Counterpunch.org archives June 2010
June 28, 2010
Eamonn McCann
The Bloody Sunday Report: How the Higher-Ups Got Off the Hook
Frank Menetrez Elena Kagan's Harvard
David Ker Thomson
Toronto: Still Free, Barely Holding On
Mark Weisbrot
Can't Get No Stimulation
Bill Quigley
Honduras, After Democracy
Jonathan Cook
Plan Lieberman: Blueprint for a Purely Jewish State
Alan Farago
Environmental Catastrophe Fatigue
Damien Millet /
Eric Toussaint
Vain and Void in Toronto
Harry Browne
World Cup:
For Love and Money
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Emergency War Supplemental Explained
Dr. Susan Block
Hillbilly Rebel Women v. Corporate Murderers
Website of the Day
Trying to Film BP HQ
June 25 - 27, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obama a Huge Favor
Winslow T. Wheeler
General Petraeus and His Senate Vassals
Michael Hudson
Europe's Fiscal Dystopia: the "New Austerity" Road
Noor Elashi
The Holy Land Foundation Case:
Defending My Father ... and the Constitution
Patrick Cockburn
Putting Petraeus in Perspective
Jonathan Cook
Gaza Starves More Slowly
John Ross
An Uprising of Bones
Darwin Bond-Graham
Capital Speaks: How Big Foundations and Wall Street Elites are Legitimating Their Plans to Balance the Budget
Paul Fitzgerald /
Elizabeth Gould
Afghanistan, the Saudi Arabia of Lithium?
Andrea Peacock
The Miron Brothers: From Vietnam to Libby
Ralph Nader
Losing It at the Airport Checkpoint
M. Shahid Alam
Getting Out of Palestine
Kathy Kelly /
Dan Pearson
Killing Civilians, Ducking Blame
Russell Mokhiber
Revoking BP's Charter
Ramzy Baroud
Righting a Perpetual Wrong
Rannie Amiri
Netanyahu Plays the Vuvuzela
David Rosen
The New Abortion Wars
Linn Washington
Racism in the Courts
Margaret Kimberley
The Death of Black Politics
Anthony DiMaggio
No Repeal of Whaling Ban: US Says It's a Major Loss--For Whales!
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots:
High Times Puts on a White Coat
Mark Weisbrot
Distorting Chavez
Christopher Brauchli
Overthrowing Darwin: the Texas / Russia Axis
Adam Engel
The System and the Drug War
Ananya Mukherjee-Reed
Toronto: Fake Lakes vs. Real People
Julie Hilden
Can the Internet End Libel Laws?
David Ker Thomson
Shock and Awe From Ottawa
Saul Landau
Fidel Advises Obama?
Judith Bello
Can Iraq Form a Government?
Trond Andresen
What If the Greeks Did This?
Don North
El Salvador:
a President Without a Party, a Party Without a President
Patrick Bond
What South Africa Really Lost at the World Cup
Missy Beattie
No Shelter From the Storm
Stuart Jeanne Bramhall
Targeting Women
Whitney Cole /
Alexander Brockweh
Revisiting Guazapa
Charles R. Larson
No Room With a View
David Yearsley
Three Cheers for Renée Fleming
Kim Nicolini
Heavy Metal in Baghdad:
Iraqi Power Chords
Paul Krassner
Why Firing the General Was an Act of God
Poets' Basement
Henson, Mahagin and Valentine
Website of the Weekend
Why the Taliban is Winning
June 24, 2010
Gareth Porter
Why McChrystal Did Obama a Big Favor
Anne McClintock
Militarizing the Gulf Oil Crisis
Paul Craig Roberts
Is Petraeus McChrystal's Replacement or Obama's?
Mike Whitney
Time for a Second Stimulus
Alan Farago
The Forty Year War on the Environment
S. Eben Kirksey
Neglecting Indonesia:
President Obama, What Would Your Mother Say?
John Halle
Economic War on the "Lesser People"
Harry Browne
World Cup: Workers and Players
John Grant
The Sociopathic General
Website of the Day
Leave BP Alone!
June 23, 2010
Kathy Kelly
Witnessing Against Torture
Deepak Tripathi
The Obama-McChyrstal Showdown
Dave Lindorff
The Oil Industry's Go-To Judge Comes Through
Sheldon Richman
Did the CIA Conduct Medical Experiments on Detainees?
Laura Carlsen
Lethal Force on the Border
Conn Hallinan
Turkey, the US and Empire's Twilight
Jayne Lyn Stahl
The McChrystal Shield
Susan Galleymore
Protesting Israel at the Oakland Docks
Björn Kumm
A Grand Day for Monarchism
John Holt
A Biologist With Courage and Vision
Website of the Day
Grayson Unleashed
June 22, 2010
Uri Avnery
When Force Doesn't Work
Lawrence S. Wittner
Iran, BP and the CIA
Dean Baker
The Social Security Fixation
Ludwig Watzal
An Israel Beyond Zionism?
Rick Kuhn
Why Money Doesn't Make the World Go Round
Martha Rosenberg
Why You Should Care About the University of Miami NIH Scandal
James Ridgeway /
Jean Casella
The Ordeal of the Angola Three's Albert Woodfox
Russell Mokhiber
Capito, Cash and Capitulation
Yvonne Ridley
US Fear Factory Kills Free Speech
Shamus Cooke
Why the Oil Spill Will Change Nothing
Website of the Day
Kagan Wins; Constitution Looses
June 21, 2010
Joshua Brollier /
Kathy Kelly
Is Pakistan Unraveling?
Vijay Praahad
Global Bonapartism
Ralph Nader
Festering Corruption
Ronnie Cummins
Generation Monsanto
Mark Weisbrot
The Brazilian Presidential Elections
Jayne Lyn Stahl
The Real Shakedown
Harry Browne
World Cup:
Anti-Imperialism 101
Tom Turnipseed
Peculiar Politics in South Carolina
Thomas H. Naylor
Vermont and Israel: Silence of the Liberals
Website of the Day
If Army Ads Had Health Warnings
June 18 - 20, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
He Should Have Kept His Mouth Shut
Dean Baker
Bad Parallels: US and Greece
Rannie Amiri
Better Never Than Late
Richard Ward
Louisiana Story: the Sequel
Saul Landau
The Flotilla Fiasco
Ramzy Baroud
What Ankara Knows
Martine Bulard
Sayonara, America?
Ellen Brown
Deficit Terrorists Strike England: Is the US Next?
David Macaray
Honey, I Shrank the Labor Lobby
Stanley Heller
Grand Theft Flotilla
Paul Craig Roberts
Progressives Want "Direct Action" But a Disarmed Public
Russell Mokhiber
Spilling It on BP
M. Shahid Alam
Roger Cohen and the Motley Crew
Robert Bryce
Addicted to Prosperity
Mark Weisbrot
Economic Timidity in the Eurozone
David Michael Green
Empty Presidential Platitudes
George Wuerthner
The Perils of Collaboration
John Grant
Truth Through a Soda Straw
John Stanton
A Visit to Turkey
Christopher Brauchli
Poor Britain: BP and the English Psyche
Missy Beattie
Under the Covers With Rush and Larry
Robert Jensen
Pornography and the Military
Tanya Golash-Boza
The Carachuri-Rosendo Case
Robert Roth
Haiti Five Months After the Quake
Farzana Versey
Dangerous Liaisons
David Ker Thomson
Against Sport
Charles R. Larson
Tech Transfer: More Academic Fun
David Yearsley
Summer Nights in Emden and Uttum
Mitu Sengupta
Sex, the City and American Patriotism
Kim Nicolini
An Exercise in Vigilantism
Poets' Basement
Gibbons, Orloski and Beatty
Website of the Day
Civil Civic
June 17, 2010
John Ross
Mexico's Gaza
Gareth Porter
McChrystal's War Plan Fails
Robert Weissman
Five Questions for Tony Hayward
Farrah Hassen
AEI Does Syria: Demonization with Coffee and Croissants
Ron Jacobs
Washington's False Promise in Afghanistan
Harry Browne
World Cup: Fútbol Arte v. Anti-Fútbol
Kevin Zeese
The Holes in the Finance Bill
Harvey Wasserman
The Gusher and the Sun
Website of the Day
The Nightmare Scenario in the Gulf
June 16, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
Helen Thomas: an Appreciation
Anthony DiMaggio
Deconstructing Obama's BP Speech
Ralph Nader
The Scourging of Helen Thomas
Robert Weissman
Closing BP's Escape Routes
Dean Baker
The Retail Sales Slump
Greg Moses
Gulf Crisis Implodes Obama Presidency
M. Kamiar
A Short History of BP
Dave Lindorff
What Kevin Neish Saw: Eyewitness to the Israeli Assault on the Mavi Marmara
Alison Weir
The NYT and the Flotilla Inquiry
Laura Flanders
The Iron Lady Meets the Pitbull in Lipstick
Misty MacDuffee / Chris Genovali
BC's Killer Whales Get Their Day in Court
Website of the Day
The Pro-Corporate Sierra Club
June 15, 2010
P. Sainath
What Bhopal Started
Jordan Flaherty
Fears of Cultural Extinction on Louisiana's Gulf Coast
Mike Whitney
The Next Housing Crisis
Patrick Cockburn / Terri Judd
The Most Dangerous Country in the World for Journalists
Fred Gardner
Helen Thomas' Watergate Scoop
Linn Washington
Israeli Raid Coverage: American Media Failure Again
Roberto Rodriguez
The Arizona Spasm
Tolu Olorunda
The Africans are Coming!
Steven Higgs
America's Worst Generation
Tom Woodbury
Montana's Frontline Against Big Oil
Prairie Miller
South of the Border
Website of the Day
The Pentagon's Afghan Mineral Hype
June 14, 2010
Diana Johnstone
Why the French Hate Noam Chomsky
Uri Avnery
Who is Afraid of a Real Inquiry?
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Iran's Presidential Election One Year Later: Why the Greens Failed
Dean Baker
In the Service of the Rich
Dave Lindorff
Going After the Wrong People: From Julian Assange to Helen Thomas
Harry Browne
World Cup:
Who Should We Root For?
Patrick Bond
World Cup, Inc.:
Red Cards for Fifa, Coke and the South African Elites
Eve Spangler
Attacking Humanitarian Aid: PR Blunder or Strategic Necessity?
David Michael Green
The Do-Nothing President
Christopher Ketcham
The Re-Education of Helen Thomas
Phyllis Pollack
Stones in Exile
Website of the Day
Video of IDF Raid: Kicks and Shots in the Head
June 11 - 13, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
The Crude Truth
Winslow T. Wheeler
Budget Nightmare at the Pentagon
Vijay Prashad
Three Wars Uncompleted, the Price Unpaid
Franklin C. Spinney
Will Erdogan Blink?
Jeffrey Blankfort
Joe Biden: In Israel's Service
Mike Whitney
Another Bank Bailout
Rannie Amiri
Their Lives for Gaza
Karl Grossman
Obama and the Nuclear Rocket
T. P. Wilkinson
The State as Protection Racket
William Blum
Hypocrisy Reigns
Alan Farago
Taking Over BP
Larry Tuttle
Agency Breakdown: From the Gulf to the Umpqua River
Joseph Nevins
From Jim Crow to Juan Crow
Russell Mokhiber
The Battle for Coal Mine Safety
Linh Dinh
Head Fakes: Hard Times for American Racists
George Wuerthner
The West Needs Wolves
John Grant
Milo Mindbender in Afghanistan
Eric Walberg
Funding Both Sides in Afghanistan
Christopher Brauchli
How to Buy a Judge
Missy Beattie
Suffocating the Planet
David Ker Thomson
Educator: Day in the Life
Binoy Kampmark
War on Google
Julie Hilden
The MySpace Cases:
Can Public Schools Censor Off-Campus Speech?
Joshua Frank
How NYC May be Revolutionizing the Way Kids Eat
Alvaro Huerta
Fear and Loathing of Mexicans
Farzana Versey
Another Blockade
Harry Browne
World Cup: the Games Begin, at Last
Saul Landau
The New Right History
David Macaray
Obama to Chinese Workers: Don't Make Waves
Patrick Bond
World Cup Profiteers
Charles R. Larson
Toy Story: "I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced"
David Yearsley
Blue and Blind
Poets' Basement
Hyde, Taylor and Anderson
Website of the Weekend
Postulates of the Pitch
June 10, 2010
Bill Quigley
The Ordeal of Curtis Flowers
Patrick Cockburn
Erdogan Rising?
Sasan Fayazmanesh
The End of "Tough Diplomacy"?
Jonathan Cook
Blacklisting Helen Thomas
Jennifer Loewenstein
Obama, the ADC and the Gaza Flotilla
John Ross
The World Cup as Maximum Weapon of Social Control
Robert Bryce
Winners and Losers in the Gulf
Yves Engler
Canada's Gaza Flotilla
Laura Flanders
Bubba Goes Home
Charles M. Young
A Hell of Their Own Creation
Website of the Day
Scuba Diving the Gulf: What BP Doesn't Want You to See
June 9, 2010
Esam Al-Amin
Obama's Doublespeak on Iran
Mike Whitney
Strangulation Economics
Jonathan Cook
Barefoot Soldiers on the High Seas?
George Bisharat
Israel's Impunity From International Law
Shamus Cooke
Is Obama BP's Poodle?
Anthony DiMaggio
A Retrospective Look at Arizona's Immigration Law
Alison Weir
The Outrage at Helen Thomas
Linda Brayer /
Andrew Wimmer It's Not Piracy!
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Casino Politics in California
Yasmin Qureshi
The Fate of Kashmir
Website of the Day
Jews for Helen Thomas
June 8, 2010
David Macaray
Labor Under Democrats: an Interview with Robert Reich
Jonathan Cook
Witchhunt for an Israeli MP
Dean Baker
How the Deficit Hawks are Robbing Jobs
Gary Leupp
The Ambush of Helen Thomas
Ramzy Baroud
The Old Gaza Boy and the Sea
Nicola Nasser
Israel is Fueling Anti-Americanism
Harvey Wasserman
Apocalypse in the Gulf
Mike Whitney
Paranoid, Resentful, Isolated
David Michael Green
What Lethal Arrogance Looks Like
Roberto Rodriguez
Arizona Rushes Toward the Wrong Side of History
Michael Winship
A Walk Through Israel's No-Man's Land
Johnny Barber
An Eye for an Eye
Website of the Day
Ready to Rumble
June 7, 2010
Ken O'Keefe
On Cowardice and Violence
Uri Avnery
Kill a Turk and Rest
Stephen Soldz
CIA Experiments in Torture
Dean Baker
Fixing the Housing Mess
Dave Lindorff
Shot in the Back
Yvonne Ridley
Why You Won't See Me on the BBC
Linh Dinh
Eyes With Legs: Shooting Witnesses
Ellen Brown
How Banks Make Money on Low-Interest Loans
Belén Fernández
Erdogan's Hebrew Phrasebook Requires Upgrade
Lisa Barr
The Peace Movement Needs New, Immature Friends
Website of the Day
Over to You, God
June 4 - 6, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Pariah Nation
Esam Al-Amin
One Year After Cairo: Promises Made; Promises Unkept
Phillip Doe
Deepwater Ken: Scapegoating Birnbaum, Saving Salazar
John Ross
Savaging Turtle Island: Mexico Awaits BP's Oil Blowout
James Bovard
Blind Trust:
How Democracy Breeds Political Idiocy
Mike Whitney
Europe is Heading for a Mini-Depression
Rannie Amiri
The Real Motive Behind the Gaza Flotilla Attack
Anthony DiMaggio
Rogue State Politics: International Law and Israel's Raid on the Gaza Flotilla
Neve Gordon
Israel's Two Spaces
John Grant
In the Israeli Minefield
Jeffrey St. Clair
Shaky Foundations:
Toxic Sources, Tainted Money
Linn Washington, Jr. Cuban Five: the Federal Government Paid Journalists to Sabotage Trial
Peter Lee
The Cheonan Incident
Ahmad Shokr
Clamping the Lifeline: Egypt's Gaza Blockade
Soha Al-Jurf
The Semantics of Terrorism
Tolu Olorunda
Prisons and
the Myth of Color-blindness: a Conversation with Michelle Alexander
Sheldon Richman
Serving the Empire, Killing for Lies
Diana Buttu
The Lessons of Gaza
Saul Landau
Fouling the Human Nest
P. Sainath
An Indian Saga: "Caste is Everything"
Ramzy Baroud
Facebook and Muslim Outrage
Christopher Brauchli
Newt Speak: Gingrich and the N-Word
Ron Jacobs
Korea Staredown
Laura Flanders
Being Poor in a Sinking America
Eric Walberg
Nuclear Juggling
Russell Mokhiber
Coal Intimidation
Martha Rosenberg
Meeting the Drug Industry
Missy Beattie
The Air is Humming
Alvaro Huerta
Toxic Twins: Arizona Meet BP
Harry Browne
World Cup:
the Squads are Selected
Charles R. Larson
Darwinian Shenanigans?
David Yearsley
Bach and the Oil Spill
Poets' Basement
Three Poems by Satnrose
Website of the Weekend
Amb. Peck: "We Call That Piracy"
June 3, 2010
James Abourezk
Dershowitz to the Rescue?
Nadia Hijab
Israel's Dilemma
Jonathan Cook
A Cornered Israel is Baring Its Teeth
Daniel C. Maguire
Chutzpah Galore
Gareth Porter
Revolt of the Drone Operators
Samuel Leff
Torturous Guilt?
Patrick Cockburn
Baghdad's Dud Bomb Detectors
Dennis Bernstein / Jesse Strauss
UN Human Rights Rapporteur Blasts Israel: an Interview with Richard Falk
Nikolas Kozloff
Whither the Mangroves?
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Miranda Who?
Website of the Day
Gulf Tribunal
June 2, 2010
Patrick Cockburn
Notch Up Another Disaster for Israel's Well-Oiled Propaganda Machine
Neve Gordon
Piracy on the Blood-Red Sea
Jonathan Cook
Israeli MP's Night of Terror on Aid Ship
Kathy Kelly /
Josh Brollier
Aid Poor and War Weary in Pakistan
Dean Baker
TARP and the Deficit Hawks
Walden Bello
The Battle for Thailand
Fran Shor
Gimme Shelter: Obama, Oil and War
Paul Fitzgerald /
Elizabeth Gould
The Battle for Kandahar and Perceptions of American Victory
Dave Lindorff
Worse Than North Korea
Yvonne Ridley
From Klinghoffer to the Gaza Flotilla
Charles M. Young
Lone Star Cheeseheads vs. the Lesser of Two Medievals
Shamus Cooke
The Widening Rift Between Teachers and Democrats
Website of the Day
Elvis and Nixon: the Official White House Memo
June 1, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
America's Complicity in Evil
Patrick Cockburn
Turkey Condemns Israel
Vijay Prashad
The Madmen of Our Times
Anthony DiMaggio
War Takes No Holiday
Ray McGovern
Obama's Timidity and Deaths at Sea
Greg Moses
Of Booms and Skimmers
Marjorie Cohn
Murdering Human Rights Workers
Kathleen Barry
Pirates of the Mediterranean
Joseph Nevins
Memorial Day:
a Time to Commemorate Mother Nature
Belén Fernández
"Worse Than Pirates"
Website of the Day
Finkelstein: "Israel is a Real Lunatic State"