31 August 2009 | Uncategorized | Jeff Huber
In golf and other sports, a "mulligan" is a second chance to get
something right, sometimes referred to as a "do-over." In most sports,
one do-over is all you get, and sports are just games. In war, humanity’s deadliest
undertaking, the folks in charge of the Pentagon keep asking [...]
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31 August 2009 | Uncategorized | Jeremy Scahill
Some parts of Blackwater’s clandestine work for the CIA have begun to leak
out from behind the iron curtain of secrecy. The company’s role in the secret
assassination program and its continued involvement in the CIA drone attacks
that occur regularly in Afghanistan and Pakistan have become front-page material [...]
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31 August 2009 | Uncategorized | Kelley B. Vlahos
Nearly seven years ago this month a lion roared, attempting, however unavailingly,
to compete with the Iraq war drums that had begun immediately after 9/11.
Sen. Edward Kennedy said the following on Sept.
27, 2002, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International
Studies:
"Let [...]
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31 August 2009 | Uncategorized | Patrick J. Buchanan
On Sept. 1, 1939, 70 years ago, the German Army crossed the Polish frontier.
On Sept. 3, Britain declared war.
Six years later, 50 million Christians and Jews had perished. Britain was
broken and bankrupt, Germany a smoldering ruin. Europe had served as the site
of the most murderous [...]
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31 August 2009 | Uncategorized | Mel Frykberg
QALANDIA, West Bank – The future of East Jerusalem and of Palestinian access
to it has again been brought under the spotlight.
Thousands of Palestinians were turned away at West Bank checkpoints leading
into Jerusalem by Israeli security forces as they tried to attend Friday Ramadan
prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque.
IPS [...]
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31 August 2009 | Uncategorized | Margaret Griffis
Updated at 5:35 p.m. EDT, Aug. 31, 2009
At least five Iraqis were killed and 50 more were wounded as a Turkish diplomat moderated discussions between Syria and Iraq over the violence in Iraq. Meanwhile, a group of Iraqi MiG fighters were found in Serbia, and al-Hakim’s son formally took over leadership of the SIIC party.
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30 August 2009 | Uncategorized | Ray McGovern
EXTRA! Read all about it in the Washington Post: Torture worked; Cheney
and torture practitioners vindicated; morale at CIA harmed.
It seems coverage of the Bush administration’s "war on terror" has
been put back on track by the editors of the Washington Post and their
"sources," who appear determined to [...]
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30 August 2009 | Uncategorized | David R. Henderson
Two journalists and a general talk. David R. Henderson reports
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30 August 2009 | Uncategorized | Uri Avnery
How much did the boycott of South Africa actually contribute to the fall of
the racist regime? This week I talked with Desmond Tutu about this question,
which has been on my mind for a long time.
No one is better qualified to answer this question than he. Tutu, the South
[...]
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30 August 2009 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
Like Rip van Winkle, it seems that the American antiwar movement is – finally
– waking up, although, like the original
Rip, it doesn’t seem to have changed its idle ways. "A restive antiwar
movement," avers
the New York Times, "largely dormant since the election of Barack [...]
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