Today's
Stories
April
15 / 16, 2006
Ralph
Nader
Remembering Rev. William Sloan Coffin
April
14, 2006
Col.
Dan Smith
Candor or Career?: Why Few Top Military
Officials Resign on Principle
Saul
Landau
Ho Chi Minh City Moves On Without Regrets
Stan
Cox
The Real Death Tax
Kevin
Zeese
Hersh vs. Bush on Iran: Who Would You Believe?
Brian
McKinlay
Bad Times for Bush's Buddies
Howard
Meyers
Dwarves, Knives and Freedom: Bush, Jr. is No LBJ
Ishmael
Reed
The Colored Mind Doubles: How the Media
Uses Blacks to Chastize Blacks
Website
of the Day
Asshole: a Film Strip
April
13, 2006
CounterPunch
News Service
Powell's "Bitch"?
Norman
Solomon
The Lobby and the Bulldozer
Stanley
Heller
Time to Shake Up the Peace Movement
Jeff
Birkenstein
Bush and Freedom of Speech
Evelyn
J. Pringle
Not So Fast, Mr. Powell
Michael
Donnelly
The Week the Bush Administration
Fell Apart
Kamran
Matin
Synergism of the Neo-Cons: What's Going On In Iran?
Website
of the Day
"Don't Be Afraid of the Neo-Cons"
April
12, 2006
Vijay
Prashad
Resisting Fences
Alan
Maass
The Suicide of Anthony Soltero
Dave
Lindorff
Bush's Insane First Strike Policy: If You Don't Want to Get Whacked,
You'd Better Get Your Nation a Nuke ... Fast
Ron
Jacobs
Resistance: the Remedy for Fear
Ramzy
Baroud
The Imminent Decline of the American Empire?
Randall
Dodd
How a Wal-Mart Bank will Harm Consumers
Missy
Comley Beattie
The Boy President Who Cried "Wolf!"
P. Sainath
The Corporate Hijack of India's Water
Website
of the Day
"The System is Irretrievably Corrupt"
April
11, 2006
Al
Krebs
Corporate Agriculture's Dirty Little
Secret: Immigration and a History of Greed
Lawrence
R. Velvel
The Gang That Couldn't Leak Straight
Sonia
Nettinin
Palestinian Health Care Conditions Under Israeli Occupation
Willliam
S. Lind
The Fourth Plague Hits the Pentagon: Generals as Private Contractors
Robert
Ovetz
Endangered Species in a Can: the Disappearance of Big Fish
Pratyush
Chandra
Nepalis Say, "Ya Basta!"
Grant
F. Smith
The Bush Administration's Final Surprise?
Laray
Polk
Loud, Soft, Hard, Quiet: Marching Through Dallas for Immigrant
Rights
Francis
Boyle
O'Reilly and the Law of the Jungle: How to Beat a Bully on His
Home Turf
José
Pertierra
A Glimpse into the Mindset of Terrorists: Posada Carriles, Orlando
Bosch and the Downing of Cubana Flight 455
Website
of the Day
The Dead Emcee Scrolls
April
10, 2006
Ralph
Nader
Tinhorn Caesar and the Spineless Democrats
Heather
Gray
Atlanta and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Uri
Avnery
The Big Wink
Joshua
Frank
Big Greens and Beltway Politics: Betting on Losers
Seth
Sandronsky
Immigration and Occupations
Michael
Leonardi
The Italian Elections: "Reality is No Longer Important"
Evelyn
Pringle
Did Bush Pull a Fast One on Fitzgerald?
Tom
Kerr
FoxNews Does Ward Churchill
Lucinda
Marshall
The Lynching of Cynthia McKinney
Website
of the Day
Brown Berets
April
7 -9, 2006
Alexander
Cockburn
If Only They'd Hissed Barack Obama
Jeffrey
St. Clair
The Saga of Magnequench: Outsourcing
US Missile Technology to China
Patrick
Cockburn
The War Gets Grimmer Every Day
David
Vest
The Rebuking and Scorning of Cynthia McKinney
Dave
Lindorff
The Impeachment Clock Just Clicked Forward
Gary
Leupp
"Ideologies of Hatred:" What Did Condi Mean?
Elaine
Cassel
The Moussaoui Trial: What Kind of Justice is This?
Saul
Landau
Vietnam Diary: Hue Without Rules
James
Ridgeway
"This is Betty Ong Calling": a Short Film
Ron
Jacobs
Why Iran was Right to Refuse US Money
John
Walsh
Kerry Advocates Iraqization: Too Little, Too Late
Ramzy
Baroud
The US Attitude Toward Hamas: Disturbing Parallels with Nicaragua
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush Finds Democracy Has Its Limits
Todd
Chretien
What the Pentagon Budget Could Buy for America
Jonathan
Scott
Javelins at the Head of the Monolith
John
Bomar
What They're Saying About Bush in Arkansas
Michele
Brand
Iran, the US and the EU
Ronan
Sheehan
Remember When the Irish First Met the Chinese?
Mickey
Z.
Let Us Now Praise OIL
Don
Monkerud
March of the Bunglers
Michael
Dickinson
The Rich Young Man: a Miracle Play
Website
of the Weekend
The Case Against Israel and Munich: Compare and Contrast
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
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"With
Him, We Were Changed Forever"
Remembering Rev.
William Sloane Coffin
By RALPH NADER
O ne of his Yale students, famed cartoonist
Garry Trudeau, said of Yale University Chaplain, Williams Sloane
Coffin, during those heady years in the Sixties; "Without
him, the very air would have lost its charge. With him, we were
changed forever."
Who was this former Army Captain,
ex-C.I.A. agent, talented musician, linguist and motorcycle rider?
How did he become one of the most influential clergymen of his
time by focusing public attention on the essential moral questions
so often avoided in times of war, strife over civil rights and
the perilous nuclear arms race between the United States and
the Soviet Union? Most clergy do not roam so far from their Church.
When challenged to stick with
his ministerial duties, this great speaker of sweeping vision
and public virtue replied:
Every minister is given two
roles: the priestly and the prophetic. The prophetic role is
the disturber of the peace, to bring the minister himself, the
congregation and entire social order under some judgment. If
one plays a prophetic role, it's going to mitigate against his
priestly role. There are going to be those who will hate him.
And with that definition, the
Rev. Coffin became the outspoken activist and doer of nonviolent
civil disobedience directly from the principles of his Christian
faith. He wrote, spoke, organized, marched, protested, was arrested,
jailed and prosecuted. He inspired the struggles against the
Vietnam war, Jim Crow laws, the military draft, poverty here
and abroad, and the planet-threatening atomic arms race. He did
all this with an historical frame of reference, biblical wisdom,
and humor which was almost always witty and informative.
There was an arresting moment
right after World War II when infantry Captain Coffin was assigned
to the French and then the Russian army to compel Soviet refugees,
who had been taken prisoner, to return to the Soviet Union. He
admits to using deception to lure them onto the trains heading
for Russia, leading some to attempt suicide because they knew
what awaited them there. Many simply disappeared.
In his memoir Once to Every
Man (1977), Rev. Coffin said his behavior left him a "burden
of guilt I am sure to carry the rest of my life." It led,
he wrote, to his spending "three years in the C.I.A. opposing
Stalin's regime."
In 1978, he became the head
minister at the large, interdenominational Riverside Church in
New York City, where he advanced his often affluent congregation
toward addressing problems of unemployment and juvenile offenders.
Last October, I arranged a
telephone interview about the Iraq war with Rev. Coffin from
his Strafford, Vermont home. Though seriously ill, he was typically
upbeat: "How are you, Reverend?" "Better than
I have any right to feel, the rest is commentary," he replied.
He made a number of cogent
points in the interview, to wit:
What the rest of us have to
remember is that dissent in a democracy is not unpatriotic, what
is unpatriotic is subservience to a bad policy.
Local clergy must brave the
accusation of meddling in politics, a charge first made no doubt
by the Pharoah against Moses. When war has a bloodstained face,
none of us have the right to avert our gaze.
And the search for peace is
biblically mandated. If religious people don't search hard, and
only say 'peace is desirable,' then secular authorities are free
to decide 'War is necessary'.
I think the absence of a draft
has much to do with the present lack of student protest. On the
other hand, I think the colossal blunders of the administration
will quicken an antiwar movement faster now than during the Vietnam
war.
What we shouldn't do is to
believe President Bush when he says that to honor those who have
died, more Americans must died. That's using examples of his
failures to promote still greater failures.
I asked him what he thinks
should be done by the peace movement? He was direct, saying "I
am very much in favor of well thought out, nonviolent civil disobedience,
of occupying congressional offices, telling lawmakers, 'You have
to stop the slaughter, to admit mistakes and to right the wrong.'"
(Click here to read the entire interview .)
Reverend William Sloane Coffin
passed away in Strafford on April 12 at the age of 81.
Five weeks earlier, another
storied man of conscience who waged peace for 65 years died at
the age of 88 in Santa Rosa, California. Caleb Foote was such
a profound war-resister that he spent 18 months in federal prison
because he did not want to easily fake a religiously-based conscientious
objection status, since his opposition was based on humanistic
principles.
He went on as a law professor
to engage decades of championing racial, economic and criminal
justice. Not just by representing aggrieved defendants but by
also putting forth studies which addressed systems of reform.
He spent his later years active in local conservation initiatives.
Should their relatives and
many friends and admirers be contemplating the extension of their
legacies, they may wish to consider establishing an institution
dedicated to the thought and action which these two men demonstrated.
Around two years ago, Reverand
Coffin's was honored at a large dinner in New York City. After
eloquent encomiums by several noted speakers, he rose to give
a few remarks. Listening on C-SPAN radio, I paraphrase one of
his urgings to carry on: It is as if our long gone, valiant reformers
in our country's history were reaching out to us and saying "finish
the job, finish the job."
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