UK: Once Again, Stop the War

LONDON - More than three years after London saw its biggest ever rally to prevent the war in Iraq, the group Stop the War is launching a new campaign to pull coalition forces out of Iraq. That rally in 2003 failed to stop the war, as the massively backed coalition had...

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Filling the Spin Vacuum

President Bush and Karl Rove realize they are losing the pre-election public relations battle with the Democrats over the war in Iraq. Rove, the president's political ace, didn't think the American people could intellectually process more than three words. So he...

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November ’56: Defining Moment

November 1956, 50 years ago, was a month the drama of which many of us can yet recall. It was a defining moment of the Cold War. This was the month Eisenhower was reelected in a landslide and in which he laid down, in simultaneous crises, the new ground rules of the...

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Mercenaries Look Beyond Iraq

As the position of the Coalition forces in Iraq looks increasingly untenable, it is not just the fate of the national military contingents that is in question. Private military contractors, which make up the second largest Coalition contingent, are also considering...

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Bush the Cheerleader

When President George W. Bush was asked at his news conference last Wednesday whether we are winning in Iraq, he answered, "Absolutely; we're winning." The disingenuousness was almost enough to provoke sympathy for the beleaguered president as he lived...

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Third and Final Act

The third and final act in the national tragedy that is the Bush administration may soon play itself out. The Okhrana reports increasing indications of "something big" happening between the election and Christmas. That could be the long-planned attack on...

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Active-Duty GIs Call for Withdrawal

For the first time since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, active-duty members of the military are asking members of Congress to end the occupation of Iraq and bring U.S. soldiers home. More than 100 soldiers announced Wednesday that they are seeking protection under...

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Backtalk October 31, 2006

A Jewish Hitler? Justin Raimondo: My first letter. Thanks for your site, which I have been compulsively reading for months now. It gathers the cream of commentary like no other. Two things: Since reading "Reconnecting With the Reality-Based Community," Scott...

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