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Today's Stories February 5 - 7, 2010 Paul Craig Roberts February 4, 2010 Barbara Rhine Barry Lando David Macaray Shamus Cooke P. Sainath Christopher Brauchli Ramzy Baroud Suzan Mazur Harry Clark Andy Worthington Website of the Day February 3, 2010 Paul Craig Roberts Kathleen Christison Franklin Spinney Dean Baker Marc Levy Kathy Kelly Gareth Porter Joshua Frank Rannie Amiri Gregory Vickrey Website of the Day February 2, 2010 Michael Hudson Boadiba Chris Floyd Paul A. Passavant Mike Whitney John Ross Jonathan Cook Susan Galleymore Dave Lindorff Tolu Olorunda Ron Jacobs Website of the Day February 1, 2010 Michael Hudson Stan Goff Patrick Cockburn Saul Landau Dr. Carol Paris, MD Marshall Auerback Harvey Wasserman Johanna Berrigan Peter Gelderloos David Michael Green Martha Rosenberg Kevin Zeese Alan Farago Website of the Day January 29 - 31, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Daniel Ellsberg Bill Quigley Franklin Spinney Jeffrey St. Clair Steve Early Joe Bageant P. Sainath Jordan Flaherty Joshua Frank Winslow T. Wheeler Brian M. Downing Wajahat Ali William Loren Katz Dave Lindorff Jim Goodman Judith Scherr Kerry Kennedy / Monika Kalra Varma Anthony Papa David Macaray Roger Burbach Belén Fernández Nikolas Kozloff Dr. Susan Block Windy Cooler Charles R. Larson Mikita Brottman David Yearsley Lorenzo Wolff David Rovics Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend January 28, 2010 Bill Quigley Peter Hallward Tanya Golash-Boza Shamus Cooke Dave Lindorff Ray McGovern Uri Weiss Thomas M. Power Cecil Brown Wajahat Ali Harvey Wasserman Website of the Day January 27, 2010 Daniel Kovalik Paul Craig Roberts Dean Baker Uri Avnery Sasha Kramer Vijay Prashad Nikolas Kozloff Mark Weisbrot Jonathan Cook Bob Fitrakis / Binoy Kampmark Website of the Day January 26, 2010 Michael Hudson Joan Roelofs Patrick Cockburn Mike Roselle Brian M. Downing David Macaray Bouthaina Shaaban Kevin Zeese Richard Morse Fidel Castro Farzana Versey Jonathan Cook Website of the Day January 25, 2010 Michael Hudson Anthony DiMaggio JoAnn Wypijewski Nadia Hijab Robert Jensen John Maxwell Richard Morse Marilyn Langlois Dan Bacher James L. Secor Jayne Lyn Stahl Website of the Day January 22/24, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Russell Feingold Ralph Nader Christopher Ketcham Manuel Garcia, Jr Paul Craig Roberts Jeffrey St. Clair Nikolas Kozloff Jean Damu Mitchel Cohen Paul Buccheit Conn Hallinan Steven Higgs Rob Stone, MD Saul Landau / Ron Jacobs Vijay Prashad P. Sainath M. Shahid Alam George Wuerthner Missy Comley Beattie Jean Sabaté Shamus Cooke Stephen Fleischman Michael Donnelly David Michael Green Michael Dickinson Charles R. Larson David Yearsley Lorenzo Wolff Poets' Basement Website of the Day
Paul Craig Roberts Alan Farago Richard Morse Stewart J. Lawrence Harvey Wasserman Carl Finamore Ramzy Baroud Marshall Auerback Fawzia Afzal-Khan Adam Federman Website of the Day January 20, 2010 Alexander Cockburn James Bovard Mary Lynn Cramer Dean Baker Uri Avnery Kathy Kelly Jeb Sprague Ron Jacobs John V. Walsh Bouthaina Shaaban Gail Dines Website of the Day January 19, 2010 Michael Hudson John Maxwell Stephen Soldz Richard Morse Björn Kumm Gary Leupp Eric Toussaint / Nikolas Kozloff Benjamin Dangl Dave Lindorff Robert Roth Website of the Day January 18, 2010 Petra Bartosiewicz Nelson P. Valdés Bill Quigley Richard Morse Tolu Olorunda John Ross Manuel Garcia, Jr. The Murder of Masoud Alimohammadi: Assassinating the Iranian H-Bomb Ralph Nader Franklin Lamb Frederick B. Hudson Website of the Day January 15-17, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Richard Morse Bill Quigley Patrick Cockburn Jeffrey St. Clair Anthony DiMaggio Tom Reeves Daniel Wolff Alan Nasser Saul Landau / Andrew Oxford Michael Donnelly Russell Mokhiber Darwin Bond-Graham Missy Beattie David Ker Thomson Gary Leupp Ron Jacobs Clifton Ross Jordan Flaherty Marshall Auerback Marjorie Cohn Joe Bageant Tariq Ali Jayne Lyn Stahl Charles R. Larson Kim Nicolini David Yearsley Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend January 14, 2010 Ashley Smith Harvey Wasserman Dean Baker Brian Cloughley Brock L. Bevan Don Monkerud Winslow T. Wheeler Gideon Levy Adam Federman James McEnteer Brian Concannon Jr Website of the Day January 13, 2010 Patrick Haenni / Jonathan Cook Cecil Brown Steven Higgs Paul de Rooij Richard Forno Dr. Trudy Bond Daniel Drennan Martha Rosenberg Brenda Baletti, Gilson Rego and Antonio Sena Website of the Day January 12, 2010 Bill Salganik Uri Avnery Dean Baker Dan Kovalik Raza Naeem George Wuerthner Dave Lindorff David Macaray Tolu Olorunda Patrick Bond Website of the Day January 11, 2010 Patrick Cockburn Gareth Porter John Ross Gregory V. Button Ralph Nader Tom Barry Mikita Brottman David Michael Green Lost in the White House David Swanson Kevin Zeese Website of the Day
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Weekend Edition Disquiet on the Western FrontVigilante Justice in the Land of EnchantmentBy JEFFREY ST. CLAIR At last, it seemed like the Forest Service was poised to do the right thing: curtail the number of cows permitted to trample the Aldo Leopold Wilderness on the infamous Diamond Bar Grazing Allotment in the Gila National Forest. The decision had been drafted, all it needed was a signature. Then, in a last ditch effort to salvage his federal subsidies, rancher Kit Laney, owner of the Diamond Bar, convened a trail ride across the allotment, ostensibly to demonstrate his enlightened stewardship of the range. Invited along for this cantor in the desert were Forest Service staffers and legislative aides to New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici and Representative Joe Skeen. Environmentalist Susan Shock, the courageous director of Gila Watch, also joined the posse. At one point, Laney turned to the saddle-sore congressional aides and, gesticulating wildly, pronounced: “Will I have to kill the next son-of-a-bitch who tries to tell me where I can or can’t move my cows? And if you come after me there’ll be a hundred other ranchers backing me up with guns.” Instead of reporting Laney’s threats to the FBI—as they surely would have had eco-radical Dave Foreman made similar threats—the aides scurried back to Washington, where they urged that Senator Domenici to intercede on the rancher’s behalf. Domenici was then one of the most powerful and arrogant figures in Congress. He was also an intractable foe of grazing and mining reform on public lands. Domenici responded with an urgent call to Jim Lyons, Clinton’s undersecretary of Agriculture overseeing the Forest Service. Lyons folded, as he had done some many times before to members of the Western congressional delegation. Within 12 hours, Lyons had ordered the Forest Service to stand down. Laney’s cows would remain on Gila Forest lands at excessively high numbers, grinding away at one of the nation’s most treasured wilderness areas. Score another victory for the proponents of vigilante justice and their quiescent reps in the Capitol. Scenting blood, Domenici followed up this intervention on behalf of a renegade rancher by introducing a bill in the senate abolishing the last vestiges of Bruce Babbitt’s Rangeland Reform program, essentially eliminating public oversight of federal grazing lands. None of this came as an epiphany to those familiar with the strange political climate of southern New Mexico, a rancid petri dish of the county supremacy movement. Rancher Laney’s father was a co-founder of the Catron County Militia. One his comrades was Dick Manning, a rancher and miner who has repeatedly threatened federal and state officials and environmentalists with bodily harm. In the mid-1990s, Manning was caught stockpiling ammonium nitrate—the same explosive material Timothy McVeigh used to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City—by investigators with the New Mexico Department of Environmental Quality. Manning’s excuse: he used it as an explosive in his mining operations, a grotesquely toxic enterprise that should have been shut down years ago. Catron County, of course, passed the nation’s first so-called custom-and-culture laws, quaint little statutes that seek to protect over-grazing and mining operations from federal oversight by saying such abusive practices are part of the traditional lifestyle of the rural West. (Of course, these ordinances only applied Anglos, traditional Hispanic and Native American uses of the land were ignored.) Catron County passed kooky ordinances requiring environmentalists to register with the county clerk’s office and urging every homeowner to purchase a handgun. The County also announced that it had the authority to arrest federal officials to keep them from enforcing environmental laws. "Federal and state agents threaten the life, liberty, and happiness of the people of Catron CoUnty," declared the county commissioners in a 1992 ordinance. "They present a clear and present danger to the land and livelihood of every man, woman, and child. A state of emergency prevails that calls for devotion and sacrifice." Down there the local press regularly printed threats against environmentalists. One missive published in 1995 urged “responsible citizens” to string up local enviros from old growth cottonwood trees. Another recommended strapping irascible activists to boulders and rolling them into the Gila River during flood season. These tactics of brute force intimidation were sanctioned at the highest levels of the New Mexico government. Only nine days after the Oklahoma City bombing, New Mexico governor Gary Johnson—a putative libertarian—invited the leaders of the state’s five militias to his office in Santa Fe for a friendly chat. These southwestern militia commandos eschew the camo and field jackets of their brethren in the northern latitudes for Stetsons and rattlesnake skin boots. Governor Johnson emerged from the session and duly anointed the New Mexico militias benign, if not benevolent, enterprises, saying, “These folks are responsible, reasonable and lawful.” Johnson went even further, announcing that he was ready to call on them “for help in times of emergency, such as natural disasters, terrorist threats and civil unrest.” Like the next Earth First! Gathering in Jemez Springs, perhaps? To be continued… Jeffrey St. Clair is the author of Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: the Politics of Nature and Grand Theft Pentagon. His newest book, Born Under a Bad Sky, is published by AK Press / CounterPunch books. He can be reached at: sitka@comcast.net. (This article is excerpted from Green Scare: the New War on Environmentalism by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank, forthcoming from Haymarket Books.)
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