Wars
of the Laptop Bombers
Today's
Stories
February 24,
2005
Diane Christian
Bad
Blood: Ritual & Sexual Torture in Iraq
February 23,
2005
Werther
The
Poisoned Well: What the CIA's Nazi Files Can Tell Us About Iraq
W. John Green
A Salvador Option for Iraq? How Negroponte Changes the Ground
Rules
James Petras
A New Face to Bush Foreign Policy?
Conn Hallinan
Cornering the Dragon: the Return of the China Lobby
Joe Pietri
Cannabis: the Goose that Lays Golden Eggs (For Consumers and
Cops)
Louis Proyect
Hunter Thompson and the "New" Journalism
Alexander Cockburn
Hunter
S. Thompson and Gonzo
Website of
the Day
Did You Make the Blacklist? Why Not?
February 22,
2005
Naseer Aruri
The
Politics of the Hariri Assassination: Remapping the Middle East
Richard Manning
The
Economy of Hunger: Starvation is Part of the Economic Plan
William A.
Cook
Righteous
Racism Running Rampant
Paul Craig Roberts
The Agents of Instability
Ken Krayeske
Dr. Thompson is Out
Dave Zirin
How the Owners Destroyed the NHL
Kirkpatrick
Sale
Imperial
Entropy: the Collapse of the American Empire
February 21,
2005
Hunter S. Thompson
"He
Was A Crook"
John Ross
Mexico:
the Pentagon's Proxy Army in Iraq
Ward Churchill
What Did I Really Say? Why Did
I Say It?
Dr. Teresa
Whitehurst
Military Recruiting on Channel One: Geometry 101, Brought to
You by the US Navy
David Swanson
Fighting for a Living Wage, State by State
Dave Lindorff
All the News That's Fit to Fake
Stew Albert
Fear and Loathing: HST
Michael Neumann
Strategies
in Palestine: a Shrinking Pie in the Sky
February 19
/ 20, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Back
to Salem: Paul Shanley and the Return of "Recovered Memory"
Kathleen Christison
Struggling
for Justice in Palestine
Ted Honderich
On Being Persona Non Grata
Gary Leupp
Self-Hating Gays: Welcome to the White House & Welcome to
Commit Suicide
Don Santina
Reparations for the Blues
Jennifer Roesch
John Negroponte: Dirty Warrior
Scott Richard
Lyons
Ward
Churchill and the Identity Police
Chris Clarke
Ward Churchill and Liberal Outrage
George Beres
Censorship in the Land of Wayne Morse: Gagging W. Churchill in
Oregon
Harry Browne
The Belfast Heist: the Plot Unravels
Manuel García,
Jr.
Who Killed Rafik Hariri?
Mark Scaramella
Lessons from the Hidden Afghan War
Michael Donnelly
Whatever Happened to John Edwards?
John Pilger
First, They Attack the Past
Norman Madarasz
Death Wish for Reform in Brazil?
Surendra Devkota
The Monarchy in Nepal
Deborah Rich
How Anti-GMO Ballot Measures May Miss the Mark
Fred Gardner
When Dr. Tod Met Merle Haggard
CounterPunch
News Service
About King Mswati: Political Developments in Swaziland
Richard Oxman
CounterPunching Arthur Miller
Poets' Basement
Albert, Giebel, Tripp, Engel and Orkin
February 18,
2005
Ben Moxham
In
East Timor, the Nightmare Continues
Dave Lindorff
The
Scum Also Rises: the Bloody Career of John Negroponte
Larry Birns
Negroponte: a Resume of Death Squads, Deceptions and Bribery
Gregory Elich
N, Korea's Phantom Nukes and the US's Subversion of Diplomacy
Samuel Logan / John Meyers
The Future of Colombia's Paramilitary Death Squads
Nicole Colson
Shock and Awe on Civil Liberties: From Lynne Stewart to Ward
Churchill
Suzan Mazur
Whose National Security Are We Talking About?
Mickey Z.
"One
Man Has Stopped Killing"
February 17,
2005
Joshua Frank
Hogtying
of the Deaniacs
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bush's
Willing Sychophants: the Conservative Media
Robert Fisk
Under
the Shadow of Death in Lebanon
Christopher
Brauchli
Where
Time Stands Still: Kinsey and Darwin in Cobb County, GA
Dr. Teresa
Whitehurst
Military
Recruitment TV: Why Send Them to College, When Your Kid Can be
Cannon Fodder?
Alison Weir
Russia, Israel and Media Omissions
Ahrar Ahmad
A Review of Shahid Alam's "Is There an Islamic Problem?"
Saul Landau
An
Interview with Cuban VP Ricardo Alarcon: "The US Tramples
the Laws It Wrote"
Website of the Day
Petition to Support Ward Churchill
February 16,
2005
Robert Fisk
Lebanon:
a Battlefield for the Wars of Others
Kevin Zeese
Creating a Real Ownership Society: Share the Wealth; Protect
Retirement
Gary Leupp
Meanwhile, in Nepal...
Ron Jacobs
Why the Iranian Opposition Should Not Trust the Bush Administration
Jessica Leight
Oil-Flush Chavez Begins to Strut His Stuff
Greg Moses
Houston, You've Got a Problem: Documenting Voting Irregularities
in Texas
Mark Engler
The Last Porto Alegre
Jack McCarthy
Where's the Outrage About Pat? Buchanan Does a Churchill
Bill Christison
US
Foreign Policy Dangerously Slanted Toward Israel
Website of the Day
The
World is Melting: a Photo Survey by Gary Braasch
February 15,
2005
CounterPunch
News Service
Dean
a "Safe" Moderate, Says NYT Citing CounterPunch
Robert Fisk
The
Killing of Mr. Lebanon
Uri Avnery
"Sharm-al-Sheikh,
We Have Come Back Again"
Stan Cox
Fighting Big Pharma in Little Digwal
Mickey Z.
Radio
Active North of the Border: an Interview with Chris Cook
Dave Zirin
Bashing Bush: Jose Canseco Comes Clean
Nadia Martinez
Ending
World Poverty? Opening at the World Bank, Apply Now
Lila Rajiva
"Little Eichmanns" and the 'Harijan': the Danger of
Magical Thinking in Politics
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
American Job Sell Out
February 14,
2005
Robert Jensen
Ward
Churchill: Right to Speak Out; Right About 9/11
Brian Cloughley
Kuwait's Freedom, Bush-style
Patrick Cockburn
Outcome
of the Iraqi Elections: Shortages, Corruption, Guerrilla War
Gary Leupp
Post-election Iraq: What Next?
Michael Donnelly
Sacred Nature: Just Another Commodity?
Dave Lindorff
When Bush Came to My Neighborhood
Elaine Cassel
The
Lynne Stewart Verdict
February 12
/ 13, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Ward
Churchill's Genes
Saul Landau
Alarcon
Speaks: an Interview with the Vice President of Cuba
Paul Craig
Roberts
Nothing
to Fear But Bush Himself
Patrick Cockburn
Two Years After the Fall of Saddam, the Resistance Controls All
Major Roads into Baghdad
John Feffer
Bush
v. N. Korea: Round Two
Mickey Z.
Right to Remain Silent; Duty to Speak
Kurt Nimmo
Viva la Cucaracha!
Fred Gardner
Waiting for Raich
Dave Zirin
Fighting the New Republic(ans)
John Chuckman
Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Ben Tripp
A Leftist on the Bush Payroll
Carol Norris
"Buddy, Can You Spare a Dwarf?"
Robert Fisk
No Middle East Peace Without Justice
Frank / Chowkwanyun
Muzzled Activist in an Age of Terror: the Case of Sherman Austin
Mike Whitney
Condi's Euro Tour
Deborah Frisch
A Psychologist's Defense of Ward Churchill
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Reading Khomeini in Colorado
Christine TenBarge
What's So Special About Ward?
Ron Jacobs
Curtis Mayfield's Train to Jordan
Dr. Susan Block
Chemistry of Love: a Valentine's Greeting
Poets' Basement
Louise, Smith-Ferri, Ford and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Free Sherman
February 11,
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Manuel Garcia,
Jr
The
Eight Percent War
Kurt Nimmo
Ann
Coulter's Racism: Where's Geronimo When You Really Need
Him?
Dave Lindorff
Guckert
or Gannon? The Perfect Plant; He Fit Right In
Larry Birns
War is Peace; Slavery is Freedom: Democracy According to Elliott
Abrams
Bill Quigley
Twenty Questions: a Social Justice Quiz
Tom Barry
Bush's State of Delusion
Jennifer Van
Bergen
Lynne
Stewart's Conviction Hurts Us All
February 10,
2005
Dave Lindorff
What
Academic Freedom?
Christopher Brauchli
The Love of Slaughter: From Rwanda to Iraq
Patrick Cockburn
In Baghdad, It's Easy to Get Killed
Nicole Colson
Have the Democrats Surrendered on Abortion Rights?
Suzan Mazur
More
on the Assassination of Lumumba from Mr. Garsin of Kinshasha
Michael Donnelly
Salvaging an Opposition
Mike Stark
Driving Ossie Davis: "Give Them a Little Truth, a Little
Hope"
Greg Moses
Taking
Jesus Back from the Hijackers
Website of
the Day
The Missionary Positions
February 9,
2005
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Duck
and Cover Redux: Bunker Busters and City Levellers
Mickey Z.
What Ward Churchill Didn't Say
John Ross
Hecho
en Mexico: the Iraqi Election
Tom Barry
Ambassador of Lies: Elliott Abrams, the Neocon's Neocon
Conn Hallinan
The
Coup in Nepal: Nursing the Pinion
Patrick Cockburn
Sistani's Vision for Iraq: Cricket is Fine, But Chess is "Absolutely
Forbidden"
Steen Sohn
Danish PM Says It's OK for Israel to Violate UN Resolutions
Tim Wise
Reflections on Empire and Uppity Indians
Website of
the Day
Support Antiwar.com
February 8,
2005
Patrick Cockburn
Shia/Kurd
Coalition to Dominate New Iraqi Govt.: "It's an Electoral
Pact, Not a Party"
Brian Cloughley
Out
of the Mouths of Generals: "It's Fun to Shoot Some People"
Steve Breyman
Against the Selfishness of the "Ownership Society"
Harry Browne
"Don't
Get on that Plane!": Soldiers Seek Asylum in Ireland
Doug Giebel
"We Love Free Speech in America": the People, the President
and Ward Churchill
Nate Collins
The Censorship of Ward Churchill and Dancehall Reggae: It's the
Same Beast
Dave Lindorff
It's Time for a Labor-Oriented Newspaper
David Smith-Ferri
Sanctions and the Health Crisis in Iraq
February 7,
2005
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bush's
War on Jobs
Carolyn Baker
The New McCarthyism on Campus: Churchill and the Attack on Higher
Ed
Joshua Frank
Marc Cooper's Hit List: First Mumia; Now Ward Churchill
Mickey Z.
Warning: More Hate Speech from W. Churchill
Patrick Cockburn
The
Kidnapping Gangs of Iraq
Mike Whitney
Tom Friedman: Scribe for New Age Imperialism
Stacie Jonas
Pinochet: Fit to be Tried
Dave Zirin
A Miserable Super Sunday: Clinton, Bush and the FBI
Tariq Ali
Imperial
Delusions
February 5
/ 6, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Ward
Churchill and the Mad Dogs
Kurt Nimmo
A Ward Churchill Kind of Day
Joshua Frank
Liberals Trash Ward Churchill
P. Sainath
Mumbai's Man-Made Tsunami
Patrick Cockburn
Sistani's Triumph; Allawi's Bust
Laura Carlsen
Bush, Rice and Latin America
Dave Lindorff
How the NYT Killed the Bush Bulge Story
Pamela Olson
West Bank Story
Behzad Yaghmaian
The Future of Sudanese Refugees in the West
Saul Landau / Farrah Hassen
A Threatened UN in King George's Court
Roger Burbach
World Social Forum: a Tale of Two Presidents
Robert Fisk
History by Laptop
David Swanson
James Forman and the Liberal-Labor Syndrome
Justin E.H. Smith
Gay Marriage: a Report from Canada
Cacie Hart
The "State" of the Union: More War and a Ban on Love
Ron Jacobs
Chairman Bob Avakian: a Revolutionary Life
Mickey Z.
Viewing America from the Outside
Ben Tripp
Republican Heroes: a New Breed of Good Guy
Ben Sonnenberg
France at the End of the Devil's Decade: Renoir's Rules of the
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Website of
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John Trudell: How to Earn a 17,000 Page FBI File
February 4,
2005
Brian Cloughley
The
Army Symphonist: "Sometimes the Only Way to Change the Behavior
of Someone Like That is to Kill Them"
Bill Christison
Election
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Elaine Cassel
Did Zoloft Make Him Do It?
Jacob Levich
Chomsky and the Draft
Kanak Mani Dixit
Return of the Royalists in Nepal
Ron Jacobs
The
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February 3,
2005
Ward Churchill
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and Gross Distortions
Sharon Smith
Resisting
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Mickey Z.
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Mike Whitney
President of Alienation: a Desperate State of the Union
Jenna Orkin
9/11 the Sequel: the Toxic State of Lower Manhattan
Saul Landau
Elections Won't Prevent Civil War in Iraq
Yitzhak Laor
Strange is the Silence
Dave Lindorff
The
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February 2,
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A History Lesson from the NYT
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Feminists for Porn
Website of the Day
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February 1,
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"The Only Decent Food We Get is at Funerals"
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The Stalemate
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Making America as "Secure" as Israel
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February 24, 2005
Lynching Ward Chuchill
Witchhunts
to the Right; Witchhunts to the Left
By
FRED FELDMAN
Some leaders of the American Indian
Movement and quite a few mouthpieces on the left are currently
seeking, on what I am sure they consider morally justified grounds,
to counter the efforts to fight the witch-hunt against University
of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill. Churchill faces an attempt
by the University of Colorado to find grounds for firing him
because of statements he made about the 9/11 attacks and to deepen
the attack on ethnic studies at the university.
I think these attacks are unsupported
by convincing proof, unjustified and inappropriate coming as
they do from groups and individuals who have a lot to lose from
the blow to all our democratic rights that is being aimed at
Churchill.
Some charge him with being
an agent of a COINTELPRO operation against the Indian struggle
for rights. Their evidence is flimsy, and not sufficient to convict
anyone on any charge.
They challenge his claim to
be an Indian, claiming that he is not a "real" Indian
genetically or spiritually. There has been no disproof of his
claim to be 1/24th (or whatever) Indian and therefore the claim
should be accepted.
(Another tack has been to raise
the issue of whether he is not as good a teacher as Vine Deloria.
This has nothing whatever to do with the political issues being
fought over and I invite those who have taken their classes to
debate this to their heart's content. After all, it's supposed
to be a free country.)
Support for Indian rights does
not oblige us to get into the race-certification business, which
usually has more to do with business interests among the Indian
nations than with rights per se. From the standpoint of the struggle
for rights, the oppressed generally have no interest in preventing
others from identifying with them for whatever reason.
There should of course be affirmative
action and treaty-based measures to support the business activities
of Indian nations, including the protection of Indian identity
in these operations (casinos, artwork, etc.). But the defense
of the democratic rights of Indians and all of us should not
be disrupted by inevitably poisonous campaigns about who is really
an Indian genetically or in their deeper nature.
The charges that Churchill
is an agent have no logical basis. It is claimed that his statements
on 9/11 were a deliberate attempt to enable the government to
label the American Indian Movement a terrorist group - an alleged
attempt that was defused by AIM's simply exercising its democratic
right to disagree with the statements that he had an equal right
to make..
Or they claim that Churchill
raises this issue now because he is trying to aid the government's
war against terror. But it was the enemies of democratic rights,
not Churchill, who raised this issue now. The attempt to present
'COINTELPRO' - type government documents as proof positive are
unconvincing, and the documents themselves - being written by
expert liars - actually PROVE nothing.
But above all, the attacks
on Churchill particularly the statement by the AIM top leadership
-- legitimize the rightist claim that what Churchill said about
9/11 goes beyond the limits of legitimate free speech, beyond
the limits of what can be civilly debated in a democratic society,and
that these statements could only be made by a US agent or a "fool."
This is an attack not only
on Churchill but on everyone who differs from the only legitimate
mainstream discourse on 9/11 - the passion of American innocence
violated by "evil" from abroad. This includes not only
a modest minority of people in the United States, but millions
in countries all over the world.
The attacks on Churchill are
filled with vague and sinister references to COINTELPRO. As someone
who was involved in a suit against the government around the
COINTELPRO operations against the Socialist Workers Party (which
I belonged to at the time), I read a lot of COINTELPRO documents
and lots of court testimony about them.
And I am struck by the resemblance
between the charges and factional attacks on Churchill and the
content and style of these FBI campaigns to divide and disrupt
struggles for progressive social change and democratic rights
by setting people up with rumors or "evidence" about
their being agents, baiting about racial purity, and so on.
These attacks were sometimes
deadly in their effectiveness. In New Haven, FBI agents got Black
revolutionaries to torture and kill each otherin the early 1970s
over such accusations.
I am convinced that the current
attacks on Churchill are not part of a government plot, but are
a product of a tradition of blind factionalism that has plagued
progressive struggles in this country for a long time.
In part, the FBI learned the
art of "putting a snitch jacket" on a targeted individual
(portraying them as a government agent), and the "tabloid
expose" literary style of attack from the Communist Party.
Under the influence of Stalin, the Communist Party from the late
20s,and for decades thereafter, tended to accuse all who disagreed
including suspected dissidents in its own ranks, or working for
various US or international police agencies. And the method was
picked up from that source by various left and nationalist organizations,
as well as by the FBI.
This played a role in the destruction
of the Black Panther Party. It helped undermine internal solidarity
against the witch-hunters in the Communist Party.
It has eaten away at the counter-tradition
in this country, the idea that "an injury to one is an injury
to all." Instead, it fostered the idea that the enemy of
my factional enemy is my friend, or at least my practical ally
in exposing or cutting down the factional enemy. It is division
in the face of the enemy, which Fidel Castro said was never an
intelligent or successful strategy.
Instead of fighting the government's
witch-hunt, the current attacks on Churchill have the effect
of supplementing the rulers' witch-hunt against challenges to
their orthodoxy on 9/11 with a witch-hunt within the movement
against dissenters and against those suspected - primarily for
their opinions, but with other shreds of "evidence"
thrown in to sweeten the pot - of being "agents."
In lending itself to this witch-hunt,
the top leaders of AIM are damaging their own completely just
struggle. They are undermining the democratic rights of all the
Indian nations, as well as everybody else. They will be more
vulnerable to witch-hunting because of the way they have handled
their conflicts with Churchill in this instance.
To pay too much attention to
these attacks can worsen their divisive effects. But I have to
restate the class-struggle basics on this issue, without which
we will tear each other apart to the benefit of our enemies.
No one should be considered
a police agent without definitive and tested proof beyond reasonable
doubt. Anything else is destructive. There is no convincing evidence
that Churchill is a COINTELPRO agent. Therefore he is not. To
declare that he is an agent without positive proof beyond reasonable
doubtis itself an attack on democratic rights, and a contribution
to the rulers' attack on our rights in this case.
An injury to one is an injury
to all. Stop the witch-hunt against dissent in the United States
in general and the University of Colorado. Oppose the attempts
to silence and punish Ward Churchill for his views - on whatever
pretext.
Fred Feldman can be reached at: ffeldman@verizon.net
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