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Drug Companies and Psychiatrists
Partners in CrimeEugenia Tsao reports on the upcoming revision of one of the most important books in America, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Here’s where the drug lords, the shrinks and the insurance companies collude in establishing hundreds of bogus psychic conditions requiring the psychotropic drugs from which they reap billions every year. There are about 250,000 migrant laborers in Israel, mostly from the Philippines and Thailand. Meanwhile tens of thousands of Palestinians can’t find work. From Tel Aviv, Yonatan Preminger reports on Israel’s vicious employment strategy. Also in this latest newsletter Andrew Cockburn updates his CounterPunch world exclusive on how the U.S. has secretly helped build Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. Get your new edition today by subscribing online or calling 1-800-840-3683 Contributions to CounterPunch are tax-deductible. Click here to make a donation. If you find our site useful please: Subscribe Now! CounterPunch books and t-shirts make great presents.
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Today's Stories July 10-12, 2009 José Pertierra July 9, 2009 Ronnie Cummings Jonathan Cook Nikolas Kozloff James Bovard Norman Solomon Afghanistan: the Escalation Scam Allan Nairn Andy Worthington Tomas Borge Nadia Hijab Paul Krassner Website of the Day July 8, 2009 Saul Landau Dean Baker Winslow T. Wheeler Eric Walberg Ray McGovern David Rosen Dr. Mona El Farra Ron Jacobs Benjamin Dangl Alan Farago Website of the Day July 7, 2009 Alexander Cockburn Uri Avnery Brian M. Downing Gary Leupp Gregory A. Burris David Macaray Laura Flanders Alan Farago Greg Moses Dan Bacher Website of the Day July 6, 2009 Patrick Cockburn Diana Johnstone Nikolas Kozloff Gary Leupp Jonathan Cook Tim Wise Franklin Lamb Charles R. Larson Carlos Benemann Shepherd Bliss Jerry Kroth Karyn Strickler Website of the Day July 3-5, 2009 Alexander Cockburn Eamonn Fingleton Jeffrey St. Clair Mike Whitney Pam Martens George Ciccariello-Maher Paul Craig Roberts Patrick Cockburn Anthony DiMaggio Roger Burbach John Ross Nikolas Kozloff Gareth Porter Andy Worthington Saul Landau David Macaray Adam Federman Jane Slaughter Labor's Vague Rally for Health Care Russell Mokhiber Black Caucus Muzzled on Israeli Kidnapping of McKinney Robert Jensen Robert Bryce Belén Fernandez Missy Comley Beattie C. G. Estabrook Stephen Martin Charles R. Larson Lorenzo Wolff Kim Nicolini Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend July 2, 2009 Andrew Cockburn Nikolas Kozloff Wendell Potter Ellen Hodgson Brown Christian Christensen Iran: Networked Dissent? Patrick Irelan Binoy Kampmark Returning Iraq Nicola Nasser Brian Tokar Dan Bacher Website of the Day July 1, 2009 Vijay Prashad Alberto Vallente Thorensen Paul Craig Roberts Robert Weissman Manuel García, Jr. Victor Figueroa-Clark / Pablo Navarrete Norman Solomon Franklin Lamb Martha Rosenberg Diane Rejman Website of the Day June 30, 2009 Michael Hudson Esam Al-Amin Benjamin Dangl Jonathan Cook Franklin Lamb George Wuerthner Todd Gordon Ron Jacobs Kenneth Libby Julian Vigo Website of the Day
June 29, 2009 Ishmael Reed Nikolas Kozloff Clifton Ross Patrick Cockburn Uri Avnery Conn Hallinan James G. Abourezk Ralph Nader Carol Miller Greg Moses Website of the Day June 26-28, 2009 Alexander Cockburn Jeffrey St. Clair Doug Peacock Daniel Wolff Mike Whitney John Ross David Rosen Emily Ratner Gareth Porter Farid Marjai Nadia Hijab Paul Craig Roberts Fred Gardner Carl Ginsburg Paul Watson David Ker Thomson Farzana Versey Geoff Berne Todd Alan Price Ramzy Baroud Jeff Sher Dr. Carol Paris Despite My Arrest by Max Baucus, I Will Continue to Advocate for Quality Health Care for All Walter Brasch Adultery as Family Value? Glen Johnson Charlotte Laws Charles R. Larson Kim Nicolini David Yearsley Lorenzo Wolff Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend June 25, 2009 Kathy Kelly Jack Bratich Wendell Potter Charles R. Larson Alan Farago Jonathan Cook Gareth Porter Bitta Mostofi / David Macaray Mark Schuller Website of the Day June 24, 2009 Andrew Cockburn Dean Baker Andy Worthington James Bovard Diana Gibson / P. Sainath Gareth Porter Robert Alvarez Dave Lindorff Steven Colatrella Remembering Giovanni Arrighi Website of the Day
June 23, 2009 David Price Patrick Cockburn James Ridgeway / Dave Lindorff Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero Gary Leupp Brian M. Downing Robert Bryce Nicholas Dearden Yousef Munayyer Website of the Day June 22, 2009 Michael Hudson Esam Al-Amin Chris Floyd Jack Z. Bratich Atash Yaghmaian Laura Carlsen Paul Craig Roberts Vijay Prashad Fred Gardner Andy Thayer David Macaray Website of the Day
June 19 - 21, 2009 Alexander Cockburn Jeffrey St. Clair Patrick Cockburn Al Giordano Henry A. Giroux Anthony DiMaggio Paul Craig Roberts John Ross Gareth Porter Carl Ginsburg Tommi Avicolli Mecca Joe Bageant Serge Halimi P. Sainath Jim Goodman Dave Lindorff Rannie Amiri Robert Fantina Harvey Wasserman Walter Brasch David Ker Thomson Charles R. Larson David Yearsley Kim Nicolini Ben Sonnenberg Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend
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Weekend Edition President Obama, It's Up to You to Rectify This InjusticeThe Cuban Five: a Cold War Case in a Post-Cold War WorldBy JOSÉ PERTIERRA The day the Court sentenced him to life imprisonment plus 10 years, in maximum security, Tony explained to Judge Lenard why Cuba sent him to the United States.
Tony Guerrero was part of a team of agents that Cuba sent to Miami, tasked with infiltrating the Florida-based terrorist groups responsible for the murder of over 3,400 Cubans over four decades. The team did not seek to infiltrate U.S. government agencies, nor did it obtain any classified documents. Their purpose was to gather evidence, so that the FBI would arrest the terrorists. In June of 1998, the FBI secretly met with Cuban government officials in La Habana. Without revealing how they had obtained the evidence, Cuban law enforcement officials shared with the FBI 175 pages of documents related to 31 terrorist attacks and plans that took place between 1990 and 1998, as well as the money trail (through New Jersey and Miami) that paid for those attacks. Cuba also turned over audiotapes of 14 comprising conversations involving the mastermind of the campaign of terror, Luis Posada Carriles, as well as 13 video and audiotapes of Posada´s accomplices, which provided the details of their crimes. Thanks to Tony and his team in Miami, Cuba was able to provide the FBI with the names, addresses, telephone numbers, even the license plate numbers of the terrorists. The FBI thanked Cuba for the evidence and promised to investigate. Investigate they did, but the result was unexpected. Rather than arrest the terrorists, the FBI used the evidence that Cuba gave them to arrest the Five. Why? The Miami terrorists were trained in the United States and were an important part of the covert war on Cuba during the Cold War. For fifty years, the United States government has coddled and protected, rather than jailed and prosecuted, them. Miami is their city-of-choice: a hotbed of hostility against Cuba. It’s no coincidence that terrorists gravitate to that city. Miami is where they are protected and feted, as if they were patriots and heroes. Only in Miami could the government win its case against the Five. Gaining evidence to prosecute Posada Carriles and his terrorist network was the raison d´etre for the Cuba Five coming to the United States. He is the mastermind of much of the terrorism. After the fall of the socialist bloc, the Cuban economy went into a tailspin. It turned to tourism for much-needed cash. In an effort to scare tourists from going to Cuba, Miami Cubans unleashed a campaign of terror against the island. They placed bombs in some of La Habana´s most famous hotels and restaurants: the Hotel Nacional, la Bodeguita del Medio, the Chateau Miramar, the Meliá Cohiba, the Tropicana and others. On September 4, 1997, one of those bombs killed a young Italian by the name of Fabio Di Celmo at the Hotel Copacabana in La Habana. A piece of shrapnel from the glass ashtray next to the explosive device severed his jugular. Blood gushed from the left side of his neck, and he died within minutes. A year later, Luis Posada Carriles admitted to the New York Times that he was the mastermind behind the bombs that had been exploding in La Habana. “That Italian was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I sleep like a baby,” he told New York Times reporter Anne Louise Bardach. When he killed Fabio in cold blood, Posada was already a fugitive from justice with 73 counts of first-degree murder pending against him in Venezuela for the 1976 downing of a passenger plane that killed all 73 people aboard, including virtually all the members of the Cuban fencing team and a little nine-year-old Guyanese girl named Sabrina Paul. Rather than extraditing him to Venezuela, the United States continues to protect him and ignore Venezuela’s request. Fabiucho, as his family called him, was the youngest child of Giustino and Ora. He was only 22 years old when he was brutally murdered. He loved to read and to play soccer. He was madly in love: with Cuba and her people. I spoke to his 90-year old father, Giustino, two months ago in Cuba. Over drinks at a restaurant he opened in his son´s honor in the Vedado neighborhood of La Habana, Giustino recalled a letter he wrote to Tony six years ago: “Let the first rays of sunshine fall on the darkness of the monstrous injustice of your imprisonment.” Giustino, these drawings by Antonio Guerrero are little rays of sunshine that fall on the darkness of this government’s indifference to the suffering of the Five. It´s up to us to turn them into lightning bolts of action. “Life is only life if there is courage”, said Tony in one of his most beloved poems. Let us find the courage to take up the mantle of the struggle to free the Five from the “monstrous injustice” of their imprisonment. Let us remember here tonight and let us repeat it without rest that Tony came to the United States to prevent crime, not to commit it. Let us not forget that the U.S. government has turned justice upside-down. And let us repeatedly remind the world that while the government of this country puts the real heroes in jail, it protects the criminals, allowing them to continue their reign of terror against Cuba. On June 16, the Supreme Court turned down without comment a request to hear the appeal of the convictions of the Five. The case is now squarely in the hands of the President of the United States. With one stroke of the pen, the President can reduce their sentences to time served, so these brave men can go home to their families. Article 2 of the Constitution of the United States affords the President the power of Executive Clemency. That power is unfettered. No normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba is possible as long as the Five remain unjustly incarcerated and the terrorists live in freedom. Let this country come to its senses: the terrorists belong in jail, and the counterterrorists must be set free. From his prison cell in Colorado, Tony wrote that “tenderness runs pure and clear like a mountain stream, particularly when life is most painful. Suffering is a shared experience. We must know how to give without expecting anything in return”. “Como el agua, pura y clara, Corre en su arroyo serena, ha de correr la ternura, Cuando aparece una Pena . . . No hay dolor que no sea tuyo. No hay sufrir sin compartir. Se ha de tener un orgullo, Saber dar sin recibir.” President Obama, you were elected as a breath of fresh air, a Promethean President who looks to the future. You say that you don’t like to look to the past. But, Mr. President, you must understand that Posada and the other Miami Cubans were Washington’s instruments of terror against Cuba. That’s why the FBI didn’t arrest them and instead arrested the Five. It is now your responsibility to right these terrible wrongs. A blockade premised on starving Cubans into submission and a campaign of terror to try and bring a proud people to their knees: that is the sordid past you have inherited from your predecessors in the White House. Mr. President, you must begin to heal these open wounds. This is the most powerful nation in the history of civilization. Rather than the most ruthless, Mr. President, ought not the United States be the most generous, the most humane? President Obama, the Cold War is over. For the sake of the victims of terrorism, for the sake of the suffering caused by almost fifty years of an illegal and immoral blockade, for the sake of your country, for the sake of the future, heal the wounds: end the blockade against Cuba, extradite Posada, and free the Five. José Pertierra is an attorney. He represents the government of Venezuela in its request that the United States extradite Luis Posada Carriles. His office is in Washington, DC.
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