Henry Cockburn and Yang Ki-taik

How My Grandfather’s Brave Stand for Justice Cost Him His Career by Patrick Cockburn
Henry Cockburn's Heroic Defense of Korean Journalist Yang Ki-taik

Items of Interest, 13 September 2011

The conversion story of Thomas Storck.

Thomas Fleming, Idling, Week 2

John Zmirak, College: How Not to Waste Your 4 Years

A guide for the perplexed energy policymaker by Kurt Cobb (EB)

This is the house Transition built by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)
The Mondragon bank – an old model for a new type of finance by Oscar Kjellberg (EB)


States quietly throwing wrenches into health care implementation

NPR: An Interrogator Writes the Inside Story of 9-11

Counterpunch:
FRANKLIN SPINNEY, It’s Budgetary War, Bloody and Terrible
IAN HARRIS, Drone Warfare
HARVEY WASSERMAN, Ten Thousand Fukushimas
SHELDON RICHMAN, 9/11 and the National Security Scam
PATRICK COCKBURN, The Enemy That Barely Exists

Terri, Should Christians Kiss Dating Goodbye?

Some sense in the House

AP: House rejects measure to continue US role in Libya

Counterpunch:
Patrick Cockburn, Amnesty Questions Claim That Gaddafi Ordered Rape as Weapon of War

Gareth Porter, The Open Door in Afghanistan

Monday's Counterpunch

The Tax-Payers' Tab: a Cool $9 Trillion and Then Some
By PAM MARTENS
Fed Finally Forks Up Documents Showing It Funded Wall Street's Off-Balance Sheet Vehicle

Patrick Cockburn, Reprising US Fantasies in Vietnam

Bill Quigley, Cover-Ups, Coups and Drones

Mike Whitney, Korea Steps Back From the Brink

Paul Craig Roberts, Reaganonmics: a Defense

From the weekend edition:
Franklin Spinney, Obama's March to Folly:the Myth of Liberal Interventionism

Gareth Porter, The Brutal Price of Progress

Eric Stoner, Afghanistan: You Call This Progress?

Ron Jacobs, The Drug War That Never Ends

Charlotte Dennett, Wikileaks: Where's the Oil?

Counterpunch

Franklin C. Spinney, Who is the Wise General in Afghanistan?
Mike Whitney, Post Mortem for the World's Reserve Currency
Ralph Nader, Majority of One
Patrick Cockburn, Billions Down the Drain in Useless US Afghan Aid