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Today's
Stories

September 27, 2005

Harry Browne
Live from
Hollywood: the IRA Disarms

September 26, 2005

Rafael Rodriguez Cruz
Assassination in
Puerto Rico: the FBI Murders a Legend

Joshua Frank
Democrats Flee Peace
Protests

Lamis Andoni
The Railroading of
Taysir Alony

Mike Marqusee
Those Pesky
"Urban Intellectuals": Blair, Spiro Agnew and the Antiwar
Movement

Rep. Cynthia McKinney
They Can't Fool
Us Anymore

Ron Jacobs
A Small March for
Me, a Giant March for the Antiwar Movement

Norman
Solomon
The
Media and the Antiwar Movement

John Chuckman
Bush in a
Bottle

Paul Craig Roberts
America is
Running Out of Time

September 24 / 25, 2005

Kathy and Bill Christison
Polluting
Palestine: Settlements & Sewage

Ralph
Nader
Stealing
the Moment: How Corporations Cashed in on Katrina

Saul Landau
The Terrorist
Resumé of Luis Posada

Greg Moses
A Movement
Gathers Power on the Sorrow Plateau

Roger Burbach
Hugo Chavez's
Mission

Vijay
Prashad
America's
Shame

Laura
Carlsen
After
NAFTA

Robert Fisk
When Man and
Nature Conspire to Expose the Lies of the Powerful

Dave
Lindorff
A
Gusher Called Katrina: They Fix Oil Prices, Don't They?

Kirkpatrick Sale / Thomas Naylor
Secession from
the Empire: the Middlebury Declaration

Maj. Anthony
Milavic
The
US Military and Torture: the View of a Former Interrogator

Brian Concannon, Jr.
Haiti: the
Time for Action is Now

September 23, 2005

CounterPunch News Service
In Which, Phil
Donahue Demolishes Bill O'Reilly

Diane Farsetta
Katrina and
Right-Wing Think Tanks

Robert
Sandels
Militarizing
the Market

Christopher Brauchli
Bush: the
Good Samaritan for Corporations

Alan
Farago
Bird
Flu Takes Flight

Dave Zirin
When Sports
& Politics Collided: Redeeming the Olympic Martyrs of
1968

Maxine
Conant
A
Simple Test for Bush

David Price
Workers Get Hit
Twice: Katrina and Davis-Bacon Profiteering

September 22, 2005

Smith, Wood, Leas, and Greenfield
Which Way Forward
for the Green Party? a Report from Tulsa

Patrick Cockburn
Iraqis: This
Government has No Authority

Manuel
Garcia, Jr.
Thinking is
Religious Freedom

Lucia Dailey
Trial of the
St. Patrick's Four: Day One

Mokhiber /
Weissman
Are You a
Speed Freak?

Russell D. Hoffman
The Nukes in
Rita's Path

Kona
Lowell
God's
Hurricane?

Jason Leopold
GOP Fiscal Policy
and Katrina

Website of
the Day
Robert
Pollin on the Global Economy

September 21, 2005

Jorge Mariscal
Military
Recruiters: Counselers or Salesmen?

Linda S.
Heard
Double
Standards in Iraq: Basra Brit Jailbreak

Joshua Frank
NYPD Unplugs Cindy
Sheehan

Eric Ruder
"The Problem in
Iraq is the US": an Interview with Camilo Mejia

Pierre Tristam
The Struts and
Bull Presidency

Dave
Lindorff
The Real
Story of the German Elections

Mike Ferner
Sit Down in
DC

Missy Comley
Beattie
Bush's Katrina
Bling Bling

Jeffrey St. Clair
W Marks the
Spot

Website of
the Day
New
Orleans: Survivor Stories

September 20, 2005

Steve Breyman
Toxic Gumbo:
Katrina and Environmental Justice

George Galloway
Et Tu, Greg
Palast?

Patrick
Cockburn
What Happened
to Iraq's Missing $1 Billion?

M. Shahid Alam
Gen. Musharraf
and Israel: Is Pakistan Selling Out?

Mike
Whitney
The
Gitmo Hunger Strikers

Winslow T. Wheeler
It's Not
Rocket Science

Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Back to
the Future: North Korea's Gambit

Paul Craig Roberts
Will Neocon
Fanaticism Destroy America?

September 19, 2005

Gary Leupp
Their Patience and
Ours: Khalilzad Threatens Syria

Rev. William
E. Alberts
Mainstream
Religious Leaders in Bushtime: Guardians of the Status Quo

Tom Gorman
Padilla and the
Death of the Republic: the Power to Hold Anyone

Leigh
Saavedra
The Anti-War
Movement Goes on Trial

Mike Whitney
Hurricane Hugo
at the UN

Ingmar Lee
Compromise with a
Chainsaw in the Rainforests of BC

Katrina Yeaw
Anti-War Mvt. in
Italy: Hunger Strike Against Censorship

Kathleen and Bill Christison
Travels in
Palestine: Horror Story

September 17 / 18, 2005

Alexander Cockburn
Levee
Town

Ralph
Nader
The
CEO's Chief Justice

Diane Christian
Abortion and
the Politics of Death

Ned Sublette
Mr. Bush's
Tuba

William
Cook
Katrina
and Poverty: the Poor Have No Lobbyists

Barbara Ehrenreich
Finding a
Coach in the Land of Oz

Nikolas
Kozloff
Demeaner of
the Faith: Pat Robertson and Gen. Rios Montt

Dave Lindorff
One Big Sham:
New Orleans as Potemkin Village

Heather
Gray
Wake Up
White America!

C.A.N.
"This
is Solidarity, Not Charity": a Student Report from
Louisiana

James
Petras
From
Victims to Vandals: Katrina and the Mass Media

Bill Pahneles
Born Again in
New Orleans?

Jeff Chapman
Katrina's
Victims and the Minimum Wage

Dave Zirin
Eton Thomas
Rises to the Challenge

Ron Jacobs
The Politics of
Withdrawal from Iraq

Fred Gardner
The
Millworker's Argument

Peter
Harley
The
Wall and the Holes in the Wall

Matthew Koehler
Battering the
Bitterroot National Forest

Ben Tripp
Some Optimistic
Thoughts

Poets' Basement
Nettnin, Albert,
Engel and Louise

Website of
the Weekend
How to Identify
Misinformation

September 16, 2005

Ishmael Reed
Race, Katrina and the
Media

J.L.
Chestnut, Jr.
Bush's Judges
and Black America

James Petras
The St. Patrick
Four: the Feds Confront the Anti-War Movement

Louis
Proyect
Brawl at
Baruch: Hitchens vs. Galloway

Christopher Brauchli
Baked
Brownie: Cooking a Resumé

Naomi
Archer
"It's
Not that the Government isn't Responding, They are Obstructing
Responses"

Edward Gibbon
The Patron Saint of
Defense Contractors

Francis
Boyle
Grounds
for Impeachment?

Paul Craig Roberts
America is in the
Clutches of Autocrats

September 15, 2005

Jeffrey St. Clair
Flirtations with
Disaster

Brian J. Foley
The Profit-Driven
War

Justin E.H.
Smith
Frances
Newton and the Prospects for a New Abolitionism

Dave Lindorff
Sacrificial
Murder by Texas: Frances Newton Died for Bush's Sins

Kevin
Zeese
Katrina
and Iraq: the War Comes Home to Roost

Jason Leopold
Funeral Gate in
New Orleans

Todd May
There are
Palestinians Here!: the Demographic Factor

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Brawl in
the Family

Pat
Williams
Lewis and
Clark in Montana

William S. Lind
Swept Away in
Iraq

Saul Landau
Bush, God and
Katrina

September 14, 2005

Gary Leupp
Managing Perceptions
of Presidential Ignorance

Evelyn
Pringle
Iraqis to
Bush: Where Did All Our Money Go?

Jordan Flaherty
Back Inside
New Orleans

Jeff
Chapman
The
WJS's Flawed War on the Minimum Wage

Ramzy
Baroud
The
Perils of Normalization with Israel

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
The Power of
Water

Mickey Z.
Eugene V. Debs
and the Legacy of Dissent

Sam Husseini
A Statement
from Mother Nature

Ralph
Nader
Questioning
Judge Roberts

September 13, 2005

Uri Avnery
Who Murdered
Arafat?

Werther
Jackals and
Jackasses

JG
Where's the Outrage
Over the Jailing of Kevin Pina?

Marlene Martin
The Texas Killing
Machine: Will Another Innocent Woman be Executed?

Joshua
Frank
Katrina's
Political Aftermath: Blame More Than Bush

Ron Jacobs
Saving
America's Serengetti

Dave
Lindorff
Compassion
for the Camera

Ben Tripp
It's
an Ill Wind

Dave Zirin
Galloway Goes to
Washington

Billy Sothern
How the Other Half
Lived in New Orleans

Website of
the Day
Save the Life of
Frances Newton

September 12, 2005

Bill Glahn
Tears of Rage in New
Orleans

Jason Leopold
How Michael Brown
Helped Bush Win Florida

Bill
Simpich
Confronting
Nancy Pelosi

Mike Whitney
Padilla and
the Death of Personal Liberty

Justin
Felux
Free
Kevin Pina!: US Journalists Arrested in Haiti

Rep. Cynthia McKinney
No One Came
to Get Them

Carol
Norris
Let
Them Eat Toxins

Robert Jensen
Our Grief is
Not Special

Gideon
Levy
The Mean
Streets of Tel Rumeida

Paul Craig Roberts
Power Grab in New
Orleans

Website of
the Day
New
Orleans Artists Relief Fund

September 9 / 11, 2005

William A. Cook
From New Orleans to
Palestine

Saul
Landau
How
the US Supplied Iran with Nuclear Know-How

Lance Selfa
Confederacy of
Dunces: Why FEMA Failed

Col. Dan Smith
Paying the
Piper

Elaine Cassel
Judge Roberts:
On the Far Right of a Far Right Party

Ron Jacobs
Food as Govt.
Weapon in New Orleans

Elisa Salasin
My September
11th

Christopher
Brauchli
When "Action"
is Delay: Bush's Picnic & Plan B

Evelyn Pringle
War Pays:
Douglas Feith's Platinum Parachute

Tom
Crumpacker
The Posada
Case: When Injustice is Justice

Dave Lindorff
The Big
Blowback

Robert
Jensen
Race
Stories: the Heart of Whiteness

Gary Bass
A
Civics Lesson from Katrina

Dr. Susan
Block
Katrina
Speaks!

Steven Sherman
The American
Left and the Battle of New Orleans

Col. Douglas
A. Macgregor
Escape from
Oz: the Pentagon's Light Show

Barghouti / Grima
Re-Thinking
the Mediterranean

Jeff Berg
Katrian and the
Baghdad Dead: Bush's Tipping Point?

Fred Gardner
Marijuana
Might Really Make You Cool

Charles
Sullivan
It's Not Easy
Being King

Dan Vojir
God's
Ambulance Chasers

Website of
the Weekend
On
the Road in Louisiana

September 8, 2005

John Chuckman
Lessons from
Hell

Dan La Botz
Rehnquist: the
Chief Injustice

Carol
Norris
The
Psychological Aftermath of Katrina

David Krieger
Cindy, Katrina
and Iraq

Irma
Thomas
An SOS
from the Soul Queen of New Orleans

Roger Morris
Legacy of
Neglect

September 7, 2005

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
John Wayne and the
New Orleans Indians

Werther
Victor Davis
Hanson: Bard of the Booboisie

Chris Floyd
No Direction
Home

Jason Leopold
The Rich and
the Dead

Michael
Donnelly
Cassandra,
Apollo and the Red Queen

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Clueless
in Crawford; Witless in Washington

Linda Milazzo / John Stern
Idiot Wind: Haley
Barbour, Katrina and Hiroshima

Gary Leupp
Nepal: the
Prachanda Path

Pierre
Tristam
Commander-in-Zilch
Fails New Orleans

Kevin Zeese
Kucinich Speaks:
Dem Leadership Needs to Get Out of the Way

Charmaine Neville
How We Survived
the Flood

September 6, 2005

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Our Birmingham: Did
Katrina Blow Off the White Sheets of American Racism?

Dan La
Botz
Katrina:
State Failure and Human Solidarity

Larry Bradshaw / Lorrie Beth Slonsky
Trapped in New
Orleans: First By Floods, Then By Martial Law

Chuck D.
Hell No We
Ain't Alright

Debbie Dupre / Bill Quigley
Thank God
There's No One to Bomb in Retaliation

Omar
Wariach
Edward Said
vs. Orwell and Hitchens: "It's Racism at the Bottom"

Mike Whitney
Why Rehnquist
Doesn't Deserve to be Buried on US Soil

Carol
Norris
In the
Wake of Katrina

Norman Solomon
Firing Mike
Brown is not Enough

Michael Neumann
But What About the
Snipers?

September 5, 2005

Paul Craig Roberts
Resurrecting Karl
Marx

David Vest
The Battle of New
Orleans:It's Looking a Lot Like Fallujah

John Blair
Don't Rebuild
New Orleans, At Least Where It Was

Fidel
Castro
What
Cuba Has Offered the People of the Gulf Coast

Mike Whitney
80,000 Rodney
Kings in New Orleans

Alan
Farago
Talking Points
for a City of Corpses

Doug Giebel
Bush's New
Orleans: "So This is Where He Used to Come to Get Drunk"

Mark
Chmiel
Beatitudes for
This New American Century

Carol Wolman, MD
God to Bush:
"You Blew It"

Norman
Solomon
Bush's Answer
to Cindy Sheehan: "It Was About Oil"

Eli Stephens
An
Administration Without Shame

Peter Linebaugh
Loo! Loo! Lulu!
Loot!

September 3 / 4, 2005

Alexander Cockburn
From Mitch to
Katrina

Paul Craig
Roberts
Failure on
Every Front

Gary Leupp
New Orleans and
the System that Destroyed It

Dave
Lindorff
Profiteering
from Disaster: the Real Looters Wear Pinstripes

Dan La Botz
Time for the
U.S. to Start Over

Jonathan M.
Feldman
From
Iraq to New Orleans: the U.S. as a "Failed State"

Landau / Hassen
The Cuban 5: In
Prison for Fighting Terrorism

Tim Wise
In the Name of
the Lord: "Those Looters Should be Shot"

Mitchel Cohen
People of the
Dome: "Let Them Eat Shit..."

Dave Zirin
The Superdome:
the Earth's Most Damnable Homeless Shelter

Mike Ferner
Waiting on the
Outside World: Who Will Rescue America?

Rep. Cynthia
McKinney
Shame on the
Bush Administration

Jason Leopold
Bush's
Demented Priorities: the State of Marriage Over the State of
Louisiana

Justin
Felux
Kayne
West is My Hero: "Bush Doesn't Care About Black People"

Monica
Benderman
Iraq War as
Thrill Ride: Getting Off the Rollercoaster

Ben Tripp
Grab
a Towel, You're Next

Jordan Flaherty
Notes from Inside
New Orleans

Bill Pahnelas
A Rising Tide
has Swamped All Boats

Seth
Sandronsky
Hurricane
Katrina Exposes the True Face of Capitalism

Mark Donham
Where's Karl
Rove?

Fred
Gardner
CHP
Agrees to Follow Law; Justice Stevens Apologizes

Joshua Frank
Winning the
West

Jackie
Corr
The
Privatization Mob

Poets' Basement
Albert, Engel,
Louise

September 2, 2005

Evan Jones
Katrina and the
Corps of Engineers: Manufacturing Disaster

David
Stocker
How
Good is Your Levee? Frankly, Scarlet I Don't Think He Gives a
Damn

Dave Lindorff
Baghdad on
the Big Muddy

Norman
Solomon
The
Smirk of a Killer: Ending the Impunity of the Bush White
House

Mike Whitney
How Bush Deals
with a Disaster He Helped Create: Blame the Looters

Eli
Stephens
What They
Should Have Learned from Hurrican Ivan

Ron Jacobs
Katrina, Iraq and
Blood Profits

Christopher
Brauchli
Onward
Christian Assassins

Harvey Wasserman
Bush to New
Orleans: Drop Dead

CounterPunch
Wire
Faith-Based FEMA?
Feds Directing Katrina Money to Pat Robertson

Glen Ford
Will
the "New" New Orleans be Black?

September 1, 2005

Dr. Greg Henderson, MD
Situation
Critical: a Doctor in the Flood

Paul Craig Roberts
How New Orleans
Was Lost

Mike
Whitney
Hurricane
Donald: How Rumsfeld Smashed the National Guard

Lee Sustar
Left Behind to
Drown: the Poor and Hurricane Katrina

Dave
Lindorff
The Real
Disaster: Bush and the Democrats

Lynn Gonzalez
The Cindy
Spark: Mainstream America Stirs

Chris
Floyd
The
Perfect Storm

August 31, 2005

Cockburn / St. Clair
New Orleans
After Katrina

John Walsh
Democrats and the
War

Bernstein /
Mishel
Bush Economy:
Incomes Down; Poverty Up!

Alan Farago
What are the
Hurricanes Trying to Tell Us?

Norman Solomon
The National Guard
Belongs in New Orleans, Not Baghdad

Bryan
Newbury
"Hey, Shoot
that Black Guy Running Off with the Bottled Water!"

Jason Leopold
What's Eating
Cindy Sheehan?

Website of the Day
The Swiftboating of
Cindy Sheehan

August 30, 2005

Gary Leupp
Venezuela: Launch
Pad for Muslim Extremism?

Joshua
Frank
Bunny
and the War Profireers

Evelyn Pringle
The Woman Who
Blew the Whistle on Halliburton Gets Canned

Urariano
Mota
To Die by
Mistake: the Killing of Jean Claude de Menezes

Ron Jacobs
High Water
Everywhere

CP News
Service
An
Open Letter to Alberto Gonzales: Free the Cuban 5

Roger Morris
The War for the
Future

August 29, 2005

Seth Sandronsky
Pat Robertson,
Big Oil's Televangelist

Norman Solomon
War Liberals and
Cindy Sheehan

Charles
Sullivan
Nation of
Fools

Paul Craig Roberts
Does Anyone
Know What We're Doing in Iraq?

Website of
the Day
Monsanto
Threatens "Bitter Greens"

August 27 / 28, 2005

Alexander Cockburn
Assassination: as
American as Apple Pie (and Torture)

Ricardo
Alarcon
The
Cuban 5 in Atlanta: a Long March Towards Justice

Diane Christian
The Politics of
Death: Assassination

M. Shahid
Alam
How to be a
Good Victim

Laith al-Saud
Baghdad Circus:
Iraq's Constitutional Process

Diane
Farsetta
School of the
Americas Fights Back: PR Plan for Pentagon's "Demonstration
Village"

Saul Landau
Reagan and
Bottled Water: the Privatization of Everything

Tom Barry
Hurricane Hugo:
Relating to Venezuela

Nicholas Rowe
Barenboim in
Ramallah: an Unfinished Symphony

George E.
Bisharat
Enforce the
Ban on Settlements

Dave Lindorff
Another
Mother for War: the Exploitation of Tammy Pruett

Fred
Gardner
Pot
Shots: Doing the Right Thing, Even If You Are Fearful

John Francis Lee
The Juggernaut of
Jingo

Evan Jones
I.F. Stone on
the Perils of Empire

Ali Khan
Defining
Aggression

Poets'
Basement
Albert, Nettnin,
Engel, Ford, Krieger, Louise

August 26, 2005

Lee Sustar
Showdown at
Northwest

Ramzy
Baroud
Cindy
Sheehan and the Power of the Ordinary

Christopher Brauchli
The Return of
Edwin Meese

Peter
Harley
The
Wall as a Good Thing?

John Snider
Not One of the
Gang

Kathleen Christison
Can Palestine
be Put Back in the Equation?

August 25, 2005

Paul Craig Roberts
Hegemony Lost: the
American Economy is Destroying Itself

Cockburn /
St. Clair
Loewenstein's
Big Mail Bag: Gaza and "the Shame of It All"

J.L. Chestnut, Jr.
Racial
Politics in California They May Vote for You, But They Won't Have Lunch
with You

Chhandasi
Pandya
Libeling
Venezuela

Richard Ward
Impressions from
Camp Casey

Norman
Solomon
Exploiting the
9/11 Anniversary: Will the Media Help Bush, Again?

Joshua Frank
Will the Real
Leaders Please Stand Up?

Seth
Sandronsky
GM, the UAW
and US Health Care

Lucinda Marshall
The
Democratic Unraveling: How Not to Mention the War

VIPS
Memo to Bush: Try
a Circle of Wise Women

Ralph Nader
It's Time to Make
the Iraq War Personal

August 24, 2005

Stan
Goff
Containing
the Anti-War Movement: the Hayden Plan

Rachard
Itani
Papal
Double Standards

Elisa Salasin
The
Militarization of Our Children

Ron Jacobs
Who Would Jesus
Assassinate?

John Chuckman
Robertson and
Posada: Bush's Kind of Terrorists

Leibowitz / Heller
Gaza:
Disengagement or Military Redeployment?

Douglas Valentine
Suicide as
Sacrament

Thomas
Nagy
Congress
Should Go to Crawford: an Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan

Alexander Cockburn
Hitchens
Backs Down, Says Sheehan "Not a La Rouchie"

Website of
the Day
Stations
of the Cross

August 23, 2005

Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler
Pat Robertson is
Not a Christian

Karen Kilroy
Pittsburgh and Salt
Lake City Protests: Violent Echoes of Kent State

Stew
Albert
Fascism in
America: Are We There Yet?

Joshua Frank
The Democrats and
Cindy Sheehan

Dave Zirin
Pedaling Away
from Principle: Lance Armstrong Cozies Up to Bush

Julia Olmstead
Our Reckless
Chemical Dependence: A Little Round-Up With Your Precautionary
Principle?

CounterPunch
Wire
Prosecuting
Bush in Canada for Torture: a Legal Update

Jason Leopold
Bush's Lips
Move, But He Says Nothing

Diane Christian
The Politics of
Death

August 22, 2005

Sonia Nettnin
Gaza Stripped, the
Occupation Remains

Mike
Whitney
"Shoot to
Kill": Tony Blair's First Trophy

Kevin Zeese
The Latest
Falsehood: the US is in Iraq to "Stablize It"

Norman
Solomon
Bush's Bloody
Option: Escalate the War in Iraq

Christopher Brauchli
Secret
Talkers

Jeff Bale
The Left's
Challenge in Germany

Greg Moses
Raw Talk Revival at
Camp Casey Two

August 20 / 21, 2005

Alexander Cockburn
Can Cindy Sheehan
End the War?

Saul Landau
Terrorism Then and
Now: Townley Talks

Kevin
Zeese
an
Interview with Tom Hayden

Greg Moses
A Daytrip without
Cindy

Ray
McGovern
Cindy Sheehan
and Creative Protest

Fred Gardner
Merck Gets
Whacked

Martin
Smith
Rebellion in the
Ranks: the Soldiers' Revolt in Vietnam

Benjamin Granby
Gaza's Economy:
the Key to Sharon's Strategy?

Frankie
Lake
Dirty
Tricksters: How the Federalist Society Operates

Joshua Frank
Failing Nature:
the Democrats and the Environment

Ron Jacobs
When Sympathy
is Not Enough

Tom Crumpacker
Moral
Values and the CIA

Mike
Ferner
"All
of Our Stories are Sad"

James Petras
Suicide
Bombers: the Sacred and the Profane

Col. Dan
Smith
The
President's Dilemma

Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
What de
Menezes Didn't Know

Ben Tripp
Moses on Top of
Old Smokey

Poets' Basement
Landau, Albert,
Engel and Louise

August 19, 2005

Alexander Cockburn
A Short History
of Meat, Part 4: Cutting Up Mochie

Neve Gordon
After the
Withdrawal

Gary Leupp
The Pandora's Box of
Iraq's Constitution

William S.
Lind
Getting
Swept

Vijay Prashad
The Rosa Parks
of the Anti-War Movement

Dave
Lindorff
Something Has
Happened

Pat Williams
Social
Security and the American West

John
Pilger
Free
Speech and the War on Terror

Elaine Cassel
Judge Roberts
and the Death Penalty

August 18, 2005

Alexander Cockburn
A Short History
of Meat, Part 3: Vegetarians, Nazis for Animal Rights, Blitzkrieg of the
Ungulates

Greg Moses
Cindy, the Peace
Train and the Little Ditch that Could

Ramzy Baroud
Theatrics in
Gaza: the Disengagement That Isn't

Joshua
Frank
Bush's
Emotional Incapacities

Monica
Benderman
For Cindy:
There's No Glory in Dying

Paul Craig Roberts
Courthouse
Jackboots: Corrupted Justice

August 17, 2005

Alexander Cockburn
A Short History
of Meat: Part Two, the March to Porkopolis

Robert
Jensen
America's Good
Germans?

Carl G. Estabrook
News Notes
from the Global War on Terrorism

Mike
Whitney
Greenspan and
the Housing Bubble

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Shaming
the Shameless

Norman
Solomon
Slurs, Lies
and Innuendos: Blaming the Antiwar Messengers

Dave Zirin
In Defense of
Felipe Alou

Jennifer
Loewenstein
The Shame
of It All: Watching the Gazan Fiasco

CounterPunch
Clarification

August 16, 2005

Greg Moses
Mona in a Field of
Crosses at Camp Casey, Texas

Thomas
Larson
The
Unmitigated Gall of Dinesh D'Souza

Diana Barahona
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What You Can't
Say About Israel in Australia

When the Truth Comes to
Town

By ANTONY
LOEWENSTEIN

"Melbourne University Publishing should
drop this whole disgusting project. If they proceed, I urge the
Australian Jewish community, and particularly The Australian Jewish
News, to treat it with dignified silence. That is our best response.
If, God forbid, it is published, don't give them a dollar. Don't buy the
book."

Federal Labor MP Michael Danby, Australian
Jewish News, August 25 2005

I'm currently writing a book on the Israel/Palestine conflict with
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) and it's due to be released in May
2006. After sending my articles on the subject to various publications
around the world, I was already used to Jews and non-Jews writing and
calling with abuse and outright hatred. After my recent column on the Gaza
withdrawal, a Sydney doctor emailed me and asked: "How well do you think
you would be doing with a name like yours if Adolf would have won?" and
"As far as your book goes, I might just take a page out of Hitler's book
on that one."

"The degree of abuse and outright threats
now being directed at anyone - academic, analyst, reporter - who dares to
criticise Israel (or dares to tell the truth about the Palestinian
uprising) is fast reaching McCarthyite proportions", wrote Robert Fisk in
December 2000. "The attempt to force the media to obey Israel's rules is
now international". The situation has only worsened since 9/11.

In late August, Jewish Federal Labor MP
Michael Danby wrote a letter to the Australian Jewish News (AJN)
and demanded MUP "should drop this whole disgusting project." He claimed
that MUP head, Louise Adler, had made comments about Israel and himself
that were plainly false. He wanted to "absolutely disassociate himself"
from the book because it would be little more than a "propaganda tract"
and "an attack on the mainstream Australian Jewish community."

The exact reason and timing behind his
attack remains unclear though after Danby's refusal to answer some
innocuous questions of mine in late 2004 his right, to be sure
he seemed to be flagging his disapproval of even debating issues related
to the Middle East question. This was true to form. He had slammed me in
the past and has a long history of attempting to stop open debate on
Israel-related matters.

Leaving aside the irony of a Jewish
parliamentarian calling for the censorship of a book that didn't yet
exist, it's worth remembering Danby is the member for Melbourne Ports, the
electorate with the greatest numbers of Jews in Australia [Malcolm
Turnbull's Wentworth is not far behind.] He sees his role as defender of
the Israeli cause and he articulates what he believes his constituents
want to hear.

Online magazine Crikey picked up the story
and asked whether it was appropriate for an MP to call for a boycott of an
unpublished book. A few days later, Danby responded to Crikey, denied he
had called for censorship and labeled my views on Israel "disgusting." He
cautioned MUP - at a time when Israel was "making a painful withdrawal
from Gazaand when the prospects for peace are improving" against
publishing books that he thought inappropriate for the times. It begged
the question: did Danby truly believe that publishing companies should
only produce work that accepted the status quo on issues, rather than
challenging or maybe demolishing them?

The intentions of my book are ambitious. I
believe that the Israel/Palestine conflict is the defining foreign affairs
issue of our time and yet remains woefully misunderstood. Danby and
numerous pro-Israel supporters are clearly confronted by me posing
questions about Australia's pro-Israel media, the Howard government's
relationship with Israel and America, the role of the pro-Israel lobby,
America's relationship with the Jewish state, my experiences in the Middle
East, including through the Palestinian occupied territories and Jewish
and Arab voices of dissent. I am a Jew who doesn't believe in the concept
of a Jewish state, but then, I also don't believe in the idea of an
Islamic or Christian entity either. There is surely room for a non-Zionist
Jew to write about the true cost of Zionism both on Israel and the
Diaspora.

A week after Danby's boycott call, the AJN
was filled with letters, including one from Louise Adler. "I am dismayed
that a fellow publisher such as the AJN gives space for proposals to
boycott ideas", she wrote. "Danby's proposal is inimical to the central
Jewish values of tolerance and open debate." Larry Stillman wrote that he
fully understood the Danby agenda: "I suspect the book will be central of
the predominance of conservative views in the Jewish community about the
current state of Israel, Danby included."

The Melbourne Age entered the debate
soon after, chastised Danby for denying he had called for my book to be
banned and discovered yet more evidence of the MP's history of "venting
sight unseen." "In the Jewish publication, The Review, he says of David
Hare's Stuff Happens, 'I havn't seen the play, nor will I', then cans it
based on a review he read." The leading broadsheet also compared the
controversy to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's failed attempt to
ban Norman Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah.

By the following week, the AJN was filled
with coverage. A large news story featured another Danby justification for
his attack. "If I didn't tell people about it [Loewenstein's book]
beforehand, knowing what his views are, would I be representing the people
I represent?" he said. The paper's editorial entered the fray. Although
critical of Danby's censorship call, the AJN "unequivocally rejects
Loewenstein's view of a Jewish state as 'fundamentally undemocratic and
colonialist idea from a bygone era'", the public should wait for the
book's release "before we decide to consign it to the garbage heap of
literature." The letters pages were filled with both supportive and
critical contributions, including from Danby himself. My ideas "stink" and
he was simply "doing what I was elected to do: speak up for the people I
represent." He again disingenuously denied having called for censorship.

A few days later, I received an unexpected
call from well-known Jewish comedian Austen Tayshus. He demanded to know
why I was writing my book, suggested Israel was a poor, defenceless Middle
Eastern state threatened with annihilation, compared me to a German Jew
who collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War and asked why
I had the right to air the community's "dirty laundry." I explained that
he was clearly so insecure in his position that he felt the need to call
and abuse me. I soon ended the call.

A few minutes after posting an entry on my
blog about the initial call, I received another one from him. He said he
would keep on calling me because I was an "ignoramus" and an "asshole." He
suggested we have a public debate, which I declined. He suggested
Palestinian Hanan Ashrawi as a moderator (after telling me earlier that
she was a "terrorist.") The point of debating a man like this was
negligible, for the simple fact that he didn't want to debate me - "a sad
and lonely man", in his words - nor actually discuss the issues. He wanted
to shout and rant. It may have made him feel good about himself. He
clearly needed it.

I told the Green Left Weekly the real fear
behind Danby's attack:

"These sort of people don't want
discussion, because discussion is threatening. Discussion means that
more people are aware, or might become aware, of what actually does go
on over there: What does occupation mean, what does it mean that
Palestinians often have to wait hours at checkpoints in searing sun,
what does it mean that women often have to give birth at checkpoints and
often die? They don't want people to know that, for obvious reasons,
because it's shameful. And they know if more people find out that kind
of stuff, their view about Israel and the relationship between Australia
and Israel could change."

During this controversy, I received many
supportive emails and even financial donations to my website. Mannie De
Saxe challenged Danby to put his words into action:

"If Danby feels so passionate about
Israel, and it is obvious that he does, why doesn't he take his
supporters, all those vocal Zionists who, together with that publication
which should be called the Israeli Zionist Times but is otherwise known
as the Australian Jewish News, and move to Israel where Ariel Sharon has
said that he needs all the Jews in the Diaspora to come and live to
reduce anti-Semitism around the world."

I was extremely lucky that my publisher
backed me 100% during this period. Many a publisher, I suspect, would have
been scared to receive such vitriol months before the book's release. I
received some ugly comments on my blog "you're the nazi Anthony you
fucking mental midget. Whose side are you on anyway? THINK about it
toolhead" but I remember what John Pilger told me recently; the more
they attack you, the more you're having an effect and doing something
right.

The difficulty in even raising questions
related to Israel proves that serious debate is ever-more essential. The
world is slowing waking up to the true reality in Israel and Palestine and
Australians are joining the chorus of disapproval.

Antony Loewenstein is a Sydney-based freelance journalist and author.
He can be reached at [email-masked].

He blogs at http://antonyloewenstein.blogspot.com/

CLARIFICATION

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GRANT AND THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JOURNALISTIC CLARITY,
COUNTERPUNCH

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is in some way associated with, the terrorist activities of Osama bin
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