Counterpunch.org archives June 2009
June 18, 2009
Uri Avnery
The Case of Netanyahu and the Curious Incident
June 17, 2009
Carl Boggs
Torture: an American Legacy
Dr. Bryant Welch
Torture, Psychology and Sen. Daniel Inouye: the True Story Behind Psychology's Role in Torture?
Winslow T. Wheeler
How Obama Will Outspend Reagan on Defense
Liaquat Ali Khan
Obama's Gift to Pakistan: a Civil War
Jonathan Cook
Beating and Torturing Children
Binoy Kampmark
Gordon Brown's War Inquiry
Karim Makdisi
The Lebanese Elections: a Box Office Success?
Dave Lindorff
Criminalizing Dissent: Obama Pot Calls Iranian Kettle Black
David Swanson
In Congress: 32 Heroes, 21 Frauds
Gene Marx
How Fox News is Helping to Nationalize the GI Sanctuary Movement
Website of the Day
The Diamond Mine That Ate Mirny
June 16, 2009
Patrick Cockburn
Iraq's Looming Peril: a Plague of Snakes
John Ross
Undermining Mexico
Afshin Rattansi
Guarding the Revolution
Marc Levy
How I Nearly Won the War
Paul Craig Roberts
Are You Ready for War with a Demonized Iran?
Behzad Yaghmaian
Iranian Youth Make History
Brian M. Downing
Democracy in Iran
Merle Lefkoff
Israel's Angels in America
David Macaray
Charles Manson and Me
Robert Jensen
Finding a Stubborn Hope to Live in a Dead Culture
David Swanson
An Exit Strategy That Keeps Wars Going
Website of the Day
Rachel Corrie Soccer Tournament Fundraiser
June 15, 2009
Michael Hudson
The Ending of America's Financial-Military Empire
Reza Fiyouzat
The Iranian Elections: Sure They Stole It...Up Front and Honestly
Patrick Cockburn
A Whole New Ballgame in Iraq
James Ridgeway
Did Composite Parts Bring Down Air France Flight 447?
Marjorie Cohn
Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
Rannie Amiri
Iran and the End of the "Obama Effect" Myth
Dave Lindorff
How Obama is Blowing the Chance for Real Health Care Reform
Ron Jacobs
The Iranian Elections and the Hysterical Media
Leonard Schwartz
The Angel of History and the Ghetto of Gaza
Martha Rosenberg
Start Your Engines, Drug Reps!
Website of the Day
Single-Payer v. Public Option
June 12-14, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
Who Needs Yesterday's Papers?
Gareth Porter
The CIA's Drone Wars
Mike Whitney
Bernanke's Next Parlor Trick
Mark Ames
Elmer Fudd Nation
Esam Al-Amin
What Really Happened in the Lebanese Elections?
Franklin Lamb
Carter in Lebanon
Patrick Cockburn
Prisoner Swap in Iraq
Andy Worthington
The Long Ordeal of Mohammed El-Gharani
Heather Gray
A New Perspective on the Confederacy: Southern Greed During the Civil War
Felice Pace
Why NPR Refuses to Report on the Single Payer Movement
Ron Jacobs
Flashback to the End of a War That Really Did End
George Wuerthner
Burning Questions: Why the National Fire Plan is a Trojan Horse for Logging
Jeffrey Buchanan /
Trinh Le
Biloxi Trailer Blues
David Ker Thomson
Americana
Renaud Lambert
Brazil: More Dependent Than Ever
Kevin Zeese
Congress and the Health Business Lobby
David Macaray
SAG Vote:
A Lesson in Solidarity ... Not
Evelyn Pringle
FDA Throws Lifeline to Antipsychotic Pushers
Chris Genovali
Blood Sport Auction: Why eBay Should Stop Selling Guided Hunts for Bears, Wolves and Cougar
David Michael Green
The Rhetorical President
Brian J. Foley
Our Solar System is Not a Suicide Pact!
Charles R. Larson
No Safe Return
Kim Nicolini
Foreclosure is Hell: Sam Raimi's Frightfest
David Yearsley
Bach on Torture: Mr. Cheney, They're Playing Your Song
Lorenzo Wolff
Intent to Discord
Poets' Basement
Chris Jordan
Website of the Weekend
The Red Room
June 11, 2009
Kathy Kelly /
Dan Pearson
Down and Out in Shah Mansoor: With the Swat Refugees
James Bovard
The Latest Torture Cover-Up Scam
Tristan de Bourbon
The Toy Makers of Chenghai: the Financial Crisis Seen From China
Dave Lindorff
The Wheels are Coming Off the Recovery Program
Kevin Zeese
The Case for Disbarment of the Torture Lawyers
Ralph Nader
The Craft of Sam Maloof:
a Visionary Woodworker
Harvey Wasserman
The GOP's Trillion Dollar Reactor Plan Goes Radioactive
Nicole Colson
The Anti-Abortion Movement's Climate of Violence
Mark Weisbrot
Showdown Over the IMF
Dan Bacher
Big Water's Big Lie Unravels
Website of the Day
Top 10 Most Absurd TIME Covers
June 10, 2009
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Obama's Doublespeak on Iran
Jennifer Van Bergen / Douglas Valentine
The Dangerous World of Indefinite Detentions: From Vietnam to Abu Ghraib
Kathy Kelly
Visitors and Hosts in Pakistan
Paul Craig Roberts
Fear Rules
Rev. William E. Alberts
First the Torture of Truth ...
Peter Lee
Obama and North Korea: a Warm-Up in the Offing?
Carol Miller
Why
We Need a Holistic, Cradle-to-the-Grave National Health Care System
Emily Ratner
Dreams of Flight in Gaza
Robert Weissman
The IMF's Accountability Moment
Dave Lindorff
The Sutra of the Crushed Volvo
Website of the Day
Starving in Gitmo
June 9, 2009
Winslow T. Wheeler
Back From the Dead: Pentagon Pork!
Mike Whitney
Is Hyper-Inflation Around the Corner?
Stan Cox
Biofuel's Drug Problem
Sibel Edmonds
The Battle Against the State Secrets Privilege
Jonathan Cook
Where the Victim is the Guilty Party
David Macaray
A Bad Time for Unions
Robert Jensen
In South Africa, Apartheid is Dead, But White Supremacy Lingers On
Nadia Hijab
The Obama Difference
Mark Weisbrot
Vulture Funds Descend on Argentina
Website of the Day
Waging Non-Violence
June 8, 2009
John Ross
Mexico: Politics as Drugs / Drugs as Politics
Paul Craig Roberts
Long-Term Economic Memory Loss
Franklin C. Spinney
"Natural Growth:" Israel's Demographic Hogwash
Franklin Lamb
Lebanon's Elections: Return to the Status Quo
Uri Avnery
The Tone and the Music
Jonathan Cook
Israeli Loyalty Oaths
Eric Toussaint
/ Damien Millet
The Partisans of Capitalism Have Lost All Credibility
Jim Goodman
The Dairy Oligarchy
Norman Solomon
Words and War
Reza Fiyouzat
When Accusations Fly: the Spectacle of the Iranian Elections
Website of the Day
Latino Jobless Rate Soars
June 5 -7, 200
Alexander Cockburn
High Words, Low Truths
George Galloway
Our Convoy to Gaza
Paul Craig Roberts
Obama in Cairo
Jennifer Loewenstein
How Much Really Separates Obama and Netanyahu?
Franklin Lamb
Watching Obama's Speech in Lebanon
Mike Whitney
The Biggest Rip Off Ever?
Andy Worthington
Death at Guantánamo
Missy Comley Beattie
Peace Be Upon You?
Farzana Versey
Walk Like an Egyptian: the Oprahfication of Obama
Stanley Heller
Obama's Non-Starter
John V. Whitbeck
Nothing Comes From Nothing
Robert Weissman
GM: the Path Not Taken
Lee Sustar
The Fall of GM: Why Workers Will Pay the Price
Dave Lindorff
What a State-Run GM Could Do
William Blum
The Great, International, Truly Demonic Iran Threat
Ernest Callenbach /
Harvey Wasserman
A Green-Powered Trip Through Ecotopia
Greg Moses
By George! Austin Leads the National Recovery
Ron Jacobs
The Meaning of Yasser Arafat
David Yearsley
Art Set in Concrete:
the Desolate Urban Landscape of High Culture
Tim Stelloh
Pot Home Invasions:
Bud and Blow Torches
Belén Fernández
The Joksters: Obama and Thomas Friedman
David Ker Thomson
The Academics
Karyn Strickler
Clean Coal: a Dirty Joke
Christopher Brauchli
Judicial Amnesia and the Federalist Society
Charles R. Larson
Leaving Tangier: Exile and Exploitation
Kim Nicolini
"Hunger:"
Art With a Punch
Lorenzo Wolff
Good Head (Or Why the End of Hand-Crafted Music Isn't (Necessarily) the End of Music)
Poets' Basement
Jenkins, Orloski and Willson
Website of the Weekend
Tankman
June 4, 2009
Arno J. Mayer
The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire
Mike Whitney
Bond Market Blowout
Gareth Porter
Report Ties Dubious Iran Nuke Documents to Israel
Ayesha Ijaz Khan
Clearing Misconceptions on Pakistan's War in Swat
Mouin Rabbani
Paradigmatic Progress?
Jordan Flaherty
Life in Gaza
Adam Turl
Is Card Check Dead?
Nikolas Kozloff
Iran's Elections: the Latin America Factor
Yifat Susskind
Obama's Double Standard
Website of the Day
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Slams Israel
June 3, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
As the Dollar Falls Off the Cliff...
Kathy Kelly
A Weaver's Welcome to Pakistan
Alan Farago
Bailing Out the Land Speculators
Franklin Lamb
Israeli Spies and Fake IDs
Bill Hatch
Why Congressman Cardoza Stiffed Michelle Obama
Nadia Hijab
A Stifling Embrace
Dean Baker
Reporters With Pom-Poms: Cheerleading the Recovery
Binoy Kampmark
Whither GM?
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
What Happened to Air France Flight 477?
Remi Kanazi
Oslo Redux?
Behzad Yaghmaian
The End of Idealism in China?
Website of the Day
A Time Comes: the Story of the KingsNorth Six
June 2, 2009
Uri Avnery
Racists for Democracy
Robert Weissman
Bankrupt Thinking
Conn Hallinan
Shadow Wars
Gideon Spiro
Obama and Israel's Nuclear Arsenal
Roger Burbach
US-Cuba Policy: "Still Stuck in the Past"
Dylan Quigley
My Experience with Dr. Tiller
Dave Lindorff
The American Taliban Claim Another Victim
Ray McGovern
Navy Vet Honored, Foiled Israeli Attack
Belén Fernández
Israel's Newfound Concern for UNIFIL
Martha Rosenberg
Give It Up, Wyeth
Willie L. Pelote, Sr.
GOP: California's for the Rich (Poor People Should Move)
Website of the Day
You Bet Your Health
June 1, 2009
Pam Martens
Wall Street Braces for New Cops on the Beat
Yitzhak Laor
Washington's Mirror
Mark Weisbrot
More Stimulus, Not Deficit Reduction
Ramzy Baroud
Netanyahu's New Quest
Saul Landau
Dancing the Afghan Jig
Eugenia Tsao
Smug Toronto Seethes as Tamils "Go Too Far"
Afshin Rattansi
Women in Darfur: "We Saw No Evidence of Genocide"
Debra Sweet
The Murder of Dr. Tiller
Abdul Malik Mujahid
Obama's Trip Egypt and American Muslims
Bill Quigley
Haiti's Revolutionary Priest Gerard Jean-Juste: Presente!
John Wright
The Tragedy of Susan Boyle
Website of the Day
Young Neo Con Anthem