Counterpunch.org archives March 2010
March 31, 2010
Samuel Singer
Strange Alliance at the Supreme Court
Dean Baker
The Housing Bubble and the Washington Crew
Esam Al-Amin
The Iraqi Elections: Winners and Losers
Gareth Porter
Inside Afghanistan's Jails
David Rosen
GOP in Freefall?
Mike Whitney
HAMP to the Rescue
Anita Sinha
Color-Coded Citizenship
Michael P. Bradley The Dawning of a Liberal Apologetics for Iraq
Nikolas Kozloff
The Real Thing:
Bolivia's Coca-Colla
Mary Lynn Cramer
The Scapegoating of Low-Income Seniors
Website of the Day
The New START Deal
March 30, 2010
Conn Hallinan
A New Middle East War?
Kathy Kelly
Atrocities in Afghanistan
Rafael Hernandez
Dissidents and Politics in Cuba
Russell Mokhiber
Madoff was Like Heroin
Poyan Nahrvar
Ann Coulter Runs, Whines, May Sue
Ralph Nader
When the Banks Own the Congress
Alan Farago
An Economy Without Firewalls
Anthony Papa
The $250,000 Joint
Laura Carlsen
Juarez, Murder Capital of the World
Lawrence Reichard
Can the Census Count to Ten?
Website of the Day
The Business of Art
March 29, 2010
Vijay Prashad
Bad Aid: Throw Your Arms Around the World
Uri Avnery
Bibi's Canossa
Patrick Cockburn
Iraq's Post-Election Labyrinth
Mark Weisbrot
Re-Thinking the Euro
Dave Lindorff
Obama in Afghanistan
Kevin Zeese
The Bottom Line on Health Care: What We Got; What Remains to be Done
David Swanson
The Bases of Empire
Harvey Wasserman
Paying Now for the Next Three Mile Island
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Where Sarah Gets Her Guns
Martha Rosenberg
The Price of Cheap Easter Eggs
Website of the Day
Profit-Sharing Among Somali Pirates
March 26 - 28, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
T'was a Famous Victory
Pam Martens
The Most Vital Ingredient in Wall Street Reform Goes Missing
Mike Whitney
The Looming Trade War With China
Andrew J. Bacevich
Afghanistan: War of Illusions
David Yearsley
A Boy in Church: Alone With Father Tom
Anthony DiMaggio
Boons for Business: the Real Winners in the Health Care Bill
Dave Lindorff
Social Security Scare Tactics
Jonathan Cook
Provocation at Al-Aqsa
Robert Alvarez
After Yucca Mountain: What to Do With Nuclear Waste?
Linda Greene
Enhanced Prosecutorial Techniques
Ramzy Baroud
My Children, Ralph Nader and the South China Sea
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Nukes by the Numbers
David Swanson Frank Olson, Enemy Combatant: LSD, Murder and the CIA
Laura Flanders
How Bias at the NYT Helped Kill ACORN
Rannie Amiri
Al-Azhar's New Grand Sheikh
Mark Schuller
Haiti: Tectonic Shifts?
David Macaray
Fed Ex Buys an Exemption From Labor Laws
Robert Jensen
The Collpase of Journalism / the Journalism of Collapse
Boris Kagarlitsky
The Class War on Leninsky Prospekt
Bouthaina Shaaban
The Mullen-Petraeus Report on the Middle East
David Ker Thomson
Beyond Democracy
Charles R. Larson
It's Still Race, Stupid
Prairie Miller
Teabagger Cinema: a Weak Brew
Poets' Basement
Three Poems by DJ Moser
Website of the Weekend
Chertoff's New Gig
March 25, 2010
Jonathan Cook
The Jerusalem "Compromise"
Dean Baker
Will the U. S. Lose Its AAA Rating?
Laura Carlsen
Voting Under the Gun in Colombia
Mats Svensson
Apartheid on Two Continents
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Blair Strikes Oil in Iraq
Patrick Irelan
Bolsheviks in the Cornfields
Rose Ann DeMoro
On to Health Care Reform!
Christopher Brauchli
System Failure at the FBI
Sandy Mayes
No More Michael Moore
Website of the Day
The Curious History of the CIA's Secret Interrogation Program
March 24, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
Good-Bye
Ralph Nader
Congress, Israel and U. S. National Security
Saul Landau
Taunting Havana
Vijay Prashad
March From Marjah
Robert Alvarez
Flying and Radiation Exposure: Whole-Body Scanners Will Compound the Risk
Dave Lindorff
Testing Phobia:
Texas Set to Execute Another Possibly Innocent Man
Laura Flanders
What I Learned From the Health Care Debate
Chris Floyd
Closing Time
Brian M. Downing
When Wounded Vets Booed John Wayne:
War Movies and Veteran Memory
Gregory Elich
Taking on the Religious Right
Rosie Wong
Responding to the Honduran Coup
Website of the Day
What the Watchdogs Were Watching While the Economy Tanked
March 23, 2010
Noor Elashi
The Case of the Holy Land Five
Carl Ginsburg
Welcome to the Family Intake Center
Paul Craig Roberts
How Washington Murdered Privacy at Home and Abroad
Jonathan Cook
Israel's "No Renting to Arabs" Policy
Clancy Sigal
Married to the Cause
Sonja Karkar
Who is Killing Whom?
Don Monkerud
Recovery for the Rich
Greg Moses
America, Health Care and the Common Life
Shamus Cooke
Defeat in Victory
John V. Walsh
Health Insurance Bonanza
Website of the Day
Clinton's Haiti Apology
March 22, 2010
Uri Avnery
Israel, Obama and the Doomsday Weapon
Craig D. Rose
On to the Unemployment Crisis
Mike Whitney
Obama's Bloody War in Mexico
Allan Nairn
Indonesian Assassins
Gareth Porter
The Uncertain Fate of Afghan Detainees
Andy Worthington
Seven Years of War in Iraq
John Ross
Riding the Spine of America
Gary Leupp
Fight the Real Enemy: the Pope's Message to Sex Abuse Victims
Dan Bacher
Shame on the Riverkeeper!
David Michael Green
Stumbling Through the Graveyard of Empires
Dave Lindorff
Panhandling in Yosemite
Charles R. Larson
Tea Party Antics
Website of the Day
Dave Marsh Interviews Smokey Robinson
March 19 - 21, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
"My Fellow Americans, Tonight I'm Going to Talk Frankly About a Pesky Little Nation Called Israel ... "
Jeffrey Blankfort
Why Israel Always Prevails
Alan Nasser
The Jobs Bill and Other Faux Remedies
Dean Baker
The Holes in the Fed
Barbara Rose Johnston
Secrets of the Tribe: Anthropologists in the Amazon
Mike Whitney
Greenspan Returns
M. Shahid Alam
Will the Taliban Reclaim Control of Afghanistan?
Rannie Amiri
The "I-Word" Hillary Didn't Use
Alan Farago
A Time-Release Depression
Wajahat Ali
The Saga of Jihad Jane
Christopher Ketcham Technophilia, Technotyranny, Techno-infantilism
David Rosen
The Third Front: Sexual Assault in the U. S. Military
Patrick Bond
What Will Robert Zoellick Break Next?
Todd Gordon / Jeffery R. Webber
Imperialism Re-Booted in Latin America
Mark Weisbrot
An Ugly and Dangerous Game
Norman Solomon
Congressional Health Care Follies
Ramzy Baroud
Activism is Change
Martha Rosenberg The Wild Man
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Jihad Against Violence
Laura Flanders
The Femivore's Dilemma
Clare Bayard / Sarah Lazare
Rebirthing the Anti-War Movement
David Ker Thomson Buy This Article: the Politics of Doing Squat
Binoy Kampmark
The Female Eunuch Turns 40
Charles R. Larson
Troubled Relationships on the Land
David Yearsley
The Pope's Brother and Those Regensburg Choirboys
Ron Jacobs
Jimi Hendrix: Spirits of the Red House
Poets' Basement
Emerson and Beaudin
Website of the Weekend
Coal's Toxic Sludge
March 18, 2010
JoAnn Wypijewski
"When You're Dying You Explore Radical Medication"
Neve Gordon
Rachel Corrie's Memory, Israel's Image
David Macaray
The Toyota Way: Workers Warned Mgt. About Cutting Corners
Patrick Cockburn
Sadrists Rising
Ralph Nader
The Graveyard of the Congress
Winslow T. Wheeler
Of Pork and Pretend Ethics on Capitol Hill
Harvey Wasserman
The Nuke Pushers to Vermont: Drop Dead
Missy Beattie
Notes From DC:
Stop Killing Civilians
Tolu Olorunda
Texas Says Hip Hop is Not a Significant Cultural Movement
David Swanson
Kucinich and the Media
Website of the Day
RIP Alex Chilton
March 17, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
The Off-Shored Economy
Mike Whitney
Carte Blanche for the Banksters
Anthony DiMaggio
The Empathy Problem: Poverty, Privilege and Health Care Reform
Christopher Fons
Why Obama is a Disaster for Urban Educators
Mark Weisbrot
Greenspan's Nightmare
Dave Lindorff
The War on Afghan Civilians
Joe Allen
The Persecution of Curtis Flowers
Carl Finamore
Union Democracy on Trial
Yifat Susskind
Oh, Those "Disappointing" Iraqis
Laura Flanders
What Did Geithner Know, When Did He Know It?
Website of the Day
Big Snort: Is Cocaine Use Driving Climage Change?
March 16, 2010
Gareth Porter
Negotiating with the Taliban
Ray McGovern
Yoo Besmirches the Legacy of Jefferson
Conn Hallinan
The Iranian Tsunami
Brian Cloughley
Why Do They Still Hate America?
Shamus Cooke
Why Teachers' Unions Matter
Steven Higgs
The Hoosier Who Would be President
Björn Kumm
Sir David Omand's Master Plan to Fight Terror
Jayne Lyn Stahl
The Supreme Courtship
Bouthiana Shaaban
Joe Biden's Empty Desert
David Swanson
Student Loan Sharks
Website of the Day
Sartre and DeBeauvoir at Home
March 15, 2010
Mike Whitney
Lehman Bros. Scandal Rocks the Fed
Uri Avnery
Wiping the Spit Off His Face
Dean Baker
Rules of the Game
Dave Lindorff
Another U. S. Atrocity in Afghanistan
Patrick Cockburn
Fraud Claims Hit Iraqi Elections
Phillip Doe
Corporate Tourism in Colorado
Christopher Brauchli
Catholic Charities and Gays: When Burning at the Stake is Not an Option
David Michael Green
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Governing
Binoy Kampmark
Moving Right, Going Wrong
Martha Rosenberg
The Links Between WebMD and Eli Lilly
Website of the Day
Psst, Buddy, Want a Gun?
March 12-14, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Relax, the Empire's in Safe Hands
Franklin C. Spinney
Obama's Toxic "Green" Policy
Joshua Frank /
Jeffrey St. Clair
Obama and Nuclear Power: Resurrecting a Failed Industry
Ismael Hossein-zadeh
Back to Market Fundamentalism
David Rosen /
Bruce Kushnick Network Failure: the Crisis in America's Telecommunications Network
T. P. Wilkinson
Drug War Without End
Ashley Smith
A Tale of Two Earthquakes
John Ross
Phantom of Mexican Narco-Guerrillas Haunts U.S. Security Chiefs
Jorge Mariscal
Trouble in Paradise: Welcome to Post-Racial California
Conn Hallinan
The Dubai Debacle
Joe Bageant
Learning About Capitalism at Gunther's Garage
Saul Landau
The Confessions of Antonio Veciana
Ramzy Baroud
The Al-Mabhouh Murder: a Different Concept of Justice
Bill Moyers /
Michael Winship
The Country is Getting Mugged
Ray McGovern
Taboo Thwarts Candor on Israel / Iran
Rannie Amiri
Lebanon, Libya and a Lingering Question
Nadia Hijab
The Trouble with Gender
Missy Beattie
Crunch Time
P. Sainath
Yet Another "Pro-Farmer" Budget
Cyrus Bina
U. S. Foreign Policy and Post-Election Iran
Dave Lindorff
The Bogus $100 Billion Medicare / Medicaid Fraud Claim
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Decoding the Language of Social Control
Alan Farago
The Police Got There First
Norman Solomon
War in a Box
Sam Bahour
Proximity Talks?
Jed Brandt
Greetings From Nepal
Mike Prysner
What's Behind the New Mission in Afghanistan?
Greg King
The Value of Water: Implications of the Klamath Dam Deal
Stephen Soldz
Iceland Sets New Path Toward Press Freedom
Anthony Papa
How Governor Paterson Could Build a Legacy
Charles R. Larson Civil Service at a Price: Mahfouz's "Cairo Modern"
Michael Dickinson
Sticks and Stones
Kim Nicolini
Labyrinth of Madness: Scorcese's "Shutter Island"
David Yearsley
Spring Break Cocktails
Poets' Basement
Pointer, Orloski and Holt
Website of the Weekend
Israel: a Nuclear Chronology
March 11, 2010
Jonathan Cook
Rachel Corrie's Family Finally Puts Israel in the Dock
Yossi Sarid
The Obama Administration Asked for the East Jerusalem Fiasco
Patrick Cockburn
An Iraq Without Terror?
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Your Retirement Funds to Bail Out Failed Banks?
Winslow T. Wheeler
This Pentagon Needs Watching
Sasha Kramer
The Sanitation Crisis in Port-au-Prince
Billy Wharton
Can ESPN Tolerate Free Speech?
Dru Oja Jay
Greenpeace's Corporate Overreach
Ron Jacobs
This Battle is About More Than Schools
Russell Mokhiber
The New Wonder Bread: Health Care and the Democrats
David Macaray
When Bill Maher Finally Blew It
Website of the Day
The Anti-War Vote
March 10, 2010
Marie Bénilde
The End of Newspapers
Carl Conetta
The Pentagon's Runaway Budget
Sasan Fayazmanesh
An Academic Blunder
Julia Stein
I Was a Charter School Teacher
Joshua Frank
The Dirty Truth Behind Clean Coal
Don Monkerud
Why Californians Can't Afford Health Insurance
Heather Gray /
K. Rashid Nuri
How Organic Agriculture Can Feed the World
Laura Flanders
Why Labor's Mad at Obama
Dave Lindorff
Kill Bill: Death to Obamacare
Russell Mokhiber
Will Jerry Brown Sign Single Payer?
Website of the Day
The Great Florida Fop-Off
March 9, 2010
March 12-14, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Relax, the Empire's in Safe Hands
Franklin C. Spinney
Obama's Toxic "Green" Policy
Joshua Frank /
Jeffrey St. Clair
Obama and Nuclear Power: Resurrecting a Failed Industry
Ismael Hossein-zadeh
Back to Market Fundamentalism
David Rosen /
Bruce Kushnick Network Failure: the Crisis in America's Telecommunications Network
T. P. Wilkinson
Drug War Without End
Ashley Smith
A Tale of Two Earthquakes
John Ross
Phantom of Mexican Narco-Guerrillas Haunts U.S. Security Chiefs
Jorge Mariscal
Trouble in Paradise: Welcome to Post-Racial California
Conn Hallinan
The Dubai Debacle
Joe Bageant
Learning About Capitalism at Gunther's Garage
Saul Landau
The Confessions of Antonio Veciana
Ramzy Baroud
The Al-Mabhouh Murder: a Different Concept of Justice
Bill Moyers /
Michael Winship
The Country is Getting Mugged
Ray McGovern
Taboo Thwarts Candor on Israel / Iran
Rannie Amiri
Lebanon, Libya and a Lingering Question
Nadia Hijab
The Trouble with Gender
Missy Beattie
Crunch Time
P. Sainath
Yet Another "Pro-Farmer" Budget
Cyrus Bina
U. S. Foreign Policy and Post-Election Iran
Dave Lindorff
The Bogus $100 Billion Medicare / Medicaid Fraud Claim
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Decoding the Language of Social Control
Alan Farago
The Police Got There First
Norman Solomon
War in a Box
Sam Bahour
Proximity Talks?
Jed Brandt
Greetings From Nepal
Mike Prysner
What's Behind the New Mission in Afghanistan?
Greg King
The Value of Water: Implications of the Klamath Dam Deal
Stephen Soldz
Iceland Sets New Path Toward Press Freedom
Anthony Papa
How Governor Paterson Could Build a Legacy
Charles R. Larson Civil Service at a Price: Mahfouz's "Cairo Modern"
Michael Dickinson
Sticks and Stones
Kim Nicolini
Labyrinth of Madness: Scorcese's "Shutter Island"
David Yearsley
Spring Break Cocktails
Poets' Basement
Pointer, Orloski and Holt
Website of the Weekend
Israel: a Nuclear Chronology
March 11, 2010
Jonathan Cook
Rachel Corrie's Family Finally Puts Israel in the Dock
Yossi Sarid
The Obama Administration Asked for the East Jerusalem Fiasco
Patrick Cockburn
An Iraq Without Terror?
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Your Retirement Funds to Bail Out Failed Banks?
Winslow T. Wheeler
This Pentagon Needs Watching
Sasha Kramer
The Sanitation Crisis in Port-au-Prince
Billy Wharton
Can ESPN Tolerate Free Speech?
Dru Oja Jay
Greenpeace's Corporate Overreach
Ron Jacobs
This Battle is About More Than Schools
Russell Mokhiber
The New Wonder Bread: Health Care and the Democrats
David Macaray
When Bill Maher Finally Blew It
Website of the Day
The Anti-War Vote
March 10, 2010
Marie Bénilde
The End of Newspapers
Carl Conetta
The Pentagon's Runaway Budget
Sasan Fayazmanesh
An Academic Blunder
Julia Stein
I Was a Charter School Teacher
Joshua Frank
The Dirty Truth Behind Clean Coal
Don Monkerud
Why Californians Can't Afford Health Insurance
Heather Gray /
K. Rashid Nuri
How Organic Agriculture Can Feed the World
Laura Flanders
Why Labor's Mad at Obama
Dave Lindorff
Kill Bill: Death to Obamacare
Russell Mokhiber
Will Jerry Brown Sign Single Payer?
Website of the Day
The Great Florida Fop-Off
March 9, 2010
Keane Bhatt
Chomsky on Haiti
Steven Higgs
The Poisoning of a Generation:
Do Vaccines Cause Autism?
William Blum
Congress of Corruption
Dean Baker
Stop Calling It a Financial Crisis
Roger Burbach
The Social Earthquake in Chile
Marshall Auerback /
Rob Parentau
Let a Dozen Latvias Bloom?
Ralph Nader
In the Shadow of Power
Conn Hallinan
The Crackdown on Israeli Dissidents
Nadia Hijab
A Tale of Two Richards
Dan Bacher
Westlands Water Goes Rogue
Website of the Day
Romney's Health Plan Covered Abortions
March 8, 2010
Gareth Porter
The Siege of the Fictional City of Marja
Chris Floyd
Unnatural Acts: Breaking the Fever of Militarism
Carl Ginsburg
Save is the New Spend
Jonathan Cook
Is Europe Planning Seal of Approval for Israeli Settlers?
Dean Baker
The Myths of Financial Innovation
Bill Quigley
When Silence is Betrayal
Greg Moses
Murder-Suicide of English Language in Texas
Shamus Cooke
The Fight to Save Public Education
Tolu Olorunda
Ebony's Shame: Taking Time Out to Kick Mumia Abu Jamal
Kieko Matteson
Habeas Porpoise
Mike Bader
Last Chance for the Bull Trout
Website of the Day
"The Special Forces of Spiritual Warfare"
March 5 - 7, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
The Bogus Hispanic Crime Wave
James Ridgeway /
Jean Casella
The Terrible Case of Jamie Scott
Saul Landau / Nelson P. Valdes The Untouchable Budget: Defense Department, Inc.
Ishmael Reed
The NAACP House of Shame
Dave Lindorff
Who Cares About Child Rape and Sodomy by Afghan Security Forces?
Mike Whitney
The Stealth Bailouts
Russell Mokhiber
The Top Ten Ways to Crack Down on Corporate Financial Crime
John Ross
Death Waltz Across Texas
Mark Schuller
Fault Lines: Haiti's Earthquake and Reconstruction Through the Eyes of Many
Mark Weisbrot
Hillary in Latin America
Rannie Amiri
Mordechai Vanunu's Nobel Stand
Ramzy Baroud
Flexible Objectives in Afghan War
David Rosen
The New Morality Police
David Ker Thomson
What's Your Excuse for Driving in the City?
Wajahat Ali
The Future of Malaysia: an Interview with Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim
Missy Beattie
Wake Up
George Wuerthner
Playing Politics With the Fate of the Sage Grouse
Benjamin Dangl
Compromise and Celebration in Uruguay
Martha Rosenberg
Agribusiness Gets Handed Its Lunch
Vladimir Radyuhin
Orange Revolution Tossed in Trashcan
Eric Walberg
Fanning the Flames of Another War in the Caucasus?
Robert Bryce
The Irony of Iowa's Ethanol Exemption
Alison Weir
A Wrench in the Israeli Gears
David Macaray
Lessons From India
Laura Flanders
Challenging "High Road" Contracting
Bouthaina Shaaban
The Navi and the Palestinians: Avatar's Parable of Our Times
Charles R. Larson
Second Thoughts on Those Virgins
David Yearsley
Sensual Secrets of the Vatican
Poets' Basement
Landau, Anderson and Costley
Website of the Weekend
Mindless Missiles
March 4, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
Is the Recovery Real?
Dave Lindorff
Executing Handcuffed Afghan Kids?
Conn Hallinan
Obama's Landmine Betrayal
Steven Higgs
"A Massive, Toxicological Experiment with Our Children"
Frank Green
Drones Club Meets in San Diego
Ron Jacobs
Of Course Narcs Are Crooked ...
Christopher Brauchli
Trial by Confusion
Don Monkerud
Who Runs America?
Roberto Rodriguez The Politics of the Census: Masking Identities or Counting the Indigenous?
Raymond J. Lawrence
The Brave New World of Sexual Addiction
Website of the Day
Mining Nicaragua
March 3, 2010
Norman Finkelstein
Truth and Consequences in Gaza
Bill Quigley
Mercenaries Circling Haiti
Franklin C. Spinney
Eisenhower's Nightmare Arrives
Dean Baker
The Power of Stupidity: Economic Policy and Unemployment
Mike Whitney
We Need Bigger Deficits
Raed Jarrar /
Erik Leaver
Sliding Backwards on Iraq
Adam Federman
To Drill or Not to Drill
Joshua Frank
The EPA's Coal Ash Whitewash
Will Parrish / Darwin Bond-Graham
"WE Make the Crisis"
Matt Siegfried
The Ganja Games
Website of the Day
Sea Lion Defense Brigade
March 2, 2010
Patrick Cockburn
Uproar Before Iraqi Elections
Tricia Shapiro
Mountain Injustice
Gareth Porter
Defying the U. S.
Paul Craig Roberts
A Religion Divided Against Itself
Ellen Brown
IMF-Style Austerity Comes to America
David Macaray
Labor and the Democrats:
What Does $400 Million Buy You These Days?
Stewart J. Lawrence
Is Obama Already a Lame Duck?
Shamus Cooke
How Obamacare Kills Real Health Care Reform
Udi Aloni /
Ofer Neiman
What Israel Fears
Binoy Kampmark
Australia's History Wars
Stephen Soldz
The Battle Over Informed Consent
Website of the Day
What to Do About Tactical Nuclear Weapons
March 1, 2010
Ralph Nader
Whatever Happened to "We the People"?
Will Parrish /
Darwin Bond-Graham
Who Runs the University of California?
Mike Whitney
The Case Against Bernanke and Greenspan
Diana Johnstone
The Fall of Greece
Jayne Lyn Stahl
A Refuge for Cowards: the Senate Extends the Patriot Act
Vijay Prashad
It's Love! India and Saudi Arabia Embrace
Paul Buhle Organizing Against Empire: Where Left and Right Meet ... Amicably
Robert Jensen
Getting Rid of Hope and Faith
Marga Tojo Gonzales
Will Capitalism Absorb the World Social Forum?
Website of the Day
The Decline of the Israeli Right?