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Today's
Stories
January 21/22,
2006
Ralph Nader
Congressional
Ethics After Abramoff
Jason Leopold
How Cheney Used the NSA to Spy on Americans Prior to 9/11
Joanne Mariner
Security, Terrorism and Human Rights
January 20,
2006
Brian J. Foley
What
Kind of War Doesn't Allow for a Truce?
Richard Gott
Revolution in the Andes
Joshua Frank
Israel and US Threats Against Iran
Pierre Tristam
Imperial Mongers: From Gladstone to "King George"
Bernstein /
Allegretto
Hourly Wages Have Fallen in 18 of the Last 20 Months
Elizabeth Schulte
Abortion
Before Roe
Website of
the Day
This Dog Bites
January 19,
2006
Paul Craig
Roberts
Political
Machines: Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Bill Simpich
Those Damn Democrats: To End War, Don't Ask for What You Don't
Want
Kevin Alexander
Gray
Reclaiming King Day (From the NAACP)
Sam Husseini
Rot at the Top: If the Democrats Really Want to Stop Bush, They
Need New Leadership
Sam Smith
The Real Chocolate City
Monica Benderman
Dare to Make a Stand
Winslow T.
Wheeler
Just
How Big is the Defense Budget?
Website of the Day
Leave My Child Alone
January 18,
2006
Paul Craig
Roberts
Gore's
Speech: a Challenge That Cannot be Ignored
Norman Solomon
The Crime of Giving the Orders: Executing Clarence Ray Allen
Jonathan M.
Feldman
The System Doesn't Work Anymore
Michael Carmichael
"Extraordinary Circumstances": the Case Against Alito
Paul D'Amato
The Crimes of Jimmy Carter
Cynthia McKinney
King's Mission Endures
Norman Finkelstein
Why
an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified
Website of the Day
The Planetary Movement
January 17,
2006
M. Shahid Alam
"Real
Men Go to Tehran": Has al-Qaeda's Gambit Paid Off?
John Ross
Latin
America's Indians on the Move--in Different Directions
Tariq Ali
God, Blood, Oil and Iraq
Michael Donnelly
Killing Anna Mae Aquash, Smearing John Trudell
Amira Hass
No Child Left Unharassed: the Obstacle Course to School in Palestine
Doug Giebel
Alito's CAP: Either He Lied on His Resumé or There's a
Cover-Up
Bill Quigley
MLK Day in a Haitian Prison
Ron Jacobs
Meet the Son of Jim Crow: MLK Day Below the Mason/Dixon Line
Mike Stark
Governor on a Killling Spree
Werther
The Liberties of the Subject
January 16, 2006
John Walsh
Tears
of a Neocon: The Good News from Daniel Pipes
Earl Ofari
Hutchinson
Black
Students Under Fire: Racial Profiling in Public Schools
Roger Burbach
Bachelet's
Victory: Leftward Drift in Chile?
Norman Solomon
Ted Koppel, NPR and Henry Kissinger: a Natural Fit?
Robert Jensen
Dreams and Nightmares: How Would King Judge America?
Sam Husseini
Martin Luther King and the Deeper Malady
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bush
Crosses the Rubicon
Website of the Day
MLK: Beyond Vietnam
January 14
/ 15, 2006
Alexander Cockburn
What
the FBI Repairman Wore When He Tried to Bug Edward Said
JoAnn Wypijewski
What
is an Antiwar Movement?
James Petras
The State of the Empire, 2006
Ron Jacobs
Fifteen Years of War: Who's Better Off?
Brian Cloughley
Fly Boys and Lie Boys: Smart-Bombing Iraqi Families While They
Sleep
Marianne McDonald
The Madness of Ajax: a Play for Our Time
Bruce Tyler Wick
Bush on Torture Echoes Charles I on Arbitrary Imprisonment
Fred Gardner
A Last, Desperate Plea to Stay in Canada
Flavia Alaya
Victory at Passaic County Jail
Gary Leupp
A Neocon Plan to Plant WMDs?
Dr. Susan Block
Peeping Tom in the Bush: Nonconsenual Voyeurism and the NSA
Nicole Colson
The House Jack Built: The Abramoff Giude to Buying Friends and
Influencing Politics
Jeffrey Kolakowski
Senator as Illusionist: the Hypocrisies of John McCain
Missy Comley
Beattie
The Stepford Hearings of Samuel Alito: The Senator, the Weepy
Wife and a Secret Annoiting
Charles Thomson
Is Serota Dead in the Water?: the Ofili Scandal at the Tate
St. Clair /
Walker / Vest
Playlsts: What We're Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement
Albert, Engel, Ford and Davies
Website of
the Weekend
Historians Against the War
January 13,
2006
Ralph Nader
The
Two Questions the Senate Should Have Asked Alito
Leonard Weinglass
The
Singular Story of the Cuban Five
Amira Hass
Prisoners in Their Own Land: 800,000 Palestinians Sealed Off
by IDF in West Bank
Chris Kutalik
/ Jennifer Biddle
Airline Workers Fight Back
Lawrence R. Velvel
Alito and the Democrats
Dave Lindorff
Eight Who Dared: a (Short) Congressional Honor Roll
Mike Whitney
Countdown to War with Iran?
David Price
How
the FBI Spied on Edward Said
January 12,
2006
Jennifer Van
Bergen
The
Unitary Executive: Why the Bush Doctrine Violates the Constitution
Jeremy Brecher / Brendan Smith
Command Responsibility: Torture and Legal Accountability
Lawrence R.
Velvel
Alito
Refuses to Answer Fundamental Questions
Ralph Nader / Robert Weissman
Corporations, Originalism and the Bill of Rights: an Open Letter
to Justice Scalia
Jackie Corr
Killing the Big Sky's Golden Goose: Marc Racicot and the Deregulation
of Montana Power
Jared Bernstein
The Wage Doldrums
Russell D.
Hoffman
New Horizons in Space, New Lows in Government
Aubrey Streit
I Was Born in a Small Town: the Fate of Rural America
Clancy Sigal
Hugh
Thompson and My Lai: He Broke Ranks; He Did the Right Thing
Website of the Day
Nukes in Space
January 11,
2006
Kevin Zeese
NSA
Spied on Baltimore Peace Group (And They've Got the Documents
That Prove It)
Ray McGovern
The
Big Wiretap
Allan Maass
/ Joe Allen
Schwarzenegger's
Hit List: Smearing Mandela, Killing Tookie
Earl Ofari
Hutchinson
Snatching at King's Legacy: Mythmaking, Profiteering & Outright
Distortions
Annie Murphy
Evo Morales' Sweater
Allan Lichtman
Abramoff's
Kind of Big Government
Ramzy Baroud
Politics of Chaos: Gaza's Turmoil in Context
Joshua Frank
MoveOn Surrenders to Hillary
Kathleen and
Bill Christison
"Eating
Palestine for Breakfast": the Real Sharon
Website of
the Day
Memoirs of Rummy's Geisha
January 10,
2006
Uri Avnery
The
Post-Sharon Landscape: Three Fingers, No Fist
Saul Landau
Different
Americas
Noam Chomsky
Beyond the Ballot: Iraq, Iran and China
Brian J. Foley
Playing with Fire: Congress and Executive Power
Lenni Brenner
The War Within the Antiwar Movement
Ronan Sheehan
Sheehan to Sheehan: Cindy Sheehan's Irish Interview
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bush's
Con Jobs
January 9,
2006
Behzad Yaghmaian
Who
is to Blame for the Deaths of the Sudanese Refugees?
George Bisharat
US
Aid to Israel is Out of Hand
Dave Lindorff
How the US Press Squelches Bush Impeachment Drive
Norman Solomon
Smoke a Marlboro, Then an Iraqi: How Media War Images Distort
Not Inform
Christopher Brauchli
The Generosity of Credit Card Companies
Aharon Shabtai
A Poet's Letter on the Occupation
Andrew Cockburn
How
Many Iraqis Have Died Since the US Invasion in 2003?
January 7 /
8, 2006
Lawrence Velvel
The
NYT's Unconscionable Decision to Sit on the NSA Story for a Year
James Petras
AIPAC on Trial: Them or US
J.L. Chestnut
Racism and Injustice in Alabama's Courts
Mike Ely
The Dead Miners in Sago
Andrew Wilson
The Dying of Ariel Sharon
Lila Rajiva
Two Moms Go to Capitol Hill
William Cook
The Rape of Palestine
Ramor Ryan
The Sub Motorcycle Diaries: On the Road with the Zapatistas
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
An Interview with Michael Scheuer on the CIA's Rendition Program
Peter Montague
Inherit the Wind: the Global Spread of GMO Crops
Ron Jacobs
Would Ethan Allen Pay to Protest?
Neve Gordon
Images of Real Eco-Terrorism in Twaneh
Fred Gardner
Business as Usual in San Diego
Josh Mahon
Idaho Timber Industry Leader Advocates Violence Against Green's
Mom
Dr. Susan Block
Abramoff Family Values: the Lobbyist Who Screwed Us All
Jeffrey St. Clair
Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement
Albert and Engel
Website of the Weekend
Bush Crimes Commission
January 6,
2006
José
Pertierra
Posada
Carriles May Soon Hit the Streets
Joe Allen
Gary Freeman's Struggle: a Black Radical from the 1960s Fights
Extradition to the US
Winslow T. Wheeler
Huge Defense Budget, Lousy Equipment
John Bomar
A Former NSA Officer on Snoopgate: the Squawkers Should be Congratulated
Jason Leopold
Snoop and Shred
Norman Solomon
Axis of Fanatics: Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad
Robert Pollin
Remembering
Harry Magdoff: the Man Who Explained the Empire
January 5,
2006
Scott Boehm
Big
Profits, Buried Lives: Bulldozing the Dead in New Orleans
Zoltan Grossman
New
Challenges for the Antiwar Movement
Heather Gray
Whistling
Dixie Yet Again
Haninah Levine
Simple
is Dangerous: the Pentagon's Plan for a Manhattan Project on
IEDs
Pierre Tristam
The Sham of Homeland Security: a West Virginia Parable
Remi Kanazi
Stroke of Luck?: Political Hemorrhage in Israel
Gilad Atzmon
Sharon
Meets His Maker
Kathleen and
Bill Christison
What Hillary Clinton Doesn't Know About Palestine
January 4,
2006
Ron Jacobs
Pity
the Miner: A-Diggin' My Bones
Lila Rajiva
Terror
Hits Bangalore
Huibin Amee
Chew
Why
the War is Sexist
Pat Williams
How the West Turned: Biting the Hands That Steal
Linda Milazzo
The House That George and Jack Built: Ownership Society Meets
the Entrepreneurial Style
Nick Dearden
The Fantasy of "Even-Handedness": Blair's Cynical Policy
on Palestine
James Petras
Evo
Morales: All Growl, No Claws?
Website of
the Day
Rat Out a Lobbyist for Jesus
January 3,
2006
James Ridgeway
Pakistan,
Saudi Arabia and 9/11: How Much Did the Bush Administration Know?
Laith al-Saud
Iraqi
Intellectuals and the Occupation: an Interview with Dr. Saad
Jawad
Dick J. Reavis
Border
Walls: the View from Mexico
Joshua Frank
Hillary Clinton, AIPAC and Iran
Rochelle Gause
Inside Rafah: Collective Punishment as Normalcy
Missy Comley
Beattie
How My Mother Went from a Republican to a Screaming Progressive
Paul de Rooij
A Glossary of Dispossession
January 2,
2006
Paul Craig
Roberts
A
Gestapo Administration
Clancy Sigal
A Trip to the Far Side of Madness
Cindy Sheehan
A Tour of Europe: Friends Don't Let Friends Commit War Crimes
Alexander Cockburn
A
NYT Editorial Contemplates Iraq
Dec. 31 / Jan.
1, 2005/6
Patrick Cockburn
The
Year in Iraq
Alexander Cockburn
Who Are We to Complain?: a Diary of 2005
Ralph Nader
Rumsfeld vs. the Military: a Pentagon of Loyalists and Enforcers
James Petras
The Politics of Language: "Escalation" or "Retaliation"
in Israeli Attacks on Palestinians
Peter Montague
A Darker Bioweapons Future
J.L. Chestnut, Jr.
Black Forever: Race, Class and Activism in the South
Vijay Prashad
My California Vacation: Conversations with Indian Americans
P. Sainath
Farm Suicides in Vidharbha
James Brooks
The Spoils of War: Israel's Corruption was Inevitable
Eileen E. Schell
The Farmer Wants a Wife: Hayseeds and Hickxploitation in the
Land of Reality TV
Christopher
Brauchli
Birds of a Feather: George and Vlad
Jo Guldi
Politics, Gay Marriage and Christianity
Fred Gardner
America's Only Legal Grower
Ben Tripp
A Hapless New Year
St. Clair /
Walker / Pollack
Playlists: What We're Listening To This Week
Poets Basement
Engel, Albert, LaMorticella, Buknatski, Davies, Ford and Bear
Dog
Website of
the Weekend
Commit Bloggamy with Dr. Suzy
December 30,2005
Evo Morales
I
Believe Only in the Power of the People
Earl Ofari
Hutchinson
The
Toxic Air in Black America
Dave Lindorff
Bush's NSA Spying Jeopardizes National Security
Gary Leupp
Targeting Iran and Syria: Goss Builds Case for Turkey-Based Attacks
Ron Jacobs
A
Dead New Year's Eve
Brian Concannon
Down
in Haiti, the Chickens are Coming Home to Roost
Sandra Lucas
Inside TeenScreen: the Making of Mental Patients
T.W. Croft
The
Wind Has Changed: Gulf Storms, Fables of Reconstruction and Hard
Times for the Big Easy
Website of
the Day
Images
of Mass Consumption
December 29,
2005
Norman Solomon
Journalists
Should Expose Secrets, Not Keep Them
Missy Comley
Beattie
Christmas
Without Chase
Dave Zirin
Over the Edge: the Year in Sports
Kevin Zeese
Top
10 Antiwar Stories of 2005
Derrick O'Keefe
Bolivia and Venezuela Offer an Alternative to Neo-Liberalism
Sam Bahour
Turning the Page in Palestine, Again
Macdonald Stainsby
What's Behind Paul Martin's Broadside Against Bush?
Bill &
Kathleen Christison
Let's Stop a US/Israel War on Iran
Website of the Day
Deconstructing the Democrats
December 28,
2005
Jeffrey St.
Clair
The
Worst Day of Ted Stevens' Life?
Lila Rajiva
Operation Romeo: Lessons on Terror Laws from India
Amira Hass
The Humanitarian Lie
Joshua Frank
Let the Drilling Begin: Iraq's IMF Loan
David Swanson
Leaking Top Secret Lies
Richard Thieme
High Time for Torture
Paul Craig
Roberts
Three
Books to Wake You Up
Website of the Day
Conyers Report: "Constitution in Crisis"
December 27,
2005
Evan Jones
Whither
the National Guard?
Uri Avnery
The Peretz Shuffle
Mike Whitney
Pop Goes the Bubble!
Gideon Levy
Dusty Trail to Death
David Swanson
Kurt Vonnegut: a Man Without a Country
Norman Solomon
NSA Spied on UN Diplomats During Push for Invasion of Iraq
December 26,
2005
Lawrence R.
Velvel
The
Usurpers of Our Freedoms
Lance Olsen
The Toughest Challenge for Intelligent Design
Ben Terrall
No Holiday Compassion for Haiti's Political Prisoners
Scott Boehm
Santa Drove a Bulldozer
Charlie Ehlen
A Vietnam Vet's Appraisal of Bush
Tom Kerr
The Atheist Dad at Christmas
December 24/25,
2005
Aleander Cockburn
The
Year of Vanished Credibility
James Petras
Iran in the Crosshairs: Israel's Deadline
Ralph Nader
Talkin'
About the "I"-Word
Lila Rajiva
Horowitz's New Project: Begging for Brownshirts
Fred Gardner
Dialogue with the DEA
Ron Jacobs
When Impeachment was Taken Seriously
Dave Lindorff
Xmas Games for a Gitmo World
Gary Leupp
Happy Birthday Mithras!: the True Meaning of December 25th
Saul Landau
Bush's Year in Review: a Report Card from Santa
John Chuckman
A Christmas Tale for Bushtime
Dr. Susan Block
Merry XXX-mas!
St. Clair / Vest / Pollack
/ Donnelly
Playlist: What We're Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement
Holt, Jones, Landau, Ross and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Merry Xmas, From the Beatles
December 23,
2005
John Ross
The
Corrido of Death Row: Mexico Ends the Death Penalty
Chris Floyd
Gospel
Truth: Bush Hypocrisy, Radical Holiness and Woody Guthrie
Lawrence Mishel
/ Ross Eisenbrey
The
Economy in a Nutshell
Joanne Mariner
Bringing
Torture into Court: the Loopholes in McCain's Bill
Eric Johnson-Debaufre
The Trew Law of Free Democracies?
Ray McGovern
Cheney the Bully; Rockefeller the Coward
J. L. Chestnut,
Jr.
What
White America Doesn't Hear
Website of
the Day
BB King: What I've Learned This Year
December 22,
2005
Ingmar Lee
The
Citizen's Metamorphosis: I Awoke an Object of Suspicion
Elisa Salasin
Classrooms
in Cages
Christopher
Brauchli
Absolut Bush: "I Swear to Upturn and Rear End the Constitution
of the United States"
Robin Blackburn
Rudolf Meidner, a Visionary Pragmatist
Evelyn Pringle
Dan Olmstead, Autism & the Dangers of Thimerosal
Amira Hass
A 14-Year Old's Prison Journey: "I Refused and He Hit Me"
Francis A.
Boyle
Iraq and the Laws of War: US as "Belligerent Occupant"
Stew Albert
The
Spies Who Thought We Were Messy
Website of
the Day
How to Reach a Human Voice
December 21,
2005
Paul Craig
Roberts
One
Nation, Under Prosecutors: Presumed Guilty
Lila Rajiva
A Short History of Radio Free Iraq
Joshua Frank
Nancy Pelosi's Truth
Dave Zirin
The Bray of Pigs: Bush Nixes Beisbol Cubano
Ramzy Baroud
US Image Problem Rooted in History, Not Media
Sonia Nettnin
Connect the Dots: Decoding Bush's Mumbo Jumbo
Ben Saul
Torture as Calculated Policy
Jonathan Cronin
Anniversary of a Handshake: Cherry-picking History in Iraq
Patrick Cockburn
Iraq
Election Spells Total Defeat for US
Website of
the Day
Nixon on Presidential Power
December 20,
2005
Jackie Corr
Natural
Gas: a Montana Tragedy
Earl Ofari
Hutchinson
Nothing
New About NSA Spying on Americans
Michael Donnelly
"Eco Terrorism": Cui Bono?
Gian Paulo
Accardo
Empire of Shame: a Conversation with Jean Ziegler
Pierre Tristam
Trifler, Fibber, Sophist, Spy: How Bush Flouted the Constitution
Norman Solomon
The Foulest Media Performances of the Year
Sen. Robert Byrd
No President is Above the Law
Dave Lindorff
Missing
Black Boxes in WTC Attacks Found by Firefighters, Analyzed by
NTSB, Concealed by FBI
Website of the Day
FBI's Spy Files: Got Yours Yet?
December 19,
2005
Mike Marqusee
The
Global War on Civil Liberties
Gary Leupp
Feds Ask Student: "Why are You Reading that Little Red Book?"
Ron Jacobs
The Antiwar Movement, the Democrats and the Delusions of Bushworld
John Blair
Stealing the Golden Shovel: Lessons on Civil Disobedience
Gideon Levy
Sadism at the Qalandiyah Checkpoint
Kevin Zeese
The
Global War on Civil Liberties
Missy Comley Beattie
Warnings from a Military Man and Dad
Don Santina
Ride 'Em Brush Cutter: Cowboy Imagery and the American Presidency
Website of the Day
A Call for Justice in Palestine
December 17
/ 18, 2005
Cockburn /
St. Clair
Time-Delayed
Journalism: the NYT and the NSA's Illegal Spying Operation
Gabriel Kolko
The
Decline of the American Empire
Susan Alcorn
Texas: Three Days and Two Nights
Werther
The Democrats are an Impotent and Tolerated Opposition Party
Ralph Nader
The Senator Without Guile: Proxmire of Wisconsin
Patrick Cockburn
Counting Ballots and Bodies in Baghdad
Fred Gardner
When Prosecutors Deceive: Did the Feds Frame Bryan Epis?
Dave Lindorff
Spy Scandal Far Larger Than Just NSA
Ned Sublette
Essence is Gasoline
Lee Sustar
The Class War Economy
Jason Leopold
Did Karl Rove Destroy Evidence in Plame Case?
Laura Carlsen
Report from Hong Kong: Deciphering the Language of Globalization
Jeff White
Teacher Fired for Talking About Peace?
Ray McGovern
Torture Between the Lines
Chris Floyd
Pale Fire: the White Death of Fallujah
William Loren Katz
Remembering the First Quagmire at Xmastime: Zachary Taylor vs.
the Seminoles
Rose Miriam
Elizalde
Mashenka and the Bear: a Tale for Our Time
Greg Moses
Pinter's Provocation: Self Love in America
Heather Gray
Privatizing the Social Contract
Alison Weir
My Bethlehem Experience: the Sequel
St Clair /
Walker / Pollack
Playlists: What We're Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement
Landau, Engel and Albert
Website of
the Day
At Least Homeland Security Believes that Mao Still Matters
December 16,
2005
Tom Kerr
CNN's
Goddess of Vengeance: What's Not to Love About Nancy Grace?
Mark Engler
The
WTO in Hong Kong: Is Market Access the Answer to Poverty?
John Bomar
When Ollie North Came to Hot Springs
Patrick Cockburn
Iraq Votes; Now What?
Pierre Tristam
Iraq, Ourselves
William S. Lind
The Fine Art of Withdrawal
Cyril Neville
Why I'm Not Going Back to New Orleans
Robert Jensen
Monkey See, Monkey Do: Reason, Evolution and Intelligent Design
Saul Landau
Bolivian
Democracy and the US: a History Lesson
Website
CounterPunch & Dr. Price Vanquish Anthropologist Spies
December 15,
2005
Oren Ben-Dor
The
Ethical and Legal Challenges Facing Palestine
Stan Cox
"Agroterrorists"
Needn't Bother
Joshua Frank
Organic Inconsistencies: Federal Food Politics
Ben Terrall
Waivers for State Terror: Bush and the Indonesian Generals
Patrick Cockburn
Silence Descends on Baghdad
Monica Benderman
What Peace Needs
Walter A. Davis
Fear and Loathing in San Quentin
Vijay Prashad
Our
Torture Problem
Website of
the Day
Hourly Wages After Four Years of "Recovery"
December 14, 2005
Patrick Cockburn
Iran
Poised to Win Iraqi Elections
Paul Craig
Roberts
Lethal
Developments
Lawrence R. Velvel
A Bore Called Bob: On Trying to Read Woodward
Wayne Garcia
The Summer of Sami
John Sugg
Preach Peace, Sami; Get Truthful Prosecutors
Gary Leupp
Bush and the Constitution: "Just a Goddamned Piece of Paper"
Ray McGovern
Torture: a Defining Moment
Alan Maass
They Murdered a Peacemaker
April Hurley, MD
NPR Swallows Bush's Guestimate on Iraqi Dead
Kevin Alexander
Gray
Richard Pryor's Mirror on America
December 13,
2005
Stephen T.
Banko, III
Heroes
Patrick Cockburn
America's
War So Far: 1000 Days of Getting It Wrong
Laura Carlsen
What's at Play at the WTO
Karl Grossman
Nuclear Routlette in the Troposhere: Another NASA Plutonium Launch
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Original Sin
Kevin Zeese
Report from the International Peace Conference in London
Norman Solomon
At the Gates of San Quentin
Michael G.
Smith
Ending the Death Penalty
Stew Albert
California Killers
Bob Dylan
Song for Tookie: George Jackson
Phil Gasper
California Murders Tookie Williams: a Report from San Quentin
Website of
the Day
Boot Hill
December 12,
2005
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
Defenders of Torture
Lawrence R.
Velvel
George the Disconnected
Jessica Stewart
My Husband is at the Gates of Gitmo
George Bisharat
Busharon: a Fusion of Like Minds
Nate Mezmer
Killing Tookie Williams: If a Black Man Dies in America, Does
It Make a Sound?
Earl Ofari
Hutchinson
Richard Pryor Wasn't Crazy
Alison Weir
My Bethlehem Experience
Seth Sandronsky
Thank You, Richard Pryor
Patrick Cockburn
Iraq:
the Beginning of the End
Website of
the Day
Wrestling for Peace
December 10 / 11, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
All
the News That's Fit to Buy
Landau / Hassen
The Condemned of Nablus
Ralph Nader
The
Widening Wasteland of American Media
Linn Washington, Jr
The Philly Media and Mumia: When They Don't Bash, They Ignore
Bill Christison
Apathy, US Culpability and Human Rights Day
Mike Ferner
The Courage of Jim Loney
Elizabeth Schulte
Abortion and the Bush Court
Neve Gordon / Yigal Bronner
Murder in Jerusalem
Linda S. Heard
Saddam's Trial: Grandstanding in the Theater of the Absurd
Ingmar Lee
A Kayak Journey to Vancouver Island's Wildest Forest
Ray McGovern
Lies, Torture and the Six Blind Mice
John Chuckman
Torture and White Phosphorous: the Moral Hell of Condi Rice
John Ryan
An Honorary Degree in Child Sacrifice?: Madeleine Albright and
US Foreign Policy
Dick J. Reavis
From Waco to Baghdad
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush's Hired Pens
Behzad Yaghmaian
Trapped at the Gates of the European Union
Aseem Shrivastava
The Winter in Delhi, 1984
John Ross
Bushlandia in Black and White
Ben Tripp
War, What is It Good For?
St. Clair / Pollack / Vest
/ Despair
Playlist: What We're Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement
Hassen, Bear Dog, Ford, Mickey Z, Albert & Engel
Website of the Week
Burn a Brick for Bush
December 9,
2005
Linn Washington,
Jr.
Roots
of Gitmo Torture Lie Close to Home
Dave Zirin
/ Mike Stark
On
Seeing Wesley Baker Die
Patrick Cockburn
Blair
Tries to Cover Up $1.3 Billion Iraqi Theft
Alexander Cockburn
Murtha Returns to Attack; Flays Bush
Lila Rajiva
Shooting the Mentally Ill
Gary Leupp
White House Liars on the Defensive
Jason Leopold
Rove Running Out of Answers, Time
Bruce K. Gagnon
So These Are the Democrats?
Andrew Cockburn
Meet
Rahm Emmanuel, the Democrats' New Gatekeeper
Website of the Day
"X-mas Time for Visa"
December 8,
2005
Kathy Kelly
Blessed
are the Merciful in Baghdad
James Petras
The Venezuelan Election: Chavez Wins, Bush Loses (Again)
William S.
Lind
Questionable Assumptions: Dissecting the Stategy for Victory
Laura Carlsen
The Strange Mission of Vicente Fox: Free Trade and Mexico
Justin Akers
Bush's Border War
Thomas Graham, Jr
A Nuclear Pearl Harbor in Outer Space?
Norman Solomon
Rumsfeld's Handshake Deal with Saddam
Tariq Ali /
Robin Blackburn
The
Lost John Lennon Interview
Website of
the Day
Pigs at the Trough of War
December 7,
2005
John Ryan
Dershowitz vs. Chomsky: a Review of the Harvard Debate
Gary Leupp
Suicide
Before Dishonor in Occupied Iraq
Fran Quigley
How the ACLU Didn't Steal Christmas
Jeremy Brecher
/ Brendan Smith
Bush
War Crimes: the Posse Gathers
Joshua Frank
Bird Dogging Hillary
William W.
Morgan
Rendition, Torture and Democracy
Dave Lindorff
A Stunning Win for Mumia Abu Jamal
Patrick Cockburn
Saddam: "Come Visit My Cage"
Harold Pinter
Art, Truth and Politics: the Nobel Lecture
Website of
the Day
Witnesses to Torture
December 6,
2005
Ron Jacobs
No
One is Illegal; No One is an Infidel
Patrick Cockburn
Inside
Saddam's Trial: Tales of the Human Meat Grinder
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Public Land Should Stay Public
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Roberts
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John Walsh
The
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Brian Cloughley
The Poor Dead: the Relative
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Weissman
The Corporate Crime Quiz
Robert Jensen
How Big Money Eviscerates the First Amendment
Norman Solomon
Hidden in Plane Sight: US Media Ignores Iraq Air War Plan
Peter Rost, MD
An Open Letter to the Justice Department: Pfizer May Have Violated
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Lila Rajiva
The
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December 3 / 4, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
The
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Lawrence R.
Velvel
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Brains and Lies
Rev. William Alberts
The Forgotten Christmas Story: Saying No to King Herod
Saul Landau
Latino
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Ralph Nader
Consumerama
Paul Craig
Roberts
Don't Confuse the Jobs Hype with the Facts
Mike Whitney
Blood Feast: Celebrating Executions in America
Allan Lichtman
The DeLay Scheme: Blatantly Buying Our Government
Dave Lindorff
A Sudden Rush for the Exits?
Brian Concannon,
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Fred Gardner
Oregon NORML Honors Growers
Manuel Garcia,
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On Freeing the CPT
Carol Wolman
Remembering the 60s
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Bush's Constitutional Kamikazes: Padilla's No-Win Dilemma
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Questions
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Manuel Talens
The Chávez Theorem
Peter Phillips
Death By Torture: Media Ignores the Hard Evidence
J.L. Chestnut,
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CounterPunch Playlists
What We're Listening
to This Week
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR,
JESSE WALKER and PHYLLIS POLLACK
JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
1. Wilson Pickett: It's
Harder Now (Rounder)
When Wilson Pickett recorded
this CD for Rounder in 1999, it had been 10 years since the soul
legend had put out a record. His voice hadn't deteriorated that
much. At 60, Pickett could still hit most of the keys he did
as a youngster, belting out "I Found A Love" for the
Falcons or his astounding string of hits for Stax in the 1960s,
from "Mustang Sally" to the haunting "In the Midnight
Hour." By the 1990s his unmistakable voice had acquired
a slightly rougher edge, the songs reaching back deeper into
the blues. These are songs of experience. Perhaps only Marvin
Gaye ever sang with more authority about sex. I said "perhaps,"
didn't I?
2. Rob Wagner Trio: Lost Children (Valid
Records)
Recorded a few weeks before
Katrina sank New Orleans, Lost Children is the third release
by the acclaimed New Orleans saxophonist Rob Wagner from Valid
Records. It is a haunting record in the style of Joe Henderson
or Wayne Shorter. Wagner's music has a New Orleans flavor, but
it's not the kind of jazz you'll find fratboys on Bourbon Street
getting plastered to. This is new music, fresh, dissonant, alive.
Katrina blew band apart. Wagner is now in New York, playing flemenco
and klezmer gigs. Bassist James Singleton landed in LA where
he is playing with the Astral Project and drummer Ocie Davis
took refuge in Virginia. The musicians have been scattered, but
Valid Records is back in business and the music of the city lives,
breathes and screams for you attention.
3. Peter Feldman and the
Pea Patch Quintet: Grey
Cat on the Tennessee Farm (Hen Cackle Records)
Born in Germany, Peter Feldman
came to the states shortly after World War II and soon fell in
love with the Old Time Country music of the Smoky Mountains.
Feldman became an accomplished banjo picker and even enticed
Bill Monroe to give him pointers on how to play the mandolin.
Like Dylan, Feldman was entranced by the music of Uncle Dave
Macon, one of the first big country stars. Macon sang politically-charged
songs and played the banjo with the same kind of theatrical zeal
that T-Bone Walker later displayed on the guitar. For Grey Cat
on the Tennessee Farm, Feldman assembled some of the best roots
musicians around (including fiddler Byron Berline and picker
Bill Bryson) to play 18 Macon songs in a bluegrass style. The
result is a beautiful recording and a true labor of love.
4. Clifford Brown: The
Beginning and the End (Columbia)
There's some debate about whether
or not the last three songs on this CD were recorded at the Music
Inn in Philadelphia on that fateful night in 1956 when Clifford
Brown died in a car crash on the treacherous Pennsylvania Turnpike.
If these weren't Brown's last performances, the renditions of
Miles Davis's "Walkin'" and Charlie Parker's "Donna
Lee" certainly have the feel of a musician at the very top
of his form. The two songs that open the cd are blistering R&B
numbers recorded in 1952 when Brown was the hot young trumpeter
in Chris Powell's Jamaican band. Brown's tragically premature
death was as big a blow to jazz as Hendrix's demise was to rock.
5. Hound Dog Taylor: Release
the Hound (Alligator)
When I was 16, I stole my father's
240z and sped from Indianapolis to Chicago to see the Cubs lose
to the Cardinals at Wrigley in the afternoon and Hound Dog Taylor
and the Houserockers play deep into the July night at some westside
dive. We ended up sleeping on a bench in Grant's Park and I didn't
get the keys back again for several months. You have to ask me
if it was worth it? Hound Dog died a few weeks later. These live
recordings from the early 1970s faithfully capture the inimitable
sound of Hound Dog's sleazy slide guitar and endless electic
boogie as I heard them on that surreal night in 1975.
6. Dexter Gordon: Our
Man in Paris Remastered (Blue Note)
Born in LA, Dexter Gordon learned
his craft by playing for some of the giants of the swing era:
Fletcher Henderson, Lionel Hampton, Billy Eckstein and Louis
Armstrong. But his own recordings from the early 1950s were the
coolest species of bebop, the epitome of what would become the
West Coast sound. Heroin took its toll later in the decade and
Gordon fled to the sanctuary of Paris to kick the habit and rehab
his career. This set finds him in fine form with his fellow refugees
Bud Powell and Kenny Clarke, accompanied by the great Parisian
bassist Pierre Michelet. No one ever coaxed a sultrier tone from
a saxophone.
7. Jay Chevalier and Shelley
Ford: Rockin'
Country Sides (Hydra)
The long lost king of Louisiana
rockabilly. Check out the unforgettable "Castro Rock"
Down in Cuba, where they
raise sugar cane,
got a brand new dance, it's a crazy thing,
named after a man by the name of Fidel,
just stand in one place and shake like hell ...
8. J.B. Lenoir: Vietnam
Blues (Evidence)
J.B. Lenoir was the most politically
explicit of blue singers, attacking not only the Vietnam War,
but also the Korean War, as well as the murderous war on black
civil rights organizers in his home state of Alabama. Lenoir
worked for years as a janitor at the University of Illinois in
Champagne. Imagine Keith Richards toiling away as a chimney sweep
in Cambridge.
9. Rachel Z.: Everlasting
(Tone Center)
Rachel Z. earned her stripes
playing keyboards in Wayne Shorter's band. That's pretty exalted
company in my book. Here Rachel goes solo, playing soul jazz
covers of rock songs. Most of the tracks are deconstructed to
the point of almost being unrecognizable, except for a few brief
tell tale quotes. The exception is a faithful-to-the-point-of-parody
version of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun."
10. B.B. King: The
1950-51 Modern Recordings (Ace)
BB King announced this week
that his next tour would be his last. This is what BB sounded
like at the beginning, when he'd just turned 20. After this recording
of "3 O'clock Blues", electric blues never sounded
the same.
Jeffrey St. Clair's music writings (as well as CPers Ron
Jacobs, David Vest and Daniel Wolff) can be found in Serpents
in the Garden. He can be reached at: sitka@comcast.net.
JESSE WALKER
1. Wilson Pickett: A
Man and a Half
R.I.P.
2. Clarence Carter: Snatching
It Back
"Making Love (At the Dark
End of the Street)" is the best sermon ever set to wax.
3. Jimmy Smith: The
Sermon
The second best sermon
ever set to wax -- and it doesn't even have any words.
4. Tom T. Hall: Greatest
Hits
The living master of the funny,
easygoing, but sharply observed story-song. Someone please convince
this man to come out of retirement.
5. Cowboy Copas: Copasetic
Copas' country-pop records
were popular in the '40s and '50s but are almost entirely forgotten
today. Some of these songs have aged better than others; the
best by far is "Feelin' Low," a high-lonesome single
from 1952.
6. Various Artists: Dylan
Country
Country stars have been covering
Bob Dylan for over 40 years now. This anthology of their efforts
is uneven, but it collects some of the high points, notably Waylon
Jennings' "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," Glen
Campbell's "If Not for You," and Jennifer Warnes' "Sign
on the Window." The most charmingly weird matchup between
singer and song comes when a bemused Buck Owens performs a slightly
garbled version of "Love Minus Zero/No Limit." I don't
know what meaning, if any, he read into the words, but I'm pretty
sure it wasn't what Dylan originally had in mind.
7. Jerry Garcia and David
Grisman: Not
for Kids Only
A well-titled CD: Someone gave
us this collection of kids' songs when our daughter was born
last summer, and we've been playing it for ourselves as much
as for her ever since then. The best track is "Teddy Bear's
Picnic," which in this arrangement sounds like it might
turn into "St. James Infirmary" at any moment.
8. Bill Cosby: Bill
Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs
I found this ineffable album
online . After one acquaintance listened to "Questions and
Answers," he commented that it ought to be called Bill
Cosby Tells Kids How to Use Drugs. Another possibility: Bill
Cosby's Record Company Is On Drugs. Jesus fucking Christ,
what were they thinking?
Jesse Walker is managing editor of Reason
and author of Rebels
on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America. His
blog is The Perpetual
Three-Dot Column.
PHYLLIS
POLLACK
1. Joey Ramone: Don't
Worry About Me (Sanctuary Records)
Joey fucking lives. As fate would have it, this stealthy
and reflective work is the only solo disc he ever released. This
album is like Proverbs; there is so much truth contained inside
its tracks. "Mr. Punchy" could have been a character
in The Who's Tommy. I have known a few Mr. Punchy's during my
lifetime, and to my occasional regret, I have, at various times,
gotten a little too close, at least within punching distance,
to more than just one of them. My favorite Ramone pontificates
on some of the not so lovely things that are happening in the
world today. "I Got Knocked Down (But I'll Get Up)"
is all too real. "Sitting in a hospital bed, frustration
going through my headI want my life." Despite the fucked-up
things that are going on in this world, the malignant people,
and his fighting an illness that would soon take his life, he
still brings so much beauty to the rest of us when he does it
his way on "What A Wonderful World," which was previously
a hit for Louie Armstrong. What comes through here is Ramone's
sheer faith and strength, fighting for survival, and trying to
find beauty and meaning, while spending what would ultimately
be the last of his time here in a pretty fucked-up world. Finding
that beauty, and spreading it around, despite it all, that is
real power. It ain't how much money you have to flaunt at people,
how much you can fuck your daughter over, abuse your kids, go
around and threaten people, have a self-inflated ego, pretending
to be morally or otherwise superior, while creating a fraudulent
sense of self-righteousness to hide it all, and conspiring as
to how to inject some more misery in other peoples' lives. Real
power is about faith, strength, fighting for survival, not just
for yourself, but for others, and spreading beauty, grace and
all the good things that make this life worth it to other people,
despite all odds. And that, to me, is what real rock and roll
is about. And that is why the Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
is one of the greatest rock and roll songs ever written. Sit
down and listen to that song, and then listen to this album.
You will understand the concept. When I write this, I mean this
with all my heart: My life makes more sense to me because Joey
Ramone lives.
2. Earl Thomas: Intersection
(Memphis International Records)
Earl Thomas comes with all
the right moves when he arrives at the crossroads, where he creates
an intersection rock, blues, soul and rhythm and blues. On this
ten-song disc, one of its great delicacies is his soulful version
of the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar," to which he injects
some serious mojo into that Glimmer Twins track. On "Higher
Ground," Thomas sings, "The rules of the jungle made
me who I am." Despite any such constraints, a functified
version on the album of T Rex's "Bang A Gong" shows
the delectable possibilities that come from his breaking all
the rules, and when he creates his own.
3. Cactus: Cactology
(Rhino Records)
One of the original power drummers
of rock, Carmine Appice has long been a master of the sticks.
Thinking of Carmine always makes me laugh, namely because he's
told me a few really funny stories. I tell you, rock and roll
tales that are even better than those Led Zeppelin fish stories.
Despite his staggering sense of humor, this album is some very
serious rock and roll. Bluesy, hard and heavy, this album is
downright wicked, because of Appice, Tim Bogert, Rusty Day and
Jim McCarty. The album features a hefty sixteen pages of liner
notes; you get a gram of rock here for the mere price of a disc.
Classics like "Parchman Farm," "Rock and Roll
Children" and "Long Tall Sally" take you back
to when rock was about a jam, and its tracks did not have to
be constructed to fit into a corporate format. Appice has managed
to have a long and varied career, and his work with Cactus is
a real fine sample of it.
4. Eric Burdon: Soul
Of A Man (SPV Records)
Eric Burdon has released hits
over the years including "See See Rider," "Don't
Let Me Be Misunderstood," and "We Gotta Get Out Of
This Place." Then there were his days with his group War,
with singles like "Spill The Wine" and "Tobacco
Road." Despite these recordings, he will always be most
likely known for his rendition of the cautionary tale, "House
Of The Rising Sun." Like other great artists who comprised
the best of the British Invasion, in early in his career, Burdon
covered American blues and R&B songs, opening for acts such
as John Lee Hooker and other purveyors of the Blues. On this
album, he conjures the spirits of his musical mentors. Blind
Willie Johnson wrote the album's title track more than a century
ago. Johnson's mother died while he was still a toddler, and
his father remarried. Soon afterwards, however, he caught Willie's
stepmother cheating on him, and in a fit of rage, he consequently
beat her up. Seeking revenge, she threw lye into seven year-old
Willie's eyes, so as to intentionally blind his young son. Blind
Willie became a guitarist and songwriter; most of his recordings
were religious in nature. He clearly had his own soul searching
to do, as indicated by the lyrics of this particular song. Blind
Willie Johnson's quest for answers may have been long out of
sight, but certainly not out of mind. With this title track,
Burdon reaches out to Willie's departed soul, and takes on the
rest of Johnson's quest for the musical answer sought in this
song.
5. Patti Scialfa: 23rd
Street Lullaby (Sony)
Whether it's E Street or a
23rd Street Lullaby, it's always the right place. I've played
this album over and over, and I always look forward to the next
time I'll hear it.
6. Aerosmith: Live
At The Joint (Columbia Records)
Just because you dabble once
in a while, it doesn't mean you're addicted. It ain't like a
nasty habit, if just an occasional bump. If it gets you off,
that's all you really needed.
7. Iggy Pop: Skull
Ring (Virgin Records)
If Iggy threw a party, who
would he invite? All you gotta do is crash this party, and find
out here. These sixteen tracks make excellent party favors, with
Iggy serving as the perfect host. Now if we could just get the
Stooges out the other room often.
8. Wilson Pickett: Best
Of Wilson Pickett (Atlantic Records)
Theses compositions are the
blueprint of a legend, one of the greats, the likes of whom,
you can be assured will never be duplicated.
9. Ghetto Girlz: Ain't
Takin' No Shit (Heatwave Records)
If you can beg, borrow or steal
this out of print classic hiphop disc, or even just snag its
featured single that once graced the airwaves, say somewhere
like at http://www.vinylexchange.co.uk/GIRLZ
by all means, do so. This estrogen-filled answer to the trigger
happy Geto Boys' "Mind Playing Tricks On Me," (transformed
as "My Man's Playing Tricks On Me") is one of the most
obscure, but humorous, hiphop comedy singles of all time.
Phyllis Pollack lives in Los Angeles where she is
a publicist and music journalist. She can be reached through
her blog.
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