ARBIL – The deadly attack on the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq earlier this month is expected to worsen ethnic and sectarian tensions. The suicide bombings in Kahtaniya and al-Jazeera villages in the northern Nineveh province of Iraq Aug. 14 left more than 400 dead and at least 200 injured. These were the most lethal …
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Civil liberties advocates and Democrats hailed Monday’s resignation by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as a major victory, while most Republicans, for whom Gonzales’ performance had increasingly become a source of embarrassment, kept their comments to a minimum. Gonzales, a longtime crony of President George W. Bush and the first Hispanic citizen to hold a …
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As Americans anguish over how to extricate this country from Iraq without a disaster greater than what we now have, and without our friends suffering the fate of our friends in Cambodia and Vietnam, they had best brace themselves. This escalator is going up. George Bush and his generals are laying out the case for …
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In the videos below, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Doug Casey debate Dinesh D’Souza and Larry Abraham on U.S. foreign policy. The debate was part of FreedomFest, held July 10-12, 2007, in Las Vegas.
Anyone who doubts that the war party is firmly focused on Iran need only take note of the Aug. 21 lead editorial in the Washington Post, which had the heading "Tougher on Iran: The Revolutionary Guard is at war with the United States. Why not fight back?" The Post, which regularly features neocons like Charles …
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Updated at 6:35 p.m. EDT, Aug. 27, 2007As an expected five million people arrive in Karbala for a religious observance, Iraq security forces are focused on preventing attacks against Shi’ite pilgrims. Still, at least 62 Iraqis have been killed or found dead and 45 more were wounded in the latest violence. Also, four U.S. servicemembers …
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Just when it seemed that the neocons would get away with their echo chamber tactic of talking up the "success" of the "surge" – and even getting a few Democrats to go along with their contention that we can’t even think about pulling out now – the War Party was hit with three major blows …
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While economic pundits point fingers at loose lending for the malodor in the housing market that is now filling the noses of financiers, they miss the primary cause: permanent war. Permanent war has caused the nation’s institutions – political, social, and economic – to be organized into an impervious structure without which war could not …
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On Sunday, Aug. 19, the Peace Coalition of Monterey County held a public meeting at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Monterey, Calif. The main topic of discussion was Iran. My local chapter of Libertarians for Peace is a member of the Coalition, and so I had volunteered to speak at the event, to tell what …
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Updated at 11:50 p.m EDT, Aug. 26, 2007At least 84 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 54 more were wounded in various attacks. Two incidents involved U.S. helicopter forces killing civilians or Iraqi policemen. Also, the DOD reported that two American soldiers were killed in a Baghdad IED explosion on Thursday. In Baghdad, 11 …
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