Wanted: The Truth About The Kent State Killings

Americans of a certain age may remember the murder of students on the Kent State University campus 34 years ago and the anger it once aroused. On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen killed four college students and wounded nine others – one of them, Dean Kahler,...

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Fallujah: Victory Rises Above a Mass Grave

A team of local volunteers wearing surgical masks lifts the rotting body of a middle-aged woman from a shallow grave in the front yard of a house. The house owner says the body lay there three weeks. A U.S. aircraft bombed her car as she fled the city with her...

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Democracy: A Heretic’s View

I don't believe in democracy. In some liberal circles this makes me a heretic who should be shot. Less reactive liberals smiled blankly at my consternation at our British government's collaboration with America in raining down hell on Yugoslavia – for...

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Commander of Torture Prison Blames Army

US Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, the officer who has been at the center of a storm about abuse and torture by US soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, broke her silence Saturday. General Karpinski was the commander of Abu Ghraib prison. Speaking to the...

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The Lesson of the ANZAC’s

On the 25th of April, Australia commemorated Anzac Day – a day that pays tribute to all Australian servicemen in general, but particularly pays homage to those Australians who died during World War I.  It was, predictably, used by the Australian Prime Minister...

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When Intelligence Is Disinformation

During the Cold War, Soviet intelligence agencies sometimes provided us "disinformation" – false information, intended to obscure the truth. Hence, there were frequently sharp differences of opinion within our own intelligence community as to whether or...

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Antiwar.com: The Only Alternative

There isn't time to write this, which is why I'm tapping it out an hour or so into a return flight to San Francisco from New York, where I've just spoken to a group of 150 or so. And a most appreciative group it was. I was astonished to discover, however, that my...

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War Propaganda

If you step back a moment and think about it, you will realize that you are constantly being propagandized to approve of war – not just the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but war generically. We should resist. War is killing, maiming and disfiguring human beings....

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