In last weekend's edition of CounterPunch, Alexander Cockburn updates the ongoing persecution of Sami Al-Arian by federal prosecutors. Al-Arian was a Florida university professor of computer science who was ensnared by the Bush regime's need to produce "terrorists" in order to keep Americans fearful and, thereby, amenable to the Bush regime's assault on U.S. civil liberties. The charges against Al-Arian were rejected by a jury,...

As articles by John Pilger, Alexander Cockburn and Uri Avnery make clear, by groveling before the Israel lobby, Obama has dispelled any hope that his presidency would make a difference. Obama told the lobby that in order to protect Israel he would use all the powers of the presidency to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon. As in the case of Saddam Hussein's "weapons...

Americans traditionally thought of their country as a "city upon a hill," a "light unto the world." Today only the deluded think that. Polls show that the rest of the world regards the United States and Israel as the two greatest threats to peace. This is not surprising. In the words of Arthur Silber: "The Bush administration has announced to the world, and to all Americans,...

On the last day of the old year in the newsletter CounterPunch, two Israelis—Jeff Halper, who heads the Israeli peace movement ICAHD, and Neve Gordon, who is chairman of the department of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University—asked, "Where's the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?" "Not one of the nearly 450 presidents of American colleges and universities who prominently denounced an...

Moving jobs overseas can cut a company's costs. But is it bad for the U.S. economy? Two economists debate the issue. By TIMOTHY AEPPEL  Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL May 10, 2004; Page R6 Does offshore outsourcing hurt the U.S. economy by draining away jobs and investment, or does it ultimately make the U.S. stronger? Is it a cost-cutting tactic that should be encouraged, or should it...