Counterpunch.org archives July 2011
July 29 - 31, 2011
Alexander Cockburn
At Last! The Head of Ghad ... General Younis
Vijay Prashad
The Cost of War: an Economic Draft
Uri Avnery
The New Anti-Semitism
Paul Craig Roberts
Disastrous Outcomes From an Orchestrated Crisis
Mike Whitney
Shadow Banking and the Repo Market
Steve Breyman
Nuclear Power and the Nuremberg Code
Robert Bryce
The Global Backlash Against Wind Energy
Ramzy Baroud
The Arab Awakening and the Western Media
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Debt Ceiling Dumbshow:
Lots of Posturing, No Solutions
William Blum
Arguing Libya
Charles Abugre
A Wicked, Heartless Folly: the True Costs of the Libyan War
Russell Mokhiber
Wall Street's Code of Silence
Michael Winship
When the Super-Rich Cry, "Class Warfare!"
Paul Street
Whose Black President?
Linh Dinh
Ubasuteyama, USA: Abandoning the Old
Jeff Sparrow
Islamophobia and the Internet
Saul Landau
Stupid Empire Prevails
Ronnie Cummins
Monsanto's Achilles Heel
Caroline Rooney
The Crusader's Tragedy
Ron Jacobs
International Capital and Its Army Head for Chicago
Beatrice Lindstrom / Jocelyn Brooks
Forced Evictions in Haiti
David Ker Thomson
Bleed Space: Bruce Nuclear Transmission Line
Missy Beattie
The Wall Street Duopoly
Helen Redmond
Air Rage: Flying by Class
Grant Smith
New Drugs, Same Mistakes
L.H. O'Connor
The Politics of Cornbread
John Eskow
The Fables of Obama
Brian J. Foley
If Congress Fails to Meet the Debt Deadline ...
Jack Random
Suicide Watch
Thomas H. Naylor
Vermont's Village Greens: an Alternative to Empire
Charles R. Larson
Edgar Allan Poe Redux
Kim Nicolini
"Hesher:" Signs of Life in a Home Plagued by Death
David Yearsley
On Jan Brueghel's "The Sense of Hearing"
Poets' Basement
Three by Orloski
Website of the Weekend
No Banker Left Behind
July 28, 2011
Pam Martens
The Strauss-Kahn Handlers Crank Out the Lawsuits
Conn Hallinan
Anatomy of a Hit:
Killing Our Guy in Kandahar
Gareth Porter
Is the US Ready to Talk the Taliban?
Dean Baker
The Weird Battle Over the Debt Ceiling
David Macaray
Thinking the Unthinkable
Andrew Bacevich
Ballpark Liturgy
Fred Gardner
Cannabis Proponent Deemed Sane
Thomas Knapp
Information Wars
Bruce E. Levine
Youth Subdued
Charles R. Larson
Naughty Children Need to be Punished
Website of the Day
How Would You Spend the Federal Budget?
July 27, 2011
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Politics of Make-Believe: Barack Obama, Changeling
Kim Sengupta
Libyan Rebels in Retreat
Michael Brenner
COIN of Base Metal: the Counter-Insurgency Industry
Jose David Torrenegra
Play Democracy, Hide the Corpses: Business as Usual in Colombia
Binoy Kampmark
The Madness of His Method
Paul Krassner
My Lesson in Mindfulness
Thomas Mountain
Lies of the Libyan War
Clancy Sigal
What's So Great About Winning, Anyway?
Mark Weisbrot Jamaica Restructured: Still Drowning in Debt
Michael Calderón-Zaks
Who Will Protect Us From the Police?
Website of the Day
US Used Hiroshima to Bolster Support for Nuclear Power
July 26, 2011
Michael Hudson
Obama's Ambush on Entitlements
Franklin C. Spinney
Afghan Sitrep: We're Here Because We're Here Because We're Here...
Marshall Auerback
Worse Than Herbert Hoover
Dean Baker
The Drive to Cut Social Security Benefits
Shaukat Qadir
Has Pakistan Declared Independence From the US?
Michael Brenner
Oslo and the War on Terror
David Swanson
Even the Birds Have Left Afghanistan
James Zogby
No Standing O for Obama
Ron Ridenour
Cuba's Revolution: Morality & Solidarity
Binoy Kampmark
The Death of Amy Winehouse
Website of the Day
Chernobyl: a Field Trip to No Man's Land
July 25, 2011
Patrick Cockburn
The Limits of Airpower
Vijay Prashad
Palestine's Norwegians
Andrew Levine
Is There Life After Obamamania?
M. G. Piety
The "Sextual" Instinct
Karl Grossman
Radiation is Good for You?
Diane Christian
Righteous Killing
Martha Rosenberg
Pesticides in Your Toothpaste (And Other Legal Dangers)
Mark Weisbrot
The Real Problem With US Health Care
Carl Finamore
San Francisco Police Claim Harding Shot Himself
Robert Bryce
Vietnam's War on Carbon Limits
Murray Dobbin
Time for a Culture War in Canada
Website of the Day
Dead TVs
July 22 / 24, 2011
Alexander Cockburn
Apocalypse Nigh?
Paul Craig Roberts
An Economy Destroyed
Uri Avnery
The Charge of the New York Times
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Why All the Wrangling Over the Debt Ceiling?
Jeffrey St. Clair
Flesh and Its Discontents: the Paintings of Lucian Freud
David Price
94 Seconds in the Tour de France
Franklin Lamb
Student Questions From Tripoli
Ramzy Baroud
Ground Your Warplanes, Save the Horn of Africa
Karl Grossman
What Could Truly End the Space Program: a Nuclear Accident Overhead
George Ciccariello-Maher /
Jeff St. Andrews
Every Crook Can Govern
Ralph Nader
Whatever Happened to Corporate Patriotism?
Saul Landau
Rupert's Empire of Slime
Kevin Kamps
Atomic Power in a Destabilized Climate
Paul Street /
Anthony DiMaggio
Blaming the Tea Party
Sam Smith
When Congress Goes Mad
Steve Breyman
Explaining Obama
Carol Murry /
Greta Berlin
Audacious Women
Charles Davis
Larry Summers and the F-Word
Ray McGovern
The Fallen-Away Jesuit: an Open Letter to Jerry Brown
Tom Englehardt
How Not to Make Friends in the Middle East
Michael Leonardi
Remembering Carlo Giuliani
John Sinclair
Revenge of the Tough Nerds:
Pot's New Cold War
Susil Gupta
Ronnie and Reggie, Robert and Rupert
David Macaray
Is This Really the Best We Can Do?
Patrick Bond /
Khadija Sharife
The Earth Grabbers
Mark Weisbrot
The Occupation of Haiti Must End
Thomas Mountain
Crocodile Tears Over Famine
Dennis Bernstein
An Interview with S. Brian Willson
Michael Winship
Up the Revolution
William A. Cook
The Death of Democracy
Walter Brasch
Moses's Candidate
Farzana Versey
Kashmir's American Counsel?
Christopher Brauchli
"The Poor Should Do More!" Orrin Hatch and the Income Tax
Rajesh Makwana /
Adam Parsons
The Silent Humanitarian Crisis in East Africa
Dave Lindorff
To Hell With the Democrats!
Mark Loyka
Inequality and Poverty in Latin America
Missy Beattie
The War on Childhood
Kevin Zeese
Tim DeChristopher's Battle for Justice
Phil Rockstroh
Bachmann, Palin, Robertson and the Limits of Logic
James Rothenberg
What's the Difference? The Losing Game of American Politics
Charles M. Young
Nim and Noam: BF Skinner, Chomsky and the Chimp
Robert Zaretsky
In Pursuit of Idleness
Charles R. Larson
Not Bloody Likely
Gilad Atzmon
The Great Games
David Yearsley
Malick's Tree of Cliché
Poets' Basement
Three by Corseri
Website of the Weekend
Once There Was This Friggin' Band, Sonny, and They Sounded Like This...
July 20 / 21, 2011
Darwin Bond-Graham
A National Park for Nukes?
Tariq Ali
Murdoch: Will Anything Really Change?
Paul Imison
Mexico's Rule of Lawlessness
Sam Pizzigati
Understanding the Federal "Debt Crisis"
David Swanson
Balance the Budget on the Backs of Billionaires!
Steve Fake
Destination? Gaza!
Israel Shamir
Why Palestine is Important
Younes Abouyoub
A "Democratic Moment" in Morocco?
Ron Jacobs
A Hunger Strike for Humanity
Mike King
A Life Worth Less Than Train Fare
Charles R. Larson
From Freud to Mugabe: Zimbabwe's Filthy Lucre
Patrick Madden
The Police Murder of Kenneth Harding
Cal Winslow
Judge Throws Out Kaiser Elections
Website of the Day
Heat Storm, Animated
July 19, 2011
Ralph Nader
The Corporate Supreme Court
Jonathan Cook
The Method in Netanyahu's Madness
Patrick Cockburn
Why Does Britain Insist on Punching Above Her Weight?
Mya Guarnieri
What Israeli Democracy?
Christopher Ketcham
All Hail the Draft!
Alan Farago
Marco Rubio Faces the Nation
Marjorie Cohn
Prisoners Strike Against Torture in California Prisons
John Blair
Is the Sun Setting on "Clean Coal"?
Russell Mokhiber
Why Did Andrew Cuomo Get Rid of James Sheehan?
Lisa Barr
To Cuba, With Baggage, and Love
Website of the Day
Raindrops Over Rwanda
July 18, 2011
Uri Avnery
It Can Happen Here
Bruce Page
A Real History of Rupert Murdoch
Patrick Cockburn
Bahrain Royal Personally Tortured Student Poet
Laura Carlsen
NAFTA-Look Alikes
Vijay Prashad
Droneland
Theresa Amato
The Warren Betrayal: Obama Bows to Wall Street
Dean Baker
Budget Games:
Wall Street Calls the Shots for Repbulicans
Ralph Nader
Dumping Elizabeth Warren
P. Sainath
Indian Regime Most Corrupt in Nation's History
Stephan Salisbury
The Politics of Muslim-Bashing
Dave Lindorff
Blowing It: How the Democrats are Sinking Themselves
Caitlin R. Ringwood
Afro-Colombian Resistance in La Guajira
David Green
Youth vs. Seniors: a Fake Economic Conflict
Website of the Day
Mountaintop Removal and Birth Defects
July 15 - 17, 2011
Alexander Cockburn
NATO's Debacle in Libya
Mike Whitney
Debt Ceiling Kabuki
Gareth Porter
Sadr's Game
Michael Brenner
The Big Rollback
Ramzy Baroud
How the PA Sold Out Palestinian Unity
Conn Hallinan
The Walls of Paestum
Saul Landau /
Danny Glover
Danny and Saul Visit Gerardo Again
Jeff Sparrow
The Phony Populism of Rupert Murdoch
Susil Gupta
Murdoch's Mafia
David Swanson
The Blood on Murdoch's Hands
Laura Carlsen
Return of the Dinosaurs in Mexico
Neve Gordon
Israel's Growing Crackdown
Eric Walberg
Israel and the Flotillas
Philippe Descamps
Russia's Demographic Crisis
Christopher Brauchli
America Right or Wrong
David Macaray
A Strike Looms in the Grocery Industry
Jack Random
Why I Hate Texas
Rev. William E. Alberts
Bachmann's God
Alan Farago
The Wrecking Crew
Damien Millet /
Eric Toussaint
Facing the Debt Crisis in Europe
Marica Frangakis
How the EU Made the Greek Crisis Worse
Walter M. Brasch
The Change Deficit
Jordan Flaherty
Danziger Bridge Trial:
Defending Killer Cops
Karl Shepard
Jim Crow Resurrected in Florida
Jon Hochschartner
Capitalism and the Environment: an Interview with Chris Williams
Joe Allen
Free Speech in the Shadow of War
Alvaro Huerta
Striking Out in Phoenix
David Ker Thomson
Lake Nameless
Missy Beattie
The Paradox of Progress
Dr. Susan Block
The Politics of Spanking
Pradeep Baisakh
Clearing Forests and People in Odisha
Dan LaBotz
Blues on the Border
Ron Jacobs
Stopping the Train, Stopping the System
Brian Tokar
Coming of Age in a Different Time
Charles R. Larson
Pilgrim's Progress
David Yearsley
Stetch at Full Stretch
Poets' Basement
Church, Landau and Ramsey
Website of the Weekend
Happy Carmageddon!
July 14, 2011
Pam Martens
Conspirators Unmasked in the DSK Drama
Tariq Ali
Scenes From a Marriage: AmPak Relations
Patrick Cockburn
Libyan Rebels Ambushed
Fred Gardner
How Cannabis Works
Israel Shamir
Zizek and the Gaza Flotilla
Lawrence Davidson
Will the US Leave Iraq?
Benjamin Dangl
Grassroots Solutions to American Crises
John Grant
The Gaza Flotilla and the Blood-Dimmed Tide
Dean Baker
Economic Illiteracy: Blame the Teachers?
John Stanton
Snatching the Dead for DNA
Farzana Versey
The Mumbai Blasts
Website of the Day
Bastille Day
July 13, 2011
Anthony DiMaggio
Obama's Political Suicide
Vijay Prashad
Libya and the War Powers Act: Obama's Lethal Transgression
Jordan Flaherty
Occurrence at Danziner Bridge
Russell Mokhiber
Can the Labor Union Movement be Revived?
Sheldon Richman
Don't Support the Troops, Bring Them Home!
Eric Walberg
The Killing of Ahmad Wali Karzai: From Dishwasher to Drug Kingpin
Russell D. Hoffman
San Onofre: a Trillion Dollar Threat to SoCal
Joshua Sperber
The Evils of Bad Criticism: Stiglitz and Austerity
Mark Weisbrot
Why the Euro is Not Worth Saving
Linh Dinh
Poor Richard's Rise
Michael Winship
Get Mad at Judges, Not Juries
Website of the Day
"Don't think, look!"
July 12, 2011
Ralph Nader
The Great Tax Loophole Swindle
Mike Whitney
From Bad to Worse
Joan Roelofs
The Deadening Silence
Patrick Cockburn
Panetta: We Need US Troops to Stay in Iraq to Fight Iran
John Isaacs
The House and the Defense Budget
Gail Dines
DSK and the Meaning of Consent
Jack Random
Prescribed Failure: No Child Left Behind and the Atlanta Schools Cheating Scandal
Alexander Reid Ross
FTA Hat Trick: Green Markets Scam Goes Hemispheric
Thomas H. Naylor
The Key to a Happy Death
Stewart J. Lawrence
Betty Ford Went Rogue
Website of the Day
My Summer at an Indian Call Center
July 11, 2011
Gregory Elich
Class War Without Mercy
Barbara Ehrenreich
War Without Humans
Franklin Lamb
France Says NATO Bombing Has Failed
Gerald Pollet Radiated Rain: Radiation Levels in Northwest Rain Were Up to 130 Times Safe Drinking Water Standards Following Fukushima
Michael Kidder
A Pipeline Runs Through It: Exxon, the Yellowstone and the Damage Done
Dave Lindorff
Voodoo Economics, 2011
Michael Brenner
The Scent of Victory? Al Qaeda and Panetta's Nose
John O'Connor
The Suspects are in Charge of the Case
David Michael Green
Stupid Democrats, Stupid Republicans
John Blair
Reversal of Fortune for Duke Energy
Website of the Day
Drugs and the Meaning of Life
July 8 - 10, 2011
Alexander Cockburn
All the Publisher's Men
Kathy Kelly
Greece, Gaza and the Grand Drama
Andrew Levine
Reagan Recycles Back to Life
Ramzy Baroud
The Revolt in Yemen
Marjorie Cohn
Avoiding Impunity: the Need to Broaden Torture Prosecutions
Winslow T. Wheeler
The Pentagon Remains Immune
David Rosen
AIDS at 30: Getting Worse for the Most Vulnerable
David Zlutnick
War on the Border: an Interview with Charles Bowden
Saul Landau
The Politics of Simulopting
Jason Hribal
No One Likes the Zookeeper
Olivier Aubert
The Online Sex Industry
Franklin Lamb
NATO's War Against Libya's Civilians
Eric Walberg
Egypt vs. the IMF: Time to Default?
Roy J. Eidelson
America's Overcrowded Cellar
Paul Imison
Mexico: the Pretty Much Inevitable Return of the PRI
Michèle Brand
Belarus Under Siege
David Macaray
Working for Change at Walmart
Steve Breyman
Cellulosic Fantasy: Ending Corn Ethanol Subsidies
David Tresilian
French Arms for Libyan Rebels
Chellis Glendinning
The Growing Movement Against Electromagnetic Contamination
Stacey Warde
I May be Poor, But I'm Not Destitute
M. G. Piety
On Parenting
Lawrence Davidson
Flotillas and the Law
Christopher Brauchli
Banking in Fine Print
Missy Beattie
Children of War
Dave Lindorff
American Sicko
John Sinclair
Smoking Out Tourists
Lee Sustar
A Voice Fighting for CWA
Cesar Chelala
Learning From Cuban Crocodiles
Charles R. Larson
No Country for Sane Men
Rick Salutin
Bad Teacher and Why We Need Her
Kim Nicolini
The Contradictions of Bill Cunningham
David Yearsley
Borden and the Mallards: Dazzle at the Brick Factory
Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Costley and Davies
Website of the Weekend
Please Support the Organic Consumers Association!
July 7, 2011
Vijay Prashad
Libya as Proxy
Michael Brenner
Wealth in America: By the Numbers
Chase Madar
Why Bradley Manning is an American Hero
Russell Mokhiber
Suckerpunched on Anti-Trust
Dean Baker
Ron Paul vs. the Federal Reserve
Ann Robertson /
Bill Leumer
NEA Flunks Crucial Test
Murray Dobbin
Canada's Afghan Blunder
Margaret Kimberley
The Evil of Two Lessers
Thomas Mountain
Ethiopia Buys Arms as Millions Starve
Thomas L. Knapp
Casey Anthony and American Justice
Website of the Day
Helplessness Blues
July 6, 2011
Robert Sandels
Soft-Powering Cuba
Alain Gresh
Egypt's Revolution is Only Beginning
Patrick Cockburn
The Bombing of the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel
Dean Baker
Do Economists Bleed?
Michael Winship
Michele Bachmann Flunks Canadian History, Too
Alan Farago
Of Fetuses and the Everglades
Stan Cox
Can Air Conditioning Save You?
Jeff Klein
Workers Held Hostage
Kevin Carson
The Force of Law:
Rights vs. Privileges
Norman Solomon
Politics of the Imperative
Website of the Day
India's Vanishing Vultures
July 5, 2011
Franklin C. Spinney
Why the War Machine Keeps on Running
Jonathan Cook
Palestine's Last Village Faces Bulldozers
Andy Kroll
The 60-Year Unemployment Scandal
Dean Baker
Saving Social Security From Its Saviors
Patrick Cockburn
What is Schizophrenia?
Linn Washington, Jr.
Damaged Democracy
Rich Gibson
Strange Attraction: NEA Endorses Obama
Michael Barker
Foundations and Social Change: an Interview with Adrienne Pine
Fidel Castro
A Brilliant and Courageous Statement
Ceidren Voe
The Scalpel and the Damage Done
Website of Day
UN Fails Uncontacted Tribes
July 4, 2011
Gareth Porter
Humiliation for Petraeus
Jonathan Cook
The Real Preachers of Hate
Dean Baker
Making Short Work of the Economy
Patrick Cockburn
Vicious Circles: Living With Schizophrenia
Henry Norr
A Long Train of Abuses: Dispatch from the Freedom Flotilla 2
Alvaro Huerta
From Jim Crow to Juan Crow: Alabama's Racist New Immigration Law
Patrick Bond
South Africa's Water Wars
Dave Lindorff
Our Incredible Shrinking Constitution
Steve Early
Victory in Vegas
Brian J. Foley
Memo to Southwest Airlines: Why Don't You Honor All Defenders of Liberty This Fourth of July?
Website of the Day
Ribs Against Racism?
July 1 - 3, 2011
Alexander Cockburn
Pure Victims, Real Human Beings
Darwin Bond-Graham
Nuclear Fiddling, While Los Alamos Burns
Mike Whitney
Mired in a Colossal Muddle
Ramzy Baroud
At the Expense of Gaza
Neil L. Whitehead
Divine Hunger: the Cannibal War Machine
Saul Landau
Targeting Libya, Hitting the Constitution
Franklin Lamb
Dispatch from Tripoli: Countdown to Invasion
William Blum
Libya: Unending American Hostility
Ralph Nader
Leaving Elizabeth Warren Out in the Cold
Tom Engelhardt
Obama's Military Mantra
Sarah Anderson
Taxing Speculation
Henry Cockburn
The Trees Were Calling Me: Living With Schizophrenia
Martha Rosenberg
Lost in Psychiatryland
David Macaray
On a Cross of Coal
Carol Miller
Burning the Truth at Los Alamos: Nukes, Fire and Secrecy
Robert Roth
Haiti: the Next Round
Dr. Susan Block
The Shriveling of the Case Against DSK
David Swanson
The DSK Rorschach Test
Rana B Baker
A Permit for Home:
My Jerusalem Diaries
Walden Bello
Capital is a Fickle Lover
Jack Random
Austerity Bridge
Chris Genovali
Northern Gateway to Destruction?
Christopher Brauchli
Once Upon a Foreskin
Ron Jacobs
Brotherhood of Acid:
Orange Sunshine and the Sixties
John V. Walsh
Stealth Bill to Approve Libyan War Defeated
Charles R. Larson
Swedish Travesty of Justice: Stieg Larsson and Eva Gabrielsson
Missy Beattie
Doing the Aftermath
Stewart J. Lawrence
Is Obama Really a D*ck?
Farzana Versey
City Blights: Animal Farm and Farming People
Shahid Mahmood
A Shock of Peroxide-Blonde Hair
David Yearsley
Triumphs of the O/Modernters
Poets' Basement: Notes From a New Baghdad by Martin Burke
Website of the Weekend
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