America’s Forgotten Vietnamese Victims

On January 30-31, 1968, the Tet holiday, the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front (NLF, known to Americans as "the Vietcong") struck at five of the country's six largest cities, 34 provincial capitals, 64 district capitals, and numerous military bases....

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America – A Bankrupt Empire

As the stock market gyrates, and Federal Reserve Board meets by videoconference to inject emergency funds into the system, Chalmers Johnson's warning that the US empire is not sustainable – that "this is the way empires end" – resonates rather...

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The Sanctions Trap

The Bush administration had been advertising the "Berlin Sanctions Summit" on Iran as a validation of their long-standing policy of seeking to isolate the Islamic Republic politically and economically in the face of Tehran's ongoing refusal to submit to the...

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Canadian General Takes Senior Command Role in Iraq

with Anthony Fenton VANCOUVER - Despite the government's official position abstaining from combat in Iraq, Canada has dispatched yet another top general to the command group overseeing day-to-day operations for the US-led occupation and counterinsurgency war....

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That Pesky Democracy

Famous anarchist Emma Goldman once said, "If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal." Following last weekend's presidential elections in Serbia, the party of the incumbent Boris Tadic must be wishing they had made voting illegal. It appears that...

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In Honor of My Mother and the Power of Love

The last time my mother was in a hospital, an essay by Thich Nhat Hanh moved in front of my eyes. "Our mother is the teacher who first teaches us love, the most important subject in life," he wrote. "Without my mother I could never have known how to...

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The West’s Orwellian Monopoly on Morality

"The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction." ~Five Western military leaders. I read the statement three times trying to figure out the typo. Then it...

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