Today's
Stories
August 16,
2006
Jonathan Cook
Real
Photo Fakers; Real War Crimes
August 15,
2006
Andrew Ford
Lyons
Why
Hezbollywood Was Born: Digitally Erasing a Massacre
Binoy Kampmark
Terrorism and the Art of Flying
Robert Fisk
Israel Wasn't Hoping for This
Ralph Nader
Bush to Israel: Take Your Time Destroying Lebanon
Todd Chretien
The US Antiwar Movement: Weak, Passive, Distracted
Chris Floyd
It's Bigger Than the Neo-Cons
Mark Engler
WTO: Best Left for Dead?
George Galloway
"You Don't Give a Damn:" the SkyNews Debate
Laray Polk
What's More Obscene: War or Sex?
Trish Schuh
Operation
Change of Location?: Where Were the IDF Soldiers Captured?
Website of the Day
Jesus Never Existed
August 14, 2006
Uri Avnery
What
the Hell Happened to the Israeli Army?
Karim Makdisi
The Flaws in the UN Resolution
Kathy Kelly
Approaching
a Ceasefire
Robert Fisk
The Truce That Won't Last
Norman Solomon
Who's Afraid of Hillary Clinton? MoveOn, for One
Sunsara Taylor
Ned Lamont and the Antiwar Movement: False Hopes, Bad Terms and
Ticking Clocks
Robert Jensen
Outside the Frame: The Limits of George Lakoff's Politics
Mike Whitney
The Litani Gambit: Ceasefire or Trojan Horse?
P. Sainath
An Indian Farmer About to Commit Suicide Writes a Note of Clarification
Goretti Horgan
The Raytheon Nine: Irish Antiwar Protesters Face "Terrorism"
Charges
Christopher
Reed
London Fog: Doubts Hang Over Terror Plot
August 12 /
13, 2006
Weekend Edition
Jean Bricmont
The
De-Zionization of the American Mind
Norman Finkelstein
Should Alan Dershowitz Target Himself for Assassination?
Robert Fisk
How the London Terror Scare Looks from Beirut
Adrian Grima
Forget the 50 Civilians: Watching Lebanon from Malta
Barucha Peller
Letter from Lebanon: the Proximity of Death
Omar Barghouti
The UN, Lebanon and Palestine
Adam Engel
Tearing Down the Master's House: an Interview with Derrick Jensen
Conn Hallinan
How the Irish Could Save the Middle East
John Stauber
Meet the GOP's Latest Smear Machine: Vets for Freedom
Rev. William
Alberts
Bush's Primetime Lies Still Go Unchallenged by the Press
Fred Gardner
Hollywood Does Cannabis: "Weeds," the First Season
Lucinda Marshall
Penis Politics: Does Dick Cheney Want Us All to Fly Nude?
Ron Jacobs
Kill the Precedent: an Interview with Rapper Nate Mezmer
CounterPunch
News Service
Kerala Throws Out Coke and Pepsi
Poets' Basement
Katz, Davies and Orloski
August 11, 2006
Col. Dan Smith
Crimes
Against Peace: Beyond Nuremberg
John Ross
Class War in Mexico City's Gridlock
Michael Donnelly
Sore
Loserman, Redux
William S.
Lind
Collapse of the Flanks
Linda Milazzo
Chertoff's New Math: Hair Gel Plot Might Have "Killed 100s
of Thousands"
Rep. Cynthia
McKinney
Something is Happening Around the World
Azmi Bishara
When the Skies Rain Death
Henri Picciotto
Jewish Dissidents Must Challenge Israel
CounterPunch News Wire
The Warrior Lawyer: Tom Crumpacker, 1934-2006
Dave Lindorff
War Crimes in Lebanon
Jonathan Cook
From High Wycombe to Nazrareth: How I Found Myself with the Islamic
Fascists
August 10, 2006
Uri Avnery
The
Buck Stops Where?
Dave Marsh
Who
Are Mr and Mrs Lamont?
Gabriel Kolko
Reflections
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Arthur Versluis
How
Neocons' Nazi Hero Schmitt Spawned Bush's Totalitarian Lunge
Jennifer Loewenstein
Awakening
the Resistance
August 9, 2006
Linda Schade
Incumbents
Beware: Peace Voters Mean Business
Jackie Mason
Defends
Mel Gibson; Ridicules Abe Foxman
Jonathan Cook
Hypocrisy
and the Clamor Against Hizbullah
Gilad Atzmon
Operation
Security Roof
Charles Hirschkind
Doing
the Lebanese a Favor
Tom Barry
Right-wingers
Ramp Up War on Migrants
Cockburn &
St. Clair
The
Sweetness of Lieberman's Defeat
August 8, 2006
Patrick Cockburn
Requiem
for Baghdad
Paul Larudee
The Lebanese Nakba and Israeli Ambitions
Joan Roelofs
The Malleable US Constitution: a Deterrent to Democracy?
Dimi Reider
An Interview with IDF Refusenik Sgt. Zohar Milchgrub
John A. Murphy
The Democrats: a Party on the Run ... from Its Own Members!
Eliot Katz
The View from the Big Woods: In Which a NYC Antiwar Poet Takes
a Summer Vacation in Canada's Boreal Forest
Tim Llewellyn
Into
the Valley of Death
Website of the Day
Galloway Speaks!
August 7, 2006
Uri Avnery
The Junkies of War
Karim Makdisi
The
Draft UN Resolutions: the View from Beirut
Nadia Hijab
What Israel and the US Wanted May Not Be At All What They Get
Sharon Smith
Birth Pangs and Dead Babies
Magan Wiles
Encounter at an Israeli Checkpoint
George Beres
A New Kind of Bigotry: Lebanon War Exposes Strange Religious
Bedfellows
Rachard Itani
Nice Try, Mr. Bolton
Norman Solomon
Some Nukes Are A-Okay with the US Media
Stan Cox
Presidential Doping Scandal Erupts!
Mickey Z.
Go Ahead, Please Stare at Her Chest
Jonathan Cook
The
Deadly US-Israeli Shell Game at the UN
Website of
the Day
Sam Husseini Interrogates Newt Gingrich on Lebanon
August 5 /
6, 2006
Virginia Tilley
Boycott
Now!: the Case for Boycotting Israel
Uri Avnery
The Black Flag
Patrick Cockburn
Yes, It is a Crusade!: Blair's Mad Speech on Iraq
Sgt. Martin Smith
Military Training and Atrocities: Bad Apples from a Rotten Tree
Gary Leupp
America's Heroes on Trial
Neve Gordon
The New McCarthyism: Academic Freedom After 9/11
Ralph Nader
Hey Joe!: the Ghosts of Lieberman's Past
Peter Bouckaert
For Israel, Innocent Civilians Are Fair Game
Peter Montague
Nukes Rising: Bush Oversees a Global Nuclear Expansion
David Krieger
Global Hiroshima: the Stakes Have Been Raised
Michael Donnelly
"Sir! No Sir!": the Story of the GI Anti-War Movement
Fred Gardner
Dr. Denney Sues the DEA
Catherine Norris
Seeking Justice Abroad: Spanish Courts Issue Arrest Warrants
for the Butchers of Guatemala
Imraan Siddiqi
The Smokescreens of War: Moral Superiority, 9/11 and Islamic-Fascism
Missy Comley
Beattie
One Year After the Death of Chase Comley
Ira Kay
Where is Geography? Getting Beyond the Place Name Game
Dave Lindorff
Let's Build a Wall
Pratyush Chandra
Nuclear Fascism in India
Ron Jacobs
Keeping It Radical
St. Clair / Donnelly
Playlists: What We're Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement
Katz and Davies
Website of the Day
Defend Bear Butte
Video of the
Weekend
Rainbows Bust Pig Blockade
August 4, 2006
Ralph Nader
Joe
Lieberman and the Secret Chamber
Brian Cloughley
Osama Has Won
Eliza Ernshire
No
Lights in Gaza: "We Have a Death Warrant for Your Home"
Roger Assaf
Letter from Lebanon: Adjusting the Heroic Commando Raid Story
George Bisharat
When I Last Saw Lebanon
Remi Kanazi
Out to Lunch: The US Media's "Special Relationship"
Laura Carlsen
Mexico's Critical Moment: The Boardrooms vs. the Street
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Fig (Leaflet) of Warning
Derrick O'Keefe
Ripe Fruit and Rotten Imperial Ambitions: US Reaction to Castro's
Illness
Mickey Z.
Some Context on Castro and Cuba
Col. Dan Smith
The
New Gonzales Standard for Torture: No Standards, No Accountability
Website of the Day
Israel's TV War
August 3, 2006
Jonathan Cook
Civilian
Casualties and the War of Media Deception
Uri Avnery
Knife
in the Dark
Saree Makdisi
Time
to Call It Quits: Israel's Raid on Baalbeck's Hospital
Robert Fisk
The Family That Stays Together Dies Together
Farrah Hassen
Bush's Nutty Syria Policy: a Report from Damascus
Nicola Nasser
The De-Arabization of the Arab League
Ron Jacobs
The Hollow Body: When Exactly Did the UN Lose Its Street Cred?
Mitchel Cohen
Mexico Rising
Seth Sandronsky
Migrant Labor and Uncle Sam
Bruce K. Gagnon
Convert the Military Industrial Complex
Alexander Cockburn
Hezbollah's
Top Ally in Israel
August 2, 2006
John Ross
Mexican
Civil Resistance in Five Acts
Chip Mitchell
Kudos to Hitchens!
Saul Landau
Want
Peace in the Middle East? End the Occupation
Naseer Aruri
The
UN at the Dustbin of History: Does It Have the Capacity to Intervene?
Winslow T.
Wheeler
Congress and the Pentagon: Co-Abusers of the War Budget
Matthias Gebauer
News on a Platter: the Middle East PR War
Joshua Frank
How the Kyoto Protocol Was (Al) Gored
Bill Quigley
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and North Dakota
Manuel Yang
A
View of Gaza and Lebanon from the Interior
Shamai Leibowitz
Whitewashing Atrocities: the Tortured Language of War
David Himmelstein
Pulling the Plug on Israel
Lara Marlowe
The
Total Destruction of Srifa
Website of
the Day
As a Nuke Plant Falls
August 1, 2006
Michael Neumann
What
is to be Said?: War on the Blathersphere
Robert Fisk
Into the Meat Grinder: NATO and Lebanon
Omar Barghouti
The Massacre at Qana: Were Racism and Fundamentalism Factors?
Marc Levy
Whatever You Did in the War will Always be With You
Diana Barahona / Jeb Sprague
Reporters Without Borders and Washington's Coups
Claud Cockburn
Scenes from the Spanish Civil War
Ross Eisenbrey
When is a Raise Not a Raise? House Bill Actually Cuts Wages for
Some Workers by $5.50 an Hour!
Dave Lindorff
Making the World Safe ... for Dictatorship
John Chuckman
Canada's Harper Blames the UN Dead
Francis Boyle
Prosecuting Israel: a War Crimes Tribunal May be the Only Deterrent
to a Global War
Phil Doe
Bleak House Revisited: My Vacation in Water Court
Stephen Soldz
Psychologists, Guantanamo and Torture
Website of the Day
An Unfair War
July 31, 2006
Jonathan Cook
Birth
Pangs or Death Throes?
Uri Avnery
Syria in the Gunsight
Robert Fisk
Atrocity in Qana: Israel Kills 34 Kids
Amina Mire
The Struggle for Somalia: Warlords, Islamists, US Global Militarism
and Women
Marjorie Cohn
Bush's Enemy Du Jour
Sibel Edmonds / William Weaver
All That's Given Up in the Name of Security
John Ross
Report from a Red Alert: Zapatistas at Critical Crossroads
Stanley Rogouski
Why Howard Dean Denounced Our Puppet in Iraq
Gideon Levy
Days of Darkness: the Cruel, Collective Punishment of Lebanon
Ron Jacobs
No One Is Illegal
James Ridgeway
/ Alicia Ng
Witch Hunting Russell Tice: 3 Films
Brian Tokar
The Visionary Life of Murray Bookchin
Alexander Cockburn
The
Triumph of Crackpot Realism
July 29 / 30,
2006
Weekend Edition
Michael Neuman
Humanitarian
Intervention: The White Man's Burden
Vijay Prashad
Cry Havoc: Anyone Who Opposes Israel is Labeled a Terrorist
Ramzi Kysia
Lebanon's Children: Voices from an Invasion
Werther
The Manchurian Clergyman: Rev. John Hagee's War
Robert Fisk
Bush and Blair: "Keep It Up!"
Patrick Cockburn
Repeating the 1982 Fiasco
Ralph Nader
Big Oil's Biggest Score: Who Says Crime Doesn't Pay?
Rachard Itani
Professor of Propaganda: the Lies of Alan Dershowitz
Eduardo Galeano
One Country Bombed Two Countries
Gary Leupp
Cowboys Still in the Saddle: Neocon Plans in the MIddle East
Eve Poretsky
The Biggest Stick in the Middle East
John Chuckman
Delusional Expectations: How Israel Could Destroy Itself
Fred Gardner
San Diego v. Prop 215
Juan Santos
Apocalypse No!: an Indigenist Perspective
Punyapriya Dasgupta
Israel's Foes as Beasts and Insects
Liaquat Ali
Khan
The War Crime Machine: Defeating the IDF
Israel Shamir
Friends, True and False
William A.
Cook
The Power of Evil
Stanley Heller
Bill Clinton Comes to Lieberman's Rescue
Dave Lindorff
Bush's War Crimes Dodge
Moshe Adler
Kelo, a Year Later: Property Sezied By Eminent Domain Must Remain
Public
Susie Day
Comrade Bush: Back in the USSA
Pat Williams
The Right's Pre-Election Sleight of Hand
Anthony Papa
Collateral Damage from the War on Drugs
John V. Whitbeck
Imperial Overreach: Suez 1956 to Lebanon 2006
Jackie Corr
Last Rites for Evel Knievel
Myles Palmer
Old Soul: James Hunter's "People Gonna Talk"
Tom D'Antoni
Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement
Orloski, Louise, Davies, Engel and Meyers
Website of
the Weekend
Electronic Lebanon
July 28, 2006
Jonathan Cook
The
Lies Israel Tells Itself
Uri Avnery
Who is Winning? Questions and Answers About the War in Lebanon:
Renee Bowyer
When Condi Came to Ramallah
Robert Fisk
Smoke
Signals from Bint Jbeil
Patrick Cockburn
Baghdad's Death Squads, Official and Otherwise
Ramzy Baroud
The War in Lebanon: More Than Meets the Eye
Don Fitz
Half-Hour Hurricanes: Where Were the Warnings About St. Louis's
Ultra Storm?
Elaine Cassel
The Second Andrea Yates Verdict: Why the Jury Did the Right Thing
David Price
Much Ado About Landis: What Kind of Tour de France Was It?
Mike Whitney
Bull's Eye: Israel's Targeted Assassination of UN Peacekeepers
Mickey Z.
Power (Outage) to the People: Why Queens Went Dark
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Power of Arrogance in a World Without Deterrence
Charles Glass
Operation
"Save Israel's High Command"
Website of
the Day
Military Intelligence and You!
July 27, 2006
Tanya Reinhart
Israel's
New Middle East
Saul Landau
Castro at 80: History Absolved Him, Now What?
Ramzi Kysia
Watching Lebanon Burn: Notes From a Free Fire Zone
Tom Barry
John Bolton: Israel's Man at the UN
Joseph Grosso
Israel and Iraq: Hillary's White House Ticket
Sharon Smith
Lebanon and the Future of the Antiwar Movement
Gale Courey
Toensing
9/11 Nablus: First, Destroy the Archives
Christopher Reed
Hirohito's Ghost: Japan's New Militarists
Werther
Hoosier Hooey: Is Terre Haute the Peshawar of the Midwest?
Yusuf Mansur
Can the Crime Justify the Act?
Richard Harth
Squeezing
the Last Drops from Palestine
Website of the Day
Who's Arming Israel?
July 26, 2006
Norman
Solomon
Applauding While Lebanon Burns: Richard Cohen's Blood Lust
Barbara
Olshanksy
Gitmo: Justice Denied is Murder, and a War Crime
David
Nally
The Detention of Ghazi Walid Falah: Israel Arrests Geography
Professor from University of Akron
Jonathan
Cook
Five Myths That Sanction Israel's War
Crimes
Patrick
Cockburn
Beware Iraqi Leaders Bearing Good
News
William
Blum
They Simply Can't Stop Lying, Can They?
Joshua
Frank
Israel's Invasion Pretext Under Fire
Gabriel
Kolko
Bankers Fear World Economic Breakdown
Daniel
Cassidy
How the Irish Invented Dudes
Michael
Dickinson
Arrested in Istanbul: "Sorry, We Thought You Were Israeli!"
Robert
Fisk
Beirut as Munich
Uri
Avnery
Is Beirut Burning?
Website
of the Day
Free Ghazi Walid Falah
July
25, 2006
Harry
Browne
Acquittal!: Activists Found Not Guilty
in Irish Ploughshares Case
Marjorie
Cohn
Willful Blindness: Bush Greenlights
War Crimes
Robert
Bryce
Israel and the Irony of UN Resolutions
Sharat
G. Lin
C hronology
of the Latest Chrisis in the Middle East
George
Bisharat
Most Lebanese Now Know Who Their Real Tormentor Is
CounterPunch
News Desk
Class War in the Blathersphere
Zena
El-Khalil
"Tell Them That I'm Not Leaving.
We Love Lebanon"
Larry
Lack
The Bottled Water Madness
Mike
Mejia
The Secret Behind "State Secrets"
Ashraf
Isma'il
Why Israel Is Losing
Website
of the Day
Peace on Trial
July
24, 2006
Mark
Levy
The Whys and Wherefores of PTSD
Robert
Fisk
Israelis Bomb Fleeing Villagers
Maher
Osseiran
Beirut, 1982
Paul
Craig Roberts
Israel's Criminal Accomplice
Patrick
Cockburn
More Than 100 Iraqis Being Killed
Each Day
Website
of the Day
sirnosir.com
July
22-23, 2006
Jonathan
Cook
Israel's Indiscriminate Onslaughts
Paul
Craig Roberts
The Shame of Being an American
Gilad
Atzmon
Israel's New Math
Robert
Fisk
Elegy for Beirut
Ralph
Nader
Here's How to Halt This Horror
Fred
Gardner
The Double Standard on Depression
Christopher
Reed
The Right's Use of Sexpot Schoolgirls
Dr.
Susan Block
Bush's Fecal World
Najla
Said
Do People Know How Much We Hurt?
Uri
Avnery
"Stop that Shit"
July
21, 2006
George
Galloway
John Cornford and the Fight for
the Spanish Republic
P.
Sainath
Indian Prime Minister Faces the Dead
Farmer Problem
Aseem
Shrivastava
The Iraq War is a Huge Success
Alexander
Cockburn
Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything
You Need to Know
Website
of the Day
FromIsraeltoLebanon
July
20, 2006
William
S. Lind
Why Hezbollah is Winning
Robert
Jensen
Florida Puts History on Probation
John
Ross
AMLO Presidente!
Tom
Hayden
I Was Israel's Dupe
Paul
Craig Roberts
The Unfolding Horror Show
July
19, 2006
Patrick
Cockburn
Massacres Soar in Central Iraq: Maliki
Government Discredited
Trish
Schuh
Israel Targets, Flattens Beirut TV
Station HQ
Jonathan
Cook
Is Israel Using Arab Villages As Human
Shields?
Vicente
Navarro
The Spanish Civil War, 70 Years On:
The Deafening Silence on Franco's Genocide
July
17 / 18 2006
Mike
Whitney
Israel's Shameful Attack on Gaza
Kathleen
Christison Atrocities in the Promised Land
July 14 / 15,
2006
Weekend Edition
Alexander Cockburn
How
Venice is Dying
Tanya Reinhart
The IDF is Hungry for War
Robert Fisk
Beirut Waits: Is Damascus the Key?
Daniel Cassidy
How the Irish Invented Jazz
Winslow Wheeler
Pentagon Budget Gimmickry: When a Cut is Actually an Increase
Hugh O'Shaughnessy
In Amazonia: Slavery and Deforestation
M. Shahid Alam
Israel, the US and the New Orientalism
William S. Lind
Two Signposts in Iraq
Ramzy Baroud
Racism Plagues Media Coverage of Gaza Assault
Gilad Atzmon
Echoes of the Wehrmacht
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
Railroading Your Rights
Samar Assad
A History of Israeli-Palestinian Prisoner Exchanges
Ron Jacobs
Japan and Pre-Emptive Strikes: Why Would They Want to Go There?
Lee Ballinger
A New Kind of Jim Crow?
Walter Brasch
A World Without Fajitas?: the Rightwing's Language Police
Dave Lindorff
The Bush Swingers?: They Broke the Law and People Died
Clifton Ross
Up from Below in Oaxaca
Tom Crumpacker
Planning for the Re-Colonization of Cuba
Ricardo Alarcon
The Mad Annexationist
William Hughes
Rev. Billy Graham: A War-Monger in the Pulpit
Susie Day
Bugging Hillary
Farrah Hassen
The Road to Gitmo: Dramatizing the Banality of Evil
Poets' Basement
Smith-Ferri, Engel and Davies
July 13, 2006
Rev. William
Alberts
Rationalizing
War Crimes: Saying the Obvious to Conceal the Devious
Ramzi Kysia
Scenes
from the Lebanese Front
Rep. John P. Murtha
What the Iraq War is Costing Us
Radford / Santos
Race,
Class and the Battle for South Central Farm
Stan Cox
Marching Plague: the Critical Art Ensemble's Biological Defense
Program
Saul Landau
Lies as Patriotism
José
Pertierra
Is
Venezuela the Real Target of Bush's New Cuba Plan?
Website of
the Day
National Security Whistleblowers' Dirty Dozen Campaign
July 12, 2006
John Ross
Mexico
Splits in Half: the Election Hits the Streets
John Stauber
The CIA Propagandist and Former Prankster Stewart Brand: John
Rendon's Long, Strange Trip in the Terror Wars
Robert Boston
Top 10 Powerbrokers of the Religious Right
Wayne S. Smith
Bush's New Cuba Plan: Embargoes, Blacklists and Assassination
Plots
John Graham
Secrecy and the Curtain of Oz
Ed Kinane
Arrested for Failing to Obey a Lawful Order to Cease Protesting
an Unlawful War: My Statement to the US District Court
Kevin Prosen
Goodbye Mr. Zeidler, You Will Be Missed
Jonathan Cook
Israel's
Latest Bueaucratic Obscenity
Website of
the Day
Addicted
to Oil: Starring GW Bush
July 11, 2006
Dave Lindorff
Does
a State of War Give Bush the Right to Commit War Crimes?
Dave Zirin
Why
I Wear My Zidane Jersey
Mokhiber / Weissman
Boeing's Criminal Agreement: Odd and Unusual
Amira Hass
A War on Families
Clare Hanrahan
The Last Free Fourth of July?
Brian Cloughey
Stop Blaming Pakistan
Felice Pace
The US Media and the World Cup
Raed Jarrar
Iraq:
Raped
Website of the Day
Bad Boy of Gitmo
July 10, 2006
Paul Craig
Roberts
Courting
Doom with North Korea
Uri Avnery
A
One-Sided War
Roger Burbach
Democracy
Betrayed: Electoral Fraud and Rebellion in Mexico
Ron Jacobs
The New SDS: Toward a Radical Youth Movement
Joshua Frank
Sectarian Flames in Iraq
Missy Comley Beattie
Bush's Stunning Admission to Larry King
Alexander Cockburn
The
War in Iraq: a Dreadful Mistake
July 8 / 9, 2006
Weekend Edition
Stephen Green
When
War Criminals Retire
Paul Craig
Roberts
Republic or Empire?: Lessons from Stanford
Greg Moses
Boots Down on the Rio Grande
Ralph Nader
The
Wail of the Oceans
Laura Carlsen
Mexico's Election Lacks Credibility
Conn Hallinan
Dumping Musharraf: Is Pakistan Expendable?
John Chuckman
Afghanistan is No One's War
Fred Gardner
Big Pharma's Strange Holy Grail: Cannabis Without Euphoria?
Dr. Tod Mikuriya
Cannabis as a Frontline Treatment for Childhood Mental Disorders
Pierre Tristam
Missile Envy: Is N. Korea Bush's Most Reliable Ally?
Lucinda Marshall
Deep Sexing the News: the Rape of Iraq
David Swanson
Command Rape: the Ordeal of Suzanne Swift
Heather Gray
The Spiral of Violence: What the Dead Might Tell Us
Dave Zirin
/ John Cox
French Soccer and the Future of Europe: Le Pen's Racists vs.
Zindane and Henry
Mark Engler
Mexico's Fear of Democracy: Elites, Fraud and the Status Quo
Michael Lettieri
Mexico: Don't Discount a Recount
Ron Jacobs
2008 Might Be Too Late: the Case for Impeachment Now
Jamal Juma'
Globalizing the Occupation
Jeffrey St. Clair
Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement
Engel and Kirbach
July 7, 2006
John Ross
Anatomy
of a Fraud Foretold: Mexico's Surreal Elections
July 6, 2006
Nick Dearden
Profiting from the Occupation: the Corporate Interests Behind
the War on Palestine
John Stanton
Nationalize
the Defense Industry
Ralph Nader
The Politics of the Minimum Wage
Laray Polk
Cambodia Then; Gaza Now
Saul Landau
Who Mourned the Victims of the US Covert War on Chile?
Joshua Frank
Sweet Angst, Power Chords and Politics: Farewell Sleater-Kinney
William S. Lind
To Be or Not to Be a State? Hamas and 4th Generation War
Adelman / Lindorff
Impeachment Comes to Main Street, USA
Jonathan Cook
An
Experiment in Human Despair
Website of
the Day
Adulterers in Chief?
July 5, 2006
Mike Whitney
Is
Cheney Betting on Economic Collapse?: the Veep's Curious Investment
Portfolio
Saul Landau
False
Axioms: Star Democrats and Iraq Massacres
Ramzy Baroud
And
Israel Shall Be Safe Again
Missy Comley Beattie
An Axis of Nuts: Ready, Aim, Fear
Arthur Neslen
A Way Out of the Gaza Crisis?
Vincent Maruffi
Party Politics in Connecticut: Lieberman, Lamont and the Greens
Paul Cantor
Aberrations:
Hell, High Water and the Moral High Ground
Paul D. Johnson
Mystery Meat: Let's Be Honest About Food's Origin
David Price
Shouting
Down Nazis in Olympia
July 4, 2006
Col. Dan Smith
Iraq
and Independence Day: Lessons from the War of 1812
Chris Floyd
American
Power in Mahmudiyah
Marjorie Cohn
Israel's
Collective Punishment of Gaza
James Brooks
Israel 9,000 Palestine 1: Destroying the Gaza Strip
Medea Benjamin
"Dictatress
of the World:" Has America Become JQ Adams' Worst Nightmare?
Matt Reichel
An Independence Day Lesson for the American Left from France
Elisa Salasin
Why I am Fasting Today
Rick Wilhelm
Will Lieberman Apologize to Ralph Nader?
Paul Craig
Roberts
Rape,
Lies and Murder
Website of the Day
A Mighty Handsome Family
July 3, 2006
Robert Bryce
Gaza
in the Dark: Poor, Frustrated and Powerless
Dr. Bouthaina Shaban
"I Hope You're Not Here to Talk About the Palestinians"
Julia Olmstead
The Biofuel Illusion: Running on Top Soil
Dave Lindorff
The Real Meaning of the Hamdan Ruling: Bush Adm. Has Committed
War Crimes
Andres Gomez
A Mockery of Justice
Alan Singer
Another Encounter with Chuck Schumer: Just as Hawkish as Hillary,
But Nastier
Alexander Cockburn
Temple
of Mammon, Planet of Doom
July 1/2, 2006
Weekend Edition
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bush's
Assaults on Freedom: What's to Stop Him?
Stephen T.
Banko
Echoes
from Vietnam; Nightmares in Iraq
Daniel Cassidy
How the Irish Invented Slang: the Bunkum of Bunkum (for Dizzy
Gillespie)
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
The Class Behind the Muslim
Jeff Taylor
The Sandy Foundation of the White House: a Bible-Believing Christian's
View of Bush
John Ross
Mexico: There's a Riot Going On
Greg Moses
Psycho-Management Hits Mexico's Maquiladoras
Laura Carlsen
Mexico's Elections: a Choice for Change
Justin E.H.
Smith
Lethal Injection and Other Fashion Trends
Brian Cloughley
Different Worlds: When Liberation is Worse Than Oppression
Anthony Papa
Punishing Addiction: No Walk in the Park for Dwight Gooden
Mike Ferner
Getting Busted for Wearing a Peace T-Shirt
Jerry Tucker
Liberalism's Long Goodbye: McGovern Hoists the White Flag
Jane Goodall / Rick Asselta
Remembering the Marshall Islands
Phyllis Pollack
Roll Over Beethoven: Chuck Berry is Back in Town
Poets' Basement
Salasin, Swindell, Ferri-Smith and Engel
June 30, 2006
Marjorie Cohn
Supreme
Rebuke: Bush Loses Gitmo Case
Heather Williams
Will
Mexicans Ignore What Bolivians Learned?
Burbach / Cantor
Yellowback
Democrats: the Party of Cut-and-Run (from Principle)
Nick Dearden
Crime in the Valley: Life on the Other Side of Palestine
Michael J.
Smith
Under the Broadcast Flag: Intellectual Property as Intellectual
Theft
Brian Concannon
The Return to Haiti: a Homecoming for Aristide?
Virginia Tilley
Israel's Appalling Act: Starving in the Dark
June 29, 2006
Bill Quigley
Gutting
New Orleans
Ron Jacobs
Killing a Nation to Rescue a Soldier
Paul Craig
Roberts
The High Price of American Gullibility
June 28, 2006
Jorge Mariscal
Mexican-American
Soldiers, Iraq and the Politics of Immigrant Bashing
Greg Moses
Down
in Pinal County: Where the Pun's on Us
Mark Weisbrot
Mexico: Their Brand is Crisis
Ramzy Baroud
Re-Interpreting
Iraq: the Latest Propaganda Campaign
Dave Lindorff
Redacting the Constitution: Why Signing Statements Matter
William S.
Lind
Neither Shall the Sword: War in a Fouth Generation World
Mike Ferner
50 Years Down the Wrong Direction: Taken for a Ride on the Interstate
Highway System
Zoltan Grossman
Military Resistance: a Brief History
June 27, 2006
Marjorie Cohn
Playing
Politics with Timetables
Benjamin /
Jarrar
Leading
Dems Froth Over Amnesty Plan
William Hughes
Roadmap to Starvation
Doug Giebel
Showdown in Montana: Burns vs. Testor
Uri Avnery
The World Cup and Middle East Peace
Alexander Cockburn
Hitchens Hails the "Glorious War"
June 26, 2006
Don Santina
American
Rituals: Massacres, Baseball and Apple Pies
Ralph Nader
Beyond Binary Politics
Dave Lindorff
CounterPunch v. CounterPunch: Taking Impeachment on the Road
Rafael Rodriguez-Cruz
An Interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal on Hispanics and Latin America
Evelyn Pringle
Big
Pharma's Big Graveyard: Drug Profits, Fraud and Death
Jonathan Cook
Israeli
"Retaliation" and Double Standards
June 23, 2006
Youmans / Erakat
Divestment, Corporate Engagement
and Israel
Dave Lindorff
Cut
and Run: a Winning Strategy
Ron Jacobs
Dogs of War Barking at the Moon
Col. Dan Smith
Iraq:
Fool Me Twice
June 22, 2006
Marjorie Cohn
Friendly Fire Ambush
Winslow T.
Wheeler
Lockheed,
the Senator and the F-22
Tanya Reinhart
A Week of Israeli Restraint
Mike Marqusee
The
Forest Gate Raid
William Blum
Why Bush's Iraq is Worse Than Saddam's
August
16, 2006
Gee, Your Hair
Smells Terror-ific!
Shampoo,
Fear and Elections
By RON JACOBS
I n the wake of the August 10th, 2006
arrests of some nineteen men on charges of conspiracy to blow
up airliners, George Bush, wannabe tyrant that he is, declared
that the US is at war with so-called Islamofascists. Not only
does this use of the word to describe terrorists that use the
Koran as their inspiration misunderstand the definition of fascism,
it insults the majority of Muslims along with the intelligence
of thinking people around the world. According to the American
Heritage dictionary, fascism is "a philosophy or system
of government that is marked by stringent social and economic
control, a strong, centralized government usually headed by a
dictator, and often a policy of belligerent nationalism."
Left unsaid in this defintion is that the economic control is
control by giant corporations, not the State. In fact, the State
serves the corporations. To add to this misuse of the English
language, Michael Chertoff, Uber Commander of Homeland Security,
called these "Islamofascists' imperialists. Now, fascists
don't need a country from which to launch their repressive and
pro-capitalist theory, but in order for someone to be an imperialist,
they need to have a country to operate from.
Last time I looked, the so-called
terror gangs of which Bush speaks don't run any nation anywhere.
Which means that the so-called Islamofascists can't be accused
of belligerent nationalism since they don't have a nation to
be nationalistic about. Like Christianity, Islam encourages
converts, and also like Christianity, it has its adherents that
encourage such conversions under threat of death. Both religions,
however, prefer people to convert of their own free will. The
fact that the terror gangs that call themselves Muslim gain most
(if not all) of their converts voluntarily says a lot more about
the powerlessness those individuals feel (thanks to the machinations
of western Christian capital) than it does about Islam. It might
do Messrs. Bush and Chertoff some good to look in the mirror
to discover the true definition of imperialist and fascism.
Indeed, it might do a good number of US citizens some good.
The New York Times wrote
that the arrests and foiled "attack" with shampoo bottles
and toothpaste tubes could well be a turning point in the upcoming
US elections. According to this viewpoint, the prowar folks
running for election can point to the arrests as proof that Washington
is surely fighting a war against an evil never before seen in
the world and that the war in Iraq and US support for Israel
is essential in order to win this war. To put it bluntly, the
only way one could reason like this is if they had their head
way up their brainwashed ass (or is it asswashed?) Most of the
rest of the world (and many US residents) see the situation
completely opposite.
In other words, the reason
for the raised potential of terror attacks in the United States
and the United Kingdom is because they invaded Iraq, occupied
it, and now refuse to call for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon
and Gaza. Instead, the US State Department, the White House,
and the Pentagon debate about when they should send more cluster
bombs to Israel.
The growing consensus, meanwhile,
on that question is that they will send them as long as Israel
promises that in the future they won't aim them directly at buildings
where people might be living (or whatever you call the daily
life of the Lebanese these days).
These terror cells are not
being uncovered in Italy or Spain. No, they are being uncovered
in Britain and their targets are (if we are to believe the British
and US security officials) US citizens. Do you think the reason
for this might be that Italy is in the process of removing her
troops from Iraq and Spain did so a couple years ago? Then again,
this might mean that Spain and Italy don't feel the need to scare
their citizenry into submission every once in a while just so
the rulers can continue their march towards total; control.
Or total chaos.
Whether the plots are real
or contrived by some black ops grouping, they have had the effect
that London and Washington wanted: their citizens are acting
a little more scared than they were. Like the air raid drills
of the 1950s and 1960s when New Yorkers were instructed to go
to certain subway stations designated as fallout shelters and
schoolchildren were told to hide under their desks and duck
and cover should the big bad Soviets drop their atomic bomb,
these occasional terror plots and alerts are designed to keep
the citizenry in fear. Back in 1963, Bob Dylan answered the
state's manipulation of that fear with his song "Let Me
Die In My Footsteps." Here's a sample of his sentiment:
There's always been people
that have to cause fear
They've been talking of the war now for many long years
I have read all their statements and I've not said a word
But now Lawd God, let my poor voice be heard.
Let me die in my footsteps
Before I go down under the ground.
As for those elections in the
US, voters should be aware. Just because a politician is running
as a Democrat doesn't mean they are against the war. Where I
live in North Carolina, the Democratic candidate is as pro-war
as the Republican candidate, who is a shamelessly corrupt war
supporter that supports the most reactionary of the immigration
bills and kisses the ass of every right wing supposedly Christian
preacher in the region (and there's a few of them, believe me).
As for Israel, forget it, you'd be hard put to find a single
Democrat who doesn't support every act of war, torture cell,
wall of separation, and cluster bomb attack that Israel undertakes.
Every bully likes having a lieutenant that will provoke a fight
and do the dirty work. Tel Aviv is playing that role for Washington
these days.
Then again, perhaps this all
means that voters in the US do support Israel's wars and Washington's
plans to dominate the world. If they do, then they shouldn't
be surprised if real fascism becomes the rule of law in these
United States. It is already the economic status quo.
Ron Jacobs is author of The
Way the Wind Blew: a history of the Weather Underground ,
which is just republished by Verso. Jacobs' essay on Big Bill
Broonzy is featured in CounterPunch's new collection on music,
art and sex, Serpents
in the Garden . He can be reached at: rjacobs3625@charter.net
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