Wars
of the Laptop Bombers
Today's
Stories
February 23,
2005
Alexander Cockburn
Hunter
S. Thompson and Gonzo
February 22,
2005
Kirkpatrick
Sale
Imperial
Entropy: the Collapse of the American Empire
February 21,
2005
Hunter S. Thompson
"He
Was A Crook"
John Ross
Mexico:
the Pentagon's Proxy Army in Iraq
Ward Churchill
What Did I Really Say? Why Did
I Say It?
Dr. Teresa
Whitehurst
Military Recruiting on Channel One: Geometry 101, Brought to
You by the US Navy
David Swanson
Fighting for a Living Wage, State by State
Dave Lindorff
All the News That's Fit to Fake
Stew Albert
Fear and Loathing: HST
Michael Neumann
Strategies
in Palestine: a Shrinking Pie in the Sky
February 19
/ 20, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Back
to Salem: Paul Shanley and the Return of "Recovered Memory"
Kathleen Christison
Struggling
for Justice in Palestine
Ted Honderich
On Being Persona Non Grata
Gary Leupp
Self-Hating Gays: Welcome to the White House & Welcome to
Commit Suicide
Don Santina
Reparations for the Blues
Jennifer Roesch
John Negroponte: Dirty Warrior
Scott Richard
Lyons
Ward
Churchill and the Identity Police
Chris Clarke
Ward Churchill and Liberal Outrage
George Beres
Censorship in the Land of Wayne Morse: Gagging W. Churchill in
Oregon
Harry Browne
The Belfast Heist: the Plot Unravels
Manuel García,
Jr.
Who Killed Rafik Hariri?
Mark Scaramella
Lessons from the Hidden Afghan War
Michael Donnelly
Whatever Happened to John Edwards?
John Pilger
First, They Attack the Past
Norman Madarasz
Death Wish for Reform in Brazil?
Surendra Devkota
The Monarchy in Nepal
Deborah Rich
How Anti-GMO Ballot Measures May Miss the Mark
Fred Gardner
When Dr. Tod Met Merle Haggard
CounterPunch
News Service
About King Mswati: Political Developments in Swaziland
Richard Oxman
CounterPunching Arthur Miller
Poets' Basement
Albert, Giebel, Tripp, Engel and Orkin
February 18,
2005
Ben Moxham
In
East Timor, the Nightmare Continues
Dave Lindorff
The
Scum Also Rises: the Bloody Career of John Negroponte
Larry Birns
Negroponte: a Resume of Death Squads, Deceptions and Bribery
Gregory Elich
N, Korea's Phantom Nukes and the US's Subversion of Diplomacy
Samuel Logan / John Meyers
The Future of Colombia's Paramilitary Death Squads
Nicole Colson
Shock and Awe on Civil Liberties: From Lynne Stewart to Ward
Churchill
Suzan Mazur
Whose National Security Are We Talking About?
Mickey Z.
"One
Man Has Stopped Killing"
February 17,
2005
Joshua Frank
Hogtying
of the Deaniacs
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bush's
Willing Sychophants: the Conservative Media
Robert Fisk
Under
the Shadow of Death in Lebanon
Christopher
Brauchli
Where
Time Stands Still: Kinsey and Darwin in Cobb County, GA
Dr. Teresa
Whitehurst
Military
Recruitment TV: Why Send Them to College, When Your Kid Can be
Cannon Fodder?
Alison Weir
Russia, Israel and Media Omissions
Ahrar Ahmad
A Review of Shahid Alam's "Is There an Islamic Problem?"
Saul Landau
An
Interview with Cuban VP Ricardo Alarcon: "The US Tramples
the Laws It Wrote"
Website of the Day
Petition to Support Ward Churchill
February 16,
2005
Robert Fisk
Lebanon:
a Battlefield for the Wars of Others
Kevin Zeese
Creating a Real Ownership Society: Share the Wealth; Protect
Retirement
Gary Leupp
Meanwhile, in Nepal...
Ron Jacobs
Why the Iranian Opposition Should Not Trust the Bush Administration
Jessica Leight
Oil-Flush Chavez Begins to Strut His Stuff
Greg Moses
Houston, You've Got a Problem: Documenting Voting Irregularities
in Texas
Mark Engler
The Last Porto Alegre
Jack McCarthy
Where's the Outrage About Pat? Buchanan Does a Churchill
Bill Christison
US
Foreign Policy Dangerously Slanted Toward Israel
Website of the Day
The
World is Melting: a Photo Survey by Gary Braasch
February 15,
2005
CounterPunch
News Service
Dean
a "Safe" Moderate, Says NYT Citing CounterPunch
Robert Fisk
The
Killing of Mr. Lebanon
Uri Avnery
"Sharm-al-Sheikh,
We Have Come Back Again"
Stan Cox
Fighting Big Pharma in Little Digwal
Mickey Z.
Radio
Active North of the Border: an Interview with Chris Cook
Dave Zirin
Bashing Bush: Jose Canseco Comes Clean
Nadia Martinez
Ending
World Poverty? Opening at the World Bank, Apply Now
Lila Rajiva
"Little Eichmanns" and the 'Harijan': the Danger of
Magical Thinking in Politics
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
American Job Sell Out
February 14,
2005
Robert Jensen
Ward
Churchill: Right to Speak Out; Right About 9/11
Brian Cloughley
Kuwait's Freedom, Bush-style
Patrick Cockburn
Outcome
of the Iraqi Elections: Shortages, Corruption, Guerrilla War
Gary Leupp
Post-election Iraq: What Next?
Michael Donnelly
Sacred Nature: Just Another Commodity?
Dave Lindorff
When Bush Came to My Neighborhood
Elaine Cassel
The
Lynne Stewart Verdict
February 12
/ 13, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Ward
Churchill's Genes
Saul Landau
Alarcon
Speaks: an Interview with the Vice President of Cuba
Paul Craig
Roberts
Nothing
to Fear But Bush Himself
Patrick Cockburn
Two Years After the Fall of Saddam, the Resistance Controls All
Major Roads into Baghdad
John Feffer
Bush
v. N. Korea: Round Two
Mickey Z.
Right to Remain Silent; Duty to Speak
Kurt Nimmo
Viva la Cucaracha!
Fred Gardner
Waiting for Raich
Dave Zirin
Fighting the New Republic(ans)
John Chuckman
Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Ben Tripp
A Leftist on the Bush Payroll
Carol Norris
"Buddy, Can You Spare a Dwarf?"
Robert Fisk
No Middle East Peace Without Justice
Frank / Chowkwanyun
Muzzled Activist in an Age of Terror: the Case of Sherman Austin
Mike Whitney
Condi's Euro Tour
Deborah Frisch
A Psychologist's Defense of Ward Churchill
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Reading Khomeini in Colorado
Christine TenBarge
What's So Special About Ward?
Ron Jacobs
Curtis Mayfield's Train to Jordan
Dr. Susan Block
Chemistry of Love: a Valentine's Greeting
Poets' Basement
Louise, Smith-Ferri, Ford and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Free Sherman
February 11,
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Manuel Garcia,
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The
Eight Percent War
Kurt Nimmo
Ann
Coulter's Racism: Where's Geronimo When You Really Need
Him?
Dave Lindorff
Guckert
or Gannon? The Perfect Plant; He Fit Right In
Larry Birns
War is Peace; Slavery is Freedom: Democracy According to Elliott
Abrams
Bill Quigley
Twenty Questions: a Social Justice Quiz
Tom Barry
Bush's State of Delusion
Jennifer Van
Bergen
Lynne
Stewart's Conviction Hurts Us All
February 10,
2005
Dave Lindorff
What
Academic Freedom?
Christopher Brauchli
The Love of Slaughter: From Rwanda to Iraq
Patrick Cockburn
In Baghdad, It's Easy to Get Killed
Nicole Colson
Have the Democrats Surrendered on Abortion Rights?
Suzan Mazur
More
on the Assassination of Lumumba from Mr. Garsin of Kinshasha
Michael Donnelly
Salvaging an Opposition
Mike Stark
Driving Ossie Davis: "Give Them a Little Truth, a Little
Hope"
Greg Moses
Taking
Jesus Back from the Hijackers
Website of
the Day
The Missionary Positions
February 9,
2005
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Duck
and Cover Redux: Bunker Busters and City Levellers
Mickey Z.
What Ward Churchill Didn't Say
John Ross
Hecho
en Mexico: the Iraqi Election
Tom Barry
Ambassador of Lies: Elliott Abrams, the Neocon's Neocon
Conn Hallinan
The
Coup in Nepal: Nursing the Pinion
Patrick Cockburn
Sistani's Vision for Iraq: Cricket is Fine, But Chess is "Absolutely
Forbidden"
Steen Sohn
Danish PM Says It's OK for Israel to Violate UN Resolutions
Tim Wise
Reflections on Empire and Uppity Indians
Website of
the Day
Support Antiwar.com
February 8,
2005
Patrick Cockburn
Shia/Kurd
Coalition to Dominate New Iraqi Govt.: "It's an Electoral
Pact, Not a Party"
Brian Cloughley
Out
of the Mouths of Generals: "It's Fun to Shoot Some People"
Steve Breyman
Against the Selfishness of the "Ownership Society"
Harry Browne
"Don't
Get on that Plane!": Soldiers Seek Asylum in Ireland
Doug Giebel
"We Love Free Speech in America": the People, the President
and Ward Churchill
Nate Collins
The Censorship of Ward Churchill and Dancehall Reggae: It's the
Same Beast
Dave Lindorff
It's Time for a Labor-Oriented Newspaper
David Smith-Ferri
Sanctions and the Health Crisis in Iraq
February 7,
2005
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bush's
War on Jobs
Carolyn Baker
The New McCarthyism on Campus: Churchill and the Attack on Higher
Ed
Joshua Frank
Marc Cooper's Hit List: First Mumia; Now Ward Churchill
Mickey Z.
Warning: More Hate Speech from W. Churchill
Patrick Cockburn
The
Kidnapping Gangs of Iraq
Mike Whitney
Tom Friedman: Scribe for New Age Imperialism
Stacie Jonas
Pinochet: Fit to be Tried
Dave Zirin
A Miserable Super Sunday: Clinton, Bush and the FBI
Tariq Ali
Imperial
Delusions
February 5
/ 6, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Ward
Churchill and the Mad Dogs
Kurt Nimmo
A Ward Churchill Kind of Day
Joshua Frank
Liberals Trash Ward Churchill
P. Sainath
Mumbai's Man-Made Tsunami
Patrick Cockburn
Sistani's Triumph; Allawi's Bust
Laura Carlsen
Bush, Rice and Latin America
Dave Lindorff
How the NYT Killed the Bush Bulge Story
Pamela Olson
West Bank Story
Behzad Yaghmaian
The Future of Sudanese Refugees in the West
Saul Landau / Farrah Hassen
A Threatened UN in King George's Court
Roger Burbach
World Social Forum: a Tale of Two Presidents
Robert Fisk
History by Laptop
David Swanson
James Forman and the Liberal-Labor Syndrome
Justin E.H. Smith
Gay Marriage: a Report from Canada
Cacie Hart
The "State" of the Union: More War and a Ban on Love
Ron Jacobs
Chairman Bob Avakian: a Revolutionary Life
Mickey Z.
Viewing America from the Outside
Ben Tripp
Republican Heroes: a New Breed of Good Guy
Ben Sonnenberg
France at the End of the Devil's Decade: Renoir's Rules of the
Game
Poets' Basement
Smith-Ferri, Davies, Collins, & Albert
Website of
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John Trudell: How to Earn a 17,000 Page FBI File
February 4,
2005
Brian Cloughley
The
Army Symphonist: "Sometimes the Only Way to Change the Behavior
of Someone Like That is to Kill Them"
Bill Christison
Election
Parallels: Vietnam, 1967; Iraq, 2005
Elaine Cassel
Did Zoloft Make Him Do It?
Jacob Levich
Chomsky and the Draft
Kanak Mani Dixit
Return of the Royalists in Nepal
Ron Jacobs
The
Downward Spiral in Iraq
February 3,
2005
Ward Churchill
On
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and Gross Distortions
Sharon Smith
Resisting
Soldiers Need Our Support
Mickey Z.
Leslie
Gelb Asks Iraq: Who's Your Daddy?
Mike Whitney
President of Alienation: a Desperate State of the Union
Jenna Orkin
9/11 the Sequel: the Toxic State of Lower Manhattan
Saul Landau
Elections Won't Prevent Civil War in Iraq
Yitzhak Laor
Strange is the Silence
Dave Lindorff
The
Assault on Social Security: a New Campaign of Lies
February 2,
2005
David Domke
/ Kevin Coe
Bush's
Brand of Christianity
Noam Chomsky
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O'Reilly's
Fatwah on "Un-American" Professors: FoxNews Puts Me
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Richard Oxman
Ringing in 1984 with Ward Churchill and Derrick Jensen
Joshua Frank
The Suckering of Howard Dean
Dave Lindorff
A History Lesson from the NYT
Nina Hartley
Feminists for Porn
Website of the Day
War is a Racket
February 1,
2005
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The
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New Doubts About Allawi
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"The Only Decent Food We Get is at Funerals"
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The Stalemate
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"W" Stands for Withdrawal
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Making America as "Secure" as Israel
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Heaven and Hell in the Everglades
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The Case for Boycotting Israel
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February 23, 2005
The Song Remains the Same
A
New Face to Bush Foreign Policy?
By
JAMES PETRAS
The mass media in the US and Europe
has given prominence to the "new style" foreign policy
approach of the Bush Administration: Secretary of State Condeleeza
Rice visits European capitals and meets with European leaders,
declaring that a new era of co-operation is at hand. Secretary
of Defense Rumsfeld highlights the need for greater transatlantic
defense cooperation in a meeting with European Defense Ministers.
President Bush on his trip to Europe declares the US-European
Alliance is indivisible, the divisions a "thing of the past",
and a new era of joint security activity as essential. The language
and tone of the Bush Administration has certainly changed: There
is no longer gratuitous insults about "Old Europe",
there are no longer public threats and declarations of unilateral
military action. Only the Zionist neo-conservatives, like Kagan,
Kristol and Frum, outside the government, continue to rage against
the European negotiations with Iran and declare the "end
of the Trans-Atlantic affair" (Financial Times - Jan. 31,
2005). The New York Times and the major columnists and television
news commentators speak of a "new turn" toward diplomacy
and a politics of reconciliation, of the re-emergence of diplomacy
instead of militarism, of multilateralism instead of unilateralism.
While it is true that the tone
has changed, the substance, the militarist-war policies, of the
Bush Administration has remained the same or even hardened.
This is evident first and foremost
in the new appointments to key positions in the Administration
as well as the top officials retained in office. Condeleeza
Rice, a strong advocate of Middle East warfare and Special Forces
operations was promoted to Secretary of State, in charge of US
foreign policy and titular head of the State Department. Rumsfeld
andWolfowitz remain number one and two in the Pentagon. They
are the architects of the Afghan and Iraq War and strong advocates
and planners of new wars against Iran and Syria. Moreover according
to US journalist, Seymour Hersh, with extensive ties among top
officials in Washington, "Defense Department civilians...have
been working with Israeli planners and consultants to develop
and refine potential (sic) nuclear, chemical weapons and missile
targets inside Iran" (New Yorker, January 24-31, 2005).
Elliot Abrams, like Wolfowitz
unconditional and unquestioning supporters of Israel, has been
promoted to Deputy of National Security adviser and continues
as senior adviser for the Middle East. The new appointees to
the top power positions in the expanding and far-reaching intelligence
apparatus include John Negroponte, to head the National Intelligence
Agency.
Negroponte was the organizer
of the death squads in Honduras and the mercenary terror armies,
"the Contras" in Nicaragua. He largely oversaw the
slaughter of thousands of Iraqis in Fallujah and the running
of the torture and assassination chambers, during his term as
Ambassador of Occupied Iraq. He has close ties with Abrams from
the 1980's when the latter was defending the massacres of hundreds
of thousands of Guatemalans under Rios Mont and over 70,000 Salvadorans
under the psychopathic Roberto D'Aubuisson. The new head of
the CIA, Porter Goss made his reputation in Miami as field officer
of the CIA, supporting and promoting clandestine terror operations
by Cuban exiles against revolutionary Cuba.
The new head of Homeland Security
is Michael Chertoff, rabid Zionist (no less so than Abrams or
Feith) who was responsible for the arbitrary arrests of hundreds
if not thousands of innocent Arab and South Asian Muslim immigrants
simply because of their country of origin or religion.
They were held as "terrorism suspects" for months;
habeas corpus laws and all constitutional rights were denied.
Chertoff is the author of the infamous Patriot Act, which "legalizes"
the totalitarian practices which Chertoff applied to the immigrants
and can now extend against all Americans. Marc Grossman retains
his senior position as Undersecretary of State for Latin American
Affairs. He was and is today in the forefront of US violent
opposition to President Chavez in Venezuela. Alberto Gonzales,
who scorned international law, approved terrorism and torture
of Iraqi prisoners, who denies the validity and relevance of
the Geneva Accords has been promoted to Attorney General, giving
him power to arbitrarily arrest and prosecute whoever he deems
a 'threat' to 'national security'.
These appointments and promotions
have evoked few if any vocal opposition from the Democratic Party.
Most of the critical comments focus on their "professional
competence" rather on their murderous and criminal behavior.
Progressives and critics have argued that these new leaders
do not have the "ethical standing" to administer US
foreign policy and that President Bush has committed egregious
errors. These criticisms fail to confront the political basis
of Bush's appointments. These appointments and promotions are
the perfect and precise choices for a policy of continued war
in Iraq, sequential Middle Eastern Wars involving Iran and Syria,
greater domestic control and repression in the face of rising
discontent over the cost of multiple wars, and unquestioned support
for Ariel Sharon's consolidation and expansion of Jewish control
over the occupied West Bank and power in the Middle East.
In direct contrast to the frivolous
media reports about Bush's "overtures" to Europe, Bush
and the new appointees have tightened their hold over the military
and secret police apparatus, have greater power and monstrous
budgets to engage in new wars. All factual indications demonstrate
that Bush's Administration "charm offensive" is a deliberate
and provocative façade to divide and conquer European
leaders to back old and new wars. With Iraq, the US has not
moved toward Europe it has increased its war funding and
fighting troops and demands Europe provide money and training
officers to prepare the Iraqi colonial army to buttress the US
occupation. The US talks of multilateral policy with European
partners, but rejects joining the "partners" diplomatic
negotiations with Iran, while its Defense Department Zionists
plan with Israel a massive unilateral or bilateral bombing of
Iran. Europe improved relations with Cuba and Venezuela; while
Goss, Grossman and Rice increase military threats, arm Colombia
as a surrogate aggressor and plan new destabilization efforts
and assassination plots. Europe proposes to increase its trade
and investments with China, including military exports, while
Goss describes China as a military threat to US supremacy in
Asia and defends the policy of military encirclement. Rice and
Rumsfeld secure a new military security treaty with Japan, clearly
aimed not only at North Korea, but China, as the Chinese clearly
recognize.
As is evident there is little
substance and no changes between the Old and New Bush regimes.
If Europe moves 'closer' to Bush Administration, it will be
because the Europeans have retreated from their diplomatic policies
and have adapted to US militarism. So far, apart from rhetorical,
diplomatic language, European leaders have only sought to play
down their real differences with the Bush Administration not
to renounce them. Europe will probably agree to provide some
funding (not very much) and a few advisers to train Iraqi military
and police officials, but only a token number, up to now less
than 10% of what was agreed a year ago. At a time when US' European
clients like the Ukraine, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria are reducing
their small military contingents in Iraq it is hardly likely
that the Western European powers will commit resources, especially
when there is so much to gain by having the US spend itself into
bankruptcy and un-competitiveness over an un-winnable colonial
war. Likewise US aggression against Venezuela, China and Russia
has led to greater efforts at military defense, trade diversification
and monetary decisions which weaken the US dollar and destabilize
the financial architecture of imperial wars.
Why has the US "reached
out to Europe" if it is intent on pursuing the same unilateral
military policies? Why the diplomatic trips to Europe and the
adoption of a conciliatory style if the purpose is to continue
to play the war card in the Middle East and to stand unconditionally
with Sharon's resettlement of Gaza settlers in the Palestinian
West Bank? There are several hypotheses:
The "diplomatic offensive"
is a public relations campaign to influence the US public and
to secure support form vulnerable European allies like Britain's
Tony Blair and Italy's Silvio Berlosconi. Washington can subsequently
pursue its military agenda, claiming they "gave diplomacy
a chance" but the Europeans failed to grasp that "hard
power" (military aggression) is a necessary accompaniment
of "soft power" (diplomacy). This is clearly the case
with the Middle East, where the powerful Zionist policymakers
and ideologues, who have been unsurprisingly absent from the
European trips, have already "predicted" the Europeans
will fail to act (militarily) against Iran and Syria when the
negotiations "fail" (in terms of US and Israeli military
interests).
The second hypothesis is that
the prolonged war in Iraq and the growing deficits and costs
have forced the US to seek, via diplomatic gestures, to secure
European financial aid and assistance in the building up of the
Iraqi colonial army and state apparatus. The European overtures
are directed toward bringing in Europe as a "partner"
in the construction of a neo-colonial state in which Iraqis pay
for the war and provide the soldiers, while the US retains ultimate
control.
The third hypothesis is that
the Europeans are "turning right". In this line, Washington
may think that with the colonial run elections in Iraq, Sharon's
resettlement from Gaza to the West Bank (so-called "withdrawal")
and feigned "openness" to European reconciliation,
it may be able to convince Europe to join Bush's unlimited crusade
for "democracy and freedom".
It is extremely doubtful that
Washington will secure any lasting agreement with Europe on any
basic question. The reason is simple, the civilian militarists
who run US foreign policy, the newly appointed and promoted,
are profoundly enamored with the military route to world power.
Their biographies and their immediate pronouncements and actions
are convincing proof that they are incapable of any open negotiations,
compromise or diplomatic settlements. European leaders will
have to choose between pursuing their divergent path of global
power via trade, diplomacy and selective coercion or capitulate
to a regime dominated by civilian-militarist extremists driven
by an irrational desire to militarily confront China, intervene
in Venezuela, destroy the Middle East adversaries of Israel and
provoke Russia.
It is abundantly clear that
organizers of death squads, terrorist planners and global militarists
won't change their policies. There's nothing new here.
James Petras, a former Professor of Sociology at
Binghamton University, New York, owns a 50 year membership in
the class struggle, is an adviser to the landless and jobless
in brazil and argentina and is co-author of Globalization
Unmasked (Zed). He can be reached at: jpetras@binghamton.edu
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