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Today's
Stories
September
6, 2005
Michael
Neumann
But What About the Snipers?
September
5, 2005
Paul
Craig Roberts
Resurrecting Karl Marx
David
Vest
The Battle of New Orleans:It's Looking a Lot Like Fallujah
John
Blair
Don't Rebuild New Orleans, At Least Where It Was
Fidel
Castro
What Cuba Has Offered the People of the Gulf Coast
Mike
Whitney
80,000 Rodney Kings in New Orleans
Alan
Farago
Talking Points for a City of Corpses
Doug
Giebel
Bush's New Orleans: "So This is Where He Used to Come to
Get Drunk"
Mark
Chmiel
Beatitudes for This New American Century
Carol
Wolman, MD
God to Bush: "You Blew It"
Norman
Solomon
Bush's Answer to Cindy Sheehan: "It Was About Oil"
Eli
Stephens
An Administration Without Shame
Peter
Linebaugh
Loo! Loo! Lulu! Loot!
September
3 / 4, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
From Mitch to Katrina
Paul
Craig Roberts
Failure on Every Front
Gary
Leupp
New Orleans and the System that Destroyed It
Dave
Lindorff
Profiteering from Disaster: the Real Looters Wear Pinstripes
Dan
La Botz
Time for the U.S. to Start Over
Jonathan
M. Feldman
From Iraq to New Orleans: the U.S. as a "Failed State"
Landau
/ Hassen
The Cuban 5: In Prison for Fighting Terrorism
Tim
Wise
In the Name of the Lord: "Those Looters Should be Shot"
Mitchel
Cohen
People of the Dome: "Let Them Eat Shit..."
Dave
Zirin
The Superdome: the Earth's Most Damnable Homeless Shelter
Mike
Ferner
Waiting on the Outside World: Who Will Rescue America?
Rep.
Cynthia McKinney
Shame on the Bush Administration
Jason
Leopold
Bush's Demented Priorities: the State of Marriage Over the State
of Louisiana
Justin
Felux
Kayne West is My Hero: "Bush Doesn't Care About Black People"
Monica
Benderman
Iraq War as Thrill Ride: Getting Off the Rollercoaster
Ben
Tripp
Grab a Towel, You're Next
Jordan
Flaherty
Notes from Inside New Orleans
Bill
Pahnelas
A Rising Tide has Swamped All Boats
Seth
Sandronsky
Hurricane Katrina Exposes the True Face of Capitalism
Mark
Donham
Where's Karl Rove?
Fred
Gardner
CHP Agrees to Follow Law; Justice Stevens Apologizes
Joshua
Frank
Winning the West
Jackie
Corr
The Privatization Mob
Poets'
Basement
Albert, Engel, Louise
September
2, 2005
Evan
Jones
Katrina and the Corps of Engineers:
Manufacturing Disaster
David
Stocker
How Good is Your Levee? Frankly, Scarlet I Don't Think He Gives
a Damn
Dave
Lindorff
Baghdad on the Big Muddy
Norman
Solomon
The Smirk of a Killer: Ending the Impunity of the Bush White
House
Mike
Whitney
How Bush Deals with a Disaster He Helped Create: Blame the Looters
Eli
Stephens
What They Should Have Learned from Hurrican Ivan
Ron
Jacobs
Katrina, Iraq and Blood Profits
Christopher
Brauchli
Onward Christian Assassins
Harvey
Wasserman
Bush to New Orleans: Drop Dead
CounterPunch
Wire
Faith-Based FEMA? Feds Directing Katrina Money to Pat Robertson
Glen
Ford
Will the "New" New Orleans be Black?
September
1, 2005
Dr.
Greg Henderson, MD
Situation Critical: a Doctor in
the Flood
Paul
Craig Roberts
How New Orleans Was Lost
Mike
Whitney
Hurricane Donald: How Rumsfeld Smashed the National Guard
Lee
Sustar
Left Behind to Drown: the Poor and Hurricane Katrina
Dave
Lindorff
The Real Disaster: Bush and the Democrats
Lynn
Gonzalez
The Cindy Spark: Mainstream America Stirs
Chris
Floyd
The Perfect Storm
August 31, 2005
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
New Orleans After Katrina
John Walsh
Democrats and the War
Bernstein /
Mishel
Bush
Economy: Incomes Down; Poverty Up!
Alan Farago
What are the Hurricanes Trying to Tell Us?
Norman
Solomon
The National Guard Belongs in New
Orleans, Not Baghdad
Bryan
Newbury
"Hey, Shoot that Black Guy Running Off with the Bottled
Water!"
Jason
Leopold
What's Eating Cindy Sheehan?
Website
of the Day
The Swiftboating of Cindy Sheehan
August
30, 2005
Gary
Leupp
Venezuela: Launch Pad for Muslim Extremism?
Joshua
Frank
Bunny and the War Profireers
Evelyn
Pringle
The Woman Who Blew the Whistle on Halliburton Gets Canned
Urariano
Mota
To Die by Mistake: the Killing of Jean Claude de Menezes
Ron
Jacobs
High Water Everywhere
CP
News Service
An Open Letter to Alberto Gonzales: Free the Cuban 5
Roger
Morris
The War for the Future
August
29, 2005
Seth
Sandronsky
Pat Robertson, Big Oil's Televangelist
Norman
Solomon
War Liberals and Cindy Sheehan
Charles
Sullivan
Nation of Fools
Paul
Craig Roberts
Does
Anyone Know What We're Doing in Iraq?
Website
of the Day
Monsanto Threatens "Bitter Greens"
August 27 / 28, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Assassination: as American as Apple
Pie (and Torture)
Ricardo
Alarcon
The Cuban 5 in Atlanta: a Long March Towards Justice
Diane
Christian
The Politics of Death: Assassination
M.
Shahid Alam
How
to be a Good Victim
Laith
al-Saud
Baghdad Circus: Iraq's Constitutional Process
Diane
Farsetta
School of the Americas Fights Back: PR Plan for Pentagon's "Demonstration
Village"
Saul
Landau
Reagan and Bottled Water: the Privatization of Everything
Tom
Barry
Hurricane Hugo: Relating to Venezuela
Nicholas
Rowe
Barenboim in Ramallah: an Unfinished Symphony
George
E. Bisharat
Enforce the Ban on Settlements
Dave
Lindorff
Another Mother for War: the Exploitation of Tammy Pruett
Fred
Gardner
Pot Shots: Doing the Right Thing, Even If You Are Fearful
John
Francis Lee
The Juggernaut of Jingo
Evan
Jones
I.F. Stone on the Perils of Empire
Ali
Khan
Defining Aggression
Poets'
Basement
Albert, Nettnin, Engel, Ford, Krieger, Louise
August
26, 2005
Lee
Sustar
Showdown at Northwest
Ramzy
Baroud
Cindy Sheehan and the Power of the Ordinary
Christopher
Brauchli
The Return of Edwin Meese
Peter
Harley
The Wall as a Good Thing?
John
Snider
Not One of the Gang
Kathleen
Christison
Can Palestine be Put Back in the
Equation?
August
25, 2005
Paul
Craig Roberts
Hegemony Lost: the American Economy
is Destroying Itself
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Loewenstein's Big Mail Bag: Gaza and "the Shame of It All"
J.L.
Chestnut, Jr.
Racial Politics in California They May Vote for You, But They
Won't Have Lunch with You
Chhandasi
Pandya
Libeling Venezuela
Richard
Ward
Impressions from Camp Casey
Norman
Solomon
Exploiting the 9/11 Anniversary: Will the Media Help Bush, Again?
Joshua
Frank
Will the Real Leaders Please Stand Up?
Seth
Sandronsky
GM, the UAW and US Health Care
Lucinda
Marshall
The Democratic Unraveling: How Not to Mention the War
VIPS
Memo to Bush: Try a Circle of Wise Women
Ralph
Nader
It's Time to Make the Iraq War Personal
August
24, 2005
Stan
Goff
Containing the Anti-War Movement: the
Hayden Plan
Rachard
Itani
Papal Double Standards
Elisa
Salasin
The Militarization of Our Children
Ron
Jacobs
Who Would Jesus Assassinate?
John
Chuckman
Robertson and Posada: Bush's Kind of Terrorists
Leibowitz
/ Heller
Gaza: Disengagement or Military Redeployment?
Douglas
Valentine
Suicide as Sacrament
Thomas
Nagy
Congress Should Go to Crawford: an Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan
Alexander
Cockburn
Hitchens Backs Down, Says Sheehan "Not a La Rouchie"
Website
of the Day
Stations of the Cross
August
23, 2005
Rev.
Graylan Scott Hagler
Pat Robertson is Not a Christian
Karen
Kilroy
Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City Protests:
Violent Echoes of Kent State
Stew
Albert
Fascism in America: Are We There Yet?
Joshua
Frank
The Democrats and Cindy Sheehan
Dave
Zirin
Pedaling Away from Principle: Lance Armstrong Cozies Up to Bush
Julia
Olmstead
Our Reckless Chemical Dependence:
A Little Round-Up With Your Precautionary Principle?
CounterPunch
Wire
Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture: a Legal Update
Jason
Leopold
Bush's Lips Move, But He Says Nothing
Diane
Christian
The Politics of Death
August
22, 2005
Sonia
Nettnin
Gaza Stripped, the Occupation Remains
Mike
Whitney
"Shoot to Kill": Tony Blair's First Trophy
Kevin
Zeese
The Latest Falsehood: the US is in Iraq to "Stablize It"
Norman
Solomon
Bush's Bloody Option: Escalate the War in Iraq
Christopher
Brauchli
Secret Talkers
Jeff
Bale
The Left's Challenge in Germany
Greg
Moses
Raw Talk Revival at Camp Casey Two
August
20 / 21, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Can Cindy Sheehan End the War?
Saul
Landau
Terrorism Then and Now: Townley Talks
Kevin
Zeese
an Interview with Tom Hayden
Greg
Moses
A Daytrip without Cindy
Ray
McGovern
Cindy Sheehan and Creative Protest
Fred
Gardner
Merck Gets Whacked
Martin
Smith
Rebellion in the Ranks: the Soldiers' Revolt in Vietnam
Benjamin
Granby
Gaza's Economy: the Key to Sharon's Strategy?
Frankie
Lake
Dirty Tricksters: How the Federalist Society Operates
Joshua
Frank
Failing Nature: the Democrats and the Environment
Ron
Jacobs
When Sympathy is Not Enough
Tom
Crumpacker
Moral Values and the CIA
Mike
Ferner
"All of Our Stories are Sad"
James
Petras
Suicide Bombers: the Sacred and the Profane
Col.
Dan Smith
The President's Dilemma
Dr.
Teresa Whitehurst
What de Menezes Didn't Know
Ben
Tripp
Moses on Top of Old Smokey
Poets'
Basement
Landau, Albert, Engel and Louise
August
19, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
A Short History of Meat, Part 4:
Cutting Up Mochie
Neve
Gordon
After the Withdrawal
Gary
Leupp
The Pandora's Box of Iraq's Constitution
William
S. Lind
Getting Swept
Vijay
Prashad
The Rosa Parks of the Anti-War Movement
Dave
Lindorff
Something Has Happened
Pat
Williams
Social Security and the American West
John
Pilger
Free Speech and the War on Terror
Elaine
Cassel
Judge Roberts and the Death Penalty
August
18, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
A Short History of Meat, Part 3:
Vegetarians, Nazis for Animal Rights, Blitzkrieg of the Ungulates
Greg
Moses
Cindy, the Peace Train and the Little Ditch that Could
Ramzy
Baroud
Theatrics in Gaza: the Disengagement That Isn't
Joshua
Frank
Bush's Emotional Incapacities
Monica
Benderman
For Cindy: There's No Glory in Dying
Paul
Craig Roberts
Courthouse Jackboots: Corrupted Justice
August
17, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
A Short History of Meat: Part Two,
the March to Porkopolis
Robert
Jensen
America's Good Germans?
Carl
G. Estabrook
News Notes from the Global War on Terrorism
Mike
Whitney
Greenspan and the Housing Bubble
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Shaming the Shameless
Norman
Solomon
Slurs, Lies and Innuendos: Blaming the Antiwar Messengers
Dave
Zirin
In Defense of Felipe Alou
Jennifer
Loewenstein
The Shame of It All: Watching the Gazan Fiasco
CounterPunch
Clarification
August
16, 2005
Greg
Moses
Mona in a Field of Crosses at Camp
Casey, Texas
Thomas
Larson
The Unmitigated Gall of Dinesh D'Souza
Diana
Barahona
Uneasy Standoff in Venezuela's Media Wars
Dave
Lindorff
The Inquirer's Minds Don't Want to Know
Rep.
Cynthia McKinney
A Letter to President Bush: Meet with Cindy Sheehan
Elisa
Salasin
Hitchens Slimes Cindy Sheehan
David
Krieger
Amazing Grace and Cindy
Alexander
Cockburn
A Short History of Meat: Part One,
Peter's Dream
Website
of the Day
Reclaiming Appalachia: a Mountain Takeover
August
15, 2005
Greg
Moses
Pilgrims of Protest in Crawford
Paul
Craig Roberts
Slouching Toward Armageddon?
Mike
Whitney
Failing in Iraq
Robert
Jensen
The Challenges We Face
CounterPunch
Wire
Judge Fines Voices in the Wilderness
$20,000 for Taking Medicine to Iraq; Voices Refuses to Pay
Norman
Solomon
Someone Tell Frank Rich the War Isn't Over
Kathleen
Christison
Camp David Redux: Anatomy of a
Frame-Up
August
13 / 14, 2005
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
When Down is Up: the "Stricken"
President
William
Blum
The al-Dubya Training Manual
Gary
Leupp
High Tide for the Neocons?
Jack
Z. Bratich
Secreting the News: Anonymous vs. Confidential Sources
Brian
Cloughley
The Ridiculous Rice
Ron
Jacobs
Klan Justice: Mississippi is Still Burning
John
Farley
"Beyond Chutzpah" Too Hot for Harvard Bookstore?
Dave
Lindorff
Making the World Safer...for Nukes
Tim
Wise
Animal Whites: PETA and the Politics of Putting Things in Perspective
J.L.
Chestnut, Jr.
There's Not One Real Liberal or Conservative in the Senate
John
Gershman
The Bolton Opportunity
Felice
Pace
Saving Northwest Forests: Time for a Fresh Look
Fred
Gardner
Feds Takeover Prosecution of Dustin Costa
David
Krieger
The Fable of the Emperor and the Grieving Mother
Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz
Being a Protestant Fundamentalist
Ben
Tripp
GWAT: a Tone Poem
Poets'
Basement
Reiss, Nettnin, Engel and Louise
August
12, 2005
Christopher
Brauchli
Courting God: Justice Sunday II
Greg
Moses
A Crawford Peace House Morning with
Cindy Sheehan
Ramzy
Baroud
Israel's Nuclear Puzzle
Norman
Solomon
Cindy Sheehan's Message: Repudiating Bush and Dean
Chris
Genovali
Why is a Canadian Politician Trying to End Protections for US
Grizzly Bears?
Chris
Floyd
Cheney and Halliburton, the Stench Gets Worse
Tariq
Ali
Blair's New Authoritarianism
August
11, 2005
Saul
Landau
Globalization and Its Discontents
Dave
Lindorff
Privatization will Harm Same Sex
Couples
Ralph
Nader
Dear Cindy Sheehan: May You Prevail
Where Others Have Failed
Talli
Nauman
Radioactive Border: the Hot Mounds of Samalayuca
Gary
Leupp
Politics of an Outing: Plame, Ledeen and Iran
Sharon
Smith
The New Anti-War Majority
Paul
Craig Roberts
Why is Cheney Lobbying for a Boost
in China's Nuclear Capability?
August
10, 2005
Tim
Wise
Indian Mascots and White Rage
Ron
Jacobs
Rumsfeld's Delusions
Joshua
Frank
Dean and the PDA: Don't Believe the Hype
Cynthia
McKinney
The 9/11 Op-Ed the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Refuses to Run
Rick
Wilhelm
Peter Jennings, Excuse Maker for War and Empire
Stan
Goff
Homegrown Resistance
August
9, 2005
Mike
Ferner
What One Mom has to Say to Bush:
Cindy Sheehan in Dallas
Monica
Benderman
Is Being a Conscientious Objector
Now Criminal?
Mike
Marqusee
Making Excuses for Killing De
Menezes
Rep.
Cynthia McKinney
Strange Fruit and Tree-Shakers
Paul
Craig Roberts
Watching the US Economy Crumble
August
6-8, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
How the British Destroyed India
Jason
Leopold
Halliburton and Iran: Still Doing
Business After All These Years?
Ray
McGovern
Iran, Truth-Tellers and the Devotees
of Preemption
David
Krieger
From Hiroshima to Humanity
Sharon
K. Weiner / Robert Jensen
From Hiroshima to Iraq and Back
Fred
Gardner
The Budtender's View of a Rip-Off
August
5, 2005
Bill
Christison
New NIE Report on Iran's Nukes
will Not Deter US's Posture of Extreme Aggressiveness
Paul
Craig Roberts
Kelo: a Supreme Assault on Personal
Liberty
Alexander
Cockburn
The Taj Mahal as Kitsch; the
Editor and the Water-Walking Guru
August
4, 2005
Tom
Barry
Inside Bush's "World Democracy
Movement"
Lila
Rajiva
John Bolton's New Internationalism
Greg
Moses
Bush Teaches Intelligent Design
in Prison
Alexander
Cockburn
Indian Journal: Why Indian Farmers
Kill Themselves
August
3, 2005
August
3, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Broken Arrows and Iran: a B-52 Pilot
Remembers
Paul
Craig Roberts
The Kelo Calamity: Money, Power and
Eminent Domaine
William
A. Cook
Innocent Victims: From Hiroshima to Lower Manhattan
Dave
Zirin
Bush's Texas Rangers: a Crackhouse for Juiced Players?
Dave
Lindorff
Court Packing and Worker Rights
José
Pertierra
Why Hamdi Isaac Yes and Posada
Carriles No?
August
2, 2005
Ramzi
Kysia
Disengagement and Diaspora: High Walls
and Razor Wire in the Hebron
William
A. Cook
Words Without Meaning: Torturing Bodies
and Language
Paul
Craig Roberts
When Armageddon Gets No Press
Mike
Whitney
Chertoff's Preemptive Crackdown: 600 Arrests, Only 76 Charged
Ron
Jacobs
Be a Hero: Demand That Johnny Come
Home
Norman
Madarsz
Before the Stun Gun: Jean Charles de Menezes, RIP
Tim
Wise
The Faulty Logic of "Terrorist"
Profiling
August
1, 2005
Virginia
Rodino
Why Bono and Geldof Got It Wrong:
War and Global Poverty are Linked
Diana
Barahona
Return to Venezuela: Land Reform
and Neighborhood Doctors
Joshua
Frank
Gitmo's Kangaroo Courts: First Torture Them, Then Rig Their Trials
Mike
Whitney
The Consolidation of Powers: Rubber Stamp Roberts
Norm
Dixon
The Worst Terror Attacks in History
Norman
Solomon
Operation Withdrawal Scam
James
Petras
The Corruption of Lula's Regime
July
30 / 31, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Lost Nuclear Warheads Now in Iran?
JoAnn
Wypijewski
Scenes and Silver Linings from Labor's
Crack-Up: a Special Report from Chicago
Sheldon
Rampton
War is Fun as Hell: the Video Games
Recruiters Play
Jack
Z. Bratich
Fingerprints of Power: a Summer of Double Super Secrecy
Greg
Moses
How to Cool Your Heels in Texas When It's Late July Across the
World
Jordan
Green
From Woolworth to Wal-Mart: Economics and the Race Divide in
a Southern City
Patrick
Cockburn
Getting Out of Iraq: 5,000 US Troops Have Gone AWOL
Brian
Cloughley
The Bush-Cheney Fixation on Iran
Justin
Taylor
Harry Potter and the War on Terror
Saul
Landau
Enhancements for the Imperial Life: Fashionism Takes Command!
John
Walsh
Dems Field Another Pro-War Candidate: Meet Hack the Hawk
Joshua
Frank
Color-Coded Justice: John Roberts's Racial Hang Up
Ron
Jacobs
Who Needs Feminism? We Have Condi Rice!
Fred
Gardner
The Ethan and Gavin Show
John
Chuckman
Friedman on Terrorism: the Dumbest Story Ever Written
Liaquat
Ali Khan
Lessons City Bombers Need to Learn from Newton and Donne
Remi
Kanazi
Annexing Justice in Palestine
Naveen
Jaganathan
The Gurgaon Riots Rock India
Richard
Heinberg
Where is the Hirsch Peak Oil Report?
Max
Watts
Francis Ona, the Napoleon of Mekamui
Ben
Tripp
Write Your Own Editorial!
Poets'
Basement
Whalen & Engel, Landau, Albert and Krieger
July
29, 2005
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Who's the Real Martyr? Judy Miller or Jim DeFede?
P.
Sainath
The Class War in Gurgaon
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
How the West Was Lost: CAFTA
and the Disassembling of America
Dave
Lindorff
Marvelous Marvin Bush
J.L.
Chestnut, Jr.
America's Racist Inventory: Oppression
Breeds Violence
Pat
Williams
Giving Away the Last Best Place
Norman
Solomon
In Praise of Kevin Benderman: a Moral
Leader of the Nation Goes to Prison
Sen.
Russ Feingold
The Bad News About the Energy Bill
July
28, 2005
Paul
Craig Roberts
Departing Iraq
William
S. Lind
The Duke of Alba and George W. Bush
Gilad
Atzmon
Blair the Camera Man
Joshua
Frank
Passing CAFTA: Blame the Democrats
Lila
Rajiva
Vision Mumbai Submerged
Amina
Mire
Pigmentation and Empire: the Emerging
Skin-Whitening Industry
Website
of the Day
Gateway to Underground News
July
27, 2005
Roger
Morris
The Source Beyond Rove: Condoleezza
Rice at the Center of the Plame Scandal
Gary
Leupp
Is Iran Being Set Up?
Paul
Craig Roberts
US Falling Behind Across the Board
Jackie
Corr
Class War on the Ruby River: the Billionaire with His Foot in
His Mouth
Mike
Whitney
The Coming End of the Housing Bubble
Dave
Zirin
Why Lance Armstrong Must Break with Bush
Christopher
Bradley
Why I Have Trouble Reading the News
Norman
Solomon
Thomas Friedman, Liberal Sadist?
Website
of the Day
Stormin' Norman
July
26, 2005
Suren
Pillay
The Enemy Within: When the "Other"
is One of "Us"
JoAnn
Wypijewski
Fission and Fizzle in Chicago: SEIU and
Teamsters Quit the AFL
Patrick
Cockburn
Iraq: the Unwinnable War
David
Anderson
When the Greatest Outrage is the Lack of Outrage: NYC's Subway
Searches
Joshua
Frank
Hillary Clinton: Outflanking Bush from the Right
Lenni
Brenner
Biography as Wish-Fulfillment: Jefferson, Hitchens and Atheism
David
Swanson
Nuking Native Land
July
25, 2005
Paul
Craig Roberts
China-Mart Takes Over
M.
Shahid Alam
Terrorism: America Defines Its Targets
Uri
Avnery
March of the Orange Shirts
Stan
Cox
Kreationism in Kansas
Norman
Solomon
"Wagging the Puppy"
Ramzy
Baroud
London Bombings: Barbaric, But Not
Unexpected
Mickey
Z.
No Gun Ri: 55 Years Later
Website
of the Day
The Birth of a Hummingbird in 15 Images
July
23 / 24, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn
Islamo-Anarchs or Islamo-Fascists?
Tariq
Ali
The War Comes Home
Robert
Fisk
Something Happened
Dave
Lindorff
Return of the Academic Witch Hunts
Ricardo
Alarcón
Kidnapping in Miami: the UN, the US and the Cuban 5
Col.
Dan Smith
Living in a Twilight Zone: Troop Strength,
Recruitment and the Draft
Brian
Cloughley
The Pentagon's China Hypocrisy
Kevin
Zeese
Growing Republican Opposition to Iraq War
Bill
Quigley
Harrowing Hours in Haiti
Fred
Gardner
The Reverberations of Raich
Rep.
Ron Paul
The Patriot Act is a Threat to Liberty
Joshua
Frank
Framing Abortion: Gonadal Politics and the Democrats
Shivali
Tukdeo
Project Mumbai Makeover: Casualties of Development
Gilad
Atzmon
Blair's "Evil Ideology"
James
Petras
Baghdad: Barbarism and Civilization (a Fiction)
Ben
Tripp
When Being American Was Fun
Poets'
Basement
Krieger, Louise, Buknatski, Albert and Engel
Website
of the Weekend
Remember the West Memphis 3
July
22, 2005
Heather
Gray
Home Grown Axis of Evil: Corp. Agribusiness,
the Occupation of Iraq and the Dred Scott Decision
David
Domke
The American Press and Credibility
Lance
Selfa
Battle of the Insiders: No Heroes in the Plame Leak Scandal
JoAnn
Wypijewski
Is This Really an "Insurgency"
to Shake Up the Labor Movement?
July
21, 2005
Rose
Ann DeMoro
The Top 10 Problems with the "Crisis"
in the Labor Movement
William
Blum
London: Another Casualty in the War on Terror
J.L.
Chestnut, Jr.
Whites Need to Learn Something: Dixie is Everywhere
Christopher
Brauchli
Strange Affairs: Liberals and Alberto
Gonzales
Joshua
Frank
Plame Blame Game: the 5 Ws
Brian
Concannon, Jr.
Haiti's Elections: Time for a Reality Check
Patrick
Cockburn
The True, Terrible State of Iraq
and the Link to London
Website
of the Day
Who Blew Up the Murrah Building?
July
20, 2005
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Judge Roberts: Business as Usual
Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz
Red Christmas
Ray
McGovern
Did Dick Finger Valerie?: the Hand
of Cheney
Chris
Floyd
Judge Dread: John Roberts and the "Enemy
Combatants"
Uri
Avnery
"Silence is Filth"
Dave
Lindorff
Westmoreland's Body Count Goes Up
by One
Norman
Solomon
Gen. Westmoreland's Death Wish
Bill
Quigley
Travels in Haiti with a Wanted Priest
July
19, 2005
Tariq
Ali
An Isolated Regime
John
Ross
Jihad Meets G-8
Davey
D.
More
Clear Channel Censorship: "Don't F--K Around with Tha Police"
Greg
Weiher
Muzzling Saddam: the Old Bait-and-Switch
in Iraqi Jurisprudence
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McKinlay
An "Arse Licker" Goes to Washington: John Howard's
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Solomon
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Lindorff
Get Back to Where We Once Belonged
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Christison
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Frank
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Clement
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An Interview with Ward Churchill
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Shahid Alam
A Muslim Problem: Did Thomas Friedman
Flunk History?
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Wanniski
Memo to Patrick Fitzgerald
Ron
Jacobs
A Weekend to Stop the War
Mike
Whitney
The Straight Line Between Falluja and King's Cross Station
William
MacDougall
From "Bring It On" to "London Can Take It"
Seth
Sandronsky
Temporary Recovery: New Frontiers in Labor Flexibility
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Lichtman
The Consolations of George Lakoff
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Craig Roberts
Can Congressional Republicans End
Bush's Wars?
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of the Weekend
Novels of the Neo-Cons
July
15 / 17, 2005
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Cockburn
Don't You Dare Call It Treason
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St. Clair
Sticky Fingers: the Making of Halliburton
Paul
Craig Roberts
Economic Treason
Harry
Browne
"What They Do to Us, They Will
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Uri
Davis, Ilan Pappe and Tamar Yaron
A Warning from Israel
Andrew
Rubin
End of the Enlightenment: an Open Letter to Stephen Plaut
Patrick
Cockburn
Iraq's Ghost Battalions
J.L.
Chestnut, Jr.
Changes in Selma: Standing Up to Racism in the South
Fred
Gardner
A Professional Bust
Christopher
Brauchli
An Olympic Feat: How to "Double" Aid with No New Money
Chris
Floyd
The Great Iraq Oil Giveaway
Ben
Tripp
The Dark Incontinent
Col.
Dan Smith
General Abizaid, I'm Glad You Asked
Jason
Leopold
What Did Rove Say and When Did He
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Jack
Random
Miller Time
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Solomon
War and Venture Capitalism
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Ochenski
Liberate Montana's Rivers: Come One, Come All!
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of the Weekend
Vote for CounterPuncher David Vest
July
14, 2005
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St. Clair
Sticky Fingers: the Making of Halliburton
Subcomandante
Marcos
This is What Will Do and How We Shall Do It: the Sixth Declaration
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Lindorff
No More Moral Relativism: the US is a Terrorist State
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Frank
Rove Agency: Liberals and the CIA
Jude
Wanniski
Those 8 Black Pages: What's the Real Story on Karl Rove?
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Zirin
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Zeese
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Jensen
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Fiyouzat
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Norris
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of the Day
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13, 2005
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Cloughley
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Galloway
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Fierro
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Knopp
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Solomon
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Z.
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Minick
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Williams
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N. Rubin
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Bratich
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Mire
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Craig Roberts
No-Think Nation
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Avnery
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Rampton
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Christison
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Fisk
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Landau
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Random
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September 6, 2005
Who
Do We Want to be Now, America?
In the Wake of Katrina
By CAROL NORRIS
From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Viet
Nam to our inner cities, the United States has a long history
of not wanting to know, of forgetting, of "moving on."
But as most anyone in the psychology world will tell you, you
can't truly move on until you finally face the truth, whatever
it may be. You must explore it, fully grieve it, compassionately
take responsibility for any part you might have played, and come
to terms with it. Then you move on. If you don't, try as you
might to keep it out of your awareness, the thing you've pushed
deep down will undoubtedly make its way back to the surface as
a sign or a symptom begging to be heard maybe a heart attack
or depression, perhaps substance abuse. What is ignored on a
societal level also finds indirect expression, be it violence,
unchecked consumerism or obsession with mind-numbing 'reality
shows.'
President Bush, too, I imagine has a long history of not wanting
to know. He said there were no real warnings about 9.11.
There were. He said there were no real warnings about the possibility
of levees breaking in New Orleans. Flatly untrue. From his
well-documented succession of business failings to his substance
abuse to the fortuitous coattails he has ridden, I believe Bush
has a history he is desperately trying to undo.
In his early days as president, even the highest office in the
world wasn't enough to erase his past. He was faltering once
again and his handlers were worried. But then came 9.11. And
in the rubble and the horror and the shock of it all Bush at
last found the shame-erasing persona he so desperately needed.
From that day forward he was no longer George Bush, Struggling
Son, but was George Bush, Avenger of Terrorism, George Bush,
Slayer of Evildoers.
Still, somewhere deep down he knew the truth. And to this day
he struggles to keep up the pretense like the all-too human man
behind the curtain playing the grand Wizard of Oz. The more
Bush blusters and postures, the more vulnerable he sounds. Those
who are happy and secure with themselves and their world have
no need to bluster, to discount, to ignore or to pass the buck.
People secure in their world are open. They listen.
But Bush said he couldn't listen to the grieving mother of a
dead soldier camped outside his Texas ranch because he had to
"get on with [his] life." Of course he couldn't listen.
Listening to her would be a chink in his Avenger's armor, a
crack in his reality, and thus a threat to his very fragile sense
of self. We are all hardwired to hold on tenaciously to our
sense of who we are - it's part of our survival instinct. But
unlike most of us, Bush's intractable hold on his reality is
at the expense of countless lives the world over.
Bush's handlers, I believe, understand his deep need to play
the role he fears he's not and so they've fostered the Avenger
of Terrorism persona to manipulate his insecurities to then perpetuate
their self-interested ends.
This tenuous reality needs to be carefully protected. So since
9.11 Bush has been all but hermetically sealed in a mobile bubble
of unreality, a roving movie set. This was evident during the
last presidential campaign at a fundraiser in Northern California
where layers and layers of reality-proofing in the form of a
line of riot-geared police in front of a long row of obscuring
18-wheelers in front of his huge bullet-proofed, tinted-window
entourage were put between the president and the protestors
ostensibly to keep them from him, but equally to keep him from
catching a glimpse of such non-scripted reality. Also on the
campaign trail, those that didn't sign a promise to support Bush
were not allowed into his stump speeches, lest a dissenting sign
catch his or the media's eye. At town hall meetings, the audiences
were checked and vetted and scripted. White House press conferences
are also scripted and those that don't follow the script are
shunned and no longer given access - a perfect metaphor for the
overarching philosophy of the Bush administration.
Such a choreographed presidential life, his rigid, fragile sense
of self and his exceptionally privileged upbringing keep the
horror of the happenings of the Gulf Coast from having real life
resonance with Bush, just as he can't fathom the struggles of
the average worker who actually has to live within the limitations
of his paycheck.
It's an administration disastrously disconnected from reality
and the real life needs of its people. As BushReverend Jim Wallis,
"I'm a white Republican guy who doesn't get itI don't understand
how poor people think." I don't pretend to speak for all
of us non-wealthy folks, but I'll tell you this poor people
and middle class people don't think, "Gee, I'd be so happy
if only our GNP was forever #1 in the world." We don't
think how great it would be to send our kids off to die to kick
the butt of a terrible, but clearly impotent leader. What we're
thinking is that we need decent schools for our kids to help
them succeed. We need jobs to put food on the table and roofs
over our families' heads. And we want health benefits and non-toxic
air and water. We want to be considered worthy enough to be
helped in a disaster. That's what we're thinking.
Judging by the countless newspaper headlines, the rest of the
world is horror-struck at how the logistically capable federal
government of the wealthiest nation on the planet did not help
its people in their dire hour of need. They are flabbergasted
at how it failed to step in, in the crucial hours and days after
Katrina hit when so many lives could've been spared. They are
disgusted at how our federal government yet again tries to pass
the buck. Horror and disgust are appropriate responses to such
seemingly perplexing behavior that had and will continue to have
such dire consequences. But given its disconnect from the reality
of average folk, I wouldn't have expected anything different
from this administration.
In the highly-controlled, distant world it has created for itself,
it has gotten so used to doing what it wants when it wants with
almost no criticism and thus no accountability, it has gotten
lackadaisical and cocky to the extreme. The goal of the Bush
administration's world is to perpetuate the Bush administration's
world. Those charged with our care play seemingly infinite rounds
of golf, pausing before a putt or jetting off to a disaster area
between rounds to grab a quick photo op and offer an insulting
sound bite about how well it's all going while our country's
infrastructure and ideals crumble around us.
In another disastrous disconnect, a global one this time, the
Bush administration not only didn't heed warnings about terrorists
attacking high rises, it blew an unprecedented opportunity after
9.11 to unite a sympathetic world in cooperation, connection
and compassion. Instead it unabashedly exploited 9.11 for political
and corporate gain while alienating the rest of the world. And
through the debacle in Iraq it helped spawn scores of new U.S.-loathing
terrorists.
In the days and weeks and months that followed 9.11, the patriotism
of the people of the U.S. was manipulated and distorted, and
our fear and reason were hijacked. Feeling so shocked and unsafe
and seeking security as we are hardwired to do, many of us very
understandably went into survival mode and shut down. We stopped
listening and stopped thinking. We disconnected and saw the
world through our need to feel protected and to rally round the
person charged to do that the president, with the help
of his staff.
Our disconnection found expression in things like the 'reality'
shows that have become so ubiquitous. They mask reality, yet
at the same time belie a deeper one. They distract us from the
goings-on of our real life world as we absorb ourselves in a
drama that is less threatening to look at because it's not ours,
it's "out there." The plotting and the scheming and
the pitting one person against another in a clawing, scratching
climb to the top on those shows is a metaphor for the consumer-frenzied,
kill or be killed world the Bush administration is helping to
perpetuate at an unparalleled rate, intentionally or not. "Get
money! Get fame. Screw over your friends. If you aren't rich,
you're lazy. Lie. Grab whatever you can. You need more stuff!
There's not enough. Hurry!"
All the while these and the American Idol-type shows that are
filled with real people give false hope to other real people
who are not making ends meet. People who are wrestling with
difficult life circumstances often deal with it by holding on
to the thought of "making it big" some day. The truth
is that Americans are less socio-economically mobile than any
other industrialized country. We use those shows and the like
to keep our unrealistic dream alive. Were the fictional American
Dream not floating around in our current mythology, we would
surely rebel in mass numbers as many exploited people have done
before us.
But reality is peering its ugly head around every shuttered Mom
and Pop store and every choking, toxic lake and river, proving
too great a presence to ignore any longer. Opinion polls show
the Bush administration's carefully constructed façade
is cracking. We still see the world through the need to be protected.
But it's because of this very need that we are letting ourselves
see what's really in front of us.
So the Bush administration can say what it will, but we know
the truth in our hearts. We feel it in our bones. We see it
in our neighborhoods and on our streets. Our schools are disintegrating
and along with them the promise of our children and our country's
future. Social programs are hamstringed or gutted to fund the
debacle created in Iraq and the never-ending, opportunistically-defined
'war on terror.' Racial inequality is the elephant in the room
(even among progressives), and class inequality is creating a
gaping, unsustainable tear in the fabric of our society tax cut
by tax cut.
Ultimately what we realize is that this administration is not,
in fact, protecting us or making our survival one bit easier.
In fact, the promise of America is being stolen from us by a
handful of people blinded by their own fears and rendered so
out of touch with reality by their own insecurities. Such abuses
did not start with the Bush administration to be sure. History
is littered with stories of men (as it happens, almost exclusively
men) doing similar things. But this administration is literally
running amok in a way other governments could only have dreamed
about.
And our congressional Democrats, succumbing to their own fear
and insecurities, have disconnected from our needs, too, failing
to speak up for us in the face of it all. Many still remain
hawkish despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Democrats,
and the majority of Americans, are against the occupation in
Iraq. The Democrats, then, are as culpable as the Bush administration.
Katrina and how it has been handled by our federal government
was as fierce a wake up call for many in the U.S. as the hurricane
itself. It has forced us to look at our leaders' blatant disconnection
to us and our needs. We watched in horror the images of the
poor and the people of color being all but left to fend for themselves.
Along with the rest of the world, we waited for the massive
government mobilization this is America, after all, we
thought. But we shook our heads in disbelief and outrage when
it was not immediate when we knew it very well could and should
have been. The scene has been a horrific one. But as excruciatingly
difficult as the last days have been, how we choose to care for
Katrina's refugees and our country as a whole in the aftermath
will prove to be the most difficult part of all.
If we choose to turn a blind eye and not do everything we can
to ensure the engrained prejudices, the unmasked fear, the blatant
self-interest and self-absorption of our government, the you
name it all the mechanisms that were in place to help create
such an unspeakable nightmare - are not brought to the light
of day and challenged, then we, too, are culpable.
Ignoring or "moving on" before we've explored what
needs to be explored is certainly a recipe for more disasters.
The way the United States manages itself is proving time and
again to be unsustainable. Like the levees in New Orleans, our
economy is broken and soon something is going to give in a big
way. Our social structure is equally broken and is not holding
what it was put in place to hold. If we don't take on these
issues, the levees are going to break, and the issues are going
to continue to take us on, whether we're ready or not.
The public outcry about the handling of Katrina lets me know
we are ready. It's time for us to come together in all our remarkable
diversity with a compassionate but starkly candid eye and take
a reckoning. It's time very literally to decide in what direction
we want our country go.
Do we want to be a country that pretends race and class are not
issues, or do we want to start a real dialogue and listen?
Do we want to be a country that allows money to be systematically
taken from agencies like FEMA, our social programs, and the very
safety nets that make America, America? Do we allow monies that
should've been spent rebuilding the levees in New Orleans and
our schools to continue to be drained by tax cuts for the rich
and appropriated to fund an appallingly unnecessary war in Iraq
and beyond, or do we demand our government drop the barren rhetoric
and make the quality of life of its people its priority via real
actions and substantive policies?
Do we want to be a country that lets rampant consumerism and
the drive to have stuff continue to mask a deeper need, or do
we slow down and look at what's missing in our communities and
our lives?
Do we want to be a people that continue to feel despairing and
victimized and immobilized by a government that seems too disconnected
and omnipotent to contend with, or do we let ourselves feel powerful,
recognizing that people all over the world and throughout history
have triumphed over much more daunting odds?
Do we let this grand experiment in democracy, many generations
old, become a failed one, or do we dare to look at what's really
going on in our government so we can turn around a country that
we know in our hearts is going terribly, terribly wrong?
Like 9.11, the Gulf Coast tragedy has potential to be one of
those change moments. It could be a catalyst to finding our
way back to ourselves, our communities, our ideals and our world.
We can choose to forget all we've seen and know and stick our
heads in the sand, squandering another opportunity. We can choose
to "move on" and let our country continue on its hollow
path of vacuous consumerism, inequity and unrepresentative government,
or we can say enough is enough. We can rise to the occasion
and take responsibility for this messy, beautiful place we call
the United States and help make it a place that truly practices
what it preaches.
The sociopolitical subtext of Katrina will make itself known.
Period. What that looks like and what direction our country
takes now is entirely our choice, America.
What's it going to be?
Carol Norris is a psychotherapist, freelance writer and
member of and former national organizer for CodePink. To read
more articles on politics from a psychological perspective or
to contact her, go to: www.carolnorris.blogs.com.
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