Counterpunch.org archives April 2011
April 29 - May 1, 2011
Alexander Cockburn
Planet Clarion Calling
Ray McGovern
Petraeus at CIA
Mike Whitney
Grand Theft Benny
Peter Lee
China's Flank of Discontent
G. I. Wilson, USMC Ret.
Careerism and Psychopathy in the US Military
Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money: From Greenpeace to Greenwash
Saul Landau
The CIA's Human Hurricanes
Robert Alvarez
Radiation for Children's Day: Japan Put Thousands of Kids in Harm's Way
Iris Cheng
Return to Chernobyl
Tariq Ali
Selective Vigilantism: the West and Libya
Uri Avnery
Palestinian Reconciliation
Patrick Cockburn
The Hard Hand of King Hamad
Ramzy Baroud
Back to Regime Change
Devin Burghard
Natural Born Racism: the Shifting Shapes of Birtherism
Norman Solomon
Time to Close California's Nuclear Plants
Fidel Castro
A Fire That Could Burn Everyone
Mark Weisbrot
China's Surge
Lynda Burstein Brayer
Judge Goldstone's Bogus Test of War Time Culpability
Brendan McQuade
The Return of Domestic CounterInsurgency?
Rev. William E. Alberts
The Easter Message Most Christians Didn't Hear ... and Should Have
John Sinclair
What the Drug War has Wrought
Sam Husseini
How Obama and Trump Imprison Voters
Paul Krassner
The Coke Brothers Conspiracy
Missy Beattie
Keeper of the Urn
David Ker Thomson
Against Writing
Bruce Levine
Toward a Liberation Psychology
Charles R. Larson
Kinshasa Symphony: Pure Joy
Kim Nicolini
Cancer as Metaphor: Iñárritu's "Biutiful"
David Yearsley
Royal Wedding Music: Unsurpassed Levels of Excess
Poets' Basement
Beatty, Taylor, Kanazi
Website of the Weekend
Feed Starving Writers, Expose Govt. Spying: Last Chance to Kickstart Greenscare!
April 28, 2011
Shafqat Hussain
Of Tea and Snow Leopards
Nick Turse
How to Arm a Dictator
David Macaray
A Victory for Labor
Richard Javad Heydarian
The Economics of the Arab Spring
Charles Davis
Is Ron Paul More Progressive Than Obama?
David Swanson
Eric Cantor and AIPAC
Robert Weissman
Corporate America's War on Political Transparency
Rich Broderick
Slave Power Shall Rise Again
Murray Dobbin Layton's Surge: Turning Shoppers Into Intentional Citizens
Farzana Versey
By Appointment With the Future Queen
Michael Dickinson
A Poem for the Royal Wedding
Website of the Day
A Guide to Corporate Tax Cheats
April 27, 2011
Gareth Porter
The Torture Mill
Mike Whitney
Hyperinflation? No Way
Patrick Cockburn
Credibility and Intervention: as Police States Fight for Their Lives
Ralph Nader
Chernobyl 25 Years Later
Rev. Jesse Jackson
The Takeover of Benton Harbor
Patrick Bond
A Run on Grameen Bank's Integrity
Tanya Golash-Boza
Born in the Bahamas, Raised in the US, Deported to ... Haiti?
Conn Hallinan
The Pain in Spain
Linn Washington, Jr.
A Victory for Mumia
Ron Jacobs
A Doomed Man?
Jen Marlowe
We Are Troy Davis
Website of the Day
Confronting Barrick Gold
April 26, 2011
Anthony DiMaggio
The Myth of Humanitarian Catastrophe
Laura Carlsen
Obama's MexicoGate: Gunwalking Across the Border
Dean Baker
Decifit Fever
Alfred W. McCoy /
Brett Reilly Washington on the Rocks
John Sinclair
Pot, Music and the Feds
Henry Herskovitz /
Michelle Kinnucan
The Role of Jews in the Palestinian Solidarity Movement
Michael True
Kinds of Hawks: War and Deficit
Carl Finamore
Spinning the Hospital Union Election
Andrew J. Schatkin
Jesus the Litigator
Gail Dines
Kate's Kismet
Website of the Day
Krakauer: 3 Cups of Deceit
April 25, 2011
Hirose Takashi
The Nuclear Disaster That Could Destroy Japan ... and the World
Henry A. Giroux
Disappearing Youth
Karl Grossman
Why Nuclear Power Will Never be Safe
Mike Whitney
The Big Shakedown
Patrick Cockburn
Libya and the Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
James Abourezk
Helen Thomas and the Political Cleansing of America
Dave Lindorff
Geezer Uprising
Patrick Bond
The Banksters and the Climate Fund: Risking Global Bankruptcy
University of Michigan News Service
Did Obama's Election Kill the Antiwar Movement?
Farzana Versey
Death of a Spiritual Rockstar
Robin Philpot
Jane Jacobs Five Years Later
Walter Brasch
Pigeon Shoots in the Quaker State
Website of the Day
Put Sewage Sludge in Your Mouth, I Dare You!
April 22 - 24, 2011
Alexander Cockburn
Indelible Passions
Franklin C. Spinney
Pakistanizing the Libyan War
Noam Chomsky
Is the World Too Big to Fail?
Gavan McCormack
Can There be an End to Japan as a Nuclear State?
Mike Whitney
Welcome to Banktopia
Patrick Cockburn
Is the Tide Turning Against Arab Freedom?
Mya Guarnieri
A New Nakba? Detention and Deportation in Israel
Ralph Nader
Stripmining American Jobs
Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money: Panda Porn
Saul Landau /
Jack Willis
The People Who Brought You Fukushima
Russell D. Hoffman
Measuring Radiation
Josh Ruebner
US Weapons Sales to Israel: Disincentives to Peace
Raúl Zibechi
Rebellion in the Brazilian Amazon
Tricia Redeker Hepner
Human Tsunamis: Refugees and the Failure of Forced Migration Policy
Eric Walberg
Mubarak's Fatal Mistake
James Ridgeway
Fuel on the Fire: Big Oil and Iraq
Farzana Versey
Fabricated Philanthropy
David Ker Thomson
The Norwegians
Missy Beattie
Joy and Sorrow
Alfredo Acedo
Calderón's Drug War: Enough Already!
David Zlutnick
The Eros Effect and the Arab Uprisings
Lee Sustar
A Crisis for Teachers' Union Reformers?
Shamus Cooke
The Fake Budget Debate in DC
Charles R. Larson
Sudanese Family Saga
David Yearsley
Javon Jackson at the Hayloft
Poets' Basement
Taylor, Clifford, Anderson and Beaudin
Website of the Weekend
Odd Animal Deaths, Deformities and the BP Oil Spill
April 21, 2011
Mike Whitney
Bernanke Strikes Again!
Gareth Porter
The Obama-Gates Scam on Military Spending
Gregoire Lalieu
Libya in the Face of Humanitarian Imperialism
Peter Lee
North Korea, America and the Lure of Food Aid
John Clark
The Cost of Oil: a Year After Deepwater Horizon
George Wuerthner
Of Wolves and the Ethical Hunter
P. Sainath
Cornell Professor Seeks to Legalize Bribe-Giving in India
Russell D. Hoffman
Why Naoto Kan Should Resign
Laura Flanders
Global Misers
Charles R. Larson
Nigerian Election Carnage
Jessica Mack
The UN and Saudi Women
Website of the Day
How Social Security Saved Paul Ryan
April 20, 2011
Dave Lindorff
Is S&P Trashing US Debt to Help Crush Social Security and Medicare?
Dean Baker
Tyranny of the Central Bankers
Ralph Nader
Waiting for the Spark
Patrick Cockburn
Revolution and Confusion
David Macaray
A Way to Fix Our Education System?
Lawrence Reichard
Maine's Loony Tunes Governor
Ramzy Baroud
The Heroic Legacy of Vittorio Arrigoni
John Blair
The Cowardly Congressman
Kourosh Ziabari
The Arab Awakening, the Future of Israel and the Role of Islam
Adam Federman
The Battle for Khimki Forest
Website of the Day
Protester Hall of Fame
April 19, 2011
Esam Al-Amin
How Egypt's Youth Forced the Issue
Uri Avnery
The Settler State
Mark Weisbrot
The Ghost of Keynes at the IMF?
Ron Ridenour
50 Years With Che
Patrick Cockburn
The Repression in Bahrain
Binoy Kampmark
Double-Speak on Libya
Maura Stephens
Meet the Gas Geezers
Thomas H. Naylor
Henry David Thoreau Versus the United States
Lawrence Davidson
The Lobbification of Congress
Sherwood Ross
Show Trials at Gitmo?
William Manson
Stopping the Machine
Website of the Day
Michigan Professors on Food Stamps
April 18, 2011
Robin Blackburn
The Civil War: an Eerie Silence
Vijay Prashad
Can Libya Survive NATO?
Mike Whitney
Deflation is Right Around the Corner
Dean Baker
The Invisible Recession
Russell D. Hoffman
Japan's Biggest Problem
Eric Toussaint
Toward Another Europe
Brian Tierney
US Uncut
Patrick Bond
The Conference of Polluters
Murray Dobbin
Why Canadians Must Say No to Harper
Martha Rosenberg
Squeezing Docs, Hiking Insurance, Hooking Patients
David Yearsley
George Harrison and the Taxman
Website of the Day
Prison Phone Justice
April 15 - 17, 2011
Alexander Cockburn
What's Really Going On in Libya?
Peter Lee
Syria and the Delusions of the Western Press
Heather Gray
Head South: the Southern Mindset, 150 Years After the Civil War
John Grant
The Battle Over PTSD
Mike Whitney
The Diploma Mill Profiteers
William Pfaff
Lethal Ideologies
Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money: Bush Saddles Up
Brian Awehali
Drift to Live: a Profile of Liao Yiwu
David Rosen
Lust Murder: Prostitutes as Victims of Throwaway Capitalism
Saul Landau /
Nelson Valdes
Daydreaming of Cuba for Dollars
Ramzy Baroud
A Disgraceful Collapse: Judge Goldstone's Recantation
Michael Brenner
The Iraq Alumni Association
Franklin Lamb
The Obama Doctrine: AWOL in Bahrain
Jeff Howison
American Celebrity and Armenian Genocide
Nick Dearden
Iceland's Message to Portugal
Ron Jacobs
Putting the Pentagon Out of Business
Ronnie Cummins
Whole Foods or Whole Hypocrisy?
Kevin Carson
Libya: a Pig in a Poke?
Laura Flanders
No Future to Win: Young People in Obama Time
Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero
China's Growing Presence in Latin America
Christopher Brauchli
Principle Over Principal?
Thomas C. Mountain
NATO Irradiates Libya
Lawrence Swaim
The Economics of Islamophobia
Murray Dobbin
The Remaking of Canada
David Ker Thomson
Energy: the Easy Answers Dept.
Farzana Versey
Ideological Bunga-Bunga
Charles R. Larson
Tunisian Tiger
Poets' Basement
Three by Gary Corseri
April 14, 2011
James Bovard America's Know-Nothing Policymakers
Jonathan Cook
The Jerusalem Expulsions
Gareth Porter
Pakistan Objects
Robert Naiman
War of the Euphemisms
Dean Baker
First, Fire the Economists
Russell D. Hoffman
Sayonara Chernobyl! Hello Fukushima!
Michael Winship
America and the Great Disappointment
Tom Turnipseed
Does Obama Fear the War Complex?
Medea Benjamin /
Charles Davis Endless War and Empire
Charles M. Young
Hail to the Trump!
Website of the Day
The Human Costs of Ryan's Cuts: 2.2 Million Jobs
April 13, 2011
Alan Nasser
Putting People to Work
Andrew Levine
Obama the Conceder
Mike Whitney Japan's Nuclear Volcano Erupts
Andrew J. Bacevich
Obama's Libyan Escapade
Ralph Nader
Cuomo the Cutter
Linh Dinh
Who Would You Flush?
Rodolfo Pastor Campos
An Inconvenient Truth in Honduras: the Repression Continues
Russell Mokhiber
Fronting for Citigroup
Richard Wilcox
Earthquake and Nuke Fatigue
Dave Lindorff
Not Licensed to Kill
Website of the Day
Jenin Freedom Theater
April 12, 2011
Uri Avnery
Judge Goldstone Revisited
Russell Mokhiber
Cell Phones and Brain Cancer: the Risk is Real
David Macaray
The Danville Episode
Kalundi Serumaga
Chocolate Soldiers: the West Makes Ivory Coast Safe for Cocoa
Patrick Cockburn
Libya: African Union's Ceasefire Rejected
Winslow T. Wheeler
Sticker Shock:
Canada and the F-35
Helen Caldicott
Attack of the Nuclear Apologists
Russell D. Hoffman
Fukushima: a Real SNAFU
Lawrence Davidson
The Ghost of Joe McCarthy
Laura Flanders
The Party of Compromise
Website of the Day
Lessons From COINTELPRO
April 11, 2011
David Warsh
Flacking for Qaddafi: the Price of Silence at Harvard
Nirmal Ghosh
In the Shadow of Fukushima
Mike Whitney
Hating Keynes
Karl Grossman
The Atomic Breeding Grounds
April 8 - 10, 2011
Alexander Cockburn
Why I Mourn for Glenn Beck
Kevin Kamps /
Michael Leonardi
Nuclear Nightmare on the Great Lakes
Jean-Pierre Séréni
Why the Oil Companies Decided Qaddafi Has to Go
Vijay Prashad
The Success of Revolutions That Do Not Succeed
Michael Hudson
Showdown in Iceland
Sasan Fayazmanesh
Revolutions and Exorcisms
Chase Madar
Libyan War: Legal, Multilateral and Still Wrong
Carl Finamore
Remaking Egypt Beyond Tahrir Square
Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money: Munich in the Big Woods
David Rosen
A New Dark Ages: Sexual Health and the GOP Counter-Revolution
Conn Hallinan
Libya and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Dean Baker
Paul Ryan's Valuable Service
Gareth Porter
Doubting Maliki
Linh Dinh
The Wisdom of Snooki
Ellen Cantarow
Dirty Energy's Dirty Secrets
Saul Landau /
Nelson P. Valdes
Libya With God on Our Side
Ramzy Baroud
The War on Palestinian Memory
Paul Buhle
Is the Tide Turning in Madison?
David Macaray
Why We Don't Let Foxes in the Henhouse
Christopher Brauchli
Targeting the Unemployed
Lawrence Swaim
The Tragedy of Judge Goldstone
Dr. Margaret Flowers
Hacksaw Ryan
Matt Meyer
The Fall of Public Education
David Ker Thomson
Are Police Brave?
Missy Beattie
When You're Making Other Plans
Willie L. Pelote
The California Budget Impasse
Gerardo Hernández
In the Matter of the Cuban Five
Charles R. Larson
The Politicide of Zimbabwe
Ron Jacobs
Redcarding Capitalist Soccer
David Yearsley
The Genius of Heiner Goebbels
Poets' Basement
Glendinning, Bready and Levy
Website of the Weekend
Move Over AIPAC!
April 6 / 7, 2011
Larry Portis
The Sudden Death of Juliano Mer-Khamis
Shaukat Qadir
Why the US is Doomed in Afghanistan
Russell D. Hoffman
Fukushima: a Slow, Agonizing Death
Andrew Levine
The Electoral Paymasters
Bill Quigley
Robbing From the Poor
José Pertierra
The Witness From María Elvira, Live!
Dean Baker
Hold the Applause:
the Real Story on the Latest Jobs Report
Jean-Arnault Dérens
Kosovo's Dirty Secrets
Ray McGovern
9/11 Trials:
Flip-Flopping on the Rule of Law
Jennifer Van Bergen
To Miranda or Not to Miranda?
Nilofar Suhrawardy
A Nuclear Shock for US / India Nuke Pact
Website of the Day
Images of Fukushima
April 5, 2011
Peter Lee
Bahrain and Saudi Arabia's Rulers Goose-Step to the Brink of the Abyss
Mark Almond
100 Years of Bombing Libya: the Forgotten Fascist Roots of Humanitarian Interventionism
Darwin Bond-Graham
Rigging the Tax Code to Profit From Disasters
José Pertierra
The Sound and Fury of Otto Reich
Jonathan Cook
Goldstone's Rethink
Nicola Nasser
Where the US Chooses to Intervene
David Macaray
When Workers Blame Unions ...
Linn Washington, Jr.
Incarceration Nation: America Behind Bars
Thomas H. Naylor Return Engagement: Qaddafi Regains His Position as America's Foremost Demon
Murray Dobbin
The Liberal Platform: Targeting the NDP, Seducing Civil Society
Rannie Amiri
Why Zogby is Wrong About Bahrain
Song of the Day
Tea Party Racket Blues
April 4, 2011
Shaukat Qadir
Two or Three Things You Need to Know About Afghanistan
Mike Whitney
Class Warfare Scorecard
Patrick Cockburn
Egypt: Revolution or Coup?
Robert Alvarez
Radiation and Everyday Life: the FDA is Asleep at the Switch
Russell D. Hoffman
Fukushima's Suicide Squads
Israel Shamir
Russians Have Second Thoughts on Libya
Pepe Escobar
A Very Dirty Trade-Off:
the US / Saudi Deal on Libya and Bahrain
José Pertierra Posada Carriles Trial: Swinging Doors
Russell Mokhiber
How the Chicago School Hijacked America
Christopher Fons
High Stakes in Wisconsin
Ralph Nader
Free Elizabeth Warren!
Mitchel Cohen
Remembering Manning Marable
Website of the Day
Fukushima Forecast: 417,000 Cancers, Will George Monbiot Donate His Bone Marrow?
April 1 - 3, 2011
Alexander Cockburn
Battling the Beast
Arno J. Mayer
A Matter of Empire
Ramzy Baroud
Gaza Was Cairo, Egypt Was Palestine
Paul Craig Roberts
The New Colonialism
Dean Baker
The Macho Men are Wrong on Social Security
Rob Prince
The Strategic Alliance Between Algeria and the US
Jeffrey St. Clair
When We Bombed the World
Saul Landau /
Nelson P. Valdes
Solidarity for Never
Frank Barat
Why Israel is Not a Democracy: an Interview with Ilan Pappé
Behzad Yaghmaian
A Post-Modern Coup d'Etat?
Linh Dinh
Heart Warming Massacres
Jeff Sparrow
When "Heroes" Turn Into Monsters
Joe Giambrone
Atomic Moron:
the UN Would Never Lie to George Monbiot
Brian M. Downing
A Hawk Reappraises the Afghan War
Murray Dobbin
Nightmare in Canada: a Harper Majority
Missy Beattie
Premeditated Murder
Russell Mokhiber
Toward a Liberation Psychology
Christopher Brauchli
The Multi-Tasking Congress
Walter Brasch
Tax-Deductible Invasions
Brian Tierney
Fighting for Justice at Giant
Dovid Primack
The Thoughts of a New York Jew in the Judaean Hills
Ron Jacobs
Getting Juiced with Ishmael Reed
Charles R. Larson
A Walker in New York City
Poets' Basement
Corseri, Stein and Cirino
Website of the Weekend
The New Crusade Against College Professors