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Today's
Stories
February 8
/ 10, 2008
Paul Craig
Roberts
Does
the GOP Have Aces Up Its Sleeves?
February 7,
2008
Patrick Cockburn
Why
Baghdad Will Explode Again
Bill Christison
Potholes Bigger Than Ever for Palestinians
David Anderson
NBC's "To Entrap" a Predator: Perverting Justice for
the Sake of Ratings
Ron Jacobs
Innocent Flesh: Recruiting Kids to Kill
Nikolas Kozloff
Hugo Chávez's Coca: It's the Real Thing
Jane Rockefeller
The Moral Economy of an Anti-Poverty Foundation
Andy Worthington
On Waterboarding: Two Questions for Michael Hayden
Dave Zirin
Instep Intifada
Saul Landau
The "Honestest" Candidate Since Lincoln
Susie Day
Our Blob in the White House
Website of the Day
George Carlin on Voting
February 6,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
Super
Tuesday's Vote for Chaos
Ben Rosenfeld
Informant Games: The Disturbing GreenScare Case of Briana Waters
Vijay Prashad
An Intellectual Hustler Lays It All Out
Joe Bageant
Nine Billion Little Feet on the Highway of the Damned
Michael Donnelly
What White Women Do In Private Voting Booths
Allan Nairn
Does the US Need a Civilizing Mayan Invasion?
Kathryn Gray
Wilderness on Edge: The Fate of Donner Summit
Ray McGovern
Powell's UN Fiasco
Sheldon Richman
The Whining Empire
Paul Cantor
/ Roger Sparks
A
Presidential Aptitude Examination
John Chuckman
Political Bits and Pieces
Website of
the Day
Save the Albatross
February 5,
2008
Winslow T.
Wheeler
The
Chaos in America's Vast Security Budget
Tariq Ali
Why I Will Not Participate in the Turin Book Fair
Stephen Soldz
The Secret Rules of Engagement in Iraq: Did Rumsfeld Authorize
War Crimes?
Chris Floyd
Strange
Fruit: America's Gulag and the Good War
William S. Lind
Saddam's Secret War Strategy: Die and Win
Martha Rosenberg
Live From the Killing Floor
Heather Gray
Conversations with Georgia Voters
Ayesha Ijaz
Khan
Obama, Bhagwandas and the Battle for a Secular Politics
David Macaray
Unions Need to Stop Being So Nice
Eliza Ernshire
Making Music and Laughing Till the Tears Run
Brenda Norrell
Hated Nation
Website of
the Day
The Things I Used to Do
February 4,
2008
Marc Levy
Winter
in America
Patrick Cockburn
The Bird Market Bombings
Saree Makdisi
Strangling Gaza
Uri Avnery
From Stalingrad to Winograd
Alan Farago
Let's Get Bambi! Someone is Slaughtering Florida's Key Deer
Ben Tripp
Spare Change: the Whine of the Progressive Voter
Paul Wolf
Civil Wars North and South
Paul Craig
Roberts
Why Were the 9/11 Tapes Destroyed?
Joshua Frank
MoveOn's Obama Endorsement: Why There's No Hope for Change
John Halle
Whither Progressive Democrats?
Website of the Day
How to Cheat in School
February 2
/ 3, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
Hot
Democratic Properties
Pam Martens
Bankers
Gone Bonkers: Global Finance and the Insanity Defense
Ralph Nader
The Great Clinton-Obama Debate: Questions They Weren't Asked
John Ross
Hilaria
vs. "El Moreno"
Wajahat Ali
Hillary, Obama and the Clash of Civilizations: an Interview with
Imam Zaid Shakir
Robert Fantina
A Colony by Any Other Name: Iraq as Stepchild of the American
Empire
B. R. Gowani
Not All Veils and Guns
James L. Secor
China in Winter: On the Western Edge of the Great Snow
John V. Walsh
The Invisible Green Primary
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Barack's Bubble, Bubba's Trouble
Dave Zirin
Who Stole the Super Bowl's Soul?
Jeremy Scahill
Blackwater and Blood
Fidel Castro
Reflections on Lula
Joe Allen
Tet Reconsidered: the Turning Point in the Vietnam War
Stephen Lendman
Life in Occupied Gaza
Patrick Irelan
What Happened to the Streetcars?
Andrej Grubacic
Ziga Vodovnik
Caligula's Horse: the USA, New Europe and Kosovo
Josh Karpoff
Dead Soldiers and the Antiwar Movement
Ron Jacobs
Carl Oglesby's War
Paul Krassner
Tom Waits Meets Super-Joel
Website of the Weekend
Company Woman: Hillary and Wal-Mart
February 1,
2008
Ray McGovern
The
Iniquities and Inequalities of War
Diane Farsetta
The Wild Career of James "Dow 36,000" Glassman
Patrick Cockburn
The
Most Dangerous Country in the World for Journalists
Tariq Ali
Et
Tu, New York Times?
Allan Nairn
Eating Dirt for Lunch in Haiti
Rannie Amiri
Collective Punishment in Beirut
Ramzy Baroud
People Power in Gaza: They Simply Did It
Kenneth Couesbouc
The Mother of All Snowballs
Peter Morici
Recession Looms
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Witha "Brutha" Like This: Bill Clinton as White Negro
Rosemary Jackowski
27 Reasons Nader Should Run for President
Scott Campbell
Direct Action to Stop the War Re-emerges
Website of the Day
Betes et Hommes
January 31,
2008
Saul Landau
Return
to Afghanistan
Andy Worthington
Horror at Guantánamo
Mike Whitney
Rate Cut as Dagger: America's Teetering Banking System
Jeff Ballinger
Sustainability for Dictators Initiative? Clinton Praises the
"Suharto of the Steppe"
Tiffany Ten
Eyck
The Saga of the Freightliner Five
William Loren
Katz
Waterboarding:
Torure or Mystery?
Alan Farago
Why the Republicans are in Deep Trouble
Col. Dan Smith
Oh Say Can You See the 2009 Budget?
China Hand
Slouching Toward Islamabad
Dave Lindorff
The Usual Suspects Once Again
Wadner Pierre
Fake Democracy in Haiti
Website of the Day
One Big Union
January 30,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
McCain
vs. Clinton?
Christopher
Ketcham
The Genius of the Development Industrial-Complex
Robert Weissman
America By the Numbers: The Shameful State of the Union
Neve Gordon
An Experiment in Famine
Paul Craig Roberts
Regulation or Deregulation, Which is Worse?
Joanne Mariner
How Anti-Terror Laws Threaten Free Speech
David Macaray
Labor's Only Real Weapon
Liaquat Ali
Khan
Is NATO Committing Genocide in Afghanistan?
Raymond J. Lawrence
Prankster-in-Chief: Bush's Troubling Non-Verbal Communication
Dan Bacher
The Collapse of the Central Valley Salmon
Website of the Day
Onward Through the Fog
January 29,
2008
Franklin C.
Spinney
Bush's
New War Budget: the $70 Billion Hand-Off
Mike Whitney
The Great Credit Unwind of 2008
Alan Farago
Buyer Beware: Florida, the Candidates and the Latin Builders
Association
Patrick Cockburn
"The Americans Bring Us Only Destruction"
Gary Leupp
"We Can't Afford to Let Them Spill the Beans:" a Sibel
Edmonds Timeline
R. F. Blader
A
World Without Abortion: USA v. Romania
Ahmad Faruqui
Musharraf's Post-Electoral Prospect
Fran Shor
Obama, the Kennedys and "Change We Can Believe In"
Jeremy Scahill
Secret Trials and Criminal Convictions: the Ordeal of the Blackwater
Protesters
Allan Nairn
Bush's
SOTU: Entitlement, Justice and the War of All Against All
Website of the Day
The Ghost of Rambo
January 28,
2008
Patrick Cockburn
Return
to Fallujah
Paul Craig
Roberts
The End of American Liberty
Allan Nairn
The Breaking of the Gaza Wall
Eyad al-Sarraj
/ Sara Roy
Ending the Stranglehold on Gaza
Martha Rosenberg
Obit for the "Front Page" City
Corporate Crime
Reporter
How They Rip Us Off
David Michael Green
Kristolizing Iraq: What a Great Freakin' War
Jennifer Van
Bergen
What's Left?
Nancy Oden
Survival Tips for Hard Times
Divya Karnad
Saving India's Sea Turtles
James L. Secor
Pissed About Pistorious: Why the Olympics Needs a Gimp
Website of
the Day
Yellow Journalism?
January 26
/ 27, 2008
Uri Avnery
Worse
Than a Crime
JoAnn Wypijewski
How the Clintons Lost It, Whatever the Outcome in S. Carolina
Ralph Nader
Ambition, Power and the Clintons
Paul Craig
Roberts
How Bush Destroyed the Dollar
Paul Watson
I'm Proud to be a Pirate!
John Ross
Murder and Cover-Up in Mexico
Fred Gardner
Ross v. Raging Wire: Employer's Right to Fire Workers Held Sacred
by California Supreme Court
Allan Nairn
Little Hands with Fever: Some Consequences of Poverty Death
Joshua Frank
Why Bush Wants to Legalize the Nuke Trade with Turkey
Binoy Kampmark
Société Générale and the Economic
Meltdown
James T. Phillips
America's Sick Comedy: Bringing the War Home
Stan Cox
The Depressing Truth About Anti-Depressants
Eamonn McCann
Hillary's Lie: "I Brought Peace to Northern Ireland"
Ron Jacobs
The Horizons of History: What's at Stake in Bolivia
Seth Sandronsky
California's Health Care Crisis
Ben Terrall
The Future is Unwritten
Poets' Basement
Tripp, Gardner, Gibbons and Davies
Website of
the Weekend
City of Immigrants
January 25,
2008
Douglas Valentine
Operation
Two-Fold: How the CIA Infiltrated the DEA
Patrick Cockburn
US Troops Will Be In Iraq for 10 More Years: an Interview with
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari
JoAnn Wypijewski
Down to the Wire in South Carolina
Heather Gray
Are We Seeing a Racial Shift in the South? Conversations with
South Carolina Voters
Marjorie Cohn
Senate Democrats Poised to Fold to Cheney on FISA
Erica Rosenberg
Environmentalists Out on a Limb: the Perils of Collaboration
Alan Farago
Jeb Bush Goes Nuclear
Robert Weissman
Reclaiming Economic Freedom
Laura Carlsen
Wild Cards: Mining the Hispanic Vote in Nevada
Stephen Lendman
Israeli Repression in the Hebron
Website of the Day
The FIX is In
January 24,
2008
JoAnn Wypijewski
Obama
as Anthologist of Uplift
Paul Craig
Roberts
President Hillary
Alexander Cockburn
Hillary Wants to Talk About Dirty Legal Dealings? Remember Her
Nursing Home Scam?
Kathleen Christison
One and Two State Solutions and the Myth of International Consensus
Jeff Halper
Power to the (Palestinian) People!
Stanley Heller
The Siege of Gaza is Broken
George Wuerthner
The Moronic Sport: ORVs on the Public Lands
Patrick Cockburn
Desperate Iraqi Farmers Turn to Opium
Jeff Sher
Just How "Good" is Your Health Insurance?
Patrick Irelan
Musharraf, the Steadfast Ally?
Charles Modiano
Restoring the Anti-War King
Website of
the Day
An Illustrated History of Trepanation
January 23,
2008
David Rosen
The
Great Disappearing Act: the Presidential Candidates and the Politics
of Sex
David Isenberg
Is
It Really So Hard to Believe That Iran Stopped Its Nuclear Weapons
Program?
Farzana Versey
Hillary's
Harem
Paul Craig
Roberts
The Empire That Must Be Obeyed
Alan Farago
Where Did All the Good Times Go?
Allan Nairn
Indonesian Intelligence Service Threatens to Kill Human Rights
Activist
Kenneth Couesbouc
Another Turn of the Screw
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
How the West was Re-Sold
Michael Donnelly
Obama Strikes Back
Norman Solomon
The Power of Love
Website of the Day
Rafah Today
January 22,
2008
Paul Craig
Roberts
Farewell
to Old Economic Nostrums
JoAnn Wypijewski
King Day in Columbia, South Carolina
Al Giordano
Divide and Conquer Politics: How the Clinton Campaign Armed a
Black-Latino Time Bomb in Nevada
Felice Pace
Power Politics in the Klamath: Water, Dams and Salmon
Paul Wolf
Bolívar's Sword
Robert Weissman
Deregulation and the Financial Crisis
Dave Lindorff
The Bush Dollar Trap
Marjorie Cohn
Cheney Impeachment Gains Traction
Richard Neville
Keeping Shakespeare in a Box
Don Fitz /
Zaki Baruti
St. Louis Mayor Booed Off MLK Platform
Ben Terrall
Cindy Sheehan and the Virtues of Divisiveness
Sam Husseini
Stoning Martin Luther King, Jr.
Website of
the Day
Defend the Mapuche!
January 21,
2008
Kevin Alexander
Gray
Playing
the Race Card
Linn Washington,
Jr.
Deferring Dreams, Delusions of Democracy
Pam Martens
How Wall Street Blew Itself Up
David Macaray
Labor's Grim Dilemma: Do We Need a Labor Party?
Uri Avnery
Look Who's Talking
Omar Barghouti
Europe's Collusion in Israel's Slow Genocide
Joe DeRaymond
Protest and Trial in D.C.
B.R. Gowani
Why Islam Should Tolerate Images
Shepherd Bliss
The False U.S. Economy
Jean-Guy Allard
Philip Agee Versus the CIA
Dan Bacher
Leaping Steelhead!
Website of
the Day
Destroyed
By a Rising Flood
January 19
/ 20, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
The
Campaign in Black and White
Saul Landau
Good Time Charlie's War
China Hand
Endgame for Pakistan?
Conn Hallinan
Desert Mirage: What Was the Bombing of Syria Really About?
Ron Jacobs
No Retreat
Dave Lindorff
A Tax Rebate Won't Fix This Mess
Andy Worthington
Canada's Humiliating Double Standard on Torture
Paul Armentano
What's the Going Price for a Joint? More Than You Might Think
Seth Sandronsky
High Crimes and Economics
Michael Donnelly
Dodging Ecocide
Patrick Irelan
The Ordeal of Dr. Safdar Sarki
Martha Rosenberg
The Drug Industry Takes Another Hit
Sherwood Ross
Making the World Safe for Despots: Bush's Global Arms Trade
David Michael
Green
So You Want to be My President, Eh?
James Rothenberg
Unimpeachable: Under House Protection
Daniel Gross
Starbucks Shortchanges Dr. King
Peter N. Carroll
In Memory of Milton Wolff
Susie Day
Croakin' on Hudson
Paul Krassner
Woody Allen Meets Tongue Fu
Poets' Basement
Wolff, Buknatski and Orloski
Website of the Day
Rocky Mountain
Blues
January 18,
2008
Allan Nairn
Killing
Civilians, Carefully
Ralph Nader
When
the Big Boys Get in Trouble, Who Pays the Ultimate Bill?
Joanne Mariner
Terrorism and Preventative Detention
Alan Farago
The Stimulus and the Meltdown
P. Sainath
Pity the Brahmins
R.F. Blader
Beyond Steinem's Feminism
Andy Worthington
A Letter from Guantánamo
John Jonik
Private Insurance is Bad for Your Health
Brian McKenna
Where Even Sharing is Prohibited: Notes from Inside a Michigan
Women's Prison
Daoud Kuttab
This Time Next Year?
Website of the Day
Those South Carolina Voting Machines
January 17,
2008
Paul Craig
Roberts
Leader
and Vassal
Christopher
Brauchli
The FBI's Bills Come Due
Robert Fantina
Leadership, Bush and the New York Times
Patrick Irelan
Eternal War
Paul A. Moore
When the Rich Pay No Taxes
Stephen Lendman
Institutionalized Spying on Americans
Beena Sarwar
Bhutto and the "State Within a State"
Walter Brasch
Buzzwords in the Echo Chamber: Change and the Establishment
Brenda Norrell
Bush Legacy in Texas Sours
Adam Federman
End of the Left?
Website of the Day
Democrats for Romney
January 16,
2008
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Return
of the Native
Franklin Lamb
The Bombing at Qarantina
Julian Sanchez
David Weigel
Who Wrote Ron Paul's Newsletters?
Sharon Smith
Ron Paul and the Left: a Slippery Slope?
Allan Nairn
Economic Indicator: No Free Lunch, No Free Market
Ayesha Ijaz
Khan
How the American Media Enables Bush's Iran Fixation
Andy Worthington
A Strategic Call to Close Guantánamo
Richard Behan
Nancy Pelosi, You Must Impeach!
Website of the Day
Obama the New JFK? He's Not That Bad!
January 15,
2008
Andrea Peacock
Breach
of Trust in America's Most Toxic Town: How the EPA is Rubbing
Poison Into Libby's Wounds
Wajahat Ali
An Interview with Seymour Hersh on Iraq, Bush Foreign Policy
and the Prospects of War with Iran
Joe Bageant
Getting Out the Bling Vote
Ralph Nader
The Candidate Taboos
John Ross
Zero Hour: NAFTA and Mexico's Agrarian Apocalypse
Elaine Cassel
Jose Padilla vs. John Yoo: Can a National Disgrace be Rectified?
Peter Morici
The Fed Needs More Than a New Communications Strategy
Beena Sarwar
Pakistan's Dirty Tricks Brigade
Robert Weissman
Big Business is Even More Unpopular Than You Thought
Binoy Kampmark
Going Tata in India
Dave Zirin
Dennis Brutus Smacks Down the Hall of Fame
Website of
the Day
David Lynch on the iPhone
January 14,
2008
Ishmael Reed
Ma
and Pa Clinton Flog Uppity Black Man
Roger Morris
Burials in the Sind
Uri Avnery
The
Hands of Esau
Mike Whitney
Bush's Voodoo Stimulus Package
Allan Nairn
General Suharto of Indonesia: One Small Man Leaves a Million
Corpses
William Blum
Oh, By the Way, the Iraqis Don't Really Want Us
Alan Farago
A Subprime Wake Up Call
David Macaray
Are Labor Unions Ready for Prime Time?
Eva Liddell
Getting Drunk with Obama
Zoe Blunt
Road Kill: New Highway Blocked by Protesting Raccoons
Website of the Day
Doug and Andrea Peacock on Grizzlies
January 12
/ 13, 2008
Andrew Cockburn
How
the New England Journal of Medicine Undercounted Iraqi Civilian
Deaths
Saul Landau
60
Years of Empire
Corey D. B. Walker
Barack Obama and the Crisis of the White Intellectual
Col. Dan Smith
Bush, Iran and the Magician of the Tarot
Eric Toussaint
The US Subprime Crisis Goes Global
Ron Jacobs
Television, Murder and Vietnam
Fred Gardner
The People vs. Christopher James Chakos
Stan Cox
Don't Take That Pill!
Jacob G. Hornberger
The Warfare State
Ramzy Baroud
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Joseph Grosso
The Anglosphere: a Special Relationship of Elites
David Díaz-Arias
Imagining An/Other Latin American Left
Stacey Warde
Before We Move On ...
Dan Bacher
Pumped to Extinction: the Decline of the Delta Smelt
Michael Dickinson
Georgie in Jesusland
Website of
Weekend
CounterPunchers Protest Outside NYT Offices
January 11,
2008
Dave Lindorff
Did
Hillary Really Win New Hampshire? More Questions About Diebold
Voting Machines
Paul Craig
Roberts
No
Escape from War and Unemployment
Andy Worthington
Six Years of Guantánamo
Kenneth Couesbouc
Banking on Thin Ice
Jeff Ballinger
Inside the Vienna Consensus
Christopher
Brauchli
Lethal Injection, the Supremes and China
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Paying No Attention to the Presidential Campaigns
Andrew Silverstein
Bush's Weepy Visit to Jerasulem
Marwan Bishara
Bush in the Middle East
Robert Weissman
The First Amendment Gone Wild
Patrick Irelan
Damn the Small Boats!
Website of
the Day
Hillary and the Superdelegates: Or Why She Wins Even When She
Loses
January 10,
2008
Alexander Cockburn
Now
Nader Claims He Didn't Endorse Edwards
Bob Wing
Marqueece Harris-Dawson
Race Within the Race: Obama, the NH Vote and the Specter of Tom
Bradley
Michael Donnelly
White Women Gone Wild?
David Macaray
Three Big Reasons for the Decline of Labor Unions
China Hand
Bush's Delusional Policy Pushes Pakistan to Brink of Catastrophe
Ayesha Ijaz Khan
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan: Brotherly, Friendly Countries?
Rannie Amiri
Obama, Man of Kansas or Kenya?
Website of the Day
Iranian Video of the Hormuz Incident
January 9,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
The
Empire Strikes Back
Dave Lindorff
The Bad News from New Hampshire: Death By Triangulation
John Chuckman
Pardon My Laughter: Watching the US Primaries from Canada
James Bovard
Stomping Freedom: Inside the Martial Law Act of 2006
Alan Farago
As Florida Sinks: the View from the Titanic
Russell Mokhiber
Why Picket the New York Times in DC on Friday?
William S. Lind
Kicking the Can Down the Road in Iraq
Peter Morici
Beyond the Sophistry: Why the Trade Deficit Matters
Josh Reubner
Sudan vs. Israel: Double Standard on Divestment
Mike Roselle
The Pursuit of Happiness
Website of the Day
Bottles of Tears on the Wall: Steve Perry on NH
January 8,
2008
Paul Craig
Roberts
No
Jobs for the New Economy (or the Old)
Russell Mokhiber
The Black Hillary: Obama is Just Another Political Sedative
Robert Fantina
The Gulf of Tonkin and the Strait of Hormuz
Dave Zirin
Butts on Parade
Shamako Nobel
I Am an Emcee: the Politics of Hip Hop
John Ross
Zapatista Women Encounter Themselves
Brenda Norrell
Apaches Defend Homeland from Homeland Security
Laura Carlsen
Why Bolivia Matters
Patrick Irelan
Remember the Maine!
Evelyn J. Pringle
The Holes in Bush's FDA
Jonathan M.
Feldman
After Iowa and New Hampshire: a Strategy for Rebuilding the Peace
Movement
Michael Dickinson
Playing Soldier
Website of
the Day
Sean Hannity on the Run!
January 7,
2008
Chris Floyd
There
Will Be Blood: But No Justice for Iraq Atrocities
John Blair
Remove That Man! Creeping Fascism in Indiana
Uri Avnery
The Case of the White Bird
Andy Worthington
Who Are the Gitmo Saudis?
Binoy Kampmark
Needling the Convict: Lethal Injection and the Supreme Court
David Macaray
Women on Strike
Ralph Nader
Obamarama: the Politics of the Smooth Mood
Michael Donnelly
It's the War Vote(s), Stupid!
Ron Jacobs
Ron Paul's Run: Is Being Against the War Enough?
Gideon Levy
The Hostile President
Dave Lindorff
A Real 9/11 Cover-Up? Sibel Edmonds, Turkey and the Bomb
Website of
the Day
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
January 5 /
6, 2008
Douglas Valentine
Good
Guys in Black Hoods
Kevin Young
The
US Occupation and Popular Opinion in Iraq
Richard Rhames
Saddam
Who?
Saul Landau
Bush Snatches Defeat from Victory
Marc Lynch
Why Bush's Iran Strategy is Failing
Robert Fantina
Iowa, Democrats and the Iraq War
Donna Volatile
Antiwar Soldier: an Interview with Jonathan Hutto, Sr.
Jelle Bruinsma
Norman Finkelstein in The Netherlands
Bob Sutcliffe
Remembering Andrew Glyn, Rebel Economist
Harvey Wasserman
Anti-Nuclear Renaissance
Missy Beattie
Why Obama Can't Save Us
David Swanson
Remembering the Separation of Powers
Jacob Hornberger
The Importance of the Padilla Case
Shepherd Bliss
Survival Tools from Kokopelli Farms
Ron Jacobs
Bleeding Kansas
Poets' Basement
Patti Smith, B.R. Gowani and Peter Buknatski
Website of the Weekend
Jimmy Dean Sausage Call Complaint
January 4,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
A
Good Night in Iowa
Jonathan Cook
War Crimes Airbrushed from History
Paul Craig Roberts
Thinking for Yourself is Now a Crime
Stan Goff
Ron Paul's Monkeywrench
Dave Lindorff
Clinton's Iowa Flop Exposes DLC Myths as Frauds
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
To Pindi Station
Allan Nairn
U.S. Elections Over Before They Began
Joshua Frank
The Failures of Sectarianism
Peter Morici
Economy on the Skids
Mary McInnis
Iowa Cocky-Us: How to be a Caucus Tease
Website of the Day
The Return of Obama Girl
January 3,
2008
Fatima Bhutto
Farewell
to Wadi Bua
Pam Martens
The
Free Market Myth Dissolves into Chaos
Joanne Mariner
The Presidential Candidates and Torture
Zoltan Grossman
Remember the '80s: Social Movements Between Woodstock and the
Web
David Domke
The Echoing Press and Huckabee
Norman Solomon
Edwards Reconsidered
Nikolas Kozloff
Return of the Faux Liberal
Jacob G. Hornberger
The Padilla Case and the Future of Habeas Corpus
Martha Rosenberg
Quit Picking on Huckabee's Son, Michael Vick
Russell Means
This Property is Condemned: a Notice to Those Occupying Lakotah
Lands
Website of the Day
WolfQuest
|
Weekend
Edition
February 8 / 10, 2008
How Greenpeace
Cashes In on the Suffering and Death of the Great Whales
The
Other Whaling Industry
By Captain PAUL WATSON
On board the Sea
Shepherd ship Steve Irwin.
"It does not matter what
is true, it only matters what people believe is true."
-- Dr. Patrick Moore, President
of Greenpeace Canada 1981
As the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
struggles to borrow and raise enough funds to return to the Southern
Ocean, we feel incredibly frustrated by the fact that tens of
millions of dollars have already been raised to defend the whales
yet this money is not being spent for that purpose and it will
not help put fuel in our tanks to resume our defense of the whales.
Enough is enough. The Greenpeace
fraud about saving the whales must be exposed. For years, I have
been tolerating their pretense of action and watching them turn
their ocean posing photo ops into tremendous profits from whaling.
And now they say they can't return to the Southern Oceans with
their ship the Esperanza because they don't have the budget for
it and because they are going to direct their energies into lobbying
for change inside Japan.
Yet they still continue to
collect money to save the whales. Greenpeace has booked all online
advertising in the major Australian and New Zealand newspapers.
Their ads are splashed across the internet from Google to MySpace.
Send money, send more money. Television ads, millions of pieces
of direct mail.
Greenpeace International raised
127 Million Euros last year. Greenpeace Australia has about 18
million dollars in the bank. Greenpeace USA sits on tens of millions
of dollars. Yet they claim they do not have the budget to return
to the Southern Oceans yet they also claim they stopped the whalers
for two weeks in January, and if such a claim is true then they
should go back and stop them again.
But they will not. They have
surrendered the Whale Sanctuary to the whalers yet the ads keep
popping up and the contributions keep flowing into the Greenpeace
coffers. It is incredibly frustrating to see stories about Sea
Shepherd's successful interventions against illegal Japanese
whaling usually sprinkled with criticisms by Greenpeace about
our methods. And right beside these articles pops up an ad asking
the public to send money to support Greenpeace. Even if Sea Shepherd
wanted to invest in these ads, we cannot because Greenpeace has
booked all the ad space for three months.
Greenpeace makes more money
from anti-whaling than Norway and Iceland combined make from
whaling. In both cases, the whales die and someone profits. We
continue to receive reports from people who have received highly
emotional appeals from Greenpeace for money to save the whales
including appeals to help refuel their ship.
This is simply out and out
fraud.
Greenpeace ocean campaigners,
are begging for money saying they will be fighting to help the
whales escape and they claim that for every dollar donated they
will be able to stay out another hour, another day, or another
week "saving" whales. Their success will depend on
YOU sending a donation NOW. Of course the word success means
something different to Greenpeace. The Greenpeace campaign is
not stopping whaling ships. Success to Greenpeace is about recruiting
memberships and raising money.
What the fund-raising appeals
do not say is that Greenpeace has already raised tens of millions
of dollars this year to "save" the whales, and tens
of millions of dollars the year before, and the year before that.
In fact, Greenpeace has raised a mind-boggling hundreds of millions
of dollars pretending to save whales over the years and yet they
have not stopped the Japanese from killing whales.
Last year Nathan Santray described
himself as the Action Director for Greenpeace. He reported that
he was instrumental in saving the whales and that he would be
heading back to the Southern Oceans to defend the whales again.
BUT he can't do it without your support so please send him a
donation right away. They absolutely must raise $50,000 by the
end of the year.
What he did not say was that
Greenpeace raises more than $50,000 in donations every day. But
Nathan assured us that he would be there "fighting to save
every whale we can and we urgently need your help."
Nathan and his crewmates maneuvered
their little rubber Greenpeace boats into the path of the fire
hoses where they were filmed being "attacked" with
high power hoses. They did that for hours and it looked very
dramatic. But it was all just ocean posing. My crew quite easily
avoided the fire hoses. In fact, the only way they could have
been hit would have been to steer directly into the path of the
water. The Japanese whalers stupidly participated in the charade
not realizing that they were playing right into Greenpeace's
hands. They haven't realized yet that the best tactic to deploy
against Greenpeace is to simply ignore them because they are
harmless.
The Greenpeace pleas state
that, "only Greenpeace stands between the harpoons and the
whales." And "Greenpeace is the only hope for the whales."
This, of course, is a direct slap in the face to my international
volunteers who have been actually physically intervening against
illegal Japanese whaling. Unlike the paid Greenpeace crew, the
Sea Shepherd volunteers did not go down to the Southern Oceans
to take pictures of whales dying, they went down to there to
stop illegal whaling activities.
Greenpeace simply ignores the
efforts of other groups opposing whaling including Sea Shepherd,
the only organization to have actually shut down whaling operations.
The fact that Sea Shepherd chased the Japanese whalers away last
year while Greenpeace was filming the whales dying seems to have
been forgotten. That was where Greenpeace turned off their cameras.
This year's annual appeal to
save whales by Greenpeace is just the latest public relations
strategy in a global campaign to fleece money from people of
good conscience. The Greenpeace Foundation, of which I was a
co-founder back in 1972, is today simply a multi-million dollar
feel-good organization. They are selling the illusion of making
a difference to a gullible public.
Greenpeace is a major international
corporation. Over the years, those of us who envisioned and founded
Greenpeace way back when, have watched in frustration and anger
as faceless bureaucrats turned ideals into profits, secure in
their understanding that the media myth of Greenpeace cannot
be tarnished irreparably within the mass media culture. For every
person who gets wise to their scam, two more are recruited. Greenpeace
is a massive direct mail publicity machine utilizing media and
psychology to part people from their money.
Together many of us from the
early days feel like modern-day Dr. Frankensteins. We created
a large green corporate monster that has forgotten where it came
from and is now busy feeding frantically at the trough of public
guilt. Greenpeace has become the world's largest multinational
"feel-good" corporation. People join to feel that they
are a part of the solution and not part of the problem. So Greenpeace
hangs banners, calls boycotts, knocks on doors, and sends out
direct mail solicitations. Consequently, they haul in tons of
cash, supporting an army of eco-bureaucrats and fueling a global
public relations campaign which postures on the myth that Greenpeace
is saving the world.
Greenpeace is posing and marketing
the illusion of saving the planet and they have an army of gullible
volunteers and paid canvassers who have been talked into believing
that Greenpeace is really, really saving the environment and
saving whales in particular. When I left Greenpeace in 1977,
I could have set up another knock-on-the-door-direct-mail- telephone-soliciting
group to chase the green dollars. The problem is that I left
Greenpeace to actually do something and that meant taking to
the high seas to directly intervene against the slaughter of
whales and the destruction of the ocean. The last time I saw
a whale die in agony before my eyes was on my last Greenpeace
whale campaign in 1976. When Sea Shepherd shows up, the killing
stops and the whalers run. We don't look for photo opportunities;
we look for opportunities to shut down illegal whaling operations.
We have shut down whaling ships permanently in Portugal, Spain,
South Africa, Iceland, and Norway. We've sunk nine! of them without
injuring anyone and without being convicted of a single felony.
The reason is that our targets are criminal operations.
Greenpeace does not even oppose
whaling. These are actual quotes from Greenpeace spokespersons:
"Greenpeace is not opposed to whaling in principle."
- John Frizell, Director of
Greenpeace International. From the Greenpeace Policy Paper 1994.
"As a natural scientist I cannot accept that Greenpeace
is opposed to whaling. One must be allowed to harvest a renewable
resource. To me, this is an important principle."
- Leif Ryvarden, former Chairman
of Greenpeace Norway. From an interview with Dagbladet, August
2, 1991 "The 1993 Minke whale harvest did not constitute
a threat to the stock."
- Ingrid Bertinussen, Greenpeace
Norway Director. From an interview on Norwegian radio (NRK),
October 22, 1993 "The Norwegian catch is not a threat to
the Minke whale stock,"
- Kalle Hesstvedt of Greenpeace
Norway in a remarkable interview with the Norwegian newspaper,
"Nordlys" on May 21. Hesstvedt does not rule out the
possibility that Greenpeace might accept commercial whaling when
catch quotas are allocated by the International Whaling Commission
(IWC). He repeated the statement on Norwegian radio (NRK) on
the same day.
In 1997, I had Greenpeace investigated
by the National Marine Fisheries Service of the United States
for participating in a whale hunt. Greenpeace crew on the Arctic
Sunrise actually towed a slaughtered bowhead whale to shore as
a favour for the Inupiat whalers in the Bering Sea. In doing
so, they violated both U.S. and international law. The incident
was reported widely in the Alaskan media and the whalers used
the incident to ridicule Greenpeace at the 1997 International
Whaling Commission meeting in Monaco.
And it is not just whales that
Greenpeace is betraying. Melanie Duchin of Greenpeace Alaska
who also sent out a personal appeal to raise money to "save"
the whales said last year that Greenpeace is not opposed to the
hunting of polar bears. She was quoted in the Alaskan media as
saying, "If the species of certain populations against the
backdrop of global warming can sustain a commercial hunt, than
we're not going to oppose it."
And Greenpeace raises millions
of dollars from people concerned about the cruel slaughter of
seals in Canada, yet Greenpeace has not opposed the Canadian
seal hunt in more than two decades. The official Greenpeace position
on the harp seal slaughter, the largest massacre of marine mammals
on the planet is that the hunt is "sustainable."
There are many who lament that
it is a sad thing that different groups cannot work together.
Sad though it might be, it is a fact. The objectives of an organization
with highly paid executives is far different from an organization
of volunteers. We have different objectives. While we look for
whaling ships, Greenpeace looks for memberships.
Nonetheless, I have approached
Greenpeace for years with offers to work in cooperation with
them. They responded with insults or simply ignored us. They
even tried to deny that I was a co-founder of their own organization.
A volunteer organization like
Sea Shepherd is in business to put ourselves out of business.
A large eco-corporation like Greenpeace is in business to keep
itself in business, and whaling, sealing, over-fishing, global
warming, and other assorted issues are simply the raw material
that Greenpeace uses to turn people's concerns into profits.
I know that I am taking a risk
in publicly exposing Greenpeace as a fraud. I know it shatters
people's illusions, but some illusions need shattering. The real
strength of the environmental and conservation movements lies
in the diversity of individual activists and small grassroots
organizations that large corporate organizations like Greenpeace
parasitically rob energy and support from.
In my opinion, it is completely
immoral for organizations to be paying six-figure salaries to
desk-bound bureaucrats sitting in multi-million dollar office
buildings as real, dedicated activists struggle in the field
to rescue injured animals or to try and stop the horrific slaughter
of seals, dolphins and whales. This entire movement is held
up on the blood, sweat, and tears of tens of thousands of individuals
struggling for ecological justice with minimal resources while
a small, elite group skims the vast amounts of money from the
public purse to be spent on large salaries, public relations
posturing, and fund-raising.
It's obscene, and it is high
time that people woke up and saw Greenpeace for what it really
is - a high-powered public relation machines designed to fleece
the public. Greenpeace has secured their story and photos for
this year. No need for them to return. It would not be a cost
effective strategy for them to do so. They will accuse us of
being eco-terrorists for intervening to defend the whales as
they continue to spend mega-bucks on TV ads, direct mail appeals,
and internet banner advertising. All this as the whales continued
to die in horrific agony, choking on their own blood as Greenpeace
cameramen record every emotional tear-jerking moment to beam
back to the head office to aid in the never-ending quest for
money, money, and more money.
And to add insult to injury
- when Sea Shepherd returns, every news story that gets posted
online will be accompanied by Greenpeace ads asking for money.
Why return to the Southern Oceans when Sea Shepherd will be available
to generate stories to keep the online ads popping up.
As the Sea Shepherd ship Steve
Irwin prepares to return to the Southern Ocean alone to resume
the pursuit of the Japanese whaling fleet, Greenpeace will be
making trips to the bank to deposit millions of dollars raised
under the false pretense of saving whales. It is obscene, fraudulent
and scandalous. Yet as long as whaling continues Greenpeace will
continue to milk the issue as a cash cow.
All the more reason for Sea
Shepherd to shut down the Antarctic whaling operation. We need
to put the whalers out of business and we need to put the people
profiting from whaling out of business also.
Captain Paul Watson is founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society www.seashepherd.org
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