Porter
U.S. Lacks Capacity to Win Over Afghans

Dean Baker
The Tyranny of Bad Economics

Peter Morici
Housing Sales and Fixing the Economy

Winslow T. Wheeler
Eliminating Bad Pentagon Habits

Barucha Calamity Peller
The Battle to Take Back the New School

Harvey Wasserman
Chernobyl Could Happen Here

Aisha Brown /
Dedrick Muhammad
White Privilege in the Americas

Teo Ballvé
Obama's Feel Good Meeting with Colombia's Uribe

Website of the Day
Ahmedinejad's Durban Speech: What He Actually Said

April 21, 2009

Randy Rowland
Lindy Blake's Great Escape

Dave Lindorff
Jay Bybee's Conspiracy to Torture

Fidel Castro
The Secret Summit

George McGovern
Pull Out of Iraq This Year

Greg Moses
The Unemployment Channel

Benjamin Dangl
Argentina Remembers

Sonia Nettnin
Saving Lives in Gaza

Frank Barat
The Death of Bassem: a Shooting at the Wall in Bil'n

Binoy Kampmark
Legal Purgatory and John Demjanjuk

John V. Walsh
Code Red for Single Payer

David Macaray
SAG Should be Praised, Not Assailed

Website of the Day
Bonus Man: For Executive Assholes Everywhere

April 20, 2009

Mike Whitney
Housing Bust Comes Roaring Back, Worse Than Ever

Andrea Peacock
Histrionics and Legalisms in Missoula

Henry A. Giroux
Ten Years After Columbine: the Tragedy of Youth Deepens

Liaquat Ali Khan
Drone Attacks on Pakistan's Indigenous Tribes

Fred Gardner
Obama's DoJ Backs Prosecution of Medical Marijuana Providers

Stephen Soldz
Obama, Blair, Panetta and the Torture Memos: Praising Moral Cowards, Ignoring Real Heroes

Nadia Hijab
Obama's Multi-Polar Middle East

Dave Lindorff
The Meeting in Trinidad

P. Sainath
India's Press Nixes "R" Word

Nelson P Valdés
A Modest (Transition) Proposal to Obama

Mark Engler
American Empire Foreclosed?

Belén Fernández
The FARC Can't Dance

Website of the Day
Dear Mr. Buffett...

Weekend Edition
May 8-10, 2009

"I Care Not Who Makes the Laws"

The Riotous Action of the Complete Banker

By STEPHEN MARTIN

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.

--Mayer Amschel Rothschild, International Banker.

Difficult to read the quote above from one of the ‘founding fathers’ of ‘International Banking’  without gasp at the prescience?

‘Issue and control of the money of a nation’ greater than that of ‘making laws of a nation’ ?

Surely there is a flaw in such ‘pragmatism’ as would ‘control’? Or are these times in which we live but a reflection of this question begged by Mayer Amschel Rothschild  in the Eighteenth Century?

‘Belief’ being so ‘beggared’ - as when taxman comes to the door demanding ‘more!?’

As ‘International Banker’ demands ‘Bailout’?

Many people used to believe that their house was worth a good deal more than it is now; or that they had saved prudential form of 401k - only to see such ‘wiped out’.

Many used to believe that the value of their labor was worth more.
Many more used to believe that they had a job.

Is such to be seen as no more than mere expression of the ‘power of mind over mind’ as Jeremy Bentham, born in the Eighteenth Century, and ‘founding father’ of ‘Utilitarianism’, so defined  ‘Panopticon’?

Do we ‘live’ in such prison in the making as ‘stems ontological’ in the genesis of belief by ‘man’, such the masquerade of illusion as reality - and  where ‘control over issue of money’ has primacy over the mere making of  ‘laws of a nation’? As some form of   ‘felicific calculus’ to the calculation of ‘greater good’ ?

In evolutionary terms, is ‘Nation’ to go the way of ‘Dodo’ – courtesy of ‘Globalization’, Erasmus Darwin  being another ‘Eighteenth Century’ man, and as planted seed ideological by way of ‘evolution’  in Grandson Charles - way of ‘Zoonomia’?

This small article having the objective of  ‘examination of primacy’ in the ontology of belief as expression of’ power of mind over mind’; as well as further contending that this Economic Depression in which we currently ‘live’ , as sufferance to justice is no mere expression of ‘happenstance’ - but rather the product of a struggle for ‘primacy’ between the control and issue of money and the making of laws of a nation determining ‘belief’, with multiple corollary  attendant concerning  ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’?

Is ‘this’ an Economic War; waged by Stateless Bastard upon Humanity; Global Economic Depression being the shock and awe of Scorched Earth Policy -  and Global control of the issue of money the objective as ‘fix’? ‘Fear is the key’- such the ‘fever pitch of swine’ attained- as to so ‘coin it ’?

Herein - a contention that belief by humanity goes deeper ontological than that to allow for mere pragmatism as would  cause  this writer to  ‘spit’ - as in contempt being held  for ‘scoundrel’; such pejorative term being polymorphous – and extensive in the prevalence  times as we ‘live’  now? Give it time and the words may be different the hope; such sense as ‘things can only get better’?

The recognition thereby being as far from audacious as from ‘spin’ -  in that there is much greater than mere pragmatism within the heart of humanity as ‘brotherhood’-  the eternal subsuming the merely ephemeral;  such the belief being that there is much greater than man as shall ‘overcome’ – whilst yet watching ‘boot stomping down upon face’  as Orwell put so as to prescience attained?

This particular brand of paranoia as could be so placed in ‘Gulag’  - such the ‘danger’  when it comes to the primacy of control and issue of money over the mere making of law of nation as ‘cry of protest’ as ‘howl of wolf’ from wilderness;  and what we are living now as ‘Economic Depression’ - no more than calculated scheme of International Banker thus ‘apperceived’ as ‘thematic’?

Such the blade as: ‘It’s a test – designed to provoke an emotional response’; in  the running?

Such the Nation as is the notion to be above International Law – way of ‘Gitmo’?

‘Asking the right questions’ -  the first step in overcoming ‘spin’ indeed?
‘Pynched’ that one from Thomas –  such the ‘game’ being on as ‘so it goes’ to put it ‘Kurt’?

For the power of words but mere reflection of the power of thought such sense as ‘morphogenetic’; travelling faster as dream than nightmare ever could, such the scheme evermore transcended as would lead to ‘glee’ being denied; such the grasp of truth as resonance eternal to the gift of life - and as wondrous as the harmony as would be yet degenerated to cacophony overcome; such that enjoinment of empathy be transformed to sympathy denied; and  loneliness the  result of the division  so expressed as mere ‘illusion’  whence the distance run as ‘long’  seen?

Thence in ‘turn’ such ‘roll’ as being ‘on’ ….

Having ‘mental friends and mental wealth’ as what the need transcended form of ‘Tiger burning bright’ – as William Blake,  also born in the Eighteenth Century , could so put?

‘Divide and conquer’  as maxim from much earlier time, being as illusion  - ‘ A man’s a man for A’ that’ being reality as Rabby Burns ‘encapsulated’ -  back in the Eighteenth Century?

The ‘Eighteenth Century Boys’ – as not from ‘Windy City’ but much greater the damage to be wrought by such in the differentiation amongst as would represent ‘School of Free Market’?

For what we got here is no ‘failure to communicate’ such as would be  pragmatism  prevalent, form of belief warped ontological; sense of priorities ‘got all wrong’ – or cry of fellow ‘brother’ in sense of struggle to comprehend  as ability sacrificed way of abrogation; sense of  ‘collateral damage’ to ‘best laid scheme’?

‘For the times they are a changing’ – and you better start swimming or you will sink like a stone, -  as line was drawn so long ago, the curse caste; and as first one now will later be last?

As Dylan sang -  to the ‘bob’ of body floating through will such the medium as would ‘drown’ in denial of life as breath – such the clarity of the credence of the water as life being revived? Such the ‘mixing it ’ as would be by ‘Fortunate Son’?  

The G20 interpreted here. as ‘big picture’ macroeconomic; sense of Mayer Amschel Rothschild prescient; form of ‘scorched earth’ policy rationale of Economic Warfare,  the objective being  control and issue of money global – and elimination of nation as determinant of law and order?

There being more questions than answers – but that  the ‘élan vital’ or ‘will to live’ enshrined within Democracy being  so as there is platform yet present  that  ‘ right questions can be asked’?

Thinking further of the Eighteenth Century:  and   ‘preamble’ as adopted in 1787 -  Bergson and Schopenhauer  put  aside for the moment:

‘We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.’

Spot the ‘gap’ concerning ‘defence’? (Such spelling as in original, handwritten)

Likes of Mayer Amscheld did?

As did  the ‘Federal Reserve’?

And as we all suffer from now?

Not being so ‘quick on the draw ‘as to be ‘synthetic’ as illusion - but ‘real’ in as being constituent of body of humanity; as of Nation; as of State?

To coin money,  regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures being the clause subsequent to such preamble – and as ‘Santa’ to International Banker?
‘It’s in the ‘Klaus’ boys!

 ‘Lynchpin of Globalization’ so seen as ‘power of mind over mind’ –  as ‘synthetic drawing rights’ scheme, as detailed in the Eighteenth Century, form of maxim the illusion, or as  ‘Gang aft a-gley’  the reality concerning ‘best laid’?

As would be ‘Global’?

Apology.

In an earlier  small article these quarters, got most of it wrong.
 What seen as an opposition to trend; as ‘Tectonic shift in Hegemony’  described; in reality amounting to no more than  ‘argument amongst thieves’ over ‘sharing of the spoils’.

‘Cogs of the machinery turning’ as you read, alas.

Stateless Bastards who would control further the issue of money beginning to sing from the same ‘hymn sheet’  form of Moritaten;  way of death of nation the ‘ballad’ - and the imprisonment of humanity the denouement of best laid scheme?

These times so difficult to understand as to realise ‘life’?

Caveat; such given as acknowledgement of failure to ‘Fly over Cuckoo’s nest’ – as in: ‘But I tried, didn’t I?’

Humanity will win in the end.

The truth will out.
Reality shall deny illusion.

But the sufferance in such ‘victory’ so immense as to constitute embrace of  ‘absurdity’?

Or as William Blake ‘coined’ it;  way of phrase:

‘The fool who persists in his folly shall become wise’?

And as the ‘real fix’ be so caste, as truth be eternal?

‘Swine Fever’ my ass!– as ‘weapons grade Anthrax’ be so forgotten - such the ephemeral nature of illusion; such as  mere spin triumphant?

As indeed,  ‘Fear is the key’  prevents   ‘step up to plate’?

Stephen Martin can be reached at: stephenmarti@yahoo.com

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