Wednesday, April 15, 2009

counterpunch -4-15-2009




Today's
Stories


April 13, 2009


Patrick Cockburn

Iraqi Militia Fear Reprisals After US Exit


Jeremy Scahill

A Test Case for Habeas Corpus:
Will Obama Prosecute the Somali Pirate in a US Court?



Karl Grossman

A Radioactive Extension for Aging Nuclear Plants


Nadia Hijab

Still Waiting:
Obama and American Muslims


April 10 / 12, 2009


Alexander Cockburn


Resurrection and Revenge


Chris Floyd

Hope Abandoned: Obama Protects CIA Torture Memos


Mike Whitney

"Liquidate the Banks; Fire the Executives!" Warren's Devastating Report to Congress



Saul Landau

How the Media Bought the Surge


M. Reza Pirbhai

Obama's Afghanistan Plan and India-Pakistan Relations


Franklin Spinney

The Art of the Scam:
Wall Street and the Pentagon



Rannie Amiri

Iran's Elections:
Why Arab Leaders Want Ahmadinejad to Win


William Blum

The Ideology of Barack Obama


Matt Vidal

Why Card Check Would Help the Economy



Jeff Howison

Death of the Square Deal


Jeff Leys

Resisting the Af-Pak War: the Creech Air Base Arrests


Dave Lindorff

America's Imperial Wars:
Why We Need to See the Horrors



Ramzy Baroud

Israel Investigated: But Will It Repent?


Missy Beattie

The Grateful Dead, Wounded and Displaced


Fred Gardner

Fakes Left, Goes Right:
Obama's Crossover Dribble on Marijuana Policy



Harvey Wasserman Another $50 Billion for Rust Bucket Nukes?


Suzan Mazur

A Revolution in Biology: an Interview with Nobel Laureate Paul Nurse


Bernard Umbrecht

German Capitalists Take Fire



David Macaray

A Word Clooney, Hanks and Baldwin Should Learn: Solidarity


Janet Kauffman

How to Starve (or Feed) a River


Ron Jacobs

Daring to Struggle, Failing to Win



Norman Solomon

Getting a Death Grip on Memory


Michael Winship

Let the Railsplitter Awake!


Richard Rhames

Empire, Ennui and Extra Cheese



Wanda Fucha

Brother, Can You Spare a Million Bucks?


David Yearsley

My Journey to the Heart of Rahman


Lorenzo Wolff

Getting Beyond the Black-and-White: Jason Isbell's Challenging New Album



Ben Sonnenberg

Rossellini's Louis XIV
: "Neither the Sun Nor Death Can be Gazed Upon Fixedly"


Jeffrey St. Clair

Savage Incongruities: the Photographic Life of Lee Miller


Poets' Basement


Corseri and Corzett


Website of the Weekend

The Palestine Chronicle Needs Your Help!


April 9, 2009


Mike Whitney

The Decade of Darkness



Patrick Cockburn

What It Would Take to Mend Fences with Islam


Stephen Soldz

Caught on Tape: Diagnostic Abuse of Veterans


P. Sainath

The Rise of the Shoe-cide Bomber



Ellen Cantarow

Israel's Master Plan for Transfer


Gareth Porter /

Jim Lobe


Obama and Israel's Threat to Strike Iran


Jeremy Scahill


How Many Democrats Will Stand Up Against Obama's Bloated Military Budget?


Jerry Kroth

Saving GM From Bankruptcy--With the Stroke of a Pen


Binoy Kampmark

Fujimori Convicted: A Measure of Justice in Latin America


Fidel Castro


My Meeting with the Black Caucus


Website of the Day

Bird Song Radio


April 8, 2009


John Prados

The Af-Pak Paradox



Bill Moyers /

Michael Winship


Changing the Rules of the Blame Game


Winslow T. Wheeler

The Tooth Fairy and the Defense Budget


Russell Mokhiber


PBS Lashes Back


Kathy Sanborn

Depression Fury


Rev. William E. Alberts

If the Shoe Fits: Bush and Al-Zaidi


James McEnteer Rashomon and the Binghamton Shooter: the Rush to Interpret Jiverly Wong's "Statement"



Nadia Hijab

Olmert's Nightmare


Adam Turl

Card Check on the Ropes


Kevin Zeese

Escaping the Drug War Quagmire



Website of the Day

Walk Score Your Neighborhood


April 7, 2009


David Price

Counterinsurgency's Free Ride


Uri Avnery


Who's the Boss?


Chris Floyd

Talking Peace in Prague, Dropping Bombs in Pakistan


Winslow T. Wheeler Defense Cuts: Gates and the System


Marjorie Cohn

Prosecuting the Bush Torture Team:
Spain Leads the Way



Dean Baker

Hands Off Social Security


Diana Johnstone

NATO, Strasbourg and the Black Block


Dave Lindorff

Politicizing Accounting



Martha Rosenberg

Life on HBO's Factory Hog Farm


Evelyn Pringle

Motherhood and the Psycho-Pharmaceutical Complex


Website of the Day

Gaza: Closed Zone



April 6, 2009


Michael Hudson

The IMF Rules the World


Andy Worthington Bagram: Guantánamo's Dark Mirror


Ray McGovern


Profiles in Cowardice: Eric Holder and Colin Powell


Deepak Tripathi

The Pakistan Enigma


Mike Whitney

Bernanke's Financial Rescue Plan: a Glide-Path to Destitution


Norman Solomon


Meet the New Escalators: the Democrats and the Afghan War


Jonathan Cook

Israel Railways Accused of Racism in Firing of Arab Workers


Judith Bello

Justice for the Developmentally Disabled


Deena Metzger Blackwater in Liberia



Dr. M. Kamiar

"There's No 'Eye' in Iran:"
Obama's Pronunciation Problem


Website of the Day

Prison Talk


April 3-5, 2009



Alexander Cockburn

From Twin Towers to Twin Camelots


Kathy Kelly /

Brian Terrall


Getting a Closer Look at the Killer Drones


Sue Sturgis


Fooling with Disaster? Startling Revelations About Three Mile Island Raise New Doubts Over Nuclear Plant Safety


Peter Morici

Girding for a Depression


Kathy Sanborn

Homeless in Tent City, USA


Andy Worthington


Britain's Guantánamo: Fact or Fiction?


Rob Larson

Subprime Supreme Court: The Roberts Court Has Become a Powerful New Tool for Business


Saul Landau

Biden and Nixon: a Tale of Two Latin American Experiences



Steve Early

An Evening with Andy Stern


John Goekler

Was Gaza Israel's Waterloo?


Rannie Amiri

Arab League Reconciliation Summit a Bust



Dave Lindorff

Hooray for Juries! A Courtroom Victory for Ward Churchill and Academic Free Speech


Lee Ballinger

Sound Garden: Tom Morello at the Grammy Museum


Ron Jacobs

Artifacts for Survival



David Macaray

AIG Plays the Sympathy Card


John Wight

G20: Capital's New World Symphony


Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Race in the Obama Era



Mychal Bell

Surviving Jena Six


Missy Beattie

Hoop Hopes, War and Peace


Reza Fiyouzat

The Iran/US Rapproachment Dance



Michael Boldin

The War on Drugs is a War on You


Christopher Brauchli

The Pope's Batting 50-50


Charles R. Larson

Too Much Stuff



Susie Day

Bernie Breakout Shocker!!


Stephen Martin

Gordon Brown's Chicken Run at the G20


Kim Nicolini

"Last House on the Left:" Vigilantes of the Bourgeoisie



David Yearsley

Homage to Moog and Mallards


Phyllis Pollack

An Interview with Legendary Rock Producer Chris Kimsey on Working with the Stones, Ronnie Wood, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh and Saint Jude


Poets' Basement

Foley, Valentine and Kozak



Website of the Day

The Corner Store


 


April 2, 2009


Robert Weissman

What If Obama Had Treated Detroit Like Wall Street?



Eric Toussaint /

Damien Millet


A G20 Meeting for Naught


George Bisharat

Israel's Impunity Must End


Russell Mokhiber


Something is Rotten at PBS


Franklin Lamb

Has Washington Lost Lebanon?


Gareth Porter

Settling Scores in Iraq: Maliki Draws US Troops into Crackdown on Sunni Rivals


David Macaray


Obama and the Ruling Class: "Only the Little People Pay Taxes"


Chris Genovali

B.C.'s Bloody Grizzly Hunt


Sam Smith

The Politics of Adulation


Suzan Mazur


Is Neo-Darwinism Dead?


Website of the Day

Fighting for Change in St. Louis



 


April 1, 2009


Chris Floyd


Surging Further Into the Afghan Abyss


Stanley Heller

Israeli War Crimes:
Thank God, It Was Only Rumors


Mark Brenner, Mischa Gaus and Jane Slaughter Obama's Perilous Plan for Detroit: Restructure the Big 3, But Not With Bankruptcy


Jonathan Cook

The Slow Demise of Ehud Olmert



Eric Walberg

EU in Tatters: Only the Protesters Have Any Vision


Richard Morse

Why Haiti Can't Forget Its Past


Don Fitz

Guess Who Came to Dinner with a Match? Green Mayoral Candidate's Van Firebombed in St. Louis



Laray Polk

Texas and Evolution


Belén Fernández

12 Años de Soledad?


Harvey Wasserman


Cracking the Media Silence on Three Mile Island


Website of the Day

Pentagon Fraud Investigations Fell, While Contracts Soared


March 31, 2009


Uri Avnery

The Deception Tango



Peter Lee

Ghosts in the Machine: the World's Hottest Cyberwar Battlefield


Nicholas Dearden

A New Global Debt Crisis


Dave Lindorff

The Obama Betrayal



Joanne Mariner

"We'll Make You See Death"


Ron Jacobs

Obama's Pakistan Gambit


Wiliam S. Lind

Another Lost War



David Michael Green

Who Says the GOP Doesn't Have a Plan?


Benjamin Dangl

Beyond Elections in the Americas


Johnny Barber

Meditation in Orange



Dedrick Muhammad

Economic Inequality: the Foundation of the Racial Divide


Website of the Day

How the Obama Dems Took Over the Peace Movement


March 30, 2009


Michael Hudson


Financing the Empire: Do US Face G20 Mutiny?


Patrick Cockburn

What Next in Afghanistan?


Henry A. Giroux

Hard Lessons


Mike Whitney


Where's Eliot Spitzer Now That We Need Him?


Ralph Nader

Where's All the Money Coming From?


Paul Craig Roberts

Obama's War on the (Upper) Middle Class


Jeremy Scahill


The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq


Robert Bryce

The Cellulosic Ethanol Delusion


Jonathan Cook

Remembering Land Day in Palestine


Ray McGovern


Obama Bombs


Website of the Day

Hersh: Syria Calling


 

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