24 January 2003 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
[Justin Raimondo is on the road. What follows is the text of a speech he delivered on Thursday to the Palestine Center conference, at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C.] How is it that U.S. policy in the Middle East has essentially nothing to do with vital American interests? How is it that, in [...]
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23 January 2003 | Uncategorized | James Brooks
If Americans understood our last war on Iraq, would we more strongly oppose another one? Do we know what our military does in the real world, where the Pentagon won’t even take our lapdog of a press corps out for a walk? The Gulf War’s ‘video game accuracy’ was a lie told by the Pentagon [...]
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23 January 2003 | Uncategorized | Nebojsa Malic
If there were any hopes in the past few weeks, what with the rising tide of antiwar sentiment, that the Empire might turn back from the brink of invading Iraq, the Emperor’s annual speech should have dispelled them. Within a few short weeks, before the weather window closes, there will be war. Baghdad via Belgrade [...]
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23 January 2003 | Uncategorized | Alan Bock
The troop deployments, the tough talk about President Bush getting impatient (the hardly-hidden assumption being that by virtue of occupying the Oval Office he has the right and perhaps the duty to tell Saddam Hussein or any other titular leader in the world what to do and when and how to do it), the sudden [...]
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22 January 2003 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector who quit in 1998 and now says the U.S. is intent on manufacturing phony "evidence" of arms violations as a pretext for war, is the victim of what may be the sleaziest set-up job in recent history, a smearing so foul that it makes the Clinton crowd look [...]
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22 January 2003 | Uncategorized |
One thing you have to say about being opposed to this March’s Gulf War is that, there’s nothing desperately brave in being so. It’s a conceit of too many anti-war activists that by bravely striking out against this silly crusade, they’re taking on innumerable and implacable forces. In fact, in just about every country likely [...]
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20 January 2003 | Uncategorized | Praful Bidwai
As nuclear taboos of various kinds get weakened and violated the world over, India and Pakistan are drawing each other into the vortex of a potentially ruinous nuclear and missile arms race. They are transiting from a posture of demonstrating an assured capability to cause mass destruction, to one of deterring each other with nuclear [...]
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20 January 2003 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
You’re an American GI, and you signed up because you love your country, you want to defend it, and you also want to improve the quality of your own life in a dead economy. You’re willing to fight anywhere they send you, obey orders like a good soldier, and you think the antiwar movement is [...]
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18 January 2003 | Uncategorized | Christopher Deliso
In an incisive recent commentary, Gabriel Kolko warns that, "…there have always been limits to US power, and the question today is when and how the US will acknowledge this reality." Pointing to the necessary unpredictability of intervention, and its unwanted political side effects, Kolko questions whether a war on Iraq is either feasible or [...]
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17 January 2003 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
In cities and small towns across the country, on the East Coast and in the West, Americans are standing up to the War Party and standing up for peace. Around the world, January 18 is the big day, with rallies scheduled for Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and dozens of locations in between. (Check the United [...]
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