The People Speak

When even the pro-war London Telegraph starts having second thoughts about the wisdom of staying in Iraq, you know the War Party's goose is cooked: "Three years after the original invasion, supporters of the war should assess the situation with pitiless clarity. Three...

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Report Details CIA’s Covert Rendition Fleet

As U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her team continue to face increasingly harsh criticism from Muslim communities, Amnesty International has issued a new report on one of the practices they condemn the most: rendition. The new report, "Below the...

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Cutting and Running in Baghdad

It didn't take long after the invasion of Iraq began in March 2003 for one of the radioactive words of the Vietnam era to make its first appearance, even if in stunted, referential form. Media pundits, former military men, and others began fretting, even as American...

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France: Reinforcing Addiction

The ongoing demonstrations in France suggest that a welfare state is very much like an addictive drug. Even though it no longer delivers the euphoric feeling that first lured users, even though almost all concerned, including the most dependent, know that continued...

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Backtalk, April 7, 2006

Go See V for Vendetta Kudos to Justin Raimondo for his article on V for Vendetta. I wanted to add my voice to the (hopefully large) number of people who HIGHLY RECOMMEND reading the actual graphic novel. Mr. Alan Moore is, as will be evident, a genius, and his book is...

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Evangelicals Rally Their Flocks Behind Israel

Charismatic televangelist John Hagee thinks that the Rev. Pat Robertson's suggestion that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was payback from God for withdrawing from Gaza was "insensitive and unnecessary." But he nevertheless appears to share Robertson's...

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Getting a Piece of the Pie

The absolute reversal of the 1949 Communist Revolution is both a path to a glorious future and a treacherous road toward disintegration. The triumph of the worker/peasant rebellion over China's oppressive class structure soon became a fulfillment of George Orwell's...

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Go See V for Vendetta

You know something is up when a film like V for Vendetta is a box office hit. Adapted from a series of graphic novelettes (i.e., comic books) written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd, the plot is set in a dystopian future Britain where "the...

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Returning to the Scene
of the Crime

In the Vietnam era, the subject of war crimes was the last to arrive and the first to depart. When, in 1971 in Detroit, Vietnam Veterans Against the War convened its Winter Soldier Investigation into U.S. war crimes in Southeast Asia, it was roundly ignored by the...

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