Today's
Stories
March
27, 2006
Patrick
Cockburn
War Crime in a Mosque
March
25 / 26, 2006
Alexander
Cockburn
Why There's No Strategy to End This
War
Patrick
Cockburn
The Battle for Baghdad: It's Already
Begun
Ralph
Nader
Bush's Divorce from Reality
Christopher
Reed
Slave Labor and Hell Ships: Mitsubishi Awaits Judgment for Its
War Crimes
Jeff
Ballinger
Memo to Walter Mosley: the Crisis in Black Leadership
Joseph
Massad
Blaming the Israel Lobby
Brian
Cloughley
The Fifth Afghan War
Chris
Floyd
Death in the Village of Isahaqi
Elaine
Cassel
Abortion Politics: The FDA and Plan B
Dave
Zirin
Death Row Talks Back to Etan Thomas
John
Chuckman
Sorry, Prime Minister, Afghanistan is Not Canada's War
Sharon
Smith
"Si Se Puede!": On Chicago's Streets
Christopher
Fons
A City With Latinos
Chris
Kromm
Coretta Scott King a Communist? There's a History Here
John
Bomar
Neurotic-in-Chief: Bush's "Change of Course"
Ron
Jacobs
More Than Just a Band
Maymanah
Farhat
What MoMA Does to "Islamic" Art
St.
Clair / Walker / Vest
Playlists: What We're Listening to This Week
Poets'
Basement
Harley, Davies, Engel and Subiet
Website
of the Weekend
Peacecast
March
24, 2006
Cockburn
/ Sengupta / Duff
How the CPT Hostages were Freed
P. Sainath
Bribe or Die
Todd
Chretien
Jim Crow Goes Fishing: the Racist War on Immigrants
Marty
Omoto
The Other California
Michael
Carmichael
Islamophobia at Downing Street: Tony Blair's Bipolarity
Peter
Phillips
Impeachment Movement Grows; Media Yawns
Gabriel
Kolko
The US Empire vs. Reality
Website
of the Day
Music for Peace
March
23, 2006
Charles
V. Peña
Bush's Pro-Terrorism Defense Budget
Joe
DeRaymond
El Salvador 2006: a Broken Nation
Robert
Fisk
"US Authorities Say..."
Jonathan
Cook
The Emerging Jewish Consensus in Israel
Tom
Engelhardt
Whatever Happened to Congress?: an Interview with Chalmers Johnson
Joshua
Frank
Political Lemmings: the Democrats and the Precipice
Norman
Solomon
The Ultimate Scapegoat: Blaming the Media for Bad War News
Robert
Fitch / Joe Allen
An Exchange on the State of Organized Labor
Patrick
Cockburn
Kirkuk's Dr. Death
CounterPunch
News Service
On the Proper Way to Address a Bible-Waving Republican State
Senator from Maryland
Website
of the Day
Bird-Dogging Kerry
March
22, 2006
David
MacMichael
Iranian Nuclear Showdown: an Unnecessary
Crisis
Juan
Santos
Brown Skin, Yellow Star: Making Latinos
Illegal
Paul
Craig Roberts
Hollow Nation: Americans Don't Live
Here Anymore
Patrick
Cockburn
Iraq's My Lai?: Shooting Any Iraqi Who Moves
Ramzy
Baroud
The Jericho Raid
Jason
Leopold
The Mysterious "Official One": Woodward's Plame-Leak
Deep Throat
Dennis
Perrin
Killer Lies from Cheney's Harlot
William
Blum
The Cuban Punching Bag
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Contract Casino
Website
of the Day
Bird Flu: Will It Cross Over?
March
21, 2006
Paul
Craig Roberts
Bush's Delusional Speech
Winslow
Wheeler
Lipstick on the Pig: the Fiasco of Congressional Earmark Reform
Tom
Engelhardt
Cold Warrior in a Strange Land: an Interview with Chalmers Johnson
Arnold
Oliver
To the Guy Who Called Me a Traitor:
Dissent and the Iraq War
Earl
Ofari Hutchinson
When Black Cops Go Bad: the Killing
of Elio Carrion
Mike
Whitney
Death Squad Democracy
William
A. Cook
Israeli Human Rights: Starve the Palestinians
Sophia
A. McLennen
Assault on Higher Education: the
Conservative Push for the Right Student
March
20, 2006
Paul
Craig Roberts
A Collapsing Presidency
Dave
Lindorff
Howard Dean Tells CounterPunch: DNC No Foe of Impeachment
Ralph
Nader
The DNC's "Grassroots Agenda": Howard Dean's Plea for
Advice
Diane
Christian
License to Lie: Over to You, Dante
Jeff
Halper
"To Hell with All of You": the Power of Saying No
Harry
Browne
Unhappy St. Patrick's Day: Bush's Crackdown on Gerry Adams and
Sinn Fein
Norman
Solomon
Why are We Here?: Is There a Right Way to Wage a Wrong War?
Patrick
Cockburn
Death Squads on the Prowl; Iraq Convulsed by Fear
Website
of the Day
Abugate
March
18 / 19, 2006
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Three Years On: Where's the Resistance
Here on the Home Front?
Werther
Bombs and Butchers: "Where Do We Get Such Men?"
Chris
Kromm
Katrina Aid Package: Much Too Little; Much Too Late
Patrick
Cockburn
Halabja: Kurds Destroy Monument to Victims of Saddam's Poison
Gas Attack
Elaine
Cassel
Abortion Politics and Animus for Women: Can Justice Kennedy be
Swayed?
S. Brian
Willson
Iraq Vets and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Fred
Gardner
The War on Kids
Brian
Cloughley
General Insanity: the Prevarications of Gen. Peter Pace
Laura
Carlsen
Challenging Disparity: Toward a New US Policy in Latin America
Eamon
Martin
Life in the Shadows of the Empire: Mysterious Photographers of
Nothing
Julie
Hilden
Free Speech in the Classroom: Teachers Don't Enjoy Enough Legal
Protection
Alison
Weir
So Much for "Sunshine Week": AP Erases Video of Israeli
Soldier Shooting Palestinian Boy
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week
Poets'
Basement
LaMorticella, Krieger, Louise, and Engek
Website
of the Weekend
Are the Elites Turning Against the Effects of the Israel Lobby?
March
17, 2006
Eduardo
Galeano
Abracadabra:
Uruguay's Desaparecidos
Begin to Appear
Greg
Moses
Bush and Nuclear Preemption: Do You
Feel Safe With This Man's Finger on the Button?
Richard
Falk / David Krieger
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is Dying: What Now?
Cindy
and Craig Corrie
Three Ways to Remember Rachel
Amira
Hass
Hamas's Haniyeh: "I Never Sent Anyone on a Suicide Mission"
Mike
Marqusee
Reasons to March
James
Petas and Robin Eastman-Abaya
Philippines: the Killing Fields of
Asia
Website
of the Day
Black Shamrock
March
16, 2006
Norman
Solomon
Hook, Line and Sinker: War-Loving
Pundits
Tom
Philpott
Neoliberalism at the Garden Gate:
Community Farming in LA
Heather
Gray
Anne Braden: the South's Rebel Without
a Pause
Amira
Hass
Is Hamas Playing into the Hands of Israeli Hardliners?
Missy
Comley Beattie
Dangerous-to-Society Women: Locked Up in the Tombs
Sen.
Russell Feingold
President Bush has Broken the Law; He Must be Held Accountable
Lucinda
Marshall
President Ken Doll: Bush Insults Women on Intl. Women's Day
Andrew
Bosworth
From the Man Who Voted Against Katrina Aid: Joe Barton's War
on CITGO
Clancy
Sigal
In Celebration of Dachau's 73rd Anniversary,
Halliburton Gets Concentration Camp Contract
Website
of the Day
Help Rebuild the New Orleans Public Library
March 15, 2006
Jonathan
Cook
Israel's Raid on the Jericho Jail
Winslow
Wheeler
Hiding the Cost of War: Paying for
Iraq with Supplemental Funding
Diane
Christian
Sharon's Stroke
Ron
Jacobs
New Tenants for Abu Ghraib?: a Cell for Kissinger and Haig
Missy
Comley Beattie
How Many Brinks to Pass?
Jared
Bernstein
The Minority Wealth Gap
Noam
Chomsky
The Crumbling Empire
Website
of the Day
French Students Reclaim the Streets of Paris
March
14, 2006
Earl
Ofari Hutchinson
No Requiem for a Black Conservative:
the Fall of Claude Allen
Dave
Lindorff
Why the Gitmo Tribunals are a Bad
Idea: Exhibit A, t he Moussaoui Case
Kevin
Zeese
Divide and Rule in Iraq Gone Awry
Todd
Chretien
Counting the Dead in Iraq: Why is the Left Understating the Carnage?
Jason
Kunin
Canada in Afghanistan: "We're Here Because We're Here"
Thomas
Palley
The Economics of Outsourcing
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Pages from the Liberals' War
Website
of the Day
Golf Courses and Swimming Pools
March
13, 2006
Uri
Avnery
The Missing Word
Dave
Lindorff
Extra, Extra! Media Reports on Censure
Motion
Mike
Whitney
South Dakota's Taliban: the Fanatics are on the Loose
David
Green
Questions of Solidarity: Blacks and Jews in Neo-Con America
Jeremy
Scahill
Rest Easy, Bill Clinton: Slobo Can't
Talk Any More
Mike
Ferner
Up Against the Wall, Son: Hungering for Justice During My First
Congressional Testimony
Corey
Harris
Memories of Ali Farka Touré
Paul
Craig Roberts
Killing Off Milosevic: Was Serbia
a Practice Run for Iraq?
Website
of the Day
Prayer Flags for Peace
March 11 / 12, 2006
Alexander
Cockburn
Democrats: When the War Was Lost
Ralph
Nader
Bush at the Tipping Point
Paul
Craig Roberts
Why Did Bush Destroy Iraq?
Ben
Tripp
My Night at the Oscars: the Happy People Speak Out
John
Strausbaugh
The Cowboys and the Village Voice: Alt Press Flagship Goes Corporate
Landau
/ Hassen
Why "We" Fight "Their" Wars
Robert
Bryce
A Thousand Pages of Rage
Gary
Leupp
Why They Really Think They Must Defeat Iran
Fred
Gardner
"But He's Good on Our Issue"
Ron
Jacobs
Condi and Iran: Folly, Tragedy and Farce
Jonathan
Scott
Science Fiction's Black Oracle: the Genius and Courage of Octavia
Butler
Ramzy
Baroud
Who Will Stop Bush's Militant Militarists?
Jordan
Flaherty
Gitmo on the Mississippi: Life Under the Klan Wasn't This Bad
John
Chuckman
Parable of the Hatchet: the Fallacy of Nation-Building in Afghanistan
Joe
Allen
Smearing Ron Carey and the TDU: Bob Fitch's Hatchet Job
Julia
Kendlbacher
Amazonia: Where All Life Matters
St.
Clair / Walker / Pollack / Vest
Playlist: What We're Listening to This Week
Poets'
Basement
Hassen, Harley, Ford and Subiet
Website
of the Weekend
No Hay Ser Humano Ilegal
March
10, 2006
Ben
Rosenfeld
The Great Green Scare and the Fed's
Case Against Rod Coronado: a War on the First Amendment
Lila
Rajiva
The Gitmo Documents: Miller, Boykin,
Cambone and Feith
Saree
Makdisi
From Rachel Corrie to Richard Rogers:
the Wall, the Javits Center and the Bullying of an Architect
Elena
Shore
FBI Grills US Professor Over Support for Venezuela
Joshua
Frank
How the Green Party Slays Their Own
Dave
Zirin
Lynching Barry Bonds
Aura
Bogado
An Interview with Subcomandate Marcos
March
9, 2006
John
Walsh
Neocon Daniel Pipes Advocates Civil
War in Iraq as Strategic Policy
Annie
Zirin
Leftwing Generals: the Dark Side of
Liberal Imperialism
Brian
McKenna
We All Live in Poletown Now: GM and the Corporate Uses of Eminent
Domain
Chris
Floyd
Scar Tissue: How the Bushes Brought Bedlam to Iraq
Rachard
Itani
"Over There": Iraq as Soap Opera
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
The Action Thing
Wylie
Harris
Immigration and Jeffersonian Democracy: Free Borders Make Good
Neighbors
Alexander
Cockburn
Ex-State Department Security Officer
Charges Pre-9/11 Cover-Up
Website
of the Day
About Pace: Expelling Anti-War Students
March
8, 2006
Patrick
Bond
The Loans of Mass Destruction: Wolfowitz's
Anti-Corruption Hoax at the World Bank
Brian
Concannon, Jr.
Elusive Victories in Haiti
Pat
Williams
Buyer's Remorse: Bush, the View from the Purple States
Lance
Selfa
The Democrats and Dubai: the Politics of Distraction
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Have You Ever Been Convicted of a Felony?
Walter
Brasch
Compromising Civil Liberties
Vijay
Prashad
For Them Indian Mangoes: Anatomy
of an Agreement
Website
of the Day
Rachel Corrie: a Call to Action
March
7, 2006
Werther
Half a Trillion Dollars: It's an
Awful Lot of Money to Make Us Less Safe and Less Free
John
Blair
Dr. Strangelove is Our President: Global Peace Through Nuclear
Weapons
Dave
Lindorff
The Impeachment Groundswell and Bush's Last Hope: the Democrats
Mike
Whitney
No Immunity: Israel's Policy of Targeted Assassination
Warren
Guykema
Who is Afraid of Rachel Corrie?
Sen.
Russell Feingold
Misleading Testimony About NSA Domestic Spying
Robert
Jensen
Why I am a Christian (Sort Of)
Norman
Solomon
Digitalized Hype: a Dazzling Smokescreen?
Bernie
Dwyer
Hopeful Signs Across Latin America:
an Interview with Noam Chomsky
Website
of the Day
Golem Song
March 6, 2006
Ralph
Nader
Bush and Katrina: "Situational
Information?"
Dave
Zirin
Why Did Pat Tillman Die? an Investigation Reopens
Vanessa
Redgrave
Censorship of the Worst Kind: the Second Death of Rachel Corrie
Walter
A. Davis
Theater, Ideology and the Censorship of "My Name is Rachel
Corrie"
Joshua
Frank
Down By Law: the Mysterious Case of David Cobb
Nate
Mezmer
A Second Look at "Crash": More Myths About Blacks and
Racist Cops
Paul
Craig Roberts
America's Bleak Jobs Future
Website
of the Day
Crossroads: Race, Class and Art
March 4 / 5, 2006
Alexander
Cockburn
The Dubai Ports Purchase: National
Insecurity, Imported or Homegrown?
Jennifer
Van Bergen
Bush's NSA Spying Program Violates
the Law
Steven
Higgs
Dying for Their Work: Westinghouse Workers and the Highest Level
of PCBs Ever Recorded
Winslow
T. Wheeler
The Generals, the Legislators and the Gulfstream VIP Transports
Ron
Jacobs
Stealing Back Adam's Rib
Rev.
William E. Alberts
Remember Damadola
Colin
Asher
Goodbye, Dubai: the Teamsters and the Ports
Fred
Gardner
Denney's Law
"Pariah"
Scapegoats and Shunning: Sexual Fascism in Progressive America
John
Scagliotti
Brokeback Mountain: Pain is Not Enough
Seth
Sandronsky
When the White House Walks Away: Bush, Arnold and the Flood Risk
in the Central Valley
Joan
Roelofs
A Challenge to Rebuild the World
Arjun
Makhijani
The US / India Nuclear Pact: a Bad and Dangerous Deal
Ardeshr
Ommani
Destroying the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Diana
Barahona
An Open Letter to Freedom House: Release Info on Your Federal
Grants
Ben
Tripp
Bonzo, Wherefore Art Thou?
St.
Clair / Socialist Worker Staff
Playlist: What We're Listening To
Poets'
Basement
Engel, Davies, Buknatski
Website
of the Weekend
The Return of Pearl Jam
March
3, 2006
Laura
Carlsen
Mexico: the Power of Corruption and
the Corruption of Power
John
V. Whitbeck
Two States or One?
Chris
Floyd
The Monolith Crumbles: Reality and Revisionism About Iran
Mohamed
Hakki
Wolfowitz at the World Bank: Cronyism and Corruption
Pratyush
Chandra
Bush in India: Dinner with George and Manmohan
John
Scagliotti
Why are There No Real Gays in
"Brokeback Mountain"?
Website
of the Day
Support the IRC!
March
2, 2006
Paul
Craig Roberts
How the Economic News is Spun
Dave
Lindorff
Troops to Bush: Get Us Out of Here!
Ramzy
Baroud
Middle East Democracy: the Hamas Factor
Saul
Landau
Halfway Down the Road to Hell
Joe
Allen
The Murder of George Jackson: an Interview with His Lawyer, Stephen
Bingham
Steve
Shore
Berlusconi on Capitol Hill: "I
Am Italy!"
Denise
Boggs
Roadless and Clueless: Wilderness Logging Greenwashed by Enviro
Groups
Norman
Finkelstein
The
Attacks on Beyond Chutzpah
Website
of the Day
ScreenHead
March
1, 2006
Mairead
Corrigan Maguire
The Human Right to a Nuclear Free
World
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
The India That Can No Longer
Say No
Faheem
Hussain
Bush in Pakistan
Antony
Loewenstein
Spinning Us to War with Iran: an Aussie Perspective
Elizabeth
Schulte
The Charge to Overturn Roe Has Begun
Mike
Whitney
Sudan: Beware Bolton's Sudden Humanitarianism
John
Ryan
Canada and the American Empire
Michael
Donnelly
Brokeback Mountain: a No Love Story
Tom
Reeves
Haitian Election Aftermath
Website
of the Day
Mardi Gras Index: Reuilding of New Orleans Stalled
March
27, 2006
The
Historic Immigration March in LA
We Didn't Cross
the Border, the Border Crossed Us
By DAVEY D .
D on't believe the hype I was in downtown
Los Angeles on Saturday when the historic march to protest the
racist anti-immigration bill HR 4437 took place. For those who
don't know, this bill would make illegal immigrants felons as
well as anybody, including family members who help them in any
sort of way.
This means that if you have
a cousin living in Mexico who comes over here and his paper work
ain't right, even if you didn't know, you could face jail time.
This means if you unknowingly hire somebody to haul away trash
you could be in trouble. This is not about giving the government
the power to build a wall at the border. This is much deeper
then that..
As for the march, the mainstream
news media claim there were 500 thousand people on who showed
up. Keep in mind, this is after they tried to hate on the march
and say only a few thousand were going to show up the night before.
Trust me more than a million people showed up Anyone who was
there could attest to that. All the blocks around the courthouse
for as far as the eye could see was a sea of people. It was wall
to wall. The rally started at 10 am.. Folks showed up in masse
around 6 am and it stayed packed with people until 3 or 4 that
afternoon.
Also it was a beautiful thing.
The vibe in the air and the overall energy was infectious as
you saw everyone from church goers to gang bangers all fighting
to keep this oppressive bill from passing. There was an enormous
amount of young people. Many came with their families. Its been
a while since I been to a rally or march where I saw Grandmas,
parents, young adults and little kids all in attendance.
I talked to cats who were all
tatted up carrying signs that said 'Stolen Land Defeat HR 4437'
and college cats carrying signs that read 'Where was George Washington's
Green card' carrying signs You could feel the spirit of resistance
in the air. People are waking up and ready to hold people accountable
for being so mean spirited
Also as you listen to the audio clips just
don't think this immigration thing is only gonna effect Brown
folks. I guess the media doesn't like to show what we all have
in common, but bear in mind there's a whole lot of Black folks
like Haitians who this bill is designed to smash on if passed..
Listen to the audio
clips and then call your Senator. You'll know what to say...
Davey D is a hip hop historian, deejay and
community organizer. Visit his excellent website at: http://www.daveyd.com/