Support the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007

I am introducing a comprehensive piece of legislation to restore the American Constitution and to restore the liberties that have been sadly eroded over the past several years. This legislation seeks to restore the checks and balances enshrined in the Constitution by...

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Assassination of Sheikh Shakes US Claims

BAGHDAD - Resistance to occupation seems to have risen after the assassination last month of Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, head of the al-Bu Risha tribe. Abu Risha had begun to cooperate actively with US forces. Abu Risha was killed Sep. 13 when a bomb exploded outside his...

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Secrecy and the War Without End

I am at a conference on war, liberty and the free press sponsored by the Liberty Fund, and there are some discussions we have held that I believe are worth passing on. One of the most significant aspects of the relationship between the press and the military in time...

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WWIII – Bring It On

Five years ago, in a new National Security Statement, President Bush announced that; "The United States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security. "The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of...

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Bush’s Pentagon Papers: The Urge to Confess

They can't help themselves. They want to confess. How else to explain the torture memorandums that continue to flow out of the inner sancta of this administration, the most recent of which were evidently leaked to the New York Times. Those two, from the Alberto...

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Backtalk, October 20, 2007

The Mother of All Pretexts Uri Avnery's "The Mother of All Pretexts" is carefully and subtly wrought, by a mind alive with the history of the region and its deeper nuances. Two points might be added. The idea of a "clash of civilizations" is not a new idea, but rooted...

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Still Flogging a Dead Cuba Policy?

The policy of isolation towards Cuba is a bad hangover from the Cold War that the United States can't afford to nurse any longer, foreign policy experts and Cuban-American political activists argued this week, both because of its unpopularity and a variety of concerns...

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Military Resistance Forced Shift on Iran Strike

The George W. Bush administration's shift from the military option of a massive strategic attack against Iran to a surgical strike against selected targets associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker...

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