Today's
Stories
April
7 -9, 2006
Jeffrey
St. Clair
The Saga of Magnequench: Outsourcing
US Missile Technology to China
April
6, 2006
John
Ross
Mexico's Most Toxic Presidential Election
Ever
Dave
Lindorff
Time to Get on Message with the Sissy French
Don
Monkerud
The Strange Case of the American Worker
Robert
McDonald
The Texas Railroad to Death Row: How Prosecutors Fabricated a
Case Against Rodney Reed
Boris
Kagarlitsky
A Marriage of Convenience in
Ukraine
Remi
Kanazi
The Assault on Cynthia McKinney
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Untangling the Issues in the Immigration Debates
Robert
Fisk
A Lesson from the Holocaust for Us All
April
5, 2006
Dick
J. Reavis
Pancho Bin Laden and the Terrorists'
Tombs
Mark
Brenner
Workers in the Aftermath of Katrina:
Survival of the Fittest
Brian
Cloughley
Nailing the Lies: Come Clean, Mr. Bush
Jozef
Hand-Boniakowski
Why Democrats Are At Least Half of the Problem
Matt
Vidal
Republican Bliss: the Selfish Road to Happiness
Juan
Santos
The Politics of Immigration: a Nation of Colonists and Race Laws
Alan
Maass
Week of the Walkouts
JoAnn
Wypijewski
Malevolent Power at Ft. Sill: the Army
Slays Its Own
Website
of the Day
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
April
4, 2006
Jackson
Thoreau
How the Hammer Got Nailed: Taking
Down Tom DeLay
Gary
Corseri
Osama's Favorite Writer?: an Interview
with William Blum
Dave
Lindorff
Provocative Humanitarianism?: Bashing
Hugo Chavez at the NYT
Paul
Craig Roberts
Belligerent to the Bitter End
Norman
Solomon
When War Crimes Are Unspeakable: Bush, Always the Accuser, Never
the Accused
Michael
Carmichael
The Christocrat: Condi Does Britain
Winslow
T. Wheeler
Is the F-22 Worth the Price-Tag?
Ingmar
Lee
Is Another World Possible?: Report from Karachi
Michael
Neumann
The Israel Lobby and Beyond
Website
of the Day
West Point Graduates Against the War
April
3, 2006
Saul
Landau
Vietnam Diary: "What Socialism?"
Richard
Thieme
The CIA: Cowboys, Indians and Whistleblowers,
an Interview with David MacMichael
Timothy
B. Tyson
Race, Class and Rape at Duke
Omar
Barghouti
The Israeli Elections: a Decisive Vote for Apartheid
Iwasaki
Atsuko
"As Israelis, We Also Fight for Palestinians:" an Interview
with Jeff Halper
Julian
Edney
A Terrible Weapon in the Hands of the Rich
Roger
Morris
Catfight Among the Conservatives
April
1 / 2, 2006
Alexander
Cockburn
Truth and Fiction in Elie Wiesel's
"Night"
Ralph
Nader
Exxon/Mobil: the Corporate Superpower of Superpowers
Dave
Zirin
The Press Mob, Their Rope and Barry Bonds: Damn Right Race Matters
David
Underhill
Walkin' to New Orleans
Earl
Ofari Hutchinson
Do Immigrants Really Take Jobs from Urban Poor?
Dave
Lindorff
Sen. Orrin Hatch: Defender of Presidential Lawlessness
P.
Sainath
Where India's Brave New World is Headed
Fred
Gardner
Debunking "Amotivational Syndrome"
Clancy
Chassay
Hamas or Al Qaeda? The Gun or the Ballot Box?
Heather
Gray
The Inspiring Face of Immigration: Australia and the American
Rural Southeast
Greg
Moses
Austin Students Walkout: "We're a Group This Country Needs"
John
Chuckman
When the Violent Enforce the Peace: America's Brutal Tactics
in Iraq
Ron
Jacobs
Leaving Iraq Now is the Only Sensible Solution
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week
Poets'
Basement
Holt, Engel, Subiet, Ford and Davies
Website
of the Weekend
Pentagon Thievery
March
31, 2006
Gary
Leupp
Better Off Under Saddam: an Inventory
Patrick
Cockburn
Mosul Slips Out of Control
Saree
Makdisi
Israeli Elections Big Winner: Avigdor
Lieberman
Ron
Jacobs
Where Capital is Not God: France Shows the Way
Mark
Engler
There's Much More to be Done on Third World Debt Relief
Curtis
F.J. Doebbler
An Appeal to International Lawyers: Hold Bush Accountable for
Flauting International Law
Laith
al-Saud
Iraq is Not in Civil War (Yet); It's Under Occupation
Website
of the Day
Boobies, Dolphins and Flying Fish: Sailing the African Coast
March
30, 2006
Uri
Avnery
Israeli Elections: What the Hell Has
Happened?
Sen.
Russell Feingold
A Fact Check on a Presidential Crime:
Myth vs. Reality on Bush's Warrantless Wiretapping Program
Winslow
T. Wheeler
The Saga of the Joint Strike Fighter:
Just Because Its High Tech and Costs $247 Billion Doesn't Mean
It Works
Dave
Lindorff
A Strategy of Massacres?
Juan
Santos
The Ghost of George Wallace: Immigration and White Racism
Frida
Berrigan
Privatizing the Apocalypse
Joshua
Frank
War in Search of a Justification
Vonnie
Edwards
Letter from the LA County Jail
Neve
Gordon
Does Kadima's Victory Put the Peace
Process in Reverse?
Website
of the Day
The Women of New Orleans Speak
March
29, 2006
CounterPunch
News Service
Fake
Saddam Interview Put Out by Israel Lobby Catspaw, Endorsed by
NeoCons' Pet Cassandra, Now Wiping Egg From Face
Patrick
Cockburn
Bush's Call for Ouster of Iraq PM
Widens Rift with Shias
John
Ross
When Water is Not a Human Right
Omar
Barghouti
When is Killing Arab Civilians Considered a Massacre?
William
S. Lind
Truth in Advertising from the Army?
Missy
Comley Beattie
Missing in America
Earl
Ofari Hutchinson
AWOL: Black Leaders and Immigration
Website
of the Day
Colombia Support Network
Needs Your Help
March
28, 2006
Sharon
Smith
Liberal Hypocrisy on Immigration:
Krugman and Clinton Say Shut the Door
Paul
Craig Roberts
Bush is No Conservative
Tariq
Ali
Karachi Social Forum: NGOs or WGOs?
Manuel
Garcia, Jr.
God's Torturers: from Torquemada to Opus Dei
Ramzy
Baroud
False Impressions: the Media and the Middle East
Evelyn
Pringle
Fentanyl's Body Count: the FDA's Math Problem
Seth
Sandronsky
Inflation and Speculation
Patrick
Cockburn
Shias May Now Turn on US Forces
March
27, 2006
Patrick
Cockburn
War Crime in a Mosque
Joshua
Frank
The Democrats' Daddy Warbucks
Ron
Jacobs
The Case of the Anti-Minutemen Five
Jeff
Lays
Eternal Spending for a Never-Ending
War
Davey
D.
We Didn't Cross the Border, the Border
Crossed Us
Robert
Billyard
"I Did Not Join the British Army to Conduct US Foreign Policy"
Jim
Rigby
Why We Let an Atheist Join Our Church
Lisa
Viscidi
Justice and Impunity in Latin America: the Case of Rios Montt
Nick
Dearden
Refugees: Thirty Years in the Western Sahara
Gideon
Levy
Are We Done Killing Children, Yet?
Website
of the Day
"Love Me, I'm a Liberal " (Updated)
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
Weekend
Edition
April 7--9, 2006
Leaking,
Lying and Burning Covert Agents from the Oval Office
The Impeachment
Clock Just Clicked Forward
By DAVE LINDORFF
T he national impeachment clock moved
several minutes closer to midnight this week, with word from
special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's Plamegate investigation
that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's leaking of classified
information to New York Times reporter Judy Miller and
other journalists was approved by President George Bush himself.
What makes this latest revelation
important is that if Libby's claim is correct, it means the president
has lied about his role, both to Fitzgerald's federal investigators,
and to the American people. The former act--lying to a federal
agent--could be a federal crime even though the president was
not under oath. The latter--lying to the American people--was
voted out of the House Judiciary Committee as an impeachable
offense in the case of President Richard Nixon, and was one of
the counts approved by the full House of Representatives against
President Bill Clinton. While not a statutory crime, Congress
has long held that lying to the public can be a "high crime"
meriting of impeachment under the Constitution.
Jason Leopold, in an April
6 report for Truthout, says Fitzgerald, in a filing before the
federal court hearing the Libby perjury and obstruction of justice
case, claimed to have evidence, in the form of recently obtained
White House email messages, that Bush was at a minimum receiving
reports on a White House campaign to undermine former ambassador
Joseph Wilson, who had exposed the president's public lie concerning
supposed efforts by Saddam Hussein to buy uranium ore from the
African state of Niger.
Again we are looking at multiple
impeachable offenses here. If the president
was involved in a campaign to selectively release classified
CIA information to punish a critic, and particularly to "out"
an undercover CIA operative, it would be a serious abuse of power--an
impeachable offense.
Bush publicly denied having
any knowledge of the source of the leaks of classified CIA information
or of the leak of Wilson's wife Valerie Plame's identity as a
CIA undercover employee. He apparently also denied having such
knowledge to interviewers from Fitzgerald's office. If he was
lying, again it is an impeachable offense.
Also moving the impeachment
clock forward is word that the president's public approval, already
in the ditch, has sunk even further, with an AP/Ipsos poll this
week reporting that only 36 percent now give the president a
favorable rating.
The president's strongest backers
are still claiming that Bush's alleged transgressions aren't
serious. Unlike Clinton, they say, he hasn't "lied under
oath."
They forget that impeachable
crimes are not the same thing as statutory crimes. The Founders
made it clear that impeachment is about "political"
crimes, not simple felonies. Certainly lying under oath is a
serious matter, whether the prevaricator is an average citizen
or a president. But from the Constitutional perspective, unsworn
lying by a president, if it is about an important matter before
the Congress, or to the American people--for example lying about
the reasons for sending Americans to war--is a far more serious
offense than simply lying about, say, an adulterous tryst, even
if that lie is under oath.
The same can be said about
a president's lying to cover up a serious impeachable offense
such as abuse of power or conspiracy--whether or not that lie
was under oath.
All of which means that we
have moved another step towards the possibility that this president
will face an impeachment proceeding.
As the president's growing
string of lies, abuses of power and other high crimes and misdemeanors
keep coming to light, and as his standing with the American public
continues to sink, the odds of Democrats regaining control of
the House of Representatives this November keep rising. With
them, the likelihood that a new Democratic Party-led Judiciary
Committee will be presented with a bill of impeachment following
Election Day grows apace.
The clock is ticking.
Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing
Time: an Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal . His new
book of CounterPunch columns titled "This
Can't be Happening! " is published by Common Courage
Press. Lindorff's new book, "The
Case for Impeachment ",
co-authored by Barbara Olshansky, is due out May 1.
He can be reached at: dlindorff@yahoo.com
Now
Available
from CounterPunch Books!
The Case
Against Israel
By Michael Neumann
Click Here to Order Michael Neumann's
Devastating Rebuttal of Alan Dershowitz
WHAT'S
INSIDE
Grand
Theft Pentagon:
Tales of Greed and Profiteering in the War on Terror
by Jeffrey St. Clair
CounterPunch
Speakers Bureau
Sick of sit-on-the-Fence speakers, tongue-tied and timid?
CounterPunch Editors Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair
are available to speak forcefully on ALL the burning issues,
as are other CounterPunchers seasoned in stump oratory. Call
CounterPunch Speakers Bureau, 1-800-840-3683. Or email beckyg@counterpunch.org.
The Book on 9/11 the White House Denounced
as "ABSOLUTE GARBAGE"