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Today's
Stories
March 20,
2007
Patrick Cockburn
Iraq
is a Vast, Blood-Drenched Human Disaster
March 19,
2007
Paul Craig
Roberts
Crime
Blotter: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Patrick Cockburn
Operation
Deepening Nightmare
Stauber / Rampton
Why Won't MoveOn Move Forward?
Werther
Plame Wars: Valerie Plame, the Washington Post and the Ghost
of Joe McCarthy
Noam Chomsky
In Memory of Tanya Reinhart
Jeff Leys
Tap Dancing on Graves: How Democrats Bought the War
Richard May
And Then There Were None: Europe's Afghan Backlash
Ron Jacobs
Lessons of the Antiwar Movement and the Washington Post's Lessons
of the Iraq War
Mike Whitney
Rove in the Dock
Website of
the Day
Ringtones That Roar
March 17
/ 18, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Here
Comes Another "Crime Wave"
John Scagliotti
A Sissy's Manifesto
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Green Imposter: When Al Gore Was Veep
Paul Craig
Roberts
The Confession Backfired
Greg Moses
Jailing Immigrant Mothers in El Paso
Harry Clark
Thrice-Told Tales: Those Israel-Syria Peace Talks
Brian Cloughley
In the Name of Improving People's Lives: Mounting Civilian Deaths
in Afghanistan and Iraq
Mehran Ghassemi
An Interview with Sasan Fayazmanesh on the US, Israel and Iran
William Loren Katz
A Disturbing Expulsion: Racism and the Cherokee Nation
John Ross
Being a Zapatista Where You Live
Ralph Nader
Ban the Bomblets!
Walter Brasch
An Intolerant Minority: the Witch Hunt Against Gays in the Military
Samer Assad
The Palestinian Unity Government: Another for US Diplomacy
Dave Zirin
Bowie Kuhn: Death of a Baseball Reactionary
Ron Jacobs
The Darker Nation's: Remembering and Re-examining the Third World
Missy Beattie
No to War and Pace
Don Santina
First, They Came for the Democrats
Sami Adwan
What Hillary Should Know About Palestinian Schoolbooks
Dr. Susan Block
Gods of Spring: the Erotics of the Equinox
Poets' Basement
Reed, Landau, Engel, Buknatski
Website of
the Weekend
God Save Helen Mirren
March 16,
2007
R. T. Naylor
The
Political Economy of Diamonds
Paul Craig
Roberts
The Last Days of Constitutional Rule
Joshua Frank
Obama's Israel Problem
Diane Farsetta
How Reporters Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Front
Groups
Tom Barry
Tancredo's Putsch: Anti-Immigrant Agenda Veers Hard Right
Stephen Lendman
Plays from a Political Fake Book: Congress's Phony Opposition
to War
Al Krebs
Compounding Infamy: Chiquita, Its Workers and Colombia's Death
Squads
Jackie Corr
Senator Schumer and the Corruption Culture
Ramzy Baroud
Palestinians Must Redefine Struggle
Reza Fiyouzat
The Chinese Way of Capitalism
Website of the Day
Introducing: the iRak
March 15,
2007
Alison Weir
Strip-Searching
Children at Israeli Checkpoints
Patrick Cockburn
Baghdad
Under Surge
Veteran Intelligence
Professionals for Sanity
Memo to Congressional Leaders on Iraq Funding: First Stop the
Bleeding
Franklin Spinney
Of Character and Contractors: the Unauthorized Rumsfeld
Standard Schaefer
Biofuels
and the Green Resistance
Conn Hallinan
The Right's Stuff in Africa: Neocons, Evangelicals and Sudan
Maureen Webb
Another Patriot Act Abuse
Sonja Karkar
Rachel Corrie and Palestine
Margaret Kimberly
The Profits of Self-Hatred: Malkin and D'Souza, Incorporated
Anthony Papa
The New Capones: It's Time to Rethink Drug Prohibition
Katherine Hancy
Wheeler Bush's
Latin American Tour: Good Will Lost
Video of the Day
The Easiest Targets
Website of
the Day
Memo to Kucinich: Watch Your Back!
March 14,
2007
Tao Ruspoli
A
Conversation with Peter Linebaugh on the Slave Trade, Magna Carta
and the State of the Left
Philip Agee
The
Decline of the US, the Rise of Latin America
Bruce Dixon
The Digital Redlining of African-Americans
John Walsh
How One Senator Could End the War
Sunsara Taylor
Red Light, Green Light: the Democrats and Iran
William Johnson
Still Reeling from Katrina: The Spirited Strike at Pascagoula
Shipyards
Richard Thieme
Entitlement and Empire
Jeffrey Klein
Right-Wing Academic Values
Nicola Nasser
This Time, Israeli is Missing an Historic Opportunity
Dave Lindorff
Political Hide-and-Seek with the Democrats
Website of
the Day
Oil Change
March 13,
2007
Catherine Wilkerson,
M.D.
Scenes
from a Cop Riot
Jonathan Cook
The Real Goal of Israel's Invastion of Lebanon
Robert Bryce
Beyond Redemption: the Legacy of George the Second
Corporate Crime
Reporter
Coal-Powered Democrats
Pierre Rimbert
Libération and the Evolution of French Neoliberalism
Dave Lindorff
What's Good for Halliburton is Good ... for Dubai
Elizabeth Schulte
The Repackaging of John Edwards
Norman Solomon
The Pragmatism of Prolonged War
Kevin Zeese
The Democrats' Fraudulent Iraq Exit Plan
Jeff Conant
Greeting Rumsfeld in Taos
Website of the Day
Tacoma and the Big Heat
March 12,
2007
Marjorie Cohn
Patriot
Act Unbound
Col. Dan Smith
Ghost Prisoners, Shadowy Jails and Secret Trials
Paul Craig Roberts
Neocons in Kafkaland
Ingmar Lee
The Sentencing of Betty Krawczyk: a 78-Year-Old Eco-Heroine
Fred Gardner
Cannabis for the Wounded: Another Walter Reed Scandal
Ron Jacobs
Showdown at Port Tacoma: Confronting the War Machine in the Northwest
Ralph Nader
Send the Bush Twins to Iraq!
John Ross
Political Prisoners in Calderon's Mexico
Stephen Fleischman
Bush's Latin American Slip
Eva Carazo Vargas
Why We Reject CAFTA
Website of
the Day
Mountain Justice Spring Break
March 9
/ 11, 2007
Sameer Dossani
Interview
with Noam Chomsky: War, Neoliberalism and Empire in the 21st
Century
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Crude Alliance: The Bi-Partisan Politics of Oil
Dave Marsh
Bono's Bullshit: Not One Red Cent
Patrick Cockburn
Shia Pilgrims Die Despite US Offensive
Jennifer Van Bergen
A Gonzo Argument: Alberto Gonzales's Defense of NSA Domestic
Spying
James P. Stevenson
Pardon Whom? Libby and the Cheney Unseen
Arthur J. Versluis
Crusade for Commercialism
Corporate Crime
Reporter
Not a Dime's Worth of Difference: Congress and Corporate Crime
Missy Beattie
Too Much Info, Newt!: Sex, God and Praying
Michael Simmons
Annie Get Your Gums: Why I Like Ann Coulter
Kevin Zeese
Making Democrats Pay the Price: Voting Against the War is No
Longer Enough
David Swanson
Shocking Video: The Dark Side of the Democrats
John A. Murphy
Are the Congressional Democrats Spineless?
Dave Lindorff
Bush Dodges a Constitutional Bullet in New Mexico: Abetted by
Democrats
Nikolas Kozloff
Lights! Camera! Chavez!
Christopher
Fons
Bush Goes to Latin America: Is It All About (N)PR?
Mike Roselle
A Thousand Miles of Bad River
Mike Mejia
Justice for Sibel Edmonds
Susie Day
Anna Nicole Smith Bombs Iran!
Michael Donnelly
LA Story: Rock Stars, Porn Stars and Peace
Tao Ruspoli
Just Say Know (Parts 4 and 5)
Poets' Basement
Reed, Laymon, Mezmer and Harley
Website of the Weekend
Japanese Dolphin Massacre
March 8,
2007
Elaine Cassel
The
Tragic Case of Jose Padilla
Yifat Susskind
Iraq's Other War: Violence Against Women Under US Occupation
Corporate Crime Reporter
Politics and the Prosecutors
Col. Dan Smith
The Sins of Walter Reed
William S. Lind
The Washington Dodgers
Mark Engler
Bush's Latin American Spring Break
Roger Burbach
With Negroponte as Tour Director, Bush's Trip Destined to Fail
Dana Cloud
Return of the Campus Witch Hunts: David Horowitz and the Thought
Police
Isabella Kenfield
Brazil's Ethanol Pland: Breeding Rural Poverty and Environmental
Degradation
Lucinda Marshall
We Stand with the Women of the World
Tao Ruspoli
Just Say Know: a Personal Look at Drugs and Drug Addiction (Part
3)
Website of
the Day
Filibuster for Peace
March 7, 2007
Christopher Ketcham
What Did Israel Know in Advance
of the 9/11 Attacks?
Christopher
Ketcham
The
Kuala Lumpur Deceit: a CIA Cover Up
Alexander Cockburn / Jeffrey
St. Clair
Ketcham's Story: Coming in From the Cold
Winslow T.
Wheeler
Mismeasuring the Defense Budget
Sean Donahue
Free Scooter Libby!
Dave Lindorff
The Fall Guy Has Fallen
Evelyn Pringle
Psychosis and Mania: ADHD Drug Warnings Come Too Late for Many
Tao Ruspoli
Just Say Know: a Personal Look at Drugs and Drug Addiction
Website of the Day
Debating Iraq: Gaffney Against the World!
March 6,
2007
Gary Leupp
Meet
Eliot Cohen: "As Extremist a Neocon and Warmonger as It
Gets"
Uri Avnery
Esterina Tartman: The Big Mouth of Israeli Fascism
Patrick Cockburn
The War on Terror is a Bust: Bush is Now Al Qaeda's Top Recruiter
Saul Landau
World
in Crisis, Candidates in Denial
Corporate Crime Reporter
John Edwards' Big Lie
Ron Jacobs
The Legacy of Lordstown: The Union Makes Us Strong!
Mike Roselle
Judi Bari: Ten Years Gone
P. Sainath
Neoliberalism and the Ideology of the Cancer Cell
Joshua Frank
Dump the Dems, Unite Against the War
Aniket Alam
Women's Day, Lenin and a Riot in Copenhagen
Dave Zirin
Resurrecting Don Barksdale: Basketball's Forgotten Pioneer
Website of
the Day
Physicians for a National Health Program
March 5,
2007
Greg Moses
Holding
Suzi Hazahza for Profit
Patrick Cockburn
Exodus of Iraq's Ancient Minorities
James Petras
Bush vs. Chavez
Frida Berrigan
US Nuclear Hypocrisy and Iran
Marjorie Cohn
Conscientious Objector Faces Court-Martial:
the Case of Augustín Aguayo
Douglas Kammen
and S.W. Hayati
The Rice Crisis in East Timor
Sen. Barack Obama
On Israel and AIPAC: "We Must Preserve Our Total Commitment
to Our Unique Defense Relationship with Israel"
Michael Young
Sy Hersh and Iran: the Dark Side of Spun a Lot?
Dave Lindorff
It's the People of Washington vs. Pelosi, et al
Sonja Karkar
Raiding Nablus: Israel's Hot Winter Offensive
Website of the Day
How Obama Learned to Love Israel
March 3
/ 4, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
The
Persecution of Sami Al-Arian
Corporate Crime
Reporter
"No Fingernails, No Good:" Al-Arian Prosecutor's Anti-Muslim
Bias
Jeffrey St. Clair
Glory Boy and the Snail Darter: Al Gore, the Origins of a Hypocrite
Patrick Cockburn
War Reporting in Iraq: Only Locals Need Apply
Ralph Nader
Hillary, Inc.: Sen. Clinton and Corporate America
M. Shahid Alam
American Mamlukes
Gilad Atzmon
From Esther to AIPAC
Fred Gardner
It's Official!: Cannabis Reduces Pain
George Ciccariello-Maher
The Fourth World War Started in Venezuela
Rock &
Rap Confidential
Do the James Brown!: "No One Could Speak More Authoritatively
for Blacks"
Gillian Russom
The Court Martial of Agustín Aguayo
Michael McPhearson
My Small Act of Civil Disobedience
Kevin Zeese
The Democrats and the Peace Movement: Who Owns Whom?
Sunsara Taylor
Four Years of an Unjust War
Wendy Thompson
Re-Organizing the UAW
Kenneth Rexroth
Gibbon's "Decline and Fall"
Missy Beattie
Regarding Cheney
Don Monkerud
Jesus Turned Away at US Border
Tina Louise
Stuffed with Terror, Starved of Dreams
Poets' Basement
Richards, Landau and Davies
Website of the Weekend
John Prine: Flag Decal
March 2,
2007
Roger Morris
Cheney's
Bagram Ghosts
Phil Gasper
Prisoners of Ideology
Mike Roselle
Buffalo Gore: The Blood-Stained Snow of Yellowstone
Robert Bryce
The Ethanol Scam
John V. Walsh
Who is He This Time?: Kerry's Strange Call to Filibuster the
War
Sherwood Ross
Bush and Walter Reed Hospital: Praise the Care, Slash the Budget
China Hand
Who Let North Korea Get the Bomb?
David Rosen
To Cut or Not to Cut?: the Politics of Circumcision in America
Chris Genovali
Connecting the Dots
Peter Harley
The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
Website of the Day
Courage to Resist
March 1,
2007
Laura Carlsen
Return
to Sender: Migrants as Globalization's Junk Mail
Paul Craig
Roberts
The Tragedy of a Dozen Evil Men
Ray McGovern
How Far is Iran from the Bomb? Who the Hell Knows?
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush's Theater of the Absurd
Najum Mustaq
America's Musharraf Dilemma
Brent Bowden
The War on Terror and the Terror of War
Tina Richards
Demoralizing the Troops? The Mother of an Iraq War Vet Responds
Ethan Nadelman
Mexico and the Drug War
Mike Stark
"Tough on Crime" is the Problem, Not a Solution
Wadner Pierre
/ Jeb Sprague
Haiti's Poor Under a State of Siege by UN
Mike Whitney
Market Meltdown: the Dead Hand of Greenspan
Website of
the Day
Dylan Hears a Who
February
28, 2007
Peter Linebaugh
An
Amazing Disgrace
Tao Ruspoli
A Conversation with Francisco Letelier
China Hand
The Shanghai Crash: Take the Money and Run
Marjorie Cohn
Why the Boumediene Case on Gitmo Detainees and Habeas Corpus
Was Wrongly Decided
Sarah Olson
Is Lt. Watada an Isolated Case of Military Dissent?
Susan Van Haitsma
Mark Wilkerson: Standing for a Soldier's Right to Conscience
Nicole Colson
License to Torture
Harvey Wasserman
The Sham of Nuclear Power
William S. Lind
The Non-Thinking Enemy
Nicola Nasser
US Turnabout?: Engagement and Confrontation in the Middle East
Website of the Day
Andrew Cockburn on Rumsfeld
February
27, 2007
Tariq Ali
The
Khyber Impasse: the Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Tom Barry
America's
Crusaders: Santorum and Lieberman
Uri Avnery
The Next War
Antonia Juhasz / Raed Jarrar
Oil Grab: the Secret Scheme to Split Iraq
Jeff Nygaard
Howard Hunt and the National Memory System
Hugh O'Shaughnessy
Grenada: an Invasion Revisited
Mitchell Kaidy
Israel's Cluster Bombs: Made in USA, Ground-Tested in Lebanon
Carl Finamore
Airline Bankruptcies, Mergers and Profits
Anne McElroy
Dachel
The Really Big Lie About Autism
Ramzy Baroud
Who is Really in Control?
Andrew Rouse
The Queen, Her Apothecary and the War on Iraq
Website of the Day
New York City Skyline
February
26, 2007
Franklin Lamb
US
Israel Lobby Targets Lebanon's Jihad al-Bina
Bill Quigley
The
Right to Return to New Orleans
Greg Moses
Suzi Hazahza in Haskell Hell
Col. Dan Smith
Calling All Carriers
Ralph Nader
The Bush Administration is a Threat to Our National Security
Paul Buchheit
The Income Gap
Jeff Leys
How Democrats Are Buying the Iraq War
Dave Zirin
Bojangling for Bigots: an Open Letter to Jason Whitlock
Mike Whitney
Doomsday Dick and the Plague of Frogs
Michael Dickinson
Free Kareem Amer!
Website of the Day
Beware the Chickenhawks!
February
24 / 25, 2007
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Frightening
Tales of Endangered Species
R. T. Naylor
Inside Islamic Charity
Gary Leupp
AIPAC Demands "Action" on Iran
Saul Landau
Modern Day Miracle: Rev. Haggard Cured! Thank You, Jesus!
Ron Jacobs
Missile Defense Redux
Jeffrey Blankfort
A Debate on the Israel Lobby
Chris Sands
Afghanistan in Winter: Where Death Comes Cheap
Gary Freeman
The N-Word and Black History Month
Larry Portis
Zionism and the United States: the Cultural Connection
P. Sainath
Two Million People in "Maximum Distress"
Lee Sustar
What Next for the Immigrants' Rights Movement?
Kevin Wehr
Liberal vs. Radical Enviros: the Thrill isn't Gone, It's Just
Moved
Ken Couesbouc
The African Card
Soffiyah Elijah
FBI Hunting Dead Panthers: Can John Bowman Ever Rest in Peace?
Kathlyn Stone
Iraqi Labor vs. Big Oil
Dave Lindorff
Breaking the Dam in Olympia
Jason Kunin
Criticizing Israel is Not an Act of Bigotry
Kevin Zeese
Can Hillary be Trusted?
Remi Kanazi
All Roads Lead to Checkpoints
Missy Beattie
Five Words That Change Lives
Poets' Basement
Davies, Holt and Rodriguez
Website of the Weekend
Caught on Tape: an Anti-War Movement Finding Its Feet?
February
23, 2007
Franklin Spinney
Top
Gun vs. the Axis of Evil: Is This What We Have Become?
Jonathan Cook
Watching
the Checkpoints
Patrick Cockburn
The True Extent of Britain's Failure in Basra
Kathy Kelly
Do Something Good
Chris Dols
Islamophobia at Urban Outfiters: the Case for Keffiyehs
Evelyn Pringle
The Neurontin Suicides: Risks Kept Hidden for Years
Stephen Pearcy
If Bush is a War Criminal, What About the Troops?
Dan Brook
Making Poverty History
Yifat Susskind
Iraqi Police Commit Rapes
Website of
the Day
A Citizens Arrest of Patty Murray
February
22, 2007
Robert Fantina
Repeating
History
Tariq Ali
Prodi's Soap Operatic Fall: Neoliberalism and War in Italy
Michael Shank
An Interview with Noam Chomsky on Iran, Iraq, the Democrats and
Climate Change
John Ross
Calderon's War on Drugs
Christopher Brauchli
Stockcars on Dope: How NASCAR and the Tour de France are Bring
the World Together
Cindy Litman
Paying for the Damage Done to Iraq
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Mr. Jefferson's Inheritors: Caution, Calculation and Cold Feet
Kevin Zeese
Finally, a Populist Antiwar Candidate for President
Aseem Shrivastava
The New Indian Way?: a Developer's Model of Development
Reza Fiyouzat
A Letter to the Israeli People: We are All Led by Mad Men
Illinois Students Against the
War
Why We Protested at Obama's Speech
Website of
the Day
An Interview with Mike Gravel
February
21, 2007
Maass / St.
Clair
The
Clintons: the Art of Politics Without Conscience
Sharon Smith
Inside
the Imperial Budget
Greg Moses
Showdown Over Texas Immigrant Prisons
Margaret Kimberly
America the Stupid
Ralph Nader
Making Cancer Cool: Tobacco and Hollywood
Nicola Nasser
Evasive Diplomacy: Bush Adm. Shuns Middle East Peace Talks
Mike Whitney
The Second Great Depression
Tao Ruspoli
Revolutionary But Gangsta: a Conversation with Stic.Man of Dead
Prez
Byeong Jeongpil
Beyond the "Protection Facility",
Another Prison
Corporate Crime
Reporter
Why Hillary, Obama and Edwards Oppose Single-Payer Health Care
Josh Mahan
The Lost Art of Shattuck: a Good, Old-Fashioned Drinking Story
Website of
the Day
Time to Free the Puerto Rican Nationalists
February
20, 2007
Sgt. Martin
Smith
Structured
Cruelty: Learning to be a Lean, Mean Killing Machine
Werther
How
to be a Washington Expert
Corporate Crime Reporter
Exposing SAIC
Carl G. Estabrook
Common Sense About the Recent Past
China Hand
Setting Sun: The Diverging US-Japan Relationship
Joshua Frank
Cleaning Up Exxon's Greenpoint Oil Spill
Megan Boler
The Daily Show and Political Activism
John Feffer
People Power vs. Military Power in East Asia
Daryll E. Ray
What's Inside the New Farm Bill
Alan Gregory
Midwest Wolves Fall Prey to Slob Hunters' PR Scam
Website of the Day
"Not a Target Rich Environment?"
February
19, 2007
Paul Craig
Roberts
Economists
in Denial: Blind to the Consequences of Offshoring
Gary Leupp
"A Genocidal, Suicidal Nation:" Mitt Romney Joins Iran's
Hysterical Accusers
Ron Jacobs
The Mecca Agreements: the Future Remains Bleak
Michael F.
Brown
The Peace Process Industry
Robert Jensen
Liberal Icons and War: Bi-Partisan Empire-Building
Roger Burbach
Ecuador Stands Up to US
Monica Benderman
America, Where Are You Now?
Sonja Karkar
Apocalyptic Archaeology: Israel's Provocations Threaten Jerusalem
John Walsh
Some Good News from Beantown
Talli Nauman
Colorado Delta Blues: Challenging the Law of the River
Website of the Day
"The Best Place to be in Town"
Feburary
17 / 18, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Sold
to Mr. Gordon, Another Bridge!
Tao Ruspoli
CounterViews: a Conversation with Patrick Cockburn, Part Two
Gary Leupp
Iran: A Chronology of Disinformation
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Dark Mesas in an Ancient Light
Roger Morris
The Undertaker's Tally: the Tragedy of Donald Rumsfeld
Uri Avnery
Facing Mecca
James Brooks
Palestinians and the "Diplomatic Horizon"
Sen. Russell
Feingold
Congress Must Defund the Iraq War
Linn Washington, Jr.
"Death Row is a Web That Catches Only the Poor"
Michele Brand
Iran: the Proxy War?
Fred Gardner
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Music and Basketball in the Harlem Renaissance
Mitchel Cohen
Storming the Pentagon: Lessons from 1967
Mike Ferner
Democrats Keep Ohio Refugee Free: "No Iraqis in Our Backyards!"
David Swanson
Memo to Don Young: What Lincoln Really Said
P. Sainath
In the Theater of the Jungle Belt
Mike Stark
GoreAid: Gore Plans Concert with Musicians He and Tipper Betrayed
in the 80s
Missy Beattie
The Object of My Disaffection
Jonathan Franklin
Carnival: Where Dance is Hope
Website of the Weekend
The Godfather and the Tenor: "It's a Man's World"
February 16, 2007
Marc Levy
Turning
Point: Veterans' Voices Trigger Response
Andrew Cockburn
In Iraq, Anyone Can Make a Bomb
Glen Ford
Powell, Rice and Obama: Putting Black Faces on Imperial Aggression
Greg Moses
The Terror of Suzi Hazahza: Why Her Family Must Be Freed
Ron Jacobs
Marching on the Pentagon: Then and Now
John W. Farley
Hook, Line and Sinker: The Press and Stephen Hadley
James Marc Leas
Vermont Legislature Says: "Bring Them Home Now!"
Tim Rinne
The Most Dangerous Place on the Face of the Earth?: StratCom
and the Coming War on Iran
Albert Wan
Star-Cross'd Lovers?: The Strange Romance of Hillary and David
Brooks
Website of
the Day
Did Wal-Mart Murder Tweety Bird?
February 15, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
Who
is Muqtada al-Sadr?
Saul Landau
How
to Obsess Your Enemies
Stephen Lendman
The Rules of Imperial Management
Evelyn Pringle
More Zyprexa Postcards from the Edge
Michael Simmons
Is the Joke Over?: an Evening with Ralph Steadman
Kevin Zeese
A Congressional Kabuki Show
Dave Lindorff
The Co-Dependent Congress
Pete Shanks
They Want You to Eat Cloned Meat--And They Don't Want You to
Know It
Peter Rost
The Michelle Manhart Affair: the Air Force Listens!
Lenni Brenner
/ Gilad Atzmon
An Exchange
Website of the Day
Barack Obama vs. Huey P. Newton
February
14, 2007
Tao Ruspoli
CounterViews:
A Conversation with Patrick Cockburn
Dick J. Reavis
War
Without a Name
Margaret Kimberly
Medical Apartheid in America
Christopher Brauchli
The Perils of Charity: You Can be Prosecuted for Funding Terror
Even If the Designation of the Group as a Terrorist Organization
was Wrong!
Paul Craig
Roberts
Cracks in the Pentagon
John Ross
The Plot Against Mexican Corn
Michael F.
Brown
The Democrats and Palestine: New Chairman, Old Rules
Dave Lindorff
The Press Bites, Again: a Word of Caution on Those Iranian Weapons
J.L. Chestunut,
Jr.
Texas-style Injustice in Black and White
Don Fitz
Hybrids, Biofuels and Other False Idols
Michael Donnelly
Give Love, Give Life
Dr. Susan Block
The Chemistry of Love
Website of
the Day
Code Pink Drops By Hillary's Office
February
13, 2007
Uri Avnery
Three
Provocations: the Method in the Madness
Patrick Cockburn
Targeting Tehran
Ralph Nader
When Wall Street Whines (You Know They're Making a Killing)
Marjorie Cohn
Fool Us Twice? From Iraq to Iran
Col. Dan Smith
Iran Bashing Goes Prime Time
Col. Douglas
MacGreagor
Empty Vessels: Gen. Patraeus and Other Hollow Men
Thomas Power
Coal Ambivalence: Mining Montana
Nicola Nasser
The Politics of Archaeology in Jerusalem
David Swanson
Iran War Talking Points
Columbia Coalition
Against the War
Why We Are Striking
Website of the Day
Our Friends at Antiwar.com Need Your Help
February
12, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
Scapegoating
Iran
Paul Craig
Roberts
How the World Can Stop Bush: Dump the Dollar!
John Walsh
A Splintered Antiwar Movement: Nader and Libertarians Not Welcome
Dr. John Carroll,
MD
What Next for Haiti's Cite Soliel?: a Journey Through the World's
Most Miserable Slum
Greg Moses
An Outrageously Sickening Immigration Policy
Nicole Colson
The Frame-Up That Fell Apart: Jury See Through Another Botched
Federal "Terrorism" Case
Dave Lindorff
Acting in Bad Feith: Inappropriate
Behavior and Impeachment
Ray McGovern
The Kervorkian Administration: Are Bush and Cheney the Biggest
Threats to the Existence of Israel?
Doug Giebel
Rampant Cyncism
David Swanson
Twisted: Sex and Torture in America
Website of the Day
The Texas Model: Executing Women in Iraq
|
March
20, 2007
40 Years of Nuclear
Weapons Prohibition in Latin America
The
Treaty of Tlatelolco
By DAVID KRIEGER
(This is the text
of a speech given before the Organization of American States
on March 15, 2007.)
It is a great honor to celebrate with
you the 40th anniversary year of the Treaty of Tlatelolco, officially
called the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin
America and the Caribbean. This Treaty was a great achievement,
and has served your region well.
Many years ago, I had the pleasure of knowing and working with
Alfonso Garcia Robles, the great Mexican diplomat who was so
instrumental in creating this treaty. For his vision and commitment,
he shared the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize with Swedish diplomat Alva
Myrdal.
The Treaty of Tlatelolco paved the way and was a model for other
Nuclear Weapon Free Zones those in the South Pacific, Southeast
Asia, Africa, and Central Asia. Today, virtually the entirety
of the southern hemisphere is covered by Nuclear Weapon Free
Zones. Latin America and the Caribbean led the way in this important
achievement.
But, as great as the achievement has been in creating first the
Nuclear Weapon Free Zone for Latin America and Caribbean, and
then the southern hemispheric series of Nuclear Weapon Free Zones,
it is not enough. While regional efforts are useful, they cannot
fully protect the people of the region from the effects of nuclear
wars in other parts of the world.
Latin America and the Caribbean cannot rest easy in the belief
that your region can be protected against nuclear devastation.
So long as there are nuclear weapons in the world, your region,
although it has acted with such reason and sanity, remains endangered.
Nuclear weapons anywhere are a threat to people everywhere.
In 1995, the parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) agreed
at the Treaty's Review and Extension Conference that they would
pursue "systematic and progressive efforts" to achieve
nuclear disarmament. Among the commitments made in 1995 was
one to the creation of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
The international community moved quickly from that point, and
the CTBT was opened for signatures in 1996.
At the 2000 NPT Review Conference the parties reached agreement
on 13 Practical Steps for Nuclear Disarmament, including on "[t]he
importance and urgency of signatures and ratifications, without
delay and without conditions and in accordance with constitutional
processes, to achieve the early entry into force of the Comprehensive
Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty." The parties further agreed to
an "unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon States
to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals."
More than 10 years have passed since the 1995 NPT Review and
Extension Conference, and this critical Treaty has not yet entered
into force. To do so, the Treaty requires the signatures of
the 44 nuclear-capable states. As of now, there are still 10
nuclear-capable states that have not ratified the Treaty, including
two NPT nuclear weapons states, the United States and China.
Israel, not a party to the NPT, also has not ratified the CTBT.
Other nuclear weapons states that are not parties to the NPT
India, Pakistan and North Korea have not even signed
the Treaty. Some of the nuclear weapons states that have signed
the CTBT, such as the United States, have continued to evade
the spirit of the treaty by conducting nuclear weapons tests
by other means, including computer simulations and sub-critical
tests.
Now, more than 15 years after the end of the Cold War and some
37 years after the entry into force of the Non-Proliferation
Treaty, the commitments to nuclear disarmament made by the nuclear
weapons states in Article VI of the Treaty remain unfulfilled.
We must conclude that these states are failing in their obligations
to the international community and to humanity as a whole. One
of these states, the most powerful one, is a member of the Organization
of American States. It is my own country, the United States.
Viewed objectively, the United States has made some progress
in reducing its nuclear arsenal, but it has also demonstrated
its commitment to maintaining its nuclear arsenal for the indefinite
future. The United States has shown no leadership toward fulfilling
its obligations under Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
the principal obligation being good faith negotiations
to achieve complete nuclear disarmament. This obligation was
unanimously confirmed by the International Court of Justice in
its 1996 Advisory Opinion on the Legality of Nuclear Weapons,
which stated that the Article VI obligation was to "bring
to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in
all its aspects."
Certain questions must be posed:
Do non-nuclear weapons states
have a responsibility with regard to the failure of the
nuclear weapons states to act to fulfill their obligations for
nuclear disarmament?
Do non-nuclear weapons states have self-interest in the
success or failure of the nuclear weapons states to fulfill their
Article VI obligations for nuclear disarmament?
What can non-nuclear weapons states do when the nuclear weapons
states fail to fulfill their obligations to achieve nuclear disarmament?
I would say that the answer
to the first two questions is certainly Yes. It is, in a sense,
analogous to the idea that "friends do not let friends drive
drunk." There is both a responsibility and self-interest
in keeping drunks from driving. By preventing a drunken friend
from driving, you serve their interest as well as your own.
What can be done to take away the keys to launch the nuclear-armed
missiles from a drunken nuclear weapons state poses a more difficult
problem. In one sense, the nuclear weapons states are the most
powerful states in the world in terms of the damage they
can inflict on others. But in another sense, they are the most
vulnerable states because they expose their citizenry to retaliatory
nuclear annihilation.
I suggest to you that this issue of nuclear vulnerability is
a serious one. In today's world, all states, including the nuclear
weapons states themselves, could be held hostage to nuclear weapons
in the hands of terrorist groups. Thus, there must be zero tolerance
for nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists. But
in a world in which some countries rely upon nuclear weapons
for their security, there is always the possibility for these
weapons to fall into the hands of criminals and extremists; terror-minded
individuals and organizations that could not be deterred from
using them. In such a situation, even a country with thousands
of nuclear weapons would be helpless against a nuclear attack.
When we consider the possibility of nuclear terrorism, it is
hard not to think that nuclear weapons in any hands, including
those of the nuclear weapons states, do not constitute a form
of such terrorism. The mere possession of these weapons constitutes
an implicit threat to use them under certain but not defined
circumstances.
One thing should be clear: Nuclear weapons cannot provide protection
against a nuclear attack. They can only deter such an attack
if a country is subject to being deterred. Nuclear weapons cannot
protect against accidents, miscalculations, false alarms, or
terrorist attacks. The only way to assure that such attacks
do not occur is to verifiably eliminate all nuclear weapons,
and to place the materials and technologies to create these weapons
under strict international control.
The United States wants to develop a new type of nuclear warhead,
one it calls the "Reliable Replacement Warhead." Why?
Because the United States seems to want to rely upon nuclear
weapons for its security forever and it wants these weapons
to be able to reliably defeat any enemy, regardless of the financial
and human costs.
The United States has pushed Russia into an unfortunate agreement,
the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT). This treaty
will reduce deployed strategic nuclear warheads in both countries'
arsenals to 2,200 or less by 2012. However, the Treaty does
not require the reductions to be irreversible, transparent or
verified, and after 2012 these countries can expand their nuclear
arsenals as they please.
The United States has developed contingency plans for the use
of nuclear weapons against both nuclear and non-nuclear weapons
states, and Mr. Bush seems to favor preventive war and keeping
all options on the table. The United States is pressing forward
with missile defenses, forcing Russia and China to strengthen
their offensive nuclear forces. Add to this that the United
States has blocked nearly every proposal for multilateral progress
on nuclear disarmament and you can see that the United States
is driving drunk. It needs the help and intervention of its
friends.
The world has come close to nuclear weapons use in the past.
Perhaps the closest was the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
But it came close again in 1995 when Boris Yeltsin was awakened
in the middle of the night and told that Russia was facing a
US nuclear attack. In fact, a US-Norwegian Weather Satellite
had been launched from Norway, and the Russian command had misinterpreted
this as an attack on Russia. The Russian black box with launch
codes was placed before Yeltsin, and he was given only moments
to decide whether to launch a "counter-attack" against
the US an attack that could have led to an all-out nuclear
war. Fortunately Yeltsin waited and it became apparent that
the missile was not headed toward Russia. I ask you to consider,
though, the immense dangers involved in leaving the decision
to initiate a nuclear war in the hands of any individual, even
those who do not drink themselves to sleep at night.
As a citizen of the United States, I would pose the question:
In the Americas, why should only Latin American and Caribbean
citizens have the advantages of living within a Nuclear Weapon
Free Zone? The idea of a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone is so powerful
that all citizens of Earth should aspire to this. The needed
Nuclear Weapon Free Zone is, of course, that of the Earth itself.
So I am here to solicit your help in pushing my country into
a leadership role to achieve this great goal.
It can only be hoped that the United States will not always be
as short-sighted and reckless in its use of force as it has been
in recent years under the current administration. After World
War II and the trials at Nuremberg, it should be unacceptable
for leaders anywhere to engage in aggressive war without being
held to account by the international community.
Please add your official voices to those of the many citizens
of the United States who work with vigor and persistence to achieve
the goal of a nuclear weapons-free planet. I believe it is the
shared duty of all non-nuclear weapons states to exert maximum
pressure on the United States and the other nuclear weapons states
to urgently take the following steps toward achieving a nuclear
weapons-free world:
1. Immediately take all nuclear
weapons off high alert status and take all necessary precautions
to assure that nuclear war could not commence by accident.
2. Make legally binding commitments not to use nuclear weapons
first under any circumstances, nor to use them under any circumstances
against non-nuclear weapons states.
3. Repatriate all nuclear weapons from foreign soil and from
the seas to the territory of their possessors. It is time to
stop accepting the misuse of the oceans, the common heritage
of humankind, as a hiding place for nuclear arms.
4. Bring the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty into force, cease
seeking to evade the spirit of the CTBT by conducting computer
simulations and sub-critical tests, and close the Nevada Test
Site in the US and Novaya Zemyla Test Site in Russia, as China
has closed Lop Nor and France has closed its Pacific Test Site.
5. Enter into a treaty to ban all nuclear weapons and other weapons
from outer space.
6. Convene a meeting of all states, including all nuclear weapons
states, for the purpose of negotiating a Nuclear Weapons Convention
for the phased elimination of all nuclear weapons.
The former vice president of
the United States, Al Gore, has awakened tens of millions of
people across the planet to the dangers of global warming with
his film, "An Inconvenient Truth." Another "inconvenient
truth" is that more than 27,000 nuclear weapons, over 95
percent in the arsenals of the United States and Russia, continue
to threaten our cities, our countries, our civilizations, and
life on Earth.
In Latin America and the Caribbean you have been leaders in carving
out a portion of the planet to be free from nuclear weapons.
As you celebrate the 40th anniversary year of the Treaty of
Tlatelolco, please keep firmly in mind that this great accomplishment
is not the fulfillment of the final goal. Finishing the job
requires assuring that the rest of the Earth, the northern as
well as the southern hemisphere, also be made nuclear weapons-free
before our common human future is assured.
I fear that there exists far too much complacency about nuclear
weapons, and I ask for your leadership as though the future of
our precious planet depended upon it. Such leadership is now
needed, as it was when you created the Treaty of Tlatelolco.
In the spirit of Alfonso Garcia Robles and also your great Latin
American poet, Pablo Neruda, I ask for your leadership to break
out of this complacency and to challenge those nations and leaders
that continue to hold humanity hostage to the threat of nuclear
annihilation. It is not enough to limit the sphere of nuclear
weapons or their testing; we must eliminate the weapons themselves
all of them. This is the great challenge of our particular
time on Earth.
As Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell wrote in their famous
Manifesto in 1955: "There lies before us, if we choose,
continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall
we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels?
We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity,
and forget the rest."
David Krieger is President of the Nuclear
Age Peace Foundation , and a leader in the global effort
to abolish nuclear weapons. This speech was delivered at OAS
Headquarters on Washington, DC on March 15, 2007 in a "Special
Meeting on Consolidation of the Regime Established in the Treaty
of Tlatelolco and on the Worldwide Comprehensive Test Ban."
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