Today's Stories

October 10 / 12, 2008

Alexander Cockburn
Is McCain a Lot Sicker Than We Know?

Patrick Cockburn
War in the Time of Cholera

October 9, 2008

Robert Bryce
From Enron to the Current Meltdown

David Vest
The Great Rescue of 2008: Could Whatever Follows Bush Be Even Worse?

Winslow T. Wheeler
Meltdown at the Pentagon

Andy Worthington
The Ordeal of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs

Anthony DiMaggio
Obama the Subhuman

Helga Serrano /
Hector Tamayo
Ecuador Charts the Way

Dave Lindorff
When Money Flies

Mats Svensson
At the Checkpoint on the Day of Atonement

Rannie Amiri
The Time for Mordechai Vanunu is Now

Website of the Day
The Palestine Chronicle Needs (and Deserves) Your Support

October 8, 2008

Alexander Cockburn
Imbecilic Tedium

Linn Washington, Jr.
Palin's Racist Remark

Mike Whitney
To the Bunkers!

Deepak Tripathi
The West is Broke

George C. Wilson
Butter Over Guns? McCain and Obama on Defense Issues

Andy Worthington
Seized in Pakistan

Charles R. Larson
"I'm John McCain and I Approved This Lie"

Patrick Irelan
Ecuador's Choice

Matthew Koehler
Log, Baby, Log: Bailing Out the Timber Industry

Stanley Heller
Time to Design a New Economy

Daniel Gross
Working Class Hero: Alexandra Svoboda

Kimberly Hartke
Raw Milk and Civil Liberties

Website of the Day
Olivia Wilde Does It Early

October 7, 2008

Patrick Cockburn
Obama and McCain's Goofy Afghan Bluster

Gary Leupp
Seven Years in Afghanistan:
From "War on Terror" to
"War of Terror"

Uri Avnery
Olmert's Final Divorce
From "All of Eretz Israel"

P. Sainath
The Cop-Out Election
Major Candidates, Congress, Press, All Fail in the Big Crisis

Peter Morici
The Dow Tanks as Bank Bailout Fails to Restore Confidence

Conn Hallinan
The Great Game in the Caucasus:
Bad Moves by Uncle Sam

Martha Rosenberg
Training America's Youth
Today a Pheasant, Tomorrow Osama

Binoy Kampmark
Let's Talk About Extinction:
CERN and Halo

October 6, 2008

Paul Craig Roberts
A Futile Bailout as Darkness Falls on America

Mike Whitney
Still on the Edge of the Abyss

Tariq Ali
Goodbye to Grosvenor Square

Emily Horowitz
How People Tell Cops They're Guilty Even When They Aren't

Michael Hudson
What Did Jesus Say?
A Christian Perspective on the Paulson Bank Bailout

Ron Jacobs
Winter Soldiers and Washington's Wars

October 3 - 5, 2008

Alexander Cockburn
Creatures of Capital

Paul Craig Roberts
Why Paulson's Plan is a Fraud

Saul Landau
The Chutzpah of Hank Paulson

Jonathan Cook
The Souring of a West Bank Romance: Israel's Army and Settlers Fall Out

Andy Worthington
The Dark Heart of the Guantánamo Trials

Dave Marsh
Bono (Himself) Challenges Me to a Debate

Sasan Fayazmanesh
Using the IAEA to Spy on Iran

John Ross
Massacre in Morelia

Brian Cloughley
The Unacceptable Face of Capitalism

Wajahat Ali
Dueling Partners: an Interview with Tariq Ali on Pakistan

Robert Schwartz
A Serious Blow to the Rights of U.S. Workers: NLRB Limits Political Strikes

Alan Nasser
FDR's Response to the Plot to Overthrow Him: a Paradigm for Today's Democrats?

David Ker Thomson
The Case for Drunk Driving

Peter Morici
Gone in 30 Days: U.S. Loses 159,000 Jobs in September

William Blum
When is a Holocaust Not a Holocaust?

William S. Lind
War on Two Fronts: Without Railroads

Michael Donnelly
The Ghost of Gen. McClellan

Thom Rutledge
On Presidential "Rule"

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Science and the 2008 Presidential Elections: a Survey of the Candidates

Dave Lindorff
Calling the Problem Early

Cindy Ellen Hill
Waging a Sustainable Peace?

Paul Krassner
Dying to Get High: the Side Effects of Medical Marijuana

Daniel White
Vietnam's Masterspy

Poets' Basement
Corseri, Absher, Gibbons and Jenkins

Website of the Weekend
How We Lost Glen Canyon: a Legal Chronology

October 2, 2008

Paul Craig Roberts
Can a Bailout Succeed?

Joe Bageant
Speaking in the Tongues of Brokers: the Bailout in Plain English

Ralph Nader
Soulmates in Deregulation

Mike Whitney
Why the Bailout Stinks

Madis Senner
When Push Comes to Pull: How a Foreign Banker Invasion Sent the Markets Reeling

Winslow T. Wheeler
Congress as Usual:the Crisis Will Pass, But This Bunch Will Remain the Same

William Blum
A Boy's Game: the Origins of the Financial Crisis

P. Sainath
Wall Street Transforms Presidential Race

Website of the Day
McCain's Meltdown in Des Moines

October 1 , 2008

Glen Ford
The Last Hold Up

Steven Conn
Trashing Sarah Palin: the Boomerang Effect

Alan Maass / Lee Sustar
Why Not a Bailout for the Rest of Us?

Kenneth Couesbouc
The Blame Game: When Wall Street Pigs Sprout Wings

Stan Goff
How the Republicans Can Win (And Deserve It)

Adolfo Gilly
Racism, Domination and Bolivia

Rannie Amiri
Bombs in the Levant

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
The Recurring Myth of Peak Oil

Adam W. Parsons
Food and Markets

Dave Lindorff
Bums' Rush to the Bailout: Where are the Hearings?

Douglas Valentine
The Bush Continuity Plan?

Adrien Rain Burke
The Party's Over: an Open Letter to Nancy Pelosi

Website of the Day
Sarah Palin's Beauty Pageant

September 30, 2008

Pam Martens
What Wall Street Hoped to Win

Chris Floyd
The Shadow of the Pitchfork: Elite Panic on Wall Street

Stephen Martin
A Biological Walk Down Wall Street

Deepak Tripathi
A Bitter Harvest in Afghanistan

Mark Engler
Bad Money

Jonathan Cook
The Attack on Zeev Sternhell: Has Israel Become a Breeding Ground for Jewish Settler Terrorism?

Dave Lindorff
The Power of No

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Time for a General Strike?

Ahmad Faruqui
In Cold Blood: Buried Alive in Pakistan

John Chuckman
Will the Bride Wear White? As Rome Burns, Bristol Palin Prepares to Tie the Knot with Mr. "Sex on Skates"

David Macaray
Blaming the Labor Unions

Fatemeh Keshavarz
What Obama Could Have Said

Website of the Day
538: a Cognitive Map of American Politics

September 29, 2008

Mike Whitney
Black Monday

Jeff Gibbs
"Just Say No!" to Reverse Robin Hood

Paul Craig Roberts
Why America Should Listen to Ahmadinejad

Peter Morici
The Bailout and the Economy

Tim Wise
Racism as Reflex

John Walsh
Sarah Palin is a Rotten Mom

Uri Avnery
Israeli Fascism: Yes, It Can Happen Here

Alan Farago
Hell to Pay: the Financial Collapse and the Housing Market

Andy Worthington
Is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Running the 9/11 Trials?

David Michael Green
Where's the Repudiation?

Carl Finamore
Capitalism on Steroids; Labor on Tranquilizers

Iris Keltz
Postcards from the DNC

Bill Hatch
Take This Shrimp Slayer!

Website of the Day
Tina Fey as Palin, Round Two

September 27 / 28, 2008

Alexander Cockburn
How McCain Blew It

Linn Washington, Jr.
Alaska's Blacks and Palin: a Strained Relationship

Christopher Ketcham
An Israeli Trojan Horse

Mike Whitney
The People vs. the Banksters

Kevin Alexander Gray Race in the Race: Is Obama Shining Us On?

Anthony DiMaggio
The Unspoken War: Pakistan, the Media and Nuclear Weapons

Mary Lynn Cramer
Their Assets; Our Debts: How Economic Crises Are Overcome

Marc Levy /
Susan Erony
War Jokes Wanted: No Laughing Matter

Stan Cox
Livestock of Mass Destruction: Germ Labs in the Heartland

Saul Landau
Election Drizzle

Ali Khan
Meltdown in American Markets: an Islamic Perspective

David Rosen
The Great Fear: the Sexual Politics of Sarah Palin

Todd Alan Price
Bailing Out the Foes of Public Eduction

Matts Svensson
The Red and White Bird in Gaza

Ron Jacobs
Pakistan Through the Eyes of a Native Son

Robert Fantina
McCain and the Economy

Richard Rhames
Hank-ering for a Bailout

David Krieger
The U.S.-India Nuclear Proliferation Deal

Seth Sandronsky
Rethinking Charter Schools

Charles R. Larson
Dear Mrs. Abacha: a Nigerian Email Romance

Kim Nicolini
Sadism in the Desert

Poets' Basement
La Morticella, Holt, Moser and Buknatski

Website of the Day
The Great Schlep

September 26, 2008

Moshe Adler
Bailing Out Wall Street Won't Save Main Street

Bill Quigley
The U.S. War on Unarmed Working Mothers

Jonathan Cook
When Archaeology Becomes a Curse

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Visions of Pinpoint Control: the Romance of Laser Weapons

Madis Senner
Why the Bailout will Fail

Brian Cloughley
US Raids in Pakistan: Violations of Sovereignty

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Oh, Henry!

Joanne Mariner
Passport Fraud and Torture

Dan La Botz
The Financial Crisis: a View from the Left

David Macaray
Ralph's Management Indicted by Federal Grand Jury

Website of the Day
Nader and Obama Girl at the Office

September 25, 2008

Michael Hudson
The Insanity of the $700 Billion Giveaway

Sharon Smith
Democrats and Corporate Bailouts

Ralph Nader
Who Will Show Some Backbone Against the Bailout?

Christopher Ketcham
The Economy of Dead Sperm (or What I Learned From My Race-Car Grandpa Who Had No Bankers)

Eric Toussaint
Is Another Third World Debt Crisis in the Offing?

Robert Weissman
Getting Wall Street Pay Reform Right

David Estabrook
A Better Bailout Plan

Nikolas Kozloff
The Voyage of the SS Peter the Great

Steve Early
The High Price of Purple Dissent

Judith Scherr
Blue Helmets in Haiti

Laray Polk
South Ossetia and Abkhazia: Notes from the Inside

Website of the Day
Letterman Spanks McCain

September 24, 2008

Paul Craig Roberts
The Bitter Fruits of Deregulation

Nikolas Kozloff
Palin at the UN: a Tutorial from Uribe

Robert Weissman
The Financial Crisis: How and Why Congress Should Play for Time

Andy Worthington
The Guantánamo Trials: Govt. Says Six Years Not Long Enough to Prepare Evidence

Steve Conn
Will Nader's Warning be Acknowledged in the Presidential Debates?

Karyn Strickler
The $700,000,000,000 Power Punch

Diane Farsetta
Stealth Marketers Gone Wild

Dennis Loo
Poisoned Legacy

John Halle
Wealth Tax Now!

Khalil Nakhleh
Palestinians Under the Occupation

Website of the Day
Nader: Debate Crasher

September 23, 2008

Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.
Bail Out on This Bailout

Michael Hudson
Henry Paulson and the New Yazoo Land Scandal

Tariq Ali
Why was the Marriott Targeted?

Patrick Dyer
A Death Row Visit with Troy A. Davis

Franklin Lamb
Hezbollah and the Palestinians

Joshua Frank
Oppose Barack Obama? How Dare Thee!

Alan Farago
Pushing the Referees: How the Financial Crisis Occurred

Dave Lindorff
The Bailout Will Kill the Dollar

Tanya M. Kerssen /
Roger Burbach
Bolivia's Popular Upheaval

Harvey Wasserman
Nuclear Power Liabilities Dwarf Bush's Wall Street Bailout

Website of the Day
Hammered by the Irish: the Video

September 22, 2008

Michael Hudson
The Paulson-Bernanke Bank Bailout Plan: Will the Cure be Worse Than the Crisis?

Mike Whitney
Mushroom Clouds Over Wall Street

Christopher Ketcham
Let It Collapse!

Ron Jacobs
The Predators' Bailout

Anne-Marie McManus
Lost in the Rhetoric of Crisis

Robert Weitzel
The Twin Terrors of the Holy Land: a Sexy Fundamentalist and a White-Haired Zionist

Wajahat Ali
An Interview with Howard Dean

John Ross
A New Cold War Comes to Latin America

Steve Breyman
Does the U.S. Really Need Cluster Bombs?

Patrick Bond
On the Bellies of the Filth

Uri Avnery
Fly, Tzipora, Fly

Carl J. Mayer
An Open Letter to Michael Moore (AKA God's Pen Pal): Whatever Happened to Voting Your Conscience?

Website of the Day
Stop the Execution of Troy Anthony Davis

September 20 / 21, 2008

Alexander Cockburn
Is This the Stake Through Neoliberalism's Heart?

Michael Hudson
America's Own Kleptocracy

Pam Martens
The Wall Street Model: Unintelligent Design

Lila Rajiva
Putting Lipstick on an AIG

Mike Whitney
Full-Spectrum Breakdown

Richard Rhames
A Bailout to Nowhere

Bill Moyers /
Michael Winship
The NY Yankees and the U.S. Economy

Bill and Kathleen Christison
The Making of Recent U.S. Middle East Policies: a New Study of Neocon Influence

Susan Block
Palin as Venus in Furs: the Dominatrix Politics of Drilling and Killing

Robert Fantina
Republicans and Subpoenas: Never the Twain Shall Meet

Heidi Walters
Hung Up on Route 36: an 18-Wheeler and a Nuclear Cask

David Yearsley
Germany's Lost Organs: When Bigger Was Better

Raymond J. Lawrence
The Politics of Tribulation: Sarah Palin and the Rapture

David Rosen
One Billion Pills Later: Viagra at 10

David Michael Green
Living in Sarah Palin's America

Anthony Papa
Imprisoned Voters and the Elections

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Freddie, Fannie, Daddy, Nanny

Howard Lisnoff
When We Notice the Homeless

John Goekler
Leaving Every Child Behind

Missy Beattie
Impalement

Dave Zirin
Leave Josh Howard Alone

Charles R. Larson
Holden Caulfield, Rest in Peace

Tim Matson
Too Big for His Birches: Woodlot Economics

Susie Day
Attack of the Angry Fetus

Poets' Basement
Corseri, Gibbons, Jenkins and Ford

Website of the Weekend
Dylan & Baez: Deportees

September 19, 2008

Steven T. Banko
McCain's Passion Play

Mike Whitney
The Point of No Return

Michael Hudson
The Dow Jones' Wonderfully Cheesy Addition

William Kaufman
Shattering the Glass-Steagall Act: the Bi-Partisan Origins of the Financial Crisis

Brenda Norrell
The Fall of Lehman Bros.: Blowback for Black Mesa?

Keeanga-Yamatta Taylor
The New Rhetoric of Racism: Why Won't Obama Call It Out?

Clifton Ross
Bolivia: Cleaning Up the Bull Ring

Dave Lindorff
Hang On to Your Wallets: the Government's About to Rescue Us!

Cynthia McKinney
Seize the Time!

Susan Hurlich
Storm Survivors: a Dispatch from Cuba

Michael Donnelly
Let's Hand It All Over to the Democrats (They Helped Create This Mess)

Website of the Day
The Crisis Explained

September 18, 2008

Benjamin Dangl
The Machine Gun and the Meeting Table

Harvey Wasserman
The Senate's Drill, Drill, Drill Scam

Susan Abulhawa
The Lobby Has Spoken: Biden and Israel

Robert Weissman
After the Fall: the Financial Re-Regulatory Agenda

Anne-Marie McManus
McCain's Cinderella: the Fetishization of Sarah Palin

Corey D. B. Walker
The Poverty of 21st Century Progressivism

William S. Lind
Senator O'Bush: Why Obama is Wrong on Iran and Afghanistan

Ron Jacobs
Washington's False Logic of Torture

Dave Lindorff
American and China: Joined at the Hip

Binoy Kampmark
How Damien Hirst Got Away With It

Website of the Day
An Invisible Army

September 17, 2008

Stephen Conn
Palin and the Politics of Big Oil

Forrest Hylton
Reactionary Rampage in Bolivia

Patrick Cockburn
Petraeus Leaves Iraq

Gregory Elich
Inside North Korea

Ralph Nader
How the U.S. Auto Industry Wrecked Itself

Franklin Lamb
The Palestinians of Shabra-Shatila

Pam Martens
The Gang's All Here: Bush, McCain and the Old Iran/Contra Team

Dave Lindorff
The End of the Blue Chip Economy

Peter Morici
The Damage Deepens

Stanley Heller
The Killing of Count Folke Bernadotte

Douglas Valentine
Rambling David Foster Wallace

Website of the Day
Free Cindy McCain!

September 16, 2008

Paul Craig Roberts
US Economy: Rudderless and Reeling from Direct Hits

Tiphaine Dickson
Citizen Palin: Why Sarah Palin Quoted Westbrook Pegler

Stan Goff
America is Now Rome: an Open Letter to Christian Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan

Uri Avnery
Tzipi's Choice

Michael Winship
Lipstick on Polar Bears

Jeff Halper
Warehousing Palestinians

Patrick Irelan
Bolivia Versus the Empire

Oscar Gonzalez
Who's Dumber? Ike's Refugees or Wall Street's?

Binoy Kampmark
Cheney and His Records

Fatemeh Keshavarz
Muslims are at Peace with You

Sen. Russ Feingold
Restoring the Rule of Law

Website of the Day
The Next Great Rock Band?

September 15, 2008

Mike Whitney
The Tumbrils Roll at Dawn

Peter Morici
Toxic Lehman

Patrick Cockburn
Take Another Look at the Surge

Charles R. Larson
The Maverick Has No Clothes

Jonathan Cook
The Expulsion of Palestinians from Jaffa

Nikolas Kozloff
Racist Rhetoric in Bolivia

Roger Burbach
Morales Confronts the Insurrection: Bolivia and the Echoes of Allende

Helen Redmond
Where's the Health Care Bailout?

David Michael Green
The Democrats Do Poland

David Macaray
The Boeing Strike

Ralph Nader
Remembering Peter Camejo

Website of the Day
The Ballad of Sarah Palin

Weekend Edition
October 10 / 12, 2008

Trojans! Do Not Trust the Horse

Wireless Mind, Gullible Mind

By CHELLIS GLENDINNING

eco ne credite,  Teuri,
            quidquid id est,  timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
                                                --Virgil,  Aeneid

I have been contemplating the infamous Trojan Horse whose deus-ex-machina arrival at the edge of Troy stirred wonder among the gullible citizens,  only to lure them to their demise.

I think such thoughts because another mighty horse has been steered into our midst,  and like Trojans we have thrown open the gates to welcome it in.

I am referring to the onslaught of wireless technologies in the form of microwave towers,  satellites showering the planet with radiation,  Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) ports,  Wireless Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) antennas -- plus all the gadgets they make possible:  cordless phones,  pagers,  Blackberries,  roving laptops,  wireless water meters,  satellite TV and radio,  in-flight internet.  I am referring as well to the electromagnetic weapons,  radiation-emitting stations,  surveillance instruments,  and crowd-control devices military and law enforcement deploy. 

These sources of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation,  or radiofrequency,  present a frightening specter.  Some 3,000-plus medical,  biological,  and epidemiological studies have demonstrated links between exposure and deterioration of the blood-brain barrier that blocks viruses and bacteria,  DNA damage,  leukemia,  nervous system disorders,  immune deficiency,  heart arrhythmias and coronaries,  insomnia,  anxiety,  depression,  memory loss,  dizziness,  deafness,  brain tumors,  etc.

And who is poised to slam the gates on this interloper?   Not many.  Somehow a population with DDT,  Love Canal,  the Dalkon Shield Intrauterine Device,  asbestos,  Three Mile Island,  and Agent Orange under its belt is mustering up the same old psychological defenses it used to not learn from those debacles.

I made “somehow” my business during the 1980s anti-nuclear movement;  I studied the psyche’s means of blotting out concern for weapons build-up.  I went on to research the challenges endured by survivors of health-threatening technologies and the public’s means of dismissing their suffering.

Truth is,  we’re not looking at a horse of a very different color today.  Those same methods the psyche used to numb against the arms race and deny the existence of asbestos workers and DES daughters are here again.

GULLIBLE MIND

Social philosopher Lewis Mumford’s concept of “mad rationality” comes to mind.  And renegade Freudian R.D. Laing’s assertion that our “socially shared hallucinations,  our collusive madness is what we call sanity.”  Too,  psychoanalyst Eric Fromm’s observation:  “That millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make those people sane.”

Let’s consider repression:  blanking out the facts and one’s feelings about the facts.  As psychologist Daniel Goleman puts it:  “One forgets,  then forgets one has forgotten.”  In this case the forgetting is made more likely because,  like radiation from nuclear technologies,  electromagnetic radiation is invisible.  And indeed,  upon hearing of links between radiofrequency and disease,  some people sputter “Uh,”  spin around in a fog,  and flee.  Telecommunications corporations rely on repression when touting their happy-talk-keep-talkin’ claims.  “Satellite dishes receive radiation perfectly.  There’s no spillover,”  announce public-relations departments,  while consumers stampede to their local satellite-TV outlets with nary a “Hello?”

Denial is like repression but carries an edge of active manipulation.  When we repress,  we erase the whole enchilada;  when we deny,  we rearrange the facts to make reality more palatable.  Needless to say,  the industry is the #1 perpetrator of this psychic defense.  But the public isn’t bad at it either.  After four decades of bio-radiological research,  Dr. Robert O. Becker gave his wrap-up in 2000:  “I have no doubt in my mind that at the present time the greatest polluting element in the earth’s environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic fields.”  Environmental scientist Dr. Neil Cherry predicts that every human will develop not one,  but many cancers.   A New Mexico journalist with autoimmune disease,  whose husband contracted cancer after they installed satellite internet-TV,  responded with:  “It’s just another thing in an already polluted world.”

Selective attention is a sub-category of denial:  letting in some facts but not others.  Like the artist who insists that cell phones are dangerous,  but cell towers are not.  And the sign-maker who busted his ass to contribute banners to fight the T-Mobile tower a half mile from his home – and then installed WiFi in the house. 

With personal disconnection we may admit a problem but proclaim that,  because of this or that,  it has no personal impact.  Emblematic is a chat I had with a non-profit administrator whose neighborhood in San Francisco was one of the first WiFi “hot spots” in the U.S.  His wife had developed strange health problems while living there -- which disappeared every summer when she went to Vermont.  To him,  though,  yoga and vitamins would provide protection. 

Rationalization is the mind’s alibi.  “But,  but,  but,  but….”  But I need my iPhone to report I’m noshing an energy bar at ticketing/buckled in to seat 23A/waiting at baggage claim/hailing a cab/knocking on your front door.  But here in Austin I can’t get my favorite Boston radio station.  But I have to check my email every ten minutes.  But my girlfriends are on their phones six hours a day,  I only use mine for four! 

With projection we split the content of our minds into “Save” and “Delete”-- and throw what we deem unacceptable onto persons and objects outside ourselves.  Come hell or high water,  the telecommunications industry is muscling its $1-trillion way toward  planetary dominion;  in the face of such might,  vulnerability before the toxic emissions demands an outlet,  lest we face our fear of confrontation.  One ready target is the already fallen:  the electro-sensitive.  Like atomic vets and Three Mile Island residents before them,  they have become recipients of disdain and discrimination,  called “crazy,”    given zero support,  and pushed to the margins where,  often homeless,  they live in their cars.

Resignation is the roll-over-play-dead defense.  “Ah well.”

COULD UNEXPECTED LIBERATION OF THE MIND BE FAR BEHIND?

Meanwhile – as both Democrats and Republicans throw open the gates for the industry’s plot to build a national “Smart Grid” that will leave no inch of North America unWiMAXed – Virgil’s 2000-year-old warning becomes timely:  “Whatever it is,  I fear the Greeks,  even bringing gifts.”

Ever since the U.S. Telecommunications Act of 1996 welcomed W.T.O-inspired deregulation and F.C.C.- bolstered corporate protections,  a group of scientists and  citizens has been active,  working through such groups as EMR Network,  EMR Policy Network,  and Council on Wireless Technology Impacts.  Microwave News has consistently provided information and updates. 

At the same time illnesses that had been relatively unusual have become normal.  Diabetes,  asthma,  testicular cancer,  brain tumors,  malignant melanoma,  immune deficiency,  chronic fatigue,  childhood cancers,  sleep dysfunction,  autism,  multiple sclerosis,  hypothyroidism,  anxiety disorders,  epilepsy,  strokes,  heart attacks.

As a mental health professional,  I am well aware that the psyche has the wherewithal to grip its defenses ‘til knuckle-white death.  And yet,  in my lifetime,  I have also witnessed miraculous and unexpected liberations of the mind.

Chellis Glendinning, Ph.D.,  LPCC,  is a psychotherapist.  Her books include When Technology Wounds (1990) and the forthcoming Luddite.com: A Personal History of Technology.  She is a descendant of Alexander Graham Bell. 

Notes

WIRELESS 101

When the microwave oven was first unveiled,  consumers were told to jump back after turning it on.  The radiation in a microwave oven is the same as what comes off a cell tower or an iPhone.  The only difference:  the industry decided not to warn you anymore.

A significant increase in cancer,  particularly breast and brain,  occurs within ¾ mile of a cell tower.

When not being used but still turned on,  cell phones draw down radiofrequency waves.  Men who wear cell phones on their belts can get testicular cancer.

If you can walk around talking on your phone,  it is cordless – read: wireless -- and has the same impact as a cell phone.  Worse,  the base station is your own private,  in-house,   24/7 cell tower.

The more data transmitted,  the more radiation is required.  Ergo:  WiFi,  which can send written data and photos,  is more toxic than simple cell-phone messages.  WiMAX,  which can handle movies,  videos,  and huge transfers of written material,  is more dangerous than WiFi.

WiFi extends 300 feet from its port.  When you turn it on in your house,  you contaminate your neighbors.

Hybrid cars infuse drivers and passengers with electromagnetic radiation.

Compact fluorescent lights can trigger migraine headaches,  dizziness,  and epileptic seizures.

Laboratory animals implanted with ID chips display an increase in malignant tumors,  with the cancer often wrapped around the implant.  This is the same device sold in pet stores to keep track of your beloved animal-people.

Radiofrequency from towers causes forest die-off,  bird deaths,  and cancer in farm animals.

Some people can feel electromagnetic radiation – between 4% and 30%.  They get heart palpitations,  dizziness,  brain fog,  visual light flashes,  and ringing in the ears.  Many people don’t feel anything.  And some do,  but have no idea why they feel ill. 

The more radiation you are exposed to,  the more likely you are to develop sensitivity.

Scientists are exploring a causal relationship between the proliferation of wireless technologies and global warming -- which stands to reason when you think about how hot a microwave oven gets.                                                                        

A BRIEF HISTORY  OF RESISTANCE

May 2000.  Pioneering a legal concept called “electromagnetic trespass,”  a Spanish court orders Iberdrola S.A. to remove its transformer from an apartment building and pay for residents’ medical bills.

July 2001.  In Cyprus a peaceful demonstration against Britain’s planned military communications towers turns into a riot after police open fire.  Protestors ransack a police station and demand the release of their prime minister who had been doing civil disobedience atop a 160-foot mast.

September 2002.  Scientists meet at the International Conference State of the Research in Electromagnetic Fields in Catania,  Italy,  and issue a declaration warning against electromagnetic exposure.

October 2002.  German doctors issue the Freiburger Appeal proclaiming the relationship between microwave exposure and disease.  Thousands of doctors worldwide sign on.

February 2003.  After the biggest-ever protest meeting of a village in northern New Mexico,  the local school board cancels an already-signed contract to erect cell towers on its schools.

March 2003.  The Catholic Church in Italy calls for cell-phone antennas to be removed from bell towers,  branding them dangerous to human health and spiritually “out of keeping.

November 2003.  In England and Ireland citizens bulldoze down cell towers –- as many as eight each week.

February 2006.  Ontario University in Canada bans WiFi from campus.

February 2006.  An international congress of scientists in Italy issues the Benevento Resolution,  warning against exposure to electromagnetic radiation and calling for wireless-free zones and wise siting of antennas.

2006.  The Chamber of Doctors in Vienna,  Austria,  issues posters for clinics and doctors’ offices warning patients against cell-phone use.

June 2007.  In Spain citizens hold International Day Against Electromagnetic Pollution to publicize the medical effects of high-voltage power lines,  electric-power substations,  mobile-telephone antennas,  radio lines,  WiFi,  and WiMAX.

September 2007.  Germany’s Environmental Ministry and Federal Office for Radiation Protection issues an unprecedented national warning to citizens:  avoid exposure to radiation emanating from WiFi and WiMAX ports in cafés,  schools,  and public “hot spots.”

September 2007.  The European Environmental Agency demands immediate action to reduce exposure to radiation from WiFi,  WiMAX,  mobile phones,  and antennas.

October 2007.  Protestors in a Druze village in Israel rip down a mobile phone mast.  Police open fire on them;  they fight back throwing stones and metal bars.

December 2007.  After only five months of the new WiFi system in Paris’ libraries,  the union wins a moratorium due to the health effects  among librarians.

January 2008.  Thousands of Chinese demonstrators take to the streets to protest the extension of a magnetic levitation train through Shanghai.

February 2008.  Cell-phone antennas in Tudela,  Spain,  are removed when damage to citizens’ health is revealed.

March 2008.  The Sebastopol City Council in California breaks its contract to install citywide WiFi.

April 2008.  The National Library of France dismantles its entire WiFi system.

September 2008.  The Linn-Wilsonville School Board in Portland,  Oregon,  unplugs its cell towers and cancels leases for WiMAX.

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