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From Pirates to Enemy Combatants: R.T. Naylor traces the birth of the American Military-
Industrial Complex and illustrates the striking parallels between Thomas Jefferson's naval
war on the Barbary Coast states and Bush's War on Terror. Oil Company U?: Ali Tonak
takes apart the big merger between British Petroleum and Cal-Berkeley and reveals BP's plot
to saturate the Third World with GM crops, all in the name of oil conservation.
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"Imperial Crusades: a Diary of Three Wars" by Cockburn and St. Clair
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France: From Pétain war, one could conservatively estimate that another 2.6
to Sarkozy million people have been wounded. The U.N. estimates
that between 1.5 million and 2 million Iraqis are now
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Stephen Lendman
Criminalizing Speech:
the War on Free
Expression in a Post-
9/11 World
Imperial Crusades
Alexander Cockburn...
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Dave Lindorff
The Great Oil Robbery
Patrick Cockburn
The Horrific Stoning
Death of a Yazidi Girl
Sparks Waves of
Revenge Killings
Corporate Crime
Reporter
Snuff Politics:
Democrats Escalate
Attack on Single
Payer
Ralph Nader
The People's Crusade
of Mike Gravel
Juan Santos
The Hate Equation:
Targeting Migrant
Children in LA
Dave Zirin
Jason Whitlock, the
Clarence Thomas of
Sportswriters?
Joshua Frank
The Price of Fire in
Latin America
Evelyn Pringle
Serotonin Syndrome
Eamonn McCann
Irish Peace Dividend
for Discredited
Premiers
May 7, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
The Great Wall of
Baghdad Rises
Monica Benderman
Land of Opportunity
Greg Moses
Hutto Prison Rebuffs
UN Rapporteur
Rannie Amiri
The Sham at Sheikh:
Iraq Regional
Conference a Flop
Fitrakis / Wasserman
Media Silence on Kent
State Revelations
Fred Wilhelms
Another Royalty
Forfeiture From
SoundExchange: And
This Time It's Secret!
Ramzy Baroud
The Hourglass of
Blood: Darfur
Revisited
Bruce K. Gagnon
The Democrats Don't
Own the Antiwar
Movement
T. W. Croft
Home Movies from a
Weekend in Paris--
And Related
Dreamscapes
Sonja Karkar
Prizes for Supporting
Israel?
May 5 / 6, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Trying to Catch Up
with the Voters
William Blum
How America Has
Changed Iraq
Uri Avnery
Exercise in Escapism
Franklin Lamb
Harvard's Twisted
Report on Israel's
Invasion of Lebanon
Fred Gardner
Elective Surgeries Kill
Lawrence R. Velvel
The American Moral
Meltdown Accelerates
Missy Beattie
Lying and Dying: The
Moral Sensibility of
Military Recruiters
Robert Fantina
Bush's Veto:
Hypocritical Words
and Actions
Carla Blank
American Massacres
and the Media
Stephen F. Jackson
Taking It to
Drummond:
Paramilitaries and
Mining Companies in
Colombia
P. Sainath
The Jailing of Indian
Farmers
Anthony Papa
Time to End New
York's War on Itself
James T. Phillips
Blather Cancer
John Ross
Last Days of the Willie
Loman of the EZLN The Occupation
by Patrick Cockburn
Stephen Lendman
Chavez's Oil Policy
Sparks Panic at Wall
Street Journal
Ben Terrall
Iggy Pop at 60
CounterPunch
Newswire
Advice from a Geezer
Assassin
Poets' Basement
Valentine, Engel and
Davies
Website of the
Weekend
Mountain Justice
Summer
May 4, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
How the Surge is
Failing
Norman Solomon
FOX on Wall Street
Azmi Bishara
Why is Israel After
Me?
Ron Jacobs
Sitting in on Senator
Kohl and the War
Dave Lindorff
Clinton and Byrd are
Calling for Revocation
of the Wrong AUMF
Kevin Zeese
The Democrats Cave
to Bush
Bob Fitrakis
Why Four Died in
Ohio: Kent State,
Gov. Rhodes and the
FBI
Janet Kauffman
"Stop the Mudness!"
Bare Earth is
Scorched Earth
May 3, 2007
Jeff Halper
The Livni-Rice Plan
for the Middle East: a
Just Peace or
Apartheid?
Christopher Brauchli
Bush's Best and
Brightest: From Dr.
Keroack to Bernard
Kerik
Dave Zirin
Talking Sports from
Death Row: an
Interview with Kevin
Cooper
Corporate Crime
Reporter
Big Pharma Gets Its
Hooks into Seton Hall
Law School
Robert Fisk
Olmert Comes
Undone
Mike Ferner
Bush Veto, Right for
the Wrong Reasons?
Mike Whitney
A Stock Market Post-
Mortem
Pham Binh
The Democrats and
War Funding
Dave Lindorff
Kucinich's
Impeachment Train:
Look Who Just
Stepped Aboard
Michael A. Johnson
Tenet on 60 Minutes
May 2, 2007
Saul Landau
Would Jesus Wear a
Rolex on His TV
Show?
Carla Blank
Historical Amnesia:
Worst U.S. Massacre?
Margaret Kimberly
The Candor of Mike
Gravel: "These People
Frighten Me"
Kevin Zeese
Durbin Gives Edwards
More to Apologize For
Carlos Villareal
How "Law and Order"
Covers for Bigotry in
the Immigration
Debate
Michael Dickinson
Trouble in Turkey:
Criminalizing Political
Art
Tim Shorrock
A Raw Deal Between
Washington and
Seoul: Corporate
Interventionism as
Trade Policy
Alevtina Rea
The Myth-Makers of
Estonia
William S. Lind
General
Incompetence: Col.
Yingling and the
Military Brass
Andrew Cockburn
How Rumsfeld
Micromanaged
Torture
Fred Gardner
Affirmative
Abstinence: Adios,
Randall Tobias, the
Man Who Turned His
Wife's Suicide into a
Sales Pitch for Prozac
Chase Madar
Are Working Class
Jobs Bad for Your
Health?
Ralph Nader
Cheney and the BYU
25: Faith,
Accountability and
Protest in Utah
John V. Walsh
Edgy Dems Snarl at
Their Antiwar Base
Joshua Frank
Obama, Incorporated
Leslie Radford
The Migrant Trap and
the Migrant's Way
Out
Shaun Harkin
An Interview with
Nativo López on
Immigration Bills and
Protests
Dave Lindorff
Murtha Talks
Impeachment
Peter Rost, MD
Inspector General
Requests Meeting
with Pfizer
Whistleblower
Peter Linebaugh
May Day and Magna
Carta
Frank Menetrez
Dershowitz v.
Finkelstein: Who's
Right and Who's
Wrong?
Ray McGovern
Tenet's Self-Serving
Apologia
Diana Johnstone
The Three Rs of
"Sarko the American"
Sherwood Ross
A So-Called "Liberal"
Answers His Death
Threats
Peter Rost, MD
Did Pfizer Illegally
Market Its New
HIV/AIDS Drug?
Robert Jensen
Anti-Capitalism in
Five Minutes
Kevin Zeese
While Congress Voted
for War, the Peace
Movement Protested
Inside the Senate
Jane Stillwater
Dalai Lama and
Costco
Alexander Cockburn
Is Global Warming a
Sin?
Fred Gardner
Fuel for a Killer: What
Drugs Had Cho
Taken?
Joe Bageant
Why Are Leftists So
Damn Afraid of God?
Robert Fantina
The Rhetoric of Dick
Cheney: Lying as Art
Form
Hanan Ashrawi
Palestine and Peace:
the Looming
Challenges
Ron Jacobs
Return of the Guitar
Army
Nicole Colson
The Surpeme Court
Targets Abortion
Rights
Ben Terrall
Tracking Torture
Missy Beattie
Quit Your Day Job,
George
Harvey Wasserman
The Lesson of
Chernobyl
Cindy Beringer
The Horrors of Hutto:
Inside Texas' For-
Profit Immigrant
Prison
Mike Roselle
The Dog Philosophy:
What Kant Can't Tell
Us About Why We
Love Wilderness
RAWA
Freeing Afghanistan
James McEnteer
Where the Movie
Villains are American:
Screening Films in
Bolivia
Poets' Basement
For Stew Albert
Website of the
Weekend
Rudy and Donald: the
Drag Smooch
Eva Liddell
How Can Women
Defend Themselves
Against Stalkers?
Phyllis Bennis
and Robert Jensen
Moving Beyond Anti-
War Politics
Mike Whitney
Where's the Beef?:
Padilla and the
Zucchini Prosecution
Michael F. Brown
Biden and Pelosi:
Failing to Hold Israel
Accountable for War
Crimes in Lebanon
Jordan Flaherty
Forgotten Mississippi
Margaret Kimberly
John McCain, Cold-
Blooded Senator
Christopher Brauchli
The Dangers of
Unstable People
Jacob Mundy
Stalemate in the
Western Sahara?
Andrew Cockburn
Wolfowitz's War
Franklin Lamb
Giuliani Plays the
Islamic Terror Card
Patrick Cockburn
Al-Qa'ida Group
Behind US Deaths in
Iraq
Roger Morris
Dispatches From the
Front
Henry Siegman
The Three Nos of
Jerusalem
Alevtina Rea
A Sister City Debate
in Rachel Corrie's
Hometown
Paris
Are You a Hip Hop
Apologist?
Nikolas Kozloff
White Racism and the
Aymara in Bolivia
Alan Farago
Dow 13,000
Disconnect
Matthew S. Miller
The Limits to Lakoff
Sharon Smith
The Rights of Children
in America
David Price
The Long Lost War
Diana Johnstone
Who Wants Sarko?
New or Old France?
Brendan Cooney
Cho and Cheney:
Killer Looks
Sonja Karkar
Israeli Democracy,
For Jews Only?
Brian Concannon
Wolfowitz and Haiti
Lee Gaillard
Baptism Under Fire:
Can the Osprey Fly?
Leah Fishbein
Women Under Siege
Dave Lindorff
The First Shoe Drops
Neal Galloway
US Agricultural Policy
is Destructive at
Home and Abroad
Ishmael Reed
How Imus' Media
Collaborators Almost
Rescued Their Chief
Lila Rajiva
Tragedy and Irony
After Virginia Tech
Patrick Cockburn
Sunnis Protest
Baghdad's "Prison
Wall"
Ralph Nader
The Corporate
Debasement of Earth
Day
Mike Whitney
Housing Bubble
Boondoggle
Saul Landau
The Courage to
Withdraw
Patrick Cockburn
Time of the Death
Squads: Iraq as
Revenge Tragedy
Robert Fantina
Changing Sentiments
Sam Husseini
The Gonzales
Distraction
Corporate Crime
Reporter
Bought-and-Paid-For
Journalism at the
Philly Inquirer
Elizabeth Lalasz
Sick and Getting
Sicker
Harvey Wasserman
Earth Day,
Incorporated
Dave Lindorff
Huge Win for
Impeachment in
Vermont: Are You
Listening Sen. Leahy?
Gary Leupp
Maoist Homophobia in
Nepal?
Stephen Lendman
A Short History of the
Christian Right
Alexander Cockburn
Bring Back the Posse
Fred Gardner
Prozac Madness
Kristoffer Larsson
The Islamic Threat to
Europe: By the
Numbers
Barbara Rose
Johnston
Nuclear War and Its
Consequences
John Scagliotti
Unlocking Closets,
Locking Free Speech
Marjorie Cohn
Gonzo Justice:
Counting on Alberto
Patrick Cockburn
Sadr Raises the
Stakes
Diana Johnstone
The Absent Middle
East
Ron Jacobs
Explaining the
Spectre
Evelyn Pringle
How Iraq Was Looted
BANCO
Travesties of Justice
in a Black City in
Michigan: the
Persecution of Rev.
Pinkney
Paul Richards
Thinking Big in the
Northern Rockies
Dan Bacher
Zapatistas in the
Colorado River Delta
Ben Terrall
Showdown at
Chevron: SF Protest
Against New Iraq Oil
Law
Sherwood Ross
How the Taliban
Defeated the
Pakistani Army in
Waziristan
Remi Kanazi
Bill Maher's "Towel-
Headed Hos"
Aseem Shrivastava
Behind the Curtain of
SEZs
Poets' Basement
Valentine, Reed,
Harley and Engel
Doug Peacock
Beginning of the End
for the Yellowstone
Grizzly?
Diane Farsetta
Onward, Free Market
Soldiers!: Privatizing
Public Diplomacy
Tom Clifford
The Surge in Iraqi
Civilian Deaths: the
Bloodiest 12 Months
of the War
Amira Hass
The Holocaust as
Political Asset
Nicole Colson
Desperation in
Gitmo's Camp 6
Sonja Karkar
Double Jeopardy
Entraps Palestinians
Heather Gray
The Supreme Court
Looks a Lot Like the
Taliban
Dr. Bouthaina
Shaaban
Syrian Expeditions
Agustin Velloso
Spain and Iraq, Four
Years On
Matthew Koehler
Distorting the News in
a Timber Company
Town
Emad Mekay /
Jim Lobe
Scoring at the World
Bank: Wolfowitz's
Quid Pro Quo
Patrick Cockburn
A Day of Bombs and
Blood in Baghdad
Larry C. Johnson
The Hobbesian Hell of
Iraq: How Many Dead
Equal a Failed
Government?
Norman Solomon
Bowing Down to Our
Own Violence
Saul Williams
Notes from a Hip Hop
Head: an Open Letter
to Oprah Winfrey
Sunsara Taylor
From Iraq to the
Supreme Court: a
New Dark Ages for
Women
Harvey Wasserman
How Green is Tom
Friedman?
Christopher Brauchli
Apologies,
Incorporated
Anthony Papa
Nightmare Behind
Bars: John Valverde's
Fight for Freedom
Dave Lindorff
Betraying Thomas
Jefferson
Lila Rajiva
More Gun Laws or
Fewer Idiots? How
the Va Tech
Administration Failed
Its Campus
Landau / Hassen
Tancredo as 17th
Century Indian Chief?
Charles Fisher /
Randy Fisher
Don Imus's Firing and
the Hip-Hop Culture
Diane Christian
Facing Death
Politically
Kevin Prosen
Meeting the
Resistance in Iraq
China Hand
Gold Digging: The
U.S. Treasury
Department's
Economic Campaign
Against North Korea
Peter Rost, MD
The Strange Profits
from a Re-Branded
Cancer Drug
Jerry Kroth
Virginia Tech and Cho
Seung Hui: Love and
Unhappiness in an
Alien Culture
Sherwood Ross
Massacre at Va Tech:
a Brief Glimpse into
Daily Life in Iraq
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
The Bonfire of the
Hannities
Alice Cherbonnier
Why South Dakota's
"Informed Consent"
Law Doesn't Go Far
Enough
Jean Bricmont /
Diana Johnstone
The Elections in
France: a Coming
Political Tsunami
Frida Berrigan
Militarizing the Border
Alison Weir
The Message of PBS's
"Crossroads" Series:
Some Muslims Aren't
Bad
John Walsh
Why is the Peace
Movement Silent
About AIPAC?
Jason Hribal
Resistance is Futile:
Emily the Cow and
Tyke the Elephant
Evelyn Pringle
The Iraq Money Trail
Ben Terrall
Cuban Exiles Get
Hero's Welcome;
Haitian Refugees Get
Shafted
Stan Cox
1040s and Death
Certificates
Soren Ambrose
Confidence Crisis at
the IMF
John F. Sugg
Hate and Hypocrisy in
the Cox Empire
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Escalating Military
Spending: Income
Redistribution in
Disguise
Carl G. Estabrook
The Politics of the
Useful Threat: It
Didn't Start with the
Neo-Cons
Uri Avnery
Blood on Our Hands
Ralph Nader
Where Are the Cries
of Outrage Over
Military Rapes?
Eamon McCann
Shame of the Empire:
Simon, Sir Bono and
Tinkerbelle
Lee Sustar
Decoding the
Democrats
Mike Whitney
Trouble in
Squanderville: Bubble
People and the Faith-
Based Market
Don Fitz
Solar Capitalism?
Stephen Lendman
Ecuador Votes for
Revolutionary Change
Alexander Cockburn
Ho Industry Whores
Jorge Mariscal
Gen. Petraeus's Field
Manual: a Traveler's
Guide to Big Muddy
Dave Marsh
The Imus Affair, Hip
Hop and Politics
Joe Bageant
A Feral Dog Howls in
Harvard Yard
Fidel Castro
The Terrorist Walks
Alfredo Molano
"More Than
Complicated"
Alan Farago
When Miami Crashes
Michael Neumann
Anglophone Fantasies
and French Realities
Fred Gardner
Barbara McNair's
Unsung Heroism:
Bringing Down the
Owner of EST
Ron Jacobs
A Conversation with
Three Iraq Veterans
Against the War
Gail Dines
Racy Sex, Sexy
Racism
Linda Ford
Imus and Lady
Hoopsters: a Long
History of Bias
Against Women
Athletes
Missy Beattie
What Would Imus
Do?: Iraq, Ho, Ho, Ho
Dan La Botz
Farm Labor Organizer
Murdered in Mexico
Giuliana Sgrena
The Lies of Mario
Lozano
Laura Carlsen
A Moratorium on Free
Trade Agreements
Abu Spinoza
Wolfowitz's Real
Crimes
Elizabeth Schulte
Grinding It Out with
Quentin Tarantino
Poets' Basement
Davies, Harley, Engel
and Landau
Website of the
Weekend
Vonnegut's Final
Interview
Patrick Cockburn
The Shattering of
Mosul
Stephen Soldz
Aid and Comfort for
Torturers: Psychology
and Coercive
Interrogations in
Historical Perspective
George Ciccarriello-
Maher
The Failed Chávez
Coup: Five Years On
Laith al-Saud
Kirkuk, Oil and the
Kurds
Dave Zirin
Memo to Imus
John Ross
Drawing a Line in the
Heartland
Ramzy Baroud
America as Proxy
Harvey Wasserman
The Novelist Who
Hated War: Peace Be
With You, Mr.
Vonnegut
JoAnn Wypijewski
We May be Rid of
Imus, But We're Still
Stuck with the
Culture
Marjorie Cohn
U.S. Attorneys and
Voting Rights
Evelyn Pringle
Bush Family War
Profiteering: Will
Congress Finally Cut
Them Off?
Ron Jacobs
God Bless You, Mr.
Vonnegut
Norman Solomon
The Awful Truth
About Hillary, Barack
and John
Joe DeRaymond
The Release of Dennis
Counterman: The
Justice Game, the
Alford Plea and Death
Row
Nicola Nasser
Squeezing
Palestinians into an
Impossible Mission
Nikolas Kozloff
Chile, a Country
Geographically
Located in South
America "By Accident"
William S. Lind
Horatio Hornblower's
Worst Nightmare
Siegfried L. Sassoon
A Statement Against
the Continuation of
the War
R. T. Naylor
Quebec's Lessons for
the US: How "Wars
on Terror" Should be
Fought
Vijay Prashad
The Generation of
IEDs and iPods
Patrick Cockburn
The Myth of Tal Afar
Winslow T. Wheeler
When Will the War
Money Really Run
Out?
Jack Balkwill
Prison for a
Peacemaker: A
Vietnam Vet
Interviews Kathy
Kelly
Alan Farago
Florida's
Fundamentally Weak
Environmental
Movement
Russell D. Hoffman
The Carbon Offset
Tax is Just Another
Nuke Bailout
Peter Rost, MD
The Fine Print on
Drug Industry
Kickbacks
Mike Whitney
Doomsday for the
Greenback?
Dave Lindorff
Torture and Selective
Outrage
Susie Day
Peter Pace Porks a
Peck of Pinko Perverts
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