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Today's
Stories
March 29, 2005
Carl G.
Estabrook The Subversive
Commandments
March 28, 2005
Jeremy Scahill Sgrena Sets the
Record Straight: "There was No Checkpoint; No Self-Defense"
Sonali
Kolhatkar Forgetting
Afghanistan...Again
Sasha Kramer The UN's Betrayal
of Haiti
Kevin Zeese Don't Just Blame
the Democrats
Tom Stephens Sacred Law;
Traditional Wisdom: Environmental Justice and Indigenous
Peoples
Dr. Teresa Whitehurst We're
Walking Into a Trap
Newton Garver Reflections on
Bolivia
Paul Craig
Roberts A Bail Out Draft
for a Cakewalk War?
Website of the Day Stumped? Ask a Librarian,
24/7
March 26 / 27, 2005
Gary Leupp God's
Imperialists
Peter Linebaugh To Render,
to Impeach, to Habeas Corpus
Marc Robert A European
Student's Experience at Columbia University
Laura Carlsen The Threesome
in Crawford: Summit as Traveling Stage Show
Saul Landau / Puja
Patel The Price of
Privatized "Development"
Dave Foreman Nature's
Crisis
Fred Gardner Will San
Francisco Pander to the Prohibitionists?
Jennifer Matsui Terri Schiavo:
America's Most Desperate Housewife?
Dave Lindorff Provoking
Iran
Dharma Adhikari The Reversal
of Democracy in Nepal
Joshua Frank The Howard Dean
Doctrine
Patrick Barr Have Box Cutter,
Will Travel: a True Story
Christopher
Brauchli F-16s to
Pakistan
Ramzy Baroud Israel's Record
is "Not Reassuring"
Jackie Corr When the Gov. of
Montana Declared Martial Law in Butte
Ben Tripp Off with Your
Appurtenances!
Dr. Susan Block Break a Taboo
for Easter: Springtime for Sex and God
Mickey Z. How Three
Unrelated Books Relate
Justin Taylor Beware of
"Beware of God"
Richard Joseph Cochabamba!:
the Water War in Bolivia
Poets' Basement Martin, Smith,
Ford, Bortz and Albert
March 25, 2005
Scott Richard
Lyons Horror and Hope at
Red Lake Nation
Yoshie Furuhashi No Troops;
No Wars
Pat Williams How a Town
Got Poisoned: Libby, MT and the Labor Movement
Mark Engler Remembering
Archbishop Romero: 25 Years After His Assassination
Rahul Mahajan Culture of
Life or Culture of Living Death?
Lance Selfa Can the
Democrats be Moved to the Left?
Ralph Nader Corporate
Cyborg: Cal Nurses Take on Schwarzenegger
John R. Llewellyn Why Utah's
Prosecutors are Soft on Polygamy: a Former Sheriff Speaks
Out
Jo Guldi Beyond Belief: Holy
Week in France
March 24, 2005
Joshua Frank The Selling (Out) of
the Antiwar Movement
Talli Nauman Vicente and
George: Security by Any Other Name Would Smell Sweeter
Martin Espada Why I Refused
Coke's Money: a Poet Speaks Out About Colombia
Dave Lindorff Another
Social Security Snow Job
Elaine Cassel When Fools Rush In:
the Legal Implications of the Schiavo Case
Jack McCarthy Jeb Bush's
Mob: Snatch, Grab, Insert Tube
Jack Random Juxtaposition:
Terri Schiavo and the Red Lake Massacre
Barbara Ferguson Wolfowitz
Dating Muslim Woman and World Bank Employee
Suzan Mazur Peak Oil: Debate
or Vendetta?
Dorreen Yellow Bird Suffering Red
Lake Nation Endures the Worst of Days
Andrew Wimmer and Mark
Chmiel Torture: Old Hat or
Open Wound?
March 23, 2005
Patrick Bond A New War? On
Wolfowitz's World Bank
Mike Whitney Railroading
Moussaoui
Becky White Why I Hung from a
Bridge to Defend the Wild Forests of the Siskiyou Mountains
Michael Donnelly Dissecting
the Changeling: How the AuCoin Express Was Really Derailed
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan Remembering
Ram Manohar Lohia: the Che of Non-Violence
Ashley Smith Bush is What
Hypocrisy Looks Like
David Swanson The More Bush
Talks, the Less Popular Privatization Becomes
Derrick O'Keefe Enter Bono,
Stage Right
Paul A. Moore The Fire This
Time: the Bush Bros. Racist Crackdown in Florida
Dalton Walker My Reservation
Will Never Be the Same
Patrick
Cockburn The US Frees Iraqi
Kidnappers to Become Spies
March 22, 2005
William Blum Anti-Empire Report:
Democracy--or is it the US Military--on the March
Jim Vallette Cheney's Oil
Change at the World Bank
Greg Moses A Palm Sunday
Chat with Sis Levin
John Farley Bush's Culture of
Life: Let the Insurance Companies Pull the Plug When the Sick Cost Too
Much
Ron Jacobs Halt the
Anniversary Rallies and Stop the Damn War
M. Junaid Alam How the
Democratic Party Fosters Conservatism
Rep. Cynthia
McKinney An Immoral and
Illegal War: Destroying Iraq Isn't Enough for Them
Dave Lindorff "Saving"
Schiavo; Killing the News
James Petras Fateful Quadrangle:
Cuba and Venezuela Face Off Against the US and Colombia
March 21, 2005
John Walsh In the Bars on the
Road to Fayettevile: War Support Paper Thin
Werther The Legacy of
George Kennan, Chief Architect of the Cold War
Mike Stark Where is the
"Culture of Life" in Maryland? Time is Running Out for Vernon
Evans
David Swanson Feeding Tubes for
the Third World: Put the Hungry into Comas, Then Feed Them!
James T. Phillips Happy Meals:
Behind the Grill at a Baltimore Diner
Mike Ferner Serving, Refusing,
Impeaching
Robert Jensen The World Waits
for an Answer
Paul Craig
Roberts A Threat Greater
Than Terrorism
Stew Albert Vegetable
Nation
Website of the Day American Press
Blotter: Jacko, Terry and Steroids vs. the World
March 19, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn Three-Card Monte
and the One-Party State
Tom Reeves Exposing the
Coming Draft: a Draft by Any Other Name is Still Wrong
Saul Landau The
Grandchildren of Roy Cohn: the Politics of the Repressed
Alan Maass Making
Bankruptcy a Life Sentence
Ron Jacobs Submit or Else:
the Nuclear Demon that Won't Go Awayy
David Green The Holocaust
Industry Comes to the University of Illinois
John Blair Hey, Dick! I'm
Still Free: a Blow for Freedom of Speech in Indiana
Steve Greenfield The Decline
of the Green Party: the Numbers are In
Ben Tripp Nature isn't
Real
Mike Roselle A History of
White People in the Conservation Movement
Joshua Frank Hope in Red
State America: Lessons from the Big Sky Country
Mark Weisbrot The World
Bank: a Bigger Problem Than Wolfowitz
Dave Lindorff Congress on
Steroids
Sarah Schaffer Lula's Nukes:
Bush Bullies Iran, Ignores Brazil's Nuclear Ambitions
Warren Hastings Why the Queen
Should Chop Off Tony Blair's Head for Treason
Poets' Basement Lodge, Albert.
Landau, Engel, Davies, Capaccio
March 18, 2005
Dave Zirin The Congressional
Urine Testers: Baseball's Theater of the Absurd
Richard Thieme The Church
Committee Candidate: I was a Victim of the KGB
John Walsh Misdirecting the
Anti-War Movement
David Swanson Hunger Striking
for a Living Wage at Georgetown
Ben Terrall In the Spirit of
Rachel Corrie: Confronting Caterpillar in San Leandro
David Boyle Just Say "No" to
Harvard
Dorreen Yellow Bird Coping with Teen
Suicide on the Standing Rock Reservation
Mokhiber /
Weissman Global Bully
Goes to Guatemala
Greg Moses They Don't Shoot
Donkeys...Do They?
Website of the
Day 800 Protests: Find One Near
You
March 17, 2005
Christopher
Brauchli Rendered Unto
Caesar: the Etymology of Torture
Bill Quigley The St.
Patrick's Four and the Resistance to the War in Iraq
Brian
Cloughley Bush's Herds:
Willing to Kick Anyone in the Face
Gary Bass / Adam Hughes Inside the Bush
Budget: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Dave Lindorff The
Incredible Shrinking Coalition
Jude Wanniski Wolfowitz at
the World Bank: a Perfect Fit
Alexander Billet Irish
Republicanism at the Crossroads
John Ross Wal-Mart Invades
Mexico
Website of the Day Campus
Resistance
March 16, 2005
Ralph Nader Filling the
Congressional Cop-Out Gap: an Idea for Local Peace
Activists
William Cook Resurrecting the
Neo-Con Failures
Kevin Zeese Two Years of
Occupation: Both US and Iraq are Worse Off
Jackie Corr Why is Dick
Cheney Laughing? The New Tax Cut Patriotism
Alan Maass Bush's Class War
Budget
David R. Kolker Jailed Without
Charges in Haiti
Cindy Ellen Hill Speculative
Policing in Northern Ireland
Paul Craig
Roberts America's Has-Been
Economy
March 15, 2005
Gary Leupp The Plan is Still on
Track
Dave Lindorff Free John
Walker Lindh!
Greg Moses The Fix-It Guys
and Their Electoral Filters
Hadas Their / Katrina
Yeaw Military Recruiters
Target Campus Activists
Alison Weir Uprising on the
Anniversary of Rachel Corrie's Death
Matt Koehler A Line in the
Ancient Forest: 50 Arrested in Blockade to Save the
Siskiyous
Evelyn Pringle Labeling Kids
Mentally Ill for Profit
Harry Browne War and Peace in
Ireland
March 14, 2005
Ralph Nader Restarting the
Anti-War Movement
David Miller Ministry of Defence
in the Control Booth: Did the BBC Broadcast Fake News
Reports?
Stan Cox Look Deeper, Mr.
Moyers
Mike Roselle Why Women
Should Take Over the Environmental Movement
David Swanson Nursing
Against the Odds: the Workers' View
Simona Sharoni To End the
War, Listen to Soldiers
Dave Lindorff Corporate
Surveillance
Dorreen Yellow Bird Incidents at
Standing Rock: Suicide on the Reservation
Tom Barry John Bolton's
Baggage
Website of the Day Spinwatch
March 12 / 13, 2005
David H. Price The CIA's Campus
Spies
Noam Chomsky The Toothpaste
Election
Laura Carlsen Women's Rights
Eroding in Latin America
Stan Goff On Revolutionary
Optimism: the View from Cumberland Co, NC
Valentina Nicoli The Game of
Role-Playing and the Ambush of Giuliana Sgrena
Michael Leonardi Head Shot:
Lifting the Veil on the Sgrena / Calipari Incident
Saul Landau / Sarah
Anderson Blood Money and
the Riggs Bank: Pinochet's Bank Finally Pays Up
Joe Bageant It Ain't Easy
Being White
Manuel García, Jr. The Question of
American Guilt
Greg Moses Electoral
Lessons from Cuyahoga and Harris Counties
James J. Brittain Run, Fight or
Die in Colombia
Ben Tripp Communist
Watch
Joshua Frank A Red State
Paradox: Montana on the Cusp
Fred Gardner Pesticides
Made Her Sick; Pot Got Her Well
Walter Brasch Bush's Horse
Killers
Ramzy Baroud Reining in
Syria on Behalf of Israel
Christopher
Brauchli Going All the
Way for Usurers
Michael Donnelly The
Humiliation of Les "Timber Toad" AuCoin
Ron Jacobs ZAP Comics:
Still Kicking US Culture in the Ass
Richard Oxman The Eternal
Reciprocity of Tears
Poets' Basement Smith-Ferri,
Davies, Ford, Louise and Albert
March 11, 2005
Jerry Fresia Targeting
Giuliana
Ron Jacobs Making
Lebensraum in the Middle East for Tel Aviv's Fears & Washington's
Dollars
Dave Lindorff America's
Magical Kingdom
William James
Martin Ben Gurion and
the Origin of the "Pushing into the Sea" Myth
Muqtedar Khan Modi's Operandi:
American Business and Genocide Linked Again
Kathryn
Ledebur Bolivia on the
Brink
Mike Whitney Saddam's
Capture: Just Another Bush Lie?
Dave Zirin Neo-McCarthyism
Slugs Baseball
Website of the Day William Rivers
Pitt, Another Hack for the Occupation
March 10, 2005
Paul Craig
Roberts So Much for the
New Bush Economy
John Marc Leas, Colleen McLaughlin and
Ashley Smith Vermont Vs. the
War
Larry Birns The Pathological
John Bolton
Michael Donnelly The
Re-Reinvention of an Oregon Timber Beast
Luis Gomez In Bolivia,
Reality Changes Once Again
Jackie Corr Whatever Happened
to the Social Security Trust Fund?
Uri Avnery Bush's Guru:
Natan Sharansky
Website of the Day Red Alert in the
Siskiyous!
March 9, 2005
Jeffrey St.
Clair Dirty Harry's Fear
of Flying: Making Love, War and Profits at Boeing
Ward Churchill Who's the
Terrorist?
Robert Fisk Another Species
of Cedar: a Half Million Lebanese March for Syria
Bernice Powell Jackson No Justice for
America's Nuclear Guinea Pigs in the Marshall Islands
Mickey Z. The
Revolutionary of Potential Art
Dave Zirin NHL Says: "Bring
On the Scabs!"
Michael Donnelly Standing Up
to Ecocide in Oregon
James Reiss Stopping by
Words in Favor of Privatizing Social Security
Vijay Prashad Get Modi: a State
Terrorist Visits Florida
March 8, 2005
Paul Craig
Roberts Bush's Syrian
Delusion
Robert Fisk Lebanon's
Nightmare
Kurt Nimmo War is Peace:
John Bolton to the UN
Suzan Mazur Time for a Truth
and Reconciliation Commission on Polygamy?
Evelyn Pringle Neil Bush and
Crest: Another Profiteering Scheme
Giuliana
Sgrena My Truth: "The
Americans Don't Want You to Return"
Elaine Cassel The Appalling
Case of Abu Ali
March 7, 2005
Dave Zirin Bloodlust in
Annapolis: Gov. Ehrlich Wants to Kill Vernon Lee Evans
Brian Cloughley More War
Crimes
John Chuckman The Creature
Walks Among Us
Mike Whitney Jose Padilla
and the 10 Commandments
Mark Weisbrot Haiti's
Torment: Why Are US Human Rights Groups Silent?
Fred Gardner The
Cannabinoid Messenger
Richard Neville The Italian
Job
Uri Avnery The Next
Crusades
March 5 / 6, 2005
Alexander
Cockburn Arnold vs. the
Nurses
Gary Leupp What's Happening
in Lebanon: an Interview with Fadi Agha, Advisor to President
Lahoud
Ron Jacobs Lies Military
Recruiters Tell
Tom Reeves Haiti: One Year
After the Coup
Jenna Orkin Memories of
Kawaggi, Saudi Arabia
Tom Barry Negroponte:
Intel Czar or Policy Hack?
Joshua Frank The Trials of
Max Baucus
Moshe Adler When Pfizer Came
to New London: Corporate Giveways vs. Eminent Domain
Jane Stillwater My Jury
Questionnaire: "Do You Agree that a Corporation is a
Person?"
Omar Barghouti / Jacqueline Sfeir Double
Standards on S. Africa and Israel: an Open Letter to UNESCO
Christopher
Brauchli Target: Al
Jazeera
John Pilger The Fall of
Saigon: 30 Years Later
Raúl Zibechi Colombia:
Militarism and Social Movements
David Krieger Saving the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Agreement
Three Takes on
Nepal
Surendra R. Devkota Another Blow
to the King of Nepal
Bhishma Karki Nepal in
Twilight
Joseph Pietri Murder at the
Palace
Ben Tripp The Good Old
Days
Poets' Basement Hassen, Chief
Running Late, Wuest, Albert and Collins
Website of the
Weekend O'Shaughnessy's: All About
Medical Pot
March 4, 2005
Frederick
Hudson Caught in a
Cage
March 3, 2005
Pat Williams "Social
Security Protects the Young as Much as the Old"
Brian Cloughley Headlines,
Beliefs and Deceptions
Dave Lindorff Why Do the
Democrats Pamper Greenspan?
Amira Hass Oslo All Over
Again
Greg Moses In Oscar Texas:
One Down, One to Go?
Lynne Landes Exit Poll
Madness
Nelson P. Valdés Rapture Takes
Leftists
John Ross Mexico's Fox Schemes
to Jail Front-Running Leftist
March 2, 2005
Saul Landau / Farrah
Hassen The "Noble Liars"
Attack Syria
Mike Roselle The State of
Oregon vs. Mike Roselle: Criminalizing Environmental
Dissent
M. Junaid Alam Columbia
University and the New Anti-Semitism
Suzan Mazur Inside the
Polygamy Cults of Southern Utah
Jackson Thoreau Texas
Congressman Calls for "Nuking Syria"
Michael Donnelly No Love for
Teresa Heinz; John Edwards Gets a Pass
Jeffrey St.
Clair Uncle Bucky Makes
a Killing
Website of the Day The Ghosts of Karl
Marx & Ed Abbey
March 1, 2005
Scott Richard
Lyons Million Dollar
Bigotry
David Lindorff Stealing
Workers' Pensions
Patrick Cockburn / David
Enders Bloodbath in
Iraq
Ron Jacobs The Last Poets
Recalled
Tanya Garcia USA Next: the
Industry Front Group to Privatize Social Security
Joseph Pietri The Drug Trail
Ends in Kathmandu: Golden Tar Heroin and the Black Prince
Kona Lowell Woody: Broken
in Vietnam
Paul Craig
Roberts The Coming End of
the American Superpower
Website of the Day Petition:
No US Intervention in Iran
February 28, 2005
Gary Leupp Year 4 in the Five
Year Plan: a June Attack on Iran?
Bill Quigley Haitian Police
Open Fire on Nonviolent Marchers
Mickey Z. The Million Dollar
Interview: Mary Johnson on Clinton Eastwood, Hunter Thompson and the
"Right to Die"
Paul de Rooij Why Ted Honderich is
Wrong on All Counts About Israel
David Swanson Basic Income
Guarantee Versus the Corp Media
Mario Lamo
Jimenez Maria Full of
Cultural Contradictions at the Oscars
Emma Perez The Attacks on
Ward Churchill: a Test Case in the Neocons Purge of
Academia
Diana
Johnstone Censorship and
the Empire
Website of the Day Stop the War
Campaign!
February 26 / 27,
2005
Alexander
Cockburn An American Jew
Laments Decline in Jewish Influence
Noam Chomsky Nuclear Terror at
Home
Rev. William E. Alberts Rhetoric in
the Air; Reality on the Ground
Fred Gardner AARP Gets
Pot-Baited
Gary Leupp Bush and Camus
on Freedom
Saul Landau An Interview
with Cuban VP Ricardo Alarcon (Part 3): the Miami Mafia
Robin Philpot Second
Thoughts on the Hotel Rwanda
Yitkhak Laor In Praise of the
Facts
Ben Tripp Out of Sight;
Out of Mind
Justin Taylor Zizek Seen Over
the Handlebars
Jack Random The Wounds from
Wounded Knee
Rafael Renteria Ward
Churchill and White America
Jim B. Reflections on the
Eve of Fatherhood
Seth DeLong Land Reform in
Venezuela: More Like Lincoln Than Lenin
John Chuckman A Season of
Depressing Political Reruns
Alison Weir Relativity, LA
Times Style
Richard Oxman Political
Solitude: From Garcia Marquez to Maria Full of Grace
Dr. Susan Block It Always Rains
in California: All About Female Ejaculation
Poets' Basement Landau, Lowell,
Louise, Davies, Soderstrom, Norris & Albert
February 25, 2005
Roger Burbach Murder in the
Amazon
Behzad Yaghmaian Iranian
Distrust of America: 50 Years in the Making
Kurt Nimmo Conclave of the
Brats
Joshua Frank Diagnosing the
Green Party
John Farley How to Stop the
War in Iraq: Punish Pro-War Politicians
Lawrence Reichard The
D'Aubuisson Memorial: Flowers of Evil
Pratyush Chandra The Royal Coup
in Nepal and Global Imperialist Designs
David
Smith-Ferri When the Battlefield
has No Borders
Website of the Day The 2005
Election in 3-D
February 24, 2005
Omar Waraich The Galloway Saga:
Smearing an Anti-War Politician
Brian Cloughley Bribing and
Twisting Amerian Journalists: Valerie Plame & 30 Pieces of
Silver
Tom Wright Torture Nation:
Abu Ghraib, a Year Later
Sharon Smith The Anti-War
Movement After Kerry: Learning All the Wrong Lessons
Dave Lindorff Do These
Roosting Chickens Have Flu?
Fred Feldman Lynching Ward
Churchill
James Reiss On Hearing About
a Plot to Assassinate President Bush
Diane
Christian Bad Blood:
Ritual & Sexual Torture in Iraq
Website of the Day The Gray
Line
February 23, 2005
Werther The Poisoned Well:
What the CIA's Nazi Files Can Tell Us About Iraq
W. John Green A Salvador
Option for Iraq? How Negroponte Changes the Ground Rules
James Petras A New Face to
Bush Foreign Policy?
Conn Hallinan Cornering the
Dragon: the Return of the China Lobby
Joe Pietri Cannabis: the Goose that Lays Golden Eggs (For Consumers
and Cops)
Louis Proyect Hunter
Thompson and the "New" Journalism
Alexander
Cockburn Hunter S.
Thompson and Gonzo
Website of the Day Did You Make the Blacklist? Why
Not?
February 22, 2005
Naseer Aruri The Politics of the
Hariri Assassination: Remapping the Middle East
Richard
Manning The Economy of
Hunger: Starvation is Part of the Economic Plan
William A.
Cook Righteous Racism
Running Rampant
Paul Craig Roberts The Agents of
Instability
Ken Krayeske Dr. Thompson
is Out
Dave Zirin How the Owners
Destroyed the NHL
Kirkpatrick
Sale Imperial Entropy: the
Collapse of the American Empire
February 21, 2005
Hunter S.
Thompson "He Was A
Crook"
John Ross Mexico: the
Pentagon's Proxy Army in Iraq
Ward Churchill What Did I
Really Say? Why Did I Say It?
Dr. Teresa
Whitehurst Military
Recruiting on Channel One: Geometry 101, Brought to You by the US
Navy
David Swanson Fighting for a
Living Wage, State by State
Dave Lindorff All the News
That's Fit to Fake
Stew Albert Fear and
Loathing: HST
Michael
Neumann Strategies in
Palestine: a Shrinking Pie in the Sky
February 19 / 20,
2005
Alexander
Cockburn Back to Salem:
Paul Shanley and the Return of "Recovered Memory"
Kathleen
Christison Struggling for
Justice in Palestine
Ted Honderich On Being Persona Non Grata
Gary Leupp Self-Hating
Gays: Welcome to the White House & Welcome to Commit
Suicide
Don Santina Reparations
for the Blues
Jennifer Roesch John
Negroponte: Dirty Warrior
Scott Richard
Lyons Ward Churchill and
the Identity Police
Chris Clarke Ward Churchill
and Liberal Outrage
George Beres Censorship in
the Land of Wayne Morse: Gagging W. Churchill in Oregon
Harry Browne The Belfast
Heist: the Plot Unravels
Manuel Garc'a, Jr. Who Killed
Rafik Hariri?
Mark Scaramella Lessons
from the Hidden Afghan War
Michael Donnelly Whatever
Happened to John Edwards?
John Pilger First, They
Attack the Past
Norman Madarasz Death Wish
for Reform in Brazil?
Surendra Devkota The Monarchy
in Nepal
Deborah Rich How Anti-GMO
Ballot Measures May Miss the Mark
Fred Gardner When Dr. Tod
Met Merle Haggard
CounterPunch News
Service About King
Mswati: Political Developments in Swaziland
Richard Oxman CounterPunching
Arthur Miller
Poets' Basement Albert, Giebel,
Tripp, Engel and Orkin
February 18, 2005
Ben Moxham In East Timor, the
Nightmare Continues
Dave Lindorff The Scum Also
Rises: the Bloody Career of John Negroponte
Larry Birns Negroponte: a
Resume of Death Squads, Deceptions and Bribery
Gregory Elich N, Korea's
Phantom Nukes and the US's Subversion of Diplomacy
Samuel Logan / John Meyers The Future of
Colombia's Paramilitary Death Squads
Nicole Colson Shock and Awe
on Civil Liberties: From Lynne Stewart to Ward Churchill
Suzan Mazur Whose National
Security Are We Talking About?
Mickey Z. "One Man Has
Stopped Killing"
February 17, 2005
Joshua Frank Hogtying of the
Deaniacs
Paul Craig
Roberts Bush's Willing
Sychophants: the Conservative Media
Robert Fisk Under the Shadow of
Death in Lebanon
Christopher
Brauchli Where Time Stands
Still: Kinsey and Darwin in Cobb County, GA
Dr. Teresa
Whitehurst Military
Recruitment TV: Why Send Them to College, When Your Kid Can be Cannon
Fodder?
Alison Weir Russia, Israel
and Media Omissions
Ahrar Ahmad A Review of
Shahid Alam's "Is There an Islamic Problem?"
Saul Landau An Interview with
Cuban VP Ricardo Alarcon: "The US Tramples the Laws It
Wrote"
Website of the Day Petition to Support
Ward Churchill
February 16, 2005
Robert Fisk Lebanon: a
Battlefield for the Wars of Others
Kevin Zeese Creating a Real
Ownership Society: Share the Wealth; Protect Retirement
Gary Leupp Meanwhile, in
Nepal...
Ron Jacobs Why the Iranian
Opposition Should Not Trust the Bush Administration
Jessica Leight Oil-Flush
Chavez Begins to Strut His Stuff
Greg Moses Houston, You've
Got a Problem: Documenting Voting Irregularities in Texas
Mark Engler The Last Porto
Alegre
Jack McCarthy Where's the
Outrage About Pat? Buchanan Does a Churchill
Bill
Christison US Foreign
Policy Dangerously Slanted Toward Israel
Website of the Day The
World is Melting: a Photo Survey by Gary Braasch
February 15, 2005
CounterPunch News
Service Dean a "Safe" Moderate,
Says NYT Citing CounterPunch
Robert Fisk The Killing of Mr.
Lebanon
Uri Avnery "Sharm-al-Sheikh,
We Have Come Back Again"
Stan Cox Fighting Big
Pharma in Little Digwal
Mickey Z. Radio Active North
of the Border: an Interview with Chris Cook
Dave Zirin Bashing Bush:
Jose Canseco Comes Clean
Nadia Martinez Ending World
Poverty? Opening at the World Bank, Apply Now
Lila Rajiva "Little
Eichmanns" and the 'Harijan': the Danger of Magical Thinking in
Politics
Paul Craig
Roberts The American Job
Sell Out
February 14, 2005
Robert Jensen Ward Churchill:
Right to Speak Out; Right About 9/11
Brian Cloughley Kuwait's
Freedom, Bush-style
Patrick
Cockburn Outcome of the
Iraqi Elections: Shortages, Corruption, Guerrilla War
Gary Leupp Post-election
Iraq: What Next?
Michael Donnelly Sacred
Nature: Just Another Commodity?
Dave Lindorff When Bush
Came to My Neighborhood
Elaine Cassel The Lynne Stewart
Verdict
February 12 / 13,
2005
Alexander
Cockburn Ward Churchill's
Genes
Saul Landau Alarcon Speaks: an
Interview with the Vice President of Cuba
Paul Craig
Roberts Nothing to Fear
But Bush Himself
Patrick Cockburn Two Years
After the Fall of Saddam, the Resistance Controls All Major Roads into
Baghdad
John Feffer Bush v. N. Korea:
Round Two
Mickey Z. Right to Remain
Silent; Duty to Speak
Kurt Nimmo Viva la
Cucaracha!
Fred Gardner Waiting for
Raich
Dave Zirin Fighting the New
Republic(ans)
John Chuckman Hiroshima,
Mon Amour
Ben Tripp A Leftist on the
Bush Payroll
Carol Norris "Buddy, Can You
Spare a Dwarf?"
Robert Fisk No Middle East
Peace Without Justice
Frank / Chowkwanyun Muzzled Activist
in an Age of Terror: the Case of Sherman Austin
Mike Whitney Condi's Euro
Tour
Deborah Frisch A
Psychologist's Defense of Ward Churchill
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan Reading
Khomeini in Colorado
Christine TenBarge What's So
Special About Ward?
Ron Jacobs Curtis
Mayfield's Train to Jordan
Dr. Susan Block Chemistry of
Love: a Valentine's Greeting
Poets' Basement Louise,
Smith-Ferri, Ford and Albert
Website of the Weekend Free Sherman
February 11, 20055
Manuel Garcia,
Jr The Eight Percent
War
Kurt Nimmo Ann Coulter's Racism: Where's Geronimo When You Really Need
Him?
Dave Lindorff Guckert or
Gannon? The Perfect Plant; He Fit Right In
Larry Birns War is Peace;
Slavery is Freedom: Democracy According to Elliott Abrams
Bill Quigley Twenty
Questions: a Social Justice Quiz
Tom Barry Bush's State of
Delusion
Jennifer Van
Bergen Lynne Stewart's
Conviction Hurts Us All
February 10, 2005
Dave Lindorff What Academic
Freedom?
Christopher Brauchli The Love of
Slaughter: From Rwanda to Iraq
Patrick Cockburn In Baghdad,
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March 29,
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Anarchism Against the Laws of
Kings
The
Subversive Commandments
By CARL G.
ESTABROOK
Ignoring government assaults on the Bill of Rights (for which,
admittedly, the remedy under the present US Constitution is impeachment,
the responsibility of Congress) the US Supreme Court has instead fastened
its attention on a political fetish-object: the Ten Commandments. In the
midst of an illegal war, a torture scandal, and lawless administration
actions -- such as imprisoning an American citizen, Jose Padilla, for
almost three years now without trial or charge -- the court recently heard
arguments on the question (as the New York Times put it), "what does it
mean for the government to display a copy of the Ten Commandments? ... a
six-foot red granite monument that has sat since 1961 on the grounds of
the Texas Capitol, and framed copies of the Ten Commandments that were
hung five years ago on the walls of two Kentucky courthouses."
In an impressive confirmation of the
Postmodernist-cum-Humpty-Dumpty theory of the meaning of words ("The
question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all"),
both sides (as we say) tell us what the Ten Commandments mean.
Conservatives defend the postings in Kentucky and Texas on the grounds
that the Ten Commandments "formed the foundation of American legal
tradition." Liberals on the other hand insist that the posting is an
"establishment of religion," contrary to the first amendment to the
Constitution. In fact, both are wrong: the Ten Commandments in their
historical setting are a revolutionary manifesto, dedicated to the
overthrow of traditional authority and religion.
The Ten Commandments (unnumbered) were
written down perhaps as early as the fifth century BCE in two passages in
the Hebrew bible (Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21), but they
represent a view that goes back perhaps another eight centuries to the
beginnings of the people of Israel -- who were probably not originally
what we would call "an ethnic group." As described by Norman Gottwald in
his magisterial _The Tribes of Yahweh_, the Israelites as a people began
in a revolution of slaves against the Egyptian empire, a massive rejection
of the society of the time. That society was one of authority and
religion, presided over by a king whose position was guaranteed by the
gods. The Hebrews (the word seems originally to have meant "outlaws")
rejected both the kings and the gods.
The Exodus events of perhaps the thirteenth
century BCE were not so much a migration (as is pictured in the bible
story) but a "going out" (exodus) from a society and its assumptions. The
Ten Commandments are a proclamation of that revolution, a "Declaration of
Independence of Liberated Israel."
The text begins with the presentation of a
liberator, styled YHWH (a form of the Hebrew verb "to be"), "who brought
you out of the house of slavery." YHWH is not a god in the sense of the
surrounding society. Gods guarantee authority, and YHWH destroys it: "You
shall have no gods." Idolatry is the greatest sin in Judaism, Christianity
and Islam because it means bowing down before symbols of oppression. Even
an image of YHWH is forbidden -- the only image of YHWH is humanity
(Genesis 1:26). To "misuse" the name of YHWH is not a matter of saying
"goddamn": it is to use the name to wield numinous power, as was done with
the names of the gods -- that is to say, it is to practice religion. The
Ten Commandments forbid religion (Exodus 20: 1-7).
The commandment about the sabbath has
nothing to do with going to church. On that day, "You shall not do any
work": it is a commandment against the idolatry of work. The revolutionary
Israelites were slaves, valued only for their work. "We are people, but
you have forgotten it." The next commandment is similar. "Honor your
parents" has nothing to do with obedience: it means not to discard people
just because they are too old to work.
The rest of the Ten Commandments (Exodus
20:8-17) are a picture of the society that was being rejected, a society
that claimed the power of life and death ("You shall not kill"). The
commandment against adultery is not primarily about sex (the Hebrew bible
isn't very interested in sex) and the commandment against stealing is not
about property -- they're against stealing people. Biblical scholars have
recognized for many years that these commandments are condemnations of the
powerful who invaded households to steal concubines and slaves.
Such a society is based on greed ("You shall
not covet") and requires the protection of lies ("You shall not bear false
witness"). The Ten Commandments sketch the sort of society that the
Israelites thought themselves called upon by YHWH to construct. The
commandments are not primarily individual but communal, a demand for a
just community, without the domination and stratification of most previous
(and most subsequent) civilization.
Three-quarters of the history of
Christianity had gone by before the Ten Commandments became, on the eve of
the Reformation, the primary expression of morality in western Europe --
and then only after a revolutionary reinterpretation, as the modern
attempt to discover their original intent (as the lawyers would say)
shows. For over a thousand years, the tradition of the seven deadly sins,
from late antiquity, formed the basis of Christian moral exhortation --
not the Ten Commandments. The historian John Bossy writes, "For Chaucer,
and indeed for Dante, these had been a high doctrine, to be left to
divines; there were still in the sixteenth century quite well-informed
Catholics ... who had never heard of them ... [the] transition to the Ten
Commandments as the moral system of the West ... may fairly be described
as revolutionary."
What prompted the revolution in moral theory
was the rise of capitalism, as can be seen in the reinterpretation of the
crucial commandment in the early modern world, that about "honoring your
father" ("and your mother" -- set aside for obvious reasons). An entire
structure of obedience is spun out of it -- and the other commandments are
reinterpreted in its light -- now that the (quite different) notions of of
authority in the thousand-year reign of feudalism are coming to an end.
Protestants and Catholics alike rather suddenly turned to the
Commandments, wrenched from their historical context and twisted in an
authoritarian direction.
The Ten Commandments in their proper
historical context commend atheism in regard to the religion of the gods
and anarchism in respect to the laws of the kings. Arising from a
revolutionary people, they support the overthrow of authoritarian
structures in the name of human community. That sounds pretty good to
me.
C. G. Estabrook is a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois
and conducts two weekly programs (one on politics, the other on poetry) on
WEFT Champaign, 90.1 FM. He can be reached at: mailto:galliher@uiuc.edu
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