Out of the Superpower Orbit

Of the two superpowers that faced each other down in an almost half-century-long Cold War, one – the United States – emerged victorious, alone in the world, economically powerful, militarily dominant; the other, never the stronger of the two, limped off, its...

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Backtalk, May 3, 2005

9-11 Conspiracy Fact & FictionThe appearance on the very same day of Justin Raimondo's "Waco as Metaphor" and someone else's "911 Conspiracy: Fact & Fiction" has me puzzled. The two messages seem to clash.By linking the official lies about Waco and Iraq, Raimondo...

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Truth, History, and Honor Killing

In recent years, two best-selling titles have appeared on the subject of honor killing in the Arab world. Norma Khouri's Forbidden Love (also published under the title Honor Lost) and "Souad's" Burned Alive were both published in 2003. In that fateful year, while the...

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Iraq: ‘Mission Accomplished’?

Two years ago Sunday, in a splashy display of his role as commander-in-chief, George W. Bush landed on board the USS Lincoln in the co-pilot's seat of a Navy S-3B Viking. Standing amid a sea of his Praetorians – against the backdrop of a huge banner proclaiming...

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The Palestinian Gandhi

"Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?" is a quite popular question, especially abroad. You won't often hear it asked (with the inevitable self-righteous shrug) here in Israel: after all, the Israeli culture itself worships violence, with the semantic field of "war" being...

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The Palestinian Gandhi

"Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?" is a quite popular question, especially abroad. You won't often hear it asked (with the inevitable self-righteous shrug) here in Israel: after all, the Israeli culture itself worships violence, with the semantic field of "war" being...

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The Dubious Legality of the Iraq War

Evidently, Prime Minister Tony Blair failed to "properly inform" the House of Commons about the legality of the Bush-Blair use of force against Iraq. Indeed, Blair may have deliberately misinformed them. Commons passed on March 19, 2003, the British Government's...

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