In Hollywood Westerns, the sheriff engages in a shootout with bad guys and wins. Such was the story of Wyatt Earp, who killed rustlers in the "Gunfight at OK Corral." Then there is the American cowboy, represented by John Wayne — tall, handsome, Anglo-Saxon — who rides into town whistling before he dispatches the "bad …
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Osama’s dead, but he won, says Kevin Carson
In stark contrast to yesterday, only four Iraqis were reported killed today. At least eight were also injured.
Tom Engelhardt: Stop celebrating and go back to Kansas
Good, says Pat Buchanan
Amid a continuing crackdown against opposition forces, U.S. President Barack Obama is coming under growing pressure to impose tougher sanctions against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Two key lawmakers with close ties to the powerful "Israel Lobby" on Capitol Hill called Thursday for Obama to fully enforce existing sanctions, which would deny Damascus …
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Justin Raimondo on the choice before us
As America’s morbid celebrations over the killing of Osama bin Laden begin to fade, we are left with a new landscape of risks – and opportunities – created by his slaying at the hands of a U.S. Special Forces team at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The range of those future prospects could be found …
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Updated at 10:54 p.m. EDT, May 5, 2011
A significant blast targeting police just south of Baghdad left scores dead or wounded. At least 40 Iraqis were killed and 100 more were wounded in this and other attacks across the country. New developments concerning the Arab League summit meeting and the P.M.O.I. arose as well.
But can we try to get out? asks Philip Giraldi
