Counterpunch.org archives April 2010
April 30 - May 2, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Volcanoes, Weather and Computer Models
Harry Kreisler
Talking to Elizabeth Warren
Kathy Kelly /
Dan Pearson
Atrocities in Afghanistan: a Troubling Timeline
Bill Quigley
It's Not Just Arizona
Peter Linebaugh
May Day & SDS & SNCC Jubilee
Mike Whitney
Goldman in the Dock
Jed Brandt
May Day in Kathmandu
Mark Weisbrot
The IMF's Road to Ruin: From Latvia to Greece
Saul Landau
Countering Murder with Courage
Carl Finamore
Monopoly in the Sky
P. Sainath
The Color of Water
Mark N. Hoffman
Policing the West: From France to Arizona
Mikita Brottman
Technophobia in Academia
David Vine
The Environmental Protection of Military Bases?
David Macaray
Subverting Union Democracy
Ramzy Baroud
The South Reduced
Ann Wright
Gaza Death Zone
Joshua Frank
Shareholders Revolt Against Coal Ash
Harry Browne
World Cup:
Why African Teams Never Quite Make It
Walden Bello
The Poverty Trap
Mervyn Claxton
Emergency Food Production in Haiti: Getting It Right
Joe Allen
Oliver's Story
Douglas Hamilton
A Town Called Marinaleda
Missy Beattie
Laura's Story: Deadly Intersections
David Rosen
The Slaughter in the Congo
David Ker Thomson Against Birth: Yours Was an Accident
Laura Flanders
Catastrophes Every Day for Profit
Charles R. Larson
The Last Slave Narrative?
David Yearsley
An Evening of Christian McBride
Poets' Basement
Anderson, Bready and Gibbons
Website of the Weekend
The Weight You Carry
April 29, 2010
Andrew Cockburn
The Prospects for Real Financial Reform Remain Remote
Karl Grossman Spill, Baby, Spill: Blow Out in the Gulf
Saul Landau
Real War Games
Alan Maass
Jim DeMint and Me
Phillip Doe
Stealing Rivers in Colorado
Brian Cloughley
Tangled Webs: From My Lai to Khataba
Paul Abowd
The Future of Detroit's Schools
Ron Jacobs
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Papers!
Binoy Kampmark
The Coming British Elections
Website of the Day
Scenes From the American Police State: Ask a Cop for His Badge Number, Get Arrested
April 28, 2010
Mike Whitney
The Interrogation of Lloyd Blankfein
Dean Baker
The Flight of the Deficit Hawks
Joanne Mariner
The Legality of Drone Warfare
Bruce E. Levine
The Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America: a Conversation with Robert Whitaker
John Ross
The Big Scam: How Washington Hooked Mexico on the Drug War
Dave Lindorff
Slick Politics: the Consequences of Drill, Baby, Drill
Tanya Golash-Boza
Criminalizing the Undocumented
Walter Brasch
Exploiting Low-Paid Workers at a Vo-Tech School
Steven Higgs
The State of Vaccine-Autism Research
Tom Clifford
Power Politics in Prague
Website of the Day
When Will Sen. Dodd Take "Yes" for an Answer?
April 27, 2010
Patrick Cockburn
Iraq Rocked by Court Verdict
Mike Whitney
What Really Triggered the Financial Crisis?
Ralph Nader
The Great Gap in Financial Reform
Ray McGovern
Is Iran Really a
Threat?
Cecil Brown
Goodbye, White Friends:
White People Aren't Into Black People Anymore
Roberto Rodriguez
Arizona: This is What Apartheid Looks Like
Francis Shor
Death Squads in Afghanistan
Julie Hilden
The Case of the Crush Videos: Animal Cruelty and the Supreme Court
Steven Higgs
The Age of Autism
John Halle
A Cure for the Deficit Obsession
Website of the Day
Fulfilling the Dream
April 26, 2010
Greg Moses
Mormons for Racial Profiling?
Daniel Kovalik
Colombia's Deadly "Democracy"
Mark Weisbrot
Will a Congressional Rebellion Bring the Afghan War to an End?
Jonathan Cook
Israel's Big and Small Apartheids
Patrick Cockburn
US Intervenes in Iraqi Election Row
James Bovard
The Politics of the Tea Partyers
Stewart J. Lawrence
A Tale of Two Senators: McCain and Reid
Jayne Lyn Stahl
The Good, the Bad and the ... "Misguided"?
David Ker Thomson: A Cross Border Beating: the Disturbing Case of Dr. Peter Watts
Darwin Bond-Graham
Deepshit Horizon
Just Jerusalem Activists
Letter to Elie Wiesel:
Your Jerusalem v. the Real Jerusalem
Website of the Day
Criminal Adultery?
April 23 - 25, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Marijuana, Boom and Bust
Steve Hendricks
The Unquiet Grave: Indian Country, the FBI and the Death of Anna Mae Aquash
Mike Whitney
Lehman's Liar's Loans and Other Cons
Carl Ginsburg
The Envy of the World
Jeffrey St. Clair
Black Hole, Black Death: How Much is a Miner's Life Worth?
Andy Worthington
Guantanamo and Habeas Corpus
Karl Grossman
The Consequences of Chernobyl
Nelson P. Valdés
Hillary's "Feelings" About Cuba and the Castros
Scott Boehm
The Trial of Baltasar Garzón
David Macaray From Labor Champion to Wall Street Flack: Dick Gephardt Disgraces Himself ... Again
Dave Lindorff
Demonizing Iran
Saul Landau
The Decline of the Church?
Carles Muntaner
Samaranch:
the Death of a Catalan Fascist
Ellen Brown
Computerized Front-Running
Alvaro Huerta
Razing Arizona: Enough with the Draconian Anti-Immigrant Laws
David Swanson
Death by Imperial Profile
Mark Brenner
Where are the Pitchforks?
Jefferson Chase
Why Obama's Middle East Peace Plan Will Fail
Fred Gardner
The POT Conference
Brenda Norrell
Playing Soccer With Evo Morales
Ira Glunts
The Shill on the Hill
Kamran Mofid / Steve Szeghi Economics in Crisis
Laura Flanders
Is the SEC Up to the Job?
Sheldon Richman
The Washington-Wall Street Kabuki Dance
Binoy Kampmark
Re-Regulating the Market
Paul Buchheit
Shut Up, Tea Partiers, We're On the Same Side ... Sort Of
Missy Beattie
War is Failure
Bianca Mucyenyi / Yves Engler
China and Cars
Harry Browne
World Cup:
Can Spain Win at Last?
David Ker Thomson
Atlantis Under
Farzana Versey
Grin and Bear It: Profiting From the Prophet
Randy Shields
Kitten Stompers at the Supreme Court
Charles R. Larson
On the Streets, On the Skids
Ron Jacobs
When the Music Could Only Do So Much
David Yearsley
Sorry, Ms. Hahn, Your Notes are All Too Good
Poets' Basement
Ahmad, Yankevich and Moser
Website of the Weekend
The Ahava Protest
April 22, 2010
Stan Cox
Cold War: Militarism, Torture ... and Air Conditioning?
James Bovard
The Slippery Definition of Extremism
Patrick Cockburn
Vicious War on Pakistan's N.W. Frontier
Mike Whitney
The Real State of the Housing Market
Kim Ives
For $10 Billion in Promises, Haiti Surrenders Its Sovereignty
Christopher Ketcham
The Real Socialist Threat is the Military
Brian Tokar
The Advent of Green Consumerism:
40 Years of Earth Days
Jed Brandt
High Noon in Nepal
Norman Solomon
Who Let the Blue Dogs Out?
Martha Rosenberg
The Strange Return of Hormone Replacement Therapy
Website of the Day
Conservatives Gay-Bash Sen. Lindsay Graham
April 21, 2010
Andrew Cockburn
Wall Street's Bad Dream
Vijay Prashad
My Investment in Israel: Are You an Anti-Semite?
Esam Al-Amin
Israel's Enabler in the U. S.
Evelyn Pringle
Inventing Disorders: the Psychiatric Drugging of Children
Marshall Auerback
Economic Plague in the Euro Zone
Julien Mercille
Another Drug Record for Afghanistan
Leonard Peltier
Indigenous People and the Environment
David Macaray
Nike's Crimes
Robert Fantina
The New Christian Right and Christianity
Heather Gray
Texas Rewrites History
Harvey Wasserman
Nuking Earth Day
Website of the Day
Scenes From the American Police State: TSA and the Applesauce Caper
April 20, 2010
James Bovard
A Lethal Hypocrisy: Bill Clinton on Violence and Government
Dean Baker
The Multiple Scams of Goldman Sachs
Bill Quigley
The Guantanamo Deception
Alan Farago
Eating the Dead in the Everglades
Evelyn Pringle
An American Phenomenon:
the Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers
Bouthaina Shaaban
Writing in an Age of Despair
Joanne Mariner
Fairness in Sanctions?
Eric Walberg
Iran's Disarmament Conference
Franklin Lamb
The Case for Palestinian Rights in Lebanon
Billy Wharton
Anti-Apartheid in 8 1/2 Hours
Website of the Day
Deficit Summit Pushback
April 19, 2010
Pam Martens
The Death of a Salesman
Mike Whitney
Goldman Sachs' Bloody Nose
Gareth Porter
Kandahar Campaign Doomed Before It Begins?
Jeb Sprague
Death in the Desert
Gregory Harms
The Procedural Relationship
Michael Leonardi
Emergency in Afghanistan: Raiding a Hospital
Dave Lindorff
Good Riddance, Daryl Gates
Greg Moses
Tax Day Tea Party Tosses Markets Overboard
Robert Jensen
The Diversity Dead-End
Gary Leupp
The Icelandic Volcano Speaks
Website of the Day
Dead Cat Walking
April 16-18, 2010
Cockburn / St. Clair
This Will be Obama's Legacy
Alan Nasser
Social Security in the Bullseye
Russell Mokhiber
Prosecuting Massey for Homicide
Ray McGovern
Lie to Congress; Get a Fourth Star
Gareth Porter
McChrystal Backtracks in Kandahar
Mike Whitney
High-Frequency Trading as High-Tech Robbery
Mark Weisbrot
The China Charade
Paul Krassner
Kent State Anniversary Blues
Steve Early
The Cost of Labor Civil War
David Rosen
The New York Times vs. the Pope: a Case of Selective Journalism
Nadia Hijab
How Obama Must Deal With Israeli Avoidance Methods
Ramzy Baroud
Dispatch From China: Number 15 Has Left the Building
Tom Turnipseed
Big Coal; Big Lies
Dr. Margaret Flowers, MD
Frontline Fronts for Corporations, Not the Public
Rannie Amiri
Egypt's Presidential Elections: Kuwait Casts Its Vote
John Ross
Time-Traveling Down the Mississippi
Richard Grossman
On the Supreme Court
Missy Beattie
Fatal Math
David Michael Green
Of Mice and Men
Emily J. Kirk, John M. Kirk and Norman Girvan
Selective Commendation, Selective Indignation
David Macaray Down With Democracy
David Ker Thomson
Atlantis: Beyond the Sinking Feeling
Alexia Eastwood
The Return of Economic Man
Charles R. Larson
A Thirsty World
David Yearsley
Bach and Taxes
Kim Nicolini
"Fish Tank:"
Class Claustrophobia
Poets' Basement
Birnbaum, Chaet and D'Alessio
Website of the Weekend
The Palestine Chronicle Needs (and Deserves) Your Support
April 15, 2010
Jonathan Cook
Israel Targets Ha'aretz
Mike Whitney
Housing Crashes Again
Clancy Sigal
SNCC: Same Lesson, 50 Years On
Alan Singer
Upper Big Branch Mine and the Race to the Bottom
Tolu Olorunda
The Youth Scare
John Stanton
Human Terrain Systems and Military Intelligence
Laura Flanders
Tax Grousing
Bill Piper
Don't Just Smoke a Joint on 4/20
David Rovics
Breaking Ranks
Website of the Day
Inside Microsoft's Chinese Sweatshop
April 14, 2010
Dean Baker
The New War on Social Security
Robert Sandels
Convincing Cubans: Your Tax Dollars at Work
Julien Mercile
Nuclear Insanities
Patrick Bond
The Loan That Could Break South Africa's Back
Julie Hilden
The Case of the Decoy Prom
Kevin Zeese
An Avoidable Tragedy: Holding Massey, and Its CEO, Criminally Liable for Miner Deaths
Ron Jacobs
End of the Revolution
Benjamin Dangl
The Carlsberg Strike: "We Need Our Beer!"
Binoy Kampmark
Rudd's Refugee Woes
Susan Galleymore
The Virtues of Compost
Website of the Day
Petition: Remove Blankenship From Chamber of Commerce
April 13, 2010
Gareth Porter Shooting in the Dark
Zoltan Grossman
The Global War on Tribes
Mike Whitney
Will WaMu Pay for Its Crimes?
Corey D.B. Walker
SNCC at 50
Nadia Hijab
Parsing Petraeus
Jonathan Cook
Mossad Operation Threatened Against Reporter
Joshua Frank
The Privatization of Wildlife: How Ted Turner Scored Yellowstone's Bison
Will Allen /
Ronnie Cummins
Is This Factory Farming's Tobacco Moment?
Dave Lindorff
Where Your Taxes Go
Cal Winslow
No Knock-Out Blow in SEIU's Courtroom Showdown
Website of the Day
Cost of War
April 12, 2010
Conn Hallinan
Behind the Afghan Fraud
Ralph Nader
The Black Death
Adrienne Pine
WOLA vs. Honduran Democracy
Uri Avnery
The Big Gamble
Gary Leupp
The Pope's Cover-Up: a Timeline
Mike Whitney
Is the Fed Helping the Big Banks to Cook Their Books?
Franklin Lamb
Hiba's Story
Jayne Lyn Stahl
The Savaging of Dawn Johnsen
Jeff Klein
Martin Kramer, Harvard and the Eugenics of Zion
Stephanie Westbrook
Marketing the F-35
Website of the Day
The Coal Miner's Grave
April 9 - 11, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
The Cover-Ups That Exploded
David Price
Silent Coup: How the CIA is Welcoming Itself Back Onto American University Campuses
Dean Baker
The Big Break-Up
Michael Hudson
The Looming European Debt Wars
Jonathan Cook
The Dark Underbelly of Israel's Security State
Mike Whitney
Give Greenspan an Oscar
Saul Landau
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
Jean Casella /
James Ridgeway
The Machinery of Death
Rannie Amiri
A New Wind Blows in Egypt
Gila Svirsky
How Israel Gagged on Its Own Gag Order
Alan Farago
Why They Call It King Coal
Dave Lindorff
How Massey Energy Does Business
David Macaray
The Price Tag on Safety
William L. Anderson
The Railroading of Tonya Craft
Harry Browne Maradona and Messi: Immortality Beckons
Missy Beattie
Mourning Has Broken: Death and the Bottom Line
Mark Weisbrot
The Losing Battle Against National Self-Determination
Binoy Kampmark
Nuclear Charades in Prague
Farzana Versey
The White House Whitewash Job
Charles R. Larson
Eccentric Obsessions
David Yearsley
Storm Over Cameron Carpenter
Kim Nicolini
Hot Chicks Who Rock
Poets' Basement Three Poems by Jared Carter
Website of the Weekend
Birding Oregon
April 8, 2010
James Bovard
Subverting Freedom
Andrew Cockburn
Financial Reform Bids Collapse Into Farce
Mike Ely
Blasted in a West Virginia Mine
Gareth Porter
Killings and Cover-Ups in Afghanistan
David Swanson
Murder is the New Torture
Christopher Brauchli
The Pope's PR Problem
Richard Neville
Dracula's Army
Website of the Day
Economist Need Their Own Uncertainty Principle
April 7, 2010
Jonathan Cook
What Makes an Israeli
Dean Baker
The Myth of Market Fundamentalism
Julien Mercille
Is Iran Producing Medical Isotopes?
Julie Hilden
The Case of the Topless Teenager:
a Legal Win for Sexting Teens
Robert Elias
The Foreign Policy of Baseball
Ron Jacobs
Misrepresenting the Left
Linda Greene
Pushing WellPoint Back to Nonprofit?
David Macaray
Labor's Family Tree
Joshua Brollier
Kick Up the Volume on Palestine
Randy Shields
America on Vacation
Website of the Day
Of Coal Mines and Methane
April 6, 2010
Mike Whitney
China's Flawed Economic Model
Ralph Nader
Becky McClain's Crusade Against Pfizer
Patrick Cockburn
The Post-Election Struggle in Iraq
William Blum
Fallujah's Sick Babies
Stephen Soldz
Covering Up Civilian Deaths
Dave Lindorff
Welcome to Obama's War
Mark Schuller
Haiti's Resurrection
Roger Burbach
Evo's Way
Laura Flanders
Shaky Foundations for the Economy
Charles R. Larson
Why I am a Muslim
Website of the Day
Collateral Murder
April 5, 2010
Bill Quigley
The Ongoing Torture of Syed Fahad Hashmi
Uri Avnery
Israel's Bellicose Threats Against Iran
Saul Landau
Human Rights Hypocrisies
Nikolas Kozloff
James Cameron in the Amazon
Xavier Monthéard
Welcome to Hanoi
Mark Weisbrot
Slow, Small Changes at the IMF
Suzan Mazur
The Peer Review Fig Leaf
Billy Wharton
How Single-Payer Could Have Saved Newburgh, New York
Damien Millet, Sophie Perchellet and Eric Toussaint
Public Debt as Blackmail
Johanna Isaacson Valuable Things: "Shutter Island" and the Radical Viewer
Website of the Day
Being in the World
April 2 - 4, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
The White House Egg Roll v. Gulag Ag
Pam Martens
The Guys Who Got It Wrong: Obama's Economic Brain Trust
Afshin Rattansi
Meet Lt. Col. Chris Gough: Killing by Drone and Proud of It
Patrick Cockburn
Iraq's New Kingmaker
Anthony DiMaggio
The Afghanistan Paradox
Ramzy Baroud
The Israel Lobby v. America
Bruce E. Levine
Drugged Warriors: Sharp Rise in U. S. Military Psychiatric Drug Use ... and Suicides
M. Shahid Alam Fractures in the
U. S. / Israeli Relationship?
Rannie Amiri
Rescue Me:
Abbas' Humiliating Plea
Stewart J. Lawrence
Should Yoga be Regulated?
John Ross
Frozen Heartland to Spring Thaw
Adam Parsons
Do We Care About Urban Poverty?
Rev. William E. Alberts
Resurrection is for the Living
Alvaro Huerta
Racism on Campus
David Ker Thomson
Now / Then
Ron Jacobs
The Mighty Pen of Edward Said
Dave Lindorff
The Case for the Impeachment of Barack Obama
Greg Moses
A King's Easter
David Rosen
Globalizing the Culture Wars
Laura Flanders
California Scheming
Nikhil Aziz
Ghosts Threaten to Return to Haiti
Alan Farago
No More Fish? Let Them Eat Cake
Chris Genovali, Paul Paquet and Misty MacDuffee:
Courting the Next Exxon Valdez
Missy Beattie
Mrs. Albright, Beyond Creepy
Charles Davis
"You're Such a Good Guy, Mr. President"
David Rovics
How to Light a Prairie Fire
Jack D. Forbes
The Right to Life: What Does It Mean?
Farzana Versey
Sex and Sanctity
Charles R. Larson
Coming Through Slaughter: Chang-Rae Lee's "The Surrendered"
David Yearsley
How Cameron Carpenter Blew It in Ithaca
Lorenzo Wolff
Priestess:
the Ladykillers of Metal
Poets' Basement
Rico, Corseri and Wilkinson
Website of the Weekend
Occupied Washington
April 1, 2010
Gareth Porter
McChrystal's Night Raiders
Daniel Kovalik
The Bodies of the Innocent: Mass Graves Used to Cover-Up Atrocities in Colombia
Ellen Brown
Cutting Out the Middlemen
Emily J. Kirk /
John M. Kirk
Cuban Medical Aid to Haiti: One of the World's Best Kept Secrets
Tanya Golash-Boza
ICE on the Border: the Politics of Deportation
David Macaray
The Secret of Southwest Airlines
Russell Mokhiber
How to Talk About Single Payer to a Conservative
Binoy Kampmark
Tinted with Blood: Rio Tinto Dumps Stern Hu
Website of the Day
Teabonics