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The New Face of Class War

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Te attacks on middle-class jobs are lending new meaning

to the phrase "class war". The ladders of upward mobility are being dismantled. America, the land of opportunity, is giving way to ever deepening polarization between rich and poor.

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The assault on jobs predates the Bush regime. However, the loss of middle-class jobs has become particularly intense in the 21st century, and, like other pressing problems, has been ignored by President Bush, who is focused on waging war in the Middle East and building a police state at home. The lives and careers that are being lost to the carnage of a gratuitous war in Iraq are paralleled by the economic destruction of careers, families, and communities in the U.S.A. Since the days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s, the U.S. government has sought to protect employment of its citizens. Bush has turned his back on this responsibility. He has given his support to the offshoring of American jobs that is eroding the living standards of Americans. It is another example of his betrayal of the public trust.

"Free trade" and "globalization" are the guises behind which class war is being conducted against the middle class by both political parties. Patrick J. Buchanan, a three-time contender for the presidential nomination, put it well when he wrote1 that NAFTA and the various so-called trade agreements were never trade deals. The agreements were enabling acts that enabled U.S. corporations to dump their American workers, avoid Social Security taxes, health care and pensions, and move their factories offshore to locations where labor is cheap.

The offshore outsourcing of American jobs has nothing to do with free trade based on comparative advantage. Offshoring is labor arbitrage. First world capital and technology are not seeking comparative advantage at home in order to compete abroad. They are seeking absolute advantage abroad in cheap labor.

Two recent developments made possible the supremacy of absolute over comparative advantage: the high speed Internet and the collapse of world socialism, which opened China's and India's vast under-utilized labor resources to first world capital.

In times past, first world workers had nothing to fear from cheap labor abroad. Americans worked with superior capital, technology and business organization. This made Americans far more productive than Indians and Chinese, and, as it was not possible for U.S. firms to substitute cheaper foreign labor for U.S. labor, American jobs and living standards were not threatened by low wages abroad or by the products that these low wages produced.

The advent of offshoring has made it possible for U.S. firms using first world capital and technology to produce goods and services for the U.S. market with foreign labor. The result is to separate Americans' incomes from the production of the goods and services that they consume.

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This new development, often called "globalization," allows cheap foreign labor to work with the same capital, technology and business know-how as U.S. workers. The foreign workers are now as productive as Americans, with the difference being that the large excess supply of labor that overhangs labor markets in China and India keeps wages in these countries low. Labor that is equally productive but paid a fraction of the wage is a magnet for Western capital and technology.

Although a new development, offshoring is destroying entire industries, occupations and communities in the United States. The devastation of U.S. manufacturing employment was waved away with promises that a "new economy" based on high-tech knowledge jobs would take its place. Education and retraining were touted as the answer.

In testimony before the U.S.-China Commission,2 I explained that offshoring is the replacement of U.S. labor with foreign labor in U.S. production functions over a wide range of tradable goods and services. (Tradable goods and services are those that can be exported or that are competitive with imports. Nontradable goods and services are those that only have domestic markets and no import competition. For example, barbers and dentists offer nontradable services. Examples of nontradable goods are perishable, locally produced fruits and vegetables and specially fabricated parts of local machine shops.) As the production of most tradable goods and services can be moved offshore, there are no replacement occupations for which to train except in domestic "hands on" services such as barbers, manicurists, and hospital orderlies. No country benefits from trading its professional jobs, such as engineering, for domestic service jobs.

At a Brookings Institution conference in Washington, D.C., in January 2004, I predicted that if the pace of jobs outsourcing and occupational destruction continued, the U.S. would be a third world country in 20 years. Despite my regular updates on the poor performance of U.S. job growth in the 21st century, economists have insisted that offshoring is a manifestation of free trade and can only have positive benefits overall for Americans.

Reality has contradicted the glib economists. The new high-tech knowledge jobs are being outsourced abroad even faster than the old manufacturing jobs. Establishment economists are beginning to see the light. Writing in Foreign Affairs (March/April 2006), Princeton economist and former Federal Reserve vice chairman Alan Blinder concludes that economists who insist that offshore outsourcing is merely a routine extension of international trade are overlooking a major transformation with



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significant consequences. Blinder estimates that 42-56 million American service sector jobs are susceptible to offshore outsourcing.3 Whether all these jobs leave, U.S. salaries will be forced down by the willingness of foreigners to do the work for less.

Software engineers and information technology workers have been especially hard hit. Jobs offshoring, which began with call centers and back-office operations, is rapidly moving up the value chain. Business Week's Michael Mandel4 compared starting salaries in 2005 with those in 2001. He found a 12.7 per cent decline in computer science pay, a 12 per cent decline in computer engineering pay, and a 10.2 per cent decline in electrical engineering pay. Marketing salaries experienced a 6.5 per cent decline, and business administration salaries fell 5.7 per cent. Despite a make-work law for accountants known by the names of its congressional sponsors, Sarbanes-Oxley, even accounting majors, were offered 2.3 per cent less.

Using the same sources as the Business Week article (salary data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers and Bureau of Labor Statistics data for inflation adjustment), professor Norm Matloff at the University of California, Davis, made the same comparison for master's degree graduates. He found that between 2001 and 2005 starting pay for master's degrees in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering fell 6.6 per cent, 13.7 per cent, and 9.4 per cent respectively.

On February 22, 2006, CNNMoney.com staff writer Shaheen Pasha5 reported that America's large financial institutions are moving "large portions of their investment banking operations abroad." Offshoring is now killing American jobs in research and analytic operations, foreign exchange trades, and highly complicated credit derivatives contracts. Deal-making responsibility itself may eventually move abroad. Deloitte Touche says that the financial services industry will move 20 per cent of its total costs base offshore by the end of 2010. As the costs are lower in India, the move will represent more than 20 per cent of the business. A job on Wall Street is a declining option for bright young persons with high stress tolerance as America's last remaining advantage is outsourced.

According to Norm Augustine, former CEO of Lockheed Martin, even McDonald jobs are on the way offshore. Augustine reports that McDonald is experimenting with replacing error-prone order takers with a system that transmits orders via satellite to a central location and from there to the person preparing the order. The technology lets the orders be taken in India or China at costs below the U.S. minimum wage and without the liabilities of U.S. employees.



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American economists, some from incompetence and some from being bought and paid for, described globalization as a "win-win" development. It was supposed to work like this: The U.S. would lose market share in tradable manufactured goods and make up the job and economic loss with highly educated knowledge workers. The win for America would be lower-priced manufactured goods and a white-collar work force. The win for China would be manufacturing jobs that would bring economic development to that country.

It did not work out this way, as Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach, formerly a cheerleader for globalization, recently admitted. It has become apparent that job creation and real wages in the developed economies are seriously lagging behind their historical norms as offshore outsourcing displaces the "new economy" jobs in "software programming, engineering, design, and the medical profession, as well as a broad array of professionals in the legal, accounting, actuarial, consulting, and financial services industries".6 The real state of the U.S. job market is revealed by a Chicago Sun-Times report on January 26, 2006, that 25,000 people applied for 325 jobs at a new Chicago Wal-Mart.

According to the BLS payroll jobs data,7 over the past half-decade (January 2001 - January 2006, the data series available at time of writing) the U.S. economy created 1,050,000 net new private sector jobs and 1,009,000 net new government jobs for a total five-year figure of 2,059,000. That is seven million jobs short of keeping up with population growth, definitely a serious job shortfall.

The BLS payroll jobs data contradict the hype from business organizations, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that offshore outsourcing is good for America. Large corporations, which have individually dismissed thousands of their U.S. employees and replaced them with foreigners, claim that jobs outsourcing allows them to save money that can be used to hire more Americans. The corporations and the business organizations are very successful in placing this disinformation in the media. The lie is repeated everywhere and has become a mantra among no-think economists and politicians. However, no sign of these jobs can be found in the payroll jobs data. But there is abundant evidence of the lost American jobs.

During the past five years (January 01 - January 06), the information sector of the U.S. economy lost 644,000 jobs, or 17.4 per cent of its work force. Computer systems design and related work lost 105,000 jobs, or 8.5 per cent of its work force. Clearly, jobs offshoring is not creating jobs in computers and information technology. Indeed, jobs offshoring is not even creating jobs in related fields.

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U.S. manufacturing lost 2.9 million jobs, almost 17 per cent of the manufacturing work force. The wipeout is across the board. Not a single manufacturing payroll classification created a single new job.

The declines in some manufacturing sectors have more in common with a country undergoing saturation bombing during war than with a "supereconomy" that is "the envy of the world." In five years, communications equipment lost 42 per cent of its work force. Semiconductors and electronic components lost 37 per cent of its work force . The work force in computers and electronic products declined 30 per cent. Electrical equipment and appliances lost 25 per cent of its employees. The work force in motor vehicles and parts declined 12 per cent. Furniture and related products lost 17 per cent of its jobs. Apparel manufacturers lost almost half of the work force. Employment in textile mills declined 43 per cent. Paper and paper products lost one-fifth of its jobs. The work force in plastics and rubber products declined by 15 per cent.

For the five-year period, U.S. job growth was limited to four areas: education and health services, state and local government, leisure and hospitality, and financial services. There was no U.S. job growth outside these four areas of domestic nontradable services.

Oracle, for example, which has been handing out thousands of pink slips, has recently announced two thousand more jobs being moved to India.8 How is Oracle's move of U.S. jobs to India creating American jobs in nontradable services such as waitresses and bartenders, hospital orderlies, state and local government, and credit agencies?

Engineering jobs in general are in decline, because the manufacturing sectors that employ engineers are in decline. During the last five years, the U.S. work force lost 1.2 million jobs in the manufacture of machinery, computers, electronics, semiconductors, communication equipment, electrical equipment, motor vehicles, and transportation equipment. The BLS payroll jobs numbers show a total of 69,000 jobs created in all fields of architecture and engineering, including clerical personnel, over the past five years. That comes to a mere 14,000 jobs per year (including clerical workers). What is the annual graduating class in engineering and architecture? How is there a shortage of engineers when more graduate than can be employed?

Of course, many new graduates take jobs opened by retirements. We would have to know the retirement rates to get a solid handle on the fate of new graduates. But this

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fate cannot be very pleasant , with declining employment in the manufacturing sectors that employ engineers and a minimum of 65,000 H-1B work visas annually for foreigners plus an indeterminate number of L-1 work visas.

It is not only the Bush regime that bases its policies on lies. Not content with moving Americans' jobs abroad, corporations want to fill the jobs remaining in America with foreigners on work visas. Business organizations allege shortages of engineers, scientists and even nurses. Business organizations have successfully used pubic relations firms and bought-and-paid-for "economic studies" to convince policymakers that American business cannot function without H-1B visas that permit the importation of indentured employees from abroad who are paid less than the going U.S. salaries. The so-called shortage is, in fact, a replacement of American employees with foreign employees, with the soon-to-be-discharged American employee first required to train his replacement.

It is amazing to see free-market economists rush to the defense of H-1B visas. The visas are nothing but a subsidy to U.S. companies at the expense of U.S. citizens. Keep in mind this H-1B subsidy to U.S. corporations for employing foreign workers in place of Americans as we examine the Labor Department's job projections over the 2004-2014 decade.

All of the occupations with the largest projected employment growth (in terms of the number of jobs) over the next decade are in nontradable domestic services. The top ten sources of the most jobs in "superpower" America are: retail salespersons, registered nurses, postsecondary teachers, customer service representatives, janitors and cleaners, waiters and waitresses, food preparation (includes fast food), home health aides, nursing aides, orderlies and attendants, general and operations managers.9 Note than none of this projected employment growth will contribute one nickel toward producing goods and services that could be exported to help close the huge U.S. trade deficit. Note, also, that few of these job classifications require a college education.

Among the fastest growing occupations (in terms of rate of growth), seven of the ten are in health care and social assistance. The three remaining fields are: network systems and data analysis with 126,000 jobs projected, or 12,600 per year; computer software engineering applications with 222,000 jobs projected, or 22,200 per year; and computer software engineering systems software with 146,000 jobs projected, or 14,600 per year.10

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Americans? Not many, considering the 65,000 H-1B visas each year (bills have been introduced in Congress to raise the number) and the loss during the past five years of 761,000 jobs in the information sector and computer systems design and related sectors.

Judging from its ten-year jobs projections, the U.S. Department of Labor does not expect to see any significant high-tech job growth in the U.S.The knowledge jobs are being outsourced even more rapidly than the manufacturing jobs. The so-called "new economy" was just another hoax perpetrated on the American people.

If outsourcing jobs offshore is good for U.S. employment, why won't the U.S. Department of Commerce release the 200-page, $335,000 study of the impact of the offshoring of U.S. high-tech jobs? Republican political appointees reduced the 200-page report to 12 pages of public relations hype and refuse to allow the Technology Administration experts who wrote the report to testify before Congress. Democrats on the House Science Committee are unable to pry the study out of the hands of Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez. On March 29, 2006, Republicans on the House Science Committee voted down a resolution (H.Res. designed to force the Commerce Department to release the study to Congress. Obviously, the facts don't fit the Bush regime's globalization hype.

The BLS payroll data that we have been examining tracks employment by industry classification. This is not the same thing as occupational classification. For example, companies in almost every industry and area of business employ people in computer-related occupations. A recent study from the Association for Computing Machinery claims, "Despite all the publicity in the United States about jobs being lost to India and China, the size of the IT employment market in the United States today is higher than it was at the height of the dot.com boom. Information technology appears as though it will be a growth area at least for the coming decade."

We can check this claim by turning to the BLS Occupational Employment Statistics.11 We will look at "computer and mathematical employment"12 and "architecture and engineering employment".13

Computer and mathematical employment includes such fields as "software engineers applications," "software engineers systems software," "computer programmers," "network systems and data communications," and "mathematicians." Has this occupation been a source of job growth? In November of 2000 this occupation employed 2,932,810 people.14 In November of 2004 (the latest data available), this occupation employed 2,932,790,



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or 20 people fewer. Employment in this field has been stagnant for four years.

During these four years, there have been employment shifts within the various fields of this occupation. For example, employment of computer programmers declined by 134,630, while employment of software engineers applications rose by 65,080, and employment of software engineers systems software rose by 59,600. (These shifts probably merely reflect change in job title from programmer to software engineer.)

These figures do not tell us whether any gain in software engineering jobs went to Americans. According to professor Norm Matloff, in 2002 there were 463,000 computer-related H-1B visa holders in the U.S. Similarly, the 134,630 lost computer programming jobs (if not merely a job title change) may have been outsourced offshore to foreign affiliates.

Architecture and engineering employment includes all the architecture and engineering fields except software engineering. The total employment of architects and engineers in the U.S. declined by 120,700 between November 1999 and November 2004. Employment declined by 189,940 between November 2000 and November 2004, and by 103,390 between November 2001 and November 2004.

There are variations among fields. Between November 2000 and November 2004, for example, U.S. employment of electrical engineers fell by 15,280. Employment of computer hardware engineers rose by 15,990 (possibly these are job title reclassifications). Overall, however, over 100,000 engineering jobs were lost. We do not know how many of the lost jobs were outsourced offshore to foreign affiliates or how many American engineers were dismissed and replaced by foreign holders of H-1B or L-1 visas.

Clearly, engineering and computer-related employment in the U.S.A. has not been growing, whether measured by industry or by occupation. Moreover, with a half million or more foreigners in the U.S. on work visas, the overall employment numbers do not represent employment of Americans.

American employees have been abandoned by American corporations and by their representatives in Congress. America remains a land of opportunity but for foreigners not for the native born. A country whose work force is concentrated in domestic nontradable services has no need for scientists and engineers and no need for universities. Even the projected jobs in nursing and school teaching can be filled by foreigners on H-1B visas.



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The myth has been firmly established here that the jobs the U.S. is outsourcing offshore are being replaced with better jobs. There is no sign of these jobs in the payroll jobs data or in the occupational employment statistics. When a country loses entry-level jobs, it has no one to promote to senior level jobs. When manufacturing leaves, so does engineering, design, research and development, and innovation itself.

On February 16, 2006, the New York Times reported on a new study presented to the National Academies that concludes that outsourcing is climbing the skills ladder.15 A survey of 200 multinational corporations representing 15 industries in the U.S.and Europe found that 38 per cent planned to change substantially the worldwide distribution of their research and development work, sending it to India and China. According to the New York Times, "More companies in the survey said they planned to decrease research and development employment in the United States and Europe than planned to increase employment."

The study and the discussion it provoked came to untenable remedies. Many believe that a primary reason for the shift of R&D to India and China is the erosion of scientific prowess in the U.S. due to lack of math and science proficiency of American students and their reluctance to pursue careers in science and engineering. This belief begs the question why students would chase after careers that are being outsourced abroad.

The main author of the study, Georgia Tech professor Marie Thursby, believes that American science and engineering depend on having "an environment that fosters the development of a high-quality work force and productive collaboration between corporations and universities." The dean of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks the answer is to recruit the top people in China and India and bring them to Berkeley. No one seems to understand that research, development, design, and innovation take place in countries where things are made. The loss of manufacturing means ultimately the loss of engineering and science. The newest plants embody the latest technology. If these plants are abroad, that is where the cutting edge resides.

The denial of jobs reality has become an art form for economists, libertarians, the Bush regime, and journalists. Except for CNN's Lou Dobbs, no accurate reporting is available in the "mainstream media."

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the ignorant voice of a protectionist seeking to preserve the buggy whip industry. Matthew J. Slaughter, a Dartmouth economics professor rewarded for his service to offshoring with appointment to President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, suffered no harm to his reputation when he wrote, "For every one job that U.S. multinationals created abroad in their foreign affiliates, they created nearly two U.S. jobs in their parent operations." In other words, Slaughter claims that offshoring is creating more American jobs than foreign ones.

How did Slaughter arrive at this conclusion? Not by consulting the BLS payroll jobs data or the BLS Occupational Employment Statistics. Instead, Slaughter measured the growth of U.S. multinational employment and failed to take into account the two reasons for the increase in multinational employment: (1) Multinationals acquired many existing smaller firms, thus raising multinational employment but not overall employment, and (2) many U.S. firms established foreign operations for the first time and thereby became multinationals, thus adding their existing employment to Slaughter's number for multinational employment.

ABC News' John Stossel, a libertarian hero, recently made a similar error. In debunking Lou Dobbs' concern with U.S. jobs lost to offshore outsourcing, Stossel invoked the California-based company, Collabnet. He quotes the CEO's claim that outsourcing saves his company money and lets him hire more Americans. Turning to Collabnet's webpage, it is very instructive to see the employment opportunities that the company posts for the United States and for India.

In India, Collabnet has openings (at time of writing) for eight engineers, a sales engineer, a technical writer, and a telemarketing representative. In the U.S. Collabnet has openings for one engineer, a receptionist/office assistant, and positions in marketing, sales, services and operations. Collabnet is a perfect example of what Lou Dobbs and I report: the engineering and design jobs move abroad, and Americans are employed to sell and market the foreign-made products.

Other forms of deception are widely practiced. For example, Matthew Spiegleman, a Conference Board economist, claims that manufacturing jobs are only slightly higher paid than domestic service jobs, so there is no meaningful loss in income to Americans from offshoring. He reaches this conclusion by comparing only hourly pay and leaving out the longer manufacturing workweek and the associated benefits, such as health care and pensions.

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Manufacturers, one of offshoring's greatest boosters, released a report, "U.S. Manufacturing Innovation at Risk," by economists Joel Popkin and Kathryn Kobe.16 The economists find that U.S. industry's investment in research and development is not languishing after all. It just appears to be languishing, because it is rapidly being shifted overseas: "Funds provided for foreign-performed R&D have grown by almost 73 per cent between 1999 and 2003, with a 36 per cent increase in the number of firms funding foreign R&D."

U.S. industry is still investing in R&D after all; it is just not hiring Americans to do the research and development. U.S. manufacturers still make things, only less and less in America with American labor. U.S. manufacturers still hire engineers, only they are foreign ones, not American ones.

In other words, everything is fine for U.S. manufacturers. It is just their former American work force that is in the doldrums. As these Americans happen to be customers for U.S. manufacturers, U.S. brand names will gradually lose their U.S. market. U.S. household median income has fallen for the past five years. Consumer demand has been kept alive by consumers' spending their savings and home equity and going deeper into debt. It is not possible for debt to forever rise faster than income.

The United States is the first country in history to destroy the prospects and living standards of its labor force. It is amazing to watch freedom-loving libertarians and free-market economists serve as apologists for the dismantling of the ladders of upward mobility that made the America of old an opportunity society.

America is seeing a widening polarization into rich and poor. The resulting political instability and social strife will be terrible.



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Tariq Ali A Bavarian Provocation

Eliza Ernshire Death and Tears in Nablus

Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon (Part 7): To Tilted Park

Mairead Corrigan Maguire A Nobel Laureate Visits with Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu

Brian Cloughley "Let Them Drink Coke!": Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan

Ben Tripp November Prognostication: Republicans Sweep!

Laura Carlsen Bush and Latin America: War on Terrorism or Fight for Social Justice

Ralph Nader Terror on the Road

Ron Jacobs Shooting Sgrena

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Robert Fisk The American Military's Cult of Cruelty

Gary Leupp The Pope's New Crusade: Defender of the West, Scourge of Islam

Lawrence R. Velvel The Pretexter in Chief: Learning About Bush from Hewlett-Packard

Missy Comley Beattie The Insecurity of Immorality

Adrienne Johnstone Deporting Widows: the Nightmare of a Kenyan Immigrant

Mickey Z. Why I Hate America

Jeffrey St. Clair Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week

Poets' Basement Kearney, Orloski, Engel, Louise and Davies

Website of the Weekend Still Life with Killpecker

September 15, 2006

Diana Johnstone In Defense of



Conspiracy: 9/11, in Theory and in Fact

Diane Christian On Retaliation

William S. Lind General Puffery: When the Military Brass Deceives

Lee Sustar Bosses Take Aim at Undocument Workers

Dave Lindorff Retroactive Immunity for Bush?

Ramzy Baroud Presidential PR: Lost in the Bush Spin Cycle

Mokhiber / Weissman The Cesspool

Jeffrey St. Clair Glow, River, Glow: Radioactive Leaks and Plumbers at Hanford

Website of the Day F-22: The Most Expensive Piece of Junk Ever Built?

September 14, 2006

Franklin Lamb Israel's Use of American Cluster Bombs: a Walk Through the Rubble

Tim Wilkinson Alan Dershowitz's Sinister Scheme

Dick J. Reavis Mexico's Time of Troubles: Who



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Sam Husseini 9/11 Five Years Later: a Conspiracy to Silence

Doug Giebel Democracies of Death: Why John Adams Wouldn't Recognize His Own Country

Bill Berkowitz The Messaging Strategy of the Iraq War

Diane Farsetta What Media Democracy Looks Like

Mary Turck Targeting Refugees and Human Rights Workers in Colombia

Patrick Cockburn Amnesty Intl Accuses Hizbollah of War Crimes, But Katyusha Damage "Much Less" Than Israel Claimed

J.L. Chestnut, Jr. Ah, Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?

Website of the Day The Shocking Truth About Inequality

September 13, 2006

Jack Bratich Eyes Put a Spell on You: Signs of Surveillance in the Public Secret Sphere



John Ross Welcome to the Nightmare: Al Qaeda de Mexico?

Christopher Brauchli "You Had to Have Been There": Teaching Iraq and Iran

Dave Lindorff Mourning in America: Bush Weeps? Who are They Kidding?

Antony Loewenstein My Israel Question

Al Krebs The Gates Foundation and African Agriculture

Leonard Peltier Crazy Horse in Chains

Jim Bensman My Adventures with the FBI: How I Was Targeted as a Terrorist

Website of the Day FreedomWalk: Take a Moment for Leonard Peltier

September 12, 2006

Norman Finkelstein Kill Arabs, Cry Anti-Semitism

Seth Sandronsky The War on Nurses

John Walsh Khatami Comes to Harvard

Alan Maass



"Islamic Fascism": the New Hysteria

David Krieger Troubling Questions About Missile Defense

Nate Mezmer September 12th, America

Kathleen Christison The Coming Collapse of Zionism

September 11, 2006

Uri Avnery State of Chutzpah

Patrick Cockburn Palestinians Forced to Scavenge Rubbish Dumps for Food

Col Dan Smith The Centrality of War in the Presidency of George W. Bush

Dr. Susan Block Beyond Terror

Anthony Alessandrini Forgetting 9/11

Dave Lindorff Bush After 9/11: Five Years of High Crimes and Misdemeanors

Niranjan Ramakrishnan What Happened?

Joshua Frank Proving Nothing: How the 9/11 "Truth" Movement Helps Bush & Cheney

Jean Bricmont



The End of the "End of History"

Sprague / Emesberger "You Are a Dog. You Should Die": Death Threats Against Lancet's Haiti Investigator

Website of the Day Web Piracy

September 9/10, 2006 Weekend Edition

Alexander Cockburn The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts: How They Let the Guilty Parties of 9/11 Off the Hook

Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon: In the Footsteps of Vladimir Putin (Part Six)

Greg Grandin Good Christ, Bad Christ: Testament of the Death Squads

Peter Stone Brown Bob Dylan's Swing Time Waltz in the Face of the Apocalypse

Ralph Nader X-Raying Greed

Brian Cloughley Rumsfeld at the American Legion: Dead Babies and Nazi Propaganda



Col. Chet Richards Crossroads at the Litani

David Model Tailoring the Case Against Iran: Cut from the Same Old Pattern

Dave Himmelstein From Bil'in to Birmingham

Ron Jacobs War and the Power of Words

Fred Gardner Is Medical Pot Image a Turn-Off to Teens?

Mike Whitney America's Economic Meltdown

Josh Gryniewicz In the Belly of the Bentonville Beast: Working for Wal-Mart

Daniel Gross / Joe Tessone An IWW Story at Starbucks

Joe Bageant Inside the Iron Theater

Nicole Colson The Colbert Factor: Some Truthiness, At Last

Alexander Billet Thirty Years of "White Riot": Long Live The Clash!

Poets' Basement Engel, Louise, Buknatski, Davies, &



Orloski

September 8, 2006

Uri Avnery "I'm a Leftist, But ...": the Liberals' War on Lebanon

Paul Craig Roberts Books Are Our Salvation

Bill Quigley Judge Says: "No Clowning Around Our WMDs!"

Robert Jensen Parallel Purges: Academic Freedom in Iran and the US

Norman Solomon Perception Gap: The War on Terror as Others See It

Keith Bolin

September 8, 2006

Uri Avnery

"I'm a Leftist, But ...": the Liberals' War on Lebanon

Paul Craig Roberts Books Are Our Salvation

Bill Quigley Judge Says: "No Clowning Around Our WMDs!"

Robert Jensen Parallel Purges:



Academic Freedom in Iran and the US

Norman Solomon Perception Gap: The War on Terror as Others See It

Keith Bolin The Future of the Family Farm

Kristin S. Schafer The Global Trade in Deadly Pesticides

Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon (Part Five)

Patrick Cockburn Gaza is Dying

Website of the Day Help the Bismark 3!

September 7, 206

Marjorie Cohn Why Bush Really Came Clean About the CIA's Secret Torture Prisons

Sharon Smith Downward Mobility: No Recovery for Workers

René Drucker Colín The Fraud in Mexico

Michael Donnelly Bush Family Values: About Those Nazi Appeasers

John Borowski Scholastic Peddles a Fictitious Path to 9/11 to Kids



Lucinda Marshall Bombing Indiana

Charles Sullivan Katrina and the New Jim Crow: Ethnic Cleansing in New Orleans

Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon: Part Four

Jonathan Cook How Human Rights Watch Lost Its Way in Lebanon

Website of the Day Rasta! Reggae's Joe Hill

September 6, 2006

Stephen Soldz Protecting the Torturers: Bad Faith and Distortions frm the American Psychological Assocation

Dave Zirin Cops vs. Jocks: the Shooting of Steve Foley

Ramzy Baroud The Gaza Maze: Who Gained Most from the Fox Reporters' Kidnapping

Noel Ignatiev Democrats, Pwogs and the Lesser Evil Folly

Dave Lindorff Bombing Without



Regrets: The US and Cluster Bombs

Norman Solomon Spinning Troop Levels in Iraq

Binoy Kampmark The Death of Steve Irwin and the Politics of the Zoo

Jeffrey St. Clair A Premature Burial: the Remaking of Cataract Canyon (Part Three)

John Ross The Death of Mexican Presidency

Website of the Day Flaming Arrows

September 5, 2006

Jonathan Cook Will Robert Fisk tell us the whole story? Time For A Champion of Truth to Speak Up

Patrick Cockburn Better Not Meet at the Casbah

Mike Whitney The Worst Secretary of Defense in U.S. History? You Be the Judge

Roland Sheppard The Civil Rights Movement is Dead and So is the Democratic Party

James Petras As Bush Regime



Faces Twilight Slide, How Much Havoc Can Paulson Wreak?

Alexander Cockburn Will Bush Bomb Teheran?

September 4, 2006

Clancy Sigal The Women Who Gave Us Labor Day

Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon: Part 2

Anthony Alessandrini The Great Debate about Aroma Coffee: Why I Boycott

Dennis Perrin The Great Debate in Tarrytown: Straight Zion, No Chaser

Daniel Cassidy 'S lom to Slum

Paul Craig Roberts The War Is Lost

September 2 / 3, 2006

Uri Avnery When Napoleon Won at Waterloo

Jeffrey St. Clair A Premature Burial: the Remaking of Cataract Canyon

Ralph Nader



The No-Fault White House

Noam Chomsky Viewing the World from a Bombsight

Allan Lichtman Arrested Democracy: Letter from the Baltimore County Jail

Stanley Heller When Criticism of Cluster Bombs is "Anti-Semitic"

Rana el-Khatib Invasion's Child: the Making of Issa

Peter Montague Taking on the Pentagon: Chemical Weapons to Burn

Laura Carlsen Mexico on a Collision Course

Dr. Susan Block Bush Hate Rising

Joe Bageant Roy's People: Why Progressives Need to Listen to Orbison, Not Policy Wonks

Scott Stedjan / Matt Schaaf A New Generation of Landmines?

Gary Leupp The Emperor Has Been Exposed

Stephen Fleischman The Great American Oligarchy

Paul Balles



Has Ahmadinejad Already Checkmated Bush?

Ingmar Lee Canada's $450 Million Gift to Bush: the Softwood Lumber Slush Fund

Jane Stillwater Burning Man: the Good, the Bad and the Evil Twin

Ron Jacobs Dylan Faces the Apocalypse, Again

St. Clair / Bossert Playlist: What We're Listening to This Week

Poets' Basement Grima, Engel, Orloski and Davies

Website of the Weekend To New Orleans: a Photo Journal

September 1, 2006

Uri Avnery Olmert Agonistes

Paul Craig Roberts Of Wolves and Men (and Impotent Democrats)

Bill Ayers Exclusionary Signs of the Times

Kevin Zeese The Best War Ever

Xochitl Bervera



The Forgotten Children of New Orleans

Norman Solomon Bush vs. Ahmadinejad: a TV Debate We'll Never See

Alexander Cockburn Hezbollah Denounces Nasrallah Interview as a Fake

Richard Neville Rupert Murdoch's Victims

Website of the Day The Uranium Flood

August 31, 2006

David MacMichael Can the Iran Nuke Crisis be Defused?

John Ross Diary of the Mexican Earthquake

Edward Said Mahfouz, 9/11 and the Cruelty of Memory

Amira Hass The Burden of Collaboration

Missy Comley Beattie Circle in a Spiral: Families at War

Lee Sustar The Case of Elvira Arellano: Racism, Divided Families and Deportation



Jonathan Cook Israeli Myths: Deception as a Way of Life

Website of the Day The Case for Impeachment: CSPAN

August 30, 2006

Paul Craig Roberts The Five Morons Revisited

George Salzman The Revolutionary Surge in Oaxaca

Dave Lindorff I Am a Curious Yellowcake: the Armitage Confession and the Niger Question

Leigh Davis Privatizing New Orleans' Schools

Alan Maass The Crimes Katrina Exposed: an Interview with Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Slonsky

Mike Whitney Pop Goes the Bubble!: the Great Housing Crash of '07

Eliza Ernshire Murder on Rucarb Street

Website of the Day CNN = iPoop2?

August 29, 2006



Saul Landau Misreading Cuba, for 47 and a Half Years

Jeffrey Buchanan Human Rights and the Realities of Returning to New Orleans: Lip Service and Profiteering

Dave Lindorff War? What War?

James Brooks The US Peace Movement and Hezbollah

John F. Burnett Katrina and the Media: "I Know Y'All Want Our Story, But We Need Help"

Walter A. Davis J'Accuse: the Media and Jonbenet Ramsey

Rich Gibson Detroit Teachers Strike Again

Amira Hass The Accidental Immigrant

Paul Craig Roberts Bush Turns His Terror War on the Homeland

August 28, 2006

John Walsh With Lieberman's Loss, the Lobby Takes a Second Hit

Sibel Edmonds / William Weaver Hillary Clinton: a



Fool's Vessel

Ramzy Kysia For Israel's Security? A Visit to Houla, Lebanon

Ron Jacobs An Interview with Nativo Lopez

Gideon Levy The Reservists' Protest

Missy Beattie Yes, Virginia, There is a Rumsfeld

Virginia Tilley Putting Words in Ahmadinejad's Mouth

August 26 / 27, 2006 Weekend Edition

Uri Avnery America's Rottweiler

Alexander Cockburn Israel on the Slide

Jordan Green Profiting from Disaster: Greed Has Stallled Gulf Coast Recovery, But Made Some Very, Very Rich

Azmi Bishara Israel at a Loss

Ray Close Why Bush Will Choose War Against Iran: Reflections of a Former CIA Analyst

Gary Leupp The Lebanon Ceasefire and the Coming Assault on



Iran

Ralph Nader AIDS in Black America

Joe Allen Free Gary Tyler: Thirty Years of Injustice

Fred Gardner The Miraculous Resurrection of Dr. John Lee

Dave Lindorff The Crime of Frag Weapons

David Krieger Why are There Still Nuclear Weapons?

Stephen Fleischman Jurassic White House: the Reptilian Brain of George W. Bush

Mary Turck Elections and Lessons from Mexico

Walter Brasch Sports Afoul: Canned Hunts

Jim Scharplaz Oil and the American Farmer

Israel Shamir The Grapes of Wrath

Alexander Cockburn About That Nasrallah Interview

Charles Henderson Scientology: a Typically American Religion?



Jeffrey St. Clair Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week

Poets' Basement Grima, Ford and Mickey Z.

August 25, 2006

Elena Everett The Women of New Orleans After Katrina

Juan Cole Iran's Nuclear "Threat"

Chris Moore Religious Motives Behind Iraq War Deception?: Revelations from the Watada Court Martial

James Marc Leas How Lebanese Civilians Thwarted Israel's War Plans

Salah Obeid The Price of Ignoring the Elephant

Claudio Albertani Mexico Piquetero

Tom Barry Gangster Diplomacy: Elliot Abrams in Jerusalem

Website of the Day Congress, the Defense Budget and Pork: a Snout to Tail Charcuterie

August 24, 2006



CounterPunch News Service Penis Pump or Bomb? Bum Rap at O'Hare

Uri Avnery Stop the Cancer, End the Occupation

Nermeen al-Mufti "The Strong Do as They Can": an Interview with Noam Chomsky

Norman Solomon The Mythical End to the Politics of Fear

Megan Wiles American Responsibility and Palestine

Laura Santina Busting Loose of the War Engine: a Female Perspective

Mike Whitney Restarting the 34 Day War

Seth Sandronsky Millionaires Make a Killing as Killings Continue

Christopher Brauchli Consider the Uighurs: Freedom in a Cage

August 23, 2006

Dr. Trudy Bond Calling Dr. Mengele: APA Whitewashes Torture By Shrinks

Ramzy Baroud The Real Terrorism



Plot

Ron Jacobs The Liberal Warmongers are at It Again

Heather Gray Palestinian Sense of Place: You Can't Bomb It Away

Amira Hass The Occupier Defines Justice

Mavis Anderson Castro's Health and US Meddling

Ingmar Lee The Great Game Goes On: India's Occupation of Ladakh

Francis Boyle Statement on Behalf of Lt. Watada

John Ross Mexico Approaches the Combustion Point

August 22, 2006

Gilad Atzmon Israel Must Win

Jack Heyman The Iron Heel Revisited: Cops as Provocateurs on the Docks

Eamon McCann Bereft Belfast Mother Charges Security Firms with Wanton Murder in Iraq

Sharon Smith Bush's Failing War on



Terror: When in Doubt, Go Racist

Edward S. Herman Faith-Based Analysis

Ramzi Kysia My Journey to South Lebanon

Bill Quigley Trying to Make It Home: New Orleans One Year After Katrina

August 21, 2006

Jonathan Cook Caught in a Net of Delusion

Paul Craig Roberts Artificial Recovery; Real Job Losses

Kathy Kelly Israel's "Proportionate Response": Measured Amid the Wreckage

Mike Roselle Irony Runs Through It: Making a Ruckus

Lenni Brenner Mayor Bloomberg: the Flying Faker

Maher Osseiran Osama's Confession; Osama's Reprieve


Uri Avnery The 155th Victim

Eliza Ernshire



Terror and Freedom on the West Bank

Virginia Tilley Inside 1701: What the UN Ceasefire Resolution Actually Says

Kathy Kelly Funerals at Qana: a Journey to Southern Lebanon

Marc Levy You are What You Dream: "Before you talk of heroes you must feel, taste, touch, smell the horror."

Stephen Bradberry / Jeffrey Buchanan Hopes and Homes: Subject to Seizure on the Katrina's Anniversary

Barbara Rose Johnston Banking on Violence: Guatemalan Genocide and US Security

William Blum Perpetual Fear: Saved Again, Praise the Lord!

Stephen Fleischman Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon

Ralph Nader The Legacy of John Kenneth Galbraith

Dave Lindorff Busted, Again: Bush is Two Times a



Criminal

Fred Gardner When Cannabis Failed to Sell

David Krieger Nuclear Insecurity

Dan La Botz The Minutemen: Mad at the Wrong Guys

Poets' Basement Davies / Engel

August 18, 2006

Brian M. Downing American Generals and Iraq: Time to Call for a Rapid Withdrawal

John Blair Divine Strike in the Bible Belt: Will They Bomb Bedford?

Alan Hart The Lebanon War, a Post Mortem

Craig Murray Hitting a Nerve: the Hair Gel Terror Hype

Chris Dols Confronting Madison's NaziFest

Emily Kirksey The Cuban Mirage: Self-Deception in Miami and Washington

Joaquín Bustelo Forging a New Strategy for Immigrant Rights:



Report from Chicago

William S. Lind Beaten: Why the IDF Lost in Lebanon

Podcast of the Day The F-22 PodCast

Website of the Day Burn a Brick for Jesus

August 17, 2006

CounterPunch News Service "Goodbye to the Unipolar World": an Interview with Hasan Nasrallah

Barucha Peller This Pain Has No Ceasefire

Ramzy Baroud Lebanon: a Critical Battlefield for the New Middle East

Rothem Shtarkman Gen. Dan Halutz: Inside Trader

Craig Murray The UK Terror Plot: What's Really Going On?

Samar Assad Gaza: One Year After Disengagement

Mike Ferner Lt. Watada's Challenge

Arnold Kohen A Second Rebirth for East Timor?



Kevin Zeese Does the Invasion of Lebanon Foretell a Regional War?

Missy Comley Beattie Open Wounds

Uri Avnery From Mania to Depression

Video of the Day Neil Young: After the Garden

Website of the Day Art for Peace

August 16, 2006

Merav Yudilovitch Apocalypse Near: an Interview with Noam Chomsky on Lebanon

Robert Fisk Behind the Lies of Bush and Blair: It Falls to Assad to Tell the Truth

Mark Williams The Missiles of August: The Lebanon War and the Democratization of Missile Technology

John Ross End Game Engulfs Mexico

Christopher Brauchli The Poor Are Such a Nuisance

John Walsh AIPAC Congratulates Itself for Slaughter in Lebanon



Ron Jacobs Gee, Your Hair Smells Terror-ific!: Shampoo, Fear and Elections

Rachard Itani It Ain't Over: What Did and Didn't Happen in Lebanon

Felice Pace Forest Fires in the Klamath Mountains: The Real Threat is Not What You Expected

Niranjan Ramakrishnan Lieberman the Enabler

Frank, Sharma and Peterson Venezuela's Revolution of Hope: "In Two Years, Everything Has Changed!"

Jonathan Cook Real Photo Fakers; Real War Crimes

Website of the Day You Too Can Paint Like Jackson Pollock!

August 15, 2006

Andrew Ford Lyons Why Hezbollywood Was Born: Digitally Erasing a Massacre

Binoy Kampmark Terrorism and the Art of Flying

Robert Fisk Israel Wasn't Hoping



for This

Ralph Nader Bush to Israel: Take Your Time Destroying Lebanon

Todd Chretien The US Antiwar Movement: Weak, Passive, Distracted

Chris Floyd It's Bigger Than the Neo-Cons

Mark Engler WTO: Best Left for Dead?

George Galloway "You Don't Give a Damn:" the SkyNews Debate

Laray Polk What's More Obscene: War or Sex?

Trish Schuh Operation Change of Location?: Where Were the IDF Soldiers Captured?

Website of the Day Jesus Never Existed

August 14, 2006

Uri Avnery What the Hell Happened to the Israeli Army?

Karim Makdisi The Flaws in the UN Resolution

Kathy Kelly Approaching a



Ceasefire

Robert Fisk The Truce That Won't Last

Norman Solomon Who's Afraid of Hillary Clinton? MoveOn, for One

Sunsara Taylor Ned Lamont and the Antiwar Movement: False Hopes, Bad Terms and Ticking Clocks

Robert Jensen Outside the Frame: The Limits of George Lakoff's Politics

Mike Whitney The Litani Gambit: Ceasefire or Trojan Horse?

P. Sainath An Indian Farmer About to Commit Suicide Writes a Note of Clarification

Goretti Horgan The Raytheon Nine: Irish Antiwar Protesters Face "Terrorism" Charges

Christopher Reed London Fog: Doubts Hang Over Terror Plot


Jean Bricmont The De-Zionization of the American Mind



Norman Finkelstein Should Alan Dershowitz Target Himself for Assassination?

Robert Fisk How the London Terror Scare Looks from Beirut

Adrian Grima Forget the 50 Civilians: Watching Lebanon from Malta

Barucha Peller Letter from Lebanon: the Proximity of Death

Omar Barghouti The UN, Lebanon and Palestine

Adam Engel Tearing Down the Master's House: an Interview with Derrick Jensen

Conn Hallinan How the Irish Could Save the Middle East

John Stauber Meet the GOP's Latest Smear Machine: Vets for Freedom

Rev. William Alberts Bush's Primetime Lies Still Go Unchallenged by the Press

Fred Gardner Hollywood Does Cannabis: "Weeds," the First Season

Lucinda Marshall Penis Politics: Does Dick Cheney Want Us



All to Fly Nude?

Ron Jacobs Kill the Precedent: an Interview with Rapper Nate Mezmer

CounterPunch News Service Kerala Throws Out Coke and Pepsi

Poets' Basement Katz, Davies and Orloski

August 11, 2006

Col. Dan Smith Crimes Against Peace: Beyond Nuremberg

John Ross Class War in Mexico City's Gridlock

Michael Donnelly Sore Loserman, Redux

William S. Lind Collapse of the Flanks

Linda Milazzo Chertoff's New Math: Hair Gel Plot Might Have "Killed 100s of Thousands"

Rep. Cynthia McKinney Something is Happening Around the World

Azmi Bishara When the Skies Rain Death

Henri Picciotto Jewish Dissidents



Must Challenge Israel

CounterPunch News Wire The Warrior Lawyer: Tom Crumpacker, 1934-2006

Dave Lindorff War Crimes in Lebanon

Jonathan Cook From High Wycombe to Nazrareth: How I Found Myself with the Islamic Fascists

August 10, 2006

Uri Avnery The Buck Stops Where?

Dave Marsh Who Are Mr and Mrs Lamont?

Gabriel Kolko Reflections on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Arthur Versluis How Neocons' Nazi Hero Schmitt Spawned Bush's Totalitarian Lunge

Jennifer Loewenstein Awakening the Resistance

August 9, 2006

Linda Schade Incumbents Beware: Peace Voters Mean Business



Jackie Mason Defends Mel Gibson; Ridicules Abe Foxman

Jonathan Cook Hypocrisy and the Clamor Against Hizbullah

Gilad Atzmon Operation Security Roof

Charles Hirschkind Doing the Lebanese a Favor

Tom Barry Right-wingers Ramp Up War on Migrants

Cockburn & St. Clair The Sweetness of Lieberman's Defeat

August 8, 2006

Patrick Cockburn Requiem for Baghdad

Paul Larudee The Lebanese Nakba and Israeli Ambitions

Joan Roelofs The Malleable US Constitution: a Deterrent to Democracy?

Dimi Reider An Interview with IDF Refusenik Sgt. Zohar Milchgrub

John A. Murphy The Democrats: a Party on the Run ... from Its Own Members!



Eliot Katz The View from the Big Woods: In Which a NYC Antiwar Poet Takes a Summer Vacation in Canada's Boreal Forest

Tim Llewellyn Into the Valley of Death

Website of the Day Galloway Speaks!

August 7, 2006

Uri Avnery The Junkies of War

Karim Makdisi The Draft UN Resolutions: the View from Beirut

Nadia Hijab What Israel and the US Wanted May Not Be At All What They Get

Sharon Smith Birth Pangs and Dead Babies

Magan Wiles Encounter at an Israeli Checkpoint

George Beres A New Kind of Bigotry: Lebanon War Exposes Strange Religious Bedfellows

Rachard Itani Nice Try, Mr. Bolton

Norman Solomon Some Nukes Are A-Okay with the US



Media

Stan Cox Presidential Doping Scandal Erupts!

Mickey Z. Go Ahead, Please Stare at Her Chest

Jonathan Cook The Deadly US-Israeli Shell Game at the UN

Website of the Day Sam Husseini Interrogates Newt Gingrich on Lebanon

August 5 / 6, 2006

Virginia Tilley Boycott Now!: the Case for Boycotting Israel

Uri Avnery The Black Flag

Patrick Cockburn Yes, It is a Crusade!: Blair's Mad Speech on Iraq

Sgt. Martin Smith Military Training and Atrocities: Bad Apples from a Rotten Tree

Gary Leupp America's Heroes on Trial

Neve Gordon The New McCarthyism: Academic Freedom After 9/11

Ralph Nader Hey Joe!: the Ghosts



of Lieberman's Past

Peter Bouckaert For Israel, Innocent Civilians Are Fair Game

Peter Montague Nukes Rising: Bush Oversees a Global Nuclear Expansion

David Krieger Global Hiroshima: the Stakes Have Been Raised

Michael Donnelly "Sir! No Sir!": the Story of the GI Anti-War Movement

Fred Gardner Dr. Denney Sues the DEA

Catherine Norris Seeking Justice Abroad: Spanish Courts Issue Arrest Warrants for the Butchers of Guatemala

Imraan Siddiqi The Smokescreens of War: Moral Superiority, 9/11 and Islamic-Fascism

Missy Comley Beattie One Year After the Death of Chase Comley

Ira Kay Where is Geography? Getting Beyond the Place Name Game

Dave Lindorff Let's Build a Wall



Pratyush Chandra Nuclear Fascism in India

Ron Jacobs Keeping It Radical

St. Clair / Donnelly Playlists: What We're Listening to This Week

Poets' Basement Katz and Davies

Website of the Day Defend Bear Butte

Video of the Weekend Rainbows Bust Pig Blockade

August 4, 2006

Ralph Nader Joe Lieberman and the Secret Chamber

Brian Cloughley Osama Has Won

Eliza Ernshire No Lights in Gaza: "We Have a Death Warrant for Your Home"

Roger Assaf Letter from Lebanon: Adjusting the Heroic Commando Raid Story

George Bisharat When I Last Saw Lebanon

Remi Kanazi Out to Lunch: The US Media's "Special Relationship"



Laura Carlsen Mexico's Critical Moment: The Boardrooms vs. the Street

Niranjan Ramakrishnan The Fig (Leaflet) of Warning

Derrick O'Keefe Ripe Fruit and Rotten Imperial Ambitions: US Reaction to Castro's Illness

Mickey Z. Some Context on Castro and Cuba

Col. Dan Smith The New Gonzales Standard for Torture: No Standards, No Accountability

Website of the Day Israel's TV War

August 3, 2006

Jonathan Cook Civilian Casualties and the War of Media Deception

Uri Avnery Knife in the Dark

Saree Makdisi Time to Call It Quits: Israel's Raid on Baalbeck's Hospital

Robert Fisk The Family That Stays Together Dies Together

Farrah Hassen Bush's Nutty Syria



Policy: a Report from Damascus

Nicola Nasser The De-Arabization of the Arab League

Ron Jacobs The Hollow Body: When Exactly Did the UN Lose Its Street Cred?

Mitchel Cohen Mexico Rising

Seth Sandronsky Migrant Labor and Uncle Sam

Bruce K. Gagnon Convert the Military Industrial Complex

Alexander Cockburn Hezbollah's Top Ally in Israel

August 2, 2006

John Ross Mexican Civil Resistance in Five Acts

Chip Mitchell Kudos to Hitchens!

Saul Landau Want Peace in the Middle East? End the Occupation

Naseer Aruri The UN at the Dustbin of History: Does It Have the Capacity to Intervene?

Winslow T. Wheeler Congress and the Pentagon: Co-



Abusers of the War Budget

Matthias Gebauer News on a Platter: the Middle East PR War

Joshua Frank How the Kyoto Protocol Was (Al) Gored

Bill Quigley Hiroshima, Nagasaki and North Dakota

Manuel Yang A View of Gaza and Lebanon from the Interior

Shamai Leibowitz Whitewashing Atrocities: the Tortured Language of War

David Himmelstein Pulling the Plug on Israel

Lara Marlowe The Total Destruction of Srifa

Website of the Day As a Nuke Plant Falls

August 1, 2006

Michael Neumann What is to be Said?: War on the Blathersphere

Robert Fisk Into the Meat Grinder: NATO and Lebanon



Omar Barghouti The Massacre at Qana: Were Racism and Fundamentalism Factors?

Marc Levy Whatever You Did in the War will Always be With You

Diana Barahona / Jeb Sprague Reporters Without Borders and Washington's Coups

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