At some level, the situation is simple enough. As retired Lt. Col. Charles A. Krohn, former Army deputy chief of public affairs at the Pentagon and in Baghdad, put it recently in the Washington Post, the Bush administration has “basically committed most of the Army’s active forces (including much of the National Guard), rotating them …
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After White House Deputy Secretary Karl Rove’s lawyer confirmed that Rove spoke to at least one reporter about CIA operative Valerie Plame, the ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has called for a Congressional investigation into Rove’s outing of a CIA official. “The intentional disclosure of a covert CIA agents …
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It’s time the U.S. military stopped shooting journalists. In the last three weeks, American soldiers have killed at least four journalists in Iraq – each while the reporter was driving his car. Two of the cases are especially telling. There is the case of Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi correspondent for Knight Ridder newspapers. He was …
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Many people will remember Janice Karpinsky, the U.S. Army Reserve brigadier general who was reprimanded and demoted for failing to stop the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. But few will remember Brig. Gen. Rick Baccus, who was sacked in October 2002 as commander of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo), for …
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An unsolicited bid by the Chinese National Offshore Oil Co. (CNOOC) to buy Unocal, a major U.S. oil company, has put Washington’s free-market rhetoric to the test, with disappointing results, some analysts say. The global economic rules set by the victors of World War II have generally encouraged investors, typically from rich nations, to bid …
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KARACHI – Alarm and dismay have been the general reaction in Pakistan to news of a framework agreement on defense cooperation signed between India, its long-standing rival in South Asia and the United States – which, only a year ago, accorded this country the status of "major non-NATO ally." Many said the agreement signed late …
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A majority of Americans had finally gotten over the fearmongering that convinced them to support the invasion of Iraq. The panic and bloodlust produced by the Sept. 11 attacks had faded after nearly four years. Listen to Scott’s interview with Debbie Hopper & Scott Kohlhaas stream download mp3 But after the July …
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If you want to hear the voice of the War Party, listen to Efraim Halevi – and be very afraid. Director of the Center for Strategic and Policy Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a former head of the Mossad, Halevi presents a clear, unabashed view of what is supposedly required to fight …
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On Thursday morning, with the London bombings monopolizing the TV set, I watched our president take that long, outdoor, photo-op walk from the G-8 summit meeting to the microphones to make a statement to reporters. Exploding subways, a blistered bus, the dead, wounded, dazed, and distraught just then staggering through our on-screen morning, and there …
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