Prepare for Perpetual War

The Bizarro World illogic started right off the bat when George W. Bush intoned that what we need more of in public life is "a civil tone." This from a man who has repeatedly impugned the patriotism of his opponents, and just the previous week declared that critics of...

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Afghan Farmers Feel Pinch of Poppy Eradication

For the last two years he has grown no poppy, and his family have begun to feel the pinch. This year, this farmer from Nangahar province in Afghanistan plans to resume poppy cultivation. And not just he but thousands of others, and not just in Nangahar province but...

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Hamas and Israel: Rival Twins

Hamas won the Palestinian elections. Huge surprise. Years of Israeli policy to crush secular Palestinian nationalism succeeded beyond expectation. Who could predict that in the Middle East, where causes invariably produce unintended effects (oh, those irrational...

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Hamas and Democracy

I laughed when Hamas swept the Palestinian elections. After all, President Bush and his gang of neoconservative ideologues have been preaching that democracy in the Middle East will lead to peace. Oops. Now the president will once more have to expose himself as the...

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Dreary Old Clichés

I choose to see it as a sign of verging on desperation. The war in Afghanistan is still going on at a certain level all these years after our leaders congratulated themselves on winning it, and Afghan president Hamid Karzai still has trouble setting foot outside...

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U.S. Hopes for Smooth Elections in Haiti

US officials and analysts here are hoping that Haiti's elections next Tuesday will run smoothly and bring to power a credible government two years after Washington itself helped oust the last elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Unlike recent elections in the...

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Military Medicine on Trial

Since the fall of 2002 at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay (GITMO), and during the fall of 2003 and early winter of 2004 at the now infamous U.S. Army detention facility at Abu Ghraib, Iraq, several Iraqi, Afghan, Pakistani and other "enemy combatant" detainees...

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President Bonkers Bolton

Why is President Bush hell-bent on getting Iran’s alleged violations referred to the UN Security Council before March? Perhaps it’s because John Bolton is President of the Security Council this month. Bonkers Bolton has been point man in Bush’s campaign...

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Al-Jazeera Succeeding Under Pressure

DOHA, Qatar – Its foreign bureaus were bombed by U.S. warplanes, it is banned from reporting from four Middle East countries – and al-Jazeera is only growing in popularity. An interesting, and sometimes tragic path has led to the success of al-Jazeera since...

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