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Today's Stories November 16, 2006 Kathy Kelly Sources of Violence   November 15, 2006 Jennifer Loewenstein Alice in Erez: the Gaza Crossing David Rosen Rev. Ted Haggard and the Eclipse of Evangelical Fury Ashley Smith A Socialist in the Senate? Landau / Hassen Talking Tough on Iraq Isn't Courageous Walden Bello Iraq After November 7: New Challenges for the AntiWar Movement Sibel Edmonds The Highjacking of a Nation Austin / Bernstein Why Bill Cosby is Wrong to Link Black Culture to Economic Decline Yitzhak Laor This Merchandise, Security James Rothenberg Unimpeachable: a Brief Argument Why Gail Dines "Borat": It's a Guy Thing Website of the Day Kakistocracy November 14, 2006 Werther Beltway Bromo-Seltzer: a Sneak Peak at the Baker Report Ray McGovern Benching Scowcroft John Walsh Korea, Vietnam and Iraq Syndrome: Alive, Well and Gaining Strength David MacMichael Gates to the Pentagon William S. Lind Lose a War, Lose an Election Sharon Smith Democrats, Born to Compromise Laura Carlsen Oaxaca Fights Back Ron Jacobs The Perishing Republic Peter Rost, MD Whistleblowers: Who Are They? Carol Norris Post-Campaign Ad Stress Disorder? Website of the Day A Map of the US Nuclear Arsenal     November 13, 2006 Kathleen and Bill Christison Screw the Palestinians, Full Steam Ahead Bill Quigley Robin Hood in Reverse: the Corporate Looting of the Gulf Coast Paul Craig Roberts The Democrats and Civil Liberties: Will They Turn a Blind Eye? Uri Avnery Call It What It Is: a Massacre! Joe DeRaymond The Strange Return of Daniel Ortega Norman Finkelstein Jimmy Carter's Roadmap Col. Dan Smith The Pentagon's Revolving Gates: Out with the Old, In with the Old Shepherd Bliss After the Party Dave Lindorff What Vote-Theft Conspiracy? Missy Beattie For Better / For Worse: Will Laura Stay the Course? Trenticosta / Fleming Vindication for the Angola 3   Weekend Edition November 11 / 12, 2006 John Walsh Rahm's Losers Barucha Calamity Peller Oaxaca at Any Cost Al Krebs Be Careful What You Wish For Niall Meehan Ireland's Freedom Struggle and the Foster School of Historical Falsification Conn Hallinan The Ills of War: Shafting the Vets Patrick Cockburn "We Worry About Staying Alive, Not the U.S. Elections" Gary Leupp Democrats Can Be NeoCons, Too P. Sainath India High and Low: the Anatomy of a Tiger Nikolas Kozloff The Return of Tom Lantos: Beware Venezuela, Here Come the Democratic Hawks Lawrence R. Velvel Throwing Rumsfeld Under the Bus Fred Gardner Marijuana, the Anti-Drug Ralph Nader Taking on the Boss: Claybrook vs. the Chamber Ben Terrall / John Miller East Timor: 15 Years After the Massacre Mike Whitney Cheney in a Box Joshua Frank Post-Electoral Deliriums Mukul Dube The Death Penalty Case of Mohd. Afzal Jason Hribal Jesse: Eulogy for a Working Dog Daniel Wolff The Unseen Springsteen Michael Donnelly Red Rock Blues: the Moab Folk Festival Lord Montague A Dissenting Note on the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917 Poets' Basement Davies, Louise, Buknatski and Orloski   November 10, 2006 Alexander Cockburn Lame Duck Marjorie Cohn The War Crimes Case Against Rumsfeld Jorge Mariscal What Veterans See Gregory Elich The Trial of Saddam: Who Will Pass Judgment on the Judges? Joshua Frank Blue Dog Group: Bye-Bye Coke, Hello Pepsi Megan Boler The Joke is On Us: How "Borat" Lowers the Bar of Political Satire Ramzy Baroud The Treacherous Road to Oslo Begins Here Farzana Versey An Iraqi in India Roberto Rodriguez A Thumpin' or a Whippin'? Cartoon of the Day Splat!   November 9, 2006 Jennifer Loewenstein How Gaza Offends Us All Patrick Cockburn War of the Snipers Paul Craig Roberts Will Democrats Become Part of the Problem? Manuel Garcia, Jr. The Roots of Corruption Mike Whitney Bush's Chernobyl Economy Alan Maass The Repudiation of One-Party Rule Robert Jensen Blood on the Tracks: the Elections and the Coming Train Wreck Nicola Nasser Saddam's Trial in Context John Chuckman As I Lay Dying: Watching the US Elections from Canada Jamal Juma Between Resistance and Deception in Palestine Felice Pace Can the Klamath be Restored? Website of the Day The Robert Gates Files   November 8, 2006 Alexander Cockburn / Jeffrey St. Clair Count Your Blessings: NeoCons and NeoLibs Take Big Hit as Voters Say No to Bush, War and Free Trade Lawrence E. Walsh Robert Gates and Iran/Contra: Lies, Cover Ups and Slanted Intelligence Bruce K. Gagnon What's Next for the Peace Movement?: Confront the Democrats, Now! Neve Gordon Anti-Semitism? Mr. Dershowitz, You Just Don't Like What I Say Dave Lindorff Election Post-Mortem: What's Next? Arthur Neslen Another Tragic Day in Palestine Joshua Frank An Election Hangover: Thank God It's Over James Goodman The Corporate Food System is Broken Charles Sullivan Voting in the Absence of Choice David Swanson Subpoena Envy: The Dems Have the Power, But Will They Use It? Missy Beattie The Electorate Speaks and Barney Barks! Dr. Susan Block American Voters Say, "Bush Sucks!" Website of the Day Stealing Olive Groves from Palestinians   November 7, 2006 Michael Neumann Cut and Run from Iraq: Sooner Rather Than Later Paul Wolf Saddam Must Die: A Pre-Ordained Verdict Nikolas Kozloff In Nicaragua, a Chavez Wave? Eliza Ernshire The Women of Beit Hanoun William S. Lind The Smile on Saddam's Face: He's Tan, Rested and Ready Mike Ferner Pick a Number: Greater Than 47,615 Felice Pace Pumping the Klamath Dry Chris Genovali The Problem with PBDEs: Why Canada's Proposed Ban Won't Protect People or Wildlife Gilad Atzmon Watching Borat Dick J. Reavis Going to Class War with the Proletariat We Got ... Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Lives (and Votes) Lost: the Ordeal of Larry Peterson Website of the Day Magic Sam: a Sure Cure for the Election Day Blues Question of the Day Is Bush Gay?   November 6, 2006 Alexander Cockburn The Message of Campaign 2006 Norman Solomon Saddam's Unindicted Co-Conspirator: Donald Rumsfeld Robert Fisk A Guilty Verdict on America, as Well Marjorie Cohn The Banana Election: From Hanging Chads to Hanging Saddam Paul Craig Roberts The Goose and the Gander: Is Bush Next? Nikolas Kozloff Election Eve Jitters: the Chavez Factor Newton Garver The Progress in Bolivia: Morales' Stunning Victory Over Big Oil Mike Whitney Bush's Carnival of Blood Jesse Hagopian From the Black Panthers to the Green Party: an Interview with Aaron Dixon Dr. Peter Rost, MD The Genocide Election: When a Life Saving Industry Cheats, People Die Website of the Day Robert Pollin vs. Rick Wolff: Is Pomo Marxism Marxism?   November 4 / 5, 2006 Dave Zirin Political Players: Where Athletes Give Their Money Patrick Cockburn When Does Incompetence Become a Crime? Sanho Tree War Timing and Opportunism Ralph Nader Failure Across All Fronts Lee Sustar The Obama Myth Dr. Shepherd Bliss Torture Memories Adam Elkus Babies and Banks: Celebrity Colonialism in Africa Seth Sandronsky Is Another Recession Looming? Fred Gardner 10 Years of Medical Pot in California: Dr. Mikuriya's Observations Joshua Sperber How the US Lost Latin America Evelyn Pringle Ohio Redux: Mr. Blackwell and the Henhouse Mitchel Cohen The Left and the Environment: Notes on the Ecological Dimension Missy Beattie The Medium is the Massage Michael Dickinson Watching the Guards: a Prison Diary John Holt The Silk Road to Ruin Dr. Susan Block The Beastly Bombing Poets' Basement LaMorticella, Engel, Orloski and Davies November 3, 2006 Laura Carlsen Day of the Dead in Oaxaca Stephan Said Honoring Bradley Will John Stauber "Victory in Iraq:" The PR Machine Behind Bush's Favorite Slogan Mike Whitney Baghdad is Surrounded Joshua Frank DNC Deja Vu Victoria Furio More Than Timetables Tammara~85,441 They Say He is Coming Home Stuart Croswaithe Beatings and Sugar Plums: New Labor's War on the Kurds Missy Beattie Bush Shock Website of the Day Howlin' Wolf November 2, 2006 Winslow T. Wheeler The US Body Count in Iraq: an Analysis of Who is Dying and How Paul Craig Roberts Evil is as Evil Does Dave Lindorff Kerry Out: the Joke's Still on Us Uri Avnery The Lovable Man? Lieberman and the Decline of Israeli Democracy Jeff Birkenstein Smearing Harold Ford in Black Face John Ross Slave Labor in Private Prisons Zoltan Grossman Recharging the Anti-War Movement Eveyln Pringle The SEC's Probe of Halliburton: Is Cheney Being Fitted for a Striped Jumpsuit? Christopher Brauchli Drug Profits and PACs: Why Big Pharma Pushes the GOP   November 1, 2006 Alan Dershowitz v. Bruce Jackson On Torture Brian Tokar Running on Hype: the Real Scoop on Biofuels Fred Leonhardt Democrats, Sex Crimes and the Press: the Goldschmidt Affair Richard W. Behan Triumph of the Petropublicans: Bush's Other Civil War Brenda Norrell Indigenous Opposition to the Border Wall Charles Sullivan Spoils of Corruption: Who Will Stand Up When America Goes Wrong? Ron Jacobs Hell is Rising in Oaxaca: interview with a Oaxacan Rebel Mike Knapp Green Stench in Minnesota: the Commissioner and the Hog Lot Moshe Adler The Temptations of a Union Boss: the Case of Brian McLaughlin Walden Bello Chain Gang Economics Lee Ballinger The Collapse of Hip Capitalism: How Tower Records Committed Suicide Joshua Frank Party in a Cage: Snake Oil and the Midterm Elections Carl Gelderloos Cheerleading the Massacre in Oaxaca: an Open Letter to the Washington Post Peter Rost, MD Panic in Big Pharma Saul Landau Bush's Anti-Terrorism Record: Don't Look Too Close Website of the Day The Meatrix October 31, 2006 William S. Lind The Third and Final Act: Iran Stephen S. Pearcy Dem Candidate's Wife Urges Cindy Sheehan Not to Protest Iraq War Uri Avnery Who's Afraid of an Iranian Bomb? Michael Colby Corporations Win Again!: Bush Opens National Parks to Bio-Prospecting Sunsara Taylor A No-Win Election for Women Ben Beachy Targeting Nicaraguans' Stomachs: 11th Hour Election Meddling by the US Edward Humes Nine Words: America's Disservice to Veterans Roger Burbach The Meaning of Lula's Victory in Brazil Subcomandante Marcos A Communique from the EZLN on Oaxaca Niranjan Ramakrishnan Funny Business in the Booth: Vote for James H. 'Jim' Sharon Smith Those Damned Democrats Website of the Day Parks Not for Sale   October 30, 2006 Robert Fisk Dirty Bombs Over Lebanon: Did Israel Use Uranium Weapons? Bruce Jackson Normalizing Torture Norman Solomon I Was Wrong About Thomas Friedman, the World's Wealthiest Pundit Lance Selfa Liberal Doormats: Tread on Us Ali Khan The Veil and the British Male Elite Lee Sustar European Islamophobia: Fanning the Flames of Hate Robert Jensen The Death of Empathy Akiva Eldar Lieberman: Making Haider Look Good Tim Montague The Natural Step to Eco-Villages Brian M. Downing Evil in the Valley: Civilian Massacres, From Vietnam to Iraq Website of the Day Alien Impeachment October 27 / 29, 2006 Weekend Edition Jeffrey St. Clair Hogwash: Fecal Factories in the Heartland Maher Arar The Horrors of Extraordinary Rendition: a Personal Account David Rosen Perversions of Power: Mark Foley and the Bush Administration Gregory Elich "A Bursting Boiler at Russia's Doorstep:" Why Bush is Seeking Confrontation with N. Korea Tom Barry Fear and Loathing in the North: an Apartheid Fence in America? Jeff Taylor Democrats By Default? Dave Lindorff Why Nancy Pelosi is Wrong Ron Jacobs The General Who Called Out the Devil: the Politics of Hugo Chavez Maurus Chino Hauba Hanu: Oppression Affects All People Christopher Brauchli Veiled Threats: the Global War on Fashion Sherwood Ross The Wages of Whistleblowing: Why Bunny Greenhouse Sits in a Corner Rev. William Alberts In Search of a Real Inter-Religious Dialogue on War and Justice Aseem Shrivastava Pushing India Toward a "Dollar Democracy" Saul Landau / Farrah Hassen Bush's Mea Culpa Speech, First Draft Russ Fine / Dee Fine Of Peters and Principles: Learning About Sex and Hypocrisy from the GOP Seth Sandronsky Social Security: the Distortions of Sebastian Mallaby Michael Carmichael Rogue President: Midterm Meltdown Joe Allen The Legacy of Gillo Pontecorvo: a Maker of Revolutionary Films David Vest Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week Poets' Basement Landau, Engel and Buknatski Website of the Weekend Safely Home   October 26, 2006 Ismael Hossein-zadeh Islamic Fascism?: Inflammatory Ironies Carlos Zorrilla The Police Raid on My House: Trumped Up Charges and Collusion Between a Mining Company and the Government of Ecuador Paul Craig Roberts The Crimes of Greed vs. the Crimes of Government: If Enron's Skilling Gets 24 Years in Prison, How Many Should Bush and Cheney Get? Mike Whitney The Charnel House of Baghdad Lily Hughes A Cruel and Unusual Reality: Inside the Texas Death House Jennifer Matsui Madonna's African Safari: The Great White Baby Hunter Tim Matson How to Save Vermont Stephen Fleischman Like a Soldier: Benchmarks, Timelines and Lies Missy Beattie The Blood of October: Are We Sure Barney Still Supports This War? Patrick Cockburn From "Mission Accomplished" to "Mission Impossible" in Iraq Website of the Day Open Letter to The Nation   October 25, 2006 Michael Donnelly Ethnicity and Baseball John Stanton The Vindication of Sibel Edmonds John Ross Upheaval from the Bottom Conn Hallinan Hunting Hugo: When It's About Oil Nothing is Off the Table--Not Even Assassination Robert Jensen Academic Freedom on the Rocks Johnny Barber Drinking Tea with Hizbullah Bruce K. Gagnon Space Cowboy: Bush's War on Heaven Daniel McGowan Elie Wiesel for Israeli President? James J. Brittain Uribe's Failure to Learn from Colombia's Past Peter Harley Afghanistan in 3-D Jonathan Cook Israel's Minister of Strategic Threats Shepherd Bliss The Bioneers and the New York Times Website of the Day The Price of Staying the Course   October 24, 2006 John Walsh The Book of Rahm: Emanuel's War Plan for Democrats M. Shahid Alam Not All Terrorists Are Muslim: the Latest Falsehood from the Advocates of Civilizational War Dr. Trudy Bond The Silence at Home, as America Eats Her Young Michael Phillips The Story of My Kidnapping in Nablus: "I Never Feared for My Life" Dave Lindorff Truth and Consequences on Iraq: Bush's Latest Cut-and-Paste War Plan David Phinney A US Fortress Rises in Baghdad: Asian Labor Trafficking Used to Build World's Largest Embassy Laura Carlsen Food Insecurity: the World Needs Its Small Farmers Pierre Tristam The American Way of Gore Marguerite Rose Jimenez "About That Trip to Cuba:" When the FBI Came Calling Website of the Day Tampon Terrorists   October 23, 2006 Saree Makdisi Israel's Cluster Bomb War: "What We Did Was Insane and Monstrous" Joshua Frank The Antiwar Movement and Independent Politics: an Interview with Cindy Sheehan Fred Gardner What Have California Doctors Learned About Cannabis? Ralph Nader The End of Habeas Corpus and the Belligerent Despot-in-Chief Ron Jacobs Bush's Clark Clifford: James Baker Wants a Kinder, Gentler War Norman Solomon Punditry Without Consequences: Channeling Thomas Friedman Richard Manning Outside the Market: We Need and Owe Rural People Neil Kitson Canadians in Afghanistan: Bloody, Unbowed, Stoned? William MacDougall The Socialist, the Columnist, His Wife and the Prostitute Gilad Atzmon Surviving the Board of Deputies Werther The Evening of Empire Website of the Day Different Drummer: Internet Coffeehouse Movement   October 20 / 22, 2006 Alexander Cockburn The Myth of Microloans Gary Leupp How the US Declared War on North Korea Brian Cloughley What Are They Dying For? Dave Zirin Pat Tillman's Brother Breaks His Silence William Blum Don't Look Back: Who Said Clinton Didn't Kill Anybody? Christopher Brauchli The Cronies' War Winslow Wheeler The Mad Logic of Pentagon Spending: As Costs Rise, Readiness Declines Michael Donnelly GOP Death Slide: Is the Party Really Over? Fred Gardner Corporate Drugs Useless Against Alzheimer's Susie Day How to Stay Out of Gitmo Lucinda Marshall Behind Closed Doors: the Invisibility of Domestic Violence Fred Wilcox The Second Palestinian Intifada: History of a Struggle for Survival Alan Maass Standing Up Against Racism at Columbia: a Wake Up Call to the Passive Left Lee Sustar A Bipartisan Border Wall: New Phases in the Crackdown on Immigrants Ariadna Theokopoulos Shame on You, Dr. Warf: Hail the Epidemiologist in Chief Missy Beattie Surges: the Dow and the Death Count CP News Wire Bush's Paraguay Land Grab: Hideout or Water Raid? CP News Services Sexually Repressed Republicans: Robert Bork, Riveted Poets' Basement Davies, Engel, Buknatski and Orloski Website of the Weekend Scenes from Oaxaca   October 19, 2006 Elaine Cassel The Bush Administration's Assault on Defense Lawyers Col. Dan Smith Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine: Cracks in the Bush / Blair Axis Manuel Garcia, Jr. North Korea's Nuclear Test: a Q & A Josh Gryniewicz Wal-Mart Tightens the Squeeze on Workers Amira Hass What is 20 Tons of Explosives? Eric Holt-Gimenez Poison and Famine in the Fields: How the Agri-Food Industry's Deadly Cycle Feeds Immigration Jesse Hagopian Arrested Democracy: On Trying to Ignore Aaron Dixon Sam Husseini How Third Parties Can Solve the "Spoiler" Problem and Win Elections John Weisheit A Gathering of Water Buffaloes: Feds Celebrate Death of the Colorado River CP News Service A Plea to U2 From Africa's Children: Stop Bono Before He Kills Again Website of the Day George W. Bush: Hollywood Producer Art Gallery of the Day Botero's Abu Ghraib Paintings in Manhattan   October 18, 2006 Joshua Frank Cindy Sheehan's Lesser Evilism: Democrats or Bust? Dr. Curran Warf, MD Slandering Sound Science: Bush's Attack on the Lancet Iraq War Death Study Saul Landau Bush's Foley: Will the Dems Blow It? Tom Barry The Politics of Fear Bruce Jackson Thundersnow: a Report from Buffalo Dave Lindorff Loveless Among the Ruins: Even Repubs Flee Bush's Failed Middle East Policy Frederico Fuentes When Cochabamba Said "Enough": Bolivia's Blow to Neoliberalism Michael Simmons Greetings from Echo Park: an Open Letter to Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner Daryll E. Ray The Root Problems in American Agriculture Kate Doyle The Dead of Tlatelolco Website of the Day The Lynne Stewart Defense Committee   October 17, 2006 Michael Neumann Hit and Run: Guerrilla Reviewing Manuel Garcia, Jr. Nuclear Test, Political Flare: Interpreting the Physics and Politics of N. Korea's Nuclear Test Stephen S. Pearcy The Interrogation of Julia Wilson: Secret Service Grills 14 Year-Old Artist Sharon Smith Afghanistan Reconsidered: The Taliban Aren't Gone, Women Haven't Been Liberated Al Krebs The Corporate Assault on Zoning David Underhill Politicus Interruptus: Come Back, Jo Bonner Daniel Wolff NY's Iraq Veterans Against the War Needs Your Help ... Now James Brooks Desirable Duds: Israeli / US Cluster Bombs Litter Lebanon Website of the Day Stop Torture Now   October 16, 2006 Gary Leupp North Korea as a Religious State Patrick Cockburn General Mutinies Against Blair David Wilson Where Have All the Doctors Gone?: the Collapse of Iraq's Health Care Services Robert Fisk Confronting Turkey's Armenian Genocide Robert Jensen Racism and Cheap Thrills at U. of Texas Law School Ingmar Lee / Krista Roessingh An Appeal for S. India's Wild Elephants Mike Whitney America's Other War Party Jake Whitney The Courageous Dr. Rost Sanho Tree Sugar Daddy Politics: Was Foley Blackmailed to Secure His Vote on CAFTA? Website of the Day Best War Ever   October 14/15, 2006 Weekend Edition Uri Avnery Gaza as Laboratory: the Great Experiment John Walsh How Rahm Emmanuel Has Rigged a Pro-War Congress Jean Bricmont A Fable About Palestine Jennifer Van Bergen Bush's Military Commissions Act and the Future of America Ralph Nader Wilted Yankees: the Fruits of Checkbook Baseball Floyd Rudmin The Logic of Proliferation: How Bush's Belligerence Prompted N. Korea to Pursue Nuclear Weapons Mark Weisbrot Correcting the Facts on US/Venezuela Relations Laura Carlsen Building a Future in the Mixteca Hani Shukrallah A Stroll Through the Cairo Mall: Shopping as Cultural Pursuit Dr. Susan Block The Spent Milk of Human Foley John Chuckman North Korea's Bomb: Still 1,126 Nuke Tests Behind the US Lucinda Marshall Is Betty Ugly?: the Profits of Denigration Don Monkerud The Case Against Depleted Uranium Missy Comley Beattie What Bush Means By Tolerable Violence in Iraq Ron Jacobs Shouting "No One is Illegal" in a Crowded Theater Website of the Weekend Ratfink Raunchfest   October 13, 2006 Jorge Mariscal PowerPoint Racism: How Military Recruiters Pitch to Latinos Stephen Philion The Myth of the Spat Upon Vets: an Interview with Jerry Lembcke John Blair Strip Mining Wildlife Preserves: Black Beauty's Filthy Lucre Col. Dan Smith Oil, Atoms and War Alastair Crooke / Mark Perry How Hezbollah Defeated Israel: Part Two, Winning the Ground War Stephen Fleischman Journalism Then and Now Charles Perroud The Death Penalty's Invisible Victims Anne E. Brodsky Return to Afghanistan: Where the Rhetoric Doesn't Match the Reality Website of the Day Underwater Nuke Test   October 12, 2006 Jonathan Cook Israel's Plan for a Military Strike on Iran Norman Solomon The Pundit Path to Death in Iraq M. Shahid Alam On Colonialism and Colleagues Paul Craig Roberts Can We Call It Genocide Now? Meredith Schafer / Chris Kutalik Is a General Transportation Strike Looming for 2008? Can Labor Seize the Moment? Carl Gelderloos Images of Occupation: Teaching in Nablus Alastair Crooke / Mark Perry How Hezbollah Defeated Israel: Part One, Winning the Intelligence War Charles Sullivan Assassins of Truth William S. Lind Why Do We Still Fight a Lost War? CP News Service The South Turns Against the War Website of the Day There's a Riot Goin' On   October 11, 2006 John Feffer Pyongyang 1, Bush 0 Dave Lindorff A Killing Occupation Jackson Katz Gunning Down Women: Coverage of "School Shootings" Misses Central Issue April Howard / Ben Dangl The Tin War in Bolivia Michael Carmichael World War W Ken Couesbouc The New Witchcraft: Marvin Harris on the War on Terror Gregory Afghani Sleepless on Skid Row: Guilty of Being Homeless in America Alexander Cockburn 600,000 Dead in Iraq: Chortles in the New Yorker for Slaughter's Cheerleader, C. Hitchens Website of the Day Petition: Defend Columbia Students Who Confronted the Minutemen   October 10, 2006 Paul Craig Roberts Lost Wars and a Lost Economy Robert Robideau The Myth Keepers of Columbus Joshua Frank The Democrats and the War on Civil Liberties Dave Lindorff Free the Press Free Linda Greenhouse Dave Zirin Brother of the Fist Heather Gray Where Votes Matter: My Experience in South Africa James Knotwell Big Ag in the Heartland: the Future of Nebraska's Family Farms Missy Beattie The Return of James Baker, III Mike Whitney Bush and North Korea: Bumbling Toward Disaster David Rosen Sex Panic on Capitol Hill: Mark Foley and the Politics of Sex in America Website of the Day Eno / Byrne: Music to Enjoy the Foley Scandal By   October 9. 2006 Robert Fisk The Age of Terror Norman Solomon Welcome to the Nuclear Club Ron Jacobs The Boom Heard Around the World Gideon Levy The Mystery of America Walter Brasch Their Back Pages: Sex, Lies and Family Values Mickey Z. Who Killed Michael Moore? John Holt Grizzlies in Our Midst: Can Humans and Bears Coexist? Lucinda Marshall Not So Pretty in Pink: Profits and Breast Cancer Saul Landau Post-Castro Cuba Website of the Day War, Inc.     October 7 / 8, 2006 Weekend Edition Alexander Cockburn Wargasms and Orgasms Peter Kwong The Chinese Face of Neoliberalism Ralph Nader Revolt of the Generals Mark Donham What Cynthia McKinney Means to Me Dave Lindorff Philly's Police Snoops Peter Bosshard World Bank Shuts Out Dissident Voices: Big Dams, Huge Profits & Political Corruption Ron Jacobs Evil Hour in Colombia Lawrence R. Velvel Governmental Derelicts: Moral Meltdown in America Fred Gardner Arnold Vetoes Hemp Bill David Green The US, Israel and the Invasion of Lebanon Jim B. Activism, Incorporated: Outsourcing Grassroots Politics? Missy Beattie Prayers for Peace at the Edge of the Abyss Michael Donnelly Blame the Page: Grand Old Perverts Go on Offensive Jackson Thoreau Enter Newt Jon Hung Revisiting Korematsu: Denying Civil Rights Based on National Origin CounterPunch News Service Why We Confronted the Minutemen at Columbia Tom D'Antoni Playlist Poets' Basement Orloski, Davies, Tirado, Gaffney and Ford Website of the Weekend Reagan Gone Wild   October 6, 2006 Alison Weir Just Another Mother Murdered Tiffany Ten Eyck / Mark Brenner Made in (DeUnionized) America Corporate Crime Reporter Look Who's Behind "37 Reasons" to Vote for Big Business: Former Clinton PR Flak Mike McCurry Juan Antonio Montecino Cleaving a False Divide in Latin America Walden Bello A Siamese Tragedy Christopher Brauchli Rank Invitations: Dining with Bush Brynne Keith-Jennings Dan Burton in Nicaragua: the Congressman, His Stick and the Elections Jonathan Cook The Struggle for Palestine's Soul Website of the Day Fighting Hog Farms and Clearcuts in the Heartland   October 5, 2006 John Walsh Turn the Page Carol Norris The Radical Right, the Myth of the Gay Child Abuser and You: a Psychotherapist on the Hysteria Over Foley Paul Craig Roberts Will November Bring Hope or Another Stolen Election? Ricardo Alarcón The Truth About the Embargo of Cuba James Abourezk Waterboarding the Constitution: After Torture, What's Next? Nicola Nasser Removing Hamas: Brinksmanship or Coup d'Etat? Kirkpatrick Sale Breaking Away: the First North American Secessionist Conference Uri Avnery Peace with Syria: Lunch in Damascus Website of the Day More Naughty GOP Messages October 4, 2006 Elizabeth Terzakis The Walls That Racism Built: Blood Revenge, the Death Penalty and Kevin Cooper Paul Wolf The Mushy Rebellion: Pakistan Under Musharraf Sean Penn The Arrogant, the Misguided and the Cowards Dave Lindorff Outrage as Misdirection: The Real Scandal isn't Foley Diane Farsetta For Sale: Iraqi Kurdistan Sharon Smith Democrats: Yes to War, No to Pedophilia Felice Pace Revoking 1776 Sara Roy The Economy of Gaza Website of the Day Alexander Cockburn: the Video Interview (Part Two) October 3, 2006 Jennifer Van Bergen Compassionate Conservative Pedophiles Greg Moses The Infallible Empire: Junking Habeas Corpus Stan Cox Real Bad ID: a National Driver's License and the Fading Right of Anonymity Niranjan Ramakrishnan How Empires Die Evelyn Pringle Big Pharma Takes a Hit: Alaska's Supreme Court Outlaws Forced Drugging Fred Wilhelms SoundExchange and Unpaid Music Artists: Help Us Find These Musicians and Get Them Paid Michael Abelman Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food: the Risks of Convenience and Consolidation Gary Leupp The Foley Follies Website of the Day Bush and Blair: Endless Love   October 2, 2006 Eric Hazan Roadmap to Nowhere: an Interview with Tanya Reinhart on Israel/Palestine Since 2003 Mike Whitney Bloodbath on 60 Minutes: Court Stenographer Finally Comes Clean Norman Solomon American Narcissism and Iraq Assaf Kfoury Meeting Nasrallah Missy Beattie The Meaning of "ummmm": Speaker Hasert and the Over-Friendly Congressman Arthur Neslen Lie Less in Gaza Paula J. 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Almost Home, CounterPunchers! Annual Fundraising Appeal We interrupt your regular reading habits to bring you the following important announcement: CounterPunch needs your financial support! We're not in the habit of making idle threats and this isn't one. Either we meet our fundraising goal of $60,000 over the next three weeks or we'll be forced to drastically curtail the operation of our website. It's near the end of our year and the wolves are gathering at the door. CounterPunch's website is supported almost entirely by subscribers to the print edition of our newsletter. We don't clutter the site by selling annoying popup ads. We tried getting money out of Google, but they gave us the boot. We aren't on the receiving end of six-figure grants from big foundations. George Soros doesn't have us on retainer. And we don't sell tickets on cruiseliners. The continued existence of CounterPunch depends solely on the support and dedication of our readers. And we know there are a lot of you. We get thousands of emails from you every day. Our website receives nearly 100,000 visits each day-and those numbers grow by the month. Of course, all these readers chew up a lot of bandwidth and that costs money. Through the Iraq war, the daily traumas of the Bush administration, hurricanes, earthquakes and the disappearance of the Democrats, many of you have found a refuge at CounterPunch and made us your homepage. You tell us that you love CounterPunch because the quality of writing you find here every day and because we never flinch under fire. We appreciate the support and are prepared for the fierce battles to come as the Bush administration expands its wars abroad and at home. Unlike many other outfits, we don't hit you up for money every month ... or even every quarter. We only ask for your support once a year. But we when ask, we mean it. Please, make a tax-deductible donation to CounterPunch today or purchase a subscription and a gift subscription or a crate of books as holiday presents, including Cockburn and St. Clair's latest book on the decline of the press: End Times: the Death of the Fourth Estate. To contribute by phone you can call Becky or Deva toll free at: 1-800-840-3683 or mail contribution to: CounterPunch PO Box 228 Petrolia, CA 95558 Onward, Alexander, Jeffrey, Becky and Deva November 16, 2006 Where is the Justice? Anti-Castro Terrorist Gets Only 4 Years By GLORIA La RIVA A man like Santiago Alvarez, who can be heard on a telephone, calling on one of his underlings to throw C-4 explosives into Havana's Tropicana nightclub and "do away with all that"--all that being hundreds of people--a man like Santiago Alvarez who had machine guns, bazookas and grenades in a massive Miami arsenal, is sentenced to only a four-year prison sentence this week in a southern Florida federal court. Yet, the Cuban Five, five men who were in Miami working to prevent a terrorist like Alvarez from killing innocent people, who never possessed a weapon, who never engaged nor intended to engage in the "espionage conspiracy" they were falsely convicted of, received 15 years to double life after their 2001 trial, and the added punishment of being denied family visits. Alvarez and his accomplice Osvaldo Mitat were allowed to plead guilty to only one charge of weapons possession. Before their sentencing, federal judge James Cohn said, "This court recognizes the ultimate objective and goal of Mr. Alvarez and Mr. Mitat has always been a free and democratic Cuba. This court does not question the altruistic motive here. However we are a nation of laws." The government's and courts' impunity towards the Miami terrorists is becoming more and more blatant. Almost every day it seems, more news is coming to light in Miami of the vast and deep network of rightwing Cuban-American terrorists and their murderous plots: Antonio Llama, Roberto Ferro, Alvarez, Mitat, and of course, the most dangerous of them all, Luis Posada Carriles. Posada's cohort, Orlando Bosch, gets to appear regularly on Miami TV, itching to admit his atrocious crime of the 1976 bombing of Cubana Flight 455 that killed 73 people. Bosch and Posada worked hand-in-hand in the plane bombing. Where is the justice? Last Aug. 9, 2005, an historic and unprecedented ruling was made by a panel of three judges in the case of the Cuban Five. With a powerfully-worded 93-page decision granting the Five a new trial, the 11th Circuit Court judges ruled that the situation in Miami was a "perfect storm" effectively denying Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González the constitutional right to due process. Part of that "perfect storm" described by the judges was the evidence of terrorist plots the Five had gathered while infiltrating the extremist Miami organizations. The trial judge Joan Lenard denied much of that evidence as irrelevant.. A new trial outside of Miami for the Cuban Five would have undoubtedly exonerated them. However, the hand of the Bush administration intervened last year, when U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appealed the Five's victory, to try to overturn the panel's ruling for a new trial. Unfortunately, the en banc panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals set aside the Cuban Five's victory. It ruled ignominiously on Aug. 9, 2005, that the Five received a fair trial in Miami, and that Judge Lenard properly denied them a change of venue out of Miami. While George W. Bush unleashes bombs and destruction causing the deaths of Iraqis, Afghanis and U.S. soldiers--all in the name of a supposed war on terror--he has remained completely silent about the rightwing Cuban-American terrorists who reside in the United States. His actions are those of coddling the Cuban-American terrorists. U.S. Homeland Security waited two full months before arresting Luis Posada Carriles after he entered the United States illegally last year. When DHS was finally forced to detain Posada on May 17 because of a public press conference he held that morning, Homeland Security prosecutors avoided charging him with more serious crimes, like the Cubana plane bombing. Instead, Posada's only formal charge to date is illegal immigration entry. To the extent that federal authorities may currently be investigating him for his role into several 1997 Cuban hotel bombings, it is probably to avoid prosecuting him for the plane bombing. That is because Bush Sr. was CIA director at the time of the Cubana bombing; Posada was a longtime CIA operative. It is more than an oversight by Bush or previous presidents that Miami terrorists have existed, organized plots, and carried out attacks with total impunity. The Miami terrorist phenomenon is financed, armed, and given a green light by the CIA, FBI and other arms of the government. There is mounting evidence that proves without a doubt, terrorism against Cuba is part of U.S. government policy. If the government won't listen to justice and reason in the case of the Cuban Five, if it instead chooses to vengefully prosecute them to keep them locked up for years for daring to defend their homeland of Cuba, then it is up to the people to fight ever more for their freedom. The Cuban Five's mission was not only saving Cuban lives, but protecting all potential victims of the Miami mafia, including U.S. people. The American people would embrace the Five if they were only aware of their cause and mission. September 11 and Oklahoma are permanent reminders of the horror of terrorism. Terrorism against the Cuban people is no less criminal. More than 3,400 Cuban people have died from U.S.-originated terrorist attacks. Justice demands that the Cuban Five anti-terrorist activists be freed immediately. In addition, Posada should be extradited to Venezuela or prosecuted fully in the United States for bombing of Cubana Flight 455. Gloria La Riva is coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five in San Francisco. She can be reached at: glorialariva@hotmail.com   What You're Missing in Our Subscriber-only CounterPunch Newsletter A Special Investigation: China's Mass Murder for Body Parts CounterPunch outlines the terrible evidence that thousands of Falun Gong members have been killed to supply China's body parts trade with the West. 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