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Today's
Stories
October 23-25, 2009
Christopher Ketcham
Unlearning the CIA: the Education of Bob Baer
October 22, 2009
Dan Pearson /
Kathy Kelly
The Rotten Fruits of War
Jonathan Cook
Israeli Police Don Arab Disguises
Paul Craig Roberts The US as Failed State
Mark Engler
Pranksters Fixing the World: and Interview with the Yes Men
Johann Hari
Three Myths Driving the Afghan War
Brian M. Downing
Losing the War
Eric Toussaint
Small Oversights and Big Lies About Latin America
Tom Mountain
Busting the Darfur Myth
Israel Shamir
Russia's Daring Vote
Charles Thomson
What is Damien Hirst Playing At?
Website of the Day
Hitler Upset At Balloon Boy Hoax
October 21, 2009
Pam Martens
The Next Financial Crisis Hits Wall Street: Judges Start Nixing Foreclosures
Linn Washington, Jr.
A Kafkaesque Deportation
Liaquat Ali Khan
Now Pakistan: Sequential Destruction of Muslim Nations
D. K. Wilson
Rush Limbaugh and the NFL
Franklin Lamb
Syria's Golan Heights
Norman Solomon
Uncle Sam in Afghanistan
Stephen Fleischman
Hypocrisy Unbridled
Patrice Higonnet
On Harvard's Financial Crisis
Binoy Kampmark
Herta Müller's Nobel
Kevin Coval /
Josh Healey
Searching for a Minyan
Website of the Day
How Wall Street is Making Its Bilions
October 20, 2009
Sharon Smith
Et Tu, Codepink?
Tariq Ali
Farce in Kabul, Tragedy in Pakistan
Mark Brenner
Pensions: the Next Casualty of Wall Street
Bouthaina Shaaban
The Adoption of the Goldstone Report: What Does It Mean?
Michael D. Yates
Down in the Valley With Cesar: Power, Paranoia and Purges in the UFW
Dean Baker
Does Citibank Need China?
Dave Lindorff
Depleted Uranium Weapons: Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan are No Joke
John Ross
Chronicle of a Tormenta Electrica, II
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
Cuban Five:
a Very Important Liar
Kevin Zeese
Can the Democrats Avoid a Populist Health Care Rebellion?
Gilad Atzmon
Autumn in Shanghai
Website of the Day
A Message From the Gyre
October 19, 2009
Mike Whitney
The Dollar Will Not Crash
Greg Moses
The Cash Cops of Tenaha
John Ross
Chronicle of a Tormenta Electrica
Michael Donnelly
Outside Agitator
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Dick's Fringe Army:
Tea Baggers and Birchers?
Eric Walberg
The Battle in Canada
Russell Mokhiber
Pennsylvania, First in the Nation for Single Payer?
Barbara Rose Johnston
War, Peace and the Obamajority
John V. Whitbeck
Zionism: an Anti-Semite's Dream?
Christopher Ketcham
Swine Fools
Website of the Day
Greenspan: Break Up the Big Banks?
October 16-18, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
White House v. Fox News: a War Obama Can Win
Saul Landau
Autumn of the Patriarch
Paul Craig Roberts
The Rich Have Stolen the Economy
Carl Ginsburg
Where $18 an Hour is Too Much
Ralph Nader
Barney Frank the Bankers' Consort
Nikolas Kozloff
Rainforest Beef, Factory Farms and Anthony Bourdain's War on Vegetarians
Carlo Galli
Berlusconi: Still Doing Nothing, Still There
Dave Lindorff
Agent Orange in Vietnam: Ignoring the Crimes Before Our Eyes
Catherine Rottenberg
/ Neve Gordon
Educating Children in War Zones
Marshall Auerback
Dollar Spasms
Nicola Nasser
The Realistic Way Out of Iraq
Windy Cooler
The Ghost of John Brown
James L. Secor
Why I Miss China
Ron Jacobs
Escalation Unopposed
Wes Jackson
A Way of Knowing
Jesse Lerner-Kinglake
Global Food Fight
David Ker Thomson Against Leaders
Missy Beattie
Dinner With the President
Emily Ratner
Taping Our Mouths Shut to Scream Out Our Dissent
Stephen Martin
The Scorched Earth Mindset of the International Banker
Michael Snedeker
"A Place of Greater Safety"
Charles R. Larson
Cheeta: the Last of the Hollywood High-Rollers
David Yearsley
Judith Leyster's Sensuous Passions
Peter Stone Brown
It's a Bob Christmas for Halloween
Poets' Basement
Keeler, Beatty and Anderson
Website of the Weekend
Elements of Nature
October 15, 2009
Andrew Cockburn
Our Cheap Politicians
Brian M. Downing
Rethinking the Afghan Insurgency
Ramzy Baroud
Abbas and the Goldstone Report: Our Shame is Complete
Danny Weil
A Neo-Liberal Arts Education: Diploma Mills and Debt Peonage
M. Idrees Ahmad
Return to Peshawar: a Journey Home
Margaret Kimberley
Michelle's Family Tree
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
Cuban Five:
Which Side Are You On?
Harvey Wasserman
Nuking the Climate Bill
Nirmal Ghosh
A Tale of Two Protocols: How Montreal Could Save Us From the Mire of Kyoto
Charles R. Larson
Sarah Palin Bears It All
Website of the Day
Tortured Law
October 14, 2009
Michael Neumann
Fearsome Words? a Suppressed Talk on the Israel/Palestine Conflict
M. Reza Pirbhai
Fighting the Taliban: What, Exactly, is Being Fought in Afghanistan?
Gareth Porter
Hawks Play Up the Taliban's Ties to Al Qaeda
Paul Craig Roberts
War Criminals Are Becoming Arbiters of the Law
John Strausbaugh Fortress Moon
Ralph Nader
The CBO's Flawed Report on Medical Malpractice
Dean Baker
Won't You Please Come to Chicago to Greet the Bankers?
Charles Modiano
White Silence: Where Does Brett Favre Stand on Rush Limbaugh?
Nadia Hijab
Abandoning "Women and Children"
Walter Brasch
An Extension of Her Motherhood: Sherry Carpenter, Journalist and Animal Care Provider
Website of the Day
Nader: Obama Has a "Concessionary Personality"
October 13, 2009
Peter Linebaugh
Putting the Spine Back in the Commonwealth
Shamus Cooke
What Obama Isn't Telling American Workers
John Ross
War on Mexican Women
Brendan Cooney
Ask Awal Khan About Obama's Prize
Frida Berrigan
Operation Enduring Detentions:
Losing the Moral High Ground
Yves Engler
Is Canada More Pro-Israel Than the US?
David Macaray
Why the Government Fears Unions
Dave Lindorff
Democrats:
Selling Out, But Still Getting Screwed
Mark Weisbrot
Occupying Afghanistan is Making Things Worse
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
History Repeats Itself
Binoy Kampmark
That Dirty Colonial War
Website of the Day
The Health Insurance Industry's Latest Doublecross
October 12, 2009
Pam Martens
Secret Deal Between Wall Street and Washington Shines a Harsh Light on Federal Housing Agency
Mike Whitney
A Dollar Rout or More Bernanke Trickery?
Martha Rosenberg
Yale Lab Tech Causes Two Problems for Animal Researchers
Jessica Arents
The Price of Peace: Our Arrest at the White House
Eamonn McCann
Massacre in Ireland, Massacre in Iraq
Bill Hatch
Dairy Industry Goes Down the Tubes
Sen. Russell Feingold
Time for a Timetable in Afghanistan
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Siren Song of World Praise
Gideon Levy
Obama's Betrayed Mission in the Middle East
Iyad Burnat
Why Does Obama Get a Prize and Bush Got Shoes?
Alan Cabal
Why Obama Deserves the Nobel
Dan Bacher
The Astroturf Method
Website of the Day
The Palestine Chronicle Needs Your Help
October 9-11, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
War and Peace
James Bovard
Eight Years of Big Lies on Afghanistan
Kathleen and Bill Christison
New Crisis Developing in Palestine
Andy Worthington
Congressional Depravity on Gitmo
Marc Levy
Talking Dirty to the Kids
Tariq Ali
Ahmed Rashid's War
Mike Whitney
The Securitization Boondoggle
Paul Craig Roberts
Warmonger Wins Peace Prize
Alan Nasser
Cockeyed Economics
Jack Z. Bratich
The Twitterest Pill: Policing Dissent in the Information Age
Steve Breyman
Time for a War Tax
David Michael Green
A Hapless Presidency
Dave Lindorff
The WTF Prize
Paul Buchheit
Fear of the Rich
Jim Goodman
Feedlots and E. Coli
Missy Beattie
Theater of the Absurd
Michael Leonardi
Ships of Poison
Nadia Hijab
The Plight of the Right of Return
Mel Packer
The Crackdown on Pittsburgh
David Macaray
The Raiding Game
James T. Phillips
Getting Burned
Charles R. Larson
One Man's Walk Through Hell
Michael Donnelly
Behind the Capitalist Curtain
David Yearsley
The Biggest Blot on Mel Gibson's Rap Sheet
Lorenzo Wolff
Rap That Threatens ... and Endures
Poets' Basement
Heyen, Ames and Buknatski
Website of the Weekend
Jobs Conference
October 8, 2009
Saul Landau
A Late September Morning With Fidel
Paul Fitzgerald /
Elizabeth Gould
Dark Omens for the US in Afghanistan
Linn Washington, Jr.
Pot and Perversion: Judicial Antics Expose Drug War Insanity
Marshall Auerback
Neo-Classical Economics Misses What Matters
Dave Lindorff
A Nation of Snoops
David Rosen
Bankrupt Morality: the Staying Power of Republican Sinners
Chris Darimont / Misty MacDuffee
The Bear Essentials: New Thinking Needed to Save BC's Salmon and Grizzlies
John V. Walsh
Remembering Hinton's Fanshen
Stewart Lawrence
The Edwards / Hunter Affair Reconsidered
Charles R. Larson
Conservatives in the Sandbox
Website of the Day
Et Tu, Code Pink?
October 7, 2009
Brendan Cooney
Are Republicans Breaking US Law in Honduras?
Paul Craig Roberts
Dead Labor: Marx and Lenin Reconsidered
Dean Baker
Bernanke's Recovery: Unemployment Up, Wages Down (But the Banks Have Been Saved ... Sort Of)
Jonathan Cook
A Third Intifada?
John Stanton
HTS:
Congress Rewards Failure, Puts Personnel in Harms Way
Joanne Mariner
Tortured Language
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
Cherry Blossoms
Stephen Lendman
The Gaza War's Effect on Women
Sen. Russell Feingold
Time to Draw Down in Afghanistan
Mary Lynn Cramer
Doublespeak on Health Care
Website of the Day
How to Bag a Wolf by Aerial Assault
October 6, 2009
Mike Whitney
Dollar Hysteria: Is the Sky Really Falling?
Gareth Porter
The Iranian Rift in the IAEA: Leaked Paper Based on Disputed Intel
Jonathan Cook
How Israel Buried the UN's War Crime Probe
Boris Kagarlitsky
My Hour as Talking Head in Moscow
Iain Boal
The New Crisis at Pacifica
Ron Jacobs
Why Are We in Afghanistan?
John Ross
Wave of Anarchist Bombings Strikes Mexico
Michael Dickinson
Panic in Istanbul: Smoke, Mayhem and the World Bank
Stephen Fleischman
Beware the Predator
Ira Glunts
The Audacity of Nope
Missy Beattie
Outside Looking In
Website of the Day
Round Up the Usual Suspects
October 5, 2009
Pam Martens
Wall Street Titans Use Aliases to Foreclose on Families While Partnering with a Federal Agency
Mike Whitney
Dead Man Walking: Welcome to the US Economy
Paul Craig Roberts
How the Feds Imprison the Innocent
Harry Browne
Ireland Says, "Yes, Please"
Sara Mann
My Little Town: Nothin' But the Dead and Dyin'
Omar Barghouti
Dissolve the Palestinian Authority
Shamus Cooke
A Jobless Recovery?
Brenda Norrell
A Dirty New Low for Peabody Coal
Fred Gardner
Situation NORML:
Reconciling Medical Pot Use and Legalization
Binoy Kampmark Copenhagen Blues: McChrystal and the Afghan Trap
Website of the Day
In Goldman Sachs We Trust?
October 2-4, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
Geezer Renditions
Saul Landau
News From Raul Castro
Diana Johnstone
After the German Elections:
Is Socialism Really Dead in Europe?
Greg Moses
Cramming for the Downside
William Blum
The Fall of the Berlin Wall: Another Cold War Myth
Brian Cloughley
Iran's Nuclear Program: Where's the Proof?
Russell Mokhiber
Welcome Back, Michael Moore
John Ross
Chomsky in Mexico
Ellen Brown
IMF Catapults From Shunned Agency to Global Central Bank
David Ker Thomson
Cop Shocks
David Macaray
The Audacity of Toyota
Gary Engler
Unions in a Rut
Robert Fantina
Meet the New Boss (Same as the Old Boss)
Lisa Stolarski / Naomi Archer
Pittsburgh: Still a (Coal) Company Town
Anthony Papa
Here is Your Chance to Help End the Failed War on Drugs
Joe Allen
The Good Wife:
Bad View of a Corrupt System
Harry Browne
Tarantino Scalps His Audience
Ron Jacobs
Collective Fiction
Charles R. Larson
Cultural Warriors: Austrialian Aboriginal Art Triennial
David Yearsley
Hanns Eisler's Great National Anthem for East Germany is Available: Make It America's
Poets' Basement
Taylor, Gardner and Landau
Website of the Weekend
Wrongful Convictions of Youth
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Weekend Edition
October 23-25, 2009
The Single Payer Caucus and Obamacare
The Weiner Charade
By RUSSELL MOKHIBER
What would Democrats do if they were serious about single payer?
The 88 members of the House who support it – The Single Payer Caucus – would get together and say – we’re not going to vote for Obamacare.
(By the way — that’s 88, down from 89 — because Congressman Kendrick Meek (D-Florida) wants to be the next Senator from Florida, and has withdrawn his support for HR 676 – the single payer bill in the House.)
Since Obama can’t pass Obamacare without the 88 members of the Single Payer Caucus –
Their opposition would put an end to the current debate.
And start another one.
And single payer would take center stage.
Even on Fox News.
The pharmaceutical and health insurance corporations would be thrown out of the room.
And we’d have a people’s debate about single payer – up or down.
No corporate meddling.
But the Democrats who say they are for a single payer health care reform are not serious about single payer.
Even the best of them – from Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) to Donna Edwards (D-Maryland)– are not serious about single payer reform.
All they want to do is to give Obama a legislative victory.
No matter how awful the legislation.
No matter it’s impact on the American people.
So, instead, they support the Weiner Charade.
Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) is pushing to get a vote on single payer in House.
He says Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has promised him a floor debate and vote on his single payer amendment.
But the insiders know this is a charade.
It’s a way to make single payer forces feel good – hey, we got a vote on the floor of the House.
Without getting anything accomplished.
So where does that leave single payer activists?
What to do?
Urge your member of Congress to vote against Obamacare.
And start from scratch.
Onward to single payer.
Russell Mokhiber is editor of Single Payer Action.
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