‘This Is the Freedom America Has Brought Us’

The mayhem continues in Iraq, with at least 40 people dead today including five U.S. soldiers in Diyala province, as the meltdown of the failed U.S.-led occupation continues. Two suicide bombers detonated themselves after walking into a crowd of police officers in...

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Backtalk June 1, 2004

Is Bush a Sith Lord? Although I completely agree with the premise of the article "Is Bush a Sith Lord?," I am concerned that you claimed that child protective services framed parents to justify a large bureaucracy. I work in public social services. We are devoted...

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Why Did Feith Resign?

The headline of this New York Sun article by Eli Lake on the progress of the case [.pdf] against Lawrence A. Franklin, a Pentagon analyst accused of handing over sensitive information to Israel, has got to take the cake for sheer gall: "Pentagon Analyst In Israel Spy...

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Preserve the Republic –
Scrap Real ID

Dear Senators and Congressmen: My father loved his country. In 1943, he volunteered for the Army Air Corps, and at age 19 became a B-17 aircraft commander. He flew 25 missions into the heart of Germany to help defeat the Third Reich and protect the American way of...

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Honor Our Children’s Sacrifices

To honor those who have died in Iraq, Democracy Rising interviewed the founder of Gold Star Families for Peace – an organization made up of families who have lost members to the Iraq War. Cindy Sheehan lost her son, Casey, to the war/occupation and founded Gold...

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Iranian Nuclear Power Crazy? Think Again

Sir David King, her majesty's chief scientist, has declared "global warming" to be a more serious threat to mankind than international terrorism. Hans Blix, former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, concurs. James Lovelock, father of the Gaia...

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