Today's
Stories
December 17 - 19, 2010
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
The Globalization of Militarism
Clarence Lusane
Slavery, Jim Crow and the White House
Eric Stoner
Afghanistan:
You Call This Progress?
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
Sherry Wolf
Letter to a Discouraged Progressive
David Macaray
American Exceptionalism
Sam Smith
When Green Matters
Missy Beattie
Object Not Found
Laura Flanders
Odd Man Out: Forgetting Bradley Manning
Randall Amster
Support the Dominant Paradigm
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
The Skin of Our Teeth: Avoiding Nuclear Destruction
David Ker Thomson
Canadian Thanksgiving: If We Didn't Have It, We'd Have to Invent It
Rajesh Makwana / Adam Parsons
Rethinking the Global Economy: the Case for Sharing
Charles R. Larson
Palintology 101 (Part One)
Website of the Day
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us"
November 24, 2010
Jeffrey St. Clair
BP's Inside Game
Paul Craig Roberts
TSA's Gestapo Empire
James Ridgeway Invasion of the Body Scanners: Is TSA Spreading Cancer?
Michael Scott
First a Hand on Your Crotch, Next a Boot in Your Face
Nick Dearden
The Climate Loan Crisis: Making Poor Countries Pay Twice
Russell Mokhiber
Private Insurance Induced Stress Disorder?
Daniel Moss
Tear Down the Dam; Restore the Commons
Farzana Versey
The Media as Middle Man
Yasin Gaber
The Marvels of Exile: Judith Butler on Edward Said
Dan Beaton
A Tale of Two Elections: Burma and Haiti
Website of the Day
Useless Gobshites!
November 23, 2010
Pam Martens
Ten Ideas to Starve the Wall Street Beast
Patrick Cockburn
The Dangers of Embedded Journalism
Ben Rosenfeld /
Lauren Regan
When the Constitution is No Obastacle for the FBI:
Legal Lessons From the Green Scare
Franklin C. Spinney
Another Free Ride for the Pentagon?
Dean Baker
Sinking Ireland
Ralph Nader
Obamabush: Semper Fi, Barack
Ray McGovern
Bush the Warmonger in His Own Words
George Wuerthner
Livestock and Predators: How to Stop the Killing
Don Monkerud
America's New Entertainment
Clare Bayard
Healing From Empire
Website of the Day
The American Galapagos
November 22, 2010
Michael Hudson
Why Paul Krugman Waves the Flag for Uncle Sam
James Abourezk
Honoring Helen Thomas
Paul Craig Roberts
Insouciant Americans
Sasan Fayazmanesh
When Sanctions Are Not Enough
Richard Forno
TSA and the New "Americanism"
Gary Leupp
Ignorance There ... and Here
Martha Rosenberg
Seven Ways Medical Conflicts of Interest are Disguised
Lawrence Davidson
Obama Plays the Fox
Patrick Bond
"Leave the Oil in the Soil!"
Michael Dickinson
Kiss My Ring: the Vatican Versus Jesus
Website of the Day
Globeistan
November 19 - 21, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Time for a Real Mutiny
Jeffrey St. Clair
Let Them Eat Oil
Mike Whitney
Tying Bernanke's Hands
Joanne Mariner
The Banalization of Torture
Gareth Porter
The Fatal Flaw in the Iran Missile Docs
Karen Greenberg
Guilty Until Proven Guilty
Thomas Christie, Pierre Sprey, Franklin Spinney et al.
How to Cut the Defense Budget
Rannie Amiri
Way Beyond Chutzpah: Cantor Crosses the Line
Dr. Jim Morgan Haiti's New Normal: Dispatch from Cite Soleil
Lawrence Swaim
Israel's War Against the Dead
Ramzy Baroud
Education at Gunpoint
Ron Jacobs
No Alternative in Afghanistan?
Robert Alvarez
Shelving START
Russell Mokhiber
War is a Drug
P. Sainath
India's Great Drain Robbery
David Macaray
194 Years of Scabs
Carl Finamore
Hyatt's Dirty Safety Record
Brian Tierney
Hotel Workers Rising
Franklin Lamb
How the US and Israel Hope to Destroy Hezbollah
Gerald E. Scorse
The Truth About Capital Gains
Joshua Brollier
Natives Without a Nation
Missy Beattie
So Many Messages
Stewart J. Lawrence
Immigration Supporters Win Big Victory in California
Brenda Norrell
On the Border: Where Skin Color is the Dividing Line
Christopher Brauchli
Pot and the Deficit: the Hidden Cost of Prohibition
Carol Polsgrove
The Governor and the Power Plant
David Ker Thomson
Against Jane Jacobs
Dave Lindorff
No News is Not Good News
Jeff Deasy
Here Come the FrankenSalmon
Bill Manson
The Politics of Nice
Clifton Ross
Dancing With Dangl
Charles R. Larson Twain: the Last Word, One Hundred Years Later
Richard Estes
"Carlos:"
An Orientalist Masterpiece
David Yearsley
Schumann and the Warm Bath of Memory
Poets' Basement
Springate, Orloski and Cirino
Website of the Weekend
Buy Nothing
November 18, 2010
Diana Johnstone
NATO's True Role in US Grand Strategy
Mike Whitney
Ireland's Suicide Pact with the EU
Behzad Yaghmaian
Facing a Leaderless Globalization
Kenneth E. Hartman
Are They Really Opposed to the Death Penalty?
Norman Solomon
Wooing the Economic Royalists
Michael Winship
Don't Ask, Don't Care
Patrick Bond
Will Zimbabwe Regress Again?
Joel S. Hirschhorn
The Anti-Incumbent Movement Failed
Website of the Day
Free Speech on Trial
November 17, 2010
Vicente Navarro
The Hypocrisies of Mario Vargas Llosa
James Bovard
The Political Slaughterhouse
Jonathan Cook
Obama's Bribe
Dean Baker
Seoul Searching on Trade and Currency
Ralph Nader
Bush at Large
Nick Turse
Off-Base America
Sherry Wolf Alienation 101: the Online Learning Rip Off
Judith Scherr
Why Aristide's Party Won't Vote
Peter Certo
Defense Cuts Go Mainstream
Website of the Day
The Last Outsider Director: an Interview with Jean-Luc Godard
November 16, 2010
Pam Martens
How the Fed and the Treasury Stonewalled Mark Pittman to His Dying Breath
Richard Forno
TSA and America's Zero Risk Culture
Gareth Porter
The Unending Occupation of Iraq
Harry Browne
Bruce Springsteen's "Promise" and the Price You Pay
Peter Lee
QE2 as Self-Inflicted Wound
Alan Farago
How Much Gold Does George Bush Own?
Franklin Lamb
Is the American Public About to Toss Israel?
Frank Green
Conspiracy in Theory: Truthers Slog On
Sheldon Richman
Blood on His Hands
Thomas H. Naylor
Shattering the Myth of Vermont
Website of the Day
Peaceful Uprising
November 15, 2010
Michael Hudson
Obama's Greatest Betrayal
Steve Hendricks
More Torture, Please?
Paul Craig Roberts
Eyes Only on Burma
Harvey Wasserman
Accidents in Progress:
America's Eggshell Nukes
Lawrence Davidson
Palestine and the Fate of the UN
Clancy Sigal
The Long Disease of War
David Macaray
The War Over Food Stamps
Tom Engelhardt
The Stimulus Package in Kabul
Steven Fake
Liberating Thought
Website of the Day
Whatever ...
November 12 - 14, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
A Very Bitter Woman
Patrick Cockburn
Iraq's Stalemate Ends
Mike Whitney
Erin Go Broke
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
The Militarization of the World: the Case of Iran
Dean Baker
The Perverse Priorities and Fatal Flaws of the Deficit Commission Report
Gareth Porter
Intel Failure in Yemen
William E. Alberts
Why Are the Feds Targeting Black Officials?
Bill Hatch
Jerry Brown's Parable of the Rocking Boat
Jonathan Cook
Re-Unifying the Palestinian Nation
Patrick Madden Mystifying the Crisis: Deadlock at the G20
Ramzy Baroud
Another Baghdad Massacre
Rannie Amiri
The Quest for Power in Iraq
James Zogby
Whither Obama's Middle East Agenda?
Ron Jacobs
Palestine, a Family's Story
Mark Weisbrot
Why It Could Get Even Worse for the Democrats
Tanya Golash-Boza
Targeting Jamaicans
Paul Wright
The Case Against Stacia A. Hylton
Steve Early
TDU in Chicago: Still Punching
Martha Rosenberg
Vioxx All Over Again?
Celia McAteer
London Calling: Student Militancy a Welcome Surprise
Larry Portis
Imperialist Architecture in Egypt
Michael Winship
Riding the Rails, Looking for Work
Brian McKenna
Anorexia and Capitalism
Gerald E. Scorse
Channeling Reagan on Tax Reform
Christopher Brauchli
Making Oklahoma Safe From Sharia Law
Roberto Rodriguez
Arizona: Where Fear is the Predicate
Dr. Susan Block
My Porn Star Girlfriend
J. T. Cassidy
Unlocking Imagination in Japan
Linh Dinh
Revolution Number 10
Farzana Versey
The Misinterpreters of Kashmir's Maladies
David Ker Thomson
The Elizabethan Era: Life in the Ice Age
Phil Rockstroh
Public Like a Frog
Charles R. Larson
Abused Women ... Still a Growth Industry
David Swanson
Tall Tillman Tales
Saul Landau
"Stone:" Walking Invisibly in the American Crowd
Kim Nicolini
An Intimate Look at How Things are Made in China
David Yearsley
The Esserzici Work-Out Book
Poets' Basement
Three by Lee Stern
Website of the Day
Bombs Away!
November 11, 2010
Peter Linebaugh
Laying Down of Arms
Paul Craig Roberts Licensed to Kill
Bill Quigley
Bush Pens True Crime Book
David Macaray Dissing the Boss: the NLRB Files a Landmark Complaint on Free Expression in the Workplace
Liaquat Ali Khan / Jasmine Abou-Kassem
Why the Oklahoma Shariah Law is Unconstitutional
Dedrick Muhammad
Race and Economics
Robert Bryce
Cars for the Elite: Obama's Electric Vehicle Fetish
Alan Farago
What, No Phone Books?
Website of the Day
London Calling
November 10, 2010
Allan Nairn
US-Backed Death Squad Files Surface in Indonesia
Dean Baker
Wall Street's TARP Gang Rides Again: Now They're Coming After Your Social Security!
Nicola Nasser
Waiting for Godot in Palestine
Missy Beattie
Running Scared:
My Colonoscopy Saga
Sergio Ferrari
Worrying Signs From Venezuela to Ecuador
Patrick Cockburn
Can Iraq's Leaders Do a Deal?
Dave Lindorff Mumia: New Lawyer, New Round
Sherwood Ross
How Affirmative Action Brought Willie Mays to the Giants
Joshua Frank
Sinking the Breakwater
Website of the Day
Stiglitz: "Throw the Bankers in Jail to Save the Economy"
November 9, 2010
Uri Avnery
Obama's Defeat
Mike Whitney
Bernanke's Dollar Policy
Jordan Flaherty
The Incarceration Capital of the US: the Crisis Inside New Orleans' Jails
Afshin Rattansi
Red Poppies
Annie Gell
Haiti's Unnatural Disasters
Dean Baker
The Fed's Second Shot
Dave Lindorff
BS From the BLS: Things are Much Worse Than They are Telling Us
Stewart J. Lawrence
The Nancy Monster That Refuses to Die
Walter Brasch
Love and Loss Among the Wild Horses
Website of the Day
Cut This: an Open Letter to the Tea Party
November 8, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
Phantom Jobs
Thomas Healy
An Interview with Wendell Berry
David Swanson
A CIA Kidnapping in Milan
David Smith-Ferri
What Laila Sees
Ralph Nader
When Betrayed Voters Go to the Polls
Ray McGovern Torture Sans Regrets: Bush's Confessions
John Feffer
The Lies of Islamophobia
Christopher Ketcham
TV Toxicosis: What the Stewart / Colbert News Clowns Are Really Up To
Website of the Day
Sam Husseini Interrogates Rand Paul and Mike Pence
November 5 - 7, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Now for the Good News
Vijay Prashad
Obama in India: a Tide of Turbans
Patrick Cockburn
If al-Qa'ida Really Want to Hit the West, They Can
Darwin Bond-Graham
Guess Who's Not Coming to Tea?
Mike Whitney
Dollar in the Dustbin
Linn Washington, Jr.
An Epidemic of Brutality: Oakland Filmmaker Feels Police Wrath
Rannie Amiri
STL = Sandbag the Lebanese
Ramzy Baroud
The Middle East's Stagnant "Change"
Larry Portis
Chou Sar? What Happened in Lebanon?
Gary Leupp
The Yemeni Toner Cartridge Bomb Story
William Loren Katz
Are Cruel Years Coming to a Neighborhood Near You?
Brian Cloughley
Spheres of Influence
Mark Weisbrot
The Fatal Mistake
Rubén M. Lo Vuolo, Daniel Raventós / Pablo Yanes
Basic Income in Times of Economic Crisis
Joseph Nevins
Ecological Privilege and the Frequent Flyer Activist
Neve Gordon
Thought Crimes
Alan Farago
The Bhopal Economy
Stewart J. Lawrence
Immigration Policy After the Midterm Elections
James R. King
The Other Side of Yemen
Ron Jacobs
How Ken Kesey Turned On America
Franklin Lamb
Israel Claims Victory in US Midterm Elections
James McEnteer
Beyond the Rational:
the Alamo Election
Richard Phelps
Guy Fawkes and the Pressure of a Terrorism Spotlight
Saul Landau
Where's the Sanity Clause?
David Ker Thomson The Long Argument
Evelyn Pringle
The Vaccination Profiteers
Joseph G. Ramsey Until Pigs Fly: the Morning After With Michael Moore
Stanley Heller
Up Yours, John Stewart
Missy Beattie
The Big Universe
Harvey Wasserman
Vermont's Great Green Election Day Victory
Billy Wharton
Where Did Everybody Go?
Shamus Cooke
Democrats Run to the Right
Linh Dinh
War Games: Guns and Balls
Windy Cooler
Rallying Through This
Charles R. Larson
Witnesses of Haiti's History: Edwidge Danticat's "Create Dangerously"
Phyllis Pollack
Keith Richards' Demon Life
David Yearsley
Bach and the Music of Time
Website of the Weekend
Smearing Jean-Luc Godard as an "Anti-Semite"
November 4, 2010
Doug Peacock
Desert Solitaire, Revisited
Andrew Cockburn
Why Summers Goes and Geithner Stays
Iain Boal
Crisis at Pacifica: the Two-Percent Putsch
Paul Craig Roberts
The Impotence of Elections
Chase Madar
Guantánamo: Exception or Rule?
Dave Lindorff
Take That You Smug Bastards!
Russell Mokhiber
Bought and Paid For
Laura Flanders
Lessons From Elizabeth Warren
Website of the Day
Moyers: the Howard Zinn Lecture
November 3, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
America the Clueless
Franklin C. Spinney
Democratic Debacle
Chris Floyd Dissatisfied Mind: Flickers of Hope in a Deadly Political Cycle
William Blum
Jon Stewart and the Left
Sheldon Richman
Provoking Yemeni Terrorism
Stephen Soldz
Fleecing Members, Colluding in Torture
Mark Weisbrot
Dilma's Victory in Brazil
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Linh Dinh
Prone Pioneers: Punishing the Desperate for Being Desperate
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Bring Back the Fifties! America's Most Misunderstood Decade
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Betsy Ross
How the Banks Trumped Keynes
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The Farce of Fairness
Steven Higgs
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A Ding-Dong Year for Death in Mexico
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The People Without History
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Hyping Fear
Scott Boehm
Juan Williams and Katrina
Brian Tierney
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Jon Stewart, Are You Really That Sane?
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Scary New Wage Data
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Weekend Edition
December 17 - 19, 2010
Cholera in Haiti
Treating Magda
By JOHN CARROLL, MD
Five days ago a 19 year old girl was admitted to our Cholera Treatment Center (CTC) with symptoms of severe cholera. She had been in another hospital but had been discharged and sent to our CTC.
I will call her Magda.
Magda had all the obvious signs and symptoms of cholera. She had severe vomiting and diarrhea, her eyes were sunk, she was barely responsive, and I could feel no pulses in her cold arms.
Her mother came with her and said that Magda was pregnant but everyone was unsure how far along and Magda was not able to help with history.
Magda received IV fluids full bore for the next few days, woke up, and she looked some better. But she was very weak as most people are who survive severe cholera.
Yesterday, on Sunday, when I was making rounds in her hot tent, Magda cried out complaining of severe pain in her pelvis. Shortly after, while lying on her cot, she screamed again, and a grey sack appeared at her birth canal. The sack, which was her gestational sack, burst open with the egress of blood and water.
Magda was obviously having a miscarriage.
As I assessed this situation, I saw that her IV catheter was no longer in the back of her hand but was lying wrapped in tape on the floor of the tent.
So I hustled out to the main supply area and got another IV catheter and a liter of fluid. When I got back, Magda was sitting on her cholera bucket in no apparent distress.
I bent down and was able to look between the upper rim of the bucket and her hips and saw a perfectly formed baby hanging straight down from the birth canal. I could only think of one thing with this horrible scene...a black lynching in the South.
The baby was a tiny little girl a little bit longer than the length of my hand.
Her mouth was gaped open and her eyes were also open and staring at the sides of her mother's cholera bucket. The baby's umbilical cord curved back up and ran back into the birth canal.
So I started an IV into the back of the Magda's right hand as she sat on the bucket with her head down, and I opened up the infusion full bore. We then transferred Magda back to her cot.
Magda's pain had diminished significantly and she seemed stable. I placed the aborted baby between her legs.
After half hour had passed, we were able to deliver the small placenta. The placenta and umbilical cord were dropped through the hole in the cholera cot, I quickly baptized the baby, and let it slip through the hole in the cot.
As the baby fell into the bucket with a thud, I asked myself if I realized that I just dropped a dead little human being into a filthy cholera bucket in a sweltering hot tent. I realized it but didn't think this could hardly be happening in 2010.
The unborn little baby girl had her chance for about five months, safe in Magda's womb, until cholera killed her.
Magda's father showed up and watched all this from an adjacent cot. He was drunk on clarin and crying.
So I continued the fluids and added 20 units of Pitocin to stop the bleeding in the uterus.
Magda's blood pressure was a remarkable 136/80 and she seemed fine for all she had just been through. Nineteen year olds can withstand a lot.
The nurses removed the baby from the cholera bucket and wrapped it in a plastic baggy and gave it to Magda's mother to bury somewhere.
Will this baby be counted in the 2000 plus deaths that cholera has claimed in Haiti in less than two months? Probably not.
But she sure looked human to me.
John A. Carroll, M.D. is a physician working in Port-au-Prince.
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