Counterpunch.org archives May 2010
May 31, 2010
Jonathan Cook
Israel's Attack on Us All
Uri Avnery
Rahm and Israel
Nikolas Kozloff
Carville, Colombia and BP
Dave Lindorff
The Glorification of War
Linh Dinh
Top Killing: Make Way for the Contractors
Michael Neumann
The WASP Penchant for Zionism
John Weisheit
Nukes in Canyon Country?
Stephen Lendman
Slaughter at Sea: Israel Attacks the Gaza Flotilla
Ralph Nader
What's Pelosi Afraid Of?
Tom Turnipseed
Immigrants R Us
Bouthaina Shaaban
As Dangerous as It Gets
Website of the Day
Messing with Miranda
May 28 - 30, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Vietnam MIAs: Ghosts Return to Haunt McCain and the US Press
John Ross
The Big Snatch
Mike Whitney
Credit Storm in Europe
Patrick Cockburn
Iraq: Paralyzed, Dejected, Corrupt
Sharon Smith
Arizona's Rancid History
Jonathan Cook
The Torture of Ameer Makhoul
Greg Moses
Worse or Worser in the Gulf?
Saul Landau
The Reverend and the Rentboy
Susan Galleymore
Agent Orange and the Third Generation
Ray McGovern
Ducking the Challenge
James Marc Leas
Targeting the Free Gaza Flotilla
Tanya Golash-Boza
Deportation as Punishment
Linn Washington, Jr.
Don't Know Much About (Race) History
David Rosen /
Bruce Kushnick
The Great Telecom Rip-Off
David Ker Thomson
Against Farmers
Rannie Amiri
Lebanon Marks Liberation Day
Ramzy Baroud
Paperless World
Harry Browne
World Cup: Brazil and the US
Missy Beattie
Dancing with the Scarred
Sheldon Richman
Is the Peace Movement Finally Awakening?
John V. Walsh
Compulsory Armageddon
David Macaray
Hopelessness in the Workplace
Laura Flanders
DeBush, Debar, and Debunk
Charles R. Larson
Not the Great Philippine Novel?
Clancy Sigal
Oh, What an Unlovely War: Hanks and Spielberg Do the Pacific
David Yearsley
Shoes: the Outside Story, From Beckham to Clinton to Bach
Poets' Basement
Three by S.C. Hahn
Website of the Weekend
A Buffalo's Trail of Tears
May 27, 2010
Richard Ward
Among the Teabaggers
Dean Baker
A Crew of Incompetents
Winslow T. Wheeler
A Mutually Assured Debacle
Franklin C. Spinney
Dropping COIN: McChrystal Returns to His Roots
John Grant
Down the Road to Conflagration
Bernard Marszalek
BP to Hell: the Oil Geyser and the Performance Principle
Linh Dinh
More Jive Than Jazz
Laura Flanders
On the Backs of Women
Deb Katz
Sneaking New Nukes Into the War Spending Bill
Evelyn Pringle
The Problems with Reglan
Website of the Day
Making Money on the Oil Spill
May 26, 2010
Jonathan Cook
Israel's Nukes Out of the Shadows
Forrest Hylton
Change Colombians Can Believe In?
Peter Lee
China's Cool Hand Game
Ron Jacobs
Killing Children: From Ghazi to Detroit
Greg Moses
Oil Wars Come Home to Roost
James Rothenberg
Why Afghanistan?
Mark Weisbrot
The Eurozone's Self-Inflicted Crisis
Neve Gordon
Even Picnics in Israel are Political
Lee Sustar
Winds of Change in Chicago
Firmin DeBrabander
Containing the Meat Spill
Website of the Day
BP, Dead Fish and the Tate Gallery
May 25, 2010
Uri Avnery
Chomsky at the Gate
Gareth Porter
Reaffirming Afghanistan's Al Capone
Mike Whitney
Slash-and-Burn Economics: Merkel's Savage Blitz Through Euroland
Roberto Rodriguez
Arizona and the Big Picture
Charles M. Young
Watching the Pentagon Channel
Randall Amster
Take a Hike: Misconceptions and Machinations in Iran
Ramzy Baroud
Overcoming the Bush Legacy: New Language is Not Enough
Linh Dinh
Washington and the Small Time Commies
Julie Hilden
The Fair Report Privilege
Laura Flanders
Something's Gotta Give
Website of the Day
When Members of Congress Play the Market
May 24, 2010
Michael Hudson
The Chicago Boys' Free Market Theology
Dave Lindorff
BP and the Audacity of Greed
Alan Farago
Stage Managing a Catastrophe in the Gulf
Kathy Kelly /
Joshua Brollier
The Story of Abir Mohammed
Andy Worthington
Saving Gitmo
Bill Quigley
Number One in War
Russell Mokhiber
Prosecute Massey for Manslaughter
Robert Alvarez
The Radiological Legacy of Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands
Ray McGovern
US / Israel Challenged on Iran
Brian McKinlay
The Battle for Australia's Wealth
Website of the Day
The Tribes of Wall Street: an Anthropological Analysis
May 21 - 23, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
The Rand and Rachel Show
James Bovard
Obama and Attention Deficit Democracy
Anthony DiMaggio
Twisted Minds: the Rightwing/Wall Street Assault on Financial Reform
Stephen Soldz
The "Black Jail:" Obama's Afghan Torture Center
Neve Gordon
What Justice Goldstone Learned the Hard Way
Clayton Eshleman
Lascaux, Lost Caul
Mike Whitney
Meltdown in the EU
Saul Landau
The Pakistan Mess
Gregory Vickrey
Environmentalism is Dead
Nikolas Kozloff
BP and the Perilous Voyage of Bama the Manatee
Ramzy Baroud
The War Awaiting Kandahar
Brian Cloughley
Obama's Drone Blitz
Gideon Levy
Israel is Becoming North Korea
Daniel Kovalik
Colombia: the Death Squads' DC Embassy
Missy Beattie
Political Misspeak
John Halle
Pete Peterson's Pathological Obsession
Bruce E. Levine
Drugging Poor Kids
David Macaray
Mexican Labor Union Under Siege
P. Sainath
How to be an "Eligible Suicide"
Christopher Brauchli
Oil, Water and Liability
H. Drake
The Slow Disasters
Harry Browne
World Cup: France, Italy and Anti-Racist Posturing
David Ker Thomson
On Persuasion
Charles Davis
The Limits of Liberalism
James Marc Leas
Israeli Think Tank Calls for Sabotaging "Delegitimizers" of Israel
Franklin Lamb
Will Hezbollah Support the Right to Work for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon?
Dr. Susan Block
Something About Rima
Dennis Loo
LeBron James and the Culture of Narcissism
Charles R. Larson
Becoming a Writer
David Yearsley
How Small Towns Produce Big Music
Poets' Basement
Three by Eric Chaet
Website of the Weekend
Save Lascaux
May 20, 2010
Kevin Alexander Gray
The Story of Kamau Marcharia
Gareth Porter
Nuclear Swap Meet: Iran, Enrichment and Sanctions
Alan Nasser
Who Strikes, and Against Whom?
Lawrence Velvel
Harvard's Truth Problem
Margaret Kimberley
Kagan and Black America
Sen. Russell Feingold
Why the Financial Reform Bill Doesn't Go Far Enough
Uri Avnery
A Black Hole
George Wuerthner Energy Sprawl: How the Biomass Juggernaut Threatens Forests and Humans
Website of the Day
The Walter Mitty of Politics?
May 19, 2010
Mike Whitney
The Road to Recession
Joanne Mariner
Droning On and On
Alan Farago
The Tragedy of Managed Expectations in the Gulf
John Ross
The Feminization of Mexican Agriculture
David Michael Green
Gen X Justice: Standing for Nothing
Jeffrey Blankfort
Sestak, Israel and Iran
Joshua Frank
Elena Kagan and Monsanto
Elizabeth Gould /
Paul Fitzgerald
Predator Blowback: a Bad Omen for America
Martha Rosenberg
What's That Lurking in Your Meat?
Belén Fernández
Thomas Friedman Reports Progress in Mexican Baby Names
Website of the Day
Roselle: the Jailhouse Tapes
May 18, 2010
Terence Turner
The Long Struggle Over the Xingú Dams Comes to a Climax at Belo Monte
Jill Nelson
The Return of the Nigger Breakers:
an Interview with Ishmael Reed
Dean Baker
It's Too Bad Keynes Didn't Write in English
Kathy Kelly /
Josh Brollier
Hatred Rising:
Drones and Democracy
Jonathan Cook
Apartheid Roads
Harvey Wasserman
Liability Caps, From Oil Spills to Nuclear Meltdowns
David Macaray
Inviting Labor to the Tea Party
Greta Berlin
Gaza Fever
Dr. Susan Block
Tiger's Inflamed Joint
AK Press Collective
Why are You So Afraid of Us? An Open Letter to Glenn Beck
Website of the Day
JLG's "Film Socialisme"
May 17, 2010
Pam Martens
The Big Plunge: SEC Admits to Inadequate Tools to Conduct Investigation
Franklin C. Spinney
The Arrogance of Ignorance: a Roadmap to Folly in Afghanistan
Patrick Cockburn
Tunnel Darkens for Obama's Afghan War
Russell Mokhiber
Fighting Massey Energy
John Halle
Salazar Unleashed
Ralph Nader
Getting to Know Elena Kagan
Johnny Barber
Amal and Her Children
Gail Dines
Not Your Father's Playboy
Kathy Kelly /
Joshua Brollier
Pressured From All Sides in Pakistan's Swat Valley
Raed Jarrar
The Iraq Exit Plan
Ayesha Ijaz Khan
The Case of Faisal Shahzad
Website of the Day
Chomsky Denied Entry Into Israel
May 14 - 16, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Closet Politics
James Bovard
Operation Tarmac
Chase Madar
How Liberal Law Professors Kill
Sharon Smith
Regulatory Paralysis and the Financial Crisis
T. P. Wilkinson
The Return of the Ancien Régime: Greeks, Germans and Bankers
Marjorie Cohn
Kagan's Disturbing Record: She's No Thurgood Marshall
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
The Vicious Circle of Debt and Depression
Mike Whitney
Why Rescue Bankers?
Gareth Porter
Afghanistan's Great Divide
Jordan Flaherty
Racist Revenge in Jena
Naseer Aruri
Is There Hope for a Two-State Solution?
Gary Leupp
Japan's Obama
Ramzy Baroud
Yemen's Sorrowful Options
Rannie Amiri
Israel's Master of Deception
Joe Bageant
The Fearless Plain
Jed Brandt
Nepal's First Days of May
Nadia Hijab
Israel's Disappeared
Saul Landau
GM's Shell Game
John Stanton
HTS: More Feared Than the CIA?
Greg Moses
A Public Option for Jobs
Missy Beattie
New Justice, Still No Justice
Christopher Brauchli
Lieberman's Strip Tease
Jayne Lyn Stahl
No Papers Required for CIA Hit List
Linh Dinh
Virtual Living
Tolu Olorunda
Disney and the End of Innocence
David Ker Thomson
Thinning the Grove: Getting Rid of Dead Wood in the Academy
Tom Turnipseed
A Slick and Slimy Killer
Harry Browne
World Cup:
Forever England
Fatemeh Keshavarz
The Goals of Ahmadinejad
Jim Goodman
Marketing Biotech
Ron Jacobs
Socialism, Now More Than Ever?
David Macaray
My Kind of Blue
Charles R. Larson
Bollywood Does America
David Yearsley
The Smiths, Radiohead, the Gorillaz and Other Favs of the the New Brit PM
Poets' Basement
Five by Maxwell Clark
May 13, 2010
Franklin C. Spinney
Bound to Fail: the Inevitable Collapse of McChrystal's Afgan War Plan
Mike Whitney
Capitalism Without Capital
Bill Quigley
Housing as a Human Right
William Blum
We've Seen the Likes of the Teabaggers Before
Joshua Frank
Dirty Subsidies: Extractive Industries Make Out in Obamatime
John Ross
East Coast Breakdown
Mark Weisbrot
The European Union's Dangerous
David Swanson
Obama Scraps Iraq Withdrawal Plan
Charles M. Young
More Cynicism: From Diogenes to Casino Jack
Brian J. Foley
Jesus for the Supreme Court?
Website of the Day
Finally Some Clarity in the War on Terror
May 12, 2010
Pam Martens
The May 6 Stock Crash Revisited
Billy Wharton
The Salazar Quotient: How Big Oil Bought the Interior Dept.
Debbie Nathan
Borderlands: What Jews Know About Immigration
Gary Leupp
Threatening Pakistan
George Wuerthner
Let Wolves be Wolves: Predators and the Manly Men
David DeGraw
Financial Reform Report Card: What Side is Your Senator On?
Harvey Wasserman BP's Dead Zone
Dina Jadallah
The Nakba and the Two-State Solution
Marshall Auerback
Latvia and the Neoliberals
Ethan Nadelmann
Obama's Drug War Strategy: Still a Long Way to Go
Website of the Day
NYPD Forced to Apologize to Debbie Nathan
May 11, 2010
Michael Hudson
The People v. the Bankers
Dean Baker
Lending and the Big Banks
Patrick Cockburn
The Vicious War That Sent Shahzad to Times Square
Alan Farago
Wrecking the Gulf: Risk and Consequences
Gareth Porter
McChrystal's Afghan War Plan Unravels
Nadia Hijab
Bending the Rules for Israel
Deepak Tripathi
American Afflictions
Chris Floyd
The Poetry of Death
Walter Brasch
The South Learned; Arizona Hasn't
Nikolas Kozloff
Talking the Amazon with James Cameron
Website of the Day
Chomsky: No Time to Read Onion Piece About Him
May 10, 2010
Andrew Cockburn
Why We Should Keep the Fed Away From the Consumer: the Hurt Incident
Marjorie Cohn
Kagan Will Move the Court Further to the Right
Jeffrey Blankfort
The Last Democratic Primary Worth Watching
Anthony DiMaggio
The Trashing of ACORN
Bill Quigley
Targeting Al-Awlaki
Mike Whitney
A Lost Decade Ahead for Housing
Greg Moses
Generation Payback
Eric Toussaint
The Market, the New Faith
Stanley Heller
May 12, Iraq Genocide Memorial Day
Martha Rosenberg
Do You Have "Shift Work Sleep Disorder"? The Drug Industry Hopes So
Website of the Day
Turley on Kagan
May 7 - 9, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
You Drill, You Spill
Elizabeth Gould /
Paul Fitzgerald
Crossing the Zero Line in Afghanistan
Peter Lee
China in the Catbird Seat: Iran, China and Israel's Weapons of Mass Disruption
Marshall Auerback
The US is Not Greece
Mike Whitney
Glitch in the System
Russell Mokhiber
How Oil Companies Cheat
Brian Cloughley
Cementing Relationships: How the US and Israel Draw Ever Closer Together
Gary Leupp
The Latest Official Report on Afghanistan
Ramzy Baroud
The Price of Courage
David Rosen
Come Out, George, Come Out: New Scandal Rocks Christian Right
Saul Landau
When Will the Real Terrorists Stand Up?
Tim Wise
Pardon You: Reparations and the Politics of Blame
P. Sainath
Farmers' Suicides: Their Final Letters
Patrick Cockburn
Shia Power in Iraq
Ron Jacobs
Days of Rage
Timothy MacBain
Privacy Reform: the Sound of No Hands Clapping
Bill Hatch
Bet Against California ... You Can't Go Wrong
Jeff Ballinger
IKEA's Workers Not at the Table
Missy Beattie
Catastrophically Ashamed
Jed Brandt
Nepal's May First and After
W. John Green
Green is for Go in Colombia
Mark Weisbrot
Venezuela and Greece: Compare and Contrast
Eric Toussaint
Bolivarian Venezuela at the Crossroads
Tom Turnipseed
Blowback in Times Square
Harry Browne
World Cup 2010:
The Dutch and the Germans
Christopher Brauchli
You Say You Want to Teach Some Evolution, Well, You Know ...
Farzana Versey
Literary Dissent
David Ker Thomson
Up: the Exploration of Cheap Space
Charles R. Larson
Hocus Bogus
David Yearsley
I Take in Rossini's "Armida" With My Favorite Uncle
Poets' Basement
Bhat, Holt and Orloski
Website of the Weekend
This Can't be Happening
May 6, 2010
Harry Kreisler
Talking with Chalmers Johnson
Nikolas Kozloff
Anatomy of an Oil Disaster
Ray McGovern
Loose Lips on Iran
Rannie Amiri
Hezbollah and the Policy of "Scud Ambiguity"
Roberto Rodriguez
Welcome to Operation Streamline: Scenes From Apartheid Arizona
Christopher Ketcham
Pardon the Troublemaker
Ashley Smith
Why Gates is Wrong About Reparations
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Faisal McBomber
Richard Ward
A Gusher From the Newspaper of Record
Website of the Day
They Fucked with the Wrong Mexican!
May 5, 2010
Dean Baker
The Greek Crisis
Mike Whitney
Toxic Transfer: Bernanke's Biggest Bailout
Russell Mokhiber
The 3-6-3 Rule:
How to Put Bankers Back on the Golf Course, Where They'll Do Less Harm
Uri Avnery
A Cloud Over Jerusalem
Linh Dinh
This Oil Ride: a Chronology
David Macaray
Blaming Labor
Shamus Cooke
The Economics of Immigration Reform
Sheldon Richman
Immigration, Civil Liberties and the Drug War
James Rothenberg
Two Parties, One Politics
Bouthaina Shaaban
I Wish My People Would Learn
Billy Wharton
Killer-Coke Hits the Screens
Website of the Day
Torture Not Treatment
May 4, 2010
Pam Martens
Why a Criminal Case Against Goldman Sachs Matters and Why Charges Could Stick
Afshin Rattansi
No Hope for Britain
Nikolas Kozloff
The Political Might of BP
Darwin Bond-Graham
Oil and Wetlands: Is Arcadia Lost?
Jonathan Cook
Israel's Operation Imam
Ellen Brown
Derivatives Come to the Movies
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Chipping Away at Abortion Rights
Wajahat Ali
The Arrest of Faisal Shazad
Tanya Golash-Boza
Paterson's Deportation Review Panel
Franklin Lamb
Warehousing Palestinians
Website of the Day
The Fart Chart
May 3, 2010
Karl Grossman
Oil Spin
Mike Whitney
The Subprime Conspiracy
Anthony DiMaggio
The Return of Hooverian Economics
Gabriel Kolko
35 Years Since the Fall of Saigon
Alan Farago
Killing the Gulf of Mexico
David Underhill
Waiting on the Blob: At the Mouth of Mobile Bay
Nikolas Kozloff
The Oily History of Offshore Operations
Dave Lindorff
When the Hurricane Comes: Oil, Wind and Water
Conn Hallinan
Tales of Chrysler and Cocaine
Jed Brandt
May Day in Nepal
Website of the Day
Limbaugh: Environmental "Whackos" Resonpsible for Oil Spill