Today's
Stories
February 8, 2011
Dave Lindorff
The Deepening Mystery of Raymond Davis and Two Slain Pakistani Motorcyclists
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
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Jennifer Van Bergen
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Drug Industry Fraud
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The Absurdity of Hi-Tech Servitude
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Going After Dr. Frankel
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Sherwood Ross
Get Assange
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The Best Way to Create Jobs:
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Dan's Record Shop: a Story
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Condom Morality
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WikiMirror
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December 2, 2010
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Mike Whitney
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Lawrence Davidson
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November 26 - 28, 2010
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Lynd Ward: America's First Graphic Novelist
Poets' Basement
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Paul Craig Roberts
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Richard Forno
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Gary Leupp
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Michael Dickinson
Kiss My Ring: the Vatican Versus Jesus
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Alexander Cockburn
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Let Them Eat Oil
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Tying Bernanke's Hands
Joanne Mariner
The Banalization of Torture
Gareth Porter
The Fatal Flaw in the Iran Missile Docs
Karen Greenberg
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Thomas Christie, Pierre Sprey, Franklin Spinney et al.
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Rannie Amiri
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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
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Robert Alvarez
Shelving START
Russell Mokhiber
War is a Drug
P. Sainath
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David Macaray
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Carl Finamore
Hyatt's Dirty Safety Record
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Franklin Lamb
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Carol Polsgrove
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Against Jane Jacobs
Dave Lindorff
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Bill Manson
The Politics of Nice
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Charles R. Larson Twain: the Last Word, One Hundred Years Later
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Mike Whitney
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Michael Winship
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Jonathan Cook
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Dean Baker
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Judith Scherr
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Peter Lee
QE2 as Self-Inflicted Wound
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Franklin Lamb
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Conspiracy in Theory: Truthers Slog On
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Lawrence Davidson
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Liberating Thought
Website of the Day
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November 12 - 14, 2010
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February 8, 2011
El Paso Diary: Day 14 in the Trial of Posada Carriles
The Battle for the Passport
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
It seems that we were all anxious for the trial of Luis Posada Carriles in El Paso to get moving again, after a 48-hour recess due to the historic storm that descended on this Texan valley. We all arrived very early, at the same time: just before 8:30 a.m.
The morning freeze from our walk over here clung to us, even inside the courthouse, and none of us dared to take off our coats. Since the courtroom was still locked, the defense attorneys, prosecutors, FBI agents, assistants, journalists, Luis Posada Carriles, and this attorney for Venezuela who writes to you, gathered together in the hallway, waiting for someone to open the door. Litigation makes strange bedfellows. Scores of boxes and several carts filled with documents surrounded us.
The tie
After about 15 minutes, a court clerk opened the door, and we went inside.
One of the interpreters walked past me. Posada Carriles claims he doesn't speak English, despite the fact that we've heard him speak it on his tape-recorded interviews with Immigration. The interpreter was dressed today in a kitschy, loud tie, emblazoned with the U.S. flag. Thirteen stripes, fifty stars.
Because of his slight accent, it's clear that the interpreter was not born here, but as evident by his taste in ties, it's also clear that he's well assimilated to this society.
A reversal
The Guatemalan passport of Luis Posada Carriles is an essential piece of evidence to support two of the eleven counts against him. The tenth count in the indictment is for "false statements made in the naturalization process," and it consists of the statement that Posada made to the Department of Homeland Security when he said that "he had no kind of documentation or passport from Guatemala, when in fact he had a passport from that country with his photograph and the name of Manuel Enrique Castillo López."
Count ten charges him with failure to disclose that he has previously used the name of Manuel Enrique Castillo López, when in fact he applied for a passport under that name with his picture.
Without being able to evidence the Guatemalan passport, the prosecution will be unable to convict him on those two charges. As soon as prosecutor Bridget Behling told the client she wanted to move the passport into evidence, Judge Kathleen Cardone told the bailiff to wait: to not call the jury into the courtroom yet. The judge did not want the jury to realize that a Guatemalan passport with Posada's photo on it, in the name of another person, was in play. She wanted to first rule on its admissibility, before allowing the jury to find out about it. She asked Behling to explain how she proposed to establish the basis for the passport's authenticity.
Bridget Behling
Behling is a slender blonde attorney who doesn't look like a prosecutor for the Anti-Terrorist Section of the Justice Department's Division of National Security. She's quite young, pretty, and looks more like a humanities student at some university. She walks briskly, moving her arms with each step, but unsure of her step. Her face mirrors her feelings. Because of that, she's probably a dreadful poker player.
The prosecuting team assigned her the important job of making sure that Judge Cardone would admit several key documents into the record. Behling began by telling Judge Cardone that an FBI agent had discovered the Guatemalan passport in Santiago Álvarez's office during the execution of a search warrant. "Agent Christopher Capanelli is here, ready to testify about the search that was carried out at the offices of Santiago Álvarez's Caribe Foundation," Behling said.
Art Hernández
In a loud voice, Posada Carriles' attorney voiced his objection to the introduction of the Guatemalan passport. "The Guatemalan passport that they found in the offices of the Caribe Foundation has not been authenticated," he said. Arturo Hernández is of Cuban origin, and speaks perfect Spanish. However, when he expresses himself in English, he pronounces Guatemala as Huádmahla, and Santiago Álvarez's Fundación Caribe as the Carib (sic) Foundation.
Foreign documents must be authenticated
The prosecution knew that it is necessary to authenticate the passport, and Behling said "Your Honor, we have an expert from Homeland Security who can testify that the document was issued by the Guatemalan government." The judge did not hesitate: "The passport is not evidence until you comply with the rules," she ordered.
The rules that govern the introduction into evidence of foreign documents in federal courts require that an official from the foreign government authenticate the documents. "I don't understand why you didn't resolve this beforehand," said Judge Cardone, irritated. Cardone's decision appeared to take the prosecutors by surprise. Behling looked at her colleagues, Timothy J. Reardon and Jerome Teresinski with a "now what?" look on her face"
She was prepared to question Agent Capanelli about the search of the offices of Santiago Álvarez at the Fundación Caribe, but now realized without the passport, charges 10 and 11 in the indictment against Posada were teetering on the brink of dismissal. The prosecutors asked the judge for permission to hold a short conference at counsel table.
They huddled there together, standing with their arms crossed: Reardon, Teresinski, Behling and Omar Vega, the FBI agent in charge of the Posada case. The judge, impatient because we were already halfway through the morning session and had not yet taken testimony, twice asked the prosecutors: "are we ready to call the jury in?"
I heard Teresinski whisper to his colleagues, "then let's change the order of the witnesses."
The jury entered the courtroom without knowing why the case is dragging on so long. We've spent almost a month here and we're still not even to the halfway point.
Bridget Behling looked like a wounded boxer, looking to gain time by leaning against the ropes, while trying to clear her head. Still groggy, she called Troy Eberhardt to the stand. Eberhardt entered the courtroom with spring in his step, happy to have been called first. The first one called is usually the first to leave.
Behling told the judge that Eberhardt could authenticate the Guatemalan passport because he was a forensic expert in matters related to foreign documents. Eberhardt works for Homeland Security in the forensic lab for the Office of Immigration and Customs. He's a specialist. "I've examined more than 1,000 passports in more than 500 cases," he said, confidently. "On December 25 of 2005 I examined the documents in the Luis Posada Carriles case," he testified. Behling then showed him a photo. She wanted Eberhardt to identify it as the document that he previously examined, without yet telling the jury that it is a passport, but Eberhardt was not privy to the judge's concern that the jury not learn of the passport until it had been admitted as evidence. He had no way of knowing that he l couldn't yet utter the word "passport." Behling cautiously asked: "Do you recognize this document?" "Yes," said the witness, "it's the passport that I examined..." He didn't get to finish his answer. Hernández popped up from his chair and objected. He asked for a sidebar: a conference with the judge outside the presence of the jury.
Judge Cardone dismissed the jury and asked Hernández to explain his objection. The attorney once again insisted that the document could not be accepted as evidence because it is missing an authentication seal from the Guatemalan government. Behling, who'd been on the defensive ever since Cardone belted her with the decision that the passport would not be allowed as evidence, counterpunched with a strong and unexpected argument: "Whether or not the passport is real is practically a side issue. What matters is that the defendant pretended that the document was real and then lied about it."
I thought that Behling had convinced the judge, but no. Cardone has been a practicing judge for eight years in El Paso's Federal Court, after having been nominated by President George W. Bush. In this border town she has plenty of experience with the use of foreign documents, and she reacted decisively: "I'm not going to allow the passport to be introduced."
An eerie silence descended upon the court for what seemed an eternity, while Behling consulted with Reardon, Teresinski and the FBI Agent Omar Vega. What to do?
Joy among the defense attorneys
Posada Carriles' attorneys could not contain their pleasure. Even the normally taciturn Rhonda Anderson, a member of Posada's legal team, smiled. This is the first time I have seen her smile in the last four weeks. The other two defense attorneys, Arturo Hernández and Felipe Millán, had looks of irrepressible joy written on their faces. Posada sat expressionless on his chair, perhaps not yet realizing the dramatic consequences of this judicial decision.
With nothing more to ask Eberhardt, Behling dismissed him. According to Judge Cardone, the government's expert was not competent to authenticate the passport. The prosecution had been overconfident and had not prepared for this. They made an error: a costly one.
Behling's counterpunches
After lunch, Behling returned to the ring, renewed and ready for battle. She called another witness: Steven Ussher, from the Department of Homeland Security. Ussher testified that the Republic of Guatemala sent the United States government an official Report; pursuant to the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) between the two countries and that an official of the Guatemalan government authenticated it.
Hernández again objected, alleging that it is not an original document and contains parts in Spanish that have not been translated. However, Behling was ready this time. She showed the judge the original, as well as the certified translation. The judge then examined the document, its seal of authenticity, the original manuscript, and the accompanying translation. Judge Cardone concluded that they met all the requirements under the federal rules of evidence, and overruled Hernández's objection.
"The document is admitted into evidence," declared the judge. Through the back door, Behling had managed to get into the record the copy of the Guatemalan passport with the photo of Luis Posada Carriles! Although the Guatemala Report does not contain the original passport, it does include a copy.
How ironic. The original is not evidence, but the copy is. During her direct examination of Ussher, Behling shook the Guatemalan report as if it were a piñata, and all sorts of interesting things came tumbling out, including an authenticated copy of the passport application, as well as a Mexican visa, under the name of Manuel Enrique Castillo López, with a photo of Luis Posada Carriles.
Behling was on a roll, and she knew it. Her questions flowed with a certain elegance, and she her step revealed confidence. Meanwhile, Hernández sat silently at counsel table. "I show you this document, Mr. Ussher, do you recognize it?" "Yes. It's a copy of the passport for Rubén López Castro," he answered. "It contains an entry and an exit stamp for the Bahamas, in addition to a stamp from Mexican immigration." Ussher had managed to obtain López Castro's passport through another search warrant, as well as the passports of Pepín Pujol, Gilberto Abascal, and Generoso Bringas. Bringas' passport had been on the Santrina and had an entry date from the Bahamas for March of 2005. It is a U.S. passport.
The super-pickup-truck
The prosecutor then pulled out a large map of Mexico, Central America and the United States. She asked Ussher to identify the countries through which Posada Carriles said he had travelled, before arriving in Houston in March of 2005. The Homeland Security officer pointed to Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States. He marked the begging and ending points of the trip in red: the border between Honduras and Guatemala and the city of Matamoros.
Behling then asked the witness to read to the jury key parts of the transcript from the interview that Posada Carriles had with Immigration officials in 2006, during which he said that it took him only two hours to travel in a pickup truck from Matamoros to Houston. "It's a distance of 350 miles," said Usher. Behling didn't have to ask whether there is a pickup truck capable of traveling that distance and traversing four countries in only two hours.
From Mr. P. to Mr. Maya
When the Elmo projector in the courtroom displayed Posada Carriles´ Guatemalan passport application, alongside his photograph, something curious caught my eyes.
Posada is from Cienfuegos, Cuba, and is almost 5'11", with light skin, greenish eyes, and not a drop of indigenous blood. However, the Guatemalan passport that carries his photograph says that he was born in the small town of San Antonio Huista, Huehuetenango. It is located east of the Quiché, south of Totonicapán, and smack in the middle of the Cuchumatan Mountains in the highlands of Guatemala.
Its population of only 13,955 is pure Maya. The townspeople speak Cachiquel and Poqomam. How can he seriously pretend to be from that town? Posada Carriles has about as much chance of being confused for a Maya from Huehuetenango, as he does with Bridget Behling. See for yourself: http://nigeldickinson.photoshelter.com/image/I0000HQMmqk8XD1c
José Pertierra practices law in Washington, DC. He represents the government of Venezuela in the case to extradite Luis Posada Carriles.
Translated by Machetera and Manuel Talens. They are members of Tlaxcala, the international network of translators for linguistic diversity.
Spanish language version: http://www.cubadebate.cu/opinion/2011/02/05/el-diario-del-paso-la-batalla-del-pasaporte/
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