Counterpunch.org archives January 2010
January 29 - 31, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
The Oldest Game in Washington
Daniel Ellsberg
A Memory of Howard Zinn
Bill Quigley
Hell and Hope in Haiti
Franklin Spinney
Turning Sun Tzu on His Head: the Eikenberry Cables and the Escalation in Afghanistan
Jeffrey St. Clair
Showdown in the Malheur Marshes
Steve Early
The Night They Drove Old Labor Down
Joe Bageant
The Annotated Obama
P. Sainath
Memories of Maharaj
Jordan Flaherty
The New Politics of Post-Katrina New Orleans
Joshua Frank
Why the Stimulus Falls Short: an Interview with Doug Henwood
Winslow T. Wheeler
The New Pentagon Budget: Spending Even More, Buying Even Less
Brian M. Downing
Negotiating an Afghan Agreement?
Wajahat Ali
Dissent as Democracy: an Interview with Howard Zinn
William Loren Katz
Changing History: Howard Zinn, John Hope Franklin and Ivan Van Sertima
Dave Lindorff
SOTU Whoppers: Obama's Fog Machine
Jim Goodman
The Political Capital is Gone, Now What About Political Will?
Judith Scherr
Sending in the Marines: a Q & A with the State Dept. on Haiti
Kerry Kennedy / Monika Kalra Varma
Human Rights and Haiti
Anthony Papa
The Ordeal of Cameron Douglas: Punished for Being an Addict
David Macaray
A Man for All Seasons
Roger Burbach
Indigenous Challenges to Ecuador's Neo-Liberal Model
Belén Fernández
Police Perform Halftime Show at Zelaya Airport Farewell
Nikolas Kozloff
Chávez and Earthquakes
Dr. Susan Block
Defending the G-Spot: Yes, Virginia, It Does Exist
Windy Cooler
Salinger and Zinn:
Dead Together, But Read Together?
Charles R. Larson
The Last Cargo Cult: Econ. 101 with Mike Daisey
Mikita Brottman
Theaters of Death: Losing it at the Movies
David Yearsley
Fancy Footwork
Lorenzo Wolff
The
Stoic Soul of Bill Withers
David Rovics
He Fades Away: the Life and Music of Alistair Hulett
Poets' Basement
Cirino, Holt and Farrelly
Website of the Weekend
Arrest Blair
January 28, 2010
Bill Quigley
Haitians are Helping Haitians
Peter Hallward
The Fourth Invasion:
Securing Disaster in Haiti
Tanya Golash-Boza
Struggling for Dignity and Survival in Haiti
Shamus Cooke
Taxing the Rich Wins in Oregon
Dave Lindorff
In Liberty County Jail
Ray McGovern
Obama Put Politics First on Afghanistan
Uri Weiss
Distorting the Basic Law:
Apartheid at the Israeli High Court
Thomas M. Power
Logging for Electricity?
Cecil Brown
The Greensboro Sit-In and Obama
Wajahat Ali
Muslims Helping Haiti
Harvey Wasserman
The Late, Great Howard Zinn
Website of the Day
Hayduke, Take a Walk on the Wild Side
January 27, 2010
Daniel Kovalik
Obama's War for Oil in Colombia
Paul Craig Roberts
Rule by the Rich
Dean Baker
We Won't Get Tarped Again!
Uri Avnery
The Two-Headed Monster
Sasha Kramer
Fear Slows Aid Efforts in Haiti
Vijay Prashad
Plan of Death in Haiti
Nikolas Kozloff
Hugo and the Shockwave: the U.S., Latin America and Haiti
Mark Weisbrot
Haiti: Where Security Kills
Jonathan Cook
Holocaust Day Invited Raises Storm in Israel
Bob Fitrakis /
Harvey Wasserman
Et Tu, ACLU?
Binoy Kampmark
Gordon Ramsay in India
Website of the Day
White House Die In
January 26, 2010
Michael Hudson
Myths of Recovery
Joan Roelofs
It's the Whole System
Patrick Cockburn
The Hanging of the Henchman
Mike Roselle
Photographing Mountain Top Removal: an Interview with Antrim Caskey
Brian M. Downing
Return of the Trust Busters
David Macaray
Big Brother is Alive and Well ... and He's Signing Your Paycheck!
Bouthaina Shaaban
Haiti -- Gaza: Varieties of Compassion
Kevin Zeese
Remodeling the Antiwar Movement
Richard Morse
The Press Only Likes Fresh Blood and the Blood in Haiti is Drying
Fidel Castro
We Send Doctors, Not Soldiers
Farzana Versey
Making Haiti: Survival, Charity Tourism and the Marketplace
Jonathan Cook
Israel's "Army-Owned" University
Website of the Day
Bagram: an Annotated Prisoners List
January 25, 2010
Michael Hudson
Will Obama Put Muscle Into the White House's New Populist Play?
Anthony DiMaggio
Supremely Swindled
JoAnn Wypijewski
Judges' Shock Ruling Okays Fantasist's "Repressed Memories" Fraud
Nadia Hijab
Aiding Yemen
Robert Jensen
Great Television, Bad Journalism: Media Failures on Haiti
John Maxwell
Boojum Hunting in the Caribbean
Richard Morse
Tweets From Port au Prince:
We are Far From Normal
Marilyn Langlois
Standing Shoulder-to-Shoulder in Haiti
Dan Bacher
Has Obama Sold Out to Big Ag?
James L. Secor
The Mental Paralysis of the Left
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Putting the "Pro" Back Into Progressive
Website of the Day
Glenn Beck's "Revolution Holocaust"
January 22/24, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
The Great Leap Sideways
Russell Feingold
The Supremes Have Opened the Floodgates
Ralph Nader
The Supremes Bow to King Corporation
Christopher Ketcham
Freedom of Speech for a Fiction
Manuel Garcia, Jr
Corporate Personhood and Political Free Speech
Paul Craig Roberts
How Wall Street Destroyed Health Care
Jeffrey St. Clair
Poison Letters
Nikolas Kozloff
A Thorn in the Side of the U.S. Military in Haiti
Jean Damu
Haiti: Blood, Sweat and Baseball
Mitchel Cohen
Haiti and Toxic Waste
Paul Buccheit
The Tragedy of Haiti ... and Us
Conn Hallinan
Something About Yemen
Steven Higgs
The Mystery of the Eli Lilly Rider
Rob Stone, MD
Face Time With Rahm on Health Care
Saul Landau /
Nelson P. Valdes
The Preventive Coup
Ron Jacobs
Just Walk Away From the Democrats
Vijay Prashad
The Killings in Bengal
P. Sainath
India:
Self-Slaughter Every 30 Minutes
M. Shahid Alam
Inviting David Brooks to My Class
George Wuerthner
Why Grass-Fed Beef Won't Save the Planet
Missy Comley Beattie
Could a Woman Who Posed Nude Get Elected?
Jean Sabaté
Russia's Ruined Far East Metropolis
Shamus Cooke
Company Unionism
Stephen Fleischman
The Founding Fathers and the Luck of the Draw
Michael Donnelly
Gitmo Closes
David Michael Green
How to Wreck a Presidency
Michael Dickinson
Art on Trial in the Capital of Culture
Charles R. Larson
In the Aftermath of 9/11
David Yearsley
From the Liberace Museum to Persian aub Zam Zam
Lorenzo Wolff
Catching Ziggy on the Lower East Side
Poets' Basement
Ahmad and Corseri
Website of the Day
Hitler Finds Out Scott Brown Won Mass. Senate Seat
Paul Craig Roberts
Security Fools
Alan Farago
Fat Tires in the Everglades
Richard Morse
Earthquake in the Red Zone
Stewart J. Lawrence
The Prospects for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Harvey Wasserman
The Weimar Democrats
Carl Finamore
Class Clowns
Ramzy Baroud
Iran and Latin America: the Press Stirs the Pot
Marshall Auerback
Obama Still Doesn't Get It
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Pakistan Love Story
Adam Federman
Did Commercial-ization Kill the Bees?
Website of the Day
How Free Market Theory Destroyed the Free Market
January 20, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
A Richly Deserved Humiliation
James Bovard
How the Patriot Act Perpetuates Official Robberies
Mary Lynn Cramer
Class and Party Differences in Massachusetts
Dean Baker
Making the Banks Pay
Uri Avnery
The Turkish Incident
Kathy Kelly
Tough Minds and Tender Hearts
Jeb Sprague
Haiti's Classquake
Ron Jacobs
Revolution Not a Tea Party
John V. Walsh
Why I Voted for the Republican in Massachusetts
Bouthaina Shaaban
A Wise Strategy for Obama
Gail Dines
The Ideal Partner?
Website of the Day
Water Insecurity in the Colorado Basin
January 19, 2010
Michael Hudson
Wall Street's Power Grab
John Maxwell
No, Mister, You Can't Share My Pain
Stephen Soldz
The Guantánamo Suicides
Richard Morse
Tweets from Port au Prince: "A Hungry Man is an Angry Man..."
Björn Kumm
The Tragedy of Toussaint L'Ouverture
Gary Leupp
Blowback of the Drones
Eric Toussaint /
Sophie Perchellet
Haiti's Odious Debt
Nikolas Kozloff
Chile's New Right
Benjamin Dangl
Profiting From Haiti's Misery: If the Marines Don't Kill You, the Loans Will
Dave Lindorff
The Blackout on Cuban Aid to Haiti
Robert Roth
The Politics of an Earthquake
Website of the Day
Break Up the Big Banks--ASAP
January 18, 2010
Petra Bartosiewicz
The Intelligence Factory: How America Makes Its Enemies Disappear
Nelson P. Valdés
The Rescue Operation's Priorities in Haiti
Bill Quigley
Why the U.S. Owes Haiti Billions
Richard Morse
I See No Evidence of a Government Presence Here: Tweets from Port au Prince
Tolu Olorunda
More Than Aid, Haiti Needs Allies
John Ross
The Silence of the Sub
Manuel Garcia, Jr. The Murder of Masoud Alimohammadi: Assassinating the Iranian H-Bomb
Ralph Nader
Privatizing Everything
Franklin Lamb
How McCain was Greeted in Lebanon
Frederick B. Hudson
Plucking the Chords of Change
Website of the Day
Senator Centerfold
January 15-17, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Bum Rap for Harry, Not for Bubba Bill
Richard Morse
The Streets are Now Haiti's Living Room, Bedroom and Morgue
Bill Quigley
Ten Things the U.S. Can and Should Do for Haiti
Patrick Cockburn
Crushing Haiti, Now as Always
Jeffrey St. Clair
On the Firing Line
Anthony DiMaggio
Remaking an American Myth:
Haiti, U.S. Aid and Humanitarian Relief
Tom Reeves
Haiti, Where America Never Learns
Daniel Wolff
Haiti's Ongoing Emergency
Alan Nasser
Obama's Latest Ruse: the Bank Tax
Saul Landau /
Nelson P. Valdes
A Coup in Honduras ... So Twentieth Century!
Andrew Oxford
Afghanistan's Soft-Spoken Rebel
Michael Donnelly
Big Greens and Real Greens: Biodiversity in the Age of Big Money Environmentalism
Evan Knappenberger
Students, Not Soldiers, Making the Difference in Haiti
Russell Mokhiber
Democrats Going Down in Flames
Darwin Bond-Graham
The Green Drillers
Missy Beattie
War Dealer
David Ker Thomson
The Attention Economy
Gary Leupp
War on Yemen
Ron Jacobs
The Untold Story of Afghanistan
Clifton Ross
Nicaragua Now: Living the Farce
Jordan Flaherty
Her Crime? Sex Work in New Orleans
Marshall Auerback
Why Placating the Tea Baggers Protects the Status Quo
Marjorie Cohn
Keeping Same Sex Marriage in the Dark
Joe Bageant
Bass Boats and Queer Marriage
Tariq Ali
Remembering Daniel Bensaîd
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Too Soon to Fail?
Charles R. Larson
Iran at the Seams
Kim Nicolini
Vampires in Hard Times
David Yearsley
Histories of Western Music, From Grout to Kleinzahler
Poets' Basement
Garcia and Bryan
Website of the Weekend
Green Tags: Words That Stick
January 14, 2010
Ashley Smith
The Incapacitation of Haiti: Before and After the Quake
Harvey Wasserman
Hard Core Green: How to Kick Corporate Butt
Dean Baker
The Case for Bernanke: a Really Bad Joke
Brian Cloughley
Selective Compassion
Brock L. Bevan
One Night in Sana'a: Parties, French Girls and Security in Yemen
Don Monkerud
The Health Insurance Monopoly
Winslow T. Wheeler
More Pentagon Spending
Gideon Levy
Only Shrinks Can Explain Israel's Behavior
Adam Federman
The Exxon Clause
James McEnteer
This Week in Stupid
Brian Concannon Jr
Working with the Haitian Government
Website of the Day
Protest at Wall Street
January 13, 2010
Patrick Haenni /
Sami Amghar
The Myth of Muslim Conquest
Jonathan Cook
The Iron Dome
Cecil Brown
Knocking on Woods: What Tiger Woods Jokes Tell Us About the American Character
Steven Higgs
Mercury and the "Environmental Soup"
Paul de Rooij
A People's Cartoon History of Gaza
Richard Forno
What Happens When They Change Targets?
Dr. Trudy Bond
Psychologists in an Age of Torture
Daniel Drennan
A Black Panther in Beirut
Martha Rosenberg
The "Good Cancer" Spin
Brenda Baletti, Gilson Rego and Antonio Sena
Battle in Amazonia
Website of the Day
Haiti Aid: Artists for Peace and Justice
January 12, 2010
Bill Salganik
The Myth of "Cadillac" Health Plans
Uri Avnery
The Quiet American Goes to Yemen
Dean Baker
Big Bank Theory
Dan Kovalik
Chiquita Lauded for Human Rights Abuses
Raza Naeem
Yemen's Memories of Revolution and Resistance
George Wuerthner
Up in Smoke: Why Biomass Wood Energy is Not the Answer
Dave Lindorff
Looking for Those Green Shoots
David Macaray
I am Blacker Than Rod Blagojevich
Tolu Olorunda
Bono Bombs, Again
Patrick Bond
Copenhagen Inside-Out
Website of the Day
Unfortunate Checkout Aisle Juxtapositions: Tiger and Abdulmutallab
January 11, 2010
Patrick Cockburn
Only Fools Rush Into Yemen
Gareth Porter
Potemkin Tunnels: Iran Uses Fear of Secret Nuclear Sites to Avert Attacks
John Ross
Mexico Welcomes 2010 With Bombs and Riots
Gregory V. Button
TVA Health Assessment Report on Coal Ash Raises Troubling Questions About the Agency
Ralph Nader
The Last of the Prairie Populists:
Losing Byron Dorgan
Tom Barry
Not Systemic Failure, Failed System
Mikita Brottman
The Healing Powers of Facebook
David Michael Green Lost in the White House
David Swanson
Obama as the Secret Decider
Kevin Zeese
The Baucus 8 Are Free
Website of the Day
Solitary Watch: News From a Nation in Lockdown
January 8 - 10, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Acting Responsible
Andrew Cockburn
How the Teamsters Beat Goldman Sachs
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Battle to Claim the New West
Alison Weir
Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... in Graves and Prisons
Peter Linebaugh
Some Principles of the Commons
Vijay Prashad
The Long March in Latin America
Saul Landau
Naked Empire
Tim Simons /
Ali Tonak
The Dead End of Climate Justice
Andy Worthington
Putting an Afghan Nobody on Trial
Missy Beattie
Shall We Gather at the CIA?
David Macaray
A Ray of Hope for Labor
Ron Jacobs
A Life Worth Saving
Randall Amster
The Road to Health Care Reform is Paved With Bad Intentions
Winslow T. Wheeler
Is Accountability Expendable?
Brian M. Downing
Pakistan and the Afghan Insurgency
Dan Bacher
Big Ag's Big Lie About Feeding America
Christopher Brauchli The Senate and the Filibuster: a Helpless and Contemptible Body
Carl Finamore
Negotiating Separately, Fighting Together
Walter Brasch
Giving the Homeless the Cold Shoulder
Charles R. Larson
Is Tash Aw the Malaysian Graham Greene?
Kim Nicolini
"The Messenger:"
a Story of Absent Bodies
David Yearsley
So You Want to Play in a Band in the Piazza San Marco?
Phyllis Pollack
Soul Serenade: the Legacy of Willie Mitchell
Lorenzo Wolff
Hoarding William Bell
Poets' Basement
Stevens, Kaung, & Yankevich
Website of the Weekend
Haitian Immigrant's Detention Story Leaves ICE Cold
January 7, 2010
Bruce Patterson
PTSD: Welcome Home, Hold Your Tongue
Alan J. Singer
How I Almost Became a Terrorist
Mark Weisbrot
Bail Out the Poor
William Blum
The American Elite
Joshua Frank
Bombing the Land of the Snow Leopard: the War on Afghanistan's Environment
Ramzy Baroud
The Media Vultures
Suzan Mazur
Turmoil at the NAS
D. K. Wilson
Guns, Race and Sports
Ray McGovern /
Coleen Rowley
CounterTerrorism in Shambles
Website of the Day
Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
January 6, 2010
Gareth Porter
The Iran Nuclear Trigger Forgeries
Mike Whitney
The Stimulus Killer:
Rubin Rides Again
Dean Baker
The Undignified Death of the Washington Post
Adam Federman
Swimming in Natural Gas: the Greenwashing of an Industry
Tariq Ali
From Reconquista to Recolonization
Bouthaina Shaaban
2009: Some Arabs, Some Jews
Nikolas Kozloff
Converting Tiger Woods: Brit Hume's Slurs on Buddhism
Emily Ratner
Palestine Vivre!
Carl Finamore
The San Francisco Hotel Dispute
Anthony Papa
Panic in Needle Park:
Return of the Fear Mongers
Website of the Day
Paul McCartney: the LSD Interview
January 5, 2010
Joseph Shansky
Killing Organizers in Honduras
Nadia Hijab
When Does It Become Genocide?
Steven Higgs
Evidence of Harm Revisited
Franklin Lamb
Obama Adds 675 Million Muslims to the Ultimate US Terrorism List
Frank Joseph Smecker
Coal's Ruptured Landscape
Paul Craig Roberts
The Law is Lost
Ellen Brown
Escape From Pottersville: the North Dakota Banking Model
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Time for a Peace Budget
Martha Rosenberg
Do You Know Where Your Child Is?
Laura Flanders
Dubai's Tower of Debt
Website of the Day
Guantánamo: the Definitive Prisoner List
January 4, 2010
Uri Avnery
The Iron Wall
Mike Whitney Bernanke in Atlanta
Patrick Cockburn
The Ugly Fortress
Dave Lindorff
Are U.S. Forces Executing Afghan Kids?
Dr. Susan Block
About a Boy: Inside the Two Heads of the Crotch Bomber
Lynda Brayer
Revenge and Retaliation in Gaza
Deepak Tripathi
Rebuff to Karzai or Occupying Powers?
David Michael Green
The Perils of Passivity
Lucinda Marshall
The Handmaid's Tale Comes to Life
K. Webster
A Flash of Anger, Then a Youth's Light Fades
Website of the Day
David Byrne: Art Funding or Arts Funding?
January 1 - 3, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Goodbye to 2009, Hello to 2010: Year of the Tiger
Afshin Rattansi
Hostage to Fortune
Jeffrey St. Clair
Disquiet on the Western Front
Ralph Nader
The Awful Truth
Judith Blau, M. Rafael Gallegos Lerma and Alfonso Hernandez
In the Face of Immigrant Bashing
Dave Lindorff
The Year of Our Discontent
Missy Beattie
Backward, Into Fear
David Macraay
Why Men Really Read Playboy
Floyd Rudmin
Kant on War