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June 5 -7, 200
Alexander Cockburn
High Words, Low Truths
Paul Craig Roberts
Obama in Cairo
Jennifer Loewenstein
How Much Really Separates Obama and Netanyahu?
Franklin Lamb
Watching Obama's Speech in Lebanon
Missy Comley Beattie
Peace Be Upon You?
Farzana Versey
Walk Like an Egyptian: the Oprahfication of Obama
Stanley Heller
Obama's Non-Starter
Robert Weissman
GM: the Path Not Taken
Dave Lindorff
What a State-Run GM Could Do
William Blum
The Great, International, Truly Demonic Iran Threat
Ernest Callenbach /
Harvey Wasserman
A Green-Powered Trip Through Ecotopia
June 4, 2009
Arno J. Mayer
The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire
Mike Whitney
Bond Market Blowout
Gareth Porter
Report Ties Dubious Iran Nuke Documents to Israel
Ayesha Ijaz Khan
Clearing Misconceptions on Pakistan's War in Swat
Mouin Rabbani
Paradigmatic Progress?
Jordan Flaherty
Life in Gaza
Adam Turl
Is Card Check Dead?
Nikolas Kozloff
Iran's Elections: the Latin America Factor
Yifat Susskind
Obama's Double Standard
Website of the Day
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Slams Israel
June 3, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
As the Dollar Falls Off the Cliff...
Kathy Kelly
A Weaver's Welcome to Pakistan
Alan Farago
Bailing Out the Land Speculators
Franklin Lamb
Israeli Spies and Fake IDs
Bill Hatch
Why Congressman Cardoza Stiffed Michelle Obama
Nadia Hijab
A Stifling Embrace
Dean Baker
Reporters With Pom-Poms: Cheerleading the Recovery
Binoy Kampmark
Whither GM?
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
What Happened to Air France Flight 477?
Remi Kanazi
Oslo Redux?
Behzad Yaghmaian
The End of Idealism in China?
Website of the Day
A Time Comes: the Story of the KingsNorth Six
June 2, 2009
Uri Avnery
Racists for Democracy
Robert Weissman
Bankrupt Thinking
Conn Hallinan
Shadow Wars
Gideon Spiro
Obama and Israel's Nuclear Arsenal
Roger Burbach
US-Cuba Policy: "Still Stuck in the Past"
Dylan Quigley
My Experience with Dr. Tiller
Dave Lindorff
The American Taliban Claim Another Victim
Ray McGovern
Navy Vet Honored, Foiled Israeli Attack
Belén Fernández
Israel's Newfound Concern for UNIFIL
Martha Rosenberg
Give It Up, Wyeth
Willie L. Pelote, Sr.
GOP: California's for the Rich (Poor People Should Move)
Website of the Day
You Bet Your Health
June 1, 2009
Pam Martens
Wall Street Braces for New Cops on the Beat
Yitzhak Laor
Washington's Mirror
Mark Weisbrot
More Stimulus, Not Deficit Reduction
Ramzy Baroud
Netanyahu's New Quest
Saul Landau
Dancing the Afghan Jig
Eugenia Tsao
Smug Toronto Seethes as Tamils "Go Too Far"
Afshin Rattansi
Women in Darfur: "We Saw No Evidence of Genocide"
Debra Sweet
The Murder of Dr. Tiller
Abdul Malik Mujahid
Obama's Trip Egypt and American Muslims
Bill Quigley
Haiti's Revolutionary Priest Gerard Jean-Juste: Presente!
John Wright
The Tragedy of Susan Boyle
Website of the Day
Young Neo Con Anthem
May 29-31, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
Sotomayor and the Last of the WASPs
Patrick Cockburn
Iraq: The Mother of All Corruption Scandals
Vijay Prashad
Reeling Republicans
Gary Leupp
The Destabilization of Pakistan
Ray McGovern
The Impossible Rehab of Colin Powell
Rannie Amiri
Spies, Lies and Mr. Lebanon's Demise
Bill Hatch
The Mechanic's Tale: a Short Chapter in the History of Foreclosures
Chellis Glendinning, Stephanie Mills and Kirkpatrick Sale
Three Luddites Talking ... on a Computer!
Phyllis Pollack
Dosed, But Not Spiked:
an Interview with Grace Slick
David Yearsley
Eros and Susan Boyle; Fakery and Simon Cowell
Jean-Christophe Servant
A River of Acid: Mined Out in Zambia
Dave Lindorff
Sotomayor's Problem Isn't That She's Too Latina
James McEnteer
Straw Dogs: the Media and Sonia Sotomayor
Missy Beattie
A Place Called Despair
James C. Faris
On Evolution: a Critique of Darwinism
David Macaray
When Workers' Rights Go Unenforced
Harvey Wasserman
The Catastrophic Economics of Nuclear Power
Adam Federman
Drilling the Marcellus Shale Through the Halliburton Loophole
David Ker Thomson
Turtle Island: Adventures in Recycling
Mark Seth Lender
Great Egrets Return
Stephen Martin
Big Trouble in Little Britain
Joseph Nevins
Sin Nombre is Only Part of the Border Story
Sophia Mihic
Star Trek and the Continuing Mission of American Imperialism
Lorenzo Wolff
Dylan Kelehan Gets What He Needs
Poets' Basement
Fleming, Shields and Greer
Website of the Weekend
Petition: Grant Parole to Leonard Peltier
May 28, 2009
Joan Roelofs
The Philanthropies and the Economic Crisis
Paul Craig Roberts
Torture and the American Conscience
Ralph Nader
Corporate Frankensteins
Mouin Rabbani
The Dangers of False Optimism in the Middle East
Joe Bageant
Plain Truths From Appalachia: a Redneck View of Obamarama
James McEnteer
America Held Hostage
Dedrick Muhammad
Obama and the Harsh Racial Reality
Richard Morse
On Speaking Out in Haiti
David Macaray
Have We Turned Into Sheep?
Harvey Wasserman
The 8 Green Steps to Solartopia
Website of the Day
Col. Peters: Just Kill the Gitmo Detainees
May 27, 2009
Joanne Mariner
Military Commissions, Round Three
Paul Craig Roberts
Doublespeak on North Korea
Walden Bello
Can China Save the World From Depression?
Dave Lindorff
Recidivism and Guantánamo
Brian M. Downing
Along the Durand Line
Carlos Villarreal
Separate But Equal Just Fine in California?
Nadia Hijab
Israel's Next Move:
Armageddon Now?
Adam Federman
The PCBs of the Hudson River
Laray Polk
RadWaste and Texas' Future
Isabella Kenfield
The Fall of a Brazilian Financier
David Michael Green
Overcoming the Poverty of Ambition
Website of the Day
The Case Against Shell
May 26, 2009
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Fearful Pride: North Korea's Second Nuclear Test
Mike Whitney
The Next Leg Down: When Deflation Becomes Entrenched
Sharon Smith
Obama and Abortion Rights: What We Learned at Notre Dame
Marjorie Cohn
The Gitmo Appeasment Plan: Obama Buckles on the Constitution
Dean Baker
Waterboard the Fed
Deepankar Basu
Was the Indian Election a Debacle for the Left? If So, Why?
Fred Gardner
The Vindication of Sgt. Northcutt
Jordan Flaherty
New Orleans for Sale
Josh Ruebner
Rethinking the Costs of Peace
Brian Cloughley
The Man Who Murdered Count Foulke Bernadotte
Website of the Day
The Montana Town That Wants to Become the New Gitmo
May 25, 2009
Diane Christian
Looking at Torture
John Ross
Mexico's Shock Doctrine
Kenneth Hartman
The Trouble With Prison
Uri Avnery
Netanyahu Goes to Washington
Fred Gardner
"War on Pot" Overrides "Support Our Troops": the Punishment of Sgt. Northcutt
Cindy Sheehan
Day of the Dead
Sen. Russell Feingold
Prolonged Detention and the Rule of Law: a Letter to Barack Obama
Sibel Edmonds
Two Sides of the Same Coin: From State Secrets to War to Wiretaps
Franklin Lamb
Der Spiegel Tries Again
Dave Lindorff
Memorial Day in the Land of the Weak and Wussy
Daniel Wolff
Learning to Read in the Pacific Northwest
Website of the Day
Decoration Day
May 22-24, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
How Long Does It Take?
Michael Teitelman
Obama, Torture and John Walker Lindh
Mike Whitney
Credit Default Swaps: the Poison in the System
Ray McGovern
Cheney Breaks the Taboo: Support for Israel Feeds Terrorism
Sonia Cardenas /
Andrew Flibbert
Why We Love to Hate Pirates
Clive Hamilton
Biblical Prophesy and the Iraq War:
Bush, God, Iraq and Gog
Conn Hallinan
Swine Flu Fallout
Fred Gardner
Sgt. Northcutt's Homecoming
Carlo Cristofori
The Latest AfPak War
Dean Baker
A Friendly Financial Intervention
Rannie Amiri
King Abdullah's 57-State Solution
Andy Worthington
A Message to
Obama: No Military Commissions; No Preventive Detentions
David Macaray
Democrats Betray Labor:
Card Check is Pronouced Dead
Nadia Hijab
What Kind of State?
Franklin Lamb
How Not to Win Votes for Team USA
Ted Newcomen
The Forgotten Casualties
David Ker Thomson
Joy (Or How Hope, the Thing With Feathers, Gets Plucked)
David Rosen
Porn Wars
Mark Weisbrot
Climate Change and Intellectual Property Rights?
Robert Fantina
Gitmo, Democrats and Business as Usual
Heather Gray
Some Positive Directions in Public Health?
Farzana Versey
The Myth of Manmohan Singh
Chris Genovali
A Paler Shade of Green
Ron Jacobs
His Terrible Swift Sword: the Legacy of John Brown
Jay Diamond
Why the Left Should Cheer Hannity and Limbaugh
Dr. Susan Block
The Binds That Bond
Ben Sonnenberg
"Ballast": An Endlessness of Almost Ending
David Yearsley
Handel's Ghost ... Again
Lorenzo Wolff
My Problem with Led Zeppelin
Poets' Basement
Corseri and Bohm
Website of the Weekend
Bob Graham's CIA Notebooks
May 21, 2009
Jeffrey St. Clair /
Joshua Frank
The Politics of Bait-and-Switch: Obama and the Environment
Paul Craig Roberts
Morphing Dick Cheney
Chris Floyd
In Defense of George W. Bush
Gerald Paoli
Inside Iraqi Kurdistan:
Life and Death in the Qandil Mountains
Zach Mason
Something's Gotta Give:
Obama and the Hustler
Uri Avnery
A Quarrel on the Titanic
Andy Worthington
Out of Guantánamo
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
India: Two Funerals and a Wedding
Norman Solomon
The Afghanistan Escalation
Dave Lindorff
A Corporate Crime Wave of Labor Law Violations
Website of the Day
Swine Flu: The Panic That Wasn't
May 20, 2009
Michael Hudson
The Toll Booth Economy
Gary Leupp
Courting Hekmatyar: Obama and the Warlord
Michael D. Yates
Work is Hell
Jonathan Cook
Netanyahu Adviser Steps Out of the Shadows
Peter Lee
The World Doesn't Have a Pakistan Nukes Problem ... It Has a David Albright Problem
Binoy Kampmark
The End of the Tamil Tigers?
Peter Zinn
Eulogizing Lawyers
William Loren Katz
Tortured Reasoning; Tortured Results
Gary Lapon
Why Women Need Single Payer
Trudy Bond
Torture, Shrinks and a Groundhog's Day Moment
Website of the Day
Meet the Climate Change Lobby
May 19, 2009
Kristoffer Rehder
Check Point Iraq: a Soldier's Tale
Mike Whitney
The Real Lesson of the Financial Crisis
Ray McGovern
How Colin Powell Got Duped by the CIA
Vijay Prashad
The Indian Elections: a Game Changer?
Mirjam Hadar Meerschwam
Intimidation and Interrogation in Tel Aviv
Mustafa Barghouthi
Is Obama Up to the Challenge of Dealing with Netanyahu?
Andy Worthington
Gitmo:
A Prison Built on Lies
Binoy Kampmark
Britain's Speaker Crisis
John Walsh
John Kerry vs. Single-Payer
David Macaray
Alcohol as Metaphor: Zero Tolerance in the Workplace
Website of the Day
So You Think That Veggie Burger is Organic...
May 18, 2009
Dave Lindorff
The US is Using White Phosporous in Afghanistan
Abdul Malik Mujahid
Thirty Years of Tragedy in Afghanistan
Jonathan Cook
How Many Secret Prisons Does Israel Have?
Ben Rosenfeld
Police Violence: How Many Kicks to the Head Does It Take?
Patrick Cockburn
These Killings Will Only Strengthen the Taliban
Ralph Nader
They Want It All: New Tricks From the Old Energy Lobby
Stephen Soldz
Psychologist Bryce Lefever Clarifies Defense of Torture
Eugenia Tsao
On the Devaluation of Labor
Walter Brasch
Cheney's Magical Mystery Media Tour
Roberto Rodriguez
War and Torture
Charlotte Laws
Politics and American Idol
Website of the Day
Disbar the Torture Lawyers
May 15-17, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
King of the Hate Business
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Case of the Missing H-Bomb
David Rosen
Sexual Torture: What is Acknowledged and What Remains Unknown
Mike Whitney
From My Lai to Bala Baluk: Obama Picks Up Where Bush Left Off
Bruce Page
A Real History of Rupert Murdoch
Jeremy Scahill
The Black Shirts of Guantánamo
Fred Gardner
Tortured Reasoning: Judge Bybee Rules Against Brian Epis
Tom Barry
Fighting the Drug War at Homeland Security
Mats Svensson
On the Beach in Tel Aviv
Ramzy Baroud
The Drones Are Coming
Mark Engler
Science Fiction From Below
Mark Weisbrot
Stealth Move by IMF to Get $100 Billion Without Congressional Debate
Farzana Versey
Of Scapegoats and Separatists
Ron Jacobs
It's Up to You to Save Troy Davis
Hannah Wolfe
What to Tell the Children
Cal Winslow
Fresno, the New Ground Zero in the Battle Between the SEIU and NUHW
David Macaray
Labor Needs a Southern Strategy
Christopher Brauchli
Involuntary Baptism
Mark Seth Lender
The Lion Tamer's Story
Robert Fantina
Lapel Pins, Arugula and Mustard
David Ker Thomson
Last Man Walking
Stephen Martin
Lipstick Nightmare for Spin Merchant
Charles R. Larson
Double Exile
Chase Madar
"Angels & Demons" and the Extraordinary Power of Imaginary Heretics
Kim Nicolini
Vaginas From Outer Space! Boldly Sitting Through Star Trek
David Yearsley
Handel's Ghost
Lorenzo Wolff
Killer Virtues
Poets' Basement
Gibbons, Jordan and Moser
Website of the Weekend
Catch F-22
May 14, 2009
Michael Hudson
Where Russia Went Wrong
Andy Worthington
The Poisoned Mosaic:
Judge Condemns Guantánamo Evidence
Paul Craig Roberts
The Impotent President
Jonathan Cook
The Pope's Pilgrimage: Legitimizing Netanyahu?
Ray McGovern
See No Evil:
Ugly Questions for General Myers
Lance Selfa
The Limits of Liberalism
David Green
The Deportation of Demjanjuk
Dave Lindorff
Obama Channels Cheney
Frida Berrigan
Nuclear Options
Sue Udry
The Bybee Question
Website of the Day
Our Bombs: Tracking US Air Strikes
May 13, 2009
Brian M. Downing
The Road Out of Iraq
Gareth Porter
Gen. McChrystal and Afghanistan
Robert Sandels
Obama and Latin America: No Light, All Tunnel
Ricardo Alarcón
Cuba: Measure of a Revolution
Eric Walberg
NATO in Georgia: Fun and Games
Dave Lindorff
The Sinking of GM: When Captains of Industry Don't Go Down with the Ship
Deepak Tripathi
A Culture of Abuse
William S. Lind
Back to the Balkans: Hillary and the Sleeping Dragon
Kevin Zeese
A Populist Health Care Rebellion
Franklin Lamb
Lebanon: From Perdition to Redemption?
Website of the Day
Beth McIntosh: The Wild Ride
May 12, 2009
Gary Leupp
The Bomb Iran Faction
Richard Neville
The AfPak Blues: Corpses of the Kids by the Truckload
Wajahat Ali
Obama Chooses a Reliable Dictatorship
Dean Baker
The Banker Boys Are Alright! Time to End the Bailouts
Franklin Lamb
What Palestinian Refugees Need From Lebanon's Elections
Norman Solomon
A Progressive Challenge to Jane Harman
Paul Craig Roberts
Beware the Hate Crimes Bill
Lisa M. Hamilton
Let's Grow a New Crop of Farmers
Bob Fitrakis /
Harvey Wasserman:
Why Isn't Obama Turning to Credit Unions?
David Macaray
Wading Through the Grassroots
Website of the Day
Electronic Police States
May 11, 2009
Andrea Peacock
No Justice for Libby
Michael Hudson
Gordon Brown Spills the Beans on the IMF
Patrick Cockburn
Who Killed 120 Civilians?
Ralph Nader
The Single-Payer Taboo
John Kelly
Pseudoscience and Wrongful Convictions in the War on Drugs
Saul Landau
Cuba's Biggest "Crime"
Dave Lindorff
Blaming the Dead Victims
David Michael Green
Get Obama
Anthony Papa
Gov. David Paterson Does the Right Thing
Paul Krassner
Jon Stewart and Truman, the War Criminal
Website of the Day
Generational Homelessness
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Weekend Edition
June 5 -7, 2009
Nothing Comes From Nothing
Cairo: a Post Mortem
By JOHN V. WHITBECK
President Barack Obama's much anticipated speech in Cairo was truly astounding.
After all the months of lead-up and hype, few could have imagined that this speech would contain nothing of substance. Surely Obama would feel the need to announce some new initiative on at least one of the major matters of concern to the Muslim world. Perhaps a decision to develop a fully fleshed-out plan for a two-state solution, unilaterally or with the Quartet and/or the Organization of the Islamic Conference (King Abdallah of Jordan's "57 Muslim countries" willing to make peace with Israel), dealing with all the difficult issues, and to present it to Israelis and Palestinians as the last best chance for peace based on partition and the acceptance of Israel by the Muslim world. Or perhaps an international conference involving all concerned regional parties to seek solutions to the interlinked problems involving Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and/or Iran.
Surely he had to have some hopeful surprise up his sleeve. Wrong. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
There were, of course, many eloquent mood-music paragraphs and a smattering of quotes from the Holy Quran (as well as the Bible and the Talmud). Obama obviously believes that America's unchanged objectives with respect to the Muslim world are more likely to be pursued successfully by being polite and complimentary than by being rude and intentionally insulting. But the mood-music paragraphs dealt with atmospherics or the past. When it came to the present and the future and to concrete matters of American objectives and policies, there was nothing new. Nothing hopeful. Nothing.
He certainly offered nothing new or hopeful to the Afghans and Pakistanis, to whom he implicitly promised perpetual war, saying (in a verbal and intellectual formulation uncharacteristically childish for him) that American troops will keep fighting in their countries so long as there are "violent extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan determined to kill as many Americans as they possibly can" -- which there are guaranteed to be so long as the Americans keep fighting in their countries.
He certainly offered nothing new or hopeful to the Iranians, again adopting the views of the Israeli, rather than the American, intelligence agencies on the issue of whether Iran has a current nuclear weapons program and menacing that "when it comes to nuclear weapons, we have reached a decisive point".
He certainly offered nothing new or hopeful to the Iraqis, opining that they were "better off" as a result of America's invasion of their country.
Most certainly and emphatically, he offered nothing new or hopeful to the Palestinians, promising to pursue a two-state solution "with all the patience that the task requires" -- i.e., with no sense of urgency (unlike his pursuit of Iran) and without any firm deadline, as would be essential for there to be even a miniscule hope of success. This commitment to infinite patience constitutes an effective promise to pass the problem on, in an even more intractable and hopeless condition, to his successor.
Gaza? It rated one mention: "The continuing humanitaraian crisis in Gaza does not serve Israel's security." Israel's security? Nothing about the holiday-season massacre of over 1300 Gazans? Nothing about the crippling Israeli blockade and siege? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Jerusalem? Obama expressed the hope that the city could become "a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together". Mingle? In the context of Obama's repeated references to two states, one might have expected a vision of the city as the shared capital of those two states living together in peace and reconciliation. No. No sharing. That would have contradicted his pledge in his speech to AIPAC's National Conference last summer. Just a right to mingle, so long as Christians and Muslims did so "peacefully", without raising awkward questions about any rights in or to Israel's eternal and undivided capital.
And then, of course, Obama had to say this: "To play a role in fulfilling Palestinian aspirations, and to unify the Palestinian people, Hamas must put an end to violence, recognize past agreements and recognize Israel's right to exist" -- unbalanced, even in a speech ostensibly intended to reach out to the Muslim world, by any hint that, to be worthy of interaction with civilized people, Israel must renounce violence, recognize past agreements and recognize Palestine's right to exist.
This tired, morally bankrupt American mantra essentially argues that only the rich, the strong, the oppressors and the enforcers of injustice (notably the Americans and the Israelis) have the right to use violence, while the poor, the weak, the oppressed and the victims of injustice must renounce violence, submit to their fate and accept whatever crumbs their betters may magnanimously deign suitable to let fall from their table -- a principle dear to the hearts and minds of those who are happy with the status quo but not one likely to win hearts and minds among those who are not or, indeed, anyone who believes that justice should be pursued and injustice resisted.
As if that were not enough, Obama also felt the need to declare that America's bonds with Israel are "unbreakable" -- a statement one would expect in a speech to AIPAC or on the American campaign trail but one which one would not normally have thought essential to include in this particular speech before this particular audience. At least it is a statement consistent with one of Obama's Quranic citations -- "Speak always the truth". It constitutes a proclamation (or admission) that America is not and will never be a truly independent nation and that this is just fine with Barack Obama.
If Israelis were looking for assurance that any public "pressure" from Obama to improve their behavior would be purely rhetorical and could be ignored with impunity, here was that assurance.
Nevertheless, one intriguing paragraph in the speech is worth considering: "Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America's founding. The same story can be told by people from South Africa to South Asia."
Comparing the position of today's Palstinians to that of black slaves in America or native South Africans under that country's apartheid regime can only be constructive. However, Obama has not thought through the context or his conclusion. As he rightly notes, those oppressed peoples and victims of injustice whom he cites were seeking "full and equal rights", not the partition of their countries.
If the goal of an oppresed people is to convince a determined and powerful settler-colonial movement which wishes to seize their land, settle it and keep it (eventually emptying it of them and their fellow natives) that it should cease, desist and leave, nonviolent forms of resistance are suicidal. If, however, the goal were to be to obtain the full rights of citizenship in a democratic, nonracist state (as was the case in the American civil rights movement and the South African anti-apartheid movement), then nonviolence would be the only viable approach. Violence would be totally inappropriate and counterproductive. The morally impeccable approach would also be the tactically effective approach. The high road would be the only road.
Nonviolence is clearly morally preferable to violence. Democracy and equal rights are clearly morally preferable to apartheid and partition. The better goal and the better tactic are a perfect match, the only match that truly offers hope. If and when the current Palestinian leaderships, or the Palestinian people under a new and better leadership, draw the only rational conclusion from Barack Obama's Cairo speech -- that he offers them neither change nor hope and that they must rely exclusively on themselves in the pursuit of justice -- they should courageously press their own "reset" button and unite to pursue democracy and equal rights by nonviolent means.
John V. Whitbeck, an international lawyer who has advised the Palestinian negotiating team in negotiations with Israel, is author of "The World According to Whitbeck".
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