Today's
Stories
May 5, 2006
Vijay Prashad
The
Charmless Inconveniences of the Bourgeoisie
May 4, 2006
John F. Sugg
Sami
al-Arian's Final Persecution
Will Potter
Green is the New Red: How the Bush Administration is Using Terror
Laws to Prosecute Nonviolent Environmental Activists
Jonathan Cook
The
Long Path Back to Umm al-Zinat
Roger Burbach
Bolivia's Radical Realignment
Chris Dols
Colbert's
Moment (And Why the Beltway Gang Didn't Get It)
Christopher Brauchli
Sen. Frist Without Clothes
Tony Swindell
"Our
Descent into Hell has Begun"
Website of the Day
The
Two Lobbies
May 3, 2006
Robert Bryce
The
Self-Locking F-22
Paul Craig Roberts
John
Kenneth Galbraith, a Great American
James Petras
The
Rise of the Migrant Workers' Movement
Lee Sustar
Democrats and Immigrants: the Grand Evasion
David Bolton
The War on Drugs is a War on Ourselves
Joshua Frank
Challenging Hillary
Jeffery R. Webber
Evo
Morales' Historic May Day: Bolivia Nationalizes Gas!
Website of the
Day
Happy Birthday, Pete Seeger!
May 2, 2006
Evelyn Pringle
Gouge
and Profit: Will Big Oil Destroy
Tariq Ali
On the Death of Pramoedya Ananta Toer: Indonesia's Greatest Writerthe US Economy?
Saul Landau
Life
in the Mekong Delta
Paul Craig Roberts
Endgame for the Constitution
Gary Leupp
"Out
of Iraq, Into Darfur?"
Ron Jacobs
May
Day in Asheville
Sen. Russell
Feingold
Our Presence is Destabilizing Iraq
Anthony Papa
Rush Limbaugh and the Politics of Drug Addiction
Website of the
Day
Rainbow Books
May Day, 2006
Norman Finkelstein
The
Israel Lobby: It's Not Either / Or
Christopher Reed
Mercury's
Message, 50 Years On
Michael Donnelly
Rummy's Not the Only One Who Should Go: What About the War's
Liberal Enablers?
Dave Zirin
A Day Without Pujols
Mike Whitney
The "N' Word: Take Back the Oil Companies!
Gilad Atzmon
Self-Haters Unite!
Missy Comley Beattie
Marching for Peace
Alexander Cockburn
The
War on Terror on the Lodi Front
Website of the
Day
In
Your Face, Mr President
April 29 / 30,
2006
Peter Linebaugh
May
Day with Heart
Ralph Nader
Break Up the Big Oil Cartel
Robert Bryce
The Scandal of the V-22: It Kills, It Crashes, But It Won't Die
Rev. William
Alberts
Praying for Peace or Preying on Peace? Time for People of Faith
to Censure Bush
Lee Sustar
Opening a New Movement
John Chuckman
Xenophobia in a Land of Immigrants
Eric Ruder
An Interview with Camilo Meija on the War and Immigrants
Seth Sandronsky
Securing the Homeland for Whom
Ron Jacobs
Neil Young's Call to Arms
Ben Tripp
A Fork in the American Road
Fred Gardner
Forgotten Memories: Personal and Political
Don Monkerud
Corruption Reform in the Age of Abramoff: Not a Roar, But a Whimper
Tommy Stevenson
JazzFest, Tears and the Renewal of New Orleans
Lettrist International
Proposals for Rationally Improving the City of Paris
Contratiempo
Back to the Back of the Yards: the Jungle, 100 Years Later
St. Clair, Vest
and D'Antoni
CounterPunch Playlist: What We're LIstening to This Week
Poets' Basement
Engel, Orloski and Guthrie
Website of the
Weekend
Survival
of the Fattest
April 28, 2006
James Ridgeway
What
You Won't See in Flight 93, the Film
Ramzy Baroud
Hamas'
Impossible Mission
Sarah Knopp
An
Interview with Nativo Lopez on the May Day Protests
William S. Lind
Off
With His Head!: But Rumsfeld's Should Not be the Only One That
Rolls
Werther
Operation
Canned Meat and Its Derivatives
April 27, 2006
Winslow T. Wheeler
How
Much is the War Costing? How Many US Troops are Really in Iraq?
Robert Fisk
The
United States of Israel?
Juan Santos
Immigration
Endgame
Robert Jensen
Why
Leftists Distrust Liberals
Dave Lindorff
Making
America Safer: One Released War Crime Victim at a Time
Jose Pertierra
Honor
and Injustice:the Case of the Cuban Five
April 26,2006
Robin Philpot
The
Rich Life of Jane Jacobs
Sherry Wolf
Democrats,
Their Apologists and Abortion: the Jig is Up
Pratyush Chandra
Nepal:
a Saga of Compromise and Struggle
Joshua Frank
Zig-Zagging
Through the War With John Kerry
Gary
Leupp
The Neo-Cons and Iran: No Negotiations
Bill
Quigley
Katrina: Eight Months Later
April
25, 2006
Gary
Leupp
Wilkinson Speaks Out About the Coming
War on Iran
Paul
Craig Roberts
The World is Uniting Against the Bush Imperium
Linda
S. Heard
Is the US Waging Israel's Wars?: the Prophecy of Oded Yinon
Ralph
Nader
Political Science: Gingrich, "Futurism" and the Abolition
of the OTA
Mike
Whitney
Preparing for the Economic Typhoon
Michael
Donnelly
Lutherans Betray Michigan's Loon Lake Wetlands for Pieces of
Silver
Sharon
Smith
Breathing New Life Into May Day
Website
of the Day
SDS Ver. 2
April
24, 2006
Tim
Wise
What Kind of Card is Race?
John
Stanton
Strike Iran, Watch Pakistan and Turkey Fall
Dave
Lindorff
Dangerous Times Ahead
Steve
Shore
Berlusconi Defeated: The Long Wait is Over ... Or Is It?
Amadou
Deme
Hotel Rwanda: Setting the Record Straight
Mickey
Z.
15 Minutes of Radical Fame: America Meets Bill Blum and Ward
Churchill
Ralph Nader
Lee
Raymond's Unconscionable Platinum Parachute
Alexander
Cockburn
Obama's Game
Website
of the Day
Too Stupid to Be President?
April
22/23, 2006
Jeffrey
St. Clair
The General, GM and the Stryker
Jeff
Halper
SUMUD vs. Apartheid: the Elections in Palestine and Israel
Jeff
Klein
How to Manufacture a War Criminal: Saddam and Me, a True Story
Thomas
P. Healy
Out Now: an Interview with Anthony Arnove
David
Underhill
Stuck in Mobile with the Rev. Graham Blues Again
Lee
Sustar
"We are Going to Keep Marching": an Interview with
Immigrant Rights Organizer Martín Unzueta
Deb
Reich
The Little Mermaid on Highway Six: Rooting for Ordinary Israelis
to Wake Up
John
Chuckman
America's Gulag: Purge at the CIA
Fred
Gardner
More Suppression of Marijuana Research
Julian
Edney
Can Our Economy Run Without Fear?
Seth
Sandronsky
The GOP and California's Levees
Brynne
Keith-Jennings
The Meddlesome Ambassador Trivelli: Undermining Democracy in
Nicaragua
Dave
Lindorff
Where are the Frogs?
Catherine
Ann Cullen and Harry Browne
Springsteen Polishes His Roots: First Impressions of "We
Shall Overcome"
Bill
Pahnelas
Bush Passes the Buck on Soaring Gas Prices
Jim
French
Time to Overhaul US Farm Policy
Ron
Jacobs
"I Know I'm Not Dreaming, Because I Can't Sleep Any More"
David
Krieger
The Courage of Sophie Scholl: Resisting Hitler
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week
Poets'
Basement
Buknatski, Engel and Ford
Website
of the Weekend
Eye of the Storm
April
21, 2006
Jonathan
Cook
The Sinister Meaning of Olmert's "Hitkansut":
Deporting Hamas MPs
Lawrence
R. Velvel
Physical Courage, Moral Courage and
American Generals
Evelyn
Pringle
How to Out a CIA Agent
Christopher
Brauchli
The Rich are Different
Pratyush
Chandra
Pure-and-Simple Revolutions in Nepal and Venezuela
Michael
George Smith
This is What a Movement Looks Like
Missy
Comley Beattie
Serving at the Decider's Pleasure
Sarah
Hines
The Bracero Program: 1942-1964
Website
of the Day
Hunger Strike at U. of Miami
April
20, 2006
Chris
Kutalik
As Crisis Deepens, Is Labor Finally
Showing Signs of a Comeback?
Gary
Leupp
Cheney, the Neocons and China
Joshua
Frank
Stop the War! Dump the Democrats!
Diane
Christian
The Authority to Kill
William
S. Lind
Sweeping Up: the Real Problem Wasn't
the Execution of the War, But the Enterprise Itself
Ramzy
Baroud
A Case for the Palestinan Government
Justin
E.H. Smith
Doctors and Lethal Injection
April
19, 2006
P.
Sainath
More Kids? Pay More for Your Water
Norman
Solomon
When Diplomacy Means War: Bait-and-Switch
on Iran
Anthony
Papa
When Justice Isn't Blind: Double
Standards for the Rich and Poor in New York
Mike
Ferner
Movement Blues
Stanley
Heller
The Massacre at Qana, 10 Years
Later: Still No Justice
Rifundazione
"We Defeated Berlusconi"
Christopher
Reed
Secrets of the Garden of Bliss
Alexander
Cockburn
The Pulitzer Farce
Website
of the Day
Bunker
Busters: the Movie
April
18, 2006
Paul
Craig Roberts
How Safe is Your Job?
Eric
Wingerter
Washington Post vs. Venezuela
Juan
Santos
What Immigrants Need to Learn from
the Black Civil Rights Movement
Greg
Weiher
The Zarqawi Gambit Revisited
Sam
Bahour
Is Hamas Being Forced to Collapse?
Behzad
Yaghmaian
In the Gaze of New Orleans
Website
of the Day
The
FBI and the Jack Anderson Files
April
17, 2006
Kevin Zeese
An Interview with the First Arab-American
Senator: Jim Abourezk on Bush's Lies and the Dems' Complicity
Uri Avnery
Olmert
the Fox
Norman Solomon
Why Won't Moveon.Org Oppose the
Bombing of Iran?
John Ross
A
Real Day Without Mexicans?
Laila al-Haddad
The Earth is Closing in on Us:
Dispatch from Gaza
Jeffrey Blankfort
A
Tale of Two Members of Congress and the Capitol Hill Police
Website of the Day
Dixie
Chicks: Not Ready to Back Down
April
15 / 16, 2006
Jeffrey
St. Clair
How Star Wars Came to the Arctic
Ralph
Nader
Remembering Rev. William Sloan Coffin
Thaddeus
Hoffmeister
The Ghost of Shinseki: the General Who Was Sent Out to Pasture
for Being Right
Kevin
Prosen / Dave Zirin
Privilege Meets Protest at Duke
Thomas
P. Healy
Taking Care of What We've Been Given: a Conversation with Wendell
Berry
Kristoffer
Larsson
Are 40 Percent of All Swedes Anti-Semitic?: Anatomy of a Statistical
Flim-Flam
Fred
Gardner
Continuing Medical (Marijuana) Education
Edwin
Krales
New York's Katrina: the Hidden Toll of AIDS Among Blacks and
the Poor
Brian
Cloughley
Don't Blitz Iran: Risking the Ultimate Blowback
John
Holt
Walking Off Vietnam with Edward Abbey's Surrogate Son
Seth
Sandronsky
What Billionaires Mean By Education Reform: Oprah, Bill Gates
and the Privatization of Public Schools
Rafael
Renteria
Making It Plain About New Orleans
Michael
Ortiz Hill
In the Ashes of Lament: an Easter Meditation
William
A. Cook
An Israel Accountability Act
Gideon
Levy
Shooting Nasarin: a Story About a Little Girl
Andrew
Wimmer
Stopping the Bush Juggernaut: a New Citizens Campaign
Madis
Senner
Talking Points for Easter Weekend: Jesus Didn't Lie, Mr. Bush
Michael
Kuehl
The Sex Police State: Women as "Rapists" and "Pedophiles"?
Mark
Scaramella
When Even God Can't Follow His Own Commandments: the Timeless
Scarcasm of Mark Twain
Nate
Mezmer
187 Proof: Living and Dying Hip-Hop
Jesse
Walker
Playlist
Poets'
Basement
Engel, Laymon and Subiet
Website
of the Weekend
Pink Serenades Bush
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
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