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The Empire Trips Up

How “putting Israel first” led the US into blindness about Egypt. Kathy Christison reviews Wiki-cables exclusive to CounterPunch. PLUS Stan Cox on mass death on the high seas as shipping owners send seamen to their deaths in floating coffins. PLUS Larry Portis on sociocide – a better term than genocide. Subscribe now! If you find our site useful please: Click here to make a donation. CounterPunch books and t-shirts make great presents. Order CounterPunch By Email For Only $35 a Year!

Today's Stories

February 16, 2011

Kathleen Christison
The US as Israel's Enabler in the Middle East

February 15, 2011

Vijay Prashad
The Long Arab Revolution

Ralph Nader
18 Days That Shook Egypt

Raouf J. Halaby
Mahfouz's Prophesy

Franklin C. Spinney
Posturing Twits in the Howling Wilderness of the Pentagon's Budget Debate

José Pertierra
The Inspector From Cuba

David Macaray
NFL Owners vs. Players: Three Myths About Pro Athletes and Their Unions

John V. Walsh
Carter Harassed with $5 Million Suit by Israeli Lawyers

Jen Marlowe
A Palestinian Odyssey in a Middle East Ablaze

Fidel Castro
The Revolutionary Rebellion in Egypt

Brenda Norrell
Wikileaks on the US and Peru: Spying on Indigenous Groups, Defending Mining Companies

Yasmeen Ali
International Law is Clear That Diplomatic Immunity is Not Absolute

Website of the Day
Deforestation and Emerging Diseases

February 14, 2011

Victoria Brittain
The Siddiqui Case: Lawyers Release EXplosive, Secretly Recorded Tape

Carl Finamore
Cairo, One Day After Mubarak

Naseer Aruri
Democracy and the US Dilemma in Egypt

Uri Avnery
Tsunami in Egypt

Mohammed Bamyeh
Egypt's Great Awakening

Gareth Porter
Deferring to Petraeus

Israel Shamir
Cuba in the Wikileaks Mirror: an Undying Obsession

Dean Baker
Finance Myths

Diana Johnstone
The Culture of Impunity, NATO Style

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: The War Against the Evidence From Cuba

Umberto Mazzei
International Speculation and Rising Food Prices

Mark Scaramella
Unconstitutionality of Obamacare

Website of the Day
Time-Lapse of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945

February 11 - 13, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
Ain't That Good News!

Esam Al-Amin
Egypt's Judgment Day

Tariq Ali
Toppling the Autocrat

James Zogby
Politics and Nonsense on Egypt

David Porter
The Triumph of Leaderless Revolutions

Sasan Fayazmanesh The Nature of "Revolutions" in the Middle East

Nawal el Saadawi
The Egyptian Revolution Unfolds: an Account From Tahrir Square

Ramzy Baroud
Listen to Egypt Roar

Rannie Amiri
The End of Humiliation

Mike Whitney
Bernanke's Bubblenomics

Jeffrey St. Clair
The Nature of Ronald Reagan

Larry Portis
Tear Gassed in the Cévennes

Mark Schuller
Situation Dire: the Shell Game of Haiti's Reconstruction

Rick A. Kuhn
The Keynesian Moment Passes

Lawrence Velvel, Michael Coyne and Sherwood Ross
The White Bar: How Minorities and the Poor are Kept Out of U.S. Law Schools

M. Reza Pirbhai
Blasphemy and the Status Quo in Pakistan

Saul Landau
Covering the Revolutions

Walden Bello
Sexual Prey in the Saudi Jungle

Walter Brasch
Obama and the Patriot Act: an Unconstitutional Continuity

Conn Hallinan
The Irish Elections and the Ghost of Padraic Pearse

Nouri Gana
Tunisia: Exporting Revolution

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: the Gathering Storm

Brad Thomson
The Domestic War on Protesters

Shaukat Qadir
Why Did Joe Biden Rush to Visit Pakistan?

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Gandhi on the Nile

Ron Jacobs
Autumn of the Pharaoh

Mary Lynn Cramer
Why No Reporters in Suez?

Sébastien Lapaque
France's Intangible Cuisine

Randel Hanson
Local Harvest for an Urban Landscape

Richard Ward
We Are Not All Egyptians: a Dispatch from New Mexico

Cecil Brown
The Conservative Plot to Hijack Zora Neale Hurston

Missy Beattie
Rubbled Raw

David Ker Thomson
Guns Don't Kill People, Bullets Do

Christopher Brauchli
The Joys of Tax Fraud

Dr. Susan Block
Lupercalian Valentine's Day

Charles R. Larson
Uruguay's Conscience

David Yearsley
Faking It With the Black-Eyed Peas and Obama

Poets' Basement
Three by Linh Dinh

 

February 10, 2011

Kevin Gray
Obama and Egyptian Liberation

Thomas H. Naylor
American Duplicity in Egypt

Mike Whitney
QE 2 Sets Off Inflation Alarms

Marc H. Ellis
Tahrir Square, Jerusalem

Chase Madar
An Opening Statement for the Defense of Bradley Manning

James Ridgeway
On 9/11, Rumsfeld Fiddled, While Cheney Ran the Country

Dave Lindorff
US Terror Campaign in Pakistan?

Jane Slaughter
In Egypt, the Strikers Take Center Stage

Salwa Ismail
Egypt's Dignity Revolution

Gerald E. Scorse
How the Affluent Slip Away

Paul Krassner
Why I Fled Facebook

Website of the Day
International Shark Attack File

February 9, 2011

Esam Al-Amin
Meet Egypt's Future Leaders

Vijay Prashad
Two Pillars of Cynicism

Chris Floyd
On the Streets of Cairo

Dean Baker
The Levers of Power

Linn Washington, Jr.
Defending Crooked Cops

Mark Vorpahl
Union Victory in Oregon

David Macaray
If You Can't Trust a Greedy Multinational Corporation, Who Can You Trust?

Steven Colatrella
From Tiananmen to Tahrir Square

Roberto Rodriguez
How Far Can Arizona Secede?

Andrew Taggart
In the Land of Bloombergia

William A. Cook
Caught in the Crossfire

Charles R. Larson
The Beatification of Ronald Reagan

Website of the Day
Leveling Appalachia

February 8, 2011

Dave Lindorff
The Deepening Mystery of Raymond Davis and Two Slain Pakistani Motorcyclists

Mike Whitney
Why Another Financial Crash is Certain

Ralph Nader
Time for Democracy in Egypt

Gareth Porter
Shattering the Myth of Taliban / Al Qaeda Ties

Steve Breyman Surreal Politik: Arab Revolts and the Dream of Palestine

Brett Warnke
Obama's Onslaught on Community Action

Ron Jacobs
Suleiman and the Muslim Brotherhood

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: the Battle for the Passport

Tarecq M. Amer
The Egypt Endgame

Mark Weisbrot
How to Reduce Unemployment and Revive the Economy

Brian M. Downing
Conflict and Opportunity in Post-Mubarak Egypt

Dennis Hans
Ronnie's Butchers: Reagan's Third World Reign of Terror

Linh Dinh
Exporting the Super Bowl

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Where's Hendrix When You Really Need Hm? The Nationals and Their Anthems

Website of the Day
The CIA's Man in Cairo

February 7, 2011

Tariq Ali
Pakistan: Can It Get Worse? Yes!

Paul Craig Roberts
Kleptocrats at Work

John L. Esposito
The Muslim Brotherhood and Democracy in Egypt

Bill Quigley
Swiss Miss Bush: Bush Ducks Geneva Criminal Torture Charges

Robert Fisk
Frank Wisner's Two Hats

Barry M. Lando
Kissinger on Egypt

George Wuerthner
A Bloody Smokescreen: Bison Slaughter in Yellowstone Begins Again

Kara N. Tina
"We're Not Leaving Until Mubarak Leaves:" an Interview with Egyptian Journalist Hassam el-Hamalawy

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Sleeps Like a Baby

Dennis Bernstein
More Than a Facebook Revolution: an Interview with Egyptian Blogger "Sandmonkey"

Russell Mokhiber
Bush at the Super Bowl: "This Small, Horrible Human Being"

Harvey Wasserman
Socialism Triumphs at the Super Bowl

Website of the Day
Why Tunis? Why Cairo?

 

February 4 - 6, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
The God That's Failing

Esam Al-Amin
Mubarak's Last Gasps

Alison Weir
Egypt, the US and the Israel Lobby

Mike Whitney
The Student Loan Swindle

Paul Craig Roberts
Americans are Oppressed, Too

Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money: Smoke Screens

Robert Alvarez
Food, Egypt and Wall Street

Rannie Amiri
Egypt: the Sleeper Awakens

William Blum
From Portugal to Egypt: a Cautionary Tale

Linda Greene
The Environmental Causes of Cancer

Danny Glover /
Saul Landau
Visiting Gerardo in Prison

Robert Sandels
Revealing Nonsense

Jean-Bertrand Aristide
My Return to Haiti

Will Parrish
Drinking Our Rivers Dry: Water and Wine

Peter Lee
Adios Stuart Levey: Mr. Insubordination Makes His Exit

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: the Soap Opera Matters More Than the Truth

Ronnie Cummins Monsanto Nation: Exposing Monsanto's Minions

James Ridgeway
Swapping a Dictator for a Torturer

Laura Carlsen
Napolitano in Texas: Tough Talk; Little Coherence

David Correia
Democracy, Capitalism and Technology: Understanding Social Unrest in Egypt and Tunisia

Steven Colatrella
Revolution is Back

Michael Leonardi
Islamophobia Sweeps Europe

Michael Shane Boyle
The Eviction of Liebig 14

David Macaray
Organized Labor in the Crosshairs

Fred Gardner
Bad, Bad USSR

P. Sainath
India's Biggest Press Scandal Censored by India's Press Barons

Louisa Willcox
Bear-ly Scientific: Why Yellowstone Grizzly Policy Undermines Obama's Pledge for Scientific Integrity

Christopher Brauchli
Redefining Rape, and Other Pressing Matters

David Ker Thomson
Why Leftists Should Not Support a "Peaceful Transfer" of Power

Missy Beattie
Cut the Cards

Walter Brasch
The Sled Dog Killer

Wallace Shawn
Why I Call Myself a Socialist

Charles R. Larson
Black Writers Talk About Their Writing

Samer al Saber
Alice in Dangerland

Hugh Iglarsh
Rescreening Dr. Strangelove

David Yearsley
Music for the Sickbed

Poets' Basement
Louise and Taylor

Website of the Weekend
El Tahir Square Field Hospital

February 3, 2011

David H. Price
Challenging America's Pharaoh

Mike Roselle
Mammoth Spruce No 1 Mine Goes Forward Despite EPA Veto

Franklin Spinney
How Much Should We Spend on National Defense?

Dean Baker
Corporate Tax Loopholes

Joshua Farouk Georgy
The Egyptian Uprising in the American Media

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: Questions Are Not Evidence, But They Sway

Daniel Gross
Death in a New York Food Sweatshop

Fidel Castro
Mubarak's Fate is Sealed

Dyab Abou Jahjah
On the Barricades

Michael True
Blind Faith in American Militarism

Charles R. Larson
Black Writers Talk About Their Writing

Website of the Day
Leave the Libraries Alone

February 2, 2011

Vijay Prashad
The Empire's Bagman: Frank Wisner in Cairo

Tariq Ali
An Arab 1848:  Despots Totter and Fall

Peter Lee
Twittering the Revolution

Feriel Bouhafa
Defining the Tunisian Revolution

Suzy Kassem
Why Egyptians are Calling Obama the "Black Bush"

Clarence Lusane
Confederacy Redux?

Ralph Nader
What About Free and Fair Elections in the US?

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: Judge Cardone at the Center of the Drama

Thomas Naylor
F-35s, Drone Aircraft, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Honorary Degrees at the University of Vermont

Khristopher Flack
Monsanto: Democracy's Terminator Gene

Linh Dinh
Burning Truth

Nick Dearden
South Sudan Should Not be Born Into Debt

Website of the Day
How LBJ Ordered Pants

February 1, 2011

Esam Al-Amin
The Making of Egypt's Revolution

Lana Asfour
In the Wake of the Jasmine Revolution: a Dispatch From Tunisia

Corinna Mullin
Obama and the Despots of the Middle East

Paul Craig Roberts
American Hypocrisy in the Middle East

Gareth Porter
Why Washington Clings to a Failed Middle East Strategy

Israel Shamir
BBC Joins Smear Campaign Against Assange and Wikileaks

Michael Brenner
The NYT v. Assange: Keller's Hatchet Job

Pothik Ghosh
A New Horizon for the Arab People? Vijay Prashad on the Arab Revolt

David Macaray
Egyptian Labor Unions Lead the Way

James R. King
The Arab World Shakes: Is the US on Solid Ground?

Andrew Levine
Obama the Deregulationist

Adam Federman
Fracking With Diesel

Daniel Crawford
Ireland: Land of Thieves, Charlatans and Sodomites

Ahmad Barqawi
Every Square is a Tahir Square

Website of the Day
Torture in Mubarak's Egypt

January 31, 2011

Stephen Soldz
The Torture Career of Egypt's New Vice President

Kathleen Christison
A Wikileak on the US and Al- Jazeera: Blaming (and Killing) the Messenger

Mike Whitney
The FCIC Report: Another Whitewash for Wall Street

Liaquat Ali Khan
When the Arab Street Enforces the Constitution

Pothik Ghosh
The New Arab Revolts: an Interview with Vijay Prashad on Egypt

Ron Jacobs
Is the Game Really Over for Mubarak?

Nicola Nasser
American Confusion: a Strategic Crossroads in the Middle East

Franklin C. Spinney
Did Obama's Promise Trigger the Arab Revolt?

Jonathan Cook
Can the Palestinian Authority Survive?

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: The Fear, the Courage and the Bomb

Lawrence Davidson
Tunisia, Then Egypt: Why Now?

P. Sainath
The Lurch of the Lemmings

Charles R. Larson
This Revolution is Brought to You by Al-Jazeera

Website of the Day
Visualizing Egypt's Internet Blackout

January 28 - 30, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
President Gasbag

Gary Leupp
The Egyptian Revolution: a Very Fine Thing

Bill Quigley
Pam Spees
Seems Like Old Times in Honduras

Mike Whitney
Treasury Yields are Blinking Red

Paul Craig Roberts
The Dissolving Constitution

Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money: a Touch of Babbittry

Saul Landau
Clockwork Orange America

Ranni Amiri
A Welcome End to the Hariri Era

Franklin Lamb Hezbollah is the New Government of Lebanon. Now What?

Conn Hallinan
Lebanon: the Roots of the Crisis

Graham MacPhee
Great Britain in the Middle East: Is the Empire Really Over?

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Inside Obamanomics

Anthony DiMaggio
Americans on Austerity

Rahul Mahajan
Cutting the Corporate Income Tax

José Pertierra
Abascal's Testimony Damages Posada's Defense

Jim Haber
60 Years of Disaster at the Nevada Test Site

Ronnie Cummins
The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto

Ramzy Baroud
Remaking Tunisia

Joshua Sperber
Another Professor Fired for Views on Middle East

Sara Mann
Pictures of Devastation

David Rosen
The Return to Social Darwinism

Russell Mokhiber
Two Systems of Justice

Sherwood Ross
Torture in US Prisons

Robert Jensen
Technological Fundamentalism

Binoy Kampmark
The Revolution Shall be Tweeted: Social Media and the Egyptian Protests

Liam Hysjulien
What Class Says About Food

Devon G. Peña
Wal-Mart, Food Deserts and Genuine Sovereignty

David Macaray
The UAW v. Indian Casinos

Harry Clark
When Palestine Was at Stake

Laura Flanders
Setting the Story Straight on "Snowdown"

Sherwood Ross
Torture in US Prisons

Christopher Brauchli
Balancing the Budget by Starving the Students

David Ker Thomson
Why Do We Write?

Missy Beattie
Doing It Big

Charles R. Larson Salinger, Still Unknowable

Ron Jacobs
Blasts From the Past: From Stevie Wonder to Gil Scott-Heron

David Yearsley
Bach Amid the Turbid Floodwaters of Sin

Poets' Basement
Beatty, Moser and Chaet

Website of the Weekend
Resources on Egypt

January 27, 2011

Tariq Ali
Bernard-Henri Lévy Indicted!

Andrew Bacevich
Why Military Spending is Untouchable

Don Monkerud
Corruption at the Supreme Court

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles: the Man in the Gray Woolen Suit

Deepak Tripathi
The Law of the Jungle

Laura Flynn
Reliving Duvalier; Waiting for Aristide

Laura Flanders
No Words for Egypt, Mr. President?

Russell Mokhiber
Why Do Americans Take It in the Face?

Harvey Wasserman
Obama and Our Disney Nukes

Roberto Rodriguez
In Defense of Indigenous Studies

Website of the Day
Love Poems of Stew Albert

January 26, 2011

Jonathan Cook
Israel's Peacemakers Unmasked

Michael Neumann
The "Corrupt Betrayers" of the Palestinian People

Thomas H. Naylor
The Politics of Violence in America

Mike Whitney
Haiti: Prisoners on Their Own Island

David Correia
Dying to be a Carpenter

José Pertierra
The Tip of the Iceberg: Posada Carriles Trial, Day 7

Edward Herman /
David Peterson
Assange and Posada in the Propaganda System

Dave Lindorff
The Persecution of Pvt. Bradley Manning

Sergio Ferrari
Toward a Global Solution Outside the System: an Interview with Eric Toussaint on the Dakar WSF

Stewart J. Lawrence A Left / Tea Party Alliance?

Website of the Day
Taking to the Streets of Cairo

January 25, 2011

Kathleen Christison
The Palestine Papers

Fred Gardner
Reefer Madness Forever: Califano Tries to Pin Tucson Shooting on Pot

Maureen Murphy
My Summons: A Federal Fishing Expedition Against Antiwar Groups

Winslow T. Wheeler
The Problems with the 'Gorgon Stare' Surveillance System

Ralph Nader
The Overuse of Antibiotics

José Pertierra
The Posada Carriles Trial: First, the Lies

David Macaray
Mental Illness on the Factory Floor

Boadiba
Haiti Quake Journal: Where Urban Legends Come to Life

Russell Mokhiber
Is the Vermont Health Plan Single Payer?

Sam Smith
Feast for Fools: Why the Obama Birth Certificate Story Won't Go Away

Website of the Day
The Wal-Mart of Weed?

January 24, 2011

Joann Wypijewski
Milton Rogovin: Portraitist to the People

Steve Breyman
The War on Public Workers

M. G. Piety
Happiness, Misery and the Economy: the Idiocy of the Ivory Study

Mike Whitney
The Most Business-Friendly President Ever?

Clancy Sigal
The Mind of Jared Lee Loughner

José Pertierra
Art's Theater: Day 5 of the Posada Carriles Trial

Linh Dinh
Inside the Charnel House

Dean Baker
Demographic Nonsense

Martha Rosenberg
Seroquel's Toll

Dave Lindorff
Is GE's Jeffrey Immelt Really an American?

Bouthaina Shaaban
What Arabs Could Learn From Japan

Website of the Day
The Palestine Papers

January 21 - 23, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
Collateral Damage

Steve Hendricks
Exporting Torture, Courting Prosecution ... Still

Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money: Gestures of Goodwill

Laura Carlsen
The Murdered Women of Juarez

Peter Lee
Hu Are You?

Melissa Checker
Pipeline Safety: an Explosive Situation

Saul Landau /
Nelson P. Valdes
The Context of Cuba's Crisis

Patrick Cockburn
The Lethal Ignorance of Tony Blair

Conn Hallinan
Latin America: the Empire Strikes Back

Will Parrish
Sonoma County, Banana Republic of Wine Grapes

José Pertierra
The Lead Prosecutor in the Cuban Five Case Refused a DHS Request to Press Criminal Charges Against Posada Carriles

Rannie Amiri
Two Ousted Leaders

Ron Jacobs
The Feds Go Fishing

Michael Leonardi
An Ecological Bomb in the Mediterranean

Mark Vorpahl
The Forgotten Jobless

Heather Gray
Will the Tea Party Congress Block Justice for Black Farmers?

Ramzy Baroud
Generalizing Tunisia

Nicola Nasser
The US Has a Choice in Tunisia

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
American Decline

Christopher Brauchli
The FDA and the Death Penalty

Michael Winship
Chevron's Crude Attacks

David Macaray
What Goes Around, Comes Around

David Zlutnick
Occupation Has No Future

Joe Allen
Defender of the Movement

Fidel Castro
Food Crisis: the Time Has Come to Do Something

Rupal Oza
With Us Or Against Us

Stephen Fleischman
The Depth of the Betrayal

David Ker Thomson
Lock Heed

Christopher Carrico
Insurgent Anthropologies

Missy Beattie
Into the Future

Farzana Versey
Questioning Eros

Charles R. Larson
Ceausescu's Bleak Romania

Larry Portis
The People's War to Come: Iciar Bollain's "Even the Rain"

Doug Loranger
Phil Ochs's Tragedy and Our Own

David Yearsley
Black Swan, Dark Power

Poets' Basement
Ford, Orloski and Lee

January 20, 2011

Cecilia Zarate-Laun
Gold v. Water: Greystar's Threat to Colombia

Vicente Navarro
Was Picasso Apolitical?

José Pertierra
A Voice From the Past in El Paso

Patrick Cockburn
Catastrophes on Camera

Russell Mokhiber
Insurance Execs Target William Hsiao

Denis O'Hearn
A Welcome Prison Victory at Youngstown

Ira Chernus
Why Are We Still in Afghanistan?

Mark Weisbrot
Aristide Should be Allowed to Return to Haiti

Dave Lindorff
In Praise of Incivility in Politics

Sam Smith
Building Little Republics in a Collapsing Empire

Website of the Day
Loyalty Oaths at the United Way?

January 19, 2011

Kathleen Christison
Wikileaks Cables on Israel's Gaza Onslaught

Esam Al-Amin
The Fall of the West's Little Dictator

José Pertierra
El Paso Diary: Notes From the Trial of Luis Posada Carriles

Dean Baker
The Economists Forgive Themselves

John Walsh
An Anti-Interventionist Looks at China

Laura Flanders
Cutting Taxes is Killing the Economy

Joe Mowrey
Imperial Shooting Sprees

Stewart J. Lawrence
Ganja Yoga: Posturing for Pot Legalization?

Mickey Z.
Downsize or Modify? A Conversation With Noam Chomsky

Carl Finamore
Hyatt Sues Hotel Workers Union

Website of the Day
Sarah Palin Battle Theme (Disco Edit)

January 18, 2011

Michael Hudson
Jeffrey Sommers
The Death of "Social Europe"

Mark Rudd
From Terrorism to Nonviolence: an Ex-Weather Underground Radical on the Tucson Shootings

Sasan Fayazmanesh
Who Killed the Iranian Physics Professors?

Gareth Porter
50 Years After Ike's Speech: From Military-Industrial Complex to Permanent War State

Jonathan Cook
The Death of the Israeli Left

Ralph Nader
Recharging the UAW

Russell Mokhiber
Auto Safety and the Supreme Court

Mike Whitney
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon

Steve Breyman
The Gipper at 100: Reagan, Reagan Jr and Alzheimer's

Clancy Sigal
Left Till the End

Website of the Day
Born in the Backwoods: the History of Boogie-Woogie

January 17, 2011

Frank Bardacke
Farewell to the Utterly Unique John Ross

Andrew Cockburn
Pentagon Ecstatic Over New Chinese "Threat"

Jason Hribal
A Message From Tatiana: When Zoo Animals Resist

Bill Quigley
MLK Injustice Index 2011: Racism, Materialism and Militarism in the US

Max Ajl
Winter Break in Gaza

William Loren Katz
Devastating Hope: the Pentagon and the King Legacy

Andrew Levine Monica Lewinsky, Where Are You Now That We Need You ... Again?

Max Kantar
Race and America's Criminal Justice System

Yvonne Ridley
The People's Revolution in Tunisia

B. R. Gowani
The Blasphemy Law: Islamic Fundament-alism in Pakistan

Alan Farago
Skin Tight at the Golden Globes

Website of the Day
A CableGate Browser

January 14 -16, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
The Tucson Memorial: Politics is Everywhere

Petra Bartosiewicz
The Accidental Terrorist: How Rebecca Rubin Became a "Most Wanted" Woman

Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money: Clintonian Environmentalism

Walden Bello
The Triumph of Austerity

Yvonne Ridley
Tonight We Are All Tunisians

Thomas H. Naylor
China Plays the Euro Card

Rannie Amiri
The Well-Deserved Collapse of Lebanon's Government

Jennifer Van Bergen
Watch the Watchers

Jonathan Feldman
Investing in Fox News: the Political Economy of Character Assassination

Alison Weir
Shot in the Head

Conn Hallinan
Killing Peace in Afghanistan

Saul Landau
Something is Rotten in the State of a Bank

Fawzia Afzal-Khan Dead in My Tracks: Salmaan Taseer, the Mullah of Bourbon St and Freud's Uncanny

Beatrice Lindstrom
Haiti: Beyond the Blue Helmets

Stewart J. Lawrence
Is a Deal on Immigration Possible Before 2012?

Christopher Brauchli
The World According to Rep. Steve King

Sheldon Richman
Government Spying on Americans

Richard Ward
Losing Our Uncivil Liberties

Ann Jones
Can Women Make Peace?

Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero
Organic and Beyond

Alan Farago
SEIU: Off to the Races, Backwards

Jonathan W. Martin
Bankers Laugh, Whilst the Country Wilts

David Macaray
Locked Out in Iowa

Daniel Gross
Union Victory at Starbucks

Kieran Manjarrez
Hate Speech and Free Speech

Laura Flanders
The Violence of the Broken Economy

David Ker Thomson
Weals: Many Nowtopias; One Revolution

Linh Dinh
Martial Cosplay and More

Yves Engler
How Canada Subsidizes Illegal Israeli Settlements

M. Shahid Alam
Pakistan: a Political Murder or War?

Dr. Susan Block
Make Eros, Not Thanatos

Ramzy Baroud
The Failure of Academia

Billy Wharton
Jared Lee Loughner and Single-Payer

Ron Jacobs
Tales of Misery, Love and Hope

Eric Walberg
Ecology and Islam

Charles R. Larson
Only in Latin America

Mark Scaramella
Art Tatum: the Greatest Piano Player Ever

David Yearsley
The LA Phil at the Cineplex

Poets' Basement
Three by Corseri

Website of the Weekend
Assange Accuser's Lawyer Defended CIA Renditions

January 13, 2011

Neve Gordon
Israel's Assault on Human Rights

Franklin Lamb
Why Hezbollah Walked

Linn Washington, Jr.
Grand Theft Constitution

Rob Prince
The Tunisian Intifada

Sasha Kramer
Haiti: Redemption Songs

Joel Olson
What It's Like to Live in Arizona Right Now

Dean Baker
The Market and Inequality

Nicola Nasser
The Plight of Christian Arabs: Why Foreign "Protection" is Counter-Productive

Russell Mokhiber
Jam the Revolving Door

Stephen Lendman
Hard Times in Illinois

Charles R. Larson
Palin's Mouth

Website of the Day
Woz to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free

January 12, 2011

Franklin Spinney
Surging Tit for Tat in Afghanistan

Paul Craig Roberts
A Brief for Animals

Jennifer Loewenstein
The Iranian Threat

Vijay Prashad
Afghan Reality

Tanya Golash-Boza
Why Did We Send Rice, Beans and Sardines to Haiti, When They Needed Cash?

Diane Shammas
Helen Thomas: Freedom of Speech and the Zionist Albatross

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Gun Freedom

Ralph Nader
Why Won't Obama Meet With the Left?

John V. Walsh
Sarah Palin's Crosshairs ... and Obama's

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Dreams of My Presidents

Website of the Day
The CIA File on Posada Carriles

January 11, 2011

Alan Nasser /
Kelly Norman
The Student Loan Debt Bubble

William D. Hartung
Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?

Mike Whitney
The Unreported War in Mexico

Israel Shamir
The Guardian's Political Censorship of Wikileaks

Anthony DiMaggio
What's Really Behind Conservative Attacks on ObamaCare?

Bill Quigley /
Jeena Shah
Haiti: One Million Homeless and Displaced

Sam Smith
The Blood on Our Floor

Joseph Massad
Sectarianism and Its Discontents

Randall Amster
First Amendment Remedies

Laura Flanders
Three 9-Year Olds--RIP

Bouthaina Shaaban
Less Arab Movie Festivals, More Movies

Website of the Day
Modern Utopians: Communes of the 60s and 70s

January 10, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
How the Republicans' Chickens Came Home to Roost in Tucson

Bill Quigley
Serious Guns and White Terrorism

Paul Craig Roberts
Spinning Unemployment in a Collapsing Empire

Chris Floyd
Silent Surge in Afghanistan

Andrew Levine Shared Delusions: Obama Apologists and Tea Partiers

Lawrence Davidson The New Radicals in Congress: Show Trials for American Muslims?

Dave Lindorff
A Disturbing Meeting at the Gym

Yvonne Ridley
Jack Straw's Attack on the Pakistani Community

Fidel Castro
Afghanistan or Arizona? An Atrocious Act

Paul Hillier
Whose Radical Solution Will It Be?

Carl Finamore
The San Francisco Hotel Dispute

Website of the Day
Rock A While with David Vest

January 7 - 9, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
The American Way of Torture

Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money: a Concise History of the Rise and Fall of the Green Establishment

Helen Thomas
Heartless

David Rosen
The Myth of American Primacy

Kevin Alexander Gray
James Brown: the Soul Will Find a Way

Franklin Lamb
Palestinian Refugees and Lebanon's Disgrace

Mike Whitney
Betrayal in Beirut

Will Parrish
The Murder of Mark West Creek: Booze and a G-Sachs Banker

Chase Madar
Italy's New Political Star

Christophe Wargny
Haiti in the Hands of the NGOs

Ron Jacobs
The Iraq War: When Destruction Sickens

Murtaza Razvi
The Demon in Pakistan's Soul

Ramzy Baroud
Declaring Palestine

William Astore
Freedom Fighters for a Fading Empire

Raymond J. Lawrence
Boehner's Ominous Beginning

Saul Landau
Welcome to the 2011 American Dream

Col. Douglas MacGregor
Can We Cut the Defense Budget While We are "At War"?

Firmin DeBrabander
Trimming the Fat Off Fast Food Subsidies?

Missy Beattie
The Chemistry of Empire

David Ker Thomson
Where Feminism Left Me

Fred Gardner
Lillian Hellman, Medical Marijuana User

Devon G. Peña
Environmental Justice and the Derivative Depression

Christopher Brauchli
A Little Wanton Money

Walter Brasch
Frat Boys and Naval Officers

John Blair
Bring Back the Two-Fingered Peace Sign

Paul Hillier
Fifteen Minutes of Capitalist Ideology

Tom H. Hastings
The Boehner Blitz

Gerald E. Scorse
Fairer Tax Reporting, Finally

Carla Blank
Apollo Could be a Bitch: Jennifer Homans' Coffee Table Ballet

Charles R. Larson
No Escape Anywhere

Kim Nicolini
"Enter the Void:" Drugs, Sex and Loss

David Yearsley
Fake Grit

Poets' Basement
Corseri, Orloski and Lee

Website of the Weekend
Stop Skull Fucking Now!

January 6, 2011

James Bovard
Why Tea Partiers Should Despise George W. Bush

Mike Whitney
Printing a Recovery

Dean Baker
How Many Economists Does It Take to See an $8 Trillion Housing Bubble?

Yvonne Ridley
US Justice on Trial

Tom Engelhardt
The Urge to Surge

Michael Winship
A Brutal Reckoning Awaits

Russell Mokhiber
Politics v. Sports? No Contest

Laura Flanders
Constitutional Lessons for the New Congress

Website of the Day
One Family in Gaza

January 5, 2011

Richard Neville
Unlocking Uncle Sam's House of Horrors

Patrick Cockburn
Did the US Really Give Saddam Fake OK to Invade Kuwait?

Mike Whitney
The Great Awakening of Vladimir Putin

Israel Shamir
Julian Assange's Deal With the Devil

Steve Breyman
In the Matter of James Cole: Will He Be An Anti-Terror Warrior at the Justice Department?

Ralph Nader
How the Left is Left Out

Farzana Versey
Pakistan vs. Pakistan

Martha Rosenberg
Blackbird Killers Sent to Investigate Blackbird Deaths

Mike Roselle
Raising Hell in the Hollers: Judy Bonds Had My Back

Dave Lindorff
A Profound and Jarring Disconnect

Danny Lucia
Slaves of the Constitution

Website of the Day
Save the Arcadia Woodlands

January 4, 2011

Mike Whitney
Why Washington Hates Hugo Chavez

Ralph Nader
Tweeting Away the Time

Gareth Porter
How Afghanistan Became a War for NATO

Lawrence Wittner After START: Where Does Nuclear Disarmament Go From Here?

Christophe Ventura
Italy's Blood Oranges

Russell Mokhiber
Big is Bad

Ray McGovern
Why Obama Should Read Wikileaks on Afghanistan

David Macaray
The Pentagon and the Ultimate Con Game

Sheldon Richman
The Lies of Diplomats

Michael Simmons
Phil Ochs Lives!

Website of the Day
Scaling the Border Wall

January 3, 2011

Eric Toussaint
The Irish Crisis

Patrick Cockburn
Puncturing the Balloon of "State Secrets"

Ann Robertson /
Bill Leumer
Why Inequality Matters

William Blum
Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island

Jean Casella /
James Ridgeway
Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Selective Outrage

Harry Targ
50 Years Since Ike's Warning

Linn Washington, Jr.
Righting an Ugly Wrong

Fred Gardner
Beverly Hills Shrink

Lawrence Davidson
The Attacks on Susan Abulhawa

Bouthaina Shaaban
Arab TV and the Return of the Mavi Marmara

Website of the Day
Monk's Detroit Dream

December 31, 2010 - January 2, 2011

Alexander Cockburn Goodbye to 2010, Year of the Tiger, Hello to 2011, Year of the Rabbit

Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money

Behzad Yaghmaian
A Chinese Migrant's Long March

Thomas Naylor
The Fall of the House of Zeus

Christopher Brauchli
Peter King, Witch Hunter

Robert Bryce
Biofuel Delusions

Joanne Mariner
The Year in Counter-Terrorism

Will Parrish /
Darwin Bond-Graham
The Political Economy of Duckhorn Pinot

Mike Whitney
Khodorkovsky's Trip to the Slammer

Ramzy Baroud
Standing Tall in the Rubble

Rannie Amiri
Right for the Wrong Reasons

Alan Farago
When Progress Didn't Come and the People Didn't Awake

Linh Dinh
Welcome to the Collapse

Martha Rosenberg Drug Industry: Interests in Conflict

Franklin Lamb
The US Congress's Pet Pariah

Ron Jacobs
Framing the Sixties

Brian Tierney
Cutting From the Bottom

Israel Shamir
The Minsk Election in a Wikileaks Mirror

Jess Guh
DADT, a Repeal of Convenience

David Ker Thomson
Abolition: Can We Finish the Job This Time?

Missy Beattie
Resolved: Act Like Bradley Manning

Dan Bacher
Schwarzenegger: The Myth of the "Jolly Green Giant" Exposed

David Macaray
Looking Forward for Labor

Shepherd Bliss
"Be Ye Not Like a Child ... "

Charles R. Larson
Japan, From the Ruins

Dan White
Trains, What Hitler Really Did in the War, Eating in Paris and Other Insights

Joshua Sperber
The Subversive Conservatism of "True Grit"

Poets' Basement
3 by Ann Lefeve

Website of the Weekend
Demolition of the Paris Metro

December 30, 2010

Michael Teitelman
Obama and the Boy in the Metal Box

Jennifer Van Bergen Douglas Valentine
Detention and Torture

Jorge Mariscal
Civil Rights in the Age of Neoliberalism

Denis G. Rancourt
David F. Noble: In Memoriam

Paul Craig Roberts
Our Lickspittle Press

Dave Lindorff
Serfing USA: How Corporate America is Robbing American Workers

Mary Lynn Cramer
Capitalism in Crisis: Get Your Wheelbarrows Ready!

Anthony Papa
Scott Sisters Freed! 19 Years for an $11 Robbery

Website of the Day
The Drums of War in Gaza?

 

December 29, 2010

Bill Quigley
Killer Fires and the Homeless

James Bovard
Peter Hoekstra and the CIA: Congressman Wins Torture Award

Stewart J. Lawrence
Make Believe Counter-Insurgency

Yvonne Ridley
Enough Grandstanding About Khodorkovsky, Ms. Clinton!

David Swanson
A Year of Fall and Decline

John V. Walsh
ObamaCare, Worse Than You Thought

Fidel Castro
The Fight Against Cholera

Julie Hilden
The Case of the "I (Heart) Boobies!" Bracelets

Website of the Day
Obama Supporter v. Progressive

December 28, 2010

P. Sainath
Of Luxury Cars and Lowly Tractors

Jonathan Cook
God-TV Helps Israel Oust Bedouins

Paul Craig Roberts
State Lawlessness on the Rampage

Jennifer Van Bergen
Invoking the Espionage Act Against Assange

Ralph Nader
Drug Industry Fraud

David Macaray
Wal-Mart Strikes Again

Bill Manson
The Absurdity of Hi-Tech Servitude

David Krieger
Ending the Nuclear Age: a Silly Dream?

Stephanie Van Hook / Michael Nagler
Making the Imperial Army More Diverse

Mitchel Cohen
What a Glorious Blizzard

Website of the Day
An Interview with Ron Jacobs

December 27, 2010

Bill Hatch
Out Here in the Sticks

Uri Avnery
"The Darkness to Expel!"

Lawrence Davidson
The National Image and Its Contradictions

Allen Mendenhall
The Latest Happy Face of the Ruling Class

Fred Gardner
Going After Dr. Frankel

Mark Weisbrot
Why Washington Won't Allow Democracy in Haiti

Sherwood Ross
Get Assange

David Michael Green
Learning From Lame Ducks

Eric Patton
Who Will Act to Free Bradley Manning?

Mark Scaramella
Top Secret

Website of the Day
Legalize Pot? Pat Robertson, Yes; Joe Biden, No Way

December 24-26, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
Making the Rich Happy

Chellis Glendinning
The Techno-Fantasies of Evo Morales

Eugene Coyle
The Best Way to Create Jobs: Cut the Work Week

Will Parrish
Who Really Rules California's Wine Country?

Joanne Mariner
Civil Society and Counter-Terrorism

William Loren Katz
The Women Who Gave Us Christmas (and Exposed America's Greatest Crime)

Brian M. Downing
Staying the Course in Afghanistan: Come What May

Michael Leonardi
Covering Up the Murder of Nicola Calipari: What the Wikileaks Cable Reveals

Ramzy Baroud
Whitewashing Defeat

Saul Landau
The Wikileaks Cookbook

Linn Washington Jr.
Dividing the Races to Benefit the Rich

Christopher Brauchli
Merry Christmas, You're Fired

Rannie Amiri
The People of the Year in the Middle East

Ronnie Cummins
Coexistence With Monsanto? Hell No!

Missy Beattie
A Better Time? When?

Linh Dinh
Lawless Police State

Rev. William E. Alberts
Wikileaks' Christmas Message

Harvey Wasserman
Another No Nukes Victory

Chris Genovali /
Misty MacDuffee
Smooth Sailing for Oil Tankers?

David Ker Thomson
Trafficking With the Enemy

Robert Roth
Celebrating the Rebel Jesus

Ron Jacobs
Jes Grew Report

Myles Hoenig
A Christmas Prayer From a Born Again Atheist

Charles R. Larson
Intimate Journeys, Thwarted Desire

David Yearsley
Kristmas Kitsch

Poets' Basement
Clifford, Taylor and Springate

Website of the Weekend
Dan's Record Shop: a Story

December 23, 2010

Bill Quigley /
Vince Warren
Obama's Liberty Problem

Peter Lee
The Most Dangerous Man in Korea is Not Kim Jung Il

Gareth Porter
High-Risk Raids Into Pakistan: More Than Psywar

Dean Baker
After the Tax Cuts: the Economy and the GOP

Hayden Janssen
The Problem with Stewardship

Yves Engler
Mining Peru: Canada's New Territory?

Laura Flanders
What We Mean When We Talk About States' Rights

David Macaray
Negotiating With a Forked Tongue

Farzana Versey
Demasculinizing Meat: Lady Gaga's Flesh Impact

Website of the Day
Revolve

December 22, 2010

Joe Mangano
Baby Tooth Science: New Clues to Cancer Risks From Atom Bomb Tests

Uri Avnery
Ship of Fools 2

Jennifer Van Bergen
Predicting Torture

Lawrence Wittner
The Voyage of the Golden Rule

John V. Whitbeck
The Shape of Palestinian Statehood

Stewart J. Lawrence
Here Comes Jeb

Linh Dinh
Bloody Trophies

Rebecca Solnit
Iceberg Economies and Shadow Selves

Franklin Lamb
Australia Rejects Israeli-Ordered Media Censorship

Sherwood Ross
PFC Bradley Manning, Patriot

Website of the Day
The 12 Days of Wikileaks

 

December 21, 2010

Ralph Nader
Wikileaks and the First Amendment

Larry Portis
The French State Prepares for Class War

Sasan Fayazmanesh
Waiting for a New Economic Theory

Sam Smith
Secrets of the Ruling Class

Sheldon Richman
The Stampede of the Bombers

Alice Slater
Beyond START

Julie Hilden
The Case of the Abused Cheerleader

Willie L. Pelote, Sr.
From Golden State to Third World Nation

Binoy Kampmark
Brutality and Poultry

Laura Flanders
Ask, Tell, Don't Kill

Website of the Day
Strict Creationism and the American Mind

 

December 20, 2010

Pam Martens
The Tax-Payers' Tab: a Cool $9 Trillion

Patrick Cockburn
Reprising US Fantasies in Vietnam

Bill Quigley
Cover-Ups, Coups and Drones

Bruce Jackson
"They Say He's Queer"

Max Blumenthal
The Great Fear

Mike Whitney
Korea Steps Back From the Brink

Carl Finamore
Hotel Workers Dig In

Greg Moses
Time to Set Hector Lopez Free

Fidel Castro
Bill Clinton's Lies

Paul Craig Roberts
Reaganomics: a Defense

John Severino
Evo's Highway

Sama Adnan
What H. Res 1765 Tells Us About the Peace Camp

Website of the Day
Dark Light: the Art of Blind Photographers

December 17 - 19, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
Nowhere to Go But Up

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
The Globalization of Militarism

Franklin Spinney
Obama's March to Folly:the Myth of Liberal Interventionism

Gareth Porter
The Brutal Price of Progress

Clarence Lusane
Slavery, Jim Crow and the White House

Eric Stoner
Afghanistan: You Call This Progress?

John Carroll, MD
Cholera in Haiti: Treating Magda

Nick Dearden /
Tim Jones
Lessons for Ireland: Private Debt, Public Pain

Robert Alvarez
Poisoning the Yakama

Saul Landau
Wikileaks and the Free Press

Rannie Amiri
Mottaki: First Casualty of Wikileaks?

Ramzy Baroud
Insisting on Humanity

Chuck Collins
Concentrating the Wealth

Ron Jacobs
The Drug War That Never Ends

Charlotte Dennett
Wikileaks: Where's the Oil?

John Blair
The Duke Energy Scandal

David Ker Thomson
Rez

Sherry Wolf
Letter to a Discouraged Progressive

David Macaray
American Exceptionalism

Jennifer Van Bergen
Why Julian Assange is My Hero

Martha Rosenberg
The Year in Pills

Sam Smith
When Green Matters

Missy Beattie
Object Not Found

Harvey Wasserman
Our Gay Commander-in-Chief

Laura Flanders
Odd Man Out: Forgetting Bradley Manning

Randall Amster
Support the Dominant Paradigm

Ron Ridenour
Stop Fascism; Support Wikileaks

Dr. Suzy Block
Hot Wet Holiday Sex: From Wikileaky Condoms to Yucky Zuckerburg

Charles R. Larson
The Two Best Reads of 2010

David Yearsley
Christoph Graupner Lives!

Poets' Basement
Three by Farzana Ahmad

Website of the Day
The Myth of the Clinton Surplus

December 16, 2010

Alan Farago
Skullduggery in Ghost Town

Dean Baker
Peter Orzag Goes to Citigroup

Peter Lee
Is Your Portfolio Ready for the End of the World?

Jospeh Nevins
Coming to Terms with Holbrooke

Norman Girvan
The Caribbean Narco-Triangle: the US-Cuba-Jamaica Connection

Michael Winship
The President on the Ropes

Robert Jensen
"All That We Share" Isn't Enough

Binoy Kampmark
Death on Christmas Island

Website of the Day
Swedish TV Video on Wikileaks

December 15, 2010

Diana Johnstone
Holbrooke or Milosevic: Who is the Greater Murderer?

James Bovard
Why Bill of Rights Day Should be Anti-Politician Day

Conn Hallinan
Israel, Obama and the Bomb

Vijay Prashad
Empire Unmasked

Robert Weissman
Big Profits, Bigger Crimes

Stephan Salisbury
Terrorama

Fred Gardner
Pot Legalizers Look to 2012

Joshua Frank
The Legacy of First Blood Dick: Remembering Holbrooke

Anthony Papa
Madoff: The Price of Suicide

Steven Higgs
Autism Waiver Cuts Spell Catastrophe

Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers / Afghans for Peace
We Want You Out

Website of the Day
Risks of Coal Ash Understated

 

December 14, 2010

Norm Kent
You are Right to Remain Silent

Mike Whitney
Post Mortem for the World's Reserve Currency

Maximilian Forte
The Wikileaks Revolution: Notes From the Insurrection

Franklin C. Spinney
Who is the Wise General in Afghanistan?

Ralph Nader
Majority of One

David Macaray
Two American Labor Unions Shift Gears: the S. Korea Trade Deal

Ali Khan /
Jasmine Abou-Kassem
Pakistan's Cruel and Unusual Blasphemy Statute

Lawrence Davidson
Real Estate and Israeli Rabbis

Stewart J. Lawrence
José Cuervo for President?

Cecil Brown
Jay Z and the Colonizing of Hip Hop

 

December 13, 2010

Patrick Cockburn
Billions Down the Drain in Useless US Afghan Aid

Tariq Ali
Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?

Jonathan Cook Israel's War on Children

Uri Avnery
Racism, Political Incompetence and the Mount Carmel Fire

Russell Mokhiber
Single Payer and Professor Hsiao

Patrick Bond
Climate Capitalism Wins in Cancun

David Smith-Ferri The December Review: Rubbish on Afghanistan

Bob Sirois
The Untold Story of Discrimination in Professional Hockey Against French-Speaking Players

Danny Muller
Listening to Haiti

Randall Amster
The Blog of War

Website of the Day
10 Infamous Cases of Wrongful Execution

 

December 10 - 12, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
The Greater Traitor

Peter Linebaugh
Passing the Torch

Mike Whitney
The Korean War, Round Two

Thomas Volscho
The Rise of the Wall Street Ruling Class

Joe Bageant
Ignorance and Courage in the Age of Lady Gaga

John Barth, Jr.
Why Judicial Corruption is Invisible

Jeffrey Sommers
Latvia: "Mind the Gap!"

Jonathan Cook
Israel's Racist Rabbis

Robert Alvarez
The Nuclear War Reserve

Rannie Amiri
The Story of Elias Murr, Saboteur

Franklin Lamb
So Who Exactly is Sowing Strife in Lebanon?

Dean Baker
Fixating on Tax Cuts; Ignoring Real Problems

Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers
"We are Afghans and We Ask the World to Listen"

Aurel / Pierre Daum
Protest Fractures in Athens

Ramzy Baroud
Leaking the Obvious?

Michael Winship
Premature Capitulation

David Ker Thomson
The Apparatus of Prostration

Ron Jacobs
Pyongyang: the Perennial Enemy

Christopher Brauchli
The Executioner's Drugs

Missy Beattie
The Bankster Merry-Go-Round

Dennis Loo
Who You Gonna Believe? Us or Your Lying Eyes?

Harvey Wasserman
A $7 Billion New Nuke Attack

Ingmar Lee
The Stephen Harper Vision of Canada

Thomas H. Naylor
A War on Death

Farzana Versey
The Nobel Dissonance

Ronnie Cummins
The Long March

Sherwood Ross
Greens Defending Assange

Don Monkerud
American Exceptionalism Revisited

Stephen Martin
The Hand That Would Rock the Cradle

Charles R. Larson
Waiting for King Lear

David Yearsley
The Charlottenburg Organ Reborn

CP Newswire
An Open Letter to the Left Establishment: Protest Obama

Poets' Basement Randall and Hahn

Website of the Weekend
Wanking Bankers

December 9, 2010

Pam Martens
Fears Mount on TSA Body Scanners

Wajahat Ali
FBI Spying on Muslims

Sasha Kramer
Burning Tires in the Time of Cholera

Fatima Bhutto
A Flood of Drone Strikes

Jimmy Johnson
The Secret Secret: Of Wikileaks and Literacy

Laura Carlsen
Anti-Climactic in Cancun

Binoy Kampmark
The Curious Case of Rudd and Assange

Anthony Papa
Bridget Brennan Drug Bust

Website of the Day
Anon Ops: a Manifesto

December 8, 2010

Michael Hudson
Obama's Sellout on Taxes

Patrick Cockburn
The Russians Did Better ... So Why Did They Lose?

Eric Walberg
Julian Quixote: Wikileaks vs. the Empire

Mike Roselle
Fighting for the Fate of the Appalachians

Greg Moses
Calling From a Migrant Lockup in Arizona

Diane Christian
Condom Morality

Fidel Castro
Cholera in Haiti

Linn Washington
The US Criticized for Human Rights Abuses

James McEnteer
Obama, Can This Really be the End?

Website of the Day
10 Things Charter Schools Won't Tell You

December 7, 2010

Chris Floyd
Truth in Chains: the Arrest of Julian Assange

Gareth Porter /
Jim Lobe
Actual Wiki Cables Belie NYT's Version of Saudi / Gulf States' Stance on Iran

Dean Baker
Tales of Economic Apocalypse

Gregory Elich
Menacing North Korea: How S. Korea is Raising the Risk of War

Ralph Nader
GOP Wackopedia

M. Shahid Alam
Unvarnished Truths About the US and Israel

Dave Lindorff Information Terrorists?

David Macaray
Detroit on Strike

Linda Ueki Absher
The Hipster Librarian

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Purple Passion Pearl Harbor

Website of the Day
A New Low for Todd Gitlin

December 6, 2010

Michael Hudson
Deficit Commission Follies

Paul Craig Roberts The US Government's Frontal Assault on Freedom

Mike Whitney
How Ireland Can Strike a Blow Against the Imperial Bankers

Sasan Fayazmanesh
Iran and the Leaks of Wikileaks

Steve Breyman
The Return of Debtors' Prisons

Davey D
The Copyright Police: First They Came for the Hip Hop Sites ...

Neve Gordon
Uprooting the Bedouins of Israel

Greg Moses
Shall American Teenagers Dream Free?

Mark Weisbrot
The Drive to Cut Social Security is Based on Deception

Ben Terrall
Animating "Howl": the Subversive Art of Eric Drooker

Website of the Day
WikiMirror

December 3 -5, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
Julian Assange: Wanted by the Empire, Dead or Alive

Darwin Bond-Graham
Nuking the Social Contract

Andy Kroll
The New American Oligarchy

William Blum
Anti-Empire Report: From Wikileaks to TSA

Rannie Amiri
All Eyes on Lebanon

Ray McGovern
No Evidence? No Problem: NYT Still Stalking Iran

Saul Landau /
Nelson P. Valdes
Leaked Cuba Memo to Raise Eyebrows

Ramzy Baroud
Turkey Must Reveal Its Cards

P. Sainath
India's Lobbying Scandal

John Carroll, M.D.
Dying in Haiti

David Rosen
Culture Wars Redux: Sex and the Tea Party Congress

Steven Colatrella
How Shall We Pray? Give Us Bread; Forgive Our Debts

Thomas I. Palley
Why Obama is Failing

Francis Shor
Wikileaks and the Spanish Prosecutors

Russell Mokhiber Bank Power

Mark Weisbrot
A Setback for Haiti

John V. Whitbeck
New Language for Middle East Peace

Sherry Wolf
I am a Rent-aholic

Ronnie Cummins
The Road to Cancun

Michael Winship
Bad Buzz From the Capital Hive

Ron Jacobs
Black Liberation in an Occupied Land

Nilofar Suhrawardy
Pampering India's Nuclear Ego

Missy Beattie
Friend or Foe?

Bill Manson
The Merchants of Fear

Linh Dinh
Helpless

Bruce E. Levine
5 Myths About Depression Treatments

John Grant
Wikileaks is Good for America

David Macaray
Should Show Biz Celebrities Be Muzzled?

Yves Engler /
Bianca Mugyenyi
Cars and the Tea Party

Charles R. Larson
Literary Hijinks Made Fatal

Scott Borchert
In the Ruins of the Perfect Future

Harry Clark
The Fever Chart

David Yearsley
The Organ-Building of Munetaka Yokota

Poets' Basement
Ford, Yankevich and Orloski

Website of the Weekend
Closing a Deadly Gateway

December 2, 2010

Michael W. Hudson
The Borrower and the Billionaire

Paul Craig Roberts
What the Wiki-Saga Teaches Us

Franklin C. Spinney
Staying the Course in Afghanistan

Benjamin Dangl
Wikileaks and Bolivia: the Ambassador Has No Clothes

Uri Avnery
The Original Sin of the Israeli State

Mike Whitney
If the US Wants Peace in North Korea, It Should Keep Its Word

Russell Mokhiber
Obama's Kleptocracy Initiative: What About Wall Street?

David Macaray
The Family and Medical Leave Act Revisited

Ed Moloney
The Hypocrisy of Peter King

Brian McKenna
Wild West Journalism

Website of the Day
Right 2 Survive

 

December 1, 2010

Gareth Porter Wikileaks Exposes Complicity of the Press

Paul Craig Roberts
Hillary's Blame Game

Russ Wellen
The Frontlines of Disarmament

Nikolas Kozloff
Wikileaks Comes to Latin America

Conn Hallinan
The Future of Kashmir

Sheldon Richman
Afghanistan: No Hurry to Leave

Rich Broderick
The Free Market Puts Ireland on a Starvation Diet ... Again

David Solnit
11 Years After the WTO Uprising

Farzana Versey
No Looking "Backwards"

Charles M. Young
Whole Lotta Lies

Charles R. Larson
Six Ways to Eliminate the Deficit

Website of the Day
John Lennon: Bull in Search of a China Shop

November 30, 2010

Ralph Nader
Missing the Mark on Deficits

Paul Craig Roberts
Fabricating Terror: the Portland "Bomb" Plot

Bill Quigley
Why Wikileaks is Good for Democracy

Jonathan Cook
Wikileaks and the New Global Order

Dean Baker
When the Bubble Burst

James McEnteer
Indian Givers: South Africa is More Than Black and White

Tom Engelhardt
The National Security State Cops a Feel

Sherwood Ross
Holder v. Assange

Gina Ulysse
Haiti's Fouled-Up Election

Bill Manson
The Long Run to the Bottom

Website of the Day
Act Now to Save the Galapagos!

 

November 29, 2010

Paul Craig Roberts
The Stench of US Economic Decay Grows Stronger

Israel Shamir
Assange in the Entrails of Empire

Mike Whitney
Hammering Ireland

Lawrence Davidson
Glenn Beck, Julian Assange and the Battle of Ideas

Winslow Wheeler /
Sanford Gottlieb Memo to Tea Party Senators: Cutting the Defense Budget

John Carroll, MD
The Road to Vote in Haiti

P. Sainath
Obama's Indian Outing

Carl Finamore
Pilot Protests Underscore Passenger Safety

David Macaray
Why Not Declare Class War and be Done With It

Dave Lindorff
The Yahoos are in Charge

Website of the Day
Mark Ruffalo Put on Terror Watch List for Screening Anti-Natural Gas Film

 

November 26 - 28, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
Run, Russ, Run

Winslow T. Wheeler
The Defense Budget and the Deficit: How the Plans Compare

Ramzy Baroud
Obama Surrenders Palestinian Rights

Harry Browne
Ireland and the House of Cards

Bill Quigley /
Nicole Phillips
Haiti's Sham Elections

Saul Landau
Bombing the Senses: Ads to the Brain

Brian Cloughley
Thanksgiving of the Drones

Fidel Castro
The Lights of Rebellion: Evo Answers NATO

Francis Shor
Normalizing Blowback

Steve Heilig
How (Not) to Legalize Pot

Terrence Paupp
Obama's Fading Empire

Brenda Norrell
The Women of AIM: Watching for the Men in Shiny Shoes

Missy Beattie
The Greedy and the Needy

Linh Dinh
Power Grabs at the Airport

Christopher Brauchli
Gouged While Flying

Eric Walberg
Russia and NATO

Ellen Taylor
The Navy's Toxic Tentacles

Ron Jacobs
Zizek and the End Times

Bill Manson
Manufactured Hysteria and Relative Risks

Harvey Wasserman
Terror! Oil!! Opium!!!

Walter Brasch
Fairness and the Bristol Stomp

Michael Dickinson
World Strike Day 2012

Ingmar Lee
The Appalling BC Tar Sands Pipeline

Gwyneth Leech
Staying, Not Going:
Artists Loving New York City

David Ker Thomson
Asking For Whom the Bell Tolls

Charles R. Larson
Lynd Ward: America's First Graphic Novelist

Poets' Basement
Dennison, Chaet and Clark

Website of the Weekend
Don't Touch My Junk

November 25, 2010

Michael Hudson
A "Flat Tax" for the Rich?

Mike Whitney
Memo to Ireland: "Tell the EU and IMF to Shove It!"

Gareth Porter
Why Gen. Petraeus was Snookered by the "Taliban" Imposter

Sarah Anderson
Food Should Not be a Poker Chip

Karl Grossman
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Freedom is Not a Stick

How to End US Reliance on Dictators

By STEVE BREYMAN

The Arab uprisings present US foreign policymakers with their greatest opportunity for a decisive shift in direction since 1989. Will they seize it?

Unfortunately for the peoples of the former Soviet Union and East Bloc, the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations and their own new governments bungled the transitions to freedom and democracy. Former apparatchiks cast off their red stars for shiny new lapel pins, communists became fiery and sometimes murderous nationalists, and for fire sale prices, the men we call oligarchs took over giant state industries.  It took the GHW Bush administration several years to even realize the Cold War was over. Jeffrey Sachs’ brutal and myopic “shock therapy” was the best the US could muster by the way of economic advice during the nineties.

We live with the consequences of these historic failures--entrenched autocracies, world-class corruption, decaying economies, renewed international tensions—to this very day. The stakes are as high in 2011. Might the Obama administration avoid the mistakes of its predecessors when it comes to the current wave of democratic uprisings? (It’s too early to call them “revolutions”).

It will only be able to do so if it makes a clear and definitive break with the ruling foreign policy assumptions of the past sixty-five years, and with the climate of fear that helped engender them. Three of the most important of these interlocking assumptions are: (1) “stability” is the paramount goal when dealing with “America’s friends;” (2) American values are merely rhetorical weapons to be deployed cynically and selectively; and (3) what’s good for Israel is good for the United States.

“Stability” seems an odd goal for a country born in an anti-imperial revolution, and for one that professes to cherish liberty and democracy. But there it is, at the center of the foreign policies of president after president.

If you were an “anti-communist” despot in Latin America, Africa or Asia, you could rely on stability-enhancing military and economic support from the United States. You were automatically considered “pro-American.” An academic might even invent a framework that justified this support (Jeanne Kirkpatrick). You could get away with, or perhaps even be further enabled to murder, torture, disappear, and jail your “opponents” as long as you called them “communists.”

If you were a sheik or king in an oil-rich Muslim country, the sky was the limit as long as the petroleum flowed freely, your military bought American weapons and granted base rights to the US military and intelligence agencies, and your secret police oppressed nationalists, socialists, Islamists, and other troublemakers. 

“Stability” remained central when the Cold War gave way to the Global War on Terror. Only the faces of “America’s enemies” changed; Washington traded in the “evil empire” for the “axis of evil.” The story is the same for American values in US foreign policy.

American values like “democracy” and “freedom” were and are bipartisan sticks with which to beat unfriendly regimes and disfavored peoples. They, sadly, are not genuine goals and metrics for US foreign policy. “Freedom” only mattered to US foreign policy during the Cold War as a club against “godless atheistic Communism.”  During the Global War on Terror, the target is “Islamofascism,” or less colorfully, “violent extremism” while propping up the Houses of al-Saud and Musharraf. The tumult in the Arab world is the latest challenge before citizens to separate rhetoric from reality.

Concern over stability might still trump support for liberation in North Africa and the Middle East. Fortunately for Egyptians, events got ahead of Foggy Bottom. Would Frank Wisner—well-paid lobbyist for Mubarak--be the special envoy to Cairo if the State Department were pursuing democracy rather than stability in Egypt? 

The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt (and the others boiling in Yemen, Bahrain and elsewhere) happened despite not because of US foreign policy. Americans are the only people in the world not to know this--thanks to the US media’s internalization of the goals of US foreign policy. Cable companies do not carry Al Jazeera English even though the President himself was reportedly tuned in. Tunisians have not forgotten Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld’s friendly words for the Ben Ali regime. Egyptians understand that thirty years of US aid propped up the sclerotic and kleptomaniacal Mubarak regime. The inspiring events of Tahrir Square had nothing to do with George W. Bush’s “freedom agenda” or Obama’s Cairo speech. Liberty is not a gift that can be offered or withheld by the United States. 

Preference for “stability” over the uncertainties of liberation from dictators, and hypocrisy over American values are both evident in the case of US-Israel relations. Any honest person with genuine respect for human rights and international law—conditions that eliminate most members of Congress--long ago rejected bottomless US support for Israel. And yet there appears no Israeli crime too great for its friends in the US to cover-up or rationalize. This despite the clear connections between Israeli policy and the jihadi threat to America because of US support for Israeli policy. And despite the untold damage the relationship with Israel does to American values, US standing in the world, and the “stability” of Palestine. Can there still be doubt that Israel’s (in)actions harm American interests in the region and the world? Not long ago, General Petraeus let as much slip before he was forced to walk his comments back by The Lobby.   

The worst-case scenarios of some foreign policymakers are nightmares induced by fear of change. What if Persian Gulf autocrats fall? Might we not be facing another oil embargo? No. Petrostates stay afloat by madly pumping oil and gas, not by withholding it from their best customers. The global reality of peak oil—whether already past, present, or future—ensures the spigot remains open. What if Islamists come to power in democratic elections (as in Gaza and Lebanon)? The President of the United States calls to congratulate the winner, and expresses hope for the future of the relationship. Respect for democracy demands no less.  Should democracy break out in the Middle East, will Israel find the new neighbors less willing to get paid by the US to play along with its colonization of Palestine? Absolutely. Again, respect for human rights and international law—‘declaratory’ American values—demands no less.

Might the crack opened by young Arabs in their decades-old American-backed regimes open a crack in public understanding of US foreign policy?  Stranger things have happened lately.

Steve Breyman teaches politics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Reach him at breyms@rpi.edu

 

 

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