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Today's
Stories
July 5 / 6, 2008
Robert Fantina
Obama,
Iraq and Change
July 4, 2008
Kathy Kelly
Istiklal
Dave Lindorff
My War Story
Paul Krassner
Confessions of a Barista
Jackie Corr
In the Footsteps of Evel Knievel:
Obama Heads Back to Butte
Laray Polk
Military-Industrial Convergence
Dan Bacher
Dead Runs: Salmon Fishing Banned in Central Valley Rivers
Walter Brasch
The Rocket's Red Glare--May be Chinese
Charles Modiano
Hall of Fame Hypocrisy
Website of the Day
Springsteen: Independence Day
July 3, 2008
Sharon Smith
Exxon's Legal Guardians
Andy Worthington
Another Torture Victim Gets Charged
Laura Carlsen
NAFTA and the Elephant in the Room
Peter Morici
Crisis Grips the Jobs Market
Ramzi Kysia
Breaking Into a Prison
Martha Rosenberg
Mandatory School Milk and the Early Death of Football Players
Anne Landman
Who Really Benefits From Voluntary Codes of Corporate Conduct?
Dave Zirin
Grand Theft Hoops
Kristin Bricker
US Contractor Leads Torture Training in Mexico
Website of the Day
Bush Tours America to Survey Damage from His Presidency
July 2, 2008
Patrick Irelan
Holy Obama
Vijay Prashad
Lunch with Karzai
Brian Cloughley
Sense of Honor, French and US Style
Ralph Nader
Economic Domino Theory
Robert Fantina
General Stupidity: McCain, Obama and Clark
Dave Lindorff
What's So Special About Veterans?
Parvez Ahmed
Obama and Those Pesky Muslim Rumors
Robert Bryce
The Democrats and Off-Shore Drilling
Website of the Day
King Corn: Q&A
July 1, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
Two Months Later, Seymour Hersh Strains to Catch Up With CounterPunch
Mike Whitney
Getting to the Heart of America's Economic Crisis: an Interview with Michael Hudson
Douglas Macgregor
Obama's General?
Steven Higgs
Fighting the NAFTA Super-Highway
Andy Worthington
Guantánamo as Alice in Wonderland
Binoy Kampmark
The Global Seed Police
Dave Lindorff
Blood Money Democrats
Roger Burbach
Fighting Food Fascism
Richard W. Behan
The Story Behind George Bush's Lies
Gary Leupp
The McCain Edge Among Voters on Iraq
Website of the Day
Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice
June 30, 2008
Peter Lee
Did a Plutonium Generator End Up in the Ganges?
Jeff Sommers
Burying the Bloody Shirt; A New Age for Latvia Dawns? "Astatu Loskutovu!"
David Macaray
The AFL-CIO Votes to Endorse Obama
Martha Rosenberg
Sex Work is Different from Sex Slavery, aver Carnal Toilers
David Price
Blind Whistling Phreaks and the FBI's Historical Reliance on Phone Tap Criminality
Alexandra Early
Report from El Salvador: Why They All Keep Coming
June 28 / 29, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
Guess What "Surprise" Republicans Yearn For
Jeffrey St. Clair
Nike's Bad Air
Joan P. Mencher
The Human Right to Eat
Nikolas Kozloff
Nader, Obama and White Talk
Jason Hribal
Tillie, Elephants and the Zoo
Alan Maass
Obama Swerves Right
Robert Fantina
Iraq and the New York Times
Bill Moyers /
Michael Winship
It Was Oil, All Along
Mike Whitney
A Glimmer of Light in Television Wasteland
Justin E. H. Smith
Collective Guilt and the Fate of Kosovo
Pham Binh
The Mendacity of Hope
David Yearsley
The Rest is Noise
Christopher Ketcham
19 Aphorisms
Jeremy R. Hammond
Bush and the Press vs. the Constitution
Kathleen M. Barry
An Open Letter to Barney Frank on Israel
Walter Brasch
Politics and Animal Cruelty in Pennsylvania
Brett Drugge
A Field Trip to the Reagan Library
Susie Day
Sex Sans the City
Website of the Day
How to Expose a Hypocritcal Politician
June 27, 2008
Franklin C. Spinney
The Defense Reform Trap
Jonathan Cook
Israel's Encaging of Gaza
Brian Cloughley
Chaos in Afghanistan
Saree Makdisi
Occupation by Bureaucracy
Liliana Segura
Reactionary Change:
Obama and the Death Penalty
Paul Krassner
Remembering George Carlin
William S. Lind
The War and the Yellow Press
Candace Cohn
Embracing Big Brother
Ron Jacobs
What's a Voter to Do?
Binoy Kampmark
Beached in Chile
Website of the Day
Zoom Uganda
June 26, 2008
Patrick Cockburn
Who's Actually Winning in Iraq?
Nikolas Kozloff
Kinder and Gentler Assassination Techniques? Obama Waffles on School of the Americas
William P. O'Connor
The Drone of Experts
Saul Landau
McClellan's Mini Mea Culpa
Ashley Smith
Which Way Forward for the Antiwar Movement?
Dave Lindorff
Our Kids and Their Kids:
Terrorists or Victims?
David Macaray
A Brief History of Union Negotiations
Binoy Kampmark
Warming Seats at the Hague:
John Howard and War Crimes
Matt Reichel
There's No Hope at the Ballot Box
Remi Kenazi
You Don't Mess With the Racism!
Website of the Day
A Movement Afoot in the Heartlands
June 25, 2008
David H. Price
The Minerva Consortium: Social Science in Harness
Stephen Soldz
The Torture Trainers and the APA
Andy Worthington
Six Years Late, Court Throws Out Gitmo Case
Marjorie Cohn
Scalia Cites False Information in Habeas Dissent
Joanne Mariner
What Boumediene Means
Ralph Nader
Starving AMTRAK
Robert Weissman
High Flyers and Soaring Inequality
Christopher Brauchli
Blackout at the EPA
Suren Pillay
A Picture of Things to Come?
Seth Sandronsky
UC Workers Avert Walkout
Website of the Day
Obama Talkin' White
June 24, 2008
Ishmael Reed
Obama: the Big Let Down
P. Sainath
They've Got the World by the Belly
Nikolas Kozloff
Charlie Black's Play Book: McCain Needs Another 9/11
Gregory Kafoury
Obama's Rightward Lurch
Betty Shamieh
Fear of Flailing: Erica Jong's "Arabs and Other Animals"
Mike Whitney
Gas Price Gouging: Don't Blame the Saudis
Andy Worthington
Italy's Forgotten Prisoners in Guantánamo
Bill Christison
Towards a World Parliament
Philippe Marlière
Spoiling Sarko's Euro-Show
Website of the Day
Who Owns You?
June 23, 2008
Michael Hudson
How Should the Middle East Invest Its Oil Profits?
John Ross
Killing Farmers with Killer Seeds
Peter Montague
Environmental Enron: the Clean Coal Con
Ramzy Baroud
Gaza's Dying Children
Robert Fantina
McCain, Racism and the Supreme Court
Robert Weitzel
A MAD Foreign Policy: America's Irrational Defense of Israel
David Macaray
The Supreme Court's Hostility to Organized Labor
Howard Lisnoff
Where's the Anger?
Richard Rhames
Grieving Mr. Gotcha: Russert, GE and Neutron Jack
Gail Dines
Penn, Porn and Me
Tim Matson
Bright Ideas for Storms and Blackouts
June 21 / 22, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
The Russert Send-Off
Jeffrey St. Clair
Adventures in the Endangered Skin Trade
Pam Martens
A Secret Oil Gusher Inside Citigroup
Mike Whitney
The Game is Over: an Interview with Michael Hudson on the Economy
Chris Floyd
Torturegate
Tim Wise
The Ugly Side of Disaster: Katrina and the Midwest Floods
Paul Craig Roberts
A Totally Lawless Regime
Michael Winship
How Countrywide Leveraged Washington
Ron Jacobs
Vietnam Blues
Ramzy Baroud
Palestine in the American Imagination
Alan Farago
The Off-Shore Drilling Scam
Michael Yates
Paul Krugman on Race: Ignorant and Disingenuous
Dave Lindorff
Keeping America Safe: Prosecuting Children as Terrorists
Bernard Chazelle
Why Israel Won't Accept a Two-State Solution
Linda Mamoun
Mearsheimer and Walt in Tel Aviv
Jo-Shing Yang
Dying of Hunger, Dying of Thirst
Robert Jensen
Fear and Hope on a Runaway Train
Website of the Weekend
Slavery By Another Name
June 20, 2008
Robert Oscar Lopez
Brownout in Black Camelot: Obama and Latino Voters
Paul Craig Roberts
John Yoo, Totalitarian
Bouthaina Shaaban
The Real Arab AIPAC
Bill Quigley
The Big Lock-Up
Moshe Adler
Is Cuba Done With Equality?
Patrick Cockburn
An End to Iraq Contractor Immunity?
Andy Worthington
John McCain, Torture Puppet
Norman Solomon
Health Care and the Ghosts of War
Martha Rosenberg
Can Wyeth Fool American Women Twice?
June 19, 2008
Ralph Nader
Why Won't Corporations Take On Big Oil?
Chellis Glendinning
Techno-Fascism: Every Move You Make
Neve Gordon
Learning to Drive in Rafah
Dave Lindorff
Killing the News in Iraq
Sheldon Richman
Habeas Corpus Saved--Barely
George Bisharat
Obama's Missteps
Jackie Corr
Dear Mr. Kilowatt
Farzana Versey
Will Gorkhaland Become a Reality?
Website of the Day
Trouble on the Range
June 18, 2008
Nicole Colson
Hunger and Humiliation in the Belt-Tightening Economy
Rev. William E. Alberts
The "F" Word and the White Press
Vijay Prashad
Obama's Genuflections to the Swing Lobby
Parvez Ahmed
Oil Prices, Market Regulation and the Election
Bob Moss
Judicial Warfare in Boumediene
Dave Lindorff
The Elephant in the Room
David Wilson
Bush in London
June 17, 2008
Conn Hallinan
The Brain Trauma Vets
Wajahat Ali
Chomsky Speaks: On Iran and Iraq
Marjorie Cohn
Reviving Habeas Corpus
Uri Avnery
Two Professors: Mearsheimer and Walt in Israel
David Macaray
Adversarial Relationship
Rannie Amiri
Forgotten Lives in a Forgotten War
Website of the Day
Pentagon Money
June 16, 2008
Uri Avnery
An Apology
Corey D. B. Walker
The Racial Politics of Symbols
Howard Lisnoff
Files Upon Files
Dennis Loo
2008 Elections: Of Whales and Worms
Paul Craig Roberts
Obama and the Fall Into Tyranny
June 13 / 15, 2008
Douglas Valentine
McCain: War Hero or Go-To Collaborator?
Alexander Cockburn
Change, What Change?
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Politics of Timber Theft
Peter Linebaugh
On Wat Tyler Day
Ishmael Reed
The Colossus:
Sonny Rollins, Take One
Joe Bageant
Old Dogs and Hard Time
Harry Browne
Ireland Shows the Way!
Andy Worthington
The Supreme Court's Gitmo Decision: What Does It Mean?
Jeff Sharlet
The F-Word
Binoy Kampmark
They Gassed Us: Agent Orange in OZ
Alan Farago
His Little Piece of the Pie
Brian Cloughley
America the Detested: the Pakistan Airstrikes
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
How to Stretch Gasoline
Reza Fiyouzat
Oil and Racism
Patrick Bond /
Richard Kamidza
How Europe Underdevelops Africa
David Yearsley
Music in the Rubble
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Thank You, Dennis Kucinich!
Ronnie Cummins
Don't Panic; Go Organic
Dan Bacher
Bush Tries to Raid Salmon Disaster Funds
Michael Dickinson
Jesus in Megiddo Prison
Seth Sandronsky
My Father's World
Poets' Basement
Tu Fu / Rexroth
Website of the Weekend
Torture and the American Psyche
Police Brutality and Cover-Up in Philly
Saul Landau
Cuba Will Live
Paul Craig Roberts
The Metamorphosis of the Conservative Movement
Brian McKenna
Brotherly Love in Philly's Badlands
Patrick Cockburn
City of the Dead:
Mosul on Lockdown
B. R. Gowani
The Central Problem Pakistan Needs to Tackle
Dr. Trudy Bond
Psychologists and Torture:
If Not Now, When?
Cindy Sheehan
Whose War is It?
John Mohawk
The Warriors Who Turned to Peace
Remi Kanazi
When Free Speech Doesn't Come for Free
Robert Day
I Get a Horse
Website of the Day
Evolve or Die
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Weekend Edition
July 19 / 20, 2008
Clay
By KO UN
Winter's coldest days have come
and gone. Spring is already near.
The last traces of snow
lie wretched in the ditches.
If you are human, human
or animal, surely you're a child of clay.
Listen hard. Hear
the drumbeats in the clay?
At least once a month, you should lie
on the ground and listen well.
Hear your grandfather ringing like a bell
inside the clay?
In a Street
By KO UN
Have you ever
been another person?
Have you ever been
another person? Today
I have nothing but questions.
If you say you've never been someone else
since the day you were born, how will
a breath of the wind of this world
ever dare touch your hair?
Drawing Maps
By KO UN
I was drawing maps again today.
I drew the North Sea between England and Norway
and the shores of the Gulf of Pohai in the East,
then I tore up all my maps. This was
not it, I felt. This
really wasn't it. Just then
the wind spoke, knocking at my window. "Poor
little guy. You should draw a new world,
not the usual modern map." Not only
wind, but wind and rain spoke
together, knocking at my window. Trying to ignore
my growling stomach, I started
drawing maps again.
Not like before,
but tomorrow's maps,
with no America … no Asia …
Born in 1933 in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, Ko Un is Korea's foremost living writer. After immense suffering during the Korean War, he became a Buddhist monk. His first poems were published in 1958, then a few years later he returned to the world. He became a leading spokesman in the struggle for freedom and democracy during the 1970s and 1980s, in a struggle for which he was often arrested and imprisoned. He has published more than 120 volumes of poems, essays, and fiction. In recent years, selections from his work have been translated into at least fourteen languages, including 5 volumes so far published in English: The Sound of My Waves (Cornell EAS) and Beyond Self: Zen Poems (Parallax) were published in the 1990s, Little Pilgrim (Parallax) and Ten Thousand Lives (Green Integer) have been published in 2005. Abiding Places, Korea and North (Tupelo), Flowers of a Moment (BOA Editions, Ltd.), and Three Way Tavern: Selected Poems (UC Press), 2006. Ko Un was awarded the 2008 Griffin Prize for lifetime achievement in the field of poetry.
Poems by Ko Un copyright © 2008, Ko Un, Brother Anthony of Taizé, Young-moo Kim, and Gary Gach; forthcoming in Songs for Tomorrow [Green Integer]. Used by permission.
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Note: Submit your poems as a word document to CounterPunch's
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To be considered for Saturday's Poetry Basement,
please send your poems by Wednesday of that week and please include a short bio.
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