Backtalk January 11, 2006

Nuking Iran With the UN's Blessing Dear Mr. Jorge Hirsch, I agree with every single word you wrote in your above article. But I was waiting to read your suggestions as well, meaning what the world, including the U.S.A., should do concerning the irresponsible Iranian...

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Sharon’s Demise Gives Analysts the Jitters

Nearly a week after a massive stroke effectively removed Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from Israeli politics, the outlook in Washington is mostly worried and pessimistic. The administration of President George W. Bush, who personally clearly admired the former general...

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MoveOn.org Surrenders

It's a good thing for MoveOn.org that George W. Bush was reelected. If he hadn't been, the liberal troupe would have nothing to contest. Even if the bloody occupation had continued under a John Kerry presidency (it most certainly would have), the cowering office-chair...

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Stuff and Nonsense

If the publisher and editors of the New York Times thought the soon-to-be released book – entitled State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration – by their reporter James Risen will undo the damage done to the reputation of the...

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Bush’s Botched War on Terror

Peering ahead into what will certainly be a lively New Year: One aspect of the president's generally poor polling numbers – which bumped up modestly thanks to a holiday propaganda onslaught about democracy, progress, and victory in Iraq (and, in the first poll to...

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Kurdistan: A Gangster State

Dr. Kamal Said Qadir, also known as Kamal Berzenji, was kidnapped by the agents of the Kurdish Democratic Party's intelligence unit, Parastin, on Oct. 26, 2005, and jailed. His "crime": writing "insulting" articles about Kurdish Democratic Party...

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Peace Takes Time

HANOI - Peace is good, but it takes time. Of all the similarities between the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, perhaps the most painful is the wreckage America will eventually leave behind when it's imperial adventure is finally over. Whether the last U.S. soldiers leave...

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How to Stop the Planned Nuking of Iran

Multiple pieces of independent evidence suggest that America is embarked in a premeditated path that will lead inexorably to the use of nuclear weapons against Iran in the very near future. Facing clear evidence of this peril, we cannot wait for the final proof –...

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