A Defeat Bred in Deceit

"Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn When Bush decided, prior to Sept. 11, to attack Iraq, he committed himself to lies and deceit. As his British co-conspirators realized,...

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Rights Groups Detail Growing Police State

The FBI is carrying out "unwarranted investigations for religious or political reasons," according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which charges that "the agency has sunk back into the kind of political monitoring it did in the 1960s and...

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From Tehran to Washington, Demagogues Rule

Ten days ago, in one of southern Tehran's poor neighborhoods, I interviewed some voters in line to cast ballots for Iran's next president. After a while, when an official at the polling station asked who I thought would win, I repeated the conventional media wisdom:...

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The Last Throes of US Dominance

Last Friday, the price of light sweet crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange for August delivery closed 16 cents short of $60/barrel – the highest price ever and an ironic outcome for the millions of Americans who believe that cheap oil was the reason for...

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Backtalk June 28, 2005

Iraq: What Price 'Victory'? Justin Raimondo recently asked: what price victory? I'm not sure victory is now what the Republicans are after, except the illusion that they are still after it. My reasoning for this comes from Karl Rove's comments about liberals and the...

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Biden’s BS on Iraq

The idea that this is a Republican war, that we were lured into Iraq under false pretenses exclusively by George W. Bush and his neocon advisers, with no responsibility or input from the Democrats, is a partisan myth: we are in there, and are staying in there, to a...

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Iran’s Hardliners Reinvent Themselves

TEHRAN - Promising a better life to the society's downtrodden, the son of a blacksmith and mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinedjad, has stunned Iran by beating an establishment figure to become the nation's new president. While Ahmadinedjad's promises of "fighting...

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The Sun Also Rises

For the first time since 1942, Japan has resumed the strategic offensive. Since the beginning of the year, Japan has claimed the island of Takeshima, now occupied by South Korea; seized control of an area in the South China Sea also claimed by Beijing; and, most...

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