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June 29, 2010
The Moral Burden of War
Jules Boykoff
The World Cup and
the Politics of
Holding America's Soldiers Accountable
Immigration
By JOHN GRANT
June 28, 2010

Eamonn McCann The US Army is holding Specialist Bradley Manning incommunicado in

The Bloody Sunday Kuwait, under charges of leaking to WikiLeaks video of Apache helicopter
Report: How the pilots gunning down two Reuters cameramen and a number of Iraqis in a
Higher-Ups Got Off Baghdad neighborhood. The video is devastating in what it reveals about
the Hook cold-blooded hi-technology warfare in a place like Baghdad. See it at:
http://www.collateralmurder.com/
Frank Menetrez
Elena Kagan's WikiLeaks has arranged for three pro-bono lawyers to assist Manning in his
Harvard case. However, Manning must request for them to see him. Since the Army
will not inform Manning of their existence, he cannot ask for them to see
David Ker Thomson him. Joseph Heller would love it, a perfect Catch 22.
Toronto: Still Free,
Barely Holding On For me, Manning is an American hero, part of a strong tradition of soldiers Wasting Libby:
who conclude in their conscience that they cannot morally remain silent on the True Story of How the WR
Mark Weisbrot the nature of the war they have been sent to fight. One Iraq vet told me he Grace Corporation Left a
Can't Get No lost confidence in the war he was fighting once he realized, in his attitudes Montana Town to Die (and
Stimulation and actions against the Iraqi people, he was becoming the tyrant he thought Got Away With It)
he was sent there to fight.
Bill Quigley By Andrea Peacock
Honduras, After As there is a tradition of antiwar soldiers, there is also a tradition that seeks Introduction by Jeff Bridges
Democracy to damn people like Manning and keep their views far from the American
consciousness.
Jonathan Cook
Plan Lieberman: In recent memory, this tradition starts with the image of antiwar protestors
Blueprint for a spitting on returning soldiers from Vietnam, a right wing myth that arose
Purely Jewish State during the Gulf War as part of the effort to “get beyond the Vietnam
Syndrome.” That’s the conclusion of Jerry Lembcke in The Spitting Image:
Alan Farago Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam.
Environmental
Catastrophe Lembcke looked and could find no evidence at all of spitting. Instead, he
Fatigue says, the image was part of a concerted effort to demonize the antiwar
movement and, especially, to distract national attention away from the many
Damien Millet / instances of returning soldiers and veterans who sympathized with the
Eric Toussaint antiwar movement during the Vietnam War.
Vain and Void in
Toronto No one was actually spitting on our soldiers. Instead, pro war elements
allowed their metaphoric imaginations to express their feelings about the
Harry Browne antiwar movement with the spitting image. So it is not surprising someone
World Cup: For like Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal dredged up the
Love and Money spitting image in his recent fraudulent posing as a Vietnam veteran.
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Emergency War How the Economy
Supplemental Look up the documentary Sir! No Sir! to understand the fear the antiwar
soldiers’ movement sent into the hearts of our leaders as the Vietnam War Was Lost
Explained
derailed. The fact this significant movement is little known shows how By Paul Craig Roberts
Dr. Susan Block effective things like the spitting myth have been.
Hillbilly Rebel Yellowstone Drift:
Women v. Ever since the rise of the spitting image, and especially beginning with the
Iraq War in 2003, the antiwar movement in America has walked on eggshells Floating the Past
Corporate
Murderers when it came to distinguishing the war it opposed from the soldiers sent to in Real Time
fight it. by John Holt
Website of the Day Introduction by Doug Peacock
Trying to Film BP “Support the troops, not the war” became the mantra. Sometimes the word
HQ “troops” is exchanged for “warrior,” a term that calls up images of men
hacking away at each other with swords and pikes.
June 25 - 27, 2010
In the film 300, the Spartans live a code of "Come back with your shield or
Alexander on it." When wars begin to fail, this kind of classic Warrior Myth feeds into
Cockburn the first cousin of the Spitting Myth, the Stab In The Back Myth, which
Loose-Lip suggests that those questioning wars are, somehow, the reason for their
McChrystal Did failures.
Obama a Huge
The Stab In The Back Myth tends to appear as wars fall in popularity and
Favor
begin to make no sense to those at home who pay for them. We are living in
one of those times. Senator John McCain now likes to say, at times like this,
Winslow T. Wheeler
“we cannot sound an uncertain trumpet.” You can see it forming: Those
General Petraeus
whose trumpet is not certain in the months and years to come will be blamed
and His Senate
for the disaster that is our policy in Afghanistan.
Vassals
Who carries the war’s moral burden?
Michael Hudson
Europe's Fiscal Moving from the Mythic to the Real, is it a good time to ask whether the
Dystopia: the "New antiwar movement should stop using the slogan: “Support the troops, not
Austerity" Road the war”? More to the point, if our current wars amount to misguided policy Click here to Buy!
helping to bankrupt the country in economic hard times, at what point does
Noor Elashi
a share of the moral burden of this fall on the volunteer soldiers doing the
The Holy Land
fighting?
Foundation Case:
Defending My In Vietnam, there was a draft and much higher rates of casualties than in
Father ... and the Iraq and Afghanistan. One thing the military and militarists learned from
Constitution Vietnam is that US citizens don’t like the idea of their sons and daughters
being killed in a war that doesn’t make sense.
Patrick Cockburn
Putting Petraeus in At the end of the Vietnam War, as troops were pulled out, the use of
Perspective mechanized killing methods were expanded, an equation that now rules our
military in war. In fact, this phenomenon is so advanced that the Obama
Jonathan Cook
administration relies even more than its predecessor on a burgeoning drone
Gaza Starves More
war in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Slowly
It is remotely directed, lethal warfare in which body bags of American boys
John Ross
and girls are less of a burden for war makers. The only negative is the fury
An Uprising of
the policy creates among Afghans and Pakistanis, including people like the
Bones
Times Square bomber.
Born Under a Bad Sky:
Darwin Notes from the Dark Side
A drone “pilot” sits in an air conditioned cubicle somewhere in New Mexico
Bond-Graham of the Earth
with a Diet Pepsi on the console as he kills people 12,000 miles away seen
Capital Speaks:
only on a video screen that looks virtually identical to the video games the By Jeffrey St. Clair
How Big
soldier was weaned on as a kid in the mall.
Foundations and
Wall Street Elites This individual is not a “warrior.”
are Legitimating
Their Plans to Of course, we still have men, and maybe women, in real killing professions.
Balance the Budget The cashiered General Stanley McChrystal was famous for managing
hunter/killer teams with real blood on their hands. These individuals are
Paul Fitzgerald / highly trained and as tough and ruthless as one could ask. They operate in
Elizabeth Gould total secrecy.
Afghanistan, the
Saudi Arabia of There are also standard infantry units that still do humping and patrolling.
Lithium? Lately, their lives are being put in greater danger due to new rules of 2010 Country Mamas of
engagement that often preclude air support, which tends to kill lots of Petrolia
Andrea Peacock civilians. And, finally, under the Petraeus counterinsurgency doctrine, there Calendar Now Available!
The Miron are many soldiers in support and development roles. All these soldiers
Brothers: From initially volunteered to do what they are doing.
Vietnam to Libby Waiting for Lightning
I’m a veteran of the Vietnam War. I was a 19-year-old volunteer and my job to Strike:
Ralph Nader was as a radio direction finder in the Central Highlands tasked to locate
Losing It at the The Fundamentals
Vietnamese radio operators so they and their comrades could be killed by
Airport Checkpoint F14s, 175mm howitzers or infantry units. Forty years on and lots of reading of Black Politics
and thinking later, I see those I targeted as soldiers fighting for the Kevin Alexander Gray
M. Shahid Alam
liberation of their country. I was the bad guy.
Getting Out of
Palestine Young men and women today in Iraq and Afghanistan and veterans back
home can no doubt also see their war shifting in meaning before their eyes.
Kathy Kelly /
Dan Pearson So should the antiwar movement continue to let our soldiers off the hook so
Killing Civilians, completely? Or should we encourage greater moral engagement? Do the
Ducking Blame wars really make sense to our soldiers, or are they simply trapped and
fighting to protect themselves and their comrades? Are they there just
Russell Mokhiber
because they needed a job?
Revoking BP's
Charter I came home from Vietnam with a whopping case of survival guilt and a
healthy dose of mistrust for my government. I was not in combat and was
 lucky not to be wounded or burdened with traumatic stress. I can’t say that
Ramzy Baroud for many of my combat veteran friends.
Righting a
Perpetual Wrong What we owe our soldiers

Rannie Amiri These days we hear a lot about how the military is concerned about Post
Netanyahu Plays Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among its troops. But too often the
the Vuvuzela military’s concern is to get a soldier back up to fighting shape – to essentially
get him or her back on the line. Certain critical matters involved in trauma
David Rosen are avoided.
The New Abortion
Wars From the vantage point of the anti-war movement, PTSD counseling is seen
very differently. The goal is for soldiers to fully understand their actions and
Linn Washington the traumatic issues they are dealing with – no matter where that might
Racism in the lead in relation to the war itself. In other words, self-understanding and a
Courts greater wisdom are the goals, not re-adjusting to the military’s mission.
Margaret Kimberley If certain aspects of the war itself are causing the trauma, then that should
The Death of Black be faced head on. The fact the war is troubling for a soldier is often because
Politics the war is morally troubling as an historic reality.
Anthony DiMaggio The antiwar movement owes our soldiers respect for their suffering and their Click Here to Buy!
No Repeal of sacrifices. We need to make sure they get the care they need once they are
Whaling Ban: US home. But the antiwar movement should no longer give our troops a moral "The Case Against Israel"
Says It's a Major pass, especially when it comes to the continued use of al Qaeda and 9/11 as Michael Neumann's
Loss--For Whales! a “Remember the Alamo!” battle cry to explain our military presence in Devastating Rebuttal of
places like Afghanistan. Alan Dershowitz
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: High Our reasons for being in Afghanistan and Iraq make less and less sense and
Times Puts on a the skyrocketing costs of these military occupations are preventing us from
White Coat undertaking a long list of overdue domestic needs. Al Qaeda has moved on
from Afghanistan, and it has been effectively argued that tough regional
Mark Weisbrot
diplomacy can check their return.
Distorting Chavez
It is nothing short of absurd when we are told Americans are needed to
Christopher
teach Afghans, one of the world’s most warlike people, how to fight. As
Brauchli
Thomas Friedman points out, nothing in Afghanistan “resonates” anywhere.
Overthrowing
We are there now to save face from a host of bad decisions that got us
Darwin: the Texas /
bogged down there.
Russia Axis
We need less secrecy and more accountability in our military ranks, and we
Adam Engel
need to encourage more of our young soldiers to share this view. Right now,
The System and
all thinking, caring Americans need to fight for soldiers like Bradley Manning, Click Here to Buy!
the Drug War
an American hero hidden away in a Kuwait jail.
Ananya RED STATE REBELS:
Manning’s action follows precisely the arc Joseph Campbell describes in his Tales of Grassroots Resistance
Mukherjee-Reed
famous book Hero With a Thousand Faces of the young warrior who leaves
Toronto: Fake from the Heartland
home to descend into Hell, where he learns something and then returns to
Lakes vs. Real
impart that knowledge to his people.
People
The military understands this very well, which is why it has to be so harsh
Julie Hilden
with someone like Manning. It is why our leaders so feared the antiwar
Can the Internet
soldiers movement back in the days of the Vietnam War.
End Libel Laws?
America is not its national security state. First and foremost, our soldiers
David Ker Thomson
need to protect themselves and their comrades, but they also need to
Shock and Awe
understand they serve more than just our generals.
From Ottawa
JOHN GRANT is a founding member of the new independent, collectively-
Saul Landau
owned, journalist-run online newspaper ThisCantBeHappening.net. His work,
Fidel Advises
and that of colleagues Dave Lindorff, Linn Washington, and Charles Young,
Obama?
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What South Africa
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June 23, 2010

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Witnessing Against
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Lethal Force on the
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A Biologist With
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Website of the Day

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June 22, 2010

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Wittner
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The Social Security
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An Israel Beyond
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Rick Kuhn
Why Money Doesn't
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Why You Should
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Angola Three's
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US Fear Factory
Kills Free Speech

Shamus Cooke
Why the Oil Spill
Will Change
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Website of the Day

Kagan Wins;
Constitution Looses
June 21, 2010

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Is Pakistan
Unraveling?

Vijay Praahad
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Ralph Nader
Festering
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Ronnie Cummins
Generation
Monsanto

Mark Weisbrot
The Brazilian
Presidential
Elections

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Harry Browne
World Cup:
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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
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a Disarmed Public

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M. Shahid Alam
Roger Cohen and
the Motley Crew

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Empty Presidential
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George Wuerthner
The Perils of
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Truth Through a
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A Visit to Turkey

Christopher
Brauchli
Poor Britain: BP
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Psyche

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With Rush and
Larry

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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:
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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

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Sierra Club

June 15, 2010

P. Sainath
What Bhopal
Started

Jordan Flaherty
Fears of Cultural
Extinction on
Louisiana's Gulf
Coast The Occupation
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Mike Whitney
The Next Housing
Crisis

Patrick Cockburn /
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The Most
Dangerous Country
in the World for
Journalists

Fred Gardner
Helen Thomas'
Watergate Scoop

Linn Washington
Israeli Raid
Coverage:
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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

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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:
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Assange to Helen
Thomas

Harry Browne
World Cup: Who
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Patrick Bond
World Cup, Inc.:
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Coke and the South
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Eve Spangler
Attacking
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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

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Video of IDF Raid:
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June 11 - 13, 2010

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Cockburn
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Winslow T. Wheeler
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at the Pentagon

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Franklin C. Spinney
Will Erdogan Blink?

Jeffrey Blankfort
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Mike Whitney
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Their Lives for
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Karl Grossman
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William Blum
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How NYC May be
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Fear and Loathing
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June 10, 2010

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Erdogan Rising?

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Diplomacy"?

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Blacklisting Helen
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Loewenstein
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The World Cup as
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Winners and Losers
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Yves Engler
Canada's Gaza
Flotilla

Laura Flanders
Bubba Goes Home

Charles M. Young
A Hell of Their Own
Creation

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June 9, 2010

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Doublespeak on
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Strangulation
Economics

Jonathan Cook
Barefoot Soldiers
on the High Seas?

George Bisharat
Israel's Impunity
From International
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Is Obama BP's
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Anthony DiMaggio
A Retrospective
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The Outrage at
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Linda Brayer /
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Casino Politics in
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June 8, 2010

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Labor Under
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Witchhunt for an
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The Ambush of
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June 7, 2010

Ken O'Keefe
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Kill a Turk and Rest

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CIA Experiments in
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Shot in the Back

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Why You Won't See
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Eyes With Legs:
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How Banks Make
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The Peace
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June 4 - 6, 2010

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Pariah Nation

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One Year After
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Blind Trust: How
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Europe is Heading
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Rannie Amiri
The Real Motive
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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"

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