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Today's
Stories
August
13, 2007
Kathy
Kelly
Get to Work
August
11 / 12, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
How the Democrats Blew It in Only
8 Months
Stan
Goff
The Cover-Up of Pat Tillman's Death
Ralph
Nader
GM Radio: Payola to Rightwing Talk
Shows?
Vijay
Prashad
Destination Darfur: a New Cold War
for Oil
Greg
Moses
SubPrime People: Behind the Banking
Crisis
Alan
Farago
The Cratering Mortgage Market, WCI
Communities and Amb. Al Hoffman
Patrick
Cockburn
The Cracks in Saddam's Dam
Ben
Tripp
On Fleeing the Country
Robert
Fantina
Romney's Dance: The Rightwing Flip-Flop
John
Ross
The Guelaguetza Strategy in Oaxaca
Seth
Sandronsky
Organizing Nurses
Paul
Krassner
Assholes of the Week: From Mitt
Romney to Bill Richardson
Website
of the Weekend
Pearl
Jam: Censored by ATT
August
10, 2007
Paul
Craig Roberts
China's Threat to the Dollar is Real
Stan
Goff
How Pat Tillman Died
Marjorie
Cohn
A Blank Check for Domestic Spying
Saul
Landau
In the Age of Immigrant Panic
Chris
Floyd
Goading Xerxes: the Coming Strike on
Iran
Daniel
Ellsberg
A Vision for Cindy Sheehan's Campaign
Anthony
Papa
The Upside Down Flag: a Country in Distress
Farzana
Versey
On the Heels of Sir Salman
Sgt.
Kevin Benderman
Freedom or Totalitarianism?
Nuri
Nuri
Memories
of T99 Nelson
Website
of the Day
Lessons
in Obfuscation from Sen. Larry Craig: How to Talk About Looting
the Public Domain
August
9, 2007
Stan
Goff
The Fog of Fame: Pat Tillman as Everyone's
Political Football
Paul
Craig Roberts
In the Hole to China
Alan
Farago
The Terror of the Mortgage Pools
William
S. Lind
The Surge's New Math: One Step Forward,
Two Back
Doug
Giebel
Letter from Montana: What the Bushvolk
Have Done to America
Harvey
Wasserman
Radioactive Bailout in Advance
Jacob
Hill
The Tail End of Free Trade: NAFTA's
Impact on the Manufacturing Sector
Raul
Zibechi
The Dark Side of Agrofuels
Dave
Zirin
The Making of Barry bin Laden
Website
of the Day
"Babies Just Come with the
Scenery"
August
8, 2007
Andy
Worthington
Backing Up Lt. Col. Abraham on
Gitmo Abuse
Jeff
Halper
The Catch in Israel's "Generous
Offers" at Jericho
Greg
Moses
No Light in August for Texas Refugees:
Judge Orders Baby Sent to Palestine
Nurit
Peled-Elhanan
The Murder of Abir Aramin, 9 Years
Old
Sukant
Chandan
British Prisons as Islamic Universities
Robert
Fisk
A Lebanese Surprise
George
H. Strauss
The Military Society
D.K.
Wilson
Bonds, the Haters and 756: Why Bob
Costas Can't be Trusted
Bill
Day
Leonardo DiCaprio's Baggage: the Perils
of Celebrity Environmentalism
Tim
Campbell
Monkey See, Monkey Do Politics
Website
of the Day
Periodic
Table of Visualization Methods
August
7, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
Why the Surge Has Failed
Andy
Worthington
Why Do We Need the Democrats?:
They Have Failed to Restrain Bush on Gitmo, Iraq and Domestic
Spying
Kathy
Kelly
The Little Girl of Hiroshima
Stan
Cox
The Antiwar Majority: Look Quickly, You
Might Miss It
Sonja
Karkar
Israel's Settlement Project
Sen.
Russ Feingold
A License to Wiretap--Anyone
Alan
Farago
Dancing in the Light of Florida
Norman
Solomon
Let Us Now Praise an Infamous Woman
Binoy
Kampmark
Giving Good Face: What Jeremy Bentham
and Facebook Have in Common
Dave
Lindorff
The Gelding Congress
John
Stauber
Coffee with the Troops at Yearly
Kos
Website
of the Day
George Carlin
on Education
August
6, 2007
Bill
Quigley
Fighting for the Right to Learn in
New Orleans
Kathy
Rentenbach
Guatemalan Gold, Guatemalan
Bones
Uri
Avnery
White Elephants: Bush's Middle East
Arms Deals
Col.
Dan Smith
Of Time and Iraq
Ralph
Nader
Cruise Ship Blues
James
Neshewat
War? What War?: a Report from the
New SDS Confab in Detroit
D.K.
Wilson
Barry, Bud and 755
Greg
Moses
Safe Passage for Willie Nelson
Fidel
Castro
Hard and Obvious Realities
Mike
Whitney
Judgment Week on Wall Street
August
4 / 5, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
Rupert Murdoch and the Luck of the
Bancrofts
Peter
Linebaugh
Speaking in Irish Tongues
Saul
Landau
Faith-Based War
Alan
Farago
The Candidates and the Collapsing
Economy
Dave
Zirin
When Domes Attack: Even in Minnesota
Barucha
Calamity Peller
Oaxaca is Not Over
Anthony
DiMaggio
Double Standards in U.S. Aid to
the Middle East
Dave
Lindorff
Spy Power: Bush Demands, Democrats
Deliver--Again and Again and Again
Fred
Gardner
Write Off Your Congressman
Nicola
Nasser
The Iranian Option
Benjamin
Dangl
Privatizing Repression in Paraguay
Rannie
Amiri
Bribe, Divide and Conquer
Daniel
Gross
CSR on Trial: Starbucks Behind the
Brand
Sherwood
Ross
Obama Renounces Use of Nuclear Weapons
Manuel
Garcia, Jr
A Bridge Truth Movement?: From
9/11 to Minneapolis
Missy
Beattie
The First Mannequin and the "Crime
Scene"
Ron
Jacobs
The Outlaw Trip to Mexico: Goin'
Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Website
of the Weekend
Photos: Texas Immigrant
Prison
August
3, 2007
Gabriel
Matthew Schivone
An Interview with Noam Chomsky on
Responsibility, War Guilt and Intellectuals
Jonathan
Cook
Israel's Jewish Problem in Tehran
Patrick
Cockburn
Sunnis Walk Out of Iraq Government
Little
Steven Van Zandt
Die, Greedy Swine! Die! Die!:
How the Record Companies are Killing Rock Music
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush Makes Putin Look Like James
Madison
D.
K. Wilson
Two Sides and a Middle: Michael Vick
Ain't the One to Ask
Linda
Ford and Ira Glunts
Maxwell's Silver Hammer: Syracuse University
Enlists in the Global War on Terror
Kelly
Overton
The Casualties of Green Scare: the
Feds' War on the Animal Rights Mvt.
Monica
Benderman
In Freedom's Name
Manuel
Garcia, Jr.
Minneapolis Bridge Collapse: Was Cheney
at the Scene?
Website
of the Day
A
Cinematic Look at the Police State in Action
August 2, 2007
Paul
Craig Roberts
The Return of the Robber Barons
Stanley Heller
Report from the Land of Apartheid
Eric
Ruder
Fighting PTSD; Fighting the Army
Robert
Fantina
Still Getting It Wrong: the NYT and
Iraq
Alan
Farago
The Toxic Mortgage Waste Crisis
Chris
Floyd
Chertoff, Chiquita and Death Squads
Franklin
Lamb
Lebanon's Crucial Special Elections
Sen.
Russ Feingold
Closing the Book on the Abramoff
Era
Anthony
Papa
Drug Treatment isn't a Silver Bullet
Norman
Solomon
The Big Guns of August
Website
of the Day
Louie, Louie Video Contest
August 1, 2007
Debbie Nathan
More
Secret Payments by Former NYT Reporter to Web Porn Star Surface
in Nashville Courtroom
Fred
Gardner
Ciao, Michelangelo
Gary
Leupp
Why Iraq's Best-Loved Athlete Can't
Go Home
David
Rosen
America's Top 10 Political Sex Scandals
Winston
Warfield
Is the Tillman Case Still a Coverup?
Daniel
McBride
Lessons from Bomber Harris: If the
US Strikes Pakistan
Glen
Ford
The Corporate Plan to Crush Black Resistance
Thomas
P. Healy
The Toxic Career of Indiana's Environmental
Commissioner
John
V. Whitbeck
The Five Percent Solution
David
Krieger
Nuclear Weapons and the University
of California
Website
of the Day
The Tragic Story of
Hisham Mohammed
July 31, 2007
Kathy
Kelly
Dancing in the Darkness: the Story
of Abu Mahmoud
Clancy Sigal
The Ghosts of Passchendaele
Paul Krassner
Assholes
of the Week: From Baby Doll to Cheney
Joe
DeRaymond
Return to the Republic of Death?
Diane
Christian
"Winning": What Bush
Could Learn from the Shade of Achilles
Chris
Floyd
Good News is No News: Why the Bush
Adm. Buries Accounts of Extremist Recantations
Ramzy
Baroud
Bush's Real Agenda in Palestine
Alan
Farago
Battle for the Soul of Florida
Fidel
Castro
In Spite of Everything: Reflections
on the Pan American Games
Dan
Bacher
The Fish Terminator: Schwarzenegger's
Campaign to Build the Delta Canal and More Dams
July
30, 2007
Marjorie Cohn: Independent
Counsel Time
Patrick Cockburn
Four
Million Iraqis on the Run
Peter Quinn
Irish in America
Uri Avnery
A
Warning to Tony Blair
John Ross
Zapatista Intergalatica Lands on
Earth
Ron
Jacobs
Free the San Francisco 8
David
Vest
Farewell,
Old Friend: Another Legend of the Blues is Gone
Jeffrey
St. Clair
T99 Nelson: Seduced by a Legend of the
Blues
Website
of the Day
Collateral Repair
Project
July
28 / 29, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
Now the NYT is Selling "Bloodbath"
as a Rationale to Stay in Iraq
Ralph
Nader
Rotten Justice
Robert
Fantina
American Lies and Iraqi Nationalism
Fred
Gardner
Prohibitionists Attack, Reformers
Fundraise
July
27, 2007
John
Ross
Bombing Pemex--or Not?
Arthur
Neslen
Gaza was a Gas for Blair
Dave
Lindorff
Declaring the US a Battlefield: Martial Law is Now a Real
Threat
Julene
Blair
The Environmentalist Within
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush Uses Children as Shock Troops in His War on Socialized Medicine
Jesse
Hagopian
Fund the Wounded, Not the War
Charles
Modiano
Manufacturing a Villain: Sports Illustrated's Vilification of
Barry Bonds
Bill
Day
The Hollow Environmentalism of Leonardo DiCaprio
Walter
Brasch
Leaders Afraid to Lead
M.D.
Mitchell
Farm Based Camps
Website
of the Day
Fighting Sarcoma
July
26, 2007
Kathleen
Christison
The Siren Song of Elliot Abrams
Andy
Worthington
Why the Pentagon's Gitmo Study is a Joke
Clancy
Chassay
How the Bush White House Seeks to Destroy Lebanon
Marjorie
Cohn
Showdown Over Executive Privilege
Susie
Day
Apartheid Americana
David
Price
Tour de Witch Hunt: Drugs, Diaries and Purges
Marie
Trigona
Argentina's "Dirty War" Crimes Trial: The Torturer
Priest
Norman
Solomon
Media Spin on Iraq: We're Leaving (Sort Of)
William
S. Lind
How to Win in Iraq
Natsu
Saito
Ward Churchill and the Regents at the University of Colorado
John
Stauber
Netroots and the Iraq War: Does Ending It Matter to Them Anymore?
Website
of the Day
Sticking It to the Man
July
25, 2007
Andy
Worthington
Gains and Losses at Gitmo
Gary
Leupp
Bush Speechwriter, Michael Gerson, Calls for Attack on Syria
Ray
McGovern
The Sad Decline of John Conyers
Dr.
Susan Block
Bonobo Bashing in the New Yorker
Joshua
Frank
Hillary's Neocon: the Imperial Vision of Richard Holbrooke
Tina
Richards
What Harry Reid Doesn't Know About His Own Bill
Ben
Terrall
Indonesia's Bloody Brand of CounterTerrorism
Farzana
Versey
God Acquitted!: Lessons from the Case of Darwood Ibrahim
Mohammad
Ali Salih
A Bomb in My Briefcase?
Laura
Carlsen
A Strange Homecoming: Reflections on the First US Social Forum
Ron
Jacobs
Come to Kennebunkport!
Sunsara
Taylor
Knocked Up is F**ked Up
Website
of the Day
Wal-Mart's Flip Flops: Feet Killers
July 24, 2007
Saul
Landau
How to Walk in Bushtime
Kathy
Kelly
The Plight of Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Russell
Mokhiber
The Michael Vick / George Bush Thing
M.
Shahid Alam
Islam Now, China Then
Patrick
Cockburn and Anne Penketh
Meeting in Baghdad
Dave
Lindorff
Overcoming John Conyers
Binoy
Kampmark
You Tube You Can't: Failure of a Medium
Richard
Neville
Murdoch's Transplant: a Warning to the Wall Street Journal
Cindy
Sheehan
We Must Move Beyond Politics as Usual
Evelyn
Pringle
Anti-Depressants and Birth Defects: Why is the CDC Downplaying
the Risks?
Norman
Solomon
Media Corrections We'd Like to See
CP
Newswire
Reading Harry Potter Not Sinful
Website
of the Day
Sea Islands Black Heritage Festival
July
23, 2007
Andy
Worthington
Narcolepsy on Gitmo Detainees
Uri
Avnery
A Trap for Fools
Patrick
Cockburn
Turkish Prime Minister Threatens to Invade Northern Iraq
Sousan
Hammad
The Children Without a Title
John
Walsh
Todd Gitlin's Nader Fixation
Harvey
Wasserman
Spinning Kashiwazaki: PR Flacks Rush to Aid of Crippled Nuke
Martha
Rosenberg
The Life and Times of a Hog-Hanging Farmer
Collin Baber
Here
Come the MRAPs: Resurrecting Apartheid Armor for Iraq
Reza
Fiyouzat
Iran's Forgotten Anti-Nuke Movement
Stephen
Lendman
Saving a President: Scare-Mongering and Executive Orders
Website
of the Day
The Port Huron Project
July
21 / 22, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
Giuliani and the Dogs of War
Werther
How to Read a National Intelligence
Estimate
Ralph
Nader
Atomic Blowback
David
Keen
Buy Hard: How to Sell an Endless War
Fred
Gardner
Karl Rove, Pothead: When Good Drugs Happen to Bad People
Gary
Leupp
Edelman's Edict: Is Hillary "Reinforcing Enemy Propaganda?"
Robert
Fantina
Fear in Iraq
Saker
The Future of Palestine: an Interview with Jonathan Cook
Rannie
Amiri
Nasrallah in the Crosshairs: How will the Third Lebanon War Start?
Mike
Whitney
The Crisis in Hedgistan
Dr.
Susan Rosenthal, MD
The Hidden Injuries of Powerlessness: Linking Alienation and
Dissociation
Monica
Benderman
Facing the Truth
Dan
Bacher
Deltagate: the Politics of Fish Kills
Michael
Baney
Fujimori's Long Race From Justice
Missy
Beattie
Here, There and Everywhere
Ron
Jacobs
Tremble, Tyrants
Adam
Engel
Radical Language: an Introduction
Thomas
Naylor
California Split: an Open Letter to Schwarzenegger
Poets'
Basement
Landau, Ford and Engel
Website
of the Weekend
Surge in Action
July
20, 2007
Eliza
Szabo
Fatal Neglect: Civilian Casualties
in Afghanistan
Pam
Martens
Doctoring the News: CNN's Sanjay Gupta, Laura Bush and Merck
Alan
Farago
Winners and Losers in the Housing Market Crash
Harvey
Wasserman
Lies and Leaks: The Earthquake That Screamed "No Nukes!"
Marjorie
Cohn
Iraqis will be the Deciders
Dave
Zirin
White Noise and the Black Athlete
Anthony
DiMaggio
American Public Opinion and Israel
Scott
Liebertz
Oaxaca on Edge
Linn
Washington, Jr.
British Cops Assault Rape Allegations
Bill
Piper / Anthony Papa
Flying High?: The Political Junkets of Bush's Drug Czar
Ramzy
Baroud
Bush's War Policy: When Time Heals Nothing
Website
of the Day
The Prankster Art of Mark Jenkins
July
19, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
The Next Invasion of Iraq
Remi
Kanazi
Is This Ben Gurion or Hell?: a Palestinian Adventure Through
Israel's Largest Airport
Winslow
T. Wheeler
The Surging Costs of the Iraq War
Sharon
Smith
Democrats and Health Care: Behind the Rhetoric
Dave
Lindorff
Killing Cabbies in Iraq
Conn
Hallinan
Have Gun, Will Travel: Mercenaries in Iraq and Afghanistan
D.
K. Wilson
The Michael Vick Case Pulls Back the Veil on Who We Really Are
Joshua
Frank
Democrats as Leviathan: Another Step Toward War with Iran
Norman
Solomon
The Ghost of Wayne Morse
Russell
Hoffman
Rattling the Reactor: Quakes, Fires and Leaks at the World's
Largest Nuke
Ray
McGovern
Bush's Wooden Headedness Kills
Website
of the Day
Protesting Power
July
18, 2007
Brenda
Norrell
Spy Towers on the US Border
Col.
Dan Smith
How the US Could "Lose" Saudi
Arabia
Martha
Rosenberg
Lord of Crookharbour: the Trial of Conrad Black
Conn
Hallinan
Bombing and Spraying Afghanistan
Binoy
Kampmark
The SIM Card Terror Case
Patrick
Bond /
Rehana Dada
Who Killed Sajida Khan?
Tom
Johnson
The Long Road ... to Nowhere
Paul
Craig Roberts
A Free Press or a Ministry of Truth?
Bob
Quellos
Pushing the Poor Out of House and Home
Felice
Pace
Falling for Lieberman's Iran Resolution
Robert
Weissman
National Health Insurance: More Humane and More Efficient
CP
Newswire
Shocking Report Showing Involvement of US Psychologists in Torture
Website
of the Day
Gilad Atzmon Live!
July
17, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
Just Another Day in Iraq: 100 Fathers,
Mothers and Children Killed
Marjorie
Cohn
Out of Control: Executive Power Plays
Evelyn
Pringle
Inside Bush's FDA
David
Rosen
Moral Hypocrisy on the Hill: the Christian Right, Sexual Scandal
and the Pleasures of the Courtesan
Susan
Miller
Width Matters: Displacement and Israel's Wall
Franklin
Lamb
Did the UN Cave to Israel on Lebanon's Shabaa Farms?
Don
Monkerud
Considering Victory in Iraq
Harvey
Wasserman
Nuclear Surge
Russell
Hoffman
Japan Dodges a Radioactive Bullet
Dave
Lindorff
Feingold Turns to Dross
Dave
Zirin
Reclaiming Sports as True Fiction
Website
of the Day
Che at the UN: 1964
July
16, 2007
Gary
Leupp
Cheney Urges Bush to Strike Iran
Ellen
Cantarow
The Untold Story of Iraqi Women
Paul
Craig Roberts
Impeach Now
Allan
J. Lichtman
The D.C. Madam's Public Service
Dan
Bacher
Cheney and the Klamath: Was the Veep Behind the Nation's Worst
Salmon Kill?
Patrick
Cockburn
The Killing of Khalid W. Hassan
Manuel
Garcia, Jr.
Property is Racism
James
Brooks
AIPAC and Mahmoud Abbas: the Undemocratic Road to Defeat
Liaquat
Ali Khan
The Judicial Crisis in Pakistan
Julie
Flint
Suleiman Jamous in Limbo
Website
of the Day
Free Suleiman Jamous!
July
14 / 15. 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
Support Their Troops?
Andy
Worthington
Gitmo's Tangled Web: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Majhid Khan, Dubious
US Convictions and a Dying Man
Ralph
Nader
Lawlessness, Waste and Incompetence
Robert
Fantina
The Illegalities of the Iraq War
Ron
Jacobs
Architecture as Military Strategy
Joshua
Frank
Eat, Fight, Screw, Pray: An Interview with Joe Bageant
Conn
Hallinan
Guns, Foundations and Free Trade: How the Right Targets Africa
Dr.
Susan Rosenthal, MD
War and Dissociation
John
Ross
No En Nuestro Nombre!: a Letter to the Mexican Antiwar Movement
Fred
Gardner
Who's Afraid of Cannabidiol?
Rannie
Amiri
A Primer on Israeli Doublespeak
Charles
Modiano
ESPN's Rap Sheet: Pacman as Black Man
Anthony
DiMaggio
America's Parochial Press
China
Hand
Executive Orders and Coercive Diplomacy
Missy
Comley Beattie
Reprobate Rhetoricians
Dr.
James J. Murtagh, Jr.
Harry Potter Battles Big Brother
Kenneth
Rexroth
On Thomas More's "Utopia"
Poets'
Basement
Engel, Davies and Orloski
Website
of the Weekend
GOP Sex Hypocrites: a Slideshow
July
13, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
The Decider in Denial
Winslow
T. Wheeler
Bush's Iraq Benchmarks Assessment: Grading on a Curve for the
Wrong Test
Imran
Khan
When Dictators Serve US Interests
Todd
Chretien
The Wal-Mart of Garbage
Sam
Husseini
Killing the Constitution
Dr.
Herman Mindshaftgap
Why, in Truth, There is No Surge
Anthony
Papa
The Hard Road Home
D.
K. Wilson
The Wonderful World of Mike Greenberg and Barry Bonds
David
Michael Green
In the Last Throes, Judiciously
Website
of the Day
Strange Attraction: Mrs. Thompson and Mr. Wolfowitz
July
12, 2007
Paul
Craig Roberts
Restoring the People's Power
Robert Jensen
Lessons
from the Lal Masjid Tragedy
Dr. Susan Block
Hookergate II: The Senator and the Veep
Joshua Frank
The Liberal Thrashing of Ward Churchill
John Chuckman
How Terror Lost Its Meaning
Corporate Crime
Reporter
The Problem with Bribeline
Mike Whitney
Demonizing Putin
Nicola Nasser
Will New Delhi's Palestinian Policy be Neutralized?
Richard Rhames
Requiem for the Paxilated
William S.
Lind
Not Fourth Generation Warfare
Website of the Day
Video: World's Largest Nuclear Explosion
July
11, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
The Benchmark Blame Game
Richard
Neville
Is This Man a Psychopath? Bomber McNeill, the Faceless Pol Pot
of the Sky
Debra
McNutt
Privatizing Women: Military Prostitution and the Iraq Occupation
John
V. Walsh
A Plea to Ralph Nader
Scott
Liebertz
Where's the Outcry? Mexico's Monitor Radio vs. RCTV
George
C. Wilson
Beware the Iran Hawks
James
McEnteer
My Impossible Dream Candidate
Philip
Rizk
Submission or Resistance in Gaza?
Johnny
Hazard
Mexico Commemorates a Fraud
Dave
Lindorff
On the Road with Impeachment
Website
of the Day
Sly Stone's Higher Power
July
10, 2007
James
Ridgeway
True North: Big Oil in the Arctic
Tariq
Ali
New Clashes in Islamabad: Judges and Jihadis Torment the Regime
Javed
Hussein
Pakistan's Waco?: The Storming of the Red Mosque
William
Blum
Neocons, Theocons, Demcons, Excons and Future Cons
Ralph
Nader
Grown in China
Jay
Arena
New Orleans, Public Housing and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Anthony
DiMaggio
A Begrudging Reversal: The New York Times and the "Anti-War"
Turn
Eva
Liddell
Has Ann Coulter Got the Hots for John Edwards?
Jerry
Kroth
Democratic Defectors and the Israel Lobby
Alice
Woodward
White Supremacy and the Jena Six
Nikolas
Kozloff
Where's Jerry?: On Cheney Impeachment, Rep. Nadler's a No Show
Paul
Shannon
It's Time to Reform Sex Offender Laws
Website
of the Day
March for Remembrance
July
9, 2007
Fidel
Castro
The Killing Machine: Reflections from
a Target of the CIA
Diana
Johnstone
King Sarko the First
John
Walsh
Will the Greens Seize the Moment?
Uri
Avnery
The Jordanian Option
Ramzy
Baroud
The Palestinian Left: a Lost Opportunity?
John
Ripton
The New West Bank Palestinian State
Stephen
Lendman
Making Gaza Scream
Bruce
Jackson
Bush Going Down: the Correct Way to Affix a Stamp
Michael
Donnelly
What's the Matter with Winchester?
Doug
Giebel
Wanted: Old Men with Nothing to Lose
Website
of the Day
Ron Paul on This Week with George
July 7 / 8, 2007
Saul
Landau
Blame the Puppet
Ismael
Hossein-zadeh
Parasitic Imperialism
Fawzia
Afzal-Khan
What Lies Beneath: Dispatches from the Frontlines of t he Burqa
Brigade
Alan
Maass
Will "Sicko" Spark a Movement?: a Film, Militant Nurses
and a New Opportunity for Single Payer Health Care
John
Ross
The Fire Last Time
Pat
Williams
The Supreme Court and Mr. Peanut
Rannie
Amiri
The Unbreakable Mordechai Vanunu
Farzana
Versey
Does the Taj Mahal Deserve to be a Wonder of the World?
Bart
Gruzalski
Bush, the Revolution and the Iraq War
Paul
Rockwell
An Army of None
Reza
Fiyouzat
Tax Cuts for the Rich Only Benefit the Economy of the Rich
Monica
Benderman
Americans, Honestly!
Kenneth
Couesbouc
Total War: From Clausewitz to Clinton and Bush
Dave
Lindorff
Poll: Impeach the Bastards
Charles
Modiano
History's Hit Job on Thomas Paine
Missy
Beattie
King Cretin
Dal
LaMagna
A Peacemaker's View of Baghdad
Jean
Gerard
Those So-Called Oil Contracts in Iraq
Anne
Dachel
Autism: an Epidemic of Fairly Recent Origin
Ron
Jacobs
Modes and Melodies of Resistance
Poets'
Basement
Gibbons, Orloski, Engel and Buknatski
Website
of the Day
Van Morrison and Bob Dylan in Athens
July 6, 2007
Daniel
Ellsberg
When the Crimes of the White House
are Unpunishable
Gary
Leupp
The Cracks in Cheney's World
Harvey
Wasserman
Leonard Peltier vs. Scooter Libby: the Hero and the Henchman
Omer
Subhani
Our Dead are Not the Same: Ignoring Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan
Marjorie
Cohn
Compassion, Conspiracy and Commutation
Christopher
Brauchli
Kingly Edicts: Bush's Executive Orders
David
Michael Green
Scalia Time: the Wrecking Ball Court
China
Hand
Catfish Blues: Food Safety, the FDA and the Emerging Trade War
with China
Renee
Saucedo
and Todd Chretien
The New Challenges Facing the Immigrant Rights Movement
Corporate
Crime Reporter
The Crime Wave Behind the Media Curtain
Website
of the Day
Jean Bricmont on the Humanitarian Interveners
July
5, 2007
Andy
Worthington
Two Americas, Both Unjust: Scooter
Libby vs. the "Enemy Combatants"
Mike
Stark
Double Standards of North Carolina "Justice"
Norman
Solomon
The Keyboard Hawks: a Bloody Media Mirror
Michael
Schwartz
Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month
Susie
Day
Killer Lesbians Mauled by Killer Court (and Media Wolfpack)
Jacob
Hornberger
A Tangled Web of Lies: Bush and the Libby Case
Bill
Hatch
Smoking with Arnold: The Strange Return of Toxic Mary Nichols
Don
Fitz
When Building Green Ain't So Green
John
Wright
The Crisis of Imperialism
Website
of the Day
Anti-Flag and Tom Morello: "This Land is Your Land"
July
4, 2007
St.
Clair / Frank
Obama's Nuclear Ambitions
Vijay
Prashad
Democrat (Punjab): Obama and Outsourcing
Carl
G. Estabrook
The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Exist
Ron
Jacobs
Texas Wants to Kill Another Man, the Law be Damned: the Disturbing
Case of Kenneth Foster
David
R. Dow
The Quality of Bush's Mercy: the Ghosts of Texas
Claudia
Johnson
Is My Doctor a Terrorist?
William
S. Lind
What Israel's Defeat in Lebanon Means for Defense Industry Fat
Cats
Gregory
Afghani
Truth and Tenure: Finkelstein and the Perils of Impeccable Scholarship
Paul
Edwards
End It Now!
D.
K. Wilson
The Sliming of Tank Johnson
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Thank You, Mr. President: Bush/Cheney for Dummies
Thomas
Jefferson
The Spirit of Resistance: Lethargy is the Forerunner of the Death
of Public Liberty
Cindy
Sheehan
Call Out the Instigator
Website
of the Day
Springsteen: 4th of July, Ashbury Park
July 3, 2007
Bill
Quigley
Injustice in Jena: Black Nooses Hanging
from the "White" Tree
Gary
Leupp
Civil Strife in Palestine: a Broader Context
Lynda
Brayer
Norman Finkelstein and the Catholic Church
Richard
Thieme
Mind Wars: Brain Research, Nanotech and the Military
Helen
Redmond
They Don't Come Back the Same: the Mind of the Returning Iraq
War Vet
David
Swanson
Scooter and the Commuter: When Presidents Pardon Their Own Crimes
Jacob
Hornberger
Martha Stewart vs. Scooter Libby: Commutation as Cover-Up
Ayesha
Ijaz Khan
Pakistan's New Jihad
Franklin
Lamb
The Edginess of Lebanon
Ray
McGovern
Unimpeachably Impeachable: Start with Cheney
Kevin
Zeese
The Air Force vs. Rev. Lennox Yearwood
Dave
Lindorff
Nancy Pelosi and the Low Bar Democrats
Website
of the Day
A Military Guide to the Iraq War
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August
13, 2007
All Fall Down
A
Culture of Collapse
By FRAN SHOR
Collapsing structures, from superhighway
bridges in Minnesota to coal mines in Utah, are not just indictments
of corporate engineering and government malfeasance or inaction.
Such structures are part of a culture of collapse that undermines
environmental and economic sustainability. With politicians
now swarming to acknowledge an infrastructural crisis in the
US, the question must be raised: "Infrastructure for what?"
Certainly, concerns over the
viability of public works in a country that continues to squander
its resources on imperial adventures, while providing massive
tax breaks to corporations and the super-rich, are valid. It's
not surprising that a September 2003 report by the American Society
of Civil Engineers concluded by noting that the "condition
of our nation's roads, bridges, drinking water systems and other
public works have shown little improvement since they were graded
an overall D+ in 2001, with some areas sliding toward a failing
grade."
On the other hand, what is
the environmental impact of improving the conditions of our nation's
roads if that means that more and more private polluting transportation
gets conveyed over greater distances by far-flung individual
commuters? Shouldn't the logic of providing additional travel
opportunities for gas-guzzling and CO2 spewing automobiles, SUV's,
and trucks be questioned? Unfortunately, we have become so habituated
to our pathological built environment that we seem to be in denial
of its minor and major flaws.
Such flaws are compounded by
fetishizing festivals celebrating the automobile such as the
one about to take place in the metro Detroit area on August 18.
Now in its 12th year, the Woodward Dream Cruise jams cars and
their jockeys onto the main drag running from Detroit to Pontiac
for more than just the one day event. Irrespective of global
warming, this crazy celebration of one of the planet's greatest
enemies draws hundreds of thousands of auto enthusiasts. Can
you imagine what people might say if they exist two centuries
from now? Wouldn't it be similar to how incredulous we would
be if someone discovered that during the Bubonic Plague in medieval
Europe some enterprising burghers decided to round up the city's
rats for a rat parade!
So, building and repairing
more roads in the face of real environmental devastation should
be open to debate, instead of mindlessly promoting privatized
travel. It's interesting to see the contrast in Caracas, Venezuela
where improvement of the roads has taken a back seat to improving
the lives of the poor through extensive health care, food, and
educational opportunities. But don't hold your breath that such
an agenda will be adopted here.
In fact, given the degree to
which commodification of basic necessities has embedded itself
in our culture, it will take a lot more than the documentaries
of Michael Moore to wake up the citizenry and change both political
and everyday customs. So many of us have uncritically become
guzzlers of bottled water that it's hard to foresee any major
effort to provide free and safe water to all of the citizens
of the US. Certainly, we are far from the courageous and ultimately
successful struggle by citizens of Bolivia to stop the privatization
of water in their country. Perhaps, we have lost touch with
the primordial relationship to our natural environment that is
evident in such water wars.
If we now live in a culture
of collapse, it is essential that we critically address not only
our relationship to our natural and built environment but also
to our intellectual imagination for another kind of world. Among
the many compelling case studies cited by Jared Diamond in his
book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,
is the story of the Vikings in Greenland. Diamond makes clear
that their insistence on grazing animals for the consumption
of meat, even while climatic changes were further eroding the
overgrazed grasslands, doomed them to extinction. Of course,
they could have changed their long-standing patterns of meat
consumption and sought out alternatives, but that custom was
too ingrained and their imaginations too constrained.
So, if we are to address our
survival as a county, let alone as a species, we need to consider
the serious consequences of the kind of culture we inhabit.
While repairing infrastructure may save lives in the short run,
what does it mean for our environmental and economic sustainability
to pour money and human resources into the very built environment
that is a threat to our existence? If we want to avoid total
collapse, we need to spend some time and energy in thinking about
the implications of our built environment and the culture that
surrounds it.
Fran Shor, a peace and justice activist, teaches
at Wayne State University. He is the author of Bush-League Spectacles: Empire, Politics,
and Culture in a Bushwhacked America.
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