Counterpunch

There is not a single, solid anti-war voice in the upper echelons of the Obama foreign policy apparatus. And this is the point: Obama is not going to fundamentally change US foreign policy.

Two Body Blows to the Political Establishment. By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

The Birth of the Military-Industrial Complex

Castro, Machiavelli, Posada and Bush. By Saul Landau

Escalation Against Iran. By Col. Sam Gardiner

The Massacre at Beit Hanoun. By Katleen Christison

Factors in Our Colossal Mess. By Gabriel Kolko

How Israel is Engineering the "Clash of Civilizations". By Jonathan Cook

The Coming Collapse of Zionism. By Kathleen Christison

Another Escalation from the Palestinians. By Jonathan Cook

The Israel Lobby. By Norman G. Finkelstein

Blaming the Israel Lobby. By Joseph Massad

For Them Indian Mangoes. By Vijay Prashad

Paranoid America – by which I mean its governors – has long dreamed of foolproof technology to guard the Homeland from subversion, or penetration by alien hostiles. By Alexander Cockburn

A tutorial on how to find the real numbers. By Winslow T. Wheeler

On Tuesday, Britain's Daily Mirror published an explosive story riddled with implications concerning the character and intent of the US president when pursuing his so-called 'war on terror', and perhaps, shedding light on the bombing of Al Jazeera's offices in both Kabul and Baghdad. By Linda S.

Total Retraction of Emma Brockes's "No Massacre at Srebrenica" Slurs

On Monday of this week Woodward quietly made his way to the law office of Howard Shapiro, of the firm of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Doar, and gave a two-hour deposition to Plamegate prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, a man he had denounced on tv the night before Scooter Libby's indictment as "a

Re-Thinking the Mediterranean. By Omar Barghouti and Adrian Grima

There's no more pungent symbol of the corrupt nature of the Bush administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq than Halliburton, the Houston, Texas-based oil services conglomerate, which has made billions from the war even in the face of charges of massive overbilling, shoddy work, official bribe

"We are No Longer Able to See the Sun Set" By Andrew N. Rubin

An Opportunity or Just More Handwringing from the Peace Movement? By Bill Christison

Young Turkish students who ask about my military service are usually gobsmacked when I reply that I have never been in the army, and that conscription in England was abolished in the early 1960's. By Michael Dickinson

Given the Chance, the People Reject "Globalization" By Diana Johnstone

This is a strange time in Fallujah. They say the war is over, but there is no peace. Every day there is shooting, and there are still killings going on. There is very little left of the town now, everywhere there are buildings which have been destroyed

Like the Nazi media, the major US radio and TV networks only report what they call "military casualties"--failing to report the civilians killed since the war started and the thousands of women and children killed and wounded since the assault of Fallujah began.

"It seemed a small miracle that no one was killed or even wounded here," wrote reporter Ian Fisher in a Monday report in the New York Times on Sunday's stunning attack by Iraqi guerrillas on a U.S.

Edward, dear friend, I wave adieu to you across the abyss. I don't even have to close my eyes to savor your presence, your caustic or merry laughter, your elegance, your spirit as vivid as that of d'Artagnan, the fiery Gascon. by Alexander Cockburn

Whichever group sent that truck bomb on its way decided that Vieira and his boss were so brazen in moving the UN to play a fig-leaf role in the US occupation of Iraq that spectacular action was necessary to draw attention to the process the process.

Deregulation in finance and the privatization of public services lead to market manipulation, and record consumer debt. Legal protection of intellectual property rights also allowed corporations to keep prices higher than consumers had been lead to expect.