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Two days after the coup d’etat that brought a brutal military junta to power in Argentina, then U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ordered his subordinates to "encourage" the new regime by providing financial support, according to a previously classified transcript released here by the independent National Security Archive (NSA). The document, whose public release … Continue reading “Kissinger Backed Argentine Junta 30 Years Ago”

Back in November, 2004, the United Kingdom, France and Germany (E3) undertook to negotiate with Iran on behalf of the European Union a mutually acceptable long-term agreement which would provide the EU “objective guarantees” that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes. Now, why would Iran agree to provide additional guarantees, above and beyond … Continue reading “More Failed Diplomacy”

Wrapping up a week of over 600 protest actions to mark three years since the United States invaded Iraq, activists here say that antiwar sentiment has become the dominant perspective in the U.S. and leaves the war "without legitimacy." Joining thousands of others around the world, antiwar protesters in the United States took to the … Continue reading “‘Bring Troops Home’ Call Echoes Across US”

Last week’s anniversary of the start of the Iraq War prompted loads of discussions. For some reason, journalists love anniversaries, though of course they are highly selective in which anniversaries they take note of. Out of these discussions always comes the administration’s ploy, which is that if you don’t have a solution, then don’t criticize … Continue reading “Time to Leave Iraq”

While President Bush appears serenely confident about Iraq, the same cannot be said of the War Party propagandists who were plotting this conflict when Dubya was still a rookie governor of Texas. William Kristol of The Weekly Standard now demands the firing of Donald Rumsfeld. William F. Buckley, whose National Review branded the antiwar Right … Continue reading “Are the Neocons Losing It?”

So have we learned anything after three years in Iraq and two years and 10 months after the White House created a "Mission Accomplished" sign for an aircraft carrier on which President Bush spoke? Well, we learned, or were reminded, early on in the Iraq war, that the U.S. military long ago sloughed off the … Continue reading “Iraq Three Years On”

U.S. military intervention in Iraq was supposed to result in the Great Transformation: the neoconservatives who howled for war reassured us with their own version of a reverse domino theory, in which, when Iraq fell to the American "liberators," the rest of the region would soon follow. Not only would repressive Arab regimes be changed, … Continue reading “What Has America Wrought?”

President George W. Bush has long assured the world that his intentions in Iraq are strictly honorable – to set the country on a clear and stable path toward democracy and withdraw U.S. troops as soon as Iraqi forces can take control, “and not one day more.” But more recent statements by top U.S. officials, … Continue reading “Are US Intentions More ‘Base’ Than Honorable?”

Top officials in the Bush administration have often complained that news coverage of Iraq focuses on negative events too much and fails to devote enough attention to positive developments. Yet the White House has rarely picked direct fights with U.S. media outlets during this war. For the most part, President Bush leaves it to others … Continue reading “Blaming the Media for
Bad War News”

A Collapsing PresidencyI judge people by their records. The only man who really predicted everything that has happened in the last four years BEFORE it happened was Paul Craig Roberts.I am a Republican and a classical conservative. Paul Craig Roberts is my number one hero in life. I consider every article he writes to be … Continue reading “Backtalk, March 24, 2006”