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January 6, 2011
James Bovard
Why Tea Partiers Should Despise George W. Bush
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
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
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The Perverse Priorities and Fatal Flaws of the Deficit Commission Report
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Why Are the Feds Targeting Black Officials?
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Re-Unifying the Palestinian Nation
Patrick Madden Mystifying the Crisis: Deadlock at the G20
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Why It Could Get Even Worse for the Democrats
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January 6, 2011
Why Cameron Should Tell Obama to Get Stuffed
US Justice on Trial
By YVONNE RIDLEY
America’s international standing as a fair and just country does not match its superpower status as the world's greatest democracy.
When it comes to basic human rights it is there in the gutter alongside some of the world's most toxic, tinpot dictatorships and authoritarian regimes.
So there's little surprise that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange fears being extradited to the States where some politicians and Pentagon officials have already called for his execution and Attorney General Eric Holder admits his government may invoke the US Espionage Act.
But it's not just the persecution and the prosecution Assange should fear, either - the wheels of justice can be agonizingly slow in a process which could take years. And in the case of the Guantanamo detainees there is no end in sight - the majority of them have not been charged but simply forgotten.
Having stepped inside US prisons – both military and civilian – I can tell you there is nothing civilized about the penal institutions in the United States.
Four days of filming inside Guantanamo and half a day at one of California’s largest young offenders prisons provided me with enough material to reach this conclusion, bearing in mind as a journalist I was just shown “the good bits”!
Having also viewed CCTV footage of detainees in US institutions being strip and cavity searched was equally traumatic and for those who showed the slightest resistance a procedure would follow which in my view is tantamount to gang rape.
Frankly, I was appalled by what I saw inside American jails and the interviews and research which followed did not make easy reading.
I wondered how the US could really describe itself as a civilized, mature democracy.
And if you doubt my judgment here are a few statistics to play with in a prison system where 70 per cent of the inmates are non-whites.
* The US has a higher percentage of its citizenry in prison than any other country in history.
* 25 percent of the world’s prison population - around 2.3 million – are caged in America.
* More than a quarter of US inmates are black males between the ages of 20 and 39 and over the course of a lifetime, 28 percent of all black American men will have spent some time behind bars in what can only be described as a racist-driven judicial system.
As 2011 dawns the British Prime Minister David Cameron is faced with some hard choices this year, none more difficult than probably deciding whether or not to scrap our extradition treaty with the US and refuse to hand over a group of British citizens to Barack Obama’s America.
And make no mistake, if he wanted to, he could tell the Obama Administration to “get stuffed”. His coalition government is stronger than the previous Labor governments … under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown human rights, civil liberties and freedoms were diminished both at home and abroad
It was Blair’s government that introduced the one-sided 2003 Extradition Treaty to please and appease the Bush Administration. Legislation drawn up in panic and haste is never a good idea nor was it wise to allow America to extend its jurisdiction in to the UK for that is exactly what has happened. And I wonder if the legislation was really drawn up by UK lawyers since a close inspection of the original documents reveal the liberal use of American English.
I would urge Cameron to resist all of the existing US Extradition requests just as he would if the same demands were being made by some banana republic.
This has nothing to do with innocence or guilt, by the way, but everything to do with the just treatment of human beings – justice should be meted out equally, without fear or favor but in America the accused are often judged by the color of their skin, religion and class.
The evidence is there for all to see – America’s human rights record is appalling, the prison system is a disgrace and the way it treats its own convicted citizens, let alone foreigners, is primitive.
Gareth Peirce, an internationally acclaimed and respected solicitor based in London explains in her book Dispatches from the Dark Side: “Guilty pleas resolve 97 per cent of US trials, an extraordinary statistic inevitably achieved by the defendant's apprehension of what lies ahead - not just for the 'worst of the worst' - and a desire to avoid, at any cost, the US law's most extreme application.”
A number of her clients including Syed Talha Ahsan, Babar Ahmad, Adel Abdel Bary and Khalid al-Fawwaz have been held in British prisons for a record amount of years fighting extradition to the US.
All of these men protest their innocence and would welcome their day in court – a British court. However the evidence against them is either so flimsy or non existent that police in the UK have no intention of wasting public money on trials which will end up being laughed out of court.
Which takes us back to the 2003 US Extradition agreement in which the Blair government tied the hands of the UK judiciary beyond sound judgment. Now any slight allegation made by the US should be regarded in British courts as solid proof.
By the way it’s not a two-way system. Should the UK ever wish to extradite a US citizen the evidence supplied must be well documented, concrete and factual and able to withstand the scrutiny of a US judge.
Britain’s legal system became the basis for most others in the world. It is based on presumed innocence and a trial by a jury of one’s peers which emanates from our rights as set out in the Magna Carta of 1215, a noble document which has stood the test of time.
The 2003 extradition treaty is a complete betrayal of those basic rights. A victim of the treaty faces being locked up without evidence and has no right to a trial by jury and gone is the presumption of innocence.
We cannot allow anyone in UK custody or under 'house arrest' like Julian Assange to be extradited to the US. You just have to look at the treatment of its own citizens to realise this.
Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old US Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has been held in solitary confinement for the last seven months, despite not having been convicted of any crime.
Manning has been kept alone in a cell for 23 hours a day, barred from exercising in that cell, deprived of sleep, and denied even a pillow or sheets for his bed. Unsurprisingly he now relies on anti-depressants to cope with the effects of isolation. No date for a court hearing has been set.
Make no mistake, this sort of treatment is torture and we, as a civilized nation can not send anyone in to the hands of the US judicial system which openly tortures its own citizens as well as others.
By the time his brains are completely scrambled and he’s addicted to his medication I'm sure some sleazy, government prosecutor will offer him a plea bargain which is another disgraceful and routine feature of US justice. In exchange for dishing the dirt, real or imagine, on Julian Assange, Manning will be pressurized to cut a deal.
I would urge the British Prime Minister to tear up the 2003 extradition treaty now, tell Obama to get stuffed and instruct the Foreign Office to issue a travel warning advisory for any UK citizens contemplating a trip to America.
British journalist Yvonne Ridley is also a patron of the London-based NGO Cageprisoners. She can be reached at yvonne@yvonneridley.org
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