The Porcupine

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August 2010
- 21: No Room for Arab Students at Israeli Universities: New Rules Favour Former Soldiers
- 16: Crisis. What Crisis? Profits Soar!
July 2010
- 19: The Porcupine – A Work in Progress
June 2010
- 05: Israeli MP tells of Terror on Aid Ship
- 02: Reflections on the Media, Immigration and the UK Election
May 2010
- 26: Deaths in the Gulf: The Criminal Cost of Profit
- 26: Sending in the Guards is Politics, Not a Policy
- 13: Oil: Connect the Dots to the Amazon
- 11: Christopher Meets Bornstein: Chapter one of Mina Berkeley
- 11: Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle
April 2010
- 29: All That is Solid…Melts on Wall Street
- 28: When is Wall Street Like an Oil Spill?
- 25: War is Still a Racket
- 01: Out of Africa: The News About Glenn Beck
March 2010
- 31: Shouldn’t Barack Obama Look a Bit Better From Our Side Than He Does To the Tea Party?
- 30: Israel’s “Racist” Treatment of Ethiopians
- 22: Like Aspirin for Cancer: A False Promise of Reform
- 19: Sex, Lies and Generals: The Problem of John Sheehan (U.S Marines, Retired)
- 05: Toward a Health System Beyond Insurance
February 2010
- 22: History of the Future
- 04: Physicians Who Protest: Single-Payer Interviews
- 04: Walls
January 2010
- 24: Victory, Morales and Social Movements Confront New Challenges in Bolivia
- 24: Poem for Cape Town
- 24: I Have a Dream
- 22: The Angel of History Weeps for Haiti
December 2009
- 26: A Christmas Song for Obama
- 22: Survival of the Witless: Creationism and the Republicans
- 04: What Most US Media Isn’t Telling You
November 2009
- 27: Thanksgiving: A Time to Imagine
- 26: Have Israeli Spies Infiltrated International Airports?
  South Africa Deports Airline Official After Investigation
- 19: Smiles In Gaza as the Quest for Freedom Continues
- 14: Peru: Veteran Guerilla Fighter Hugo Blanco Speaks on Amazon Struggle
- 02: I Think Continually of Those Who Are Truly Great: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of McCarthyism
- 01: Why I Am Willing to Risk Arrest for “Medicare for All”
October 2009
- 30: Cuba’s Fate: Balanced on a Razor’s Edge
- 26: Israeli Police Don Arab Disguise: Notorious Army Method to be Used Inside Israel
- 25: Deir Al Balah Refugee Camp
- 23: 838 Students Still Trying to Leave Gaza for Study Abroad
- 18: Why Goldstone’s Report Matters
- 17: Imperial Globalization and Social Movements in Latin America
- 14: Voices of Color: New President, Old Immigration Policy
- 13: Nada Sultani and Death on the Sidewalk of Globalization
- 10: Separatism and Class Politics in Latin America
- 05: On the Death of Mercedes Sosa
September 2009
- 29: Cuba Undertakes Reforms in Midst of Economic Crisis
- 26: Israel’s Fear of Jewish Girls Dating Arabs: Team of Psychologists to “Rescue” Women
- 24: Health Care Reform: Time for an End Run
- 24: The Virtues of Deglobalization
- 22: Unesco: Privatised and Dismantled
- 21: An Application from The Jungle
- 19: The Story of My Shoe
- 18: I Want Wendell Potter to Write Obama’s Health-Care Bill
- 18: The Bureaucracy of Private Health Insurance: The Testimony of Wendell Potter
- 17: Setting the Record Straight About the NHS: An Open Letter
- 15: The Children of Gaza
- 14: Latin America and the End of Social Liberalism
- 08: Speech at Unveiling of Aneurin Bevan Bust (School of Health Sciences, University of Glamorgan, April 2007)
- 05: Gaza Fishermen – Daily Suffering with No Notice
- 03: Israel Turns up the Heat to Evict Bedouin from Desert Lands: Army’s West Bank Tactics Imported to Negev
August 2009
- 27: Inquisition in Knoxville: The Case of Dr. Janice Harper
- 11: The Paranoid Style in the Opposition to U.S. Healthcare Reform
- 03: Where Should the Iranian Left Stand?
July 2009
- 31: Obama and Hillary Nix Change in Honduras
- 22: Uninsured in the Land of the Free: Let Single-Payer Ring!
- 20: On the Road with Henry Miller
- 10: Wishes For a Renewed Vision of Medicine
- 09: Consolidating the Electoral Coup in Iran
- 04: Honduran Coup Tries to Halt Advance of Latin American Left
June 2009
- 30: Let’s Say Good-Bye to Private Health Insurance
- 30: The Road Not Taken Awaits
- 26: Afghanistan, Another Untold Story
- 24: Ahmadinejad Re-elected: Israel and Obama’s Iran Puzzle
- 21: Does Israel Really Have a Right to Exist?
- 14: God’s Truth and Hocus Pocus: Abortion, Capital Punishment and Human Conscience
May 2009
- 24: Telling Bolivia Who to Vote For: James Carville and Associates
- 21: A Misconceived War, not Torture Photos, Imperils Troops
- 16: If We Let The Immoralists Gain the Upper-Hand
April 2009
- 19: Beating Around The Bush: The Tortuous Logic Of The Torture Debate
- 05: Detroit Doesn’t Have to Die –-or Just Make Cars
March 2009
- 11: Markets Cannot Ensure Rights: Water Privatization and Third World Livelihoods
- 06: Unveiling the Truth in The Netherlands: Attack on Hunger Strikers Inside Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport Detention Center
February 2009
- 15: The Future Lies, Not With Electric Cars, But With Subsidized Public Transport
- 08: Shoot for the Stars, not for the Afghan Hills
- 06: Homes, Health and “Bail-outs”
January 2009
- 12: One State for Palestinians and Jews
December 2008
- 31: Israel: What Obama Should Do
October 2007
- 15: Why is Uncle Sam So Committed to Reviving Nuclear Power?
- 04: Costa Ricaâ€™s CAFTA Referendum: Maximum Expression of Democracy or End of â€œ100 Years of Illusionâ€?
August 2007
- 26: Struggle to Free the “Cuban Five” Enters its Tenth Year
July 2007
- 05: Being the Climate Change
June 2007
- 20: Landless Rural Workers Confront Brazil’s Lula: Vow to Continue Struggle for Land and Against Agribusiness Interests
- 08: Birthday Party for a Cuban Hero: the human side of the solidarity
April 2007
- 01: On Bush’s Conversion To Islam
March 2007
- 27: The Cuban Five and US Terrorism
- 21: Militant Brazilian Opposition to Bush-Lula Ethanol Accords
- 07: Bush Trip Destined to Fail as Hardliner John Negroponte Takes Control of US Latin American Policy
February 2007
- 23: The War Against Illegals
January 2007
- 08: James Brown’s Appeal – Loudly and Proudly
- 05: A Bipartisan Plea for Nuclear Weapons Abolition
December 2006
- 25: Asian Tsunami: Redefining Disaster
- 19: End of the strongmen: Do America and Israel want the Middle East engulfed by civil war?
- 09: Confrontation in Bolivia over Agrarian Reform
- 04: Of Burkhas and Sinterklaas
- 01: The World in a City: Lessons from Marseilles
October 2006
- 31: Lula’s Presidential Victory in Brazil Opens up Challenge From Below
- 20: EPA’s Nanotech Regs: Ironic Parameters
  Clean-up – Clam-up – Screw-up?
September 2006
- 18: The Right to Water: Building a Global Movement
- 12: 9/11 remembered
- 11: Marching on After 9/11
- 07: Preventing a Nuclear 9/11: What Will It Take?
- 05: Will Robert Fisk tell us the whole story?
- 05: Egypt: a social and political tinderbox
- 03: Snakes On A Plane, Bush in the White House
August 2006
- 31: Israelâ€™s deceptions as a way of life
- 29: Why Are There Still Nuclear Weapons?
- 27: New Orleans One Year After Katrina
- 21: endgame
- 20: After Lebanon, Israel is looking for more wars
- 19: The Real Threat We Face in Britain Is Blair
- 16: Prepare Your Stakes and Fires
- 15: Why “They” Hate “Us”
- 13: Support the Iraqi Resistance Movement!
- 06: Eretz or Ersatz Israel?
- 04: Letting Lebanon Burn
- 04: diary from beirut
- 02: Israeli War on Lebanon – Day 22
- 02: Verdun, Auschwitz: Is the West Really Best?
July 2006
- 02: We are all Anne Frank
June 2006
- 09: Globalizing the Medicalization of Childbirth: The Safe Motherhood Initiative
May 2006
- 26: Bush Squares Off with Bolivia and Venezuela over Hemispheric Model
- 10: The Tide Turns: Report from the World Water Forum
April 2006
- 01: A Small Step Toward Peace
February 2006
- 25: Good Night & Good Luck
- 14: A Flare for Profit
- 12: Pesticides or Peasants? The Future of World Agriculture
- 11: Bolivia’s Morales Deftly Keeps Enemies at Bay While Pushing Reforms
- 09: A Budget to Die For
- 08: Under Siege: The Bedouin of the Naqab (Negev)
- 05: Aids and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical View
- 04: Global Civil Society: A Concept Worth Defining; A Terrain Worth Disputing
- 03: Two Very Dutch Fires