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Today's
Stories
June
18, 2007
John
Ross
The Annexation of Mexico
June
16 / 17, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
The Psychopathology of Shrinks
John
Halle
Finkelstein and "The Progressive"
Robert
Fisk
Welcome to "Palestine"
Andy
Worthington
Return to Torture?
Uri
Avnery
The Gaza Cage
Fred
Gardner
Paris Hilton's Punishment: a False
Parable
Saul
Landau
Our Gang of Thugs: The 1970s as a
Context for Terrorist Violence
P.
Sainath
Heaven Can Wait: Creditors and the
Widows of Vidharbha
Missy
Comley Beattie
Calling Evil Its Name
Alan
Gregory
When ADM Comes to Town: Killer Tax
Breaks for Wildlife Destruction
Walter
Brasch
Bush and the Philosophy of Swiss Cheese
Website
of the Weekend
Obama Girl
June
15, 2007
Alan
Farago
View from the Construction Crane:
Sex, Taxes and Real Estate Scams in Miami
Andy
Worthington
The Ordeal of Ali al--Marri
Michael
Simmons
Terrorizing Artists in the USA
Franklin
Lamb
Blowback Across Lebanon: The Failed
Sunni Army Solution
Gary
Leupp
The Day After We Attack Iran
John
Ross
Ballot Burning Time in Ol' Mexico
Website
of the Day
The American Rationalist
June 14, 2007
Michael
Donnelly
Charred SUVs and the End of Citizen
Eco--Activism
Faisal
Kutty
Scare Canada: The No--Fly List's False
Sense of Security
Harry
Browne
Ireland's Green Party Sells Out
Charles
Jonkel
From the Arctic to Yellowstone: Bears in a World of Indifference
Steven
Higgs
Murder in a Small Town: "Gay Panic"
in Indiana?
Bruce
Dixon
Black Power Through Low Power Radio
Bruce
K. Gagnon
What Do We Do Now? A 10--Step Plan
for Antiwar Activists
Website
of the Day
Finkelgate
June 13,
2007
Glen Ford
Obama's
Siren Song
Marjorie Cohn
Repression
in Oaxaca
Bill Christison
A Grave Injustice at DePaul University
Charles Jonkel
Bears in a World of Indifference
Silvia Cattori
"I Was Not Prepared for the Horrors I Saw": an Interview
with Hedy Epstein
Richard Gott
Racism and TV in Venezuela
Firmin DeBrabander
How the Neocons Misread Machiavelli
William S. Lind
The Perfect (Sine) Wave: Bombing Railroad Stations in Iraq
Keith Rosenthal
Workers Score a Victory at Harvard
Website of the Day
GOP and Monty Python Explain: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques"
June 12,
2007
Jeffrey St.
Clair
How
to Sell a War
Paul Craig
Roberts
The Neocon Threat to American Freedom
P. Sainath
India's
Plutocrats and the Press
Ralph Nader
The Biggest Scam in the World
Omar Waraich
A Black Day for Pakistan's Press
Dave Lindorff
Things Your Media Momma Didn't Tell You
Harvey Wasserman
Confessions of an Anti-Nuke Jerk
Malini Johar
Schueller
It Takes a Bomb
Ramzy Baroud
War Foretold: Mark Twain and the Sins of Empire
Website of
the Day
Palestinian Chronicle Needs Our Help!
June 11,
2007
Patrick Cockburn
The
War on Journalists
Paul Craig
Roberts
Losing the Economy to Mythology
Uri Avnery
40 Bad Years: the Rot of Occupation
Norman Solomon
The Silence of the Bombs
Eva Liddell
Paris Hilton Doesn't Do Dishes: How Barbie Stood Up to Allen
Ginsberg
Rannie Amiri
Groundhog Day in Pakistan
Rachel Voss
Poetry and Politics in Nassau County
Christopher
Brauchli
A Wild West Tale, Starring Rev. Dobson and Bill O'Reilly
D. K. Wilson
Untangling Michael Vick from the Dogs
Website of
the Day
Paris, Mixed Up
June 9 / 10, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Dissidents
Against Dogma
George Ciccariello-Maher
Behind
Venezuela's "Student Rebellion": Who's Pulling the
Strings?
Saul Landau
An
Interview with Ricardo Alarcon, Vice President of Cuba
Robert Fisk
Believe It or Not in the Middle East
Brian Cloughley
Troop Support: Deceptions and Insipid Sentiments
Ron Jacobs
Condoleezza Rice Names the System
Ward Boston
Searching for the Truth About the USS Liberty
Conn Hallinan
Dark Plots in Byzantine Beirut
Leonard Peltier
The Ongoing War on Native American Religious Practices
Lawrence Davidson
Israel's New Anti-Boycott Task Force
John Ross
Mass Nude-In Complicates Church-State Scuffling in Mexico
Kate Allan
Some People Think the Internet is a Bad Thing
Fred Gardner
Ignorance Marches On
Stephen Fleischman
Little Boy, Fat Man and Iran
Monica Benderman
Reading Tom Paine in a Time of Crisis
Geoff Bailey
A Real Oil Conspiracy: Gouged at the Pump
Missy Beattie
Faith and War
Patrick Dyer
A Democrat Revs Up Ohio's Death Machine
Tim Lengerich
Dispelling the Cowboy Myth: an Interview with George Wuerthner
James Irani
and David Rahni
Perspectives on the Arrests of Iran-Americans in Tehran
Gary Leupp
The Unfair Treatment of Paris Hilton
Michael Tillery
The Heart of a Sportswriter: an Interview with David Aldridge
Michael Simmons
Beating Off the Squares: the Hipness of Anton Rosenberg
Poets' Basement
Laymon, Davies and Ford
Website of the Weekend
This is Sea Shepherd!
June 8,
2007
Serge Halimi
What
Sarkozy Learned About Politics from the US
Patrick Cockburn
The Turkish Incursion
Jeffrey St. Clair
Israel's Attack on the USS Liberty, Revisited
Paul Craig Roberts
The Secret War
William Blum
What If NBC Cheered on a Military Coup Against Bush?
Joshua Frank
Swing-State Strategy: Looking for a Spoiler
Lance Selfa
How the Six Day War Changed the Middle East
Dave Lindorff
A "Criminal Conspiracy" in the White House
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Summer of Love: Flashbacks of a Human Be-In
Website of the Day
Robert Pollin: "Making the Federal Minimum Wage a Living
Wage"
June 7, 2007
Marjorie Cohn
The
Prison is the War Crime
Soldz, Reisner
and Olson:
A Q & A on Psychologists and Torture
Soldz, Reisner
and Olson, et al:
An
Open Letter to Sharon Brehm, President of the American Psychological
Association
Paul Craig Roberts
Losing Iraq, Nuking Iran
Bill Quigley
"How Long Must We Support a Mistake?"
Silvia Cattori
Sailing to Gaza
Carl G. Estabrook
What the June Bug Is: Politics in the Dismal Season
Ellen Taylor
Free the Tweakers!: The Good News About Meth
Corporate Crime
Reporter
BAE Systems, Prince Bandar and the $2 Billion Account at the
Riggs Bank
Brenda Norrell
Torture Training at Ft. Huachuca: Two Priests Face Prison for
Exposing Torture in Arizona
D. K. Wilson
What Gary Sheffield Really Said
Kevin Zeese
Iraq Occupation Coming to a Head Over Oil
Website of
the Day
How the Press Expired
June 6, 2007
Alain Gresh
Countdown
to War on Iran
Gary Leupp
Poddy's Crazy Prayer: Bomb Iran, For Israel and America!
Steven Sherman
The Perils of Humanitarian Intervention
Bruce Dixon
Is Bill Gates Trying to Hijack Africa's Food Supply?
Corporate Crime Reporter
The Professor and the Nukes
Brian M. Downing
The Iraq War and Presidential Politics
Ron Jacobs
Luv n' Hate: a Different Take on the Summer of Love
George Bisharat
The Mirage of the Two State Solution
Nicole Colson
Over to You, Dante: Falwell's Ministry of Hate
Bruce K. Gagnon
From Italy to Guam: A Global Peace Movement is Taking Shape
Website of the Day
How the Democrats Should Treat Bush
June 5,
2007
Michael Neumann
Canada
in Afghanistan
Jonathan Cook
The Shin Bet and the Persecution of Azmi Bishara
David Vest
The Democrats' War
Robert Fantina
America's Cuba Policy
Hoffman, Parsneau and Chowdhury
CounterTerrorism as International Healthcare
John V. Walsh
Shaming the Official Antiwar Movement
Richard Cretan
Yellow Dog: The Strange Love of Martin Amis and Tony Blair
Adam Engel
Days of Dread: an American Tale
William S. Lind
The News from Anbar: Has Al Qaeda Over-Reached?
Myles Hoenig
Free the Oaks! Cut Down Those Yellow Ribbons!
Jim Minick
Lead-Foot Nation
Website of
the Day
Punk Rock Soap Opera
June 4, 2007
Nizar Latif
An
Interview with Moqtada al-Sadr
Diana Johnstone
Sarko
and the Ghosts of May, 1968
Gregory Wilpert
RCTV and Freedom of Speech in Venezuela
Paul Watson
The Anchorage Whale Killing Bureaucrats Summit
Susan Rosenthal,
MD
How Cindy Sheehan Unmasked the Democrats
Richard Ward
The Right of Return to New Orleans
Eva Liddell
Don't Support the Troops
Zahi Khouri
Four Decades of Occupation
Evelyn Pringle
The FDA, GlaxoSmithKline and the Avandia Disaster
China Hand
About Those North Korean Benjamin Franklins ...
Karyn Strickler
George W. Bush: a "Ficeist" Leader
Website of the Day
The Guantanamo Files
June 2 /
3, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
The
Last of the Texas Outsiders
Marc Levy
Iraq
Dead Ahead: a Brief Military History and Civilian Guide to Arlington
National Cemetery
Martin Smith
Camilo Mejía's War: From Foot Soldier for Empire to Rebel
for Peace
Diana Johnstone
Great Power Meddling in Kosovo
John Ross
The Oaxaca Volcano Stews
Uri Avnery
On Generals and Admirals
Sunsara Taylor
This is Not a Story About Cindy Sheehan
Richard Neville
Were the Hippies Right?
P. Sainath
The Farm Crisis and 100,000 Indian Widows
Missy Comley
Beattie
Let's Roar
Nisrine Abiad
and Victor Kattan
The Hariri Tribunal: a Fait Accompli?
Rannie Amiri
Lebanon, Bush and the Three Stooges
Margot Pepper
Deconstructing "Return to Sender"
Eric Stewart
Censorship and Cop Brutality in the New Bison Wars
Ralph Nader
The Halberstam Camp
Dan Bacher
A Victory for the Fish
Shaun Harkin
and Sandy Boyer
Irish War Protesters on Trial
Richard Rhames
Selling Five Acres in Crawford
Frederick Hudson
The Rediscovery of Ella Fitzgerald
Poets' Basement
Lindorff, Landau and Buknatski
Website of the Weekend
Gimme Shelter
June 1, 2007
Dave Marsh
The
FBI and the Godfather (of Soul): James Brown's FBI Files
Saul Landau
Return
to Cuba: 47 Years Later in Havana
David Phinney
How the Baghdad Embassy Was Built: Forced Labor and Worker Abuse
Robert Jensen
The Bigot and the Boycott
Stanley Heller
Arrest Robert McNamara
Yifat Susskind
Indigenous Women Fight Back
Robert Weissman
Corporate Power Since 1980
Paul Buchheit
Africa and Its Discontents
William S.
Lind
The Folly of Maximalist Objectives
Sherwood Ross
78,000 Iraqis Have Been Killed by Coalition Airstrikes
Stephen Lendman
Terrorism Defined
Website of the Day
Desert Autonomous Zone
May 31, 2007
Robert Bryce
The
Language Barrier
Patrick Cockburn
Killing with Impunity: Iraq's Militias Under the Surge
Gary Leupp
Appropriate Disillusionment: the Despair of Cindy Sheehan and
Andrew Bacevich
Kathy Kelly
Being Hope
Marjorie Cohn
The Unitary King George
Chris Kutalik
and Tiffany Ten Eyck
Fallout from the Sale of Chrysler: Jobs, Health Care, Pensions,
All in Jeopardy
Corporate Crime Reporter
Zheng Xiaoyu Meet Lester Crawford
Dave Lindorff
Our Monica: a Hero of the Constitution
Website of the Day
Know Your Rights!
May 30,
2007
James Ridgeway
The
Bi-Partisan Con on Synthetic Fuels
Franklin Lamb
Lebanon and the Planned US Airbase at Kaleiaat
Terrence E. Paupp
Withdrawal Symptoms
Uri Avnery
To the Shores of Tripoli
Alan Maass
and Jeffrey St. Clair
The Green Masquerade: Corporate America's Latest Counter-Attack
Rock and Rap
Confidential
Watching the Detectives: the Political Censorship of Hip Hop
Ralph Nader
Taming the Giant Corporation
Nirmal Ghosh
China, CITES and the Fate of the Tiger
Jean Daniels
Dealing Democrats: Folding to Mr. 28%
Tom Barry
Meet Robert Zoellick: Bush's Pick to Head World Bank
Website of the Day
Petuuche Gilbert on the Rights of Indigenous People
May 29, 2007
Stephen Soldz
Shrinks
and the SERE Technique at Guantanamo
Eliza Ernshire
Refugees
Forever: Inside Bedawi Camp
Ron Jacobs
The Exit of Cindy Sheehan
Dave Lindorff
Whatever Happened to Signing Statements?
Evelyn Pringle
What Qualifies Bush to Lead Iraq War
Mike Whitney
Bush's New Middle East
David Swanson
How We Got Here: The Democrats and the Antiwar Movement
John Holt
Gating Montana, Part Two: the Feedback Loop
Cynthia McKinney
Dreaming of a True Memorial Day
Martha Rosenberg
Mad Cows, Mad Pigs and the Horse Slaughter Lobby
Website of the Day
The Ruminant
May 28, 2007
Bill Quigley
Katrina
Activists: "Less Meeting, More Fighting"
Col. Dan Smith
The Paranoid and the Dead
Cindy Sheehan
Why I Am Leaving the Democratic Party
Dr. Susan Block
Dr. Laura's Little Monster
Jeeni Criscenzo
What I Learned About Being a Dickhead
Douglas Valentine
Memorial Day: a Poem
Website of the Day
Peace TV
May 26 /
27, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
The
Greenhousers Strike Back and Out
Michael Donnelly
Green
Sabotage as "Terrorism"
Patrick Cockburn
Sadr's Dramatic Reappearance
Franklin Lamb
Inside Nahr el-Bared: "Another Waco in the Making"
Jean Bricmont
The Moral Collapse of the Moral Left
Gary Leupp
Cheney, Israel and Iran
James Petras
Imperial Rot: The Beginning of the End of the American Empire?
William Peace
Ashley Unlawfully Sterilized
Judith and John Sharpe
The Saga of Our Son, Lt. Commander John Sharpe: Under Investigation
for Antiwar Sentiments
Saul Landau
Four Dead in Ohio: From Kent State to Tiannamen Square
Paul Craig Roberts Democracy
in Iraq, Tyranny at Home?
Jonathan M.
Feldman
Congress and the Iraq War Vote
Dave Lindorff
Democratic Blood Money
Missy Beattie
Congress Plays Dead
Mike Whitney
Swan Song of the Democrats
Badruddin Khan
AIPAC Intervenes on Iran and Congress Folds, Again
Ron Jacobs
The Crime of Silence
Zoe Blunt
The Antidote to Despair
Arjun Chowdhury,
Mark Hoffman
and Kevin Parsneau
The Can-Do Troops and the New Anti-Politics
Heather Gray
The 1969 Riots Against the Chinese in Malaysia: a New Explanation
N. D. Jayaprakash
Disarmament Negotiations: A History and Prospectus
Joe Allen
and Paul D'Amato
Cartoons with Class
Poets' Basement
Gowani, Ford, Anderson and Simon
Website of
the Weekend
Addicted to War
May 25, 2007
Robert Jensen
What
the Finkelstein Tenure Fight Tells Us About the State of Academia
David Vest
So
You Thought They'd End the War
John Stauber
Democratic Spin Won't End the War in Iraq
Evelyn Pringle
Congress Gives War Profiteers Another $100 Billion
Corporate Crime Reporter
Why Corporate Social Responsibility Programs are a Fraud
Susan Rosenthal,
MD
What's Missing from the Health Care Debate
Roberto Rodriguez
Us vs. Them in the Immigration Debate
Steve Fournier
Goodie, Goodie Goodling
Patrick McElwee
Venezuela and RCTV: Is Free Speech Really at Stake?
Robert Weissman
Resisting the Commercialization of Public Schools
Website of the Day
New DNC
Motto: "We Suck"
May 24, 2007
Franklin Lamb
Who's
Behind the Fighting in North Lebanon
Corporate Crime
Reporter
House Democrats Buckle to Big Oil: Strip Down Price Gouging Bill
Robert Fantina
Giuliani: Righteous, Indignant and Wrong
Norman Solomon
Deadly Illusions, Rest in Peace
Dave Lindorff
Kerrycrats All!: Now It's a Democratic War
Sen. Russell
Feingold
We are Moving Backwards on Iraq
Fred Gardner
Doctor of Last Resort
Mike Whitney
Paulson in China
Kevin Parsneau, Arjun Chowdhury
and Mark Hoffman
Becoming Imperialist: a Warning to Iraq War Critics
Caroline Paul
My Brother the "Terrorist": Animal Liberation and Prosecutorial
Overkill
Eva Liddell
In Defense of Lying on Job Applications
Website of
the Day
Johnny's
Jumped the Shark
May 23, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
Opium:
Iraq's Newest Export
Rev. William
Alberts
Faith-Based Imperialism
Joe DeRaymond
Colombia's Civil War and the US
Sudhanva Deshpande
and Vijay Prashad
The Political Economy of a Crisis
Paul Craig Roberts
Republicans in Self-Destruct Mode
Glen Ford
A
Less "White" USA
Rannie Amiri
The Great Bank Heist of Tripoli
China Hand
China's Great Wall of Cash?
Zoe Blunt
Tales from the Tree Tops: Veteran Tree Sitter Tells All
Nivien Saleh
Who's to Blame for Iraq?
Website of the Day
Debating the Israel Lobby
May 22, 2007
Robert Fisk
A
Front Row Seat for the Bloodbath in Lebanon
Joshua Frank
Hillary Clinton's Achilles Heel?
Harvey Wasserman
Drop Dead, New Yorkers: Giuliani and the Toxic Fallout from 9/11
David Mos Masumoto
An Orchard Without Workers
Sonja Karkar
Israeli Forest Named After Australian Prime Minister
Conn Hallinan
The Afghan Quagmire
Dave Lindorff
A Widening Chasm on Impeachment
Jeffrey Kolakowski
Meet Us in Detroit: an Open Letter to John Konyers
Evelyn Pringle
A Misleading Suicide Warning
Jim Baumer
Politics Gary, Indiana-Style
Website of the Day
Should the Democrats Fear Mike Gravel?
May 21, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
The
Secret US Plot to Kill Sadr
Nicole Colson
Much Ado About the Fort Dix Pizza Plot
John Ross
Shooting for the Top: Mexico's Drug Gangs Take Aim at Calderon
Stephen Fleischman
Werewolf of Washington: Wolfowitz Comes Full Circle
M. Shahid Alam
Chosenness and Israeli Exceptionalism
Ron Jacobs
Green Mountain Days: Return to Vermont
Peter Rost, MD
Pfizer CFO Resigns
Alan Farago
Can the Everglades Save Florida?
Paul Buchheit
The Dark Side of Democracy Promotion
Website of
the Day
Code Monkey: Live!
May 19 /
20, 2007
Andrew Cockburn
Why
America Lost the War in Iraq
Uri Avnery
The Next War
Peter Gelderloos
My Arrest in Spain: The Easy Road from Tourism to Terrorism
Saul Landau
Bush's Accomplishments
Robert Fantina
Iraq's History: Lessons for the Present and the Future
Fred Gardner
Hemp vs. Pot, a False Dichotomy
Ralph Nader
Timid Democrats and the Antiwar Movement
Jean Daniels
Waiting for Obama
Reza Fiyouzat
Vietnam Syndrome: Dead or Alive?
Missy Beattie
Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani and Osama's Fatwah
Robert Alvarez
Magical Thinking About Nuclear Waste
Sonja Karkar
The Palestinians of Iraq
Dave Lindorff
Mumia Case on Hold
Jeff Sher
Keep Workers Healthy and Reduce Health Care Cost: Eliminate Co-Pays
Julian C. Holmes
Torture, Maine Style
Clancy Sigal
Red Mutiny: 11 Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin
Prairie Miller
The Murder of Fred Hampton
James Murren
The Dog Ate Karl Rove's Homework: When Turd Blossom Met the Teachers
of the Year
Poets' Basement
Davies, Valentine and Engel
Website of
the Weekend
Yellowstone's Shame: Harassing Newborn Bison
May 18,
2007
Adam Jones
When
Does Genocide Purify? Ask the Pope
Sharon Smith
The Death of Triangulation Politics?
Christopher Brauchli
Cheney's Middle East Adventure
Peter Rost,
MD
Bribes and Spies in the Drug Industry
Denise Maloney Pictou
The Murder of Our Mother, Anna Mae Pictou Aquash: After 31 Years,
It is Time for Justice
David Swanson
Of Snoops and Dupes
Ali Khan
The Lawyers' Mutiny in Pakistan
Susan Rosenthal,
M.D.
Cho Seung-Hui Delivers His Message
Samer Assad
Israel and the Refugees: Fifty-Nine Years of Dispossession
CP News Service
Bidding for Extinction: Ivory Trade on eBay Threatens Survival
of Elephants
Website of the Day
Another War Criminal Goes to Harvard
May 17,
2007
Tariq Ali
The
General vs. the Judge
Yifat Susskind
Honor
Killings in the New Iraq: The Murder of Du'a Aswad
Dave Zirin
Being Ali or Being Owned: an Open Letter to LeBron James
Brian J. Foley
Hell, No, Harry Won't Go!
W. John Green
The Godfather of Colombia: Uribe and the Para Scandal
Eric Johnson-DeBaufre
Challenges for the New Sanctuary Movement
Badruddin Khan
Rebirthing the Neocons: Bernard Lewis' Latest Call to Arms
Martha Rosenberg
From Cockfighting to Foie Gras: On the Menu and on the Docket
China Hand
Pope Rat in Brazil: "The Amazon Tribes Longed for Christianity!"
Dan Vojir
Falwell's Tinky Winky Legacy: Who Will Battle the Telebubby Threat
Now?
Website of the Day
Welcome to the Terrordome
May 16, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
Chalabi
Speaks
Ashley Dawson
Who's Afraid of Wolfowitz?
Joshua Frank
Obama's Cash Flow: Maverick or Kidder?
Corporate Crime
Reporter
Corporate Drug Pushers
Ray McGovern
A Four-Letter Word for Tenet
Glen Ford
Black Labor and the Big Mission
Joe Bageant
The Ghosts of Timothy Leary and Hunter S. Thompson
Sonja Karkar
The 59-Year Catastrophe
Mickey S. Huff
Preaching Hate: Farewell, Falwell
John Chuckman
Falwell's Lone Act of Kindness
Kaz Dziamka
What Ever Happened to Rogerian Argument?
Website of
the Day
We're All Going to Hell
May 15,
2007
Michael Neumann
Two
States, One State and Snake Oil
Patrick Cockburn
An American Nightmare
Ashley Smith
How the US Set Iraq on Fire
Marc Gardner
Parole and the Long-Distance Trucker
Dave Lindorff
and Linn Washington, Jr
Mumia Case Reaches Its Climax
Ben Terrall
Benchmark as Theft: Iraq Oil Workers Strike to Stop Privatization
Ron Jacobs
Cheney Threatens More War
Harvey Wasserman
The Legacy of Seabrook
Marcus Mabry
Shopping During Katrina
Dr. Susan Block
Cheney and the DC Madam's Cookie Jar
Website of the Day
Save Jean Klock Park from the Mega-Developers!
May 14,
2007
Jennifer Roesch
Giuliani
Time: the Mussolini of Manhattan
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Humans,
CO2 and Climate Change
George Bisharat
For Palestinians, Memory Matters
Diane Wachtell
The Real Imus Lesson
Ramzy Baroud
From Palestine to Rotterdam
Rosemary and
Walter Brasch
When the National Guard Goes Missing: An Ill Wind and American
Policy
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Blair's Exit
Roberto Rodriguez
The Elusive Bars of Justice
Jonathan Culp
Cutting Out Collage: Copyright and Art in Canada
Website of
the Day
Uranium Rock
May 12 /
13, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Who
are the Merchants of Fear?
Patrick Cockburn
State of Surge
Jeffrey St. Clair
High Line Fever: a Trip Across the Dark Side of Montana
Diane Farsetta
Untold Stories from the Pat Tillman / Jessica Lynch Hearings
Ralph Nader
Strip Mining the Newsroom: Mr. Zell and the Tribune Company
Jean Bricmont
The Great Illusion: Sarkozy and the "Decline" of France
Marcus Breen
Cheering Sarkozy: the US Media and the Rightwing Takeover of
France
Joe Bageant
Rising Above Politics
Conn Hallinan
European Missiles and the Camel's Nose
Fred Gardner
The Unreported I-880 Fire
Juan Santos
and Leslie Radford
Public Terror: Escalating the War on Migrants
Eve Bachrach
Inside Colombia's Flower Industry
Missy Comley
Beattie
Shame
Ron Jacobs
The Bitterness of Regis Debray
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Sepoy Mutiny After 150 Years
Susie Day
Jesus Christ Weds Pat Robertson
Poets' Basement
Newberry, Engel, Landau, Katz and Davies
Website of the Weekend
The Shipyard: Recycling as Art
May 11,
2007
Patrick Cockburn
Blair's
Depature: the View from Baghdad
Kathleen Christison
Playing at Peace
Mike Ferner
Collateral Genocide
John Holt
Gating Montana: A Ghastly Disneyland with High Rise Outhouses
Laurie Hasbrook
This Minute and Then the Next: a Plea from an Antiwar Mother
Christopher
Brauchli
The Children of Limbo: Will the Pope Finally Set Them Free?
Margaret Kimberley
GOP Openly Embraces Gipper Values: Racism, Violence and Control
Dave Lindorff
Use It or Lose It: The Democrats and the Impeachment Clause
Nicole Colson
Anger Erupts at Conditions in For-Profit Indiana Prison
John V. Walsh
Beware the Do-Gooders in Body Armor
Website of the Day
Take the Terrorist Quiz!
May 10,
2007
Tariq Ali
Adieu,
Blair, Adieu
Patrick Cockburn
Killing of Teachers Turns Iraqi Sunnis Against al--Qa'ida
Neve Gordon
and Yigal Bronner
In Israel Not All Blood is the Same: The Death of Samir Dari
Marjorie Cohn
Fighting Terror Selectively: Washington and Posada Carriles
David Rosen
The New Disappeared: Sex Offenders, Civil Confinement and the
Resurrection of "Evil"
Alan Farago
Why the Everglades Have Dried Up: Developers and the South Florida
Drought
John Hellman
France: From Pétain to Sarkozy
Kathy Rentenbach
A 100 Days of Rafael Correa
BANCO
The Stage is Set for Sentencing Another Innocent Black Man
Richard Rhames
Is Paris Burning?
Website of the Day
Tame the Corporation
May 9, 2007
Jeff Leys
Iraq
and Afghanistan Supplemental Spending, 2008
Patrick Cockburn
An Interview with Iraq's Foreign Minister on Iran and Iraq
Glen Ford
No Black Plan for America's Cities
Paula Rothenberg
Feminism Then and Now
Kathryn Weber
A Conversation with Norman Finkelstein
John Chuckman
The Likely Historical Significance of the War in Iraq
Jordan Flaherty
Looking for Justice in Jena, Louisiana
Dave Lindorff
Pelosi's Toothless Threat to Sue Bush
Stephen Lendman
Criminalizing Speech: the War on Free Expression in a Post-9/11
World
Website of
the Day
"Fifth and Market": a Short Film About the Iraq War
May 8, 2007
Dave Lindorff
The
Great Oil Robbery
Patrick Cockburn
The Horrific Stoning Death of a Yazidi Girl Sparks Waves of Revenge
Killings
Corporate Crime Reporter
Snuff Politics: Democrats Escalate Attack on Single Payer
Ralph Nader
The People's Crusade of Mike Gravel
Malini Johar Schueller
Decoding Harlan Ullman: Shock and Awe as Sexual Fantasy
Juan Santos
The Hate Equation: Targeting Migrant Children in LA
Dave Zirin
Jason Whitlock, the Clarence Thomas of Sportswriters?
Joshua Frank
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June
18, 2007
Memo
to the Queen
Bobby
Sands Died for Your Sins
By DON SANTINA
Dear Elizabeth II,
What a dandy duo of imperialism
you and our own George II made during your recent visit to Jamestown.
How appropriate that together you celebrated the 400th anniversary
of the theft of indigenous lands in the Americas.
It wasn't long after the settlement
of Jamestown that your country introduced the plantation system
into Ireland, forcing the Irish off their lands and replacing
them with loyal British settlers. And then there was the rest
of world to seize.
Those pesky Irish were always
rebelling, so-between Cromwell and the Penal Laws--your people
turned that country into a charnel house of cultural genocide
which included denying people access to the resources of their
own land. The subjugation of the Irish was an illustrative model
for our own George II as he and his corporate comrades made plans
to lay waste the people and culture of Iraq and take their oil.
The tragedy for the people of Iraq is that our own George II
didn't read the part where people don't like being occupied by
somebody else and will fight to the death over the right to their
own land. Of course, maybe he just didn't get it; the original
story was prettied up by the embedded historians, like most of
our Anglo-American history books.
"Play the orange card,"
Lord Randolph Churchill said a few hundred years later when the
Irish were at it again for independence. And it certainly worked!
Nothing like fomenting sectarian and ethnic violence to keep
the blighters under your majesty's thumb. What a concept! So
successful you used it in Sri Lanka, India, Kenya, Palestine,
Malaya--you name it.
Hey, did you or Tony Blair
tell our own George II that divide-and-conquer would also work
in Iraq? Sunni, Shia, Kurds, Baathists, etc.-set them all against
each other, so the Anglo-American "interests" can be
served without interruption from any kind of unified rebellion.
Keep those internecine cauldrons boiling, and hopefully, no one
will notice what the "interests" are up to!
How about our own George II's
colony at Guantanamo, a geopolitical purgatory where prisoners
are held indefinitely without the benefit of a trial? Sort of
like the concentration camps your guys invented in South Africa
over a hundred years ago: when folks get uppity, round 'em up
and stick 'em all in one place! And how imaginative those Victorians
were! Up until that time, people thought barbed wire was used
to keep cattle from wandering onto the neighbor's ranch. Who
would have thought it could be used for corralling people?
You must have been miffed during
the beginning of your reign when the ungrateful people of Malaya
decided that they no longer wanted to be part of the British
Empire. But you guys couldn't let that happen, so you pioneered
the "strategic hamlet" plan--a variation of the old
South Africa resettlement model--and crushed the insurgency.
That plan didn't work so well for us in Vietnam though, so now
we just take insurgents out of their own country and imprison
and torture them somewhere else. Clever, huh? And so much cheaper!
Last year Americans flocked
in droves to your movie, "The Queen," and our tastemakers
heaped awards all over it. (I thought, my God, not another movie
about all those royal layabouts--but, who's counting?) One thing
we can say about Americans: most of us can't wait to genuflect
when a bit of perceived royalty passes our way, whether it's
a pop star or a politician or some old royal roach with a title.
A sad indication of our own tumble from our democratic ideals
is that we haven't flocked to "The Wind that Shakes the
Barley," a more accurate portrayal of the consequences of
resisting royal occupation.
Sometimes the ordinary soldiers
refuse to do the dirty work for our familial and financial dynasties.
Like after WWI when the rank and file had had it with rich people's
wars. But, Elizabeth, you don't have a problem with that, do
you? We know the drill: pay someone else to do the heavy lifting!
Over two hundred years ago, your country hired Hessians to put
down the American revolutionists. During the Irish War for Independence,
your grandfather set those murderers-for-hire known as the Black
and Tans loose on Ireland. (Did you know that in Cork they had
orders to shoot anyone who had his hands in his pockets?)
Our own George II and Dick
Cheney figured that one out quick. They hired thousands of mercenaries-high-paid
killers from companies like Blackwater--to subdue Iraqis and
protect Big Oil's new preserves. No military supervision, no
Geneva Convention, no legal or moral restraints whatsoever. "Kill'
em all and let God sort 'em out," they say, video game style.
Occasionally, we hear some
chatter from Tony Blair and our own George II about "the
rule of law," so I think we should address some of that
law stuff here. Like, ha- ha, when did you guys really
need a law to OK the invasion of another country or the seizure
of their resources? But, seriously, we know you have to provide
the voters with some tidbit of legality so they can tuck the
kids into bed at night and tell them all's right with the world
and they'll live happily ever after. Because, of course, they
live in the country that DROPS the bombs, not the one that RECEIVES
them. But, all legal, mind you.
I know: quibble, quibble, quibble.
However, you guys do need those laws, at least so your house
historians can write You-Done-Good when you're dead and gone.
So Parliament and Congress passes stuff like The Prevention
of Terrorism Act, The Patriot Act, and The Military Commissions
Act, enabling the government to do whatever the hell it wants
without any legislative interference. The Magna Carta and the
Constitution went down the drain but, c'mon: be there or be square!
We're makin' history here!
I don't want to be a spoilsport,
but some people are calling our legislative bodies "The
Weimar Parliament" and "The Weimar Congress" because
the original Weimar Reichstag passed eerily similar legislation
in 1933 enabling Hitler to do his thing without any legislative
constraint. However, the Nazis were more up-front about it.
They actually called it the "Enabling Act."
The Magna Carta never did apply
to occupied Ireland, though. For example, during Internment
in the 1970's, your police arrested people without charge, held
them incommunicado, tried and convicted them without jury trials
and imprisoned them in places like Long Kesh. (There's that
barbed wire again!)
And then, in a transparent
attempt to re-frame Ireland's historic struggle for liberation
into a criminal enterprise, your government rescinded political
status for the Irish political prisoners.
Margaret Thatcher, your prime
minister during that time, liked to posture a lot with tough-guy
tautologies like "crime is crime is crime." Engulfed
in privilege and surrounded by bodyguards, Thatcher never put
herself in harm's way for her principles, did she? Heaven forbid!
Nor have you or Tony Blair, our own George II or Dick Cheney.
It's so much more comfortable to send other folks and their children
off to war and occupation isn't it?
In 1981, a courageous young
man stood up and said That's Enough and--Gandhi-like-- began
a hunger strike for the principle of political status. His words
were bold. "They have nothing in their imperial arsenal
that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to
be broken," said Bobby Sands.
For "Irishmen," insert
any nationality struggling against oppression. At that point
and forever, Bobby Sands represents the political prisoners of
the world: Nelson Mandela, Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier,
Lori Berenson, Gerard Jean Juste. And all those unknown prisoners
on a list which is growing like a cancer in a socio/political
milieu where imperial oppression, not justice, is the order of
the day.
After sixty-six days, while
the world watched in horror and pleaded with your government
to negotiate, Bobby Sands passed into history. And then-one by
one over the following three months--nine more young men in the
hunger strike died hideous deaths: Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh,
Patsy O'Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran
Doherty, Thomas McElwee, and Michael Devine.
Margaret Thatcher has written
in her memoirs that her meetings with you were "quietly
businesslike and Her Majesty brings to bear a formidable grasp
of current issues and breadth of experience."
What did you and Thatcher say
to each other when you talked about the hunger strikers? Were
your conversations "quietly businesslike" while these
young men died the horrible death of starvation? Did the telephone
ring to inform you that another one had died? Or was it really
not that important in your conversations?
Do you or Tony Blair ever chat
with George Bush or Dick Cheney about Abu Graib and Guantanamo,
two of the latest products of the Anglo-American empire? I wonder
if George and Dick are also "quietly businesslike"
in their discussions of things like waterboarding.
Do any of you hear the screams
of the tortured in your sleep?
Don Santina is a cultural historian who received
a 2005 Superior Scribing award for his Counterpunch article "Reparations for the Blues."
He can be reached at lindey89@aol.com.
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