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May 18, 2011
Jonathan Cook
Israel in a Strategic Dead End
May 17, 2011
Diana Johnstone
Weep Not for Strauss-Kahn
Dean Baker
Strauss-Kahn and the IMF
Anthony DiMaggio
Gingrich: Born Again Loser
Wajahat Ali
The Maddening Return of Terrence Malick
Peter Van Buren
War Pundits and War Pornographers
Conn Hallinan
War Crimes and the Bombing of Libya
Murray Dobbin
The Ongoing Crime of Asbestos Exports
Shaums Cooke
The Democrats' Attack on Unions
Sonja Karkar
The Nakba: What Does It Mean in Human Terms?
Johnny Barber
Why I'm Going to Gaza
Website of the Day
Krassner Wins! Krassner Wins!
May 16, 2011
Patrick Cockburn
Anti-Shia Pogroms Sweep Bahrain
Mike Whitney
Why They Hated Dominique: Bankers Cheer as IMF Head Faces Sexual Assault Charges
Marjorie Cohn
The Responsibility to Protect
Ralph Nader
Obama and Land Mines: Indecision in the Face of Tragedy
Max B. Kantar
Without Fear:
the Ballad of Alvaro Luna Hernandez
Russell Mokhiber
The Bible, the Constitution and Trial Lawyers
Jerry Elmer
Lessons From the Freedom Rides
Harry Browne
Dublin Locked Down for Visits of the Century
Franklin Lamb
Nakba Sunday at Maroun al Ras
Tanya Kerssen
Repression and Backroom Deals in Honduras
Ken Ferguson
Is Britain Heading for a Break-Up After the Latest Scottish Elections?
Harvey Wasserman
America's New Nuclear Showdown
Website of the Day
The Disappearing Face of New York City
May 13 - 15, 2011
Alexander Cockburn
Hairy-Chested Liberals Exult: Who Do We Kill Next?
Anne McClintock
Which Way Wisconsin?
Douglas Lummis
Round Up the Usual Suspects ... and Shoot Them
Esam Al-Amin
Bin Laden and the Spring of Arab Revolutions
Ghada Karmi
Obama and the Palestinians
Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money: Obama and the Man in the Hat
Allen Mendenhall
Killing Bin Laden:
Dershowitz vs. Chomsky, Again
Renaud Lambert
Lobster is For Tourists Only: Cuba's New Socialism
Marjorie Cohn
The Torture Con: Not Legal, Not Effective
Fred Gardner
Obama Never Promised You a Pot Garden
Jane Hirschmann
Gaza is Crumbling
Saul Landau
The Big Wedding: Osama and Obama
Dave Lindorff
Why the Democratic Party is Corporate Lickspittle
Eric Walberg
The Vicious Circle: Russia, the US and the Assassination of Bin Laden
Ramzy Baroud
Gaza Marathon
John Feffer
After Osama: China?
Michael Leonardi
Italy's Great Nuclear Swindle
Rev. William E. Alberts
The Elephants in Osama's Compound
Richard Broderick
Viva la Muerte! Mobs and Power in the USA
Kourosh Ziabari
Middle East in Flux: an Interview with Anthony DiMaggio
Geoffrey McDonald
The Cry for Jobs
John Sinclair
That Hippie Sacrament: Living Free and Outside the Mainstream
Senay Boztas
Are Amsterdam's "Open City" Days Numbered?
Missy Beattie
Examining My Head
Omar Barghouti
Catching AIPAC Off Guard
Farzana Versey
The System's Dissent
Cal Winslow
NUHW Wins in San Francisco; Plans Strike in LA
Sam Smith
Why Hip is No Longer Hip
Charles R. Larson
Korean Family Dynamics
Charles M. Young Turds in the Drink: Bill Hicks and the Place of Corporate Comedy
Randy Shields
The Good Don't Triumph and There is No Justice: DePalma's "Blow Out" Thirty Years On
David Yearsley
"Billy Elliot" at the Imperial
Poets' Basement
Three by Daniel Church
Website of the Weekend
My Water's On Fire Tonight: the Fracking Song
May 12, 2011
William O'Connor
A Former NYC Firefighter on the Death of Bin Laden
Peter Bach
Lights in the Outhouse: Scenes From Pakistan's North West Frontier
Mike Whitney
Inside the GOP's "Security Act:" Repealing Due Process, Declaring Permanent War
Dean Baker
The Best Way to Balance the Budget
Paul Craig Roberts
The West is Trapped in its Own Propaganda
Ron Jacobs
Frozen Bank Accounts and Free Speech in the US
Nick Dearden
Greece, Ireland and Portugal:
Bankruptcy or Democracy?
William J. Astore
The Crash and Burn of Old Regimes
Walden Bello
Bin Laden's Game
Paul Imison
Mexico Marches for Peace
Website of the Day
The Long Con
May 11, 2011
Neve Gordon
Israel's Repressive New Laws
Gary Leupp
The Death of Bin Laden: a Scenario
John Gibler
A War of Anonymous Death
Mike Whitney
Now That's Chutzpah:
Hillary Blasts China on "Human Rights"
Pierre Rimbert
Can France's Left Thinkers Escape the Ivory Tower?
Harvey Wasserman
Japan Junks New Nuclear Plants: Will Obama Follow Suit?
Alan Farago
Florida: Winning the Race to the Bottom
Mark Weisbrot
Why Greece Should Reject the Euro
Binoy Kampmark
Gloating at the Execution: Bin Laden and the Accursed Man
Murray Dobbin
Will the NDP Become the New Liberal Party?
Website of the Day
So You Say You Support Independent Journalism? You Have Four Days to Put Up or Shut Up
May 10, 2011
Mike Whitney
Countdown to Default
Anthony DiMaggio
The Ugly Reality Behind the Killing of Bin Laden
Marjorie Cohn
Assassinating Bin Laden: Why It Violated International Law
Stephen Soldz
Army Interrogators on Torture: Why It Doesn't Work
Robert Weissman
Chamber of Commerce in Wonderland
Patrick Bond
Are African Lions Really Roaring?
David Macaray
Obama and the Colombian Trade Pact
Robert Lipsyte
Why the NFL Would Do Us a Favor by Canceling the Upcoming Season
John O'Hara
From Abbottabad to Brooklyn
Thomas Mountain
Funding Genocide in the Horn of Africa
Laura Flanders
Vermont Closer to Single-Payer Health Care
Website of the Day
Turning Mexico Into a Graveyard
May 9, 2011
Gareth Porter
Dubious Hopes for Peace
Kathy Kelly
The Age of Predators
Andy Kroll
The McJobs Economy
Patrick Cockburn
Portrait of the US Press in the Hour of Its Fall
Larry Tuttle
Are Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs Really Green?
Wajahat Ali
American Muslims in a Post-Bin Laden World
Uri Avnery
The Death of Bin Laden and the Future of Bin Ladenism
Larry Portis
What This Year's May Day Demostrations Told Me About France
Ramzi Kysia
Wild West Justice
Ralph Nader
From Charity to Justice
Sara Mann
What a Flight Attendant Owns
Website of the Day
Pakistan Takes Out Its Most Wanted
May 6 -8, 2011
Alexander Cockburn
A Volcano of Lies
Fidel Castro
The Assassination of Osama Bin Laden
Tariq Ali
Killing the Golden Goose
Mike Whitney
A Short History of Bubblenomics
Jean-Pierre Séréni
Tunisia Gets to Grips With Democracy
Conn Hallinan
Bin Laden and the Great Game
Ray McGovern
Killing Bin Laden: the Politics of Assassination
Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian Unity and a New Middle East
Saul Landau
Unmasking the Myth of National Security
Andrew Levine
The Illogic of Lesser Evilism: the Obama Example
Diana Johnstone
Pretext for War:
Do We Really Need an International Criminal Court?
Jeffrey St. Clair
How Green Became the Color of Money:
All for Oil, Oil for One
Daniel Moss
"Our Misery, Their Jobs:" the Humanitarian Industry in Haiti
Laura Carlsen
Beyond Solidarity: the Drug War Can't be Improved, It Can Only be Ended
Mitchel Cohen
Eight Questions for President Obama
Fred Gardner
Why Did the Feds Target Mollie Fry, MD, and Dale Schafer?
Binoy Kampmark Fearing AV: Changing Voting in Britain
Walter Brasch
Bin Laden and the Mass Media
John Grant
Feasting on Bin Laden's Corpse
John LaForge
Up Against the War System in Kansas City
Laura Flanders
The Blacklisting of Tony Kushner
Eric Toussaint
The European Bill of Fare
Missy Beattie
Justice Has No Meaning
Janet McMahon
Confronting AIPAC
Franklin Lamb
Panic From Congress and AIPAC?
Brian Tierney
DC Nurses and the Fight for Health Care
Farzana Versey
Lethargic Positivists: the War Against Cynicism
David Ker Thomson
The Quarry
John Sinclair
Hash Bash: Ann Arbor vs. the Drug Warriors
Helen Redmond
Three Cups of Pee
Phil Rockstroh
The Politics of Revenge and Retribution
Thomas H. Naylor
Small Nation Neutrality
Peter White
In Praise of Petty Tyrants
Matt Meyer
End of Empire Education
Wayne A. Clark
An American Manifesto
Susan Galleymore
A New American Dream This Mother's Day
David Macaray
You're Fired ... Not!
Daniel Robelo
Mexicans Mobilize Against the Drug War
Gerald Scorse
Time to Retire the Roth IRA
Charles R. Larson
Hell in Nigeria's Delta
Stephen Martin
America's Willing Executioners
David Yearsley
Miley Cyrus and the Bin Laden Death Fest
Poets' Basement
Three by Richard Levine
Photos of the Weekend
Kill Shots: No Guns, No Suicide Belts, No Barricades
Website of the Weekend
Living Yogathon
May 5, 2011
Jonathan Cook
Egypt and Israel Headed for Crisis
Mike Whitney
Economy Hanging by a Thread
Shaukat Qadir
Was Osama Betrayed?
Israel Shamir
The Libyan War Crime
Tom Engelhardt
Bin Laden and the American Mind
Marshall Auerback
The Global Slowdown
Gary Leupp
Why I Don't Feel Much About Osama's Death
Dean Baker
Economists and Jobs Creation
Matthew Koehler, Ian Lange and John Snively
The False Promise of Biomass
Dr. Susan Block
Obama Kills Osama: What a Difference a Consonant Makes!
Website of the Day
Creative Writing 101 with Kurt Vonnegut
May 4, 2011
Israel Shamir
US Knew Where Osama Was Since 2005
Mike Whitney
American Savagery
Robert Fisk
Why are We Still in Afghanistan?
Ron Jacobs
History Can't Hide Hypocrisy
Mark Weisbrot
Bin Laden Knew His Enemy: How the War on Terror Strengthened Al Qaeda
Linh Dinh
Bin Laden the Vindicator
Hammad Said
The Enigma of Osama's Hideout
Jill Richardson
I Never Promised You an Organic Garden
Caty Gordon
Rethinking Retribution
Brian L. Horejsi
The Battle for Canada's National Parks
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Abbottabad Address
Website of the Day
Introducing Blackwater's New Ethics Czar: John Ashcroft!
May 3, 2011
Mark Almond
Driving Libyans Back to Qaddafi
Patrick Cockburn
The Most Successful Terrorist Organization in History
Joe Giambrone
The Future Children of Fukushima
William Blum
How Stupid is Condoleezza Rice?
Sheldon Richman
Obama's Broken Guantánamo Promise
Brian J. Foley
Trial By Hit Squad: Why Patriotic Americans Should be Angry Bin Laden was Killed
Murray Dobbin
A Conservative Majority in Canada: Now What?
Ishmael Reed
Joan Walsh's Twitter Brawl With Herself
Carmel de Amicis
The Scene at Ground Zero
Sam Smith
Controlling Obama's Birth
Russell Mokhiber
Corporate Crime of the Century Portrayed as Conspiracy Theory
Yasmeen Ali
Post-Mortem in Abbottabad
Website of the Day
A Citizen's History of the Grand Rapids Street Car
May 2, 2011
Shaukat Qadir
The Long Road to Abbotabad: Osama and Al Qaeda
Mike Whitney
We're in a Depression
Randall Amster
Obama Bags Osama: Now What?
Binoy Kampmark
The Once and Future Osama
David Swanson
Killing Osama, Resolving Nothing
Harvey Wasserman
The Peaceful Atom and Other Nuclear Fairy Tales
Anna Haq
The Complexities of Syria's Violence
Mitu Sengupta
India's Convenient Villains
Dean Baker
Medicare and the Usual Suspects
Tom Engelhardt
China as Number One? Don't Bet Your Bottom Dollar
Clancy Sigal
Confessions of a Closet Royalist
Farzana Versey
Death Be Not Proud: Osama the Caveman?
Website of the Day
Tweeting From Abbottabad
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!
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May 18, 2011
A Taste of the Future?
Israel in a Strategic Dead End
By JONATHAN COOK
Nazareth
They are extraordinary scenes. Film shot on mobile phones captured the moment on Sunday when at least 1,000 Palestinian refugees marched across no-man's land to one of the most heavily protected borders in the world, the one separating Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Waving Palestinian flags, the marchers braved a minefield, then tore down a series of fences, allowing more than 100 to run into Israeli-controlled territory. As they embraced Druze villagers on the other side, voices could be heard saying: "This is what liberation looks like."
Unlike previous years, this Nakba Day was not simply a commemoration of the catastrophe that befell the Palestinians in 1948, when their homeland was forcibly reinvented as the Jewish state. It briefly reminded Palestinians that, despite their long-enforced dispersion, they still have the potential to forge a common struggle against Israel.
As Israel violently cracked down on last Sunday's protests on many fronts -- in the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem and on the borders with Syria and Lebanon -- it looked less like a military superpower and more like the proverbial boy with his finger in the dam.
The Palestinian "Arab Spring" is arriving and Israel has no diplomatic or political strategy to deal with it. Instead on Sunday, Israel used the only weapon in its current arsenal -- brute force -- against unarmed demonstrators.
Along the northern borders, at least 14 protesters were killed and dozens wounded, both at Majdal Shams in the Golan and near Maroun al-Ras in Lebanon.
In Gaza, a teenager was shot dead and more than 100 other demonstrators wounded as they massed at crossing points. At Qalandiya, the main checkpoint Israel created to bar West Bank Palestinians from reaching Jerusalem, at least 40 protesters were badly injured. There were clashes in major West Bank towns too.
And inside Israel, the country's Palestinian minority took their own Nakba march for the first time into the heart of Israel, waving Palestinian flags in Jaffa, the once-famous Palestinian city that has been transformed since 1948 into a minor suburb of Tel Aviv.
With characteristic obtuseness, Israel's leaders identified Iranian "fingerprints" on the day's events -- as though Palestinians lacked enough grievances of their own to initiate protests.
But, in truth, Israeli intelligence has warned for months that mass demonstrations of this kind were inevitable, stoked by the intransigence of Israel's right-wing government in the face of both Washington's renewed interest in creating a Palestinian state and of the Arab Spring's mood of "change is possible".
Following in the footsteps of Egyptian and Tunisian demonstrators, ordinary Palestinians used the new social media to organise and coordinate their defiance - in their case challenging the walls, fences and checkpoints Israel has erected everywhere to separate them. Twitter, not Tehran, was the guiding hand behind these demonstrations.
Although the protests are not yet a third intifada, they hint at what may be coming. Or, as one senior Israeli commander warned, they looked ominously like a "warm-up" for September, when the newly unified Palestinian leadership is threatening to defy Israel and the United States and seek recognition at the United Nations of Palestinian statehood inside the 1967 borders.
Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, alluded to similar concerns when he cautioned: "We are just at the start of this matter and it could be that we'll face far more complex challenges."
There are several lessons, none of them comfortable, for Israel to draw from the weekend's clashes.
The first is that the Arab Spring cannot be dealt with simply by battening down the hatches. The upheavals facing Israel's Arab neighbours mean these regimes no longer have the legitimacy to decide their own Palestinian populations' fates according to narrow self-interest.
Just as the post-Mubarak government in Egypt is now easing rather than enforcing the blockade on Gaza, the Syrian regime's precarious position makes it far less able or willing to restrain, let alone shoot at, Palestinian demonstrators massing on Israel's borders.
The second is that Palestinians have absorbed the meaning of the recent reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah. In establishing a unity government, the two rival factions have belatedly realised that they cannot make headway against Israel as long as they are politically and geographically divided.
Ordinary Palestinians are drawing the same conclusion: in the face of tanks and fighter jets, Palestinian strength lies in a unified national liberation movement that refuses to be defined by Israel's policies of fragmentation.
The third lesson is that Israel has relied on relative quiet on its borders to enforce the occupations of the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza. The peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, in particular, have allowed the Israeli army to divert its energies into controlling the Palestinians under its rule.
But the question is whether Israel has the manpower to deal with coordinated and sustained Palestinian revolts on multiple fronts. Can it withstand such pressure without the resort to mass slaughter of unarmed Palestinian protesters?
The fourth is that the Palestinian refugees are not likely to remain quiet if their interests are sidelined by Israel or by a Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations in September that fails to address their concerns.
The protesters in Syria and Lebanon showed that they will not be pushed to the margins of the Palestinian Arab Spring. That message will not be lost on either Hamas or Fatah as they begin negotiations to develop a shared strategy over the next few months.
And the fifth lesson is that the scenes of Palestinian defiance on Israel's borders will fuel the imaginations of Palestinians everywhere to start thinking the impossible - just as the Tahrir Square protests galvanised Egyptians into believing they could remove their dictator.
Israel is in a diplomatic and strategic dead-end. Last weekend it may have got its first taste of the likely future.
Jonathan Cook is a writer and journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. His latest books are “Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East” (Pluto Press) and “Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair” (Zed Books). His website is www.jkcook.net.
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