Volume 21 no 1

CounterPunch Magazine, January 2014

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In this Issue:

• How AIPAC Became King of the Hill: Jeffrey Blankfort’s searing history of the Israeli lobby in American politics
• Darwin Bond-Graham writes a scathing profile of Motorola Solutions, a secretive spin-off of the tech giant which has quietly become the biggest corporate player in surveillance technology systems.
• Lee Ballinger takes readers deep into the merciless machinery of the US criminal justice system from the perspective of jurors.
• Ruth Fowler returns with a typically sharp class and race-oriented critique of the adoption craze currently trending among upper class white families.
• John White, an Irish physicist and math whiz, puts the outrageous levels of economic inequality into sobering perspective.
• Kim Nicolini with a trenchant assessment of how this year’s crop of Hollywood films portrayed the new economy of greed
• Jeffrey St. Clair offers his list of the best books of 2013 as well as a column on how the coal industry is running roughshod over West Virginia.
• JoAnn Wypijewski contributes a darkly comic account of being stranded in one of the nation’s most loathsome cities.
• Mike Whitney offers a lament for the death of the American consumer.
• Chris Floyd zeroes in on the most iconic (and chilling) moments of the Iraq war.
• Kristin Kolb serves up a measure of hope from the streets of Seattle.