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Today's
Stories
September
17 / 18, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Levee Town
Ralph
Nader
The CEO's Chief Justice
Diane
Christian
Abortion and the Politics of Death
Ned
Sublette
Mr. Bush's Tuba
Dave
Lindorff
One Big Sham: New Orleans as Potemkin Village
James
Petras
From Victims to Vandals: Katrina and the Mass Media
Jeff
Chapman
Katrina's Victims and the Minimum Wage
Ron
Jacobs
The Politics of Withdrawal from Iraq
Matthew
Koehler
Battering the Bitterroot National Forest
September
16, 2005
Ishmael
Reed
Race, Katrina and the Media
J.L.
Chestnut, Jr.
Bush's Judges and Black America
James
Petras
The St. Patrick Four: the Feds Confront
the Anti-War Movement
Louis
Proyect
Brawl at Baruch: Hitchens vs. Galloway
Christopher
Brauchli
Baked Brownie: Cooking a Resumé
Naomi
Archer
"It's Not that the Government isn't Responding, They are
Obstructing Responses"
Edward
Gibbon
The Patron Saint of Defense Contractors
Francis
Boyle
Grounds for Impeachment?
Paul
Craig Roberts
America is in the Clutches of Autocrats
September
15, 2005
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Flirtations with Disaster
Brian
J. Foley
The Profit-Driven War
Justin
E.H. Smith
Frances Newton and the Prospects for a New Abolitionism
Dave
Lindorff
Sacrificial Murder by Texas: Frances
Newton Died for Bush's Sins
Kevin
Zeese
Katrina and Iraq: the War Comes Home to Roost
Jason
Leopold
Funeral Gate in New Orleans
Todd
May
There are Palestinians Here!: the Demographic Factor
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Brawl in the Family
Pat
Williams
Lewis and Clark in Montana
William
S. Lind
Swept Away in Iraq
Saul
Landau
Bush, God and Katrina
September
14, 2005
Gary
Leupp
Managing Perceptions of Presidential
Ignorance
Evelyn
Pringle
Iraqis to Bush: Where Did All Our Money Go?
Jordan
Flaherty
Back Inside New Orleans
Jeff
Chapman
The WJS's Flawed War on the Minimum Wage
Ramzy
Baroud
The Perils of Normalization with Israel
Manuel
Garcia, Jr.
The Power of Water
Mickey
Z.
Eugene V. Debs and the Legacy of Dissent
Sam
Husseini
A Statement from Mother Nature
Ralph
Nader
Questioning Judge Roberts
September
13, 2005
Uri
Avnery
Who Murdered Arafat?
Werther
Jackals and Jackasses
JG
Where's the Outrage Over the Jailing of Kevin Pina?
Marlene
Martin
The Texas Killing Machine: Will Another
Innocent Woman be Executed?
Joshua
Frank
Katrina's Political Aftermath: Blame More Than Bush
Ron
Jacobs
Saving America's Serengetti
Dave
Lindorff
Compassion for the Camera
Ben
Tripp
It's an Ill Wind
Dave
Zirin
Galloway Goes to Washington
Billy
Sothern
How the Other Half Lived in New Orleans
Website
of the Day
Save the Life of Frances
Newton
September
12, 2005
Bill
Glahn
Tears of Rage in New Orleans
Jason
Leopold
How Michael Brown Helped Bush Win
Florida
Bill
Simpich
Confronting Nancy Pelosi
Mike
Whitney
Padilla and the Death of Personal Liberty
Justin
Felux
Free Kevin Pina!: US Journalists Arrested in Haiti
Rep.
Cynthia McKinney
No One Came to Get Them
Carol
Norris
Let Them Eat Toxins
Robert
Jensen
Our Grief is Not Special
Gideon
Levy
The Mean Streets of Tel Rumeida
Paul
Craig Roberts
Power Grab in New Orleans
Website
of the Day
New Orleans Artists Relief Fund
September
9 / 11, 2005
William
A. Cook
From New Orleans to Palestine
Saul
Landau
How the US Supplied Iran with Nuclear Know-How
Lance
Selfa
Confederacy of Dunces: Why FEMA Failed
Col.
Dan Smith
Paying the Piper
Elaine
Cassel
Judge Roberts: On the Far Right of a Far Right Party
Ron
Jacobs
Food as Govt. Weapon in New Orleans
Elisa
Salasin
My September 11th
Christopher
Brauchli
When "Action" is Delay: Bush's Picnic & Plan B
Evelyn
Pringle
War Pays: Douglas Feith's Platinum Parachute
Tom
Crumpacker
The Posada Case: When Injustice is Justice
Dave
Lindorff
The Big Blowback
Robert
Jensen
Race Stories: the Heart of Whiteness
Gary
Bass
A Civics Lesson from Katrina
Dr.
Susan Block
Katrina Speaks!
Steven
Sherman
The American Left and the Battle of New Orleans
Col.
Douglas A. Macgregor
Escape from Oz: the Pentagon's Light Show
Barghouti
/ Grima
Re-Thinking the Mediterranean
Jeff
Berg
Katrian and the Baghdad Dead: Bush's Tipping Point?
Fred
Gardner
Marijuana Might Really Make You Cool
Charles
Sullivan
It's Not Easy Being King
Dan
Vojir
God's Ambulance Chasers
Website
of the Weekend
On the Road in Louisiana
September 8, 2005
John
Chuckman
Lessons from Hell
Dan
La Botz
Rehnquist: the Chief Injustice
Carol
Norris
The Psychological Aftermath of Katrina
David
Krieger
Cindy, Katrina and Iraq
Irma
Thomas
An SOS from the Soul Queen of New Orleans
Roger
Morris
Legacy of Neglect
September
7, 2005
Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz
John Wayne and the New Orleans Indians
Werther
Victor Davis Hanson: Bard of the
Booboisie
Chris
Floyd
No Direction Home
Jason
Leopold
The Rich and the Dead
Michael
Donnelly
Cassandra, Apollo and the Red Queen
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Clueless in Crawford; Witless in Washington
Linda
Milazzo / John Stern
Idiot Wind: Haley Barbour, Katrina
and Hiroshima
Gary
Leupp
Nepal: the Prachanda Path
Pierre
Tristam
Commander-in-Zilch Fails New Orleans
Kevin
Zeese
Kucinich Speaks: Dem Leadership Needs to Get Out of the Way
Charmaine
Neville
How We Survived the Flood
September
6, 2005
Keeanga-Yamahtta
Taylor
Our Birmingham: Did Katrina Blow Off
the White Sheets of American Racism?
Dan
La Botz
Katrina: State Failure and Human Solidarity
Larry
Bradshaw / Lorrie Beth Slonsky
Trapped in New Orleans: First By
Floods, Then By Martial Law
Chuck
D.
Hell No We Ain't Alright
Debbie
Dupre / Bill Quigley
Thank God There's No One to Bomb in Retaliation
Omar
Wariach
Edward Said vs. Orwell and Hitchens: "It's Racism at the
Bottom"
Mike
Whitney
Why Rehnquist Doesn't Deserve to
be Buried on US Soil
Carol
Norris
In the Wake of Katrina
Norman
Solomon
Firing Mike Brown is not Enough
Michael
Neumann
But What About the Snipers?
September 5, 2005
Paul
Craig Roberts
Resurrecting Karl Marx
David
Vest
The Battle of New Orleans:It's Looking a Lot Like Fallujah
John
Blair
Don't Rebuild New Orleans, At Least Where It Was
Fidel
Castro
What Cuba Has Offered the People of the Gulf Coast
Mike
Whitney
80,000 Rodney Kings in New Orleans
Alan
Farago
Talking Points for a City of Corpses
Doug
Giebel
Bush's New Orleans: "So This is Where He Used to Come to
Get Drunk"
Mark
Chmiel
Beatitudes for This New American Century
Carol
Wolman, MD
God to Bush: "You Blew It"
Norman
Solomon
Bush's Answer to Cindy Sheehan: "It Was About Oil"
Eli
Stephens
An Administration Without Shame
Peter
Linebaugh
Loo! Loo! Lulu! Loot!
September
3 / 4, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
From Mitch to Katrina
Paul
Craig Roberts
Failure on Every Front
Gary
Leupp
New Orleans and the System that Destroyed It
Dave
Lindorff
Profiteering from Disaster: the Real Looters Wear Pinstripes
Dan
La Botz
Time for the U.S. to Start Over
Jonathan
M. Feldman
From Iraq to New Orleans: the U.S. as a "Failed State"
Landau
/ Hassen
The Cuban 5: In Prison for Fighting Terrorism
Tim
Wise
In the Name of the Lord: "Those Looters Should be Shot"
Mitchel
Cohen
People of the Dome: "Let Them Eat Shit..."
Dave
Zirin
The Superdome: the Earth's Most Damnable Homeless Shelter
Mike
Ferner
Waiting on the Outside World: Who Will Rescue America?
Rep.
Cynthia McKinney
Shame on the Bush Administration
Jason
Leopold
Bush's Demented Priorities: the State of Marriage Over the State
of Louisiana
Justin
Felux
Kayne West is My Hero: "Bush Doesn't Care About Black People"
Monica
Benderman
Iraq War as Thrill Ride: Getting Off the Rollercoaster
Ben
Tripp
Grab a Towel, You're Next
Jordan
Flaherty
Notes from Inside New Orleans
Bill
Pahnelas
A Rising Tide has Swamped All Boats
Seth
Sandronsky
Hurricane Katrina Exposes the True Face of Capitalism
Mark
Donham
Where's Karl Rove?
Fred
Gardner
CHP Agrees to Follow Law; Justice Stevens Apologizes
Joshua
Frank
Winning the West
Jackie
Corr
The Privatization Mob
Poets'
Basement
Albert, Engel, Louise
September
2, 2005
Evan
Jones
Katrina and the Corps of Engineers:
Manufacturing Disaster
David
Stocker
How Good is Your Levee? Frankly, Scarlet I Don't Think He Gives
a Damn
Dave
Lindorff
Baghdad on the Big Muddy
Norman
Solomon
The Smirk of a Killer: Ending the Impunity of the Bush White
House
Mike
Whitney
How Bush Deals with a Disaster He Helped Create: Blame the Looters
Eli
Stephens
What They Should Have Learned from Hurrican Ivan
Ron
Jacobs
Katrina, Iraq and Blood Profits
Christopher
Brauchli
Onward Christian Assassins
Harvey
Wasserman
Bush to New Orleans: Drop Dead
CounterPunch
Wire
Faith-Based FEMA? Feds Directing Katrina Money to Pat Robertson
Glen
Ford
Will the "New" New Orleans be Black?
September
1, 2005
Dr.
Greg Henderson, MD
Situation Critical: a Doctor in
the Flood
Paul
Craig Roberts
How New Orleans Was Lost
Mike
Whitney
Hurricane Donald: How Rumsfeld Smashed the National Guard
Lee
Sustar
Left Behind to Drown: the Poor and Hurricane Katrina
Dave
Lindorff
The Real Disaster: Bush and the Democrats
Lynn
Gonzalez
The Cindy Spark: Mainstream America Stirs
Chris
Floyd
The Perfect Storm
August 31, 2005
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
New Orleans After Katrina
John Walsh
Democrats and the War
Bernstein /
Mishel
Bush
Economy: Incomes Down; Poverty Up!
Alan Farago
What are the Hurricanes Trying to Tell Us?
Norman
Solomon
The National Guard Belongs in New
Orleans, Not Baghdad
Bryan
Newbury
"Hey, Shoot that Black Guy Running Off with the Bottled
Water!"
Jason
Leopold
What's Eating Cindy Sheehan?
Website
of the Day
The Swiftboating of Cindy Sheehan
August
30, 2005
Gary
Leupp
Venezuela: Launch Pad for Muslim Extremism?
Joshua
Frank
Bunny and the War Profireers
Evelyn
Pringle
The Woman Who Blew the Whistle on Halliburton Gets Canned
Urariano
Mota
To Die by Mistake: the Killing of Jean Claude de Menezes
Ron
Jacobs
High Water Everywhere
CP
News Service
An Open Letter to Alberto Gonzales: Free the Cuban 5
Roger
Morris
The War for the Future
August
29, 2005
Seth
Sandronsky
Pat Robertson, Big Oil's Televangelist
Norman
Solomon
War Liberals and Cindy Sheehan
Charles
Sullivan
Nation of Fools
Paul
Craig Roberts
Does
Anyone Know What We're Doing in Iraq?
Website
of the Day
Monsanto Threatens "Bitter Greens"
August 27 / 28, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Assassination: as American as Apple
Pie (and Torture)
Ricardo
Alarcon
The Cuban 5 in Atlanta: a Long March Towards Justice
Diane
Christian
The Politics of Death: Assassination
M.
Shahid Alam
How
to be a Good Victim
Laith
al-Saud
Baghdad Circus: Iraq's Constitutional Process
Diane
Farsetta
School of the Americas Fights Back: PR Plan for Pentagon's "Demonstration
Village"
Saul
Landau
Reagan and Bottled Water: the Privatization of Everything
Tom
Barry
Hurricane Hugo: Relating to Venezuela
Nicholas
Rowe
Barenboim in Ramallah: an Unfinished Symphony
George
E. Bisharat
Enforce the Ban on Settlements
Dave
Lindorff
Another Mother for War: the Exploitation of Tammy Pruett
Fred
Gardner
Pot Shots: Doing the Right Thing, Even If You Are Fearful
John
Francis Lee
The Juggernaut of Jingo
Evan
Jones
I.F. Stone on the Perils of Empire
Ali
Khan
Defining Aggression
Poets'
Basement
Albert, Nettnin, Engel, Ford, Krieger, Louise
August
26, 2005
Lee
Sustar
Showdown at Northwest
Ramzy
Baroud
Cindy Sheehan and the Power of the Ordinary
Christopher
Brauchli
The Return of Edwin Meese
Peter
Harley
The Wall as a Good Thing?
John
Snider
Not One of the Gang
Kathleen
Christison
Can Palestine be Put Back in the
Equation?
August
25, 2005
Paul
Craig Roberts
Hegemony Lost: the American Economy
is Destroying Itself
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Loewenstein's Big Mail Bag: Gaza and "the Shame of It All"
J.L.
Chestnut, Jr.
Racial Politics in California They May Vote for You, But They
Won't Have Lunch with You
Chhandasi
Pandya
Libeling Venezuela
Richard
Ward
Impressions from Camp Casey
Norman
Solomon
Exploiting the 9/11 Anniversary: Will the Media Help Bush, Again?
Joshua
Frank
Will the Real Leaders Please Stand Up?
Seth
Sandronsky
GM, the UAW and US Health Care
Lucinda
Marshall
The Democratic Unraveling: How Not to Mention the War
VIPS
Memo to Bush: Try a Circle of Wise Women
Ralph
Nader
It's Time to Make the Iraq War Personal
August
24, 2005
Stan
Goff
Containing the Anti-War Movement: the
Hayden Plan
Rachard
Itani
Papal Double Standards
Elisa
Salasin
The Militarization of Our Children
Ron
Jacobs
Who Would Jesus Assassinate?
John
Chuckman
Robertson and Posada: Bush's Kind of Terrorists
Leibowitz
/ Heller
Gaza: Disengagement or Military Redeployment?
Douglas
Valentine
Suicide as Sacrament
Thomas
Nagy
Congress Should Go to Crawford: an Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan
Alexander
Cockburn
Hitchens Backs Down, Says Sheehan "Not a La Rouchie"
Website
of the Day
Stations of the Cross
August
23, 2005
Rev.
Graylan Scott Hagler
Pat Robertson is Not a Christian
Karen
Kilroy
Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City Protests:
Violent Echoes of Kent State
Stew
Albert
Fascism in America: Are We There Yet?
Joshua
Frank
The Democrats and Cindy Sheehan
Dave
Zirin
Pedaling Away from Principle: Lance Armstrong Cozies Up to Bush
Julia
Olmstead
Our Reckless Chemical Dependence:
A Little Round-Up With Your Precautionary Principle?
CounterPunch
Wire
Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture: a Legal Update
Jason
Leopold
Bush's Lips Move, But He Says Nothing
Diane
Christian
The Politics of Death
August
22, 2005
Sonia
Nettnin
Gaza Stripped, the Occupation Remains
Mike
Whitney
"Shoot to Kill": Tony Blair's First Trophy
Kevin
Zeese
The Latest Falsehood: the US is in Iraq to "Stablize It"
Norman
Solomon
Bush's Bloody Option: Escalate the War in Iraq
Christopher
Brauchli
Secret Talkers
Jeff
Bale
The Left's Challenge in Germany
Greg
Moses
Raw Talk Revival at Camp Casey Two
August
20 / 21, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Can Cindy Sheehan End the War?
Saul
Landau
Terrorism Then and Now: Townley Talks
Kevin
Zeese
an Interview with Tom Hayden
Greg
Moses
A Daytrip without Cindy
Ray
McGovern
Cindy Sheehan and Creative Protest
Fred
Gardner
Merck Gets Whacked
Martin
Smith
Rebellion in the Ranks: the Soldiers' Revolt in Vietnam
Benjamin
Granby
Gaza's Economy: the Key to Sharon's Strategy?
Frankie
Lake
Dirty Tricksters: How the Federalist Society Operates
Joshua
Frank
Failing Nature: the Democrats and the Environment
Ron
Jacobs
When Sympathy is Not Enough
Tom
Crumpacker
Moral Values and the CIA
Mike
Ferner
"All of Our Stories are Sad"
James
Petras
Suicide Bombers: the Sacred and the Profane
Col.
Dan Smith
The President's Dilemma
Dr.
Teresa Whitehurst
What de Menezes Didn't Know
Ben
Tripp
Moses on Top of Old Smokey
Poets'
Basement
Landau, Albert, Engel and Louise
August
19, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
A Short History of Meat, Part 4:
Cutting Up Mochie
Neve
Gordon
After the Withdrawal
Gary
Leupp
The Pandora's Box of Iraq's Constitution
William
S. Lind
Getting Swept
Vijay
Prashad
The Rosa Parks of the Anti-War Movement
Dave
Lindorff
Something Has Happened
Pat
Williams
Social Security and the American West
John
Pilger
Free Speech and the War on Terror
Elaine
Cassel
Judge Roberts and the Death Penalty
August
18, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
A Short History of Meat, Part 3:
Vegetarians, Nazis for Animal Rights, Blitzkrieg of the Ungulates
Greg
Moses
Cindy, the Peace Train and the Little Ditch that Could
Ramzy
Baroud
Theatrics in Gaza: the Disengagement That Isn't
Joshua
Frank
Bush's Emotional Incapacities
Monica
Benderman
For Cindy: There's No Glory in Dying
Paul
Craig Roberts
Courthouse Jackboots: Corrupted Justice
August
17, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
A Short History of Meat: Part Two,
the March to Porkopolis
Robert
Jensen
America's Good Germans?
Carl
G. Estabrook
News Notes from the Global War on Terrorism
Mike
Whitney
Greenspan and the Housing Bubble
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Shaming the Shameless
Norman
Solomon
Slurs, Lies and Innuendos: Blaming the Antiwar Messengers
Dave
Zirin
In Defense of Felipe Alou
Jennifer
Loewenstein
The Shame of It All: Watching the Gazan Fiasco
CounterPunch
Clarification
August
16, 2005
Greg
Moses
Mona in a Field of Crosses at Camp
Casey, Texas
Thomas
Larson
The Unmitigated Gall of Dinesh D'Souza
Diana
Barahona
Uneasy Standoff in Venezuela's Media Wars
Dave
Lindorff
The Inquirer's Minds Don't Want to Know
Rep.
Cynthia McKinney
A Letter to President Bush: Meet with Cindy Sheehan
Elisa
Salasin
Hitchens Slimes Cindy Sheehan
David
Krieger
Amazing Grace and Cindy
Alexander
Cockburn
A Short History of Meat: Part One,
Peter's Dream
Website
of the Day
Reclaiming Appalachia: a Mountain Takeover
August
15, 2005
Greg
Moses
Pilgrims of Protest in Crawford
Paul
Craig Roberts
Slouching Toward Armageddon?
Mike
Whitney
Failing in Iraq
Robert
Jensen
The Challenges We Face
CounterPunch
Wire
Judge Fines Voices in the Wilderness
$20,000 for Taking Medicine to Iraq; Voices Refuses to Pay
Norman
Solomon
Someone Tell Frank Rich the War Isn't Over
Kathleen
Christison
Camp David Redux: Anatomy of a
Frame-Up
August
13 / 14, 2005
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
When Down is Up: the "Stricken"
President
William
Blum
The al-Dubya Training Manual
Gary
Leupp
High Tide for the Neocons?
Jack
Z. Bratich
Secreting the News: Anonymous vs. Confidential Sources
Brian
Cloughley
The Ridiculous Rice
Ron
Jacobs
Klan Justice: Mississippi is Still Burning
John
Farley
"Beyond Chutzpah" Too Hot for Harvard Bookstore?
Dave
Lindorff
Making the World Safer...for Nukes
Tim
Wise
Animal Whites: PETA and the Politics of Putting Things in Perspective
J.L.
Chestnut, Jr.
There's Not One Real Liberal or Conservative in the Senate
John
Gershman
The Bolton Opportunity
Felice
Pace
Saving Northwest Forests: Time for a Fresh Look
Fred
Gardner
Feds Takeover Prosecution of Dustin Costa
David
Krieger
The Fable of the Emperor and the Grieving Mother
Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz
Being a Protestant Fundamentalist
Ben
Tripp
GWAT: a Tone Poem
Poets'
Basement
Reiss, Nettnin, Engel and Louise
August
12, 2005
Christopher
Brauchli
Courting God: Justice Sunday II
Greg
Moses
A Crawford Peace House Morning with
Cindy Sheehan
Ramzy
Baroud
Israel's Nuclear Puzzle
Norman
Solomon
Cindy Sheehan's Message: Repudiating Bush and Dean
Chris
Genovali
Why is a Canadian Politician Trying to End Protections for US
Grizzly Bears?
Chris
Floyd
Cheney and Halliburton, the Stench Gets Worse
Tariq
Ali
Blair's New Authoritarianism
August
11, 2005
Saul
Landau
Globalization and Its Discontents
Dave
Lindorff
Privatization will Harm Same Sex
Couples
Ralph
Nader
Dear Cindy Sheehan: May You Prevail
Where Others Have Failed
Talli
Nauman
Radioactive Border: the Hot Mounds of Samalayuca
Gary
Leupp
Politics of an Outing: Plame, Ledeen and Iran
Sharon
Smith
The New Anti-War Majority
Paul
Craig Roberts
Why is Cheney Lobbying for a Boost
in China's Nuclear Capability?
August
10, 2005
Tim
Wise
Indian Mascots and White Rage
Ron
Jacobs
Rumsfeld's Delusions
Joshua
Frank
Dean and the PDA: Don't Believe the Hype
Cynthia
McKinney
The 9/11 Op-Ed the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Refuses to Run
Rick
Wilhelm
Peter Jennings, Excuse Maker for War and Empire
Stan
Goff
Homegrown Resistance
August
9, 2005
Mike
Ferner
What One Mom has to Say to Bush:
Cindy Sheehan in Dallas
Monica
Benderman
Is Being a Conscientious Objector
Now Criminal?
Mike
Marqusee
Making Excuses for Killing De
Menezes
Rep.
Cynthia McKinney
Strange Fruit and Tree-Shakers
Paul
Craig Roberts
Watching the US Economy Crumble
August
6-8, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
How the British Destroyed India
Jason
Leopold
Halliburton and Iran: Still Doing
Business After All These Years?
Ray
McGovern
Iran, Truth-Tellers and the Devotees
of Preemption
David
Krieger
From Hiroshima to Humanity
Sharon
K. Weiner / Robert Jensen
From Hiroshima to Iraq and Back
Fred
Gardner
The Budtender's View of a Rip-Off
August
5, 2005
Bill
Christison
New NIE Report on Iran's Nukes
will Not Deter US's Posture of Extreme Aggressiveness
Paul
Craig Roberts
Kelo: a Supreme Assault on Personal
Liberty
Alexander
Cockburn
The Taj Mahal as Kitsch; the
Editor and the Water-Walking Guru
August
4, 2005
Tom
Barry
Inside Bush's "World Democracy
Movement"
Lila
Rajiva
John Bolton's New Internationalism
Greg
Moses
Bush Teaches Intelligent Design
in Prison
Alexander
Cockburn
Indian Journal: Why Indian Farmers
Kill Themselves
August
3, 2005
August
3, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Broken Arrows and Iran: a B-52 Pilot
Remembers
Paul
Craig Roberts
The Kelo Calamity: Money, Power and
Eminent Domaine
William
A. Cook
Innocent Victims: From Hiroshima to Lower Manhattan
Dave
Zirin
Bush's Texas Rangers: a Crackhouse for Juiced Players?
Dave
Lindorff
Court Packing and Worker Rights
José
Pertierra
Why Hamdi Isaac Yes and Posada
Carriles No?
August
2, 2005
Ramzi
Kysia
Disengagement and Diaspora: High Walls
and Razor Wire in the Hebron
William
A. Cook
Words Without Meaning: Torturing Bodies
and Language
Paul
Craig Roberts
When Armageddon Gets No Press
Mike
Whitney
Chertoff's Preemptive Crackdown: 600 Arrests, Only 76 Charged
Ron
Jacobs
Be a Hero: Demand That Johnny Come
Home
Norman
Madarsz
Before the Stun Gun: Jean Charles de Menezes, RIP
Tim
Wise
The Faulty Logic of "Terrorist"
Profiling
August
1, 2005
Virginia
Rodino
Why Bono and Geldof Got It Wrong:
War and Global Poverty are Linked
Diana
Barahona
Return to Venezuela: Land Reform
and Neighborhood Doctors
Joshua
Frank
Gitmo's Kangaroo Courts: First Torture Them, Then Rig Their Trials
Mike
Whitney
The Consolidation of Powers: Rubber Stamp Roberts
Norm
Dixon
The Worst Terror Attacks in History
Norman
Solomon
Operation Withdrawal Scam
James
Petras
The Corruption of Lula's Regime
July
30 / 31, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Lost Nuclear Warheads Now in Iran?
JoAnn
Wypijewski
Scenes and Silver Linings from Labor's
Crack-Up: a Special Report from Chicago
Sheldon
Rampton
War is Fun as Hell: the Video Games
Recruiters Play
Jack
Z. Bratich
Fingerprints of Power: a Summer of Double Super Secrecy
Greg
Moses
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September 17 / 18, 2005
Wake
Up White America!
Racist Policies Lead
to Death and Destruction
By HEATHER GRAY
As we entered the 21st century, I reflected
upon the appalling reality of white supremacy in America and
the western world generally and decided I wanted to write about
it in ways I'd not before. I particularly wanted to challenge
other white folks. This resulted in my article "A Message
to White America: It's Time We Woke Up" in March 2000 that
took on a life of its own. Within minutes of it being posted
on the Black Radical Congress list serve and other websites,
I started receiving messages from all over the country. This
included some scathing remarks from whites, of course, but some
250 remarkably revealing and heartfelt comments from both blacks
and whites. It was and remains on numerous websites presently,
but given the recent overwhelming tragedy in New Orleans and
the gulf coast I wanted to dust it off and re-issue it with a
few edits and a forward.
As I watched, with anger, the images of death and destruction
of the poor, the people of color, the children and the elders
in New Orleans and juxtaposed the same scenes in Iraq I connected
the dots. Invariably these tragedies reveal the violent and greedy
underbelly of western white supremacy that bolsters and informs
the U.S. policies both domestically and internationally. This
is, categorically, not only a Bush thingit's American as apple
pie. Arrogant white supremacy coupled with government and corporate
financial mismanagement is far more than an academic or economic
issue or even greed for that matter, it is criminal behavior
that leads to loss of life and livelihood for the masses in the
U.S. and throughout the world, in fact. But we as whites rarely
will allow ourselves to look critically at what we do. We constantly
deny our past and present racist and white supremacy policies.
When the planes struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
in 2001, I thought "all right" here is some entity
out there sending an amazingly tragic and profound message to
America. Whatever their message was, the fact is that the planes
struck at the heart of western capitalism and the military used
to bolster it around the world. Maybejust maybe Americans will
begin to reflect on these targets and what this meant. Maybe
they'll reflect about the impact of American corporate abuse
and arrogant racist policies throughout the worldpolicies that
I've witnessed in Asia and Africa and here in America. Maybe
Americans will do this. My hopes were dashed. At virtually all
levels of American political and economic society there was never
a hint of self-reflection or questioning why 9/11 occurred on
American soil. Americans instead acted like they were innocent
victims of terrorists as if there is no blood on our hands.
Unfortunately, this was a time honored typical response by us.
We almost always refuse to look at ourselves and claim any responsibility.
We tend to live in a dream world of lies and deception.
The world and our own people here in America can ill afford us
keeping our heads in the sand any longer.
At a recent event in Atlanta,
Jesse Jackson spoke of the 40th anniversary of the 1965 "Bloody
Sunday" in Selma, Alabama when marchers, including my Congressman
John Lewis, walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to be met
by George Wallace's Alabama State Patrol armed with clubs and
horses. They were planning a march to Montgomery to demand their
voting rights but instead were beaten and clubbed by the Alabama
patrol. John Lewis was particularly targeted and unconscious
at the end of the debacle. Attorney J.L. Chestnut was there that
day and described hearing bones crack as horses stepped on people's
bodies. Quite a few years ago I stood with John Lewis at the
top of the bridge where he said that as they looked across all
they could see was an ominous "sea of blue" the
uniforms of the Alabama State Patrol.
Jackson said that later he had talked with George Wallace about
that fateful event and asked why he ordered the patrol to the
bridge that day. Wallace apparently responded that there was
a white mob beyond the State Patrol that would have been far
worse and that he was fearful of the consequences so he placed
the State Patrol between the marchers and the white mob. Jackson
said that the issue here is that even if Wallace had genuinely
felt he was protecting the marchers in this way, why didn't he
instead turn State Patrol on the white mob, rather than the marchers
who demanded justice under the constitution.
The question is a sobering one indeed and much could be written
about this. But for now it is important to realize at least that
we as whites George Wallace and all of us - rarely challenge
ourselves or other whites about white supremacy and its dreadful
consequences. Enough is enough!!!
In his book on W. E. B Dubois,
David Levering Lewis notes that DuBois struggled with attitude
of those who contended that the "resolution of class struggle
resolved the race problem." Levering states that DuBois
contended that, "exploitation of black workers by white
workers was preordained, inscribed, as it were, on the DNA of
the white American proletariat. White Alabama and Arkansas workers
workers would prevent black workers from rising out of the mudsill
by mob and apartheid laws...just as their northern counterparts
had historically done through urban riots exclusionary union
rules...."
While we have seen some changes
in America, much of DuBois' concerns have simply not been addressed
and the progress we've made is now threatened by conservative
trends and Bush's Supreme Court meddling. This is likely happening,
for one, because we've not looked at and addressed the core problems
in America that now scream at us in New Orleans. Race and class?
Absolutely! But injustice is never without response and people
always rise to challenge. "A luta continua"
- the struggle continues is the great African saying during
the anti-apartheid era is all the more relevant in today's America
... and suffice it to say, it's long past time that we as whites
met the challenge of addressing white supremacy that under girds
so much of the world's problems.
It's Time We As Whites Woke Up
I am of European descent and,
while I prefer to be called European American, given the American
practice of classifying people by their race, I need to state
unequivocally that I am "white". And it is of this
"whiteness", it's repercussions and responsibilities
that I write.
All of my adult life I have been a political activist. For more
than 30 years I have participated in virtually all the major
movements for justice in this country encompassing pro-civil
rights, pro-human rights, pro-environment, pro-women's rights
and anti-imperialism, anti-war, anti-apartheid, anti-nuclear,
anti-corporate, anti-death penalty, on and on. Throughout this
vast experience, invariably racism and class oppression raise
their ugly heads. Both are powerful independent variables. For
me, however, the most compelling and disturbing of these is racism
and its companion white supremacy. Invariably, white supremacy
is used to bolster financial gain and virtually every other gain.
The brilliant and profound scholar W.E.B Dubois warned us that
the issue of race would define the 20th century, which indeed
it has. And because America has been so lax in adequately addressing
this disease of racism and all it's augmented problems, race
will likely define the 21st century as well.
It has been said that virtually every group can and does "discriminate"
on the basis of race or other issues. What makes it different
for us whites, in the United States and the western world generally,
is the "power" financially and otherwise
to enforce our discriminatory attitudes and we as whites have
always done this with arrogance and without apology.
White supremacy in America is of epidemic proportions and whoever
denies this must be a fool or blind. It surrounds us in our economic
strata, in our prison system, in our schools, in our food system,
in our political infrastructures, in our foreign policy, in our
health system, in our housing, in our banking to name only a
few! It is not a problem only in white conservative circles,
where most activists would expect it to be lodged, but in the
so-called liberal and progressive circles as well. Yet, all will
attempt to state otherwise. Conservatives might claim some of
their best friends are Black. Liberals might state that they
are working for changes of some policies which will "make
life better for Blacks". Progressives in various organizations
might say that they are working under the leadership of Blacks
so they must be doing something right. None of this is ever
enough and it is literally and figuratively "white wash".
It is true that historically there have always been whites who
have taken a stand against racism but the numbers have been far
too limited given the enormity of the problem. This has frustrated
me to the point that a few years ago I wrote a lengthy poem
entitled "Being White and Angry" in which I delineated
what some have described as an epistle of "white"
ancestral and present day immoral, disgraceful and tragic exploits
from slavery to the Gulf War in the early 1990's.
What has been built on the basis of racism and white supremacy
has always teetered on the walls of decay because the foundation
is grounded on lies and deception. No one has gained from racism
despite claims to the contrary. If anything, we as whites have
diminished our souls through racist practices and any economic
gains are tainted - I refer to such gains as blood money.
We, as whites, will rarely claim responsibility for our creation
of racism and white supremacy (they are ours after all) in spite
of the fact that we demand recognition for virtually all other
inventions. When it suits us and when we can benefit from it
we'll claim it! It has been said that often the most important
things in life are not discussed or written and whites are definitely
selective on not speaking out on the above issues. Could this
suggest the importance of the issue to whites? I think so because
it requires us to look deep into our souls and admit we are and
always have been wrong about our entrenched present and past
racism. This is seemingly an impossible task for most whites.
Most of us have a shell that's almost impenetrable.
While everyone else rails against us whites for our racist attitudes
and policies, we are largely and despicably silent on the issue.
Why are we like this? Do many of us who are white want to maintain
the present white supremacist system? Yes, beyond doubt! While
rarely are we now wearing sheets over our heads, we are instead
sitting in board rooms where we implement racist policies. But
in today's climate it is not appropriate to state, without reserve,
that we are racist. Instead everyone skirts around the issue.
This false impression by other whites drives me nuts.
Are some of us nervous about reactions from other whites if we
take up the call against white supremacy? For some, this is likely
true. Are we ignorant of white supremacy? No, but nevertheless
it seems the majority of whites claim ignorance. Are we apathetic?
Yes. Do some of us feel guilt? Probably. Would we prefer to pass
the buck? Always. Strangely, we prefer to blame those who are
the victims of our prevailing racism as if they were architects
of their own victimization and not us. The insanity and hypocrisy
of this is mind boggling.
Throughout the years, whenever I've attended panels or conferences
on racism organized by whites, invariably Blacks will be invited
to participate. This is important because we as whites always
need to be educated about the devastating impact of our actions
and attitudes. But where, I've always asked, are the masses of
whites who need to take up the mantle with other whites on this
issue. Why are we, in vast numbers, not also on those panels
and in the streets demanding change. Indeed, it is this lack
of attention to racism on the part of whites with other whites
that, in my opinion, has always been the missing equation in
addressing the morass of the tragic effects of racism and white
supremacy. The problem of racism rests with those of us who are
white - we are the racists, we are the architects of this dreadful
disease, we are the supremacists, and, guided by our Black sisters
and brothers, we need to begin being accountable, speaking out
and taking action. We need to plant the seed and let it grow
deliberately and exponentially....from individual to individual,
from community to community, from city to city, from nation to
nation.
A few weeks ago, while having dinner with a Black friend, the
discussion veered toward an update of racism in America. Citing
the diminishing of affirmative action programs across the country
and other telling signs, he said "I think white America
is getting tired of everything being blamed on racism."
I said "So what! White America needs to be badgered every
minute of every day about our racist attitudes and actions."
In fact, I still rankle over the "angry white male"
contention in the early 90's stating that because of policies
to reverse the preeminent white access to virtually all privileges
in this country, at the expense of everyone else, they felt they
were being discriminated against. The gall of white males expressing
anger over anything after hundreds of years of ancestral privilege
astounds me...leaves me breathless. To be perfectly frank, I
remain an "angry white female" expressing indignation
at "angry white males" for this insult.
Upon reflection, I realized that my friend's comment was but
an ancient response from Blacks who try to appease whites to
prevent repercussions - a tragic defensive legacy of America's
racist paternalistic society. Upon further reflection, however,
I realized that whites react similarly with other whites. Invariably
whites will attempt to make other whites feel comfortable with
their racism or will be deplorably apathetic. We as whites need
to stop this nonsense.
It is my hope that in the 21st century, America's white community
will finally come to its senses. Bill Clinton thankfully began
this dialogue with his Commission on Race. But this was just
a start and we know not to expect anything of integrity along
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