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How the Press & the CIA Killed Gary Webb's Career

 

Today's Stories

December 18 / 19, 2004

Joshua Frank
The Spin Doctor: an Interview with Mickey Z.

December 17, 2004

Dave Lindorff
Racism: Philly Style

Dan Bacher
Bush Abandons Salmon Restoration

Marisa Jacott
NAFTA and the Environment: Trade Still Runs Roughshod

Francis Thicke
How Now, Industrial Cow?

Rupert Cornwell
The Inuit Strike Back

Cockburn / St. Clair
CounterAttack: How the Press and the CIA Killed Gary Webb's Career

Website of the Day
Franz Boas Unrolls Over in His Grave

 

December 16, 2004

Michael Neumann
How We Became Barbarians

Merlin Chowkwanyun
An Interview with Ralph Nader

Gabriel Espinoza Gonzales
The Dubious Career of John Bolton

Christopher Brauchli
Louis Freeh's New Gig: Usurer

Patrick Cockburn
Allawi's Pre-Election Ploy: Putting "Chemical Ali" on Trial

Mike Whitney
Gearing Up for a Draft?

Walter Brasch
Hillbilly Humvees and Rumsfeld's New Physics

Bill Conroy
How Gary Webb Saved My Ass from the FBI

Website of the Day
Saturday Memorial for Gary Webb

 

December 15, 2004

Robert Fisk
Who Killed Baha Mousa?

Jennifer Van Bergen
The Monster Under the Bed

Heather Gray
Will the Real Christians Please Stand?: a Personal Testimony

Dave Lindorff
The DNC, Albright and the Iraq Elections

Luis Hernandez Navarro
To Die a Little: Migration and Coffee in Mexico and Central America

Joshua Frank
The Ohio Recount: an Exercise in "Dumbocracy"

Greg Moses
Eighty-Sixing Civil Rights in Ohio?

George Caffentzis
The Petroleum Commons

 

December 14, 2004

Dave Lindorff
DNC Meddling in the Ukraine Elections

Larry Birns / Seth DeLong
Haiti is Unraveling and No One is Saying Anything

Richard Thieme
My Last Talk with Gary Webb: "I Knew It Was the Truth and That's What Kept Me Going"

Patrick Cockburn
A Year After Saddam's Capture, Iraq is Getting Worse

Chris Floyd
Client State: Moral Values and Voluntary Servitude in Bush's America

Akiva Eldar
A One-time Hanukkah Miracle

Burbach / Cantor
The Legacy of Pinochet: Kissinger and the Teflon Tyrant

 

December 13, 2004

Cockburn / St. Clair
Gary Webb: a Great Reporter, Trashed by the CIA's Claque

David Phinney
"Contract Meal Disaster" for Iraqi Prisoners: Rancid Food Sparked Abu Ghraib Riots

Paul Craig Roberts
A Dose of Non-Delusional Reality for Douglas Feith

M. Junaid Alam
The War is the War Crime

Robert Jensen
The US Has Lost the Iraq War...and That's a Good Thing

Richard Oxman
Kafkaesque Lessons for the Left

Greg Moses
Send No Messengers of Defeat

Douglas Lummis
The Pentagon's Neurosis: Fallujah Gulag

 

December 11 / 12, 2004

Alexander Cockburn
Running an Empire on the Cheap

Ron Jacobs
The Drugs of War: Getting High in the Green Zone?

Saul Landau
Listening and Talking to God About Invading Other Countries

Gary Leupp
Bush's Capital

Sharon Smith
The Horrible Toll on US Troops

Dave Lindorff
Deja Vu All Over Again: 5,000 Desertions and Counting

Uri Avnery
The Boss Has Gone Crazy

Jude Wanniski
The Neo-Con Smear on Kofi Annan: What Food-for-Oil Scandal?

Heather Gray
How the South Became Republican: an Interview with John Egerton

Patrick Cockburn / Ken Sengupta
Fallujah: the Homecoming and the Homeless

John Pilger
Return to Kosovo: Calling the Humanitarian Bombers to Account

Joshua Frank
All the Rage: Mr. Solomon, Say You're Sorry

Ben Tripp
O Canada!: the Truth About the Election of 2004

John Stanton
God Speaks!

Laura Nathan
Porn Stars are People, Too: a Talk with Christi Lake

Poets' Basement
Capaccio, Davies, Louise, Ford and Albert

Website of the Day
Fallujah Photos: Killed in Their Beds

 

December 10, 2004

Ralph Nader
President Bush, Stop Destroying the Mosques of Iraq

Greg Moses
Whitewashing Voter Fraud

Nicole Colson
Rebellion in the Ranks: Grunts Are Resisting Stop-Loss Orders

Frederick B. Hudson
"They Still Got Those Dogs": A New Book Probes Old Civil Rights Lessons

Patrick Cockburn
Iraq's Insurgents Oppose the Occupation, Not the Elections

Kathy Kelly
From Haiti to Iraq: Burying Water

 

December 9, 2004

Greg Moses
Ask Not Who Bankrolled Fallujah

Joshua Frank
Cobb and the Ohio Recount: Vote Fraud as Fundraiser!

Ralph Nader
An Open Letter to Bush: It's Time to Disclose the Real Casualty Figures

Lee Sustar
Bhopal: the Making of a Disaster

Tom Barry
Restrictionist Resurgence

Mickey Z.
Sander Hicks and the 9/11 Truth Movement

Christopher Brauchli
Bush in the Bubble

Mark Donham
Why are House Democrats Trying to Deny Cynthia McKinney Seniority?

Gary Corseri
On the Anniversary of John Lennon's Death, 2012

Paul de Rooij
The Voices of Sharon's Little Helpers

 

 

December 8, 2004

Ralph Nader
Will the Real Michael Moore Ever Re-Emerge?

Ann Harrison
The Ohio Recount: Reluctant Officials and Few Rules

Paul Craig Roberts
War Crime

Dave Lindorff
They've Got a Secret: Inside the $40 Billion Black Budget for Spying

Patrick Cockburn / Andrew Buncombe
CIA Warning on Iraq: Fallujah Did Not Break the Back of the Insurgency

Col. Dan Smith
Rules of Engagement in Iraq

Emily Alves / Michael Johnson
Paradise Lost: Corruption and Clientelism in Costa Rica

Richard Oxman
The Dylan Bob Wouldn't Mention: Up With Dylan Thomas

Ron Jacobs
In Fallujah, Freedom Isn't Free

 

December 7, 2004

Patrick Cockburn
Running Battles in Baghdad

Behrooz Ghamari
Lost Muslim Voices of Dissent

Dave Lindorff
American Fantasies: Psst! Hey Buddy, Did You Hear How Well the War's Going?

Joshua Frank
Dean at the DNC?

Richard Oxman
Down with Dylan: the Insufferable Interview

Ray McGovern
All Mosquitoes, No Swamp

John Chuckman
The Invasion of Hallifax: The Imperial Wizard Visits Canada

James Petras
Latin America: the Empire Changes Gears

Website of the Day
ToxMap: Who's Poisoning You

 

December 6, 2004

Paul Craig Roberts
Paranoia and Pre-emption: Is the Bush Administration Certifiable?

December 4 / 6, 2004

Alexander Cockburn
Politicize the CIA? You've Got to be Kidding

Joe Bageant
Dining with the Rhinos

Alan Maass
Reporting from the Ground in Iraq: an Interview with Patrick Cockburn

Brian Cloughley
Democracy, Bush-style, in the Gulf

Laura Carlsen
Latin America Shifts Left

Lenni Brenner
Jefferson, Madison, Bush and Religion

Anna Ioakimedes
Brazil's Haitian Mission: Doing God's Work or Washington's?

Uri Avnery
Widow of Opportunity?

Fred Gardner
Supreme Court Hears Medical Pot Case

Dave Zirin
Steroids to Heaven

Jackie Corr
Mining Camp Blues: the Red State Variation

Don Fitz
Will Greens Abandon IRV?

Lucy Herschel
"Art can be a Weapon of the Oppressed": an Interview with Artist Anthony Papa

Richard Oxman
No Angels in America: Bashing the Gay Play

Ron Jacobs
Holiday Greeting Card

Poets' Basement
Collins, Albert, LaMorticella

 

December 3, 2004

Dave Lindorff
Lie Then Escalate

Ben Tripp
Fun With Boycotts: How to Shop in a Time of Crisis

Joe Allen
Murder in El Salvador: the Assassination of Teamster Organizer Gilberto Soto

Matthew B. Riley
Human Rights Court Fails Lori Berenson

Meir Shalev
In the End, It is the Violin that Wins

Bob Wing
The White Elephant in the Room: Race and Election 2004

Christopher Brauchli
When McCain Bit His Tongue

Sasan Fayazmanesh
The EU, the US, Israel and Iran

 

December 2, 2004

Tito Tricot
No Justice in Chile: I'm a Torture Survivor in a Country Where Torturers Still Run Free

Behzad Yaghmaian
The Murder of Theo Van Gogh and Muslim Migration

Dr. Susan Block
Lana and Me: Meetings with Remarkable Apes

Frank / Chowkwanyun
Liberalism and Its Bounds

Lee Sustar
Standoff in Ukraine: the Bad v. the Corrupt

Patrick Cockburn
Another Grim Record in Iraq

Mark Engler
Seattle at Five

Michael Donnelly
Something Stinks in South Bend: the Firing of Tyrone Willingham

Nate Collins
The Bay Area Mall on an Ohlone Burial Grounds

Saul Landau
The Assassination of Danilo Anderson

 

December 1, 2004

Phillip Cryan
Associated with Whom? Rightist Bias in Wire Coverage of Colombia

Dave Zirin
What's the Matter with "Leon"?: Budweiser's Racist Commercial

Ghali Hassan
Iraq's Health Care Under the Occupation: 200 Children Die Every Day

Donna J. Volatile
Beware Western Nations Threatening "Democracy"

Patrick Cockburn
How Saddam Tried to Arm the Insurgency

Nick Meo
Chemical War Over Afghanistan

Mike Ferner
The Battle of Toledo

Mokhiber / Weissman
Shame and Determination on Global AIDS Day: 40 Million and Rising

Kathy Kelly
Looking the Other Way: the Real Crimes of the UN in Iraq

 

November 30, 2004

Jennifer Van Bergen
The Veil of Secrecy

Toni Nelson Herrera
Meeting Kurtz: When Art is a Crime

Paul Craig Roberts
The Bush Delusions: Successful at Incompetence

Patrick Cockburn
The Insurgency Strikes Back: There Are No Safe Havens in Iraq

Chuck Munson
WTO Protests Five Years Later: Seattle Weekly Trashes Anti-Globalization Movement

Adam Williams
Citizenship Sold: Back to Business in Indiana

Gregory Elich
A Dangerous Turn in the US Plans for North Korea

Website of the Day
Read Lynne Cheney's Lesbian Novel Online!

 

November 29, 2004

Dave Lindorff
Blowback in Ukraine: The Hand of the CIA?

Omar Barghouti
"The Pianist" of Palestine: Roadblock Concerto at Gunpoint

Mike Whitney
The US Media and Fallujah: How to Market a Siege

Uri Avnery
The Abu Mazen Style: "Give Me Some Credit!"

Matt Vidal
Globalization and Economic Inequality: a Look at the Numbers

Patrick Cockburn
An Interview with Iraq's Foreign Minister

Alan Farago
Sex Change and Salvation: God, Girly Men and Endocrine Disrupters

Justin Huggler
Bhopal 20 Years Later

Antony Loewenstein
How Australia Reported Arafat's Death and Legacy

Gary Leupp
Ukraine: Poll Results Aren't the Real Issue

Website of the Day
Mosul: Images from a Kill Zone

 

 

November 27 / 28, 2004

Peter Linebaugh
Torture & Neo-Liberalism with Sycorax in Iraq

Alexander Cockburn
What Happened to O'Reilly's Loofa?

Fred Gardner
Ashcroft v. Raich: Medical Marijuana and the Supreme Court

Kathy Kelly
What We Can Control

Diane Christian
The Other Cheek: "Empire Doesn't Analyze, It Acts"

Gary Leupp
One More Neocon Target: South (Yes, South) Korea

Lenni Brenner
Equality and Rights of Return: Jefferson Instructs the New York Times

Ron Jacobs
Death Squads and Iraq's Elections: the Mysterious Murders of the AMS Clerics

Joshua Frank
An Interview with Kevin Zeese on Nader, Kerry and the ABB Crowd

Toni Solo
The Murder of Danilo Anderson

Saul Landau
Fallujah, the 21st Century Guernica

JoAnn Wypijewski
Matthew Shepard Case 6 Years Later: Why Hate Crimes Laws are No Cure for Homophobia

Justin Taylor
Empire's Lawless Opportunities

Amos Harel
The Case of Captain R.

Walter A. Davis
Tabloid Justice

Stephen Hendricks
God's Kind of Men

Poets' Basement
Albert, LaMorticella and Ford

 

 

November 26, 2004

Peter Feng
Gavin Newsom: Man or Machine?

Greg Moses
It's the White Vote, Stupid

Liaquat Ali Khan
The Devil's Work: Bush's Minority Appointments

Michael Mandel / Gail Davidson
Why Bush Should Be Banned from Canada: a Memo to the Ministry of Immigration

Dave Lindorff
Nation of Sheep, Turkey of an Election: Urkrainians Show the Way

Gary Corseri
When Black Friday Comes...

Paul Craig Roberts
Whatever Happened to Conservatives?

Website of the Day
Iraq Pipeline Watch

 

 

November 25, 2004

Willliam Loren Katz
Giving Thanks to Whom?: "Thanks to God We Sent 600 Heathen Souls to Hell Today"

Mitchel Cohen
Why I Hate Thanksgiving

Mike Ferner
An Uncommon Mom

 

 

November 24, 2004

Gila Svirsky
License to Kill: the Example of Violence is Set by the State

Winslow T. Wheeler
The Other Mess in Congress

Christopher Brauchli
The Company He Keeps: the Syndicate of Tom Delay

Dave Lindorff
Double Standards on Exit Polls: Hypocrisy Sans Irony

Ron Jacobs
The Occupation of Iraq is the Root of t he Problem

Ken Sengupta
Witnesses: War Crimes in Fallujah

Diana Barahona
The Final Holocaust or Why I Voted for Ralph Nader

John L. Hess
Safire the Shameless

Jason Leopold
Did Harvard Hire (Another) War Criminal?

Jeffrey St. Clair
The Mark of McCain: the Senator Most Likely to Start a Nuclear War

Map of the Day
Now and Then: 2004 v. 1860

 

November 23, 2004

Forrest Hylton
Bush and Uribe at the Beach

 

 

 

 

November 22, 2004

Dave Zirin
Fight Night in the NBA: Selective Outrage in Detroit

Paul Craig Roberts
On to Iran: We Won't Get Fooled Again?

Michael Mandel / Gail Davidson
Why Bush Should be Banned from Canada

Kathie Helmkamp
Our Son: a Marine Who Won't Kill

Ken Sengupta
The Triangle of Death: "This is Now the Most Dangerous Place in Iraq"

Mike Whitney
Greenspan's Hammer

Roger Burbach
Why They Hate Bush in Chile

Website of the Day
Fed Up with Government Lies and Corporate Spin?

 

 

November 20 / 21, 2004

Alexander Cockburn
The Poisoned Chalice

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Religion, the Election and the Politics of Fear

Abbas Ahmed Ibrahim
The Horrors of Fallujah: a First-Hand Account

Kevin Zeese
Mishandling Nader

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After Arafat

Tom Barry
The Vulcans Consolidate Power: The Rise of Stephen Hadley

Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: Ask Dr. Todd

Justin E.H. Smith
Triumph of the Will: the Sequel

Carl Estabrook
Where We Are Now

Gary Leupp
Imperial History-Making vs. Reality-Based Thought: a Dialogue

Dave Lindorff
Apocalypse Soon

Jenna Michelle Liut
Plans Colombia and Patriota: Wanton Wastes of Money, Manpower and Lives

Mickey Z.
The Granma Moses of Radical Writing: an Interview with William Blum

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The Same Old Struggle Against Imperial America

Sharon Smith
Abortion Rights and the Election: What Now?

Ron Jacobs
Sandwiches and Car Bombs

Ben Tripp
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Richard Oxman
Basketbrawl Two Pointer: Iraq Rules!

Gilad Atzmon
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December 18 / 19, 2004

Who Will Impose International Law on Israel?

WANTED: Middle East Mediator

By SAM BAHOUR

The steady flow of international dignitaries to Israel and Palestine following the confirmation of the new transitional Palestinian leadership has been rather impressive. Outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell, outgoing UN envoy for the Middle East Terje Roed-Larsen, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, among others, swooped down on the region as if the historic moment of Yasir Arafat's passing was the moment the region had been waiting for. Unfortunately, not one of these diplomats, or anyone in the Palestinian leadership for that matter, has proposed anything beyond brushing the dust off already failed initiatives and placing the burden for progress on the results of the upcoming Palestinian elections.

The international euphoria surrounding the Palestinian elections is about to quickly pass and, come January 2005, the region will find itself exactly where the late Yasir Arafat left it--at a dead end.

What is urgently needed is a restructuring of the international mediation addressing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Shuttle diplomacy by world powers unable or unwilling to commit to international and humanitarian law as a foundation for Palestinian and Israeli reconciliation is a waste of time, money and Palestinian and Israeli lives.

The US has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that its historic alliance with Israel, an Unholy Alliance as it has often been called, prohibits it from being a fair and impartial mediator. Over the years, the Israeli agenda has become a domestic US issue and is integrally linked to US elections, US foreign policy and aid, and the US's military-industrial complex. The infamous Oslo Peace Process gave the US a historic chance to clean its slate of its historically blind support to Israel. It chose not to do so and thus has lost all creditability as a potential impartial mediator.

The US is fully aware of its tainted projects of mediation, especially over the past ten years, and thus moved to create the so-called "Quartet." In essence, the Quartet camouflaged the US's dominating role in the conflict with the inclusion of the European Union, Russian Federation and United Nations. This fuzzy, ineffective diplomatic mechanism, which self-proclaims a mandate of mediating the conflict, falls short of having any real international legitimacy. Over the past four years, the Quartet quietly observed unprecedented Israeli aggression against Palestinians and a collapse of the peace process while doing little more than deciding how high to jump after being ordered to do so by the US.

An alternative to the Quartet would be to create a properly mandated UN Security Council mediation team in which no member would be allowed to exercise veto power. The team would be equipped with the necessary resources to bring Israel (the occupier) and the Palestinians (the occupied) to the table with the agenda of ending the 37-year Israeli military occupation of Palestinians. The basis for an end to the occupation would be dictated as prescribed in international and humanitarian law. This mediation team would have the authority to deploy a specified number of multinational peacekeeping forces should they be required.

Such an approach would replace the existing Quartet with a team consisting of the five Permanent Security Council members: US, UK, France, China, and Russian Federation. Given the particularities and history of this conflict, the European Union and the League of Arab States, both regional coordination bodies with a vested interest in resolution of this conflict, should be added to the team.

The wild card in this serious approach to mediation actually materializing is the US. Why would the US and in particular the Bush Administration accept such a mediation arrangement that would definitely drive a wedge between the US and Israel? There are 101 reasons for the US to take a backseat in the Palestinian- Israeli conflict, not the least being the quagmire that the US created for itself in Iraq or the constantly increasing cost that Israel is inflicting upon the US, both financially and politically. Sooner or later the US must take action to remove Israel from dominating its domestic agenda. With President Bush now reelected and able to breathe a little easier, he has the "political capital," as he continues to state, to spend in starting to repair some of the damage that his first term policies created in the Middle East.

However, betting on the US or President Bush to make a unilateral about-face is a losing bet. The international community needs to urgently step up to the plate. A window of opportunity opened this past summer when the International Court of Justice, in their Advisory Opinion to the UN General Assembly, declared the "Separation Wall" that Israel is building on occupied Palestinian lands as illegal and must be dismantled. With political will, the international community can convince the US that it is in its interest to create a proper mediation team, one that can deliberate as well as act. It goes without saying that Europe, in specific, has much to gain by distancing itself from US Middle East foreign policy and in developing itself as a reputable mediator in the region. The same may be said for China.

If the US refuses to cooperate on it own, then the international community can take action regardless. Under a well-known and tested United Nations procedure called "Uniting for Peace," the UN General Assembly can demand an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of Israel from the Occupied Palestinians lands. The General Assembly may also call for a United Nations Peacekeeping Force to be sent to Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the occupying power. The "Uniting for Peace" procedure has been used before, by none other than the United States.

Dr. Richard Cummings, an international law professor has made similar observations regarding the UN and Israel in his essay, Human Rights, International Law and Peace in the Middle East (Tikkun, Jan 2004). Dr. Cummings notes,

"Failure by a United Nations member or entity with observer status to adhere to the advisory opinion on any matter of law could specifically give rise to a suspension by the General Assembly of its voting rights..." Such an example is when South Africa was in violation of an advisory opinion of the World Court and lost its voting rights...

"Armed with an International Court of Justice advisory opinion, the General Assembly could once and for all move to make its opinions binding on the parties involved, thus bypassing the Security Council that is perpetually blocked by the veto of the United States, which it invokes in pursuance of its own agenda unrelated to the needs of the rest of the world."

International Law must be defined and applied by the world institutions that were established for the purpose, and not by the existing superpower or the party to the conflict that can hire the better public relations firms or has the stronger military. The clear and unequivocal end to Israeli occupation, in all its forms, has the power to bring justice, security and stability to a region on the verge of self-destruction.

It is far past time for the international community to stand up and take action. Enough of throwing money, food, consultants, death, despair and destruction at the Palestinians. The time is now for the community of nations to impose international law to end this global tragedy.

Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American businessman living in the Israeli Occupied Palestinian City of Al-Bireh/Ramallah and can be reached at sbahour@palnet.com or www.epalestine.com.


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