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Today's
Stories
May 23,
2007
Patrick Cockburn
Opium:
Iraq's Newest Export
May 22,
2007
Robert Fisk
A
Front Row Seat for the Bloodbath in Lebanon
Joshua Frank
Hillary Clinton's Achilles Heel?
Harvey Wasserman
Drop Dead, New Yorkers: Giuliani and the Toxic Fallout from 9/11
David Mos Masumoto
An Orchard Without Workers
Sonja Karkar
Israeli Forest Named After Australian Prime Minister
Conn Hallinan
The Afghan Quagmire
Dave Lindorff
A Widening Chasm on Impeachment
Jeffrey Kolakowski
Meet Us in Detroit: an Open Letter to John Konyers
Evelyn Pringle
A Misleading Suicide Warning
Jim Baumer
Politics Gary, Indiana-Style
Website of the Day
Should the Democrats Fear Mike Gravel?
May 21, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
The
Secret US Plot to Kill Sadr
Nicole Colson
Much Ado About the Fort Dix Pizza Plot
John Ross
Shooting for the Top: Mexico's Drug Gangs Take Aim at Calderon
Stephen Fleischman
Werewolf of Washington: Wolfowitz Comes Full Circle
M. Shahid Alam
Chosenness and Israeli Exceptionalism
Ron Jacobs
Green Mountain Days: Return to Vermont
Peter Rost, MD
Pfizer CFO Resigns
Alan Farago
Can the Everglades Save Florida?
Paul Buchheit
The Dark Side of Democracy Promotion
Website of
the Day
Code Monkey: Live!
May 19 /
20, 2007
Andrew Cockburn
Why
America Lost the War in Iraq
Uri Avnery
The Next War
Peter Gelderloos
My Arrest in Spain: The Easy Road from Tourism to Terrorism
Saul Landau
Bush's Accomplishments
Robert Fantina
Iraq's History: Lessons for the Present and the Future
Fred Gardner
Hemp vs. Pot, a False Dichotomy
Ralph Nader
Timid Democrats and the Antiwar Movement
Jean Daniels
Waiting for Obama
Reza Fiyouzat
Vietnam Syndrome: Dead or Alive?
Missy Beattie
Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani and Osama's Fatwah
Robert Alvarez
Magical Thinking About Nuclear Waste
Sonja Karkar
The Palestinians of Iraq
Dave Lindorff
Mumia Case on Hold
Jeff Sher
Keep Workers Healthy and Reduce Health Care Cost: Eliminate Co-Pays
Julian C. Holmes
Torture, Maine Style
Clancy Sigal
Red Mutiny: 11 Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin
Prairie Miller
The Murder of Fred Hampton
James Murren
The Dog Ate Karl Rove's Homework: When Turd Blossom Met the Teachers
of the Year
Poets' Basement
Davies, Valentine and Engel
Website of
the Weekend
Yellowstone's Shame: Harassing Newborn Bison
May 18,
2007
Adam Jones
When
Does Genocide Purify? Ask the Pope
Sharon Smith
The Death of Triangulation Politics?
Christopher Brauchli
Cheney's Middle East Adventure
Peter Rost,
MD
Bribes and Spies in the Drug Industry
Denise Maloney Pictou
The Murder of Our Mother, Anna Mae Pictou Aquash: After 31 Years,
It is Time for Justice
David Swanson
Of Snoops and Dupes
Ali Khan
The Lawyers' Mutiny in Pakistan
Susan Rosenthal,
M.D.
Cho Seung-Hui Delivers His Message
Samer Assad
Israel and the Refugees: Fifty-Nine Years of Dispossession
CP News Service
Bidding for Extinction: Ivory Trade on eBay Threatens Survival
of Elephants
Website of the Day
Another War Criminal Goes to Harvard
May 17,
2007
Tariq Ali
The
General vs. the Judge
Yifat Susskind
Honor
Killings in the New Iraq: The Murder of Du'a Aswad
Dave Zirin
Being Ali or Being Owned: an Open Letter to LeBron James
Brian J. Foley
Hell, No, Harry Won't Go!
W. John Green
The Godfather of Colombia: Uribe and the Para Scandal
Eric Johnson-DeBaufre
Challenges for the New Sanctuary Movement
Badruddin Khan
Rebirthing the Neocons: Bernard Lewis' Latest Call to Arms
Martha Rosenberg
From Cockfighting to Foie Gras: On the Menu and on the Docket
China Hand
Pope Rat in Brazil: "The Amazon Tribes Longed for Christianity!"
Dan Vojir
Falwell's Tinky Winky Legacy: Who Will Battle the Telebubby Threat
Now?
Website of the Day
Welcome to the Terrordome
May 16, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
Chalabi
Speaks
Ashley Dawson
Who's Afraid of Wolfowitz?
Joshua Frank
Obama's Cash Flow: Maverick or Kidder?
Corporate Crime
Reporter
Corporate Drug Pushers
Ray McGovern
A Four-Letter Word for Tenet
Glen Ford
Black Labor and the Big Mission
Joe Bageant
The Ghosts of Timothy Leary and Hunter S. Thompson
Sonja Karkar
The 59-Year Catastrophe
Mickey S. Huff
Preaching Hate: Farewell, Falwell
John Chuckman
Falwell's Lone Act of Kindness
Kaz Dziamka
What Ever Happened to Rogerian Argument?
Website of
the Day
We're All Going to Hell
May 15,
2007
Michael Neumann
Two
States, One State and Snake Oil
Patrick Cockburn
An American Nightmare
Ashley Smith
How the US Set Iraq on Fire
Marc Gardner
Parole and the Long-Distance Trucker
Dave Lindorff
and Linn Washington, Jr
Mumia Case Reaches Its Climax
Ben Terrall
Benchmark as Theft: Iraq Oil Workers Strike to Stop Privatization
Ron Jacobs
Cheney Threatens More War
Harvey Wasserman
The Legacy of Seabrook
Marcus Mabry
Shopping During Katrina
Dr. Susan Block
Cheney and the DC Madam's Cookie Jar
Website of the Day
Save Jean Klock Park from the Mega-Developers!
May 14,
2007
Jennifer Roesch
Giuliani
Time: the Mussolini of Manhattan
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Humans,
CO2 and Climate Change
George Bisharat
For Palestinians, Memory Matters
Diane Wachtell
The Real Imus Lesson
Ramzy Baroud
From Palestine to Rotterdam
Rosemary and
Walter Brasch
When the National Guard Goes Missing: An Ill Wind and American
Policy
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Blair's Exit
Roberto Rodriguez
The Elusive Bars of Justice
Jonathan Culp
Cutting Out Collage: Copyright and Art in Canada
Website of
the Day
Uranium Rock
May 12 /
13, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Who
are the Merchants of Fear?
Patrick Cockburn
State of Surge
Jeffrey St. Clair
High Line Fever: a Trip Across the Dark Side of Montana
Diane Farsetta
Untold Stories from the Pat Tillman / Jessica Lynch Hearings
Ralph Nader
Strip Mining the Newsroom: Mr. Zell and the Tribune Company
Jean Bricmont
The Great Illusion: Sarkozy and the "Decline" of France
Marcus Breen
Cheering Sarkozy: the US Media and the Rightwing Takeover of
France
Joe Bageant
Rising Above Politics
Conn Hallinan
European Missiles and the Camel's Nose
Fred Gardner
The Unreported I-880 Fire
Juan Santos
and Leslie Radford
Public Terror: Escalating the War on Migrants
Eve Bachrach
Inside Colombia's Flower Industry
Missy Comley
Beattie
Shame
Ron Jacobs
The Bitterness of Regis Debray
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Sepoy Mutiny After 150 Years
Susie Day
Jesus Christ Weds Pat Robertson
Poets' Basement
Newberry, Engel, Landau, Katz and Davies
Website of the Weekend
The Shipyard: Recycling as Art
May 11,
2007
Patrick Cockburn
Blair's
Depature: the View from Baghdad
Kathleen Christison
Playing at Peace
Mike Ferner
Collateral Genocide
John Holt
Gating Montana: A Ghastly Disneyland with High Rise Outhouses
Laurie Hasbrook
This Minute and Then the Next: a Plea from an Antiwar Mother
Christopher
Brauchli
The Children of Limbo: Will the Pope Finally Set Them Free?
Margaret Kimberley
GOP Openly Embraces Gipper Values: Racism, Violence and Control
Dave Lindorff
Use It or Lose It: The Democrats and the Impeachment Clause
Nicole Colson
Anger Erupts at Conditions in For-Profit Indiana Prison
John V. Walsh
Beware the Do-Gooders in Body Armor
Website of the Day
Take the Terrorist Quiz!
May 10,
2007
Tariq Ali
Adieu,
Blair, Adieu
Patrick Cockburn
Killing of Teachers Turns Iraqi Sunnis Against al--Qa'ida
Neve Gordon
and Yigal Bronner
In Israel Not All Blood is the Same: The Death of Samir Dari
Marjorie Cohn
Fighting Terror Selectively: Washington and Posada Carriles
David Rosen
The New Disappeared: Sex Offenders, Civil Confinement and the
Resurrection of "Evil"
Alan Farago
Why the Everglades Have Dried Up: Developers and the South Florida
Drought
John Hellman
France: From Pétain to Sarkozy
Kathy Rentenbach
A 100 Days of Rafael Correa
BANCO
The Stage is Set for Sentencing Another Innocent Black Man
Richard Rhames
Is Paris Burning?
Website of the Day
Tame the Corporation
May 9, 2007
Jeff Leys
Iraq
and Afghanistan Supplemental Spending, 2008
Patrick Cockburn
An Interview with Iraq's Foreign Minister on Iran and Iraq
Glen Ford
No Black Plan for America's Cities
Paula Rothenberg
Feminism Then and Now
Kathryn Weber
A Conversation with Norman Finkelstein
John Chuckman
The Likely Historical Significance of the War in Iraq
Jordan Flaherty
Looking for Justice in Jena, Louisiana
Dave Lindorff
Pelosi's Toothless Threat to Sue Bush
Stephen Lendman
Criminalizing Speech: the War on Free Expression in a Post-9/11
World
Website of
the Day
"Fifth and Market": a Short Film About the Iraq War
May 8, 2007
Dave Lindorff
The
Great Oil Robbery
Patrick Cockburn
The Horrific Stoning Death of a Yazidi Girl Sparks Waves of Revenge
Killings
Corporate Crime Reporter
Snuff Politics: Democrats Escalate Attack on Single Payer
Ralph Nader
The People's Crusade of Mike Gravel
Malini Johar Schueller
Decoding Harlan Ullman: Shock and Awe as Sexual Fantasy
Juan Santos
The Hate Equation: Targeting Migrant Children in LA
Dave Zirin
Jason Whitlock, the Clarence Thomas of Sportswriters?
Joshua Frank
The Price of Fire in Latin America
Evelyn Pringle
Serotonin Syndrome
Eamonn McCann
Irish Peace Dividend for Discredited Premiers
Website of the Day
The Pagan Science Monitor
May 7, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
The
Great Wall of Baghdad Rises
Monica Benderman
Land of Opportunity
Greg Moses
Hutto Prison Rebuffs UN Rapporteur
Rannie Amiri
The Sham at Sheikh: Iraq Regional Conference a Flop
Fitrakis / Wasserman
Media Silence on Kent State Revelations
Fred Wilhelms
Another Royalty Forfeiture From SoundExchange: And This Time
It's Secret!
Ramzy Baroud
The Hourglass of Blood: Darfur Revisited
Bruce K. Gagnon
The Democrats Don't Own the Antiwar Movement
T. W. Croft
Home Movies from a Weekend in Paris--And Related Dreamscapes
Sonja Karkar
Prizes for Supporting Israel?
Website of the Day
Posada Carriles: the Declassified Record
May 5 / 6, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Trying
to Catch Up with the Voters
William Blum
How America Has Changed Iraq
Uri Avnery
Exercise in Escapism
Franklin Lamb
Harvard's Twisted Report on Israel's Invasion of Lebanon
Fred Gardner
Elective Surgeries Kill
Lawrence R.
Velvel
The American Moral Meltdown Accelerates
Missy Beattie
Lying and Dying: The Moral Sensibility
of Military Recruiters
Robert Fantina
Bush's Veto: Hypocritical Words and Actions
Carla Blank
American Massacres and the Media
Linn Washington,
Jr.
The Long Ordeal of Harold Wilson
Stephen F. Jackson
Taking It to Drummond: Paramilitaries and Mining Companies in
Colombia
P. Sainath
The Jailing of Indian Farmers
Anthony Papa
Time to End New York's War on Itself
James T. Phillips
Blather Cancer
John Ross
Last Days of the Willie Loman of the EZLN
Stephen Lendman
Chavez's Oil Policy Sparks Panic at Wall Street Journal
Ben Terrall
Iggy Pop at 60
CounterPunch
Newswire
Advice from a Geezer Assassin
Poets' Basement
Valentine, Engel and Davies
Website of
the Weekend
Mountain Justice Summer
May 4, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
How
the Surge is Failing
Col. Dan Smith
From Watergate to Gonzogate
Norman Solomon
FOX on Wall Street
Azmi Bishara
Why is Israel After Me?
Ron Jacobs
Sitting in on Senator Kohl and the War
Dave Lindorff
Clinton and Byrd are Calling for Revocation of the Wrong AUMF
Kevin Zeese
The Democrats Cave to Bush
Bob Fitrakis
Why Four Died in Ohio: Kent State, Gov. Rhodes and the FBI
Janet Kauffman
"Stop the Mudness!" Bare Earth is Scorched Earth
Website of
the Day
Let Us Gather in Missouri!
May 3, 2007
Jeff Halper
The
Livni-Rice Plan for the Middle East: a Just Peace or Apartheid?
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush's
Best and Brightest: From Dr. Keroack to Bernard Kerik
Dave Zirin
Talking Sports from Death Row: an Interview with Kevin Cooper
Corporate Crime
Reporter
Big Pharma Gets Its Hooks into Seton Hall Law School
Robert Fisk
Olmert Comes Undone
Mike Ferner
Bush Veto, Right for the Wrong Reasons?
Mike Whitney
A Stock Market Post-Mortem
Pham Binh
The Democrats and War Funding
Dave Lindorff
Kucinich's Impeachment Train: Look Who Just Stepped Aboard
Michael A.
Johnson
Tenet on 60 Minutes
Website of the Day
Olivia Wilde: the Interview
May 2, 2007
Saul Landau
Would
Jesus Wear a Rolex on His TV Show?
Dr. Susan Block
Hookergate II: Madame Julia's Big Black Book of Cheesy Republican
Sex Acts
Carla Blank
Historical Amnesia: Worst U.S. Massacre?
Margaret Kimberly
The Candor of Mike Gravel: "These People Frighten Me"
Kevin Zeese
Durbin Gives Edwards More to Apologize For
Carlos Villareal
How "Law and Order" Covers for Bigotry in the Immigration
Debate
Michael Dickinson
Trouble in Turkey: Criminalizing Political Art
Tim Shorrock
A Raw Deal Between Washington and Seoul: Corporate Interventionism
as Trade Policy
Alevtina Rea
The Myth-Makers of Estonia
William S.
Lind
General Incompetence: Col. Yingling and the Military Brass
Website of the Day
Good News: Rost's "ZubeGate Exposé Prompts Congressional
Inquiry
May 1, 2007
Andrew Cockburn
How
Rumsfeld Micromanaged Torture
Fred Gardner
Affirmative Abstinence: Adios, Randall Tobias, the Man Who Turned
His Wife's Suicide into a Sales Pitch for Prozac
Chase Madar
Are Working Class Jobs Bad for Your Health?
Ralph Nader
Cheney and the BYU 25: Faith, Accountability and Protest in Utah
John V. Walsh
Edgy Dems Snarl at Their Antiwar Base
Joshua Frank
Obama, Incorporated
Leslie Radford
The Migrant Trap and the Migrant's Way Out
Shaun Harkin
An Interview with Nativo López on Immigration Bills and
Protests
Dave Lindorff
Murtha Talks Impeachment
Peter Rost,
MD
Inspector General Requests Meeting with Pfizer Whistleblower
Peter Linebaugh
May Day and Magna Carta
Website of
the Day
Impeachment? Why Bother?
April 30,
2007
Frank Menetrez
Dershowitz
v. Finkelstein: Who's Right and Who's Wrong?
Paul Craig
Roberts
Incompetence at the Top: Tenet and His Masters
Ray McGovern
Tenet's Self-Serving Apologia
Manuel Garcia,
Jr.
Fire Collapses Oakland Freeway as Steel Supports Fail
Diana Johnstone
The Three Rs of "Sarko the American"
Sherwood Ross
A So-Called "Liberal" Answers His Death Threats
Peter Rost, MD
Did Pfizer Illegally Market Its New HIV/AIDS Drug?
Robert Jensen
Anti-Capitalism
in Five Minutes
Kevin Zeese
While Congress Voted for War, the Peace Movement Protested Inside
the Senate
Jane Stillwater
Dalai Lama and Costco
Website of
the Day
Francis Boyle: Impeaching Bush
April 28
/ 29, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Is
Global Warming a Sin?
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Versailles on the Potomac
Fred Gardner
Fuel for a Killer: What Drugs Had Cho Taken?
David Orchard
and Michael Mandel
Afghanistan and Iraq are the Same War
Alan Maass
The War on Hip Hop: an Interview with Dave Marsh
Joe Bageant
Why Are Leftists So Damn Afraid of God?
Robert Fantina
The Rhetoric of Dick Cheney: Lying as Art Form
Hanan Ashrawi
Palestine and Peace: the Looming Challenges
Ron Jacobs
Return of the Guitar Army
Nicole Colson
The Surpeme Court Targets Abortion Rights
Ben Terrall
Tracking Torture
Missy Beattie
Quit Your Day Job, George
Harvey Wasserman
The Lesson of Chernobyl
Cindy Beringer
The Horrors of Hutto: Inside Texas' For-Profit Immigrant Prison
Mike Roselle
The Dog Philosophy: What Kant Can't Tell Us About Why We Love
Wilderness
RAWA
Freeing Afghanistan
James McEnteer
Where the Movie Villains are American: Screening Films in Bolivia
Poets' Basement
For Stew Albert
Website of the Weekend
Rudy and Donald: the Drag Smooch
April 27, 2007
Eva Liddell
How
Can Women Defend Themselves Against Stalkers?
Phyllis Bennis
and Robert Jensen
Moving Beyond Anti-War Politics
Mike Whitney
Where's the Beef?: Padilla and the Zucchini Prosecution
Michael F.
Brown
Biden and Pelosi: Failing to Hold Israel Accountable for War
Crimes in Lebanon
Jordan Flaherty
Forgotten Mississippi
Margaret Kimberly
John McCain, Cold-Blooded Senator
Christopher Brauchli
The Dangers of Unstable People
Jacob Mundy
Stalemate in the Western Sahara?
Website of the Day
Yee Speaks
April 26, 2007
Andrew Cockburn
Wolfowitz's
War
Franklin Lamb
Giuliani
Plays the Islamic Terror Card
Patrick Cockburn
Al-Qa'ida Group Behind US Deaths in Iraq
Roger Morris
Dispatches From the Front
Henry Siegman
The Three Nos of Jerusalem
Alevtina Rea
A Sister City Debate in Rachel Corrie's Hometown
Paris
Are You a Hip Hop Apologist?
Nikolas Kozloff
White Racism and the Aymara in Bolivia
Alan Farago
Dow 13,000 Disconnect
Matthew S. Miller
The Limits to Lakoff
Website of
the Day
PBS: Blaming Blacks Again
April 25, 2007
Sharon Smith
The
Rights of Children in America
David Price
The Long Lost War
Diana Johnstone
Who Wants Sarko? New or Old France?
Brendan Cooney
Cho and Cheney: Killer Looks
Sonja Karkar
Israeli Democracy, For Jews Only?
Brian Concannon
Wolfowitz and Haiti
Lee Gaillard
Baptism Under Fire: Can the Osprey Fly?
Leah Fishbein
Women Under Siege
Dave Lindorff
The First Shoe Drops
Neal Galloway
US Agricultural Policy is Destructive at Home and Abroad
Website of the Day
Anti-War Student Movements: a Short History
April 24,
2007
Ishmael Reed
How
Imus' Media Collaborators Almost Rescued Their Chief
Lila Rajiva
Tragedy and Irony After Virginia Tech
Paul Craig Roberts
The War Goes Ever On
Patrick Cockburn
Sunnis Protest Baghdad's "Prison Wall"
Ralph Nader
The Corporate Debasement of Earth Day
Mike Whitney
Housing Bubble Boondoggle
Website of the Day
"Refugees"
April 23,
2007
Saul Landau
The
Courage to Withdraw
Patrick Cockburn
Time of the Death Squads: Iraq as Revenge Tragedy
Robert Fantina
Changing Sentiments
Sam Husseini
The Gonzales Distraction
Corporate Crime Reporter
Bought-and-Paid-For Journalism at the Philly Inquirer
Elizabeth Lalasz
Sick and Getting Sicker
Harvey Wasserman
Earth Day, Incorporated
Dave Lindorff
Huge Win for Impeachment in Vermont: Are You Listening Sen. Leahy?
Gary Leupp
Maoist Homophobia in Nepal?
Stephen Lendman
A Short History of the Christian Right
Website of the Day
No to OLF
April 21 / 22, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Bring
Back the Posse
Fred Gardner
Prozac
Madness
Kristoffer Larsson
The Islamic Threat to Europe: By the Numbers
Barbara Rose
Johnston
Nuclear War and Its Consequences
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
The Heart of Whiteness: Racism, Wealth and IQ
John Scagliotti
Unlocking Closets, Locking Free Speech
Marjorie Cohn
Gonzo Justice: Counting on Alberto
Patrick Cockburn
Sadr Raises the Stakes
Diana Johnstone
The Absent Middle East
Ron Jacobs
Explaining the Spectre
Evelyn Pringle
How Iraq Was Looted
BANCO
Travesties of Justice in a Black City in Michigan: the Persecution
of Rev. Pinkney
Paul Richards
Thinking Big in the Northern Rockies
Dan Bacher
Zapatistas in the Colorado River Delta
Ben Terrall
Showdown at Chevron: SF Protest Against New Iraq Oil Law
Sherwood Ross
How the Taliban Defeated the Pakistani Army in Waziristan
Remi Kanazi
Bill Maher's "Towel-Headed Hos"
Aseem Shrivastava
Behind the Curtain of SEZs
Poets' Basement
Valentine, Reed, Harley and Engel
Website of
the Day
Reading Sappho in New Orleans
April 20,
2007
Doug Peacock
Beginning
of the End for the Yellowstone Grizzly?
Diane Farsetta
Onward, Free Market Soldiers!: Privatizing Public Diplomacy
Tom Clifford
The Surge in Iraqi Civilian Deaths: the Bloodiest 12 Months of
the War
Amira Hass
The
Holocaust as Political Asset
Nicole Colson
Desperation in Gitmo's Camp 6
Sonja Karkar
Double Jeopardy Entraps Palestinians
Heather Gray
The Supreme Court Looks a Lot Like the Taliban
Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban
Syrian Expeditions
Agustin Velloso
Spain and Iraq, Four Years On
Matthew Koehler
Distorting the News in a Timber Company Town
Website of
the Day
Gonzo's Monica
April 19,
2007
Emad Mekay
/
Jim Lobe
Scoring
at the World Bank: Wolfowitz's Quid Pro Quo
Patrick Cockburn
A
Day of Bombs and Blood in Baghdad
Larry C. Johnson
The Hobbesian Hell of Iraq: How Many Dead Equal a Failed Government?
Norman Solomon
Bowing Down to Our Own Violence
Saul Williams
Notes from a Hip Hop Head: an Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey
Sunsara Taylor
From Iraq to the Supreme Court: a New Dark Ages for Women
Harvey Wasserman
How Green is Tom Friedman?
Christopher
Brauchli
Apologies, Incorporated
Anthony Papa
Nightmare Behind Bars: John Valverde's Fight for Freedom
Dave Lindorff
Betraying Thomas Jefferson
Website of the Day
The Best Antiwar Song of the Iraq War?
April 18,
2007
Lila Rajiva
More
Gun Laws or Fewer Idiots? How the Va Tech Administration Failed
Its Campus
Landau / Hassen
Tancredo
as 17th Century Indian Chief?
Charles Fisher
/
Randy Fisher
Don Imus's Firing and the Hip-Hop Culture
Diane Christian
Facing Death Politically
Kevin Prosen
Meeting the Resistance in Iraq
China Hand
Gold Digging: The U.S. Treasury Department's Economic Campaign
Against North Korea
Peter Rost,
MD
The Strange Profits from a Re-Branded Cancer Drug
Justin Akers Chacón
What's Inside the STRIVE Bill
Jerry Kroth
Virginia Tech and Cho Seung Hui: Love and Unhappiness in an Alien
Culture
Sherwood Ross
Massacre at Va Tech: a Brief Glimpse into Daily Life in Iraq
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Bonfire of the Hannities
Alice Cherbonnier
Why South Dakota's "Informed Consent" Law Doesn't Go
Far Enough
Website of
the Year?
"I Hope I Die Before I Get Old"
April 17,
2007
Jean Bricmont
/
Diana Johnstone
The
Elections in France: a Coming Political Tsunami
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bloodbath
in Blacksburg
Frida Berrigan
Militarizing the Border
Alison Weir
The Message of PBS's "Crossroads" Series: Some Muslims
Aren't Bad
John Walsh
Why is the Peace Movement Silent About AIPAC?
Jason Hribal
Resistance is Futile: Emily the Cow and Tyke the Elephant
Evelyn Pringle
The Iraq Money Trail
Ben Terrall
Cuban Exiles Get Hero's Welcome; Haitian Refugees Get Shafted
Stan Cox
1040s and Death Certificates
Soren Ambrose
Confidence
Crisis at the IMF
Website of the Day
Go Ahead and Yell: "FIRE!"
April 16,
2007
John F. Sugg
Hate
and Hypocrisy in the Cox Empire
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Escalating
Military Spending: Income Redistribution in Disguise
Carl G. Estabrook
The Politics of the Useful Threat: It Didn't Start with the Neo-Cons
Paul Craig Roberts
The Party of Brownshirts
Uri Avnery
Blood on Our Hands
Ralph Nader
Where Are the Cries of Outrage Over Military Rapes?
Eamon McCann
Shame of the Empire: Simon, Sir Bono and Tinkerbelle
Lee Sustar
Decoding the Democrats
Mike Whitney
Trouble in Squanderville: Bubble People and the Faith-Based Market
Don Fitz
Solar Capitalism?
Stephen Lendman
Ecuador Votes for Revolutionary Change
Website of the Day
Black Mesa Water Coalition
April 14
/ 15, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Ho
Industry Whores
Jorge Mariscal
Gen.
Petraeus's Field Manual: a Traveler's Guide to Big Muddy
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Beautiful and the Dammed: How the West Got Flooded
Dave Marsh
The
Imus Affair, Hip Hop and Politics
Dr. Trudy Bond
Shrinks, Lies and Torture: How Psychologists Became the Pentagon's
Bitches
Joe Bageant
A Feral Dog Howls in Harvard Yard
Fidel Castro
The Terrorist Walks
Alfredo Molano
"More Than Complicated"
Alan Farago
When Miami Crashes
Michael Neumann
Anglophone Fantasies and French Realities
Fred Gardner
Barbara McNair's Unsung Heroism: Bringing Down the Owner of EST
Ron Jacobs
A Conversation with Three Iraq Veterans Against the War
Gail Dines
Racy Sex, Sexy Racism
Linda Ford
Imus and Lady Hoopsters: a Long History of Bias Against Women
Athletes
Missy Beattie
What Would Imus Do?: Iraq, Ho, Ho, Ho
Dan La Botz
Farm Labor Organizer Murdered in Mexico
Giuliana Sgrena
The Lies of Mario Lozano
Laura Carlsen
A Moratorium on Free Trade Agreements
Abu Spinoza
Wolfowitz's Real Crimes
Elizabeth Schulte
Grinding It Out with Quentin Tarantino
Poets' Basement
Davies, Harley, Engel and Landau
Website of
the Weekend
Vonnegut's Final Interview
April 13,
2007
Patrick Cockburn
The
Shattering of Mosul
Stephen Soldz
Aid
and Comfort for Torturers: Psychology and Coercive Interrogations
in Historical Perspective
George Ciccarriello-Maher
The
Failed Chávez Coup: Five Years On
Laith al-Saud
Kirkuk, Oil and the Kurds
Dave Zirin
Memo to Imus
John Ross
Drawing a Line in the Heartland
Ramzy Baroud
America as Proxy
Harvey Wasserman
The Novelist Who Hated War: Peace Be With You, Mr. Vonnegut
Lopez, Olivo and Garcia
Columbia University's Two-Tiered Punishments
Dols, Fukumori,
Judd and Tillett-Saks
Columbia: On the Wrong Side of Justice
Website of the Day
Democrats: an Iraq Scorecard
April 12,
2007
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We
May be Rid of Imus, But We're Still Stuck with the Culture
Paul Craig
Roberts
Big Profits from Big Brother
Marjorie Cohn
U.S. Attorneys and Voting Rights
Evelyn Pringle
Bush Family War Profiteering: Will Congress Finally Cut Them
Off?
Ron Jacobs
God
Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut
Norman Solomon
The Awful Truth About Hillary, Barack and John
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The Release of Dennis Counterman: The Justice Game, the Alford
Plea and Death Row
Nicola Nasser
Squeezing Palestinians into an Impossible Mission
Nikolas Kozloff
Chile, a Country Geographically Located in South America "By
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William S.
Lind
Horatio Hornblower's Worst Nightmare
Siegfried L. Sassoon
A Statement Against the Continuation of the War
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the Day
Where
You Want This Killin' Done?
April 11, 2007
R. T. Naylor
Quebec's
Lessons for the US: How "Wars on Terror" Should be
Fought
Vijay Prashad
The
Generation of IEDs and iPods
Patrick Cockburn
The Myth of Tal Afar
Winslow T. Wheeler
When Will the War Money Really Run Out?
Jack Balkwill
Prison for a Peacemaker: A Vietnam Vet Interviews Kathy Kelly
Alan Farago
Florida's Fundamentally Weak Environmental Movement
Russell D.
Hoffman
The Carbon Offset Tax is Just Another Nuke Bailout
Peter Rost, MD
The Fine Print on Drug Industry Kickbacks
Mike Whitney
Doomsday for the Greenback?
Dave Lindorff
Torture and Selective Outrage
Susie Day
Peter Pace Porks a Peck of Pinko Perverts
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May
23, 2007
Applauding Torture
and Giuliani's Put Down of Ron Paul
Republicans
in Self-Destruct Mode
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
As everyone except for a dwindling band
of Bush supporters now knows, the US is in a terrible situation
in Iraq from which it cannot extract itself. For Bush and Cheney,
their own pride and delusion are more compelling than US casualties,
the destruction of Iraq and its people, and the inflaming of
sectarian strife and anti-American violence throughout the Middle
East.
Congress is complicit in the
great strategic blunder. Republican flag-wavers led Americans
like lemmings into the abyss. The Democrats have already abandoned
the electorate that gave them Control of Congress six months
ago in the false hope that the Democrats would corral the White
House Moron and lead America out of the abyss.
Like the Republicans, the Democrats
serve the few special interest groups that benefit, or believe
that they benefit, from the war. By now we all know who these
groups are: the oil industry, the military-security complex,
and the Israel Lobby, AIPAC. This contrived war, based on lies
and deception, serves no other interest.
There is no longer any question
whatsoever, not a single sliver of doubt, that Americans were
deceived into this disastrous war. The President of the United
States lied to the American people, as did the Vice President,
the National Security Advisor, the Secretary of State, the Secretary
of Defense, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Undersecretary
of Defense, as did every neoconservative in the Bush administration,
think tanks, and media.
The fact that the American
people were lied to and deceived does not absolve them from blame.
The lie was transparent, the logic nonexistent, the true facts
available and easy to discover.
America failed, because the
American people failed. The American people failed, because their
self-righteousness and their hubris made them easy saps for deception.
Even now after five years of
a disastrous policy, Republicans cannot accept the facts about
the US invasion and failed occupation of Iraq. At the recent
"debate" between Republican presidential candidates
in South Carolina, US Representative Ron Paul dared to tell the
truth. Rep. Paul said that our difficulties in the Middle East
are "blowback" from our government's determined attempts
to exercise hegemony over the Middle East.
Republican presidential candidate
Rudy Guiliani, a person who sunk so low as to frame
innocents while serving as US Attorney in order to boost
his name recognition , played the self-righteous card to extreme.
How dare Ron Paul suggest that US policy toward Muslims has anything
whatsoever to do with attacks on the US! With all the outrage
he could muster, Guiliani asked Rep. Paul "to withdraw that
comment and tell us that he didn't really mean that."
The thunderous applause from
the Republican audience to Guiliani's put-down of the only honest
person present underlines that the Republican Party is incapable
of leadership to end a futile and lost war that under international
standards is a war crime, an unprovoked naked aggression based
entirely on lies, deception and a secret agenda.
At other times, the Republican
audience applauded in support of torture and greeted John McCain's
protest against the practice with cold silence.
In the opening years of the
21st century the Republicans have made it clear that they are
willing to sacrifice the US Constitution and Bill of Rights in
order to wage "war against terrorism." This willingness
makes the Republican Party a more dangerous threat to Americans
than Muslim terrorists. Muslim terrorists cannot destroy our
country's reputation, trash our civil liberties and wreck our
system of accountable government, but the Republican Party has
done a thorough job of it.
The Democratic Party is complicit
in the Republican Party's crimes, but unlike the Republican electorate,
the Democratic electorate does not support the occupation, the
domestic police state measures, and the Bush administration's
decision to send more combat troops to Iraq. Although none of
the current frontrunners for the Democratic presidential nomination
are independent of the special interests that benefit from the
war, it might still be possible for a Democrat to emerge who
will represent the Democratic electorate instead of the special
interests.
Republican support for Bush's
contrived war against Iraq has diminished the Republican party.
Intelligent and decent people have abandoned the party, which
has morphed into a Brownshirt Party with which fewer people are
willing to be associated. The diminished Republican ranks will
make it difficult for the party to steal any more elections.
If we are fortunate, Republicans
will complete their self-destruction before they extinguish the
Constitution and destroy America.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the
Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of
National Review. He is coauthor of The
Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com
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