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The Great Upsurge

Esam al-Amin and Vijay Prashad on the rebellions that have already changed the world. PLUS Shaukat Qadir on how the US hopes to quit Afghanistan. PLUS Andrew Levine on labor’s stand in Madison Wisconsin. Subscribe now! If you find our site useful please: Click here to make a donation. CounterPunch books and t-shirts make great presents. Order CounterPunch By Email For Only $35 a Year!

Today's Stories

March 18 - 20, 2011

Richard Falk
After Sendai

March 17, 2011

Conn Hallinan
Europe's Austerity

Alison Weir
Murdering Babies is "Permissible" -- When They're Palestinian

Patrick Cockburn
Crackdown in Bahrain

Peter Bergel
Taking Down Big Nuke: the Oregon Experience

Tom Engelhardt
What US Air Power Actually Does

Jack Eidt /
Jerry Collamer
Disaster Roulette: Earthquakes and Nukes at San Onofre

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: María Elvira, the Afternoon Diva

Dave Lindorff
Blood Money: Raymond Davis Walks

Brian LeCloux /
Beth Hutchinson
Moving Wisconsin Forward

Russell D. Hoffman
Worse Than Chernobyl?

Website of the Day
Motörhead v. the Banksters

March 16, 2011

Clancy Sigal
Nuclear Renaissance? No Thank You, Mr. President

Mike Whitney
The Corporate Stash

Jeffrey St. Clair
Pools of Nuclear Fire: When Spent Fuel Rods Ignite

Dean Baker
Signs of Intelligent Life at the IMF?

Dave Lindorff
The Real Risks to America's Security

Murray Dobbin
How the Rich / Poor Gap Kills Babies

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: Fabio's Friend

Kim Ives
Washington vs. Aristide

David Swanson
Is Obama Even Worse Than Bush?

Michael B. Chesson
Why the US Should Refrain From Intervening in Libya

Phil Rockstroh
From Celebrities to Tsunamis

Website of the Day
Wisconsin the Epochal Stand-Off

March 15, 2011

Mike Whitney
Worse Than a Meltdown

Christopher Ketcham Arianna Huffington as Parasite

Ralph Nader
Public Broadcasting's Cowardly Executives

Patrick Cockburn
How Iran Keeps Rebellion From Flowering on the Streets of Teheran

Dave Lindorff
The Hubris of Nuclear Engineers

Ron Jacobs
When Greed Goes Radioactive

Alice Slater
Atomic Chaos

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: FBI Evidence and "Cuba's Reasons"

P. Sainath
Gates, Buffet & the Art of Giving

Murphy Woodhouse
Kill and Ask Questions Later

David Macaray
How to Get Rid of Labor Unions

Stewart J. Lawrence
Is Pawlenty the Best They've Got?

Jeanne Mirer /
Marjorie Cohn
Assault on Collective Bargaining Illegal

Website of the Day
Going Inside Chernobyl

 

March 14, 2011

Gary Leupp
The Japanese Disasters

Robert Alvarez
Meltdown at Fukushima

Patrick Cockburn
Tide Turns to Qaddafi?

Arjun Makhijani
Fukushma Nukes: What Happened, Why, What's Next

José Pertierra Posada Carriles Trial: Follow the Money

Laura Carlsen
Women Human Rights Defenders

Mark Weisbrot
The Rightwing Restructuring of Wisconsin

Norman Solomon
Bi-Partisan Atomic Flackery

David D. Leeper
Move Your Money

Israel Shamir
Wikileaks: US Ambassador: Things Look Good for Jews in Russia

Eric Jefferson
And Now a Word From Scott Walker's Constituents...

Website of the Day
Real Time Seismicity

March 11 - 13, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
Earthquakes, Waves and Nuke-Speak

Michael Hudson /
Jeffrey Sommers
Wisconsin Death Trip

Vijay Prashad
Fissures in the Arab Revolts

Alain Gresh
The New Arab Awakening

Robert Alvarez
On the Brink of a Meltdown: the Japanese Quake and the Fukushima II Reactor

Karl Grossman
Don't Worry, It's Just a Little Radiation

Mike Whitney
The Fed's Credit Report: No Light in the Tunnel

James Abourezk
Newt & Co: the Hustlers

James Zogby
Memo to Peter King: Islamophobia and Radicalization

Conn Hallinan Pakistani Nukes: the US Connection

Winslow T. Wheeler
The New Paradigm on the Defense Budget

Patrick Cockburn
Sarkozy's Stupid Move on Libya

Harvey Wasserman
Japan's Quake Could Have Irradiated the Entire United States

Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money: Keys to the Treasure Trove

Saul Landau
One Nation, Two Universes

Ramzy Baroud
The Rise of the Arabs

Brian Tierney
The Wisconsin Effect

Russell Mokhiber
Ten Things You Should Know Before You Blow the Whistle

Rev. William E. Alberts
Bradley Manning and the Real Enemy

Fred Gardner
Medical Hemp: Will the Industry Support the Movement?

David Zlutnick
"Zionism Has Nothing to do With Judaism:" an Interview with Dr. Hajo Meyer

Jeffrey Ballinger
Is Corporate "Responsibility" the New Justice?

David Macaray
Collective Bargaining is a Contact Sport

Fidel Castro
Libya: NATO, War, Lies and Business

Dave Lindorff
Word Games and Atrocities

Philippe Baqué
France's Organic Chickens Come Home to Roost

Rafiq Kathwari
It's Peter King's Party

Missy Beattie
Just Say No to Hopelessness

Christopher Brauchli
Wasting Education

Laura Flanders
When is It Time for a General Strike?

Helen Redmond
Toss the COIN

David Ker Thomson
The Corrections

Charles R. Larson
Two Islamic Writers on the Cutting Edge

Jennifer Willson Dispatches From Paris: French in a Nutshell

David Yearsley
Feet, Organs and Empire

Poets' Basement
Orloski and Branson

Website of the Weekend
Vegan Taxidermy

March 10, 2011

Paul Craig Roberts
The Greatest Rip-Off

Dan Kovalick
Colombia Slips Into the Abyss

Lee Sustar
Do or Die in Wisconsin: Where are the Union Leaders?

Ali Khan
Peter King's Witch Hunt

Dean Baker
Letting the Rich Take Over the Country

David Bromwich
The Embarrassments of Empire

Harry Browne
Ireland's Impotent New Government

Peter Lee
The T Word: the NYT Gets It Wrong on Torture

Binoy Kampmark
The Ultimate Reversal: Obama and Gitmo

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Meddling in Libya: How the US Might be Trying to Tip the Revolution

Carl Finamore
Hilton Makes Peace in San Francisco

Website of the Day
Lifting the Veil

March 9, 2011

Esam Al-Amin
When Egypt's Revolution was at the Crossroads

Andrew Levine
How to Fight Friendly Fascism

Vijay Prashad
Imperial Anxieties

Jonathan Cook
Netanyahu's Illusory Peace Plan

Robert Alvarez
The US Government's Nuclear Millstone

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: Graymail and Secret Memos

Ron Jacobs
Killing in the Name of Kindness

Lawrence Davidson
The Grievous Return of Henry Kissinger

P. Sainath
What Socialism for the Rich Costs India

Stephen Soldz /
Trudy Bond
On the Humiliating Treatment of PFC Bradley Manning

Website of the Day
World's Largest Mega-Mall Now a Chinese Ghost Town

 

March 8, 2011

Jean Bricmont
Libya and the Return of Humanitarian Imperialism

Mike Whitney
The Oil Trap

Jennifer Van Bergen
Who is the Enemy? Charging Bradley Manning

Israel Shamir
A Wikileaks Cable From Moscow: US Ambassador John Beyrle: "Feminism" is a Dirty Word in Russia

Uri Avnery
The Wrong Side of History

Alan Farago
Predatory Speculation

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: a Clueless or Cunning Witness?

Michael Brenner
Demystifying Our Economic Predicament

Stewart Lawrence
The Uneasy Statesman: Obama and Immigration

Lawrence S. Wittner
The State of the American Peace Movement

William J. Cox
Who Are the Tea Party Patriots?

Binoy Kampmark
Against Dogmatism on Gender Imperatives and Gender Differences

Website of the Day
One Thousand Screaming Pigs

March 7, 2011

Diana Johnstone
Libya: Is This Kosovo All Over Again?

Israel Shamir
How the Swedes Set Up Julian Assange

Paul Craig Roberts
One More Jobs Mirage

Tamer Bahgat /
Khalid El-Sherif
Egypt's Window of Opportunity

Ralph Nader
Selling Out Injured Baby Rights

José Pertierra
The Forensic Pathologist From Cuba

Laura Carlsen
Putting US / Mexico Relations Back on Track ... in the Wrong Direction

Russell Mokhiber
Hopeless Candidates

Medea Benjamin /
Charles Davis
The Torture of Bradley Manning

Husain Abdulla
The Revolt in Bahrain: a Decisive Phase

Clancy Sigal
The Untouchable: Charlie Sheen and TMZ America

Website of the Day
Cave Paintings and Magic Mushrooms

March 4 - 6, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
HRC: "We're Losing the War"

Esam Al-Amin
Distorting the Essence of the Great Arab Revolutions of 2011

Moustafa Barghouthi
Palestine and the Revolution

Kathy Kelly
The Incalcuable Cost of War

David Warsh
How Harvard Deep-Sixed Its Russian Scandal

Mike Whitney
What's Driving the Surge in Auto Sales?

Anthony DiMaggio
The Great "Budget Repair" Swindle

Murray Dobbin
Why the Conservatives Keep Whipping Up Fear of Terrorists, Criminals and Peaceful Protestors

Dayla Hepting
Mad King Crank

Ramzy Baroud
Arabs Challenge Israeli Hasbara

Linda Herrera /
Peter Mayo
Digital Youth, Arab Revolution and the Challenge of Work

Saul Landau
Droning as Foreign Policy

Franklin Lamb
In Which Our Fearless Correspondent Has a Wild and Woolly Day in a Bekaa Valley Courtroom

Ron Jacobs
Robbing Us With Their Fountain Pens

James Zogby
Ethnic Politics in America

Dr. Janette D. Sherman, MD
Chernobyl, 25 Years Later

Linn Washington, Jr.
Targeting Pennsylvania

Dave Lindorff
Madison is a Foretaste of Things to Come

Wided Khadraoui
Is Algeria Next?

Brian McKenna
How Will Gillian Tett Connect With the Natives of the US Left?

Alison Weir
Denying Nazi-Zionist Collusion

Brian M. Downing
The Colonel in His Compound: How Will the End Come?

Bob Fitrakis /
Harvey Wasserman
While Wisconsin Rages, Ohio Bleeds

Christopher Brauchli
The Cigarette Confessional

Jim Goodman
What's at Stake in Wisconsin

Fidel Castro
The Rush for Libya's Fossil Waters

Shamus Cooke
Should Public Workers Make Concessions?

Christopher Ketcham
Lost in the Dark: Night Walking Canyonlands

Khaled Beydoun
A New Egypt, a New Me

Missy Beattie
Zombied

David Ker Thomson
Turncoats and Redcoats

Cecil Brown
Disco Inferno: the Night Qaddafi Blew Up a Black Nightclub and Changed Berlin Forever

Paul Buchheit
The People Down There Just Don't Understand

Charles R. Larson
The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath

Bruce E. Levine
Phil Ochs, Tom Paine and American Redemption

Bill Glahn
In the Business of Disrupting Business: an Interview with Wayne Kramer

Robert Ovetz
Honest Man: the Life of R. Budd Dwyer

David Yearsley
Lessons of the Oscars

Poets' Basement
Moon, Andersen and Greaves

Website of the Weekend
Project CBD: Cannabidiol Science

March 3, 2011

Mike Whitney
Wall Street Trash

Michael T. Klare
Oilquake in the Middle East

Dean Baker
The Spending Cut Fallacy

Medea Benjamin /
Charles Davis
Republicans & Democrats Agree: Cut Aid to the Poor, Not Israel

Amira Howeidy
Burying the Truth at Tahrir Square

Walter Brasch
Lies and Truth in Wisconsin

Fidel Castro
NATO's Inevitable War

Laura Flanders
The Fee Gougers: How Banks Fight Back

Myles Hoenig
Fine Tune Your Riot

Website of the Day
Solidarity in Madison: a Photo Essay

March 2, 2011

Rob Prince
Is Algeria Qadaffi's Ace in the Hole?

Chase Madar
J Street and the Middle East

Matthew Stanton
Wisconsin Death Letter Blues

Mike Roselle
For the Sake of 24 Jobs: the Biggest Environmental Crime in America

James Zogby
American Liberals as Latter-Day Neocons

Charles Thomson
Transparency in the Art World

Susil Gupta
Libya and the Hand That Feeds

Russell Mokhiber
The Adventures of Negativo Man

Dave Lindorff
Blowback From the Arrest of the CIA's Raymond Davis

David Krieger
The Flaws in Nuclear Deterrence

Steve Stallone
Jack Heyman Hangs the Hook ... Around the Capitalists' Neck

Tina Louise
Fragmented People, Coagulating

Website of the Day
Who Contributes to Public Workers' Pensions?

 

March 1, 2011

Mike Whitney
An Orgy of Speculation

Christopher Hellman
The Real National Security Budget: the Figure No One Wants You to See

Clancy Sigal
How to Win in Wisconsin

Dean Baker
The Battle Over Budget Cuts

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: Vulgar Questions

David Macaray
Labor Unions From Another Angle

Ben Terrall
Wikileaks and Haiti: What's Driving Washington's Obsession?

Richard Estes
Kings' Ransom: Sacramento Deflated

Dr. Catherine Wilkerson
No Excuses in Madison

Thomas H. Naylor
Eulogy for the First Vermont Republic

Website of the Day
Food and Revolution

February 28, 2011

Robert Anderson
Same Cover, Same Lies

Jeffrey Sommers
The Koch Brothers' Plan for Wisconsin: Californicate It!

Uri Avnery
The Crazy Prophet

Jonathan Cook
An Empire of Lies

Paul Craig Roberts
Why a Government Shutdown Would Imperil the Power of Congress

M. G. Piety
The Writing on the Wall: Why the US Didn't Foresee the Arab Revolts

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: a Gentleman on the Stand

Harry Browne
Irish Election Makes Room for the Left

Ralph Nader
Mad as Hell in Madison

Russell Mokhiber
Behind Closed Doors

Steve Breyman
Study War Some More: an Open Letter to Congress

Daniel Lindvall
Kipling Goes to the Oscars: "In a Better World" and the Middle Class White Man's Burden

Website of the Day
Boycott Koch Industries

February 25 - 26, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
It Sure Looks Like Osama is Winning the Great War on Terror

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Intifada Beyond Palestine

Israel Shamir
Cable Cooking and the War on Assange

Rannie Amiri
Bahrain and the "Freedom Contagion"

Dean Baker
How Timidity in Washington Wrecked the Economy

Mike Whitney
Operation Payback

Paul Buhle
Madison: State Violence Threatened, Rebutted

Ralph Nader
Obama's Puzzling Silence

Anthony DiMaggio
Rightwing Manipulation of the Wisconsin Revolt

Conn Hallinan
China and the US: Things That Go Bang!

Tamer Baghat /
Khalid El-Sherif
A Path to Transition and Reform in Egypt

Allan J. Lichtman
The Strategy Behind the Budget Battles

Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money: More and More Gore

Saul Landau
No Food for Thought

David Rosen
Condoms & Skins: America's Changing Sexual Appetites

Marc Estrin
Speaking Half-Truths to Power: Ian McEwan in Jerusalem

Touraj Daryaee
Projecting the New Bogeyman: Iran

Binoy Kampmark
Assange and Swedish Extradition

Ramzy Baroud
The Palestinian Authority's Meaningless Deadlines

David Ker Thomson
The Plunder of South America

David Macaray
Three Ways Labor Can Fight Back

Eric Johnson-DeBaufre
Why Wisconsin's Assembly Vote Was Illegal

Will Parrish
The Winegrape Octopus

Christopher Brauchli
Imperial Ingratitude: What $3 Trillion Bought the US

Eric Walberg
Egypt / Turkey and Israel: a Clean Break

Mary Lynn Cramer
Conflicts of Economic Interests in Egypt

Fidel Castro
A Cynical Danse Macabre: the Fate of Libya and Its Oil

Trudy Bond
Tar Sands to Toledo

William Manson
Innocence Exhumed

Dave Lindorff
The Case Mounts Against the CIA's Raymond Davis

Cal Winslow
California Healthcare Workers, the Law and the Future of American Labor

Ron Jacobs
Unbinding the Mind of US Media: a History of the 60s Underground Press

Helen Redmond
The Politics of Cut and Run

Robert Bryce
Biofuels, Soaring Food Prices and Iowa

Missy Beattie
AmortiNation

Linh Dinh
Driving Mad

Larry Livermore
Remembering the Things We Used to Do

Walter Brasch
Supreme Ironies in Wisconsin

Laura Flanders
The National Costs of Crushing Workers in Wisconsin

Will Allen, Ronnie Cummins, and Kate Duesterberg
Local and Organic Food and Farming

Charles R. Larson
Pay Attention to Their Men

David Yearsley
In Defense of Christina Aguilera

Poets' Basement
Three by Peter Branson

Website of the Weekend
Spoil

 

February 24, 2011

Mike Whitney
The CIA's Killing Spree in Lahore

Ray McGovern
The Push of Conscience and Secretary Clinton

Lai Wa Wu /
Vijay Prashad
The Military Wants Us to Say We're Sorry

Michael Brenner
Playing God in the Middle East

Rich Broderick
Gov. Walker and the Ghost of Andrew Mellon

Tarecq Amer
The Business of Business in Libya

Steve Breyman Condi Weighs In: the Politics of Self-Rehabilitation

Neve Gordon
The Israeli Media Fears the New Egypt

Tom Engelhardt
Washington's Echo Chamber

Don Monkerud
On the Road to Ruin?

Website of the Day
We, the People of Wisconsin

February 23, 2011

Behzad Yaghmaian
The Spectre of a Black Europe

Jeffrey Sommers
Class War in Wisconsin

Linn Washington
The Neo-Bigots and Black History Month

Dean Baker
The Attack on Social Security

Binoy Kampmark
Collapse in Libya

Brian M. Downing
Iran is Not Egypt (Yet)

Shahid Mahmood
Raymond Davis: Why the Killer Should be Deported

Graham Usher
Why Washington Never Understood Egypt's Revolution

David Swanson
Humanitarian War vs. Humanity

Adam Parsons / Rajesh Makwana
Protesting Austerity

James McEnteer
The Col. isn't Leaving Until the Press Agrees on How to Spell His Name

Website of the Day
A Simple Solution to the Budget Crisis in Wisconsin

February 22, 2011

Vijay Prashad
The Libyan Labyrinth

Mike Whitney
Obama to Teachers: "Drop Dead"

Jonathan Cook Israeli Army Will Cash In on Egyptian Revolution

Andrew Levine
Why Madison Matters

Dave Lindorff
US Caught in Big Lie About Raymond Davis: How CounterPunch Got It Right

Benjamin Dangl
Street Politics in Bolivia

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field /
Ron Jacobs
Madison, Week Two: Some Protesters Weigh In

Bill Quigley
The Beating of Chen Guangcheng

Clancy Sigal
Why I Like Guns

Fidel Castro
Does NATO Plan to Occupy Libya?

Sheldon Richman
When Will George W. Bush be Tried for His War Crimes?

Charles R. Larson
The Year of Living Dangerously

Bruce McEwen
Judge Henderson: Master of Suspense

Website of the Day
Why Labor Unions are Essential

 

February 21, 2011

Esam Al-Amin
How Democracy Could be Hijacked

Carl Finamore
The Unfinished Revolution

Ralph Nader
Time to Tackle Corporate Dictators

Adam Keller
A Pyrrhic Victory in the UN Security Council

Paul Buhle
Badger Pride

Christopher Fons
The War in Madison

David Rosen
Two Centuries of Presidential Sex Scandals

Husain Abdulla
The Revolt in Bahrain

Alexander Reid Ross
Biodiversity Versus Biotech

James Ridgeway
The Libyan Wildcard

Fatemeh Keshavarz
Stealing a Funeral

P. Sainath
India's Spaniel Press

Website of the Day
Tweet-Mapping Middle East Protests

February 18 - 20, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
The Tweet and Revolution

Shah Noori /
Gareth Porter
From a Bombed Village

Esam Al-Amin
Anatomy of Egypt's Revolution (Part Two)

Steve Hendricks
On the Trail of CIA Kidnappers

Paul Craig Roberts
Obama's Budget: a Tool for Class War

Marc Levy
The Medic at Rest: Dead is Dead

Afshin Rattansi
From the Palestinian Authority to the Adam Smith Institute

Ramzy Baroud
The Middle East is Changing

Rannie Amiri
Blood on the Streets of Bahrain

Christopher Fons
Raising the Stakes in Wisconsin

Paul Buhle
"We're Not Gonna Take It:" Notes From Madison

John Sinclair
Higher Ground: Das Kapital of Hemp

Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money: Getting Gored

Sam Husseini
Immolation Revolutions

Brian Cloughley
US Diplomatic Double Standards

Eric Walberg
Why Did Egyptians Succeed, Where Americans Fail?

Yonatan Mendel
How "Democracy" Got Strangled in Its Crib

Nicola Nasser
Palestinian Deadline Doomed

Tolu Olorunda
Home is Where the Hatred Is: a Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: Judge Cardone

David Macaray
Conflict of Interest, Hollywood-Style

Margaret Kimberley
George Washington, Slave Holder

Laura Flanders
What We Still Haven't Learned About Rape

Binoy Kampmark
Sexualizing Violence: the Lara Logan Case

Franklin Lamb Lebanon: Tawtin or Return

Chellis Glendinning
Driving Bolivia

Ron Jacobs
Fearful Nation

Thomas Mountain
Storm Clouds Over South Sudan

Linh Dinh
Channel Surfing the Revolution

William A. Cook
Now is the Time for Palestine

David Ker Thomson
Sex, Violence and Ugly Portuguese Men

Anthony Papa
Tainted Crime Lab, Bad Convictions?

Kenneth Glasgow / Dorsey Nunn
Building a Movement of Ex-Prisoners

Charles R. Larson
Bollywood Noir?

Peter Stone Brown
Where is Phil Ochs When We Really Need Him?

David Yearsley
The Rise and Fall of Adolph Hasse

Poets' Basement
Three by Grzegorz Wróblewski

Website of the Weekend
Glenn Beck Conspiracy Generator

February 17, 2011

Esam Al-Amin
Anatomy of Egypt's Revolution

Mike Whitney
Egypt's Workers Revolt

James Zogby
Arab Voices Matter

Russell Mokhiber
The Criminal Case Against BP

Chellis Glendinning
Love in a Time of Freakout: Bolivia and the Infinite Front

Christopher Fons
Prairie Fire in Madison

Tom Engelhardt
Waist Deep in the Washington Quagmire

Kevin Zeese
Hillary's Hypocrisy: HRC Babbles Pieties, While Ray McGovern is Abused

Brian J. Horejsi
Bison Abuse in Yellowstone: Politics Trumps Science

Sam Husseini
Already Forgetting Egypt's Dead

Dave Lindorff
One Rule for Foreign Consulates in the US, Another for US Consulates Abroad

Peter Stone Brown
Where is Phil Ochs When We Really Need Him?

Website of the Day
Shell's Plan to Frack the Sacred Headwaters

February 16, 2011

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

Carl Finamore
Beyond Tahrir Square

M.G. Piety
The Age of Idiocy: We Can't Think Anymore; We Can Only Count

Steve Breyman
How to End US Reliance on Dictators

Steve Champion
Gang Validation: a New Inquisition

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: Quicksand

Harvey Wasserman
Obama's $36 Billion Nuke Giveaway

Dean Baker
Heckuva Job, Alan! Greenspan at Brookings

Linda Greene
Greens vs. the FBI

Christopher Fons
All Out War on Workers' Rights in Wisconsin!

Tamer Bahgat /
Khalid El-Sherif
Completing Egypt's Revolution

Laura Flanders
The Culture War on Jobs

Carmen Yarrusso
Forcing Congressional Accountability

Website of the Day
Playing the Rape Card

 

February 15, 2011

Vijay Prashad
The Long Arab Revolution

Ralph Nader
18 Days That Shook Egypt

Raouf J. Halaby
Mahfouz's Prophesy

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

José Pertierra
The Inspector From Cuba

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

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

Jen Marlowe
A Palestinian Odyssey in a Middle East Ablaze

Fidel Castro
The Revolutionary Rebellion in Egypt

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

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

Website of the Day
Deforestation and Emerging Diseases

February 14, 2011

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

Carl Finamore
Cairo, One Day After Mubarak

Naseer Aruri
Democracy and the US Dilemma in Egypt

Uri Avnery
Tsunami in Egypt

Mohammed Bamyeh
Egypt's Great Awakening

Gareth Porter
Deferring to Petraeus

Israel Shamir
Cuba in the Wikileaks Mirror: an Undying Obsession

Dean Baker
Finance Myths

Diana Johnstone
The Culture of Impunity, NATO Style

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

Umberto Mazzei
International Speculation and Rising Food Prices

Mark Scaramella
Unconstitutionality of Obamacare

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

February 11 - 13, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
Ain't That Good News!

Esam Al-Amin
Egypt's Judgment Day

Tariq Ali
Toppling the Autocrat

James Zogby
Politics and Nonsense on Egypt

David Porter
The Triumph of Leaderless Revolutions

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

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

Ramzy Baroud
Listen to Egypt Roar

Rannie Amiri
The End of Humiliation

Mike Whitney
Bernanke's Bubblenomics

Jeffrey St. Clair
The Nature of Ronald Reagan

Larry Portis
Tear Gassed in the Cévennes

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

Rick A. Kuhn
The Keynesian Moment Passes

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

M. Reza Pirbhai
Blasphemy and the Status Quo in Pakistan

Saul Landau
Covering the Revolutions

Walden Bello
Sexual Prey in the Saudi Jungle

Walter Brasch
Obama and the Patriot Act: an Unconstitutional Continuity

Conn Hallinan
The Irish Elections and the Ghost of Padraic Pearse

Nouri Gana
Tunisia: Exporting Revolution

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: the Gathering Storm

Brad Thomson
The Domestic War on Protesters

Shaukat Qadir
Why Did Joe Biden Rush to Visit Pakistan?

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Gandhi on the Nile

Ron Jacobs
Autumn of the Pharaoh

Mary Lynn Cramer
Why No Reporters in Suez?

Sébastien Lapaque
France's Intangible Cuisine

Randel Hanson
Local Harvest for an Urban Landscape

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

Cecil Brown
The Conservative Plot to Hijack Zora Neale Hurston

Missy Beattie
Rubbled Raw

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

Christopher Brauchli
The Joys of Tax Fraud

Dr. Susan Block
Lupercalian Valentine's Day

Charles R. Larson
Uruguay's Conscience

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

Poets' Basement
Three by Linh Dinh

 

February 10, 2011

Kevin Gray
Obama and Egyptian Liberation

Thomas H. Naylor
American Duplicity in Egypt

Mike Whitney
QE 2 Sets Off Inflation Alarms

Marc H. Ellis
Tahrir Square, Jerusalem

Chase Madar
An Opening Statement for the Defense of Bradley Manning

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

Dave Lindorff
US Terror Campaign in Pakistan?

Jane Slaughter
In Egypt, the Strikers Take Center Stage

Salwa Ismail
Egypt's Dignity Revolution

Gerald E. Scorse
How the Affluent Slip Away

Paul Krassner
Why I Fled Facebook

Website of the Day
International Shark Attack File

February 9, 2011

Esam Al-Amin
Meet Egypt's Future Leaders

Vijay Prashad
Two Pillars of Cynicism

Chris Floyd
On the Streets of Cairo

Dean Baker
The Levers of Power

Linn Washington, Jr.
Defending Crooked Cops

Mark Vorpahl
Union Victory in Oregon

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

Steven Colatrella
From Tiananmen to Tahrir Square

Roberto Rodriguez
How Far Can Arizona Secede?

Andrew Taggart
In the Land of Bloombergia

William A. Cook
Caught in the Crossfire

Charles R. Larson
The Beatification of Ronald Reagan

Website of the Day
Leveling Appalachia

February 8, 2011

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

Mike Whitney
Why Another Financial Crash is Certain

Ralph Nader
Time for Democracy in Egypt

Gareth Porter
Shattering the Myth of Taliban / Al Qaeda Ties

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

Brett Warnke
Obama's Onslaught on Community Action

Ron Jacobs
Suleiman and the Muslim Brotherhood

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Trial: the Battle for the Passport

Tarecq M. Amer
The Egypt Endgame

Mark Weisbrot
How to Reduce Unemployment and Revive the Economy

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

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

Linh Dinh
Exporting the Super Bowl

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

Website of the Day
The CIA's Man in Cairo

February 7, 2011

Tariq Ali
Pakistan: Can It Get Worse? Yes!

Paul Craig Roberts
Kleptocrats at Work

John L. Esposito
The Muslim Brotherhood and Democracy in Egypt

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

Robert Fisk
Frank Wisner's Two Hats

Barry M. Lando
Kissinger on Egypt

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

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

José Pertierra
Posada Carriles Sleeps Like a Baby

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

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

Harvey Wasserman
Socialism Triumphs at the Super Bowl

Website of the Day
Why Tunis? Why Cairo?

 

February 4 - 6, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
The God That's Failing

Esam Al-Amin
Mubarak's Last Gasps

Alison Weir
Egypt, the US and the Israel Lobby

Mike Whitney
The Student Loan Swindle

Paul Craig Roberts
Americans are Oppressed, Too

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

Robert Alvarez
Food, Egypt and Wall Street

Rannie Amiri
Egypt: the Sleeper Awakens

William Blum
From Portugal to Egypt: a Cautionary Tale

Linda Greene
The Environmental Causes of Cancer

Danny Glover /
Saul Landau
Visiting Gerardo in Prison

Robert Sandels
Revealing Nonsense

Jean-Bertrand Aristide
My Return to Haiti

Will Parrish
Drinking Our Rivers Dry: Water and Wine

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

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

Ronnie Cummins Monsanto Nation: Exposing Monsanto's Minions

James Ridgeway
Swapping a Dictator for a Torturer

Laura Carlsen
Napolitano in Texas: Tough Talk; Little Coherence

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

Steven Colatrella
Revolution is Back

Michael Leonardi
Islamophobia Sweeps Europe

Michael Shane Boyle
The Eviction of Liebig 14

David Macaray
Organized Labor in the Crosshairs

Fred Gardner
Bad, Bad USSR

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

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

Christopher Brauchli
Redefining Rape, and Other Pressing Matters

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

Missy Beattie
Cut the Cards

Walter Brasch
The Sled Dog Killer

Wallace Shawn
Why I Call Myself a Socialist

Charles R. Larson
Black Writers Talk About Their Writing

Samer al Saber
Alice in Dangerland

Hugh Iglarsh
Rescreening Dr. Strangelove

David Yearsley
Music for the Sickbed

Poets' Basement
Louise and Taylor

Website of the Weekend
El Tahir Square Field Hospital

February 3, 2011

David H. Price
Challenging America's Pharaoh

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

Franklin Spinney
How Much Should We Spend on National Defense?

Dean Baker
Corporate Tax Loopholes

Joshua Farouk Georgy
The Egyptian Uprising in the American Media

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

Daniel Gross
Death in a New York Food Sweatshop

Fidel Castro
Mubarak's Fate is Sealed

Dyab Abou Jahjah
On the Barricades

Michael True
Blind Faith in American Militarism

Charles R. Larson
Black Writers Talk About Their Writing

Website of the Day
Leave the Libraries Alone

February 2, 2011

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

Tariq Ali
An Arab 1848:  Despots Totter and Fall

Peter Lee
Twittering the Revolution

Feriel Bouhafa
Defining the Tunisian Revolution

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

Clarence Lusane
Confederacy Redux?

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

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

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

Khristopher Flack
Monsanto: Democracy's Terminator Gene

Linh Dinh
Burning Truth

Nick Dearden
South Sudan Should Not be Born Into Debt

Website of the Day
How LBJ Ordered Pants

February 1, 2011

Esam Al-Amin
The Making of Egypt's Revolution

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

Corinna Mullin
Obama and the Despots of the Middle East

Paul Craig Roberts
American Hypocrisy in the Middle East

Gareth Porter
Why Washington Clings to a Failed Middle East Strategy

Israel Shamir
BBC Joins Smear Campaign Against Assange and Wikileaks

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

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

David Macaray
Egyptian Labor Unions Lead the Way

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

Andrew Levine
Obama the Deregulationist

Adam Federman
Fracking With Diesel

Daniel Crawford
Ireland: Land of Thieves, Charlatans and Sodomites

Ahmad Barqawi
Every Square is a Tahir Square

Website of the Day
Torture in Mubarak's Egypt

January 31, 2011

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

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

Mike Whitney
The FCIC Report: Another Whitewash for Wall Street

Liaquat Ali Khan
When the Arab Street Enforces the Constitution

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

Ron Jacobs
Is the Game Really Over for Mubarak?

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

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

Jonathan Cook
Can the Palestinian Authority Survive?

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

Lawrence Davidson
Tunisia, Then Egypt: Why Now?

P. Sainath
The Lurch of the Lemmings

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

Website of the Day
Visualizing Egypt's Internet Blackout

January 28 - 30, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
President Gasbag

Gary Leupp
The Egyptian Revolution: a Very Fine Thing

Bill Quigley
Pam Spees
Seems Like Old Times in Honduras

Mike Whitney
Treasury Yields are Blinking Red

Paul Craig Roberts
The Dissolving Constitution

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

Saul Landau
Clockwork Orange America

Ranni Amiri
A Welcome End to the Hariri Era

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

Conn Hallinan
Lebanon: the Roots of the Crisis

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

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Inside Obamanomics

Anthony DiMaggio
Americans on Austerity

Rahul Mahajan
Cutting the Corporate Income Tax

José Pertierra
Abascal's Testimony Damages Posada's Defense

Jim Haber
60 Years of Disaster at the Nevada Test Site

Ronnie Cummins
The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto

Ramzy Baroud
Remaking Tunisia

Joshua Sperber
Another Professor Fired for Views on Middle East

Sara Mann
Pictures of Devastation

David Rosen
The Return to Social Darwinism

Russell Mokhiber
Two Systems of Justice

Sherwood Ross
Torture in US Prisons

Robert Jensen
Technological Fundamentalism

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

Liam Hysjulien
What Class Says About Food

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

David Macaray
The UAW v. Indian Casinos

Harry Clark
When Palestine Was at Stake

Laura Flanders
Setting the Story Straight on "Snowdown"

Sherwood Ross
Torture in US Prisons

Christopher Brauchli
Balancing the Budget by Starving the Students

David Ker Thomson
Why Do We Write?

Missy Beattie
Doing It Big

Charles R. Larson Salinger, Still Unknowable

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

David Yearsley
Bach Amid the Turbid Floodwaters of Sin

Poets' Basement
Beatty, Moser and Chaet

Website of the Weekend
Resources on Egypt

January 27, 2011

Tariq Ali
Bernard-Henri Lévy Indicted!

Andrew Bacevich
Why Military Spending is Untouchable

Don Monkerud
Corruption at the Supreme Court

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

Deepak Tripathi
The Law of the Jungle

Laura Flynn
Reliving Duvalier; Waiting for Aristide

Laura Flanders
No Words for Egypt, Mr. President?

Russell Mokhiber
Why Do Americans Take It in the Face?

Harvey Wasserman
Obama and Our Disney Nukes

Roberto Rodriguez
In Defense of Indigenous Studies

Website of the Day
Love Poems of Stew Albert

January 26, 2011

Jonathan Cook
Israel's Peacemakers Unmasked

Michael Neumann
The "Corrupt Betrayers" of the Palestinian People

Thomas H. Naylor
The Politics of Violence in America

Mike Whitney
Haiti: Prisoners on Their Own Island

David Correia
Dying to be a Carpenter

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

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

Dave Lindorff
The Persecution of Pvt. Bradley Manning

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

Stewart J. Lawrence A Left / Tea Party Alliance?

Website of the Day
Taking to the Streets of Cairo

January 25, 2011

Kathleen Christison
The Palestine Papers

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

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

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

Ralph Nader
The Overuse of Antibiotics

José Pertierra
The Posada Carriles Trial: First, the Lies

David Macaray
Mental Illness on the Factory Floor

Boadiba
Haiti Quake Journal: Where Urban Legends Come to Life

Russell Mokhiber
Is the Vermont Health Plan Single Payer?

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

Website of the Day
The Wal-Mart of Weed?

January 24, 2011

Joann Wypijewski
Milton Rogovin: Portraitist to the People

Steve Breyman
The War on Public Workers

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

Mike Whitney
The Most Business-Friendly President Ever?

Clancy Sigal
The Mind of Jared Lee Loughner

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

Linh Dinh
Inside the Charnel House

Dean Baker
Demographic Nonsense

Martha Rosenberg
Seroquel's Toll

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

Bouthaina Shaaban
What Arabs Could Learn From Japan

Website of the Day
The Palestine Papers

January 21 - 23, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
Collateral Damage

Steve Hendricks
Exporting Torture, Courting Prosecution ... Still

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

Laura Carlsen
The Murdered Women of Juarez

Peter Lee
Hu Are You?

Melissa Checker
Pipeline Safety: an Explosive Situation

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

Patrick Cockburn
The Lethal Ignorance of Tony Blair

Conn Hallinan
Latin America: the Empire Strikes Back

Will Parrish
Sonoma County, Banana Republic of Wine Grapes

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

Rannie Amiri
Two Ousted Leaders

Ron Jacobs
The Feds Go Fishing

Michael Leonardi
An Ecological Bomb in the Mediterranean

Mark Vorpahl
The Forgotten Jobless

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

Ramzy Baroud
Generalizing Tunisia

Nicola Nasser
The US Has a Choice in Tunisia

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
American Decline

Christopher Brauchli
The FDA and the Death Penalty

Michael Winship
Chevron's Crude Attacks

David Macaray
What Goes Around, Comes Around

David Zlutnick
Occupation Has No Future

Joe Allen
Defender of the Movement

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

Rupal Oza
With Us Or Against Us

Stephen Fleischman
The Depth of the Betrayal

David Ker Thomson
Lock Heed

Christopher Carrico
Insurgent Anthropologies

Missy Beattie
Into the Future

Farzana Versey
Questioning Eros

Charles R. Larson
Ceausescu's Bleak Romania

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

Doug Loranger
Phil Ochs's Tragedy and Our Own

David Yearsley
Black Swan, Dark Power

Poets' Basement
Ford, Orloski and Lee

January 20, 2011

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

Vicente Navarro
Was Picasso Apolitical?

José Pertierra
A Voice From the Past in El Paso

Patrick Cockburn
Catastrophes on Camera

Russell Mokhiber
Insurance Execs Target William Hsiao

Denis O'Hearn
A Welcome Prison Victory at Youngstown

Ira Chernus
Why Are We Still in Afghanistan?

Mark Weisbrot
Aristide Should be Allowed to Return to Haiti

Dave Lindorff
In Praise of Incivility in Politics

Sam Smith
Building Little Republics in a Collapsing Empire

Website of the Day
Loyalty Oaths at the United Way?

January 19, 2011

Kathleen Christison
Wikileaks Cables on Israel's Gaza Onslaught

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

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

Dean Baker
The Economists Forgive Themselves

John Walsh
An Anti-Interventionist Looks at China

Laura Flanders
Cutting Taxes is Killing the Economy

Joe Mowrey
Imperial Shooting Sprees

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

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

Carl Finamore
Hyatt Sues Hotel Workers Union

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

January 18, 2011

Michael Hudson
Jeffrey Sommers
The Death of "Social Europe"

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

Sasan Fayazmanesh
Who Killed the Iranian Physics Professors?

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

Jonathan Cook
The Death of the Israeli Left

Ralph Nader
Recharging the UAW

Russell Mokhiber
Auto Safety and the Supreme Court

Mike Whitney
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon

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

Clancy Sigal
Left Till the End

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

January 17, 2011

Frank Bardacke
Farewell to the Utterly Unique John Ross

Andrew Cockburn
Pentagon Ecstatic Over New Chinese "Threat"

Jason Hribal
A Message From Tatiana: When Zoo Animals Resist

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

Max Ajl
Winter Break in Gaza

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

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

Max Kantar
Race and America's Criminal Justice System

Yvonne Ridley
The People's Revolution in Tunisia

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

Alan Farago
Skin Tight at the Golden Globes

Website of the Day
A CableGate Browser

January 14 -16, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
The Tucson Memorial: Politics is Everywhere

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

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

Walden Bello
The Triumph of Austerity

Yvonne Ridley
Tonight We Are All Tunisians

Thomas H. Naylor
China Plays the Euro Card

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

Jennifer Van Bergen
Watch the Watchers

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

Alison Weir
Shot in the Head

Conn Hallinan
Killing Peace in Afghanistan

Saul Landau
Something is Rotten in the State of a Bank

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

Beatrice Lindstrom
Haiti: Beyond the Blue Helmets

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

Christopher Brauchli
The World According to Rep. Steve King

Sheldon Richman
Government Spying on Americans

Richard Ward
Losing Our Uncivil Liberties

Ann Jones
Can Women Make Peace?

Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero
Organic and Beyond

Alan Farago
SEIU: Off to the Races, Backwards

Jonathan W. Martin
Bankers Laugh, Whilst the Country Wilts

David Macaray
Locked Out in Iowa

Daniel Gross
Union Victory at Starbucks

Kieran Manjarrez
Hate Speech and Free Speech

Laura Flanders
The Violence of the Broken Economy

David Ker Thomson
Weals: Many Nowtopias; One Revolution

Linh Dinh
Martial Cosplay and More

Yves Engler
How Canada Subsidizes Illegal Israeli Settlements

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

Dr. Susan Block
Make Eros, Not Thanatos

Ramzy Baroud
The Failure of Academia

Billy Wharton
Jared Lee Loughner and Single-Payer

Ron Jacobs
Tales of Misery, Love and Hope

Eric Walberg
Ecology and Islam

Charles R. Larson
Only in Latin America

Mark Scaramella
Art Tatum: the Greatest Piano Player Ever

David Yearsley
The LA Phil at the Cineplex

Poets' Basement
Three by Corseri

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

January 13, 2011

Neve Gordon
Israel's Assault on Human Rights

Franklin Lamb
Why Hezbollah Walked

Linn Washington, Jr.
Grand Theft Constitution

Rob Prince
The Tunisian Intifada

Sasha Kramer
Haiti: Redemption Songs

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

Dean Baker
The Market and Inequality

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

Russell Mokhiber
Jam the Revolving Door

Stephen Lendman
Hard Times in Illinois

Charles R. Larson
Palin's Mouth

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

January 12, 2011

Franklin Spinney
Surging Tit for Tat in Afghanistan

Paul Craig Roberts
A Brief for Animals

Jennifer Loewenstein
The Iranian Threat

Vijay Prashad
Afghan Reality

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

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

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Gun Freedom

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

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

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Dreams of My Presidents

Website of the Day
The CIA File on Posada Carriles

January 11, 2011

Alan Nasser /
Kelly Norman
The Student Loan Debt Bubble

William D. Hartung
Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?

Mike Whitney
The Unreported War in Mexico

Israel Shamir
The Guardian's Political Censorship of Wikileaks

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

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

Sam Smith
The Blood on Our Floor

Joseph Massad
Sectarianism and Its Discontents

Randall Amster
First Amendment Remedies

Laura Flanders
Three 9-Year Olds--RIP

Bouthaina Shaaban
Less Arab Movie Festivals, More Movies

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

January 10, 2011

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

Bill Quigley
Serious Guns and White Terrorism

Paul Craig Roberts
Spinning Unemployment in a Collapsing Empire

Chris Floyd
Silent Surge in Afghanistan

Andrew Levine Shared Delusions: Obama Apologists and Tea Partiers

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

Dave Lindorff
A Disturbing Meeting at the Gym

Yvonne Ridley
Jack Straw's Attack on the Pakistani Community

Fidel Castro
Afghanistan or Arizona? An Atrocious Act

Paul Hillier
Whose Radical Solution Will It Be?

Carl Finamore
The San Francisco Hotel Dispute

Website of the Day
Rock A While with David Vest

January 7 - 9, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
The American Way of Torture

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

Helen Thomas
Heartless

David Rosen
The Myth of American Primacy

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

Franklin Lamb
Palestinian Refugees and Lebanon's Disgrace

Mike Whitney
Betrayal in Beirut

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

Chase Madar
Italy's New Political Star

Christophe Wargny
Haiti in the Hands of the NGOs

Ron Jacobs
The Iraq War: When Destruction Sickens

Murtaza Razvi
The Demon in Pakistan's Soul

Ramzy Baroud
Declaring Palestine

William Astore
Freedom Fighters for a Fading Empire

Raymond J. Lawrence
Boehner's Ominous Beginning

Saul Landau
Welcome to the 2011 American Dream

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

Firmin DeBrabander
Trimming the Fat Off Fast Food Subsidies?

Missy Beattie
The Chemistry of Empire

David Ker Thomson
Where Feminism Left Me

Fred Gardner
Lillian Hellman, Medical Marijuana User

Devon G. Peña
Environmental Justice and the Derivative Depression

Christopher Brauchli
A Little Wanton Money

Walter Brasch
Frat Boys and Naval Officers

John Blair
Bring Back the Two-Fingered Peace Sign

Paul Hillier
Fifteen Minutes of Capitalist Ideology

Tom H. Hastings
The Boehner Blitz

Gerald E. Scorse
Fairer Tax Reporting, Finally

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

Charles R. Larson
No Escape Anywhere

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

David Yearsley
Fake Grit

Poets' Basement
Corseri, Orloski and Lee

Website of the Weekend
Stop Skull Fucking Now!

January 6, 2011

James Bovard
Why Tea Partiers Should Despise George W. Bush

Mike Whitney
Printing a Recovery

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

Yvonne Ridley
US Justice on Trial

Tom Engelhardt
The Urge to Surge

Michael Winship
A Brutal Reckoning Awaits

Russell Mokhiber
Politics v. Sports? No Contest

Laura Flanders
Constitutional Lessons for the New Congress

Website of the Day
One Family in Gaza

January 5, 2011

Richard Neville
Unlocking Uncle Sam's House of Horrors

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

Mike Whitney
The Great Awakening of Vladimir Putin

Israel Shamir
Julian Assange's Deal With the Devil

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

Ralph Nader
How the Left is Left Out

Farzana Versey
Pakistan vs. Pakistan

Martha Rosenberg
Blackbird Killers Sent to Investigate Blackbird Deaths

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

Dave Lindorff
A Profound and Jarring Disconnect

Danny Lucia
Slaves of the Constitution

Website of the Day
Save the Arcadia Woodlands

January 4, 2011

Mike Whitney
Why Washington Hates Hugo Chavez

Ralph Nader
Tweeting Away the Time

Gareth Porter
How Afghanistan Became a War for NATO

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

Christophe Ventura
Italy's Blood Oranges

Russell Mokhiber
Big is Bad

Ray McGovern
Why Obama Should Read Wikileaks on Afghanistan

David Macaray
The Pentagon and the Ultimate Con Game

Sheldon Richman
The Lies of Diplomats

Michael Simmons
Phil Ochs Lives!

Website of the Day
Scaling the Border Wall

January 3, 2011

Eric Toussaint
The Irish Crisis

Patrick Cockburn
Puncturing the Balloon of "State Secrets"

Ann Robertson /
Bill Leumer
Why Inequality Matters

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

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

Harry Targ
50 Years Since Ike's Warning

Linn Washington, Jr.
Righting an Ugly Wrong

Fred Gardner
Beverly Hills Shrink

Lawrence Davidson
The Attacks on Susan Abulhawa

Bouthaina Shaaban
Arab TV and the Return of the Mavi Marmara

Website of the Day
Monk's Detroit Dream

December 31, 2010 - January 2, 2011

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

Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money

Behzad Yaghmaian
A Chinese Migrant's Long March

Thomas Naylor
The Fall of the House of Zeus

Christopher Brauchli
Peter King, Witch Hunter

Robert Bryce
Biofuel Delusions

Joanne Mariner
The Year in Counter-Terrorism

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

Mike Whitney
Khodorkovsky's Trip to the Slammer

Ramzy Baroud
Standing Tall in the Rubble

Rannie Amiri
Right for the Wrong Reasons

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

Linh Dinh
Welcome to the Collapse

Martha Rosenberg Drug Industry: Interests in Conflict

Franklin Lamb
The US Congress's Pet Pariah

Ron Jacobs
Framing the Sixties

Brian Tierney
Cutting From the Bottom

Israel Shamir
The Minsk Election in a Wikileaks Mirror

Jess Guh
DADT, a Repeal of Convenience

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

Missy Beattie
Resolved: Act Like Bradley Manning

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

David Macaray
Looking Forward for Labor

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

Charles R. Larson
Japan, From the Ruins

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

Joshua Sperber
The Subversive Conservatism of "True Grit"

Poets' Basement
3 by Ann Lefeve

Website of the Weekend
Demolition of the Paris Metro

December 30, 2010

Michael Teitelman
Obama and the Boy in the Metal Box

Jennifer Van Bergen Douglas Valentine
Detention and Torture

Jorge Mariscal
Civil Rights in the Age of Neoliberalism

Denis G. Rancourt
David F. Noble: In Memoriam

Paul Craig Roberts
Our Lickspittle Press

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

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

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

Website of the Day
The Drums of War in Gaza?

 

December 29, 2010

Bill Quigley
Killer Fires and the Homeless

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

Stewart J. Lawrence
Make Believe Counter-Insurgency

Yvonne Ridley
Enough Grandstanding About Khodorkovsky, Ms. Clinton!

David Swanson
A Year of Fall and Decline

John V. Walsh
ObamaCare, Worse Than You Thought

Fidel Castro
The Fight Against Cholera

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

Website of the Day
Obama Supporter v. Progressive

December 28, 2010

P. Sainath
Of Luxury Cars and Lowly Tractors

Jonathan Cook
God-TV Helps Israel Oust Bedouins

Paul Craig Roberts
State Lawlessness on the Rampage

Jennifer Van Bergen
Invoking the Espionage Act Against Assange

Ralph Nader
Drug Industry Fraud

David Macaray
Wal-Mart Strikes Again

Bill Manson
The Absurdity of Hi-Tech Servitude

David Krieger
Ending the Nuclear Age: a Silly Dream?

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

Mitchel Cohen
What a Glorious Blizzard

Website of the Day
An Interview with Ron Jacobs

December 27, 2010

Bill Hatch
Out Here in the Sticks

Uri Avnery
"The Darkness to Expel!"

Lawrence Davidson
The National Image and Its Contradictions

Allen Mendenhall
The Latest Happy Face of the Ruling Class

Fred Gardner
Going After Dr. Frankel

Mark Weisbrot
Why Washington Won't Allow Democracy in Haiti

Sherwood Ross
Get Assange

David Michael Green
Learning From Lame Ducks

Eric Patton
Who Will Act to Free Bradley Manning?

Mark Scaramella
Top Secret

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

December 24-26, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
Making the Rich Happy

Chellis Glendinning
The Techno-Fantasies of Evo Morales

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

Will Parrish
Who Really Rules California's Wine Country?

Joanne Mariner
Civil Society and Counter-Terrorism

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

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

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

Ramzy Baroud
Whitewashing Defeat

Saul Landau
The Wikileaks Cookbook

Linn Washington Jr.
Dividing the Races to Benefit the Rich

Christopher Brauchli
Merry Christmas, You're Fired

Rannie Amiri
The People of the Year in the Middle East

Ronnie Cummins
Coexistence With Monsanto? Hell No!

Missy Beattie
A Better Time? When?

Linh Dinh
Lawless Police State

Rev. William E. Alberts
Wikileaks' Christmas Message

Harvey Wasserman
Another No Nukes Victory

Chris Genovali /
Misty MacDuffee
Smooth Sailing for Oil Tankers?

David Ker Thomson
Trafficking With the Enemy

Robert Roth
Celebrating the Rebel Jesus

Ron Jacobs
Jes Grew Report

Myles Hoenig
A Christmas Prayer From a Born Again Atheist

Charles R. Larson
Intimate Journeys, Thwarted Desire

David Yearsley
Kristmas Kitsch

Poets' Basement
Clifford, Taylor and Springate

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

December 23, 2010

Bill Quigley /
Vince Warren
Obama's Liberty Problem

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

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

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

Hayden Janssen
The Problem with Stewardship

Yves Engler
Mining Peru: Canada's New Territory?

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

David Macaray
Negotiating With a Forked Tongue

Farzana Versey
Demasculinizing Meat: Lady Gaga's Flesh Impact

Website of the Day
Revolve

December 22, 2010

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

Uri Avnery
Ship of Fools 2

Jennifer Van Bergen
Predicting Torture

Lawrence Wittner
The Voyage of the Golden Rule

John V. Whitbeck
The Shape of Palestinian Statehood

Stewart J. Lawrence
Here Comes Jeb

Linh Dinh
Bloody Trophies

Rebecca Solnit
Iceberg Economies and Shadow Selves

Franklin Lamb
Australia Rejects Israeli-Ordered Media Censorship

Sherwood Ross
PFC Bradley Manning, Patriot

Website of the Day
The 12 Days of Wikileaks

 

December 21, 2010

Ralph Nader
Wikileaks and the First Amendment

Larry Portis
The French State Prepares for Class War

Sasan Fayazmanesh
Waiting for a New Economic Theory

Sam Smith
Secrets of the Ruling Class

Sheldon Richman
The Stampede of the Bombers

Alice Slater
Beyond START

Julie Hilden
The Case of the Abused Cheerleader

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

Binoy Kampmark
Brutality and Poultry

Laura Flanders
Ask, Tell, Don't Kill

Website of the Day
Strict Creationism and the American Mind

 

December 20, 2010

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

Patrick Cockburn
Reprising US Fantasies in Vietnam

Bill Quigley
Cover-Ups, Coups and Drones

Bruce Jackson
"They Say He's Queer"

Max Blumenthal
The Great Fear

Mike Whitney
Korea Steps Back From the Brink

Carl Finamore
Hotel Workers Dig In

Greg Moses
Time to Set Hector Lopez Free

Fidel Castro
Bill Clinton's Lies

Paul Craig Roberts
Reaganomics: a Defense

John Severino
Evo's Highway

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

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

December 17 - 19, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
Nowhere to Go But Up

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
The Globalization of Militarism

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

Gareth Porter
The Brutal Price of Progress

Clarence Lusane
Slavery, Jim Crow and the White House

Eric Stoner
Afghanistan: You Call This Progress?

John Carroll, MD
Cholera in Haiti: Treating Magda

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

Robert Alvarez
Poisoning the Yakama

Saul Landau
Wikileaks and the Free Press

Rannie Amiri
Mottaki: First Casualty of Wikileaks?

Ramzy Baroud
Insisting on Humanity

Chuck Collins
Concentrating the Wealth

Ron Jacobs
The Drug War That Never Ends

Charlotte Dennett
Wikileaks: Where's the Oil?

John Blair
The Duke Energy Scandal

David Ker Thomson
Rez

Sherry Wolf
Letter to a Discouraged Progressive

David Macaray
American Exceptionalism

Jennifer Van Bergen
Why Julian Assange is My Hero

Martha Rosenberg
The Year in Pills

Sam Smith
When Green Matters

Missy Beattie
Object Not Found

Harvey Wasserman
Our Gay Commander-in-Chief

Laura Flanders
Odd Man Out: Forgetting Bradley Manning

Randall Amster
Support the Dominant Paradigm

Ron Ridenour
Stop Fascism; Support Wikileaks

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

Charles R. Larson
The Two Best Reads of 2010

David Yearsley
Christoph Graupner Lives!

Poets' Basement
Three by Farzana Ahmad

Website of the Day
The Myth of the Clinton Surplus

December 16, 2010

Alan Farago
Skullduggery in Ghost Town

Dean Baker
Peter Orzag Goes to Citigroup

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

Jospeh Nevins
Coming to Terms with Holbrooke

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

Michael Winship
The President on the Ropes

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

Binoy Kampmark
Death on Christmas Island

Website of the Day
Swedish TV Video on Wikileaks

December 15, 2010

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

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

Conn Hallinan
Israel, Obama and the Bomb

Vijay Prashad
Empire Unmasked

Robert Weissman
Big Profits, Bigger Crimes

Stephan Salisbury
Terrorama

Fred Gardner
Pot Legalizers Look to 2012

Joshua Frank
The Legacy of First Blood Dick: Remembering Holbrooke

Anthony Papa
Madoff: The Price of Suicide

Steven Higgs
Autism Waiver Cuts Spell Catastrophe

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

Website of the Day
Risks of Coal Ash Understated

 

December 14, 2010

Norm Kent
You are Right to Remain Silent

Mike Whitney
Post Mortem for the World's Reserve Currency

Maximilian Forte
The Wikileaks Revolution: Notes From the Insurrection

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

Ralph Nader
Majority of One

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

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

Lawrence Davidson
Real Estate and Israeli Rabbis

Stewart J. Lawrence
José Cuervo for President?

Cecil Brown
Jay Z and the Colonizing of Hip Hop

 

December 13, 2010

Patrick Cockburn
Billions Down the Drain in Useless US Afghan Aid

Tariq Ali
Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?

Jonathan Cook Israel's War on Children

Uri Avnery
Racism, Political Incompetence and the Mount Carmel Fire

Russell Mokhiber
Single Payer and Professor Hsiao

Patrick Bond
Climate Capitalism Wins in Cancun

David Smith-Ferri The December Review: Rubbish on Afghanistan

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

Danny Muller
Listening to Haiti

Randall Amster
The Blog of War

Website of the Day
10 Infamous Cases of Wrongful Execution

 

December 10 - 12, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
The Greater Traitor

Peter Linebaugh
Passing the Torch

Mike Whitney
The Korean War, Round Two

Thomas Volscho
The Rise of the Wall Street Ruling Class

Joe Bageant
Ignorance and Courage in the Age of Lady Gaga

John Barth, Jr.
Why Judicial Corruption is Invisible

Jeffrey Sommers
Latvia: "Mind the Gap!"

Jonathan Cook
Israel's Racist Rabbis

Robert Alvarez
The Nuclear War Reserve

Rannie Amiri
The Story of Elias Murr, Saboteur

Franklin Lamb
So Who Exactly is Sowing Strife in Lebanon?

Dean Baker
Fixating on Tax Cuts; Ignoring Real Problems

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

Aurel / Pierre Daum
Protest Fractures in Athens

Ramzy Baroud
Leaking the Obvious?

Michael Winship
Premature Capitulation

David Ker Thomson
The Apparatus of Prostration

Ron Jacobs
Pyongyang: the Perennial Enemy

Christopher Brauchli
The Executioner's Drugs

Missy Beattie
The Bankster Merry-Go-Round

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

Harvey Wasserman
A $7 Billion New Nuke Attack

Ingmar Lee
The Stephen Harper Vision of Canada

Thomas H. Naylor
A War on Death

Farzana Versey
The Nobel Dissonance

Ronnie Cummins
The Long March

Sherwood Ross
Greens Defending Assange

Don Monkerud
American Exceptionalism Revisited

Stephen Martin
The Hand That Would Rock the Cradle

Charles R. Larson
Waiting for King Lear

David Yearsley
The Charlottenburg Organ Reborn

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

Poets' Basement Randall and Hahn

Website of the Weekend
Wanking Bankers

December 9, 2010

Pam Martens
Fears Mount on TSA Body Scanners

Wajahat Ali
FBI Spying on Muslims

Sasha Kramer
Burning Tires in the Time of Cholera

Fatima Bhutto
A Flood of Drone Strikes

Jimmy Johnson
The Secret Secret: Of Wikileaks and Literacy

Laura Carlsen
Anti-Climactic in Cancun

Binoy Kampmark
The Curious Case of Rudd and Assange

Anthony Papa
Bridget Brennan Drug Bust

Website of the Day
Anon Ops: a Manifesto

December 8, 2010

Michael Hudson
Obama's Sellout on Taxes

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

Eric Walberg
Julian Quixote: Wikileaks vs. the Empire

Mike Roselle
Fighting for the Fate of the Appalachians

Greg Moses
Calling From a Migrant Lockup in Arizona

Diane Christian
Condom Morality

Fidel Castro
Cholera in Haiti

Linn Washington
The US Criticized for Human Rights Abuses

James McEnteer
Obama, Can This Really be the End?

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

December 7, 2010

Chris Floyd
Truth in Chains: the Arrest of Julian Assange

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

Dean Baker
Tales of Economic Apocalypse

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

Ralph Nader
GOP Wackopedia

M. Shahid Alam
Unvarnished Truths About the US and Israel

Dave Lindorff Information Terrorists?

David Macaray
Detroit on Strike

Linda Ueki Absher
The Hipster Librarian

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Purple Passion Pearl Harbor

Website of the Day
A New Low for Todd Gitlin

December 6, 2010

Michael Hudson
Deficit Commission Follies

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

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

Sasan Fayazmanesh
Iran and the Leaks of Wikileaks

Steve Breyman
The Return of Debtors' Prisons

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

Neve Gordon
Uprooting the Bedouins of Israel

Greg Moses
Shall American Teenagers Dream Free?

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

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

Website of the Day
WikiMirror

December 3 -5, 2010

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

Darwin Bond-Graham
Nuking the Social Contract

Andy Kroll
The New American Oligarchy

William Blum
Anti-Empire Report: From Wikileaks to TSA

Rannie Amiri
All Eyes on Lebanon

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

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

Ramzy Baroud
Turkey Must Reveal Its Cards

P. Sainath
India's Lobbying Scandal

John Carroll, M.D.
Dying in Haiti

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

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

Thomas I. Palley
Why Obama is Failing

Francis Shor
Wikileaks and the Spanish Prosecutors

Russell Mokhiber Bank Power

Mark Weisbrot
A Setback for Haiti

John V. Whitbeck
New Language for Middle East Peace

Sherry Wolf
I am a Rent-aholic

Ronnie Cummins
The Road to Cancun

Michael Winship
Bad Buzz From the Capital Hive

Ron Jacobs
Black Liberation in an Occupied Land

Nilofar Suhrawardy
Pampering India's Nuclear Ego

Missy Beattie
Friend or Foe?

Bill Manson
The Merchants of Fear

Linh Dinh
Helpless

Bruce E. Levine
5 Myths About Depression Treatments

John Grant
Wikileaks is Good for America

David Macaray
Should Show Biz Celebrities Be Muzzled?

Yves Engler /
Bianca Mugyenyi
Cars and the Tea Party

Charles R. Larson
Literary Hijinks Made Fatal

Scott Borchert
In the Ruins of the Perfect Future

Harry Clark
The Fever Chart

David Yearsley
The Organ-Building of Munetaka Yokota

Poets' Basement
Ford, Yankevich and Orloski

Website of the Weekend
Closing a Deadly Gateway

December 2, 2010

Michael W. Hudson
The Borrower and the Billionaire

Paul Craig Roberts
What the Wiki-Saga Teaches Us

Franklin C. Spinney
Staying the Course in Afghanistan

Benjamin Dangl
Wikileaks and Bolivia: the Ambassador Has No Clothes

Uri Avnery
The Original Sin of the Israeli State

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

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

David Macaray
The Family and Medical Leave Act Revisited

Ed Moloney
The Hypocrisy of Peter King

Brian McKenna
Wild West Journalism

Website of the Day
Right 2 Survive

 

December 1, 2010

Gareth Porter Wikileaks Exposes Complicity of the Press

Paul Craig Roberts
Hillary's Blame Game

Russ Wellen
The Frontlines of Disarmament

Nikolas Kozloff
Wikileaks Comes to Latin America

Conn Hallinan
The Future of Kashmir

Sheldon Richman
Afghanistan: No Hurry to Leave

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

David Solnit
11 Years After the WTO Uprising

Farzana Versey
No Looking "Backwards"

Charles M. Young
Whole Lotta Lies

Charles R. Larson
Six Ways to Eliminate the Deficit

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

November 30, 2010

Ralph Nader
Missing the Mark on Deficits

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

Bill Quigley
Why Wikileaks is Good for Democracy

Jonathan Cook
Wikileaks and the New Global Order

Dean Baker
When the Bubble Burst

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

Tom Engelhardt
The National Security State Cops a Feel

Sherwood Ross
Holder v. Assange

Gina Ulysse
Haiti's Fouled-Up Election

Bill Manson
The Long Run to the Bottom

Website of the Day
Act Now to Save the Galapagos!

 

November 29, 2010

Paul Craig Roberts
The Stench of US Economic Decay Grows Stronger

Israel Shamir
Assange in the Entrails of Empire

Mike Whitney
Hammering Ireland

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

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

John Carroll, MD
The Road to Vote in Haiti

P. Sainath
Obama's Indian Outing

Carl Finamore
Pilot Protests Underscore Passenger Safety

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

Dave Lindorff
The Yahoos are in Charge

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

 

November 26 - 28, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
Run, Russ, Run

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

Ramzy Baroud
Obama Surrenders Palestinian Rights

Harry Browne
Ireland and the House of Cards

Bill Quigley /
Nicole Phillips
Haiti's Sham Elections

Saul Landau
Bombing the Senses: Ads to the Brain

Brian Cloughley
Thanksgiving of the Drones

Fidel Castro
The Lights of Rebellion: Evo Answers NATO

Francis Shor
Normalizing Blowback

Steve Heilig
How (Not) to Legalize Pot

Terrence Paupp
Obama's Fading Empire

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

Missy Beattie
The Greedy and the Needy

Linh Dinh
Power Grabs at the Airport

Christopher Brauchli
Gouged While Flying

Eric Walberg
Russia and NATO

Ellen Taylor
The Navy's Toxic Tentacles

Ron Jacobs
Zizek and the End Times

Bill Manson
Manufactured Hysteria and Relative Risks

Harvey Wasserman
Terror! Oil!! Opium!!!

Walter Brasch
Fairness and the Bristol Stomp

Michael Dickinson
World Strike Day 2012

Ingmar Lee
The Appalling BC Tar Sands Pipeline

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

David Ker Thomson
Asking For Whom the Bell Tolls

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

Poets' Basement
Dennison, Chaet and Clark

Website of the Weekend
Don't Touch My Junk

November 25, 2010

Michael Hudson
A "Flat Tax" for the Rich?

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

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

Sarah Anderson
Food Should Not be a Poker Chip

Karl Grossman
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
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March 18 - 20, 2011

Bloodshed Follows

Saudi Arabia Invades Bahrain

By RANNIE AMIRI

“I saw them chasing Shiites like they were hunting.”

– Rania Ali, Bahraini Sunni resident of Sitra, describing how police went after civilians seeking shelter, 16 March 2011.

The media spotlight in the Middle East is almost exclusively focused on Libya’s (apparently failed) revolution. But the region’s most consequential uprising—now sure to become a revolution itself—is in the smallest Arab country: Bahrain.

Who would have thought a tiny island nation of no more than 1.2 million people and only 530,000 citizens (at least 70 percent of whom are Shia, but ruled by a Sunni dynasty for more than 200 years) could pose such a threat to the Persian Gulf monarchies?

Separated by a mere 16-mile stretch along the King Fahd causeway from Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich, Shia-populated Eastern Province (EP), the freedom contagion sparked by Bahrainis’ demand for sweeping political and socioeconomic reforms might spread like wildfire throughout the Arabian Peninsula and jeopardize the rule of all the royal families.

Of course, those paying close attention to developments in the Gulf know that residents of Qatif and others in the EP have already held protests calling for an end to sectarian discrimination and the release of political prisoners.

Indeed, one demonstrable success usually propels another, as Tunisia’s revolution did for Egypt, and Egypt’s almost did for Libya. When it does, a disgruntled yet quiescent citizenry becomes emboldened enough to ask for what their neighbors were successful in achieving. Such behavior is not tolerated in absolute monarchies, where money is thrown at problems rather than the root causes of discontent investigated and tackled.

After a month of peaceful, non-violent sit-ins and protests largely confined to Manama’s Pearl Roundabout by unarmed Bahrainis—the very same ones who witnessed the regime’s imported security force tear through the roundabout on Feb. 17 killing seven and injuring hundreds—Saudi Arabia had had enough.

Yes, Saudi Arabia.

Reports may say that Bahrain asked Saudi troops to intervene as part of the so-called “Peninsula Shield” forces of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). That request, though, likely came after Saudi Arabia already said it was headed there.

United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates had just paid a visit to Manama on Saturday, urging the royal family to take more than just “baby steps” toward reform. Gates, however, stood firmly behind al-Khalifa rule and tellingly did not meet with opposition representatives. Instead, he chided them for their reticence to take up the Crown Prince’s offer for dialogue (which came the day after his henchmen were set loose upon those sleeping in Pearl Roundabout in February).

Despite Gates’ duplicity, he did manage to say this:

“I expressed the view that we had no evidence that suggested that Iran started any of these popular revolutions or demonstrations across the region.”

When the al-Khalifa regime offered little in the way of concessions, Bahrainis started to move beyond Pearl Roundabout and head toward the royal palace. They were beaten back by pro-government thugs carrying clubs, sticks and swords. 

Thousands then paralyzed the financial district Sunday with demonstrations and roadblocks. The lucky ones were met with tear gas. Others were shot point blank.

On Monday, 1,000 Saudi troops in armored vehicles, followed by 500 hundred soldiers from the United Arab Emirates, drove into Bahrain.

“We consider that any military force or military equipment crossing the boundaries of Bahrain—from air, sea or land—an occupation and a conspiracy against the people of Bahrain ... and threatens them with an undeclared war by armed troops” read the statement from a coalition of Bahrain’ seven main opposition groups.

The next day, King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa declared a state of emergency and effectively put Bahrain under martial law.

It did not take long for clashes to erupt throughout Manama and the outlying Shia villages. Hundreds of wounded inundated Salmaniya and other hospitals in the capital. Ambulances ferrying the injured toward them were shot at, as were nurses and physicians working inside. The printing facilities of Bahrain’s main opposition newspaper, Al-Wasat, were ransacked by pro-government mobs, who smashed presses with pipes and axes.

The greatest violence was reserved for Wednesday. Bolstered by the presence of yet more foreign faces, Bahrain’s security forces (90 percent of whom are non-Bahraini Sunnis) cleared Pearl Square. Tanks and bulldozers rolled in, riot police shot at the encamped and helicopters hovered overhead and fired at homes. Casualties again quickly soared into the hundreds with three confirmed dead at the time of this writing—a figure sure to rise. Shia villages were completely cut off from the capital, preventing desperately needed access to medical care. Phone service was disrupted. Two hundred were reported shot in just Sitra, a village south of Manama.

Hospitals were again blocked and doctors beaten as they tended to the wounded. 

Treating neurosurgeon Dr. Nabeel Hameed said, “They were all shot from close range. Yes, they do shoot to kill.”

Meanwhile, President Obama feebly pleaded for “maximum restraint.”

The protestors’ early and modest demand was for the country’s prime minister, who has been in power for 40 years, to resign. Then it was for Bahrain to transform itself into a constitutional monarchy with a freely-elected executive branch, an independent judiciary, and a representative parliament that could not be overruled by the king or his hand-picked Shura Council. A not insignificant number called for the whole monarchy to be abolished. With the presence of Saudi troops and a vicious crackdown underway, most will undoubtedly gravitate toward the latter.

One of Saudi Arabia’s pretexts for entering Bahrain was to prevent the proverbial foreign elements (re: Iran) from meddling in its internal affairs. This was dismissed by Gates and WikiLeaks cables reveal alleged Iranian interference to be an unsubstantiated claim. Indeed, the only interference has come from the GCC in general and Saudi Arabia in particular in a last-ditch effort to preserve dynastic rule.

It comes too late, for the genie is out of the bottle and it will not return. Many will continue to pay with their lives, but the days of monarchy are numbered. In the Persian Gulf, it will start with Bahrain, making it the most important revolution of all.

Rannie Amiri is an independent Middle East commentator.

 

 

 

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