Today's
Stories
February
17, 2006
Floyd
Rudmin
Secret War Plans and the Malady of
American Militarism
Febrauary
16, 2006
Lila
Rajiva
Torture Pictures That Didn't Make
the Exhibition
Norman
Solomon
Dick Cheney's Fox Trot
Ron
Jacobs
An Interview with Antiwar Faster Mike
Ferner
Paul
Craig Roberts
Their Own Economic Reality
Website
of the Day
This
Ain't No Video Game
February
15, 2006
Brian
Conacnnon, Jr.
Haiti's Elections: Chaos, Supression
and Fraud
Dave
Lindorff
Democrats Shoot Their Own, Too
Saree
Makdisi
Israeli Ultimatums
Joshua
Frank
The Rhetorical Gore
Amira
Hass
Down the Expulsion Highway
CounterPunch
Wire
Winter of Discontent: a 34-Day Fast
Against the War
Robert
Bryce
The United States of Enron
Website
of the Day
Osama's
Game: an Interview with Michael Scheuer
February
14, 2006
John
Sugg
Those Cartoons and the Neo Con: Daniel
Pipes and the Danish Editor
Don
Santina
DiFi and the Royal Democrats: the
Curious Withdrawal of Cindy Sheehan
William
A. Cook
Shaming Sharon
Ray
McGovern
Who Will Blow the Whistle About
Iran?
John
Ross
Bush's Mexican Poodle
Website
of the Day
Willie
Nelson Records CPer Ned Sublette's "Cowboys Are Frequently
Secretly"
February 13, 2006
Lila
Rajiva
Axis of Child Abusers: UK Troops
Beat Up Barefoot Iraqi Teens
Christopher
Brauchli
Whistleblowers and Witch Hunters:
the Bush Inquisition
Dave
Lindorff
Deadeye Dick: If Stupidity Were
Impeachable, Cheney Would Be History
Ron
Jacobs
Black Liberation
Mike
Whitney
Riding High with Hugo Chavez
Michael
Neumann
Respectful Cultures and Disrespectful
Cartoons
Website
of the Day
Virtual Resistance
February
11 / 12, 2006
Alexander
Cockburn
How Not to Spot a Terrorist
Ralph
Nader
Bringing
Democracy to the Federal Reserve
Paul Craig
Roberts
Nuking
the Economy
Pat Williams
John
Boehner's Dirty Little Secret: Flying Lobbyist Air at $4,000
a Junket
Fred Gardner
Dr.
Mikuriya's Appeal: a Last Minute Twist
Saul Landau
From
Munich to Hamas
John Chuckman
Cartoons
and Bombs: Was Rice Right for Once?
Roger Burbach
Evo
Morales: the Early Days
Seth Sandronsky
Economy
on Ice
Website of
the Weekend
Just
Say Know
February 10,
2006
Carl
G. Estabrook
A US War Plan for Khuzestan?
Sen.
Russell Feingold
A Raw Deal on the Patriot Act
Roxanne
Dunbar----Ortiz
How Did Evo Morales Come to Power?
Saree Makdisi
The
Tempest Over the Hamas Charter
Website of
the Day
The
New York Art Scene: 1974----1984
February
9, 2006
Dave
Lindorff
Bush
and Yamashita: War Crimes and Commanders-in-Chief
Mike
Marqusee
The
Human Majority was Right About Iraq
Paul Craig Roberts
How Conservatives Went Crazy: the Rightwing Press
Peter
Phillips
Inside
the Global Dominance Group: 200 Insiders Against the World
William S. Lind
Rumsfeld the Maximalist: the Long War
Christine
Tomlinson
Innocent Targets in the "Long War": False Positives
and Bush's Eavesdropping Program
Will Youmans
Church of England Votes to Divest from Israel
Robert
Robideau
An American Indian's View of the Cartoons
Richard Neville
The Cartoons That Shook the World: All This from the Danes, the
Least Funny People on Earth
Peter
Rost
The New Robber Barons
Website of the Day
Eyes Wide Open
February
8, 2006
Ron
Jacobs
The
Once and Future Sly Stone: Soundtrack to a Riot
Stan
Cox
Making
and Unmaking History with General Myers
Sen.
Russ Feingold
Why
Bush's Wiretapping Program is Illegal and Unconstitutional
Robert
Jensen
Horowitz's
Academic Hit List: Take a Class from One of the CounterPunch
16
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Bush Should Have Wiretapped FEMA and Chertoff
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Alberto Gonzales Channels Mark Twain
Don Monkerud
Covenant Marriage on the Rocks
David
Swanson
Inequality and War
C.L. Cook
Nuking Ontario
Christopher
Fons
Chill Out Jihadis: They're Just Cartoons!
Jeffrey Ballinger
The Other Side of Nike and Social Responsibility
Website
of the Day
Encyclopedia of Terrorism in the Americas
February
7, 2006
Edward
Lucie-Smith
An
Urgent Plea to Save a Small Estonian Museum from Neo-Nazis
Robert
Fisk
The Fury: Now Lebanon is Burning
Paul Craig Roberts
Colin Powell's Career as a "Yes Man"
Neve
Gordon
Why Hamas Won
Joshua Frank
The Hillary and George Show: Partners in War
Peter
Montague
The Problem with Mercury: a History of Regulatory Capitulation
Jackie
Corr
The
Last Best Choice: Public Power and Montana
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Rumsfeld's
Enforcer: the Secret World of Stephen Cambone
Website of the Day
Negroes with Guns
February
6, 2006
Christopher
Brauchli
Spilling
Blood: Two Sentences
Robert
Fisk
Don't
Be Fooled: This Isn't About Islam vs. Secularism
John Chuckman
What Did Stephen Harper Actually Win?
Jenna
Orkin
Judge Slams EPA for Lying About 9/11's Toxic Air
Paul
Craig Roberts
Who
Will Save America: My Epiphany
February
4 / 5, 2006
Alexander
Cockburn
"Lights
Out in Tehran": McCain Starts Bombing Run
Mike
Ferner
Pentagon
Database Leaves No Kid Alone
James Petras
Evo Morales's Cabinet: a Bizarre Beginning in Bolivia
Alan
Maass
Scare of the Union: Dems Collaborate with Bush on Surveillance
Fred Gardner
Annals of Law Enforcement: a Look Inside the San Francisco DA's
Office
Ralph
Nader
Bush's
Energy Escapades
Bill Glahn
RIAA Watch: Speaking in Tongues
Saul
Landau
Freedom 2006: Buying Sex on the Net or Those Older Freedoms?
Laura Carlsen
Bad Blood on the Border: Killing Guillermo Martinez
James
Brooks
Our Little Shop of Diplomatic Horrors
Mike Roselle
Hippies and Revolutionaries in Carcacas
John
Holt
Black Gold, Black Death: Canada's Oil Sands Frenzy
Sarah Ferguson
Cops Suing Cops ... for Spying on Cops
William
S. Lind
Beware the Ides of March
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Price of Globalization: Free Trade or Free Speech?
Seth
Sandronsky
The Color of Job Cuts in the Auto Industry
Derrick O'Keefe
Rumsfeld's Hitler Analogy
Michael
Donnelly
Hop on the Bus
Ron Jacobs
Religion and Political Power
Elisa
Salasin
RSVP to Bush
St. Clair / Vest
Playlists: What We're Listening to This Week
Stew
Albert
God's Curse: Selected Poems
Poets' Basement
Guthrie, LaMorticella and Engel
Website
of the Weekend
Killer
Tells All!
February
3, 2006
Toufic
Haddad
A
Parliament of Prisoners
Heather Gray
Working with Coretta Scott King
Tim
Wise
Racism,
Neo-Confederacy and the Raising of Historical Illiterates
Conn Hallinan
Nuclear Proliferation: the Gathering Storm
Eva
Golinger
Rumsfeld and Negroponte Amp Up Hositility Toward Venezuela
Daniel Ellsberg
The World Can't Wait: Invitation to a Demonstration
Dave
Zirin
Detroit: Super Bowl City on the Brink
Robert
Bryce
The
Problem with Cutting US Oil Imports from the Middle East
Website
of the Day
The Chavez Code
February
2, 2006
Winslow
T. Wheeler
Pentagon
Pork: How to Eliminate It
Stan
Cox
Outsourcing
the Golden Years
Rachard
Itani
Danes
(Finally) Apologize to Muslims (For the Wrong Reasons)
Mike Whitney
Afghanistan Five Years Later: Buildings Down, Heroin Up
Amira
Hass
In
the Footsteps of Arafat: an Interview with Hamas' Ismail Haniya
Norman Solomon
When Praise is Desecration: Smothering King's Legacy with Kind
Words
Michael Simmons
Stew Lives!
Christopher
Reed
Japan's
Dirty Secret: One Million Korean Slaves
Website of the Day
State of Nature
February
1, 2006
Sharon
Smith
The
Bluff and Bluster Dems: Alito and the Faux Filibuster
Jason
Leopold
Enron and the Bush Administration
Cindy
Sheehan
Getting
Busted at the State of the Union: What Really Happened
Joseph
Grosso
Oprah
and Elie Wiesel: a Match Made in "Neutrality"
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Coretta Scott King was More Than Just Dr. King's Wife
Steven
Higgs
Life After Roe. v. Wade
Robert Robideau
"God Given Rights": Palestine and Native America
R.
Siddharth
Tales of Power: When Gandhi Rejected a Faustian Bargain with
Henry Ford
Jim Retherford
Remembering Stew Albert: the Quiet Genius
Rep.
Cynthia McKinney
The Legacy of Coretta Scott King
Paul
Craig Roberts
The
True State of the Union
Website
of the Day
Candide's Notebooks
January
31, 2006
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Revolutionary
for the Hell of It: the Good Life of Stew Albert
Clancy
Chassay
US
Prods Lebanon Towards Civil War
Dave
Lindorff
The Democrats' Alito Debacle
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Alito: Harry-Kerry in the Senate
Oren
Ben-Dor
Hamas' Victory: a New Hope?
Winslow
Wheeler
Pentagon
Pork: What is It? Who Cooks It Up?
John
Ryan
Canada: a Chilling Echo of Bush's Republicans
Mike
Marqusee
Privatizing
Health Care: the Poor Pay the Price
Ron
Jacobs
For Stew
Andrew
Cockburn
Why Bush Probably Won't Attack Iran
Website
of the Day
Celebrating Stew Albert
January
30, 2006
Paul
Craig Roberts
Bush,
Fox News and the Coming War on Iran
Winslow
Wheeler
Inside
the Pork Shop: the Defense Budget and Congressional Earmarks
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Development Interrupted
Marcus Dam
"The Real Threat is from Imperial Fundamentalism":
an Interview with Tariq Ali
John
Bomar
Message to Democrats: the Case Against Pre-War Lying is a Slam
Dunk, Stupid
Ben Beachy
Swindling the Sick: the IMF Debt Relief Sham
Gideon
Levy
The Good News About Hamas' Victory
Michael Carmichael
Alito and Opus Dei
Missy
Comley Beattie
Of Losses and Lies
Norman Solomon
The Question Journalists Refuse to Ask Bush
Brian
Concannon, Jr.
Finally Some Good News From Haiti
Michael Ratner
Tomorrow is Today; the Time for
Resistance is Now
Website
of the Day
"I'm So Bored with Capitol Hill"
January
28 / 29, 2006
Alexander
Cockburn
Nicholas
Kristof's Brothel Problem
Ralph Nader
The Impeachable Mr. Bush
Col.
Dan Smith
Spying and Lying by the Pentagon
Paul Craig Roberts
Blind Ignorance: Polls Show Many Americans Simply Dumber Than
Bush
Tammara
Rosenleaf
Homefront War Diary: On Monday, My Husband Didn't Call
Ron Jacobs
Google This!
Harry
Browne
Irish "Peace" Process at Recriminations Stage
Fred Gardner
Grover Norquist, Drug Policy Reformer?
Christopher
Reed
North Korean Forgeries
Bernard Chazelle
France's Colonial Blowback
Daniel
Wolff
Radioactive Money, 2005: How Entergy Gets Its Way at Indian Point
Tom Kerr
Small Fry: If You're Not in Power, You'd Better Not Lie
Asad
Abu Khalil
The Demise of Fatah
Chris Murphy
The Medicare Disaster
Dr.
Susan Block
America Wants a Divorce
Kathy Deacon
Hippocratic Oaf
St.
Clair / Walker / Palmer / Shields
Playlists: What We're Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement
Laymon, Engel, Holt, Davies and Buknatski
Website
of the Weekend
Your Child Can Be a NSA Spook!
January 27, 2006
Suren
Pillay
Making
the World Safe for Nuclear Violence, Again
Lawrence
R. Velvel
The
NYT and Alito: Journalistic Schizophrenia
J.L.
Chestnut, Jr
The
Cold Hard Truth: Marching Backwards on Civil Rights
Uri
Avnery
To
Talk with Hamas
Gary
Leupp
Hamas's Victory: "the Power of Democracy"
Samar Assad
A New Political Landscape in Palestine
Jeffrey
St. Clair
King
of the Hill: Sen. Ted Steven's Empire of Corruption
Website of the Day
Bush Jobs Program: You Too Can Be an FBI Snitch
January
26, 2006
Robert
Robideau
An
AIM Activist's View of Jack Abramoff: Another Racist Out to Defraud
Native Tribes
Paul
Craig Roberts
Bolton
Orders Syria to Do the Impossible
Gilad
Atzmon
Hamas'
Victory
Jason Leopold
A Vaster Conspiracy?: Fitzgerald Probes Niger Forgeries
Joshua
Frank
Iran, Nukes and Oil
Dave Lindorff
Bush Calls Hamas Kettle Black
Susan
Lee
An Open Letter to the State Dept. on the Cuban Five
Missy Comley Beattie
A Plea to the Marines: Stop Sending Recruiting Letters to Our
House!
Michael
Carmichael
Extraordinary Alito
Michael
Neumann
The
Core of Zionism
Website
of the Day
Who Will Stop the Slaughter of Yellowstone's Bison?
January
25, 2006
Saul
Landau
Domestic
Spying, Now and Then: When Hoover Bugged Phone Calls with My
Father
James Petras
Is Chile's Bachelet Washington's Best New Ally?
Lawrence
R. Velvel
Alito
and Roberts' Self-Gag Rule is a Phony
Vijay Prashad
From Chennai with Love
Kevin
Zeese
Gen. William Odom Supports the Empire, But Opposes the War
Alison Weir
When a Mother Gets Killed Does She Make a Sound? Anatomy of a
Cover-Up
Bruce
K. Gagnon
Bush War Economy: Exporting Jobs and Security
Joan
Roelofs
Military
Contractor Philanthropy
Website
of the Day
Bob Marley Does Dylan
January
24, 2006
Paul
Craig Roberts
The
Patriot Police: the Unfathomed Dangers of Patriot Act Reauthorization
Kathy
Kelly
Liberation
and Deliverance
Jorge Mariscal
Bush's War Viewed from the South
Winslow
T. Wheeler
Smoke
and Mirrors in the Defense Budget
John Walsh
Why We Picket John Kerry: Join Us Friday in Boston
Youmans
/ Muaddi
The Growing Israel Divestment Movement
Roger Burbach
Bolivia's Evo Morales: Original Mandate for Social Revolution
Fr.
Gerard Jean-Juste
Letter from a Haitian Prison
Noam
Chomsky
The Terrorist in the Mirror
Website
of the Day
Big Brother Watch
January 23, 2006
Uri
Avnery
Pity
the Orphan: Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Elections
Susan Pynchon
Diebold in Florida: "I Saw It Hacked"
William
Loren Katz
Harry Belafonte Reaffirms a Proud Tradition
Christopher Brauchli
Bush's IRS: Squeezing the Poor
Chris
Floyd
The Goon Show
Joshua Frank
Tre Arrow and ELF: Environmentalism on Death Row
Norman
Solomon
The Other Shoe Drops: Classified Leaks and Journalists
Jackie Corr
Working for the Railroad: Racicot and the Burlington Northern
Paul
Craig Roberts
Inside
Cheney's War Workshop
Website of the Day
Arms Against War
January
21/22, 2006
Tim
Shorrock
Why
the Buses Didn't Come: Bush-Linked Florida Company and the Katrina
Evacuation Fiasco
Ralph
Nader
Congressional
Ethics After Abramoff
Peter Feng
Casualties of War: Neoliberalism, Katrina and the Asian Tsunami
Brian
Cloughley
CIA Bombs Pakistan, Hits America
Michael Donnelly
Tapes and Snitches: Feds Hand Down Eco-Sabotage Indictments
Tom
Kerr
Crackdown in San Quentin: Why are They Rounding Up Tookie Williams'
Friends?
Tim Matson
Best Not Drive While Black on I-91
(But Walk Tall With the Bloody Chainsaw You Just Topped Your
Neighbor With)
Dave
Lindorff
Rumsfeld: Venezuela "Overspending" on Military
Daniel Wolff
Hour of Reckoning: the Gospel Roots of Wilson Pickett
Fred
Gardner
"Metabolic Syndrome" is to "Clinical Depression"
as Acomplia is Prozac
Jason Leopold
How Cheney Used the NSA to Spy on Americans Prior to 9/11
Matthew
Koehler
Betting on Biscuit: Does Post-Fire Logging Make Ecological (or
Economic) Sense?
John Bomar
The Emperor's Clothes: from Bonaparte to Bush
Ron
Jacobs
When Miners March: Struggle and Lose, Struggle and Win!
Becky Akers
Debunking Democracy
Joanne
Mariner
Security, Terrorism and Human Rights
St. Clair / Walker
/ Pollack
CounterPunch Playlists: What We're Listening to This Week
Poets'
Basement
Albert, Holt, Engel and Davies
Website of the Day
Osama's Book Club: Featured Selection
January 20, 2006
Brian
J. Foley
What
Kind of War Doesn't Allow for a Truce?
Richard Gott
Revolution in the Andes
Joshua
Frank
Israel and US Threats Against Iran
Pierre Tristam
Imperial Mongers: From Gladstone to "King George"
Bernstein
/ Allegretto
Hourly Wages Have Fallen in 18 of the Last 20 Months
Elizabeth
Schulte
Abortion
Before Roe
Website
of the Day
This Dog Bites
January
19, 2006
Paul
Craig Roberts
Political
Machines: Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Bill Simpich
Those Damn Democrats: To End War, Don't Ask for What You Don't
Want
Kevin
Alexander Gray
Reclaiming King Day (From the NAACP)
Sam Husseini
Rot at the Top: If the Democrats Really Want to Stop Bush, They
Need New Leadership
Sam
Smith
The Real Chocolate City
Monica Benderman
Dare to Make a Stand
Winslow
T. Wheeler
Just
How Big is the Defense Budget?
Website of the Day
Leave My Child Alone
January
18, 2006
Paul
Craig Roberts
Gore's
Speech: a Challenge That Cannot be Ignored
Norman Solomon
The Crime of Giving the Orders: Executing Clarence Ray Allen
Jonathan
M. Feldman
The System Doesn't Work Anymore
Michael Carmichael
"Extraordinary Circumstances": the Case Against Alito
Paul
D'Amato
The Crimes of Jimmy Carter
Cynthia
McKinney
King's Mission Endures
Norman
Finkelstein
Why
an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified
Website of the Day
The Planetary Movement
January
17, 2006
M.
Shahid Alam
"Real
Men Go to Tehran": Has al-Qaeda's Gambit Paid Off?
John
Ross
Latin
America's Indians on the Move--in Different Directions
Tariq Ali
God, Blood, Oil and Iraq
Michael
Donnelly
Killing Anna Mae Aquash, Smearing John Trudell
Amira Hass
No Child Left Unharassed: the Obstacle Course to School in Palestine
Doug
Giebel
Alito's CAP: Either He Lied on His Resumé or There's a
Cover-Up
Bill
Quigley
MLK Day in a Haitian Prison
Ron
Jacobs
Meet the Son of Jim Crow: MLK Day Below the Mason/Dixon Line
Mike
Stark
Governor on a Killling Spree
Werther
The Liberties of the Subject
January 16, 2006
John
Walsh
Tears
of a Neocon: The Good News from Daniel Pipes
Earl
Ofari Hutchinson
Black
Students Under Fire: Racial Profiling in Public Schools
Roger
Burbach
Bachelet's
Victory: Leftward Drift in Chile?
Norman Solomon
Ted Koppel, NPR and Henry Kissinger: a Natural Fit?
Robert
Jensen
Dreams and Nightmares: How Would King Judge America?
Sam Husseini
Martin Luther King and the Deeper Malady
Paul
Craig Roberts
Bush
Crosses the Rubicon
Website of the Day
MLK: Beyond Vietnam
January
14 / 15, 2006
Alexander
Cockburn
What
the FBI Repairman Wore When He Tried to Bug Edward Said
JoAnn
Wypijewski
What
is an Antiwar Movement?
James Petras
The State of the Empire, 2006
Ron
Jacobs
Fifteen Years of War: Who's Better Off?
Brian Cloughley
Fly Boys and Lie Boys: Smart-Bombing Iraqi Families While They
Sleep
Marianne
McDonald
The Madness of Ajax: a Play for Our Time
Bruce Tyler Wick
Bush on Torture Echoes Charles I on Arbitrary Imprisonment
Fred
Gardner
A Last, Desperate Plea to Stay in Canada
Flavia Alaya
Victory at Passaic County Jail
Gary
Leupp
A Neocon Plan to Plant WMDs?
Dr. Susan Block
Peeping Tom in the Bush: Nonconsenual Voyeurism and the NSA
Nicole
Colson
The House Jack Built: The Abramoff Giude to Buying Friends and
Influencing Politics
Jeffrey Kolakowski
Senator as Illusionist: the Hypocrisies of John McCain
Missy
Comley Beattie
The Stepford Hearings of Samuel Alito: The Senator, the Weepy
Wife and a Secret Annoiting
Charles Thomson
Is Serota Dead in the Water?: the Ofili Scandal at the Tate
St.
Clair / Walker / Vest
Playlsts: What We're Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement
Albert, Engel, Ford and Davies
Website
of the Weekend
Historians Against the War
January
13, 2006
Ralph
Nader
The
Two Questions the Senate Should Have Asked Alito
Leonard
Weinglass
The
Singular Story of the Cuban Five
Amira Hass
Prisoners in Their Own Land: 800,000 Palestinians Sealed Off
by IDF in West Bank
Chris
Kutalik / Jennifer Biddle
Airline Workers Fight Back
Lawrence R. Velvel
Alito and the Democrats
Dave
Lindorff
Eight Who Dared: a (Short) Congressional Honor Roll
Mike Whitney
Countdown to War with Iran?
David
Price
How
the FBI Spied on Edward Said
January
12, 2006
Jennifer
Van Bergen
The
Unitary Executive: Why the Bush Doctrine Violates the Constitution
Jeremy Brecher /
Brendan Smith
Command Responsibility: Torture and Legal Accountability
Lawrence
R. Velvel
Alito
Refuses to Answer Fundamental Questions
Ralph Nader / Robert
Weissman
Corporations, Originalism and the Bill of Rights: an Open Letter
to Justice Scalia
Jackie
Corr
Killing the Big Sky's Golden Goose: Marc Racicot and the Deregulation
of Montana Power
Jared Bernstein
The Wage Doldrums
Russell
D. Hoffman
New Horizons in Space, New Lows in Government
Aubrey Streit
I Was Born in a Small Town: the Fate of Rural America
Clancy
Sigal
Hugh
Thompson and My Lai: He Broke Ranks; He Did the Right Thing
Website of the Day
Nukes in Space
January
11, 2006
Kevin
Zeese
NSA
Spied on Baltimore Peace Group (And They've Got the Documents
That Prove It)
Ray
McGovern
The
Big Wiretap
Allan
Maass / Joe Allen
Schwarzenegger's
Hit List: Smearing Mandela, Killing Tookie
Earl
Ofari Hutchinson
Snatching at King's Legacy: Mythmaking, Profiteering & Outright
Distortions
Annie Murphy
Evo Morales' Sweater
Allan
Lichtman
Abramoff's
Kind of Big Government
Ramzy Baroud
Politics of Chaos: Gaza's Turmoil in Context
Joshua
Frank
MoveOn Surrenders to Hillary
Kathleen
and Bill Christison
"Eating
Palestine for Breakfast": the Real Sharon
Website
of the Day
Memoirs of Rummy's Geisha
January
10, 2006
Uri
Avnery
The
Post-Sharon Landscape: Three Fingers, No Fist
Saul
Landau
Different
Americas
Noam Chomsky
Beyond the Ballot: Iraq, Iran and China
Brian
J. Foley
Playing with Fire: Congress and Executive Power
Lenni Brenner
The War Within the Antiwar Movement
Ronan
Sheehan
Sheehan to Sheehan: Cindy Sheehan's Irish Interview
Paul
Craig Roberts
Bush's
Con Jobs
January
9, 2006
Behzad
Yaghmaian
Who
is to Blame for the Deaths of the Sudanese Refugees?
George
Bisharat
US
Aid to Israel is Out of Hand
Dave Lindorff
How the US Press Squelches Bush Impeachment Drive
Norman
Solomon
Smoke a Marlboro, Then an Iraqi: How Media War Images Distort
Not Inform
Christopher Brauchli
The Generosity of Credit Card Companies
Aharon
Shabtai
A Poet's Letter on the Occupation
Andrew
Cockburn
How
Many Iraqis Have Died Since the US Invasion in 2003?
January
7 / 8, 2006
Lawrence
Velvel
The
NYT's Unconscionable Decision to Sit on the NSA Story for a Year
James Petras
AIPAC on Trial: Them or US
J.L.
Chestnut
Racism and Injustice in Alabama's Courts
Mike Ely
The Dead Miners in Sago
Andrew
Wilson
The Dying of Ariel Sharon
Lila Rajiva
Two Moms Go to Capitol Hill
William
Cook
The Rape of Palestine
Ramor Ryan
The Sub Motorcycle Diaries: On the Road with the Zapatistas
Thomas
Kleine-Brockhoff
An Interview with Michael Scheuer on the CIA's Rendition Program
Peter Montague
Inherit the Wind: the Global Spread of GMO Crops
Ron
Jacobs
Would Ethan Allen Pay to Protest?
Neve Gordon
Images of Real Eco-Terrorism in Twaneh
Fred
Gardner
Business as Usual in San Diego
Josh Mahon
Idaho Timber Industry Leader Advocates Violence Against Green's
Mom
Dr.
Susan Block
Abramoff Family Values: the Lobbyist Who Screwed Us All
Jeffrey St. Clair
Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week
Poets'
Basement
Albert and Engel
Website of the Weekend
Bush Crimes Commission
January
6, 2006
José
Pertierra
Posada
Carriles May Soon Hit the Streets
Joe
Allen
Gary Freeman's Struggle: a Black Radical from the 1960s Fights
Extradition to the US
Winslow T. Wheeler
Huge Defense Budget, Lousy Equipment
John
Bomar
A Former NSA Officer on Snoopgate: the Squawkers Should be Congratulated
Jason Leopold
Snoop and Shred
Norman
Solomon
Axis of Fanatics: Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad
Robert
Pollin
Remembering
Harry Magdoff: the Man Who Explained the Empire
January
5, 2006
Scott
Boehm
Big
Profits, Buried Lives: Bulldozing the Dead in New Orleans
Zoltan
Grossman
New
Challenges for the Antiwar Movement
Heather
Gray
Whistling
Dixie Yet Again
Haninah
Levine
Simple
is Dangerous: the Pentagon's Plan for a Manhattan Project on
IEDs
Pierre Tristam
The Sham of Homeland Security: a West Virginia Parable
Remi
Kanazi
Stroke of Luck?: Political Hemorrhage in Israel
Gilad
Atzmon
Sharon
Meets His Maker
Kathleen
and Bill Christison
What Hillary Clinton Doesn't Know About Palestine
January
4, 2006
Ron
Jacobs
Pity
the Miner: A-Diggin' My Bones
Lila
Rajiva
Terror
Hits Bangalore
Huibin
Amee Chew
Why
the War is Sexist
Pat
Williams
How the West Turned: Biting the Hands That Steal
Linda Milazzo
The House That George and Jack Built: Ownership Society Meets
the Entrepreneurial Style
Nick
Dearden
The Fantasy of "Even-Handedness": Blair's Cynical Policy
on Palestine
James
Petras
Evo
Morales: All Growl, No Claws?
Website
of the Day
Rat Out a Lobbyist for Jesus
January
3, 2006
James
Ridgeway
Pakistan,
Saudi Arabia and 9/11: How Much Did the Bush Administration Know?
Laith
al-Saud
Iraqi
Intellectuals and the Occupation: an Interview with Dr. Saad
Jawad
Dick
J. Reavis
Border
Walls: the View from Mexico
Joshua
Frank
Hillary Clinton, AIPAC and Iran
Rochelle Gause
Inside Rafah: Collective Punishment as Normalcy
Missy
Comley Beattie
How My Mother Went from a Republican to a Screaming Progressive
Paul de Rooij
A Glossary of Dispossession
January
2, 2006
Paul
Craig Roberts
A
Gestapo Administration
Clancy Sigal
A Trip to the Far Side of Madness
Cindy
Sheehan
A Tour of Europe: Friends Don't Let Friends Commit War Crimes
Alexander
Cockburn
A
NYT Editorial Contemplates Iraq
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February
17, 2006
Happiness
is a Warm Gun
Deadeye Dick: Who Dares Call Him Chickenhawk
Now?
By NIRANJAN RAMAKRISHNAN
After laughing, like everyone else,
at old crooked-mouth's comeuppance in this strangest of manners,
I started to wonder why the name Whittington seemed familiar.
I then remembered: We had a short story about Dick Whittington
in school, of how he had lost heart and was leaving London,
when he heard the peals of the church bell which seemed to say
to him, "Turn again, Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London".
Upon which he returned, staying on to become mayor of London
three times.
Many years later, visiting
London and staying with friends near Highgate, I was told by
my host that the Highgate hill was where Whittington was supposed
to have heard the church bell.
The "Official Story"
as of today is that Mr. Whittington approached Dick Cheney from
behind. He who had other priorities during Vietnam had none now.
He wheeled around and sprayed him liberally in the face, neck
and chest, confusing him with a quail or a duck, thus adding
insult to injury, as it were.
After which Mr. Cheney apparently
went incommunicado for nearly a day, thus rendering himself unavailable
to the police for questioning. Theories on why this might be
are rife, with rather high odds for the likelihood that the old
campaigner was tight as an owl when he loosed said pellets on
his unfortunate hunting companion.
The jokes came thick and fast,
from Letterman to Leno and of course the inimitable John Stewart,
who looked up and uttered a prayer to the Lord Jesus Christ for
this godsend.
Then the White House Press
Corps, which had let McClellan, Bush and Cheney off without a
scuffle these five years, suddenly became as dour as the proverbial
bulldog, with hot exchanges beween McClellan and the NBC reporter
on McClellan's dodging.
The late British management
expert, CN Parkinson, observed long ago that the amount of attention
a topic received was in inverse proportion to its importance.
A nuclear power plant might be approved with a minimum of discussion.
The authorization for a bicycle for the office boy, on the other
hand, would entail a lengthy debate. Parkinson's theory was that
the cost of a power plant ran into the hundreds of millions,
sums most people had no personal experience with. The office
bicycle, on the other hand, was a concept familiar to all, a
matter on which everyone had a direct point of view.
So have we had (a still incomplete
list) the Florida vote scandal, the Patriot Act, the 9-11 fiasco,
the failure to appoint a commission of inquiry right away, the
Tora Bora messup, the war on Iraq, the WMD scandal, the sundry
Iraq contractor overpricings, the Swift Boat scandal, the Ohio
vote scandal, the incipient civil war in Iraq, the federal deficit,
the trade deficit, and the Queen Katrina herself, not to mention
domestic spying, any one of which could have supplied a curious
or serious pressman enough questions for several news conferences.
Yet how many memorable exchanges did we see?
But then comes along a story
with all the right ingredients. A shootout at the Bar-All ranch,
involving none other than the sitting vice president (aiming
for sitting ducks and getting attorneys-in-good-standing instead).
It has laughter, crime (a $7 default, for starters) and coverup.
It is a story every Tom, Dick and Harry can understand. More
than that, it involves Dick, Harry--and if you include the delay
in calling the police -- Tom.
True believers should rejoice
at the swift retribution by the unseen hand of Allah. In one
stroke the almighty has punished every Western cartoonist for
the impetuosity of the Danes. For when official reality so far
outstrips caricature, could any greater damnation befall the
cartoonist?
Niranjan Ramakrishnan can be reached at njn_2003@
yahoo.com.
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