Neocons Tie N. Korea to Israeli Strike on Syria

Nearly two weeks have passed since Israeli warplanes conducted a mysterious raid against an as yet unidentified target in northeast Syria. Details of the incident have been slow to come, as officials from both countries have remained tightlipped. In the absence of a...

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The Iranian Conundrum

Be careful what you wish for – that might be the catch phrase for American relations with Iran since the CIA helped overthrow the elected government of that country in 1953 and installed the young shah in power. Much of our present world – and many of our...

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Greenspan’s Unsure Grasp of Economics

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan contends that although it may not have been the Bush administration's motive, "the Iraq war is largely about oil." According to Greenspan, such an admission is simply "to acknowledge what everyone knows." To say the Iraq...

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The Mirage of ‘Victory’

Justin is traveling and his column will return on Monday. Whatever you do, don't ask John Kerry a question: you may live to regret it, as did a student at the University of Florida, who was blasted with a Taser gun by the campus "police" – while the Young...

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Kerry Complicit in
Bush’s Crimes

Naïve Americans who think they live in a free society should watch the videos filmed by students at a John Kerry speech Sept. 17, Constitution Day, at the University of Florida in Gainesville. At the conclusion of Kerry's speech, Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old...

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Myopic Pentagon Keeps
Filling Gitmo

Remember 10 months ago, when the Democrats, following success in the midterm elections, briefly held out the promise that they had teeth, and Donald Rumsfeld, the former strongman who had become a laughingstock, resigned his post as defense secretary? There were, at...

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Blackwater Banned After Deadly Firefight

The Iraqi government announced Monday that it had revoked the license of one of the most prominent private U.S. security firms operating in Iraq, a decision that is expected to cause friction with U.S. occupying forces, which have increasingly come to rely on private...

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