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Paul Craig Roberts The New Face of As Jobs Leave America's Shores... Class War The New Face of Class War September 29, 2006
Bruce Jackson By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Chavez's Reading, Bush's Reading Te attacks on middle-class jobs are lending new meaning Michael J. Smith to the phrase "class war". The ladders of upward mobility The Lobby Debate are being dismantled. America, the land of opportunity, is Does Manhattan giving way to ever deepening polarization between rich and poor. Emira Woods
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Oil Trip: Record The assault on jobs predates the Bush regime. However, Click Here to Order Michael Profits for Exxon, the loss of middle-class jobs has become particularly Neumann's Devastating Deprivation for Africa intense in the 21st century, and, like other pressing Rebuttal of Alan Dershowitz problems, has been ignored by President Bush, who is William S. Lind focused on waging war in the Middle East and building a WHAT'S INSIDE The Sanctuary police state at home. The lives and careers that are being Grand Theft Pentagon: Illusion: Pakistan, lost to the carnage of a gratuitous war in Iraq are Tales of Greed and Afghanistan and Iraq paralleled by the economic destruction of careers, families, Profiteering in the War on as Theme Parks for and communities in the U.S.A. Since the days of President 4GW Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s, the U.S. government by Jeffrey St. Clair has sought to protect employment of its citizens. Bush has David Swanson turned his back on this responsibility. He has given his Mommy, What's support to the offshoring of American jobs that is eroding Waterboarding? the living standards of Americans. It is another example of his betrayal of the public trust. Jonathan Cook Bad Faith and the "Free trade" and "globalization" are the guises behind Destruction of which class war is being conducted against the middle Palestine class by both political parties. Patrick J. Buchanan, a three- time contender for the presidential nomination, put it well when he wrote1 that NAFTA and the various so-called Website of the Day trade agreements were never trade deals. The agreements Jesus: the were enabling acts that enabled U.S. corporations to dump Recruitment Tapes their American workers, avoid Social Security taxes, health care and pensions, and move their factories offshore to locations where labor is cheap. September 28, 2006 The offshore outsourcing of American jobs has nothing to Sen. Russ Feingold do with free trade based on comparative advantage. The Flaws in the Offshoring is labor arbitrage. First world capital and Military Commissions technology are not seeking comparative advantage at Act home in order to compete abroad. They are seeking absolute advantage abroad in cheap labor. Ron Jacobs The Generals, the Two recent developments made possible the supremacy of Democrats and Iraq: absolute over comparative advantage: the high speed One Policy, Two Internet and the collapse of world socialism, which opened Parties China's and India's vast under-utilized labor resources to first world capital. Mokhiber / Weissman Scenes from Laura's In times past, first world workers had nothing to fear from Book Festival: Elmo cheap labor abroad. Americans worked with superior Will Not Save You capital, technology and business organization. This made Americans far more productive than Indians and Chinese, Lee Sustar and, as it was not possible for U.S. firms to substitute A Left Challenge to cheaper foreign labor for U.S. labor, American jobs and Lula living standards were not threatened by low wages abroad or by the products that these low wages produced. Robert Jensen Finding My Way Back The advent of offshoring has made it possible for U.S. to Church -- and firms using first world capital and technology to produce Getting Kicked Out goods and services for the U.S. market with foreign labor. The result is to separate Americans' incomes from the John Chuckman production of the goods and services that they consume.
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America Has Just Lost This new development, often called "globalization," allows Two More Wars cheap foreign labor to work with the same capital, technology and business know-how as U.S. workers. The Evelyn Pringle foreign workers are now as productive as Americans, with Inside America's the difference being that the large excess supply of labor Nursing Homes: a that overhangs labor markets in China and India keeps Hidden Tragedy of wages in these countries low. Labor that is equally Neglect and Abuse productive but paid a fraction of the wage is a magnet for Western capital and technology. Nicola Nasser Bush and Islam: Although a new development, offshoring is destroying Words vs. Deeds entire industries, occupations and communities in the United States. The devastation of U.S. manufacturing Uri Avnery employment was waved away with promises that a "new Political Corruption in economy" based on high-tech knowledge jobs would take Israel its place. Education and retraining were touted as the answer. Website of the Day Art Against the In testimony before the U.S.-China Commission,2 I Empire explained that offshoring is the replacement of U.S. labor with foreign labor in U.S. production functions over a wide range of tradable goods and services. (Tradable goods and
services are those that can be exported or that are September 27, 2006 competitive with imports. Nontradable goods and services are those that only have domestic markets and no import Patrick Cockburn competition. For example, barbers and dentists offer A Final Explosion nontradable services. Examples of nontradable goods are Looms in Mosul perishable, locally produced fruits and vegetables and specially fabricated parts of local machine shops.) As the Camilo Mejia production of most tradable goods and services can be Blowback From Iraq: moved offshore, there are no replacement occupations for Giving Terrorism a which to train except in domestic "hands on" services such Reason to Exist as barbers, manicurists, and hospital orderlies. No country benefits from trading its professional jobs, such as Pat Williams engineering, for domestic service jobs. Tax Burdens and Cheaters in the At a Brookings Institution conference in Washington, D.C., Rockies: Send Those in January 2004, I predicted that if the pace of jobs IRS Mercenaries in outsourcing and occupational destruction continued, the Search of Montana's U.S. would be a third world country in 20 years. Despite Land Barons and Oil my regular updates on the poor performance of U.S. job Drillers growth in the 21st century, economists have insisted that offshoring is a manifestation of free trade and can only Ben Terrall have positive benefits overall for Americans. Failing Haiti: Another Bungled UN Mission Reality has contradicted the glib economists. The new high-tech knowledge jobs are being outsourced abroad Ridgeway / Ng even faster than the old manufacturing jobs. Establishment Paul Weyrich economists are beginning to see the light. Writing in Explaines His Foreign Affairs (March/April 2006), Princeton economist Opposition to the and former Federal Reserve vice chairman Alan Blinder Patriot Act: a Short concludes that economists who insist that offshore Film outsourcing is merely a routine extension of international trade are overlooking a major transformation with
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Joe Allen significant consequences. Blinder estimates that 42-56 Where are the Mass million American service sector jobs are susceptible to Protests? offshore outsourcing.3 Whether all these jobs leave, U.S. salaries will be forced down by the willingness of foreigners Andrew Wimmer to do the work for less. Don't Disappear Into a Black Hole Software engineers and information technology workers have been especially hard hit. Jobs offshoring, which began Franklin C. Spinney with call centers and back-office operations, is rapidly Rumsfeld's moving up the value chain. Business Week 's Michael AutoCarterization: Mandel4 compared starting salaries in 2005 with those in Skullduggery in the 2001. He found a 12.7 per cent decline in computer Pentagon's Budget science pay, a 12 per cent decline in computer engineering pay, and a 10.2 per cent decline in electrical engineering Website of the Day pay. Marketing salaries experienced a 6.5 per cent decline, Model Nukes: the and business administration salaries fell 5.7 per cent. Photo Contest Despite a make-work law for accountants known by the names of its congressional sponsors, Sarbanes-Oxley, even accounting majors, were offered 2.3 per cent less.
Using the same sources as the Business Week article (salary data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers and Bureau of Labor Statistics data for inflation adjustment), professor Norm Matloff at the University of California, Davis, made the same comparison for master's degree graduates. He found that between 2001 and 2005 starting pay for master's degrees in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering fell 6.6
per cent, 13.7 per cent, and 9.4 per cent respectively. September 26, 2006 On February 22, 2006, CNNMoney.com staff writer Hani Shukrallah Shaheen Pasha5 reported that America's large financial The American Mind: institutions are moving "large portions of their investment When Historical banking operations abroad." Offshoring is now killing Analysis is Reduced to American jobs in research and analytic operations, foreign Whim exchange trades, and highly complicated credit derivatives contracts. Deal-making responsibility itself may eventually William Blum move abroad. Deloitte Touche says that the financial If It's Election services industry will move 20 per cent of its total costs Season, It Must Be base offshore by the end of 2010. As the costs are lower in Time for a Terror India, the move will represent more than 20 per cent of Alert the business. A job on Wall Street is a declining option for bright young persons with high stress tolerance as Niranjan America's last remaining advantage is outsourced. Ramakrishnan Torturing the Obvious According to Norm Augustine, former CEO of Lockheed Martin, even McDonald jobs are on the way offshore. Barbara Becnel Augustine reports that McDonald is experimenting with Witness to an replacing error-prone order takers with a system that Execution: a Slow and transmits orders via satellite to a central location and from Very Painful Death there to the person preparing the order. The technology lets the orders be taken in India or China at costs below Paul Rockwell the U.S. minimum wage and without the liabilities of U.S. Judicial Complicity in employees.
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US War Crimes: the American economists, some from incompetence and some Watada Case from being bought and paid for, described globalization as a "win-win" development. It was supposed to work like Dave Lindorff this: The U.S. would lose market share in tradable Bush and Iran: Going manufactured goods and make up the job and economic to War to Save His loss with highly educated knowledge workers. The win for Own Ass? America would be lower-priced manufactured goods and a white-collar work force. The win for China would be Rich Gibson manufacturing jobs that would bring economic Lessons from the development to that country. Detroit Teachers' Strike It did not work out this way, as Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach, formerly a cheerleader for globalization, recently Anthony Papa admitted. It has become apparent that job creation and The Danger of Meth real wages in the developed economies are seriously Registries: "Have a lagging behind their historical norms as offshore Cold? Prove It, Then outsourcing displaces the "new economy" jobs in "software Sign Here" programming, engineering, design, and the medical profession, as well as a broad array of professionals in the legal, accounting, actuarial, consulting, and financial Nate Mezmer services industries".6 The real state of the U.S. job market New Orleans is is revealed by a Chicago Sun-Times report on January 26, Back ... Without 2006, that 25,000 people applied for 325 jobs at a new Blacks: Monday Night Chicago Wal-Mart. Football at the Superdome According to the BLS payroll jobs data,7 over the past half- decade (January 2001 - January 2006, the data series Uri Avnery available at time of writing) the U.S. economy created Mohammed's Sword 1,050,000 net new private sector jobs and 1,009,000 net new government jobs for a total five-year figure of Website of the Day 2,059,000. That is seven million jobs short of keeping up Only YOU Can Stop with population growth, definitely a serious job shortfall. the Sale of Public Lands to Mining, The BLS payroll jobs data contradict the hype from Timber and Real business organizations, such as the U.S. Chamber of Estate Corporations Commerce, that offshore outsourcing is good for America. Large corporations, which have individually dismissed thousands of their U.S. employees and replaced them with CounterPunch Speakers September 25, 2006 foreigners, claim that jobs outsourcing allows them to save money that can be used to hire more Americans. The Patrick Cockburn corporations and the business organizations are very The Most Dangerous successful in placing this disinformation in the media. The Place in the World: a lie is repeated everywhere and has become a mantra Journey to Iraq's among no-think economists and politicians. However, no "Taliban Republic" sign of these jobs can be found in the payroll jobs data. But there is abundant evidence of the lost American jobs. Jonathan Cook Human Rights Watch: During the past five years (January 01 - January 06), the Still Missing the Point information sector of the U.S. economy lost 644,000 jobs, on Lebanon or 17.4 per cent of its work force. Computer systems design and related work lost 105,000 jobs, or 8.5 per cent Joshua Frank of its work force. Clearly, jobs offshoring is not creating Did Maria Cantwell's jobs in computers and information technology. Indeed, Campaign Try to Buy jobs offshoring is not even creating jobs in related fields.
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Off Aaron Dixon? U.S. manufacturing lost 2.9 million jobs, almost 17 per cent of the manufacturing work force. The wipeout is Paul Craig Roberts across the board. Not a single manufacturing payroll Is the Bush classification created a single new job. Administration Itching to Nuke Iran? The declines in some manufacturing sectors have more in common with a country undergoing saturation bombing Robert Jensen during war than with a "supereconomy" that is "the envy of Defending Chavez on the world." In five years, communications equipment lost FoxNews 42 per cent of its work force. Semiconductors and electronic components lost 37 per cent of its work force . Dave Lindorff The work force in computers and electronic products Horowitz on Campus: declined 30 per cent. Electrical equipment and appliances This Mouth for Hire lost 25 per cent of its employees. The work force in motor vehicles and parts declined 12 per cent. Furniture and related products lost 17 per cent of its jobs. Apparel Norman Solomon manufacturers lost almost half of the work force. Media Tall Tales for Sick of sit Employment in textile mills declined 43 per cent. Paper Next War speakers, tongue and paper products lost one-fifth of its jobs. The work timid? CounterPunch Editors force in plastics and rubber products declined by 15 per Alexander Cockburn and Dr. Charles Jonkel cent. Jeffrey St Clair are available Save a Grizzly, Visit a to speak forcefully on ALL Library: "People like For the five-year period, U.S. job growth was limited to the burning issues, as are the Croc Hunter are four areas: education and health services, state and local other CounterPunchers Worse Than the Most government, leisure and hospitality, and financial services. seasoned in stump oratory. Bloodthirsty Slob There was no U.S. job growth outside these four areas of Call CounterPunch Speakers Hunter domestic nontradable services. Bureau, 1 Michael Dickinson Oracle, for example, which has been handing out [email protected]. "The King's New thousands of pink slips, has recently announced two Clothes:" a Play thousand more jobs being moved to India.8 How is Written in a Turkish Oracle's move of U.S. jobs to India creating American jobs Jail in nontradable services such as waitresses and bartenders, hospital orderlies, state and local government, and credit Alexander Cockburn agencies? Flying Saucers and the Decline of the Left Engineering jobs in general are in decline, because the manufacturing sectors that employ engineers are in Website of the Day decline. During the last five years, the U.S. work force lost Great Bear 1.2 million jobs in the manufacture of machinery, Foundation computers, electronics, semiconductors, communication equipment, electrical equipment, motor vehicles, and transportation equipment. The BLS payroll jobs numbers show a total of 69,000 jobs created in all fields of September 23 / 24, architecture and engineering, including clerical personnel, 2006 over the past five years. That comes to a mere 14,000 jobs Weekend Edition per year (including clerical workers). What is the annual graduating class in engineering and architecture? How is Jonathan Cook there a shortage of engineers when more graduate than How Israel is can be employed? Engineering the "Clash of Of course, many new graduates take jobs opened by Civilizations" retirements. We would have to know the retirement rates to get a solid handle on the fate of new graduates. But this
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Jeffrey St. Clair fate cannot be very pleasant , with declining employment Star Wars Goes in the manufacturing sectors that employ engineers and a Online ... Crashes minimum of 65,000 H-1B work visas annually for foreigners plus an indeterminate number of L-1 work visas. Dr. Anon A Doctor's Life in It is not only the Bush regime that bases its policies on Baghdad lies. Not content with moving Americans' jobs abroad, corporations want to fill the jobs remaining in America with Tom Barry foreigners on work visas. Business organizations allege Oil and Political shortages of engineers, scientists and even nurses. Opportunism Business organizations have successfully used pubic relations firms and bought-and-paid-for "economic studies" Carl G. Estabrook to convince policymakers that American business cannot The Darfur function without H-1B visas that permit the importation of Smokescreen indentured employees from abroad who are paid less than the going U.S. salaries. The so-called shortage is, in fact, a replacement of American employees with foreign Laura Carlsen employees, with the soon-to-be-discharged American Mexico's Two employee first required to train his replacement. The Book on 9/11 the White Presidents House Denounced as "ABSOLUTE GARBAGE" It is amazing to see free-market economists rush to the Todd Chretien defense of H-1B visas. The visas are nothing but a subsidy The Axis of Lesser to U.S. companies at the expense of U.S. citizens. Keep in Evilism mind this H-1B subsidy to U.S. corporations for employing foreign workers in place of Americans as we examine the Dr. Charles Jonkel Labor Department's job projections over the 2004-2014 From Grizzly Man to decade. the Croc Hunter: the Global Media and the All of the occupations with the largest projected Death of Bears employment growth (in terms of the number of jobs) over the next decade are in nontradable domestic services. The Debbie Nathan top ten sources of the most jobs in "superpower" America I Was Disappeared By are: retail salespersons, registered nurses, postsecondary Salon teachers, customer service representatives, janitors and cleaners, waiters and waitresses, food preparation Fred Gardner (includes fast food), home health aides, nursing aides, Dustin Costa orderlies and attendants, general and operations Struggles Against managers.9 Note than none of this projected employment Invisibility growth will contribute one nickel toward producing goods and services that could be exported to help close the huge Fred Wilhelms U.S. trade deficit. Note, also, that few of these job The Money Belongs to classifications require a college education. the Artists Who Created the Music Among the fastest growing occupations (in terms of rate of growth), seven of the ten are in health care and social Seth Sandronsky assistance. The three remaining fields are: network The Cruel Economics systems and data analysis with 126,000 jobs projected, or of Health Care in 12,600 per year; computer software engineering America applications with 222,000 jobs projected, or 22,200 per year; and computer software engineering systems software Ralph Nader with 146,000 jobs projected, or 14,600 per year.10 Mavericks at Work Assuming these projections are realized, how many of the Rev. William Alberts computer engineering and network systems jobs will go to
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"Specks" and "Logs" Americans? Not many, considering the 65,000 H-1B visas and 9/11 each year (bills have been introduced in Congress to raise the number) and the loss during the past five years of Jon Van Camp 761,000 jobs in the information sector and computer Who is Hezbollah? systems design and related sectors.
Heather Gray Judging from its ten-year jobs projections, the U.S. Conservatives and Department of Labor does not expect to see any significant Technology high-tech job growth in the U.S.The knowledge jobs are being outsourced even more rapidly than the David Vest manufacturing jobs. The so-called "new economy" was just Jerry Lightfoot, RIP another hoax perpetrated on the American people.
Jeffrey St. Clair If outsourcing jobs offshore is good for U.S. employment, Playlist: What I'm why won't the U.S. Department of Commerce release the Listenting to This 200-page, $335,000 study of the impact of the offshoring Week of U.S. high-tech jobs? Republican political appointees reduced the 200-page report to 12 pages of public relations hype and refuse to allow the Technology Poets' Basement Administration experts who wrote the report to testify Landau / Davies before Congress. Democrats on the House Science Committee are unable to pry the study out of the hands of Website of the Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez. On March 29, 2006, Weekend Republicans on the House Science Committee voted down Meet Me In The a resolution (H.Res. designed to force the Commerce Morning: C. Department to release the study to Congress. Obviously, Wonderland & J. the facts don't fit the Bush regime's globalization hype. Lightfoot The BLS payroll data that we have been examining tracks Video of the Weekend employment by industry classification. This is not the same Is It a Bird? A Missile? thing as occupational classification. For example, Or, Just Perhaps, a companies in almost every industry and area of business Friggin' Plane? employ people in computer-related occupations. A recent study from the Association for Computing Machinery claims, "Despite all the publicity in the United States about jobs being lost to India and China, the size of the IT September 22, 2006 employment market in the United States today is higher than it was at the height of the dot.com boom. Information Patrick Cockburn technology appears as though it will be a growth area at Republic of Fear: least for the coming decade." Torture in Bush's Iraq, Worse Than We can check this claim by turning to the BLS Occupational Under Saddam Employment Statistics.11 We will look at "computer and mathematical employment"12 and "architecture and Michael Donnelly engineering employment".13 It's the Manipulated Economy, Stupid! Computer and mathematical employment includes such fields as "software engineers applications," "software Ramzy Baroud engineers systems software," "computer programmers," The Next Palestinian "network systems and data communications," and Struggle "mathematicians." Has this occupation been a source of job growth? In November of 2000 this occupation employed 2,932,810 people.14 In November of 2004 (the Evo Morales latest data available), this occupation employed 2,932,790, "We Need Partners,
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Not Bosses": Address or 20 people fewer. Employment in this field has been to the United Nations stagnant for four years.
Stanley Howard During these four years, there have been employment Torture and Justice in shifts within the various fields of this occupation. For Chicago example, employment of computer programmers declined by 134,630, while employment of software engineers Sarah Leah Whitson applications rose by 65,080, and employment of software Hezbollah's Rockets engineers systems software rose by 59,600. (These shifts and Civilian probably merely reflect change in job title from Casualties: a Reply to programmer to software engineer.) Jonathan Cook These figures do not tell us whether any gain in software JoAnn Wypijewski engineering jobs went to Americans. According to Conservations at professor Norm Matloff, in 2002 there were 463,000 Ground Zero computer-related H-1B visa holders in the U.S. Similarly, the 134,630 lost computer programming jobs (if not Website of the Day merely a job title change) may have been outsourced Cockburn in Atlanta: offshore to foreign affiliates. the Video Interview Architecture and engineering employment includes all the architecture and engineering fields except software September 21, 2006 engineering. The total employment of architects and engineers in the U.S. declined by 120,700 between November 1999 and November 2004. Employment Mahmoud Ahmadi- declined by 189,940 between November 2000 and Nejad November 2004, and by 103,390 between November 2001 "No Nation Should and November 2004. Have Superiority Over Others:" UN Address There are variations among fields. Between November 2000 and November 2004, for example, U.S. employment Justin E. H. Smith of electrical engineers fell by 15,280. Employment of Ending the Death computer hardware engineers rose by 15,990 (possibly Penalty: Outline of an these are job title reclassifications). Overall, however, over Abolitionist Program 100,000 engineering jobs were lost. We do not know how many of the lost jobs were outsourced offshore to foreign Rick Kuhn affiliates or how many American engineers were dismissed Australian and replaced by foreign holders of H-1B or L-1 visas. Government Steps Up Attacks on Muslims: Clearly, engineering and computer-related employment in "I Certainly Don't the U.S.A. has not been growing, whether measured by Want That Type of industry or by occupation. Moreover, with a half million or People in Australia" more foreigners in the U.S. on work visas, the overall employment numbers do not represent employment of Mike Roselle Americans. Ed Wiley's Long March: the American employees have been abandoned by American Elementary School vs. corporations and by their representatives in Congress. the Strip Mine America remains a land of opportunity but for foreigners not for the native born. A country whose work force is Amira Hass concentrated in domestic nontradable services has no need In the Name of for scientists and engineers and no need for universities. Security: What Israeli Even the projected jobs in nursing and school teaching can Police Files Reveal be filled by foreigners on H-1B visas.
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About the Occupation The myth has been firmly established here that the jobs of Palestine the U.S. is outsourcing offshore are being replaced with better jobs. There is no sign of these jobs in the payroll Deborah Rich jobs data or in the occupational employment statistics. From the Kitchen of When a country loses entry-level jobs, it has no one to Dr. Frankenstein: the promote to senior level jobs. When manufacturing leaves, Consumption of so does engineering, design, research and development, Gene -Engineeered and innovation itself. Foods On February 16, 2006, the New York Times reported on a Mickey Z. new study presented to the National Academies that 10 Reasons Cars Suck concludes that outsourcing is climbing the skills ladder.15 A survey of 200 multinational corporations representing 15 Saul Landau industries in the U.S.and Europe found that 38 per cent Terrorism at Sheridan planned to change substantially the worldwide distribution Circle of their research and development work, sending it to India and China. According to the New York Times , "More companies in the survey said they planned to decrease Website of the Day research and development employment in the United Stop the Decapitation States and Europe than planned to increase employment." of Mountains! The study and the discussion it provoked came to
untenable remedies. Many believe that a primary reason September 20, 2006 for the shift of R&D to India and China is the erosion of scientific prowess in the U.S. due to lack of math and Sharon Smith science proficiency of American students and their Elections, Detentions reluctance to pursue careers in science and engineering. and Deportations This belief begs the question why students would chase after careers that are being outsourced abroad. Christopher Reed Goodbye Koizumi, The main author of the study, Georgia Tech professor Hello Abe Marie Thursby, believes that American science and engineering depend on having "an environment that John Ross fosters the development of a high-quality work force and Mexico: Does AMLO productive collaboration between corporations and Have a Future? universities." The dean of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks the answer is to recruit the top Joshua Frank people in China and India and bring them to Berkeley. No A Wasted Campaign: one seems to understand that research, development, How Jonathan Tasini design, and innovation take place in countries where things Helped Hillary Clinton are made. The loss of manufacturing means ultimately the and Distracted the loss of engineering and science. The newest plants embody Antiwar Movement the latest technology. If these plants are abroad, that is where the cutting edge resides. Arthur Neslen The Clenched Fist of The denial of jobs reality has become an art form for the Phoenix: What economists, libertarians, the Bush regime, and journalists. Made Israel Burn Except for CNN's Lou Dobbs, no accurate reporting is Lebanon, Again? available in the "mainstream media."
Norman Solomon Economists have failed to examine the incompatibility of The Hollow Promise of offshoring with free trade. Economists are so accustomed Digital Technology to shouting down protectionists that they dismiss any complaint about globalization's impact on domestic jobs as
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Michael Carmichael the ignorant voice of a protectionist seeking to preserve The Vatican's Tyrant the buggy whip industry. Matthew J. Slaughter, a Dartmouth economics professor rewarded for his service to Evelyn Pringle offshoring with appointment to President Bush's Council of The Merck Vioxx Economic Advisers, suffered no harm to his reputation Litigation: a when he wrote, "For every one job that U.S. multinationals Scorecard created abroad in their foreign affiliates, they created nearly two U.S. jobs in their parent operations." In other Hugo Chavez words, Slaughter claims that offshoring is creating more Rise Up Against the American jobs than foreign ones. Empire: Address to the United Nations How did Slaughter arrive at this conclusion? Not by consulting the BLS payroll jobs data or the BLS Website of the Day Occupational Employment Statistics. Instead, Slaughter Before You Enlist: measured the growth of U.S. multinational employment Watch This Video! and failed to take into account the two reasons for the increase in multinational employment: (1) Multinationals acquired many existing smaller firms, thus raising
multinational employment but not overall employment, and September 19, 2006 (2) many U.S. firms established foreign operations for the first time and thereby became multinationals, thus adding Patrick Cockburn their existing employment to Slaughter's number for Deadly Harvest: multinational employment. Lebanese Fields Sown with Israeli Cluster ABC News' John Stossel, a libertarian hero, recently made Bombs a similar error. In debunking Lou Dobbs' concern with U.S. jobs lost to offshore outsourcing, Stossel invoked the Jeff Leys California-based company, Collabnet. He quotes the CEO's Economic Warfare: claim that outsourcing saves his company money and lets Iraq and the IMF him hire more Americans. Turning to Collabnet's webpage, it is very instructive to see the employment opportunities Brian M. Downing that the company posts for the United States and for India. War, Taxes and Democracy In India, Collabnet has openings (at time of writing) for eight engineers, a sales engineer, a technical writer, and a Col. Dan Smith telemarketing representative. In the U.S. Collabnet has Dispelling Brutality openings for one engineer, a receptionist/office assistant, and positions in marketing, sales, services and operations. Liaquat Ali Khan Collabnet is a perfect example of what Lou Dobbs and I Presidential report: the engineering and design jobs move abroad, and Incitements: Did Americans are employed to sell and market the foreign- Bush's Speech Violate made products. Geneva Conventions on Genocide? Other forms of deception are widely practiced. For example, Matthew Spiegleman, a Conference Board Ron Jacobs economist, claims that manufacturing jobs are only slightly Just Sign on the higher paid than domestic service jobs, so there is no Dotted Line: Iraqi Oil meaningful loss in income to Americans from offshoring. and Production He reaches this conclusion by comparing only hourly pay Sharing Agreements and leaving out the longer manufacturing workweek and the associated benefits, such as health care and pensions. Nik Barry-Shaw / Yves Engler Occasionally, however, real information escapes the spin Canada in Haiti: machine. In February 2006 the National Association of
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Torture, Murder and Manufacturers, one of offshoring's greatest boosters, Complicity released a report, "U.S. Manufacturing Innovation at Risk," by economists Joel Popkin and Kathryn Kobe.16 The Lucinda Marshall economists find that U.S. industry's investment in research Air Paranoia: the and development is not languishing after all. It just Great Toothpaste and appears to be languishing, because it is rapidly being Hair Gel Scare shifted overseas: "Funds provided for foreign-performed R&D have grown by almost 73 per cent between 1999 and Saul Landau 2003, with a 36 per cent increase in the number of firms The Pinochet funding foreign R&D." Syndicate U.S. industry is still investing in R&D after all; it is just not Photo of the Day hiring Americans to do the research and development. U.S. Hold That Bridge! manufacturers still make things, only less and less in America with American labor. U.S. manufacturers still hire engineers, only they are foreign ones, not American ones. Website of the Day Scenarios for an Iranian War In other words, everything is fine for U.S. manufacturers. It is just their former American work force that is in the doldrums. As these Americans happen to be customers for
U.S. manufacturers, U.S. brand names will gradually lose September 18, 2006 their U.S. market. U.S. household median income has fallen for the past five years. Consumer demand has been Carl Boggs kept alive by consumers' spending their savings and home Crimes of Empire equity and going deeper into debt. It is not possible for debt to forever rise faster than income. Uri Avnery Peace Panic The United States is the first country in history to destroy the prospects and living standards of its labor force. It is Mike Stark / Jim amazing to watch freedom-loving libertarians and free- Bullington market economists serve as apologists for the dismantling Ann Richards, the of the ladders of upward mobility that made the America of Original Texacutioner old an opportunity society.
Joshua Frank America is seeing a widening polarization into rich and Corporate E. Coli poor. The resulting political instability and social strife will be terrible. John Murphy The Price of Free Speech
Ramzy Baroud Murdoch Almighty
Dave Lindorff On Constitution Day
Bill Quigley Showing Conviction at Echo 9
Website of the Day Tutorial: How to Hack
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Tariq Ali A Bavarian Provocation
Eliza Ernshire Death and Tears in Nablus
Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon (Part 7): To Tilted Park
Mairead Corrigan Maguire A Nobel Laureate Visits with Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu
Brian Cloughley "Let Them Drink Coke!": Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan
Ben Tripp November Prognostication: Republicans Sweep!
Laura Carlsen Bush and Latin America: War on Terrorism or Fight for Social Justice
Ralph Nader Terror on the Road
Ron Jacobs Shooting Sgrena
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John Chuckman Imperial Entropy
Robert Fisk The American Military's Cult of Cruelty
Gary Leupp The Pope's New Crusade: Defender of the West, Scourge of Islam
Lawrence R. Velvel The Pretexter in Chief: Learning About Bush from Hewlett - Packard
Missy Comley Beattie The Insecurity of Immorality
Adrienne Johnstone Deporting Widows: the Nightmare of a Kenyan Immigrant
Mickey Z. Why I Hate America
Jeffrey St. Clair Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement Kearney, Orloski, Engel, Louise and Davies
Website of the Weekend Still Life with Killpecker
September 15, 2006
Diana Johnstone In Defense of
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Conspiracy: 9/11, in Theory and in Fact
Diane Christian On Retaliation
William S. Lind General Puffery: When the Military Brass Deceives
Lee Sustar Bosses Take Aim at Undocument Workers
Dave Lindorff Retroactive Immunity for Bush?
Ramzy Baroud Presidential PR: Lost in the Bush Spin Cycle
Mokhiber / Weissman The Cesspool
Jeffrey St. Clair Glow, River, Glow: Radioactive Leaks and Plumbers at Hanford
Website of the Day F-22: The Most Expensive Piece of Junk Ever Built?
September 14, 2006
Franklin Lamb Israel's Use of American Cluster Bombs: a Walk Through the Rubble
Tim Wilkinson Alan Dershowitz's Sinister Scheme
Dick J. Reavis Mexico's Time of Troubles: Who
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Benefits?
Sam Husseini 9/11 Five Years Later: a Conspiracy to Silence
Doug Giebel Democracies of Death: Why John Adams Wouldn't Recognize His Own Country
Bill Berkowitz The Messaging Strategy of the Iraq War
Diane Farsetta What Media Democracy Looks Like
Mary Turck Targeting Refugees and Human Rights Workers in Colombia
Patrick Cockburn Amnesty Intl Accuses Hizbollah of War Crimes, But Katyusha Damage "Much Less" Than Israel Claimed
J.L. Chestnut, Jr. Ah, Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
Website of the Day The Shocking Truth About Inequality
September 13, 2006
Jack Bratich Eyes Put a Spell on You: Signs of Surveillance in the Public Secret Sphere
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John Ross Welcome to the Nightmare: Al Qaeda de Mexico?
Christopher Brauchli "You Had to Have Been There": Teaching Iraq and Iran
Dave Lindorff Mourning in America: Bush Weeps? Who are They Kidding?
Antony Loewenstein My Israel Question
Al Krebs The Gates Foundation and African Agriculture
Leonard Peltier Crazy Horse in Chains
Jim Bensman My Adventures with the FBI: How I Was Targeted as a Terrorist
Website of the Day FreedomWalk: Take a Moment for Leonard Peltier
September 12, 2006
Norman Finkelstein Kill Arabs, Cry Anti - Semitism
Seth Sandronsky The War on Nurses
John Walsh Khatami Comes to Harvard
Alan Maass
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"Islamic Fascism": the New Hysteria
David Krieger Troubling Questions About Missile Defense
Nate Mezmer September 12th, America
Kathleen Christison The Coming Collapse of Zionism
September 11, 2006
Uri Avnery State of Chutzpah
Patrick Cockburn Palestinians Forced to Scavenge Rubbish Dumps for Food
Col Dan Smith The Centrality of War in the Presidency of George W. Bush
Dr. Susan Block Beyond Terror
Anthony Alessandrini Forgetting 9/11
Dave Lindorff Bush After 9/11: Five Years of High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Niranjan Ramakrishnan What Happened?
Joshua Frank Proving Nothing: How the 9/11 "Truth" Movement Helps Bush & Cheney
Jean Bricmont
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The End of the "End of History"
Sprague / Emesberger "You Are a Dog. You Should Die": Death Threats Against Lancet's Haiti Investigator
Website of the Day Web Piracy
September 9/10, 2006 Weekend Edition
Alexander Cockburn The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts: How They Let the Guilty Parties of 9/11 Off the Hook
Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon: In the Footsteps of Vladimir Putin (Part Six)
Greg Grandin Good Christ, Bad Christ: Testament of the Death Squads
Peter Stone Brown Bob Dylan's Swing Time Waltz in the Face of the Apocalypse
Ralph Nader X-Raying Greed
Brian Cloughley Rumsfeld at the American Legion: Dead Babies and Nazi Propaganda
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Col. Chet Richards Crossroads at the Litani
David Model Tailoring the Case Against Iran: Cut from the Same Old Pattern
Dave Himmelstein From Bil'in to Birmingham
Ron Jacobs War and the Power of Words
Fred Gardner Is Medical Pot Image a Turn -Off to Teens?
Mike Whitney America's Economic Meltdown
Josh Gryniewicz In the Belly of the Bentonville Beast: Working for Wal -Mart
Daniel Gross / Joe Tessone An IWW Story at Starbucks
Joe Bageant Inside the Iron Theater
Nicole Colson The Colbert Factor: Some Truthiness, At Last
Alexander Billet Thirty Years of "White Riot": Long Live The Clash!
Poets' Basement Engel, Louise, Buknatski, Davies, &
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September 8, 2006
Uri Avnery "I'm a Leftist, But ...": the Liberals' War on Lebanon
Paul Craig Roberts Books Are Our Salvation
Bill Quigley Judge Says: "No Clowning Around Our WMDs!"
Robert Jensen Parallel Purges: Academic Freedom in Iran and the US
Norman Solomon Perception Gap: The War on Terror as Others See It
Keith Bolin
September 8, 2006
Uri Avnery "I'm a Leftist, But ...": the Liberals' War on Lebanon
Paul Craig Roberts Books Are Our Salvation
Bill Quigley Judge Says: "No Clowning Around Our WMDs!"
Robert Jensen Parallel Purges:
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Academic Freedom in Iran and the US
Norman Solomon Perception Gap: The War on Terror as Others See It
Keith Bolin The Future of the Family Farm
Kristin S. Schafer The Global Trade in Deadly Pesticides
Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon (Part Five)
Patrick Cockburn Gaza is Dying
Website of the Day Help the Bismark 3!
September 7, 206
Marjorie Cohn Why Bush Really Came Clean About the CIA's Secret Torture Prisons
Sharon Smith Downward Mobility: No Recovery for Workers
René Drucker Colín The Fraud in Mexico
Michael Donnelly Bush Family Values: About Those Nazi Appeasers
John Borowski Scholastic Peddles a Fictitious Path to 9/11 to Kids
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Lucinda Marshall Bombing Indiana
Charles Sullivan Katrina and the New Jim Crow: Ethnic Cleansing in New Orleans
Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon: Part Four
Jonathan Cook How Human Rights Watch Lost Its Way in Lebanon
Website of the Day Rasta! Reggae's Joe Hill
September 6, 2006
Stephen Soldz Protecting the Torturers: Bad Faith and Distortions frm the American Psychological Assocation
Dave Zirin Cops vs. Jocks: the Shooting of Steve Foley
Ramzy Baroud The Gaza Maze: Who Gained Most from the Fox Reporters' Kidnapping
Noel Ignatiev Democrats, Pwogs and the Lesser Evil Folly
Dave Lindorff Bombing Without
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Regrets: The US and Cluster Bombs
Norman Solomon Spinning Troop Levels in Iraq
Binoy Kampmark The Death of Steve Irwin and the Politics of the Zoo
Jeffrey St. Clair A Premature Burial: the Remaking of Cataract Canyon (Part Three)
John Ross The Death of Mexican Presidency
Website of the Day Flaming Arrows
September 5, 2006
Jonathan Cook Will Robert Fisk tell us the whole story? Time For A Champion of Truth to Speak Up
Patrick Cockburn Better Not Meet at the Casbah
Mike Whitney The Worst Secretary of Defense in U.S. History? You Be the Judge
Roland Sheppard The Civil Rights Movement is Dead and So is the Democratic Party
James Petras As Bush Regime
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Faces Twilight Slide, How Much Havoc Can Paulson Wreak?
Alexander Cockburn Will Bush Bomb Teheran?
September 4, 2006
Clancy Sigal The Women Who Gave Us Labor Day
Jeffrey St. Clair The Remaking of Cataract Canyon: Part 2
Anthony Alessandrini The Great Debate about Aroma Coffee: Why I Boycott
Dennis Perrin The Great Debate in Tarrytown: Straight Zion, No Chaser
Daniel Cassidy 'S lom to Slum
Paul Craig Roberts The War Is Lost
September 2 / 3, 2006
Uri Avnery When Napoleon Won at Waterloo
Jeffrey St. Clair A Premature Burial: the Remaking of Cataract Canyon
Ralph Nader
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The No -Fault White House
Noam Chomsky Viewing the World from a Bombsight
Allan Lichtman Arrested Democracy: Letter from the Baltimore County Jail
Stanley Heller When Criticism of Cluster Bombs is "Anti -Semitic"
Rana el-Khatib Invasion's Child: the Making of Issa
Peter Montague Taking on the Pentagon: Chemical Weapons to Burn
Laura Carlsen Mexico on a Collision Course
Dr. Susan Block Bush Hate Rising
Joe Bageant Roy's People: Why Progressives Need to Listen to Orbison, Not Policy Wonks
Scott Stedjan / Matt Schaaf A New Generation of Landmines?
Gary Leupp The Emperor Has Been Exposed
Stephen Fleischman The Great American Oligarchy
Paul Balles
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Has Ahmadinejad Already Checkmated Bush?
Ingmar Lee Canada's $450 Million Gift to Bush: the Softwood Lumber Slush Fund
Jane Stillwater Burning Man: the Good, the Bad and the Evil Twin
Ron Jacobs Dylan Faces the Apocalypse, Again
St. Clair / Bossert Playlist: What We're Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement Grima, Engel, Orloski and Davies
Website of the Weekend To New Orleans: a Photo Journal
September 1, 2006
Uri Avnery Olmert Agonistes
Paul Craig Roberts Of Wolves and Men (and Impotent Democrats)
Bill Ayers Exclusionary Signs of the Times
Kevin Zeese The Best War Ever
Xochitl Bervera
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The Forgotten Children of New Orleans
Norman Solomon Bush vs. Ahmadinejad: a TV Debate We'll Never See
Alexander Cockburn Hezbollah Denounces Nasrallah Interview as a Fake
Richard Neville Rupert Murdoch's Victims
Website of the Day The Uranium Flood
August 31, 2006
David MacMichael Can the Iran Nuke Crisis be Defused?
John Ross Diary of the Mexican Earthquake
Edward Said Mahfouz, 9/11 and the Cruelty of Memory
Amira Hass The Burden of Collaboration
Missy Comley Beattie Circle in a Spiral: Families at War
Lee Sustar The Case of Elvira Arellano: Racism, Divided Families and Deportation
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Jonathan Cook Israeli Myths: Deception as a Way of Life
Website of the Day The Case for Impeachment: CSPAN
August 30, 2006
Paul Craig Roberts The Five Morons Revisited
George Salzman The Revolutionary Surge in Oaxaca
Dave Lindorff I Am a Curious Yellowcake: the Armitage Confession and the Niger Question
Leigh Davis Privatizing New Orleans' Schools
Alan Maass The Crimes Katrina Exposed: an Interview with Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Slonsky
Mike Whitney Pop Goes the Bubble!: the Great Housing Crash of '07
Eliza Ernshire Murder on Rucarb Street
Website of the Day CNN = iPoop2?
August 29, 2006
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Saul Landau Misreading Cuba, for 47 and a Half Years
Jeffrey Buchanan Human Rights and the Realities of Returning to New Orleans: Lip Service and Profiteering
Dave Lindorff War? What War?
James Brooks The US Peace Movement and Hezbollah
John F. Burnett Katrina and the Media: "I Know Y'All Want Our Story, But We Need Help"
Walter A. Davis J'Accuse: the Media and Jonbenet Ramsey
Rich Gibson Detroit Teachers Strike Again
Amira Hass The Accidental Immigrant
Paul Craig Roberts Bush Turns His Terror War on the Homeland
August 28, 2006
John Walsh With Lieberman's Loss, the Lobby Takes a Second Hit
Sibel Edmonds / William Weaver Hillary Clinton: a
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Fool's Vessel
Ramzy Kysia For Israel's Security? A Visit to Houla, Lebanon
Ron Jacobs An Interview with Nativo Lopez
Gideon Levy The Reservists' Protest
Missy Beattie Yes, Virginia, There is a Rumsfeld
Virginia Tilley Putting Words in Ahmadinejad's Mouth
August 26 / 27, 2006 Weekend Edition
Uri Avnery America's Rottweiler
Alexander Cockburn Israel on the Slide
Jordan Green Profiting from Disaster: Greed Has Stallled Gulf Coast Recovery, But Made Some Very, Very Rich
Azmi Bishara Israel at a Loss
Ray Close Why Bush Will Choose War Against Iran: Reflections of a Former CIA Analyst
Gary Leupp The Lebanon Ceasefire and the Coming Assault on
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Iran
Ralph Nader AIDS in Black America
Joe Allen Free Gary Tyler: Thirty Years of Injustice
Fred Gardner The Miraculous Resurrection of Dr. John Lee
Dave Lindorff The Crime of Frag Weapons
David Krieger Why are There Still Nuclear Weapons?
Stephen Fleischman Jurassic White House: the Reptilian Brain of George W. Bush
Mary Turck Elections and Lessons from Mexico
Walter Brasch Sports Afoul: Canned Hunts
Jim Scharplaz Oil and the American Farmer
Israel Shamir The Grapes of Wrath
Alexander Cockburn About That Nasrallah Interview
Charles Henderson Scientology: a Typically American Religion?
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Jeffrey St. Clair Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement Grima, Ford and Mickey Z.
August 25, 2006
Elena Everett The Women of New Orleans After Katrina
Juan Cole Iran's Nuclear "Threat"
Chris Moore Religious Motives Behind Iraq War Deception?: Revelations from the Watada Court Martial
James Marc Leas How Lebanese Civilians Thwarted Israel's War Plans
Salah Obeid The Price of Ignoring the Elephant
Claudio Albertani Mexico Piquetero
Tom Barry Gangster Diplomacy: Elliot Abrams in Jerusalem
Website of the Day Congress, the Defense Budget and Pork: a Snout to Tail Charcuterie
August 24, 2006
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CounterPunch News Service Penis Pump or Bomb? Bum Rap at O'Hare
Uri Avnery Stop the Cancer, End the Occupation
Nermeen al-Mufti "The Strong Do as They Can": an Interview with Noam Chomsky
Norman Solomon The Mythical End to the Politics of Fear
Megan Wiles American Responsibility and Palestine
Laura Santina Busting Loose of the War Engine: a Female Perspective
Mike Whitney Restarting the 34 Day War
Seth Sandronsky Millionaires Make a Killing as Killings Continue
Christopher Brauchli Consider the Uighurs: Freedom in a Cage
August 23, 2006
Dr. Trudy Bond Calling Dr. Mengele: APA Whitewashes Torture By Shrinks
Ramzy Baroud The Real Terrorism
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Plot
Ron Jacobs The Liberal Warmongers are at It Again
Heather Gray Palestinian Sense of Place: You Can't Bomb It Away
Amira Hass The Occupier Defines Justice
Mavis Anderson Castro's Health and US Meddling
Ingmar Lee The Great Game Goes On: India's Occupation of Ladakh
Francis Boyle Statement on Behalf of Lt. Watada
John Ross Mexico Approaches the Combustion Point
August 22, 2006
Gilad Atzmon Israel Must Win
Jack Heyman The Iron Heel Revisited: Cops as Provocateurs on the Docks
Eamon McCann Bereft Belfast Mother Charges Security Firms with Wanton Murder in Iraq
Sharon Smith Bush's Failing War on
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Terror: When in Doubt, Go Racist
Edward S. Herman Faith -Based Analysis
Ramzi Kysia My Journey to South Lebanon
Bill Quigley Trying to Make It Home: New Orleans One Year After Katrina
August 21, 2006
Jonathan Cook Caught in a Net of Delusion
Paul Craig Roberts Artificial Recovery; Real Job Losses
Kathy Kelly Israel's "Proportionate Response": Measured Amid the Wreckage
Mike Roselle Irony Runs Through It: Making a Ruckus
Lenni Brenner Mayor Bloomberg: the Flying Faker
Maher Osseiran Osama's Confession; Osama's Reprieve
August 19 / 20, 2006 Weekend Edition
Uri Avnery The 155th Victim
Eliza Ernshire
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Terror and Freedom on the West Bank
Virginia Tilley Inside 1701: What the UN Ceasefire Resolution Actually Says
Kathy Kelly Funerals at Qana: a Journey to Southern Lebanon
Marc Levy You are What You Dream: "Before you talk of heroes you must feel, taste, touch, smell the horror."
Stephen Bradberry / Jeffrey Buchanan Hopes and Homes: Subject to Seizure on the Katrina's Anniversary
Barbara Rose Johnston Banking on Violence: Guatemalan Genocide and US Security
William Blum Perpetual Fear: Saved Again, Praise the Lord!
Stephen Fleischman Self -Fulfilling Prophecies: Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon
Ralph Nader The Legacy of John Kenneth Galbraith
Dave Lindorff Busted, Again: Bush is Two Times a
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Criminal
Fred Gardner When Cannabis Failed to Sell
David Krieger Nuclear Insecurity
Dan La Botz The Minutemen: Mad at the Wrong Guys
Poets' Basement Davies / Engel
August 18, 2006
Brian M. Downing American Generals and Iraq: Time to Call for a Rapid Withdrawal
John Blair Divine Strike in the Bible Belt: Will They Bomb Bedford?
Alan Hart The Lebanon War, a Post Mortem
Craig Murray Hitting a Nerve: the Hair Gel Terror Hype
Chris Dols Confronting Madison's NaziFest
Emily Kirksey The Cuban Mirage: Self -Deception in Miami and Washington
Joaquín Bustelo Forging a New Strategy for Immigrant Rights:
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Report from Chicago
William S. Lind Beaten: Why the IDF Lost in Lebanon
Podcast of the Day The F -22 PodCast
Website of the Day Burn a Brick for Jesus
August 17, 2006
CounterPunch News Service "Goodbye to the Unipolar World": an Interview with Hasan Nasrallah
Barucha Peller This Pain Has No Ceasefire
Ramzy Baroud Lebanon: a Critical Battlefield for the New Middle East
Rothem Shtarkman Gen. Dan Halutz: Inside Trader
Craig Murray The UK Terror Plot: What's Really Going On?
Samar Assad Gaza: One Year After Disengagement
Mike Ferner Lt. Watada's Challenge
Arnold Kohen A Second Rebirth for East Timor?
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Kevin Zeese Does the Invasion of Lebanon Foretell a Regional War?
Missy Comley Beattie Open Wounds
Uri Avnery From Mania to Depression
Video of the Day Neil Young: After the Garden
Website of the Day Art for Peace
August 16, 2006
Merav Yudilovitch Apocalypse Near: an Interview with Noam Chomsky on Lebanon
Robert Fisk Behind the Lies of Bush and Blair: It Falls to Assad to Tell the Truth
Mark Williams The Missiles of August: The Lebanon War and the Democratization of Missile Technology
John Ross End Game Engulfs Mexico
Christopher Brauchli The Poor Are Such a Nuisance
John Walsh AIPAC Congratulates Itself for Slaughter in Lebanon
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Ron Jacobs Gee, Your Hair Smells Terror -ific!: Shampoo, Fear and Elections
Rachard Itani It Ain't Over: What Did and Didn't Happen in Lebanon
Felice Pace Forest Fires in the Klamath Mountains: The Real Threat is Not What You Expected
Niranjan Ramakrishnan Lieberman the Enabler
Frank, Sharma and Peterson Venezuela's Revolution of Hope: "In Two Years, Everything Has Changed!"
Jonathan Cook Real Photo Fakers; Real War Crimes
Website of the Day You Too Can Paint Like Jackson Pollock!
August 15, 2006
Andrew Ford Lyons Why Hezbollywood Was Born: Digitally Erasing a Massacre
Binoy Kampmark Terrorism and the Art of Flying
Robert Fisk Israel Wasn't Hoping
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for This
Ralph Nader Bush to Israel: Take Your Time Destroying Lebanon
Todd Chretien The US Antiwar Movement: Weak, Passive, Distracted
Chris Floyd It's Bigger Than the Neo -Cons
Mark Engler WTO: Best Left for Dead?
George Galloway "You Don't Give a Damn:" the SkyNews Debate
Laray Polk What's More Obscene: War or Sex?
Trish Schuh Operation Change of Location?: Where Were the IDF Soldiers Captured?
Website of the Day Jesus Never Existed
August 14, 2006
Uri Avnery What the Hell Happened to the Israeli Army?
Karim Makdisi The Flaws in the UN Resolution
Kathy Kelly Approaching a
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Ceasefire
Robert Fisk The Truce That Won't Last
Norman Solomon Who's Afraid of Hillary Clinton? MoveOn, for One
Sunsara Taylor Ned Lamont and the Antiwar Movement: False Hopes, Bad Terms and Ticking Clocks
Robert Jensen Outside the Frame: The Limits of George Lakoff's Politics
Mike Whitney The Litani Gambit: Ceasefire or Trojan Horse?
P. Sainath An Indian Farmer About to Commit Suicide Writes a Note of Clarification
Goretti Horgan The Raytheon Nine: Irish Antiwar Protesters Face "Terrorism" Charges
Christopher Reed London Fog: Doubts Hang Over Terror Plot
August 12 / 13, 2006 Weekend Edition
Jean Bricmont The De -Zionization of the American Mind
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Norman Finkelstein Should Alan Dershowitz Target Himself for Assassination?
Robert Fisk How the London Terror Scare Looks from Beirut
Adrian Grima Forget the 50 Civilians: Watching Lebanon from Malta
Barucha Peller Letter from Lebanon: the Proximity of Death
Omar Barghouti The UN, Lebanon and Palestine
Adam Engel Tearing Down the Master's House: an Interview with Derrick Jensen
Conn Hallinan How the Irish Could Save the Middle East
John Stauber Meet the GOP's Latest Smear Machine: Vets for Freedom
Rev. William Alberts Bush's Primetime Lies Still Go Unchallenged by the Press
Fred Gardner Hollywood Does Cannabis: "Weeds," the First Season
Lucinda Marshall Penis Politics: Does Dick Cheney Want Us
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All to Fly Nude?
Ron Jacobs Kill the Precedent: an Interview with Rapper Nate Mezmer
CounterPunch News Service Kerala Throws Out Coke and Pepsi
Poets' Basement Katz, Davies and Orloski
August 11, 2006
Col. Dan Smith Crimes Against Peace: Beyond Nuremberg
John Ross Class War in Mexico City's Gridlock
Michael Donnelly Sore Loserman, Redux
William S. Lind Collapse of the Flanks
Linda Milazzo Chertoff's New Math: Hair Gel Plot Might Have "Killed 100s of Thousands"
Rep. Cynthia McKinney Something is Happening Around the World
Azmi Bishara When the Skies Rain Death
Henri Picciotto Jewish Dissidents
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Must Challenge Israel
CounterPunch News Wire The Warrior Lawyer: Tom Crumpacker, 1934 -2006
Dave Lindorff War Crimes in Lebanon
Jonathan Cook From High Wycombe to Nazrareth: How I Found Myself with the Islamic Fascists
August 10, 2006
Uri Avnery The Buck Stops Where?
Dave Marsh Who Are Mr and Mrs Lamont?
Gabriel Kolko Reflections on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Arthur Versluis How Neocons' Nazi Hero Schmitt Spawned Bush's Totalitarian Lunge
Jennifer Loewenstein Awakening the Resistance
August 9, 2006
Linda Schade Incumbents Beware: Peace Voters Mean Business
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Jackie Mason Defends Mel Gibson; Ridicules Abe Foxman
Jonathan Cook Hypocrisy and the Clamor Against Hizbullah
Gilad Atzmon Operation Security Roof
Charles Hirschkind Doing the Lebanese a Favor
Tom Barry Right -wingers Ramp Up War on Migrants
Cockburn & St. Clair The Sweetness of Lieberman's Defeat
August 8, 2006
Patrick Cockburn Requiem for Baghdad
Paul Larudee The Lebanese Nakba and Israeli Ambitions
Joan Roelofs The Malleable US Constitution: a Deterrent to Democracy?
Dimi Reider An Interview with IDF Refusenik Sgt. Zohar Milchgrub
John A. Murphy The Democrats: a Party on the Run ... from Its Own Members!
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Eliot Katz The View from the Big Woods: In Which a NYC Antiwar Poet Takes a Summer Vacation in Canada's Boreal Forest
Tim Llewellyn Into the Valley of Death
Website of the Day Galloway Speaks!
August 7, 2006
Uri Avnery The Junkies of War
Karim Makdisi The Draft UN Resolutions: the View from Beirut
Nadia Hijab What Israel and the US Wanted May Not Be At All What They Get
Sharon Smith Birth Pangs and Dead Babies
Magan Wiles Encounter at an Israeli Checkpoint
George Beres A New Kind of Bigotry: Lebanon War Exposes Strange Religious Bedfellows
Rachard Itani Nice Try, Mr. Bolton
Norman Solomon Some Nukes Are A - Okay with the US
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Media
Stan Cox Presidential Doping Scandal Erupts!
Mickey Z. Go Ahead, Please Stare at Her Chest
Jonathan Cook The Deadly US -Israeli Shell Game at the UN
Website of the Day Sam Husseini Interrogates Newt Gingrich on Lebanon
August 5 / 6, 2006
Virginia Tilley Boycott Now!: the Case for Boycotting Israel
Uri Avnery The Black Flag
Patrick Cockburn Yes, It is a Crusade!: Blair's Mad Speech on Iraq
Sgt. Martin Smith Military Training and Atrocities: Bad Apples from a Rotten Tree
Gary Leupp America's Heroes on Trial
Neve Gordon The New McCarthyism: Academic Freedom After 9/11
Ralph Nader Hey Joe!: the Ghosts
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of Lieberman's Past
Peter Bouckaert For Israel, Innocent Civilians Are Fair Game
Peter Montague Nukes Rising: Bush Oversees a Global Nuclear Expansion
David Krieger Global Hiroshima: the Stakes Have Been Raised
Michael Donnelly "Sir! No Sir!": the Story of the GI Anti - War Movement
Fred Gardner Dr. Denney Sues the DEA
Catherine Norris Seeking Justice Abroad: Spanish Courts Issue Arrest Warrants for the Butchers of Guatemala
Imraan Siddiqi The Smokescreens of War: Moral Superiority, 9/11 and Islamic -Fascism
Missy Comley Beattie One Year After the Death of Chase Comley
Ira Kay Where is Geography? Getting Beyond the Place Name Game
Dave Lindorff Let's Build a Wall
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Pratyush Chandra Nuclear Fascism in India
Ron Jacobs Keeping It Radical
St. Clair / Donnelly Playlists: What We're Listening to This Week
Poets' Basement Katz and Davies
Website of the Day Defend Bear Butte
Video of the Weekend Rainbows Bust Pig Blockade
August 4, 2006
Ralph Nader Joe Lieberman and the Secret Chamber
Brian Cloughley Osama Has Won
Eliza Ernshire No Lights in Gaza: "We Have a Death Warrant for Your Home"
Roger Assaf Letter from Lebanon: Adjusting the Heroic Commando Raid Story
George Bisharat When I Last Saw Lebanon
Remi Kanazi Out to Lunch: The US Media's "Special Relationship"
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Laura Carlsen Mexico's Critical Moment: The Boardrooms vs. the Street
Niranjan Ramakrishnan The Fig (Leaflet) of Warning
Derrick O'Keefe Ripe Fruit and Rotten Imperial Ambitions: US Reaction to Castro's Illness
Mickey Z. Some Context on Castro and Cuba
Col. Dan Smith The New Gonzales Standard for Torture: No Standards, No Accountability
Website of the Day Israel's TV War
August 3, 2006
Jonathan Cook Civilian Casualties and the War of Media Deception
Uri Avnery Knife in the Dark
Saree Makdisi Time to Call It Quits: Israel's Raid on Baalbeck's Hospital
Robert Fisk The Family That Stays Together Dies Together
Farrah Hassen Bush's Nutty Syria
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Policy: a Report from Damascus
Nicola Nasser The De -Arabization of the Arab League
Ron Jacobs The Hollow Body: When Exactly Did the UN Lose Its Street Cred?
Mitchel Cohen Mexico Rising
Seth Sandronsky Migrant Labor and Uncle Sam
Bruce K. Gagnon Convert the Military Industrial Complex
Alexander Cockburn Hezbollah's Top Ally in Israel
August 2, 2006
John Ross Mexican Civil Resistance in Five Acts
Chip Mitchell Kudos to Hitchens!
Saul Landau Want Peace in the Middle East? End the Occupation
Naseer Aruri The UN at the Dustbin of History: Does It Have the Capacity to Intervene?
Winslow T. Wheeler Congress and the Pentagon: Co -
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Abusers of the War Budget
Matthias Gebauer News on a Platter: the Middle East PR War
Joshua Frank How the Kyoto Protocol Was (Al) Gored
Bill Quigley Hiroshima, Nagasaki and North Dakota
Manuel Yang A View of Gaza and Lebanon from the Interior
Shamai Leibowitz Whitewashing Atrocities: the Tortured Language of War
David Himmelstein Pulling the Plug on Israel
Lara Marlowe The Total Destruction of Srifa
Website of the Day As a Nuke Plant Falls
August 1, 2006
Michael Neumann What is to be Said?: War on the Blathersphere
Robert Fisk Into the Meat Grinder: NATO and Lebanon
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Omar Barghouti The Massacre at Qana: Were Racism and Fundamentalism Factors?
Marc Levy Whatever You Did in the War will Always be With You
Diana Barahona / Jeb Sprague Reporters Without Borders and Washington's Coups
Claud Cockburn Scenes from the Spanish Civil War
Ross Eisenbrey When is a Raise Not a Raise? House Bill Actually Cuts Wages for Some Workers by $5.50 an Hour!
Dave Lindorff Making the World Safe ... for Dictatorship
John Chuckman Canada's Harper Blames the UN Dead
Francis Boyle Prosecuting Israel: a War Crimes Tribunal May be the Only Deterrent to a Global War
Phil Doe Bleak House Revisited: My Vacation in Water Court
Stephen Soldz Psychologists, Guantanamo and
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Torture
Website of the Day An Unfair War
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