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Donate by mail, telephone or books, plus access 15 years online: www.counterpunch.org. of archives. table of contents letters to the editor ...................4 columns Roaming Charges ......... 5 The CIA Came at Night articles by Jeffrey St. Clair On the trail of a rendition. A Social History of Wiretaps Diamonds and Rust . 6 by David Price ........................................ 9 Life Against Death by JoAnn Wypijewski Twilight of the Post World War II Order Buffalo and death row through by Peter Lee ......................................... 13 the lens of Bruce Jackson. Empire Burlesque .........7 My Hollywood Adventure with the CIA Shamming into Syria by Chris Floyd by John Eskow ....................................... 17 OBAMA IS risking a regional war. Malaysia Teeters on the Edge of an Islamist Knife Grasping at Straws ........8 by Nile Bowie ...................................... 20 The Worst of Times for Workers culture & reviews by Mike Whitney “Accidental Racist”: Days of Future Past Middle class living standards are under unprecedented at- by Lee Ballinger ................................... 24 tack. Daydream Nation . 9 Ave, Angelina by Kristin Kolb Celebrity, feminism & cancer. JUNE 2013 VOL. 20 NO. 6 that same shocked surprise when Bush won in 2000. On a deeper note: American letters to the editor embassies house CIA stations, an open secret. CIA was deeply entangled Thanks for Vol 20 no.5 – the two-party duopoly. I went I know realize that the pa- in the Shāh’s pre-1979 Ed Rampell piece is brilliant to meetings with ideas and thology is across the board, Iran. The people extracted – so glad someone’s said strategies, long thought-out, including on the “Left.” seemed to know to meet it. Homeland, then Zero hoping to engage and go Some writers / humanists and find shelter away from Dark Thirty (which I could forth... I attended numerous / psychologists who are the embassy during a crisis. not watch after 10 minutes) events... getting at this topic include The Canadian embassy was and Argo ( and don’t forget And what did I find? A Bruce Levine, Robert Jay probably a prearranged The Hurt Locker!) - it was shambles and a farce of a Lipton, Joanna Macy, destination. The agency Vandana Shiva, Michael clearly propaganda – but third-party operation, at had to have been extracting Meade, and others who so slick. I had to tell my several levels. its own people for security write for CounterPunch. reasons. I cannot imagine daughter of the background I was so dismayed and Plus the books of Eduardo any other reason for such of Argo before she could see shocked at the state of Galeano and others ... drastic measures. Rescuing the spin. things in this “Left” party. Again, thank you for a good innocent civilians is not Lois Achimovich The key things that I saw but chilling article. I see CIA’s charter. and experienced were: hope (and I’m taking that Western Australia Mark Tokarski · No state or local organiz- word back) in those who Morrison, CO ing presence or organizing are actively and consciously I just read your piece on game—no ground game— healing themselves of the We’ll be sending what we Dershowitz, I think the no local visibility, despite a centuries of pathological can for now at the start difference between his national presence in the last history, inheritance and of next week. Thanks for gratuitous public support election: culture. They are out there. standing up against the of torture and illegal, in- · No effective organizing Kristina Filipovich winds of psychotic faux definite imprisonment, and strategies or plans Portland, Oregon conservatism. Tsarnaev, is that Tsarnaev is · No coherent messaging Larry Lack/Lee Ann Ward an American, wherever his or communication tools or St. Andrews, NB Canada parents came from. I think Ed Rampell’s excellent piece outreach on CIA and Hollywood Dershowitz was, maybe, St. Clair’s ‘Game of Drones’ · A smiling semi-hostility collaboration was highly lobbying for a (highly and a closed-loop phenom- informative. He does not was outstanding. The media visible) role on the enon to anyone who tried mention it, but I wonder Obama administration, defense team. His ego is to bring in new energy or about the voting process more than any, is commit- much more powerful than ideas when a mediocre film like ted to revisionism - first it his hatred of Palestinians, And this: Argo secures a best picture was the re-write of Vietnam which is the root of his ha- · People / individuals with award over an artistic last year; now it’s the turn of tred for Muslim “terrorists”. the same negative psycho- achievement like Lincoln. the ‘secret bombing’ that de- Marcus Nestor logical make-up as those If the agency is working the livered the equivalent of five producers up front, are they in the Democratic Party: Hiroshimas to Cambodia. also working the AMPAS egotistical, controlling, John Pilger Dear Jeffrey, voters behind the scenes? manipulative, dissociative, London Your article is dead on. I can think of no other dysfunctional, semi-patho- I left the Democratic Party reason for the award. Argo logical and so on three-plus years ago and was poorly acted, Affleck · People who cannot joined a prominent Third was a stiff. Green screens Send Letters to the Editor communicate coherently, were so obvious that it Party, and the local chapters to: CounterPunch functionally or socially felt like a Hollywood set. here in our area. PO Box 228, Petrolia, CA · People who need healing I laughed out loud at the I was intent on joining with 95558 or email at many levels and who have contrived airport scene. local activists, engaged (I counterpunch@ never healed themselves. I was shocked at rave hoped) in strategic activities counterpunch.org As I say, it was a shock. My reviews, and no less so and organizing to coun- when it got the best picture final shock, if I may say so. ter the destruction of the nod. I remember feeling 4 For more than two years, he followed the same routine. His legs were always shackled, his cell dark, his eyes blind- The CIA Came at Night folded as he was moved from cell to B J S. C interrogation room. Jabour’s answers remained the same. He was not a ter- rorist. He didn’t know the men in the ey came for Jabour at night.