Stephen Zunes' Backtalk Stephen Zunes wrote: "In reality, 'the Iraq War, the threat of war with Iran, and the policy of non-engagement with Hamas and Hezbollah' have actually hurt Israel." Now you're arguing semantics. For that matter, almost everything Israel has...
Backtalk, June 24, 2008
Enough Already! Dear Mr. Raimondo, Your caveat about Tim Russert is well taken, painful as it is in a time of grieving. But the problem goes much deeper than a self-congratulatory press corps. The problem, it seems to me, is that our so-called free press is in fact a...
Backtalk, June 11, 2008
Intelligence [sic] Committee Report Gordon Prather, Congratulations and thank you for being the first writer to provide a link to the actual report [.pdf] in your comments. I had found it for myself via Google searching, but nowhere in the many articles I've read on...
Backtalk, June 09, 2008
Give China Some Face It is interesting that the author talked about "the world" throughout the article. It really should be "the West" instead. I'd say it's typical for a Westerner to consider himself representing the world. The West does not represent the world. It...
Backtalk, May 19, 2008
Senator Rambo Dear Mr. Reese: Being taken as a POW does not make one a hero. Please note that is not a shameful thing and is frequently unavoidable. But your having been a POW usually means that you had some bad luck with a SAM or a torpedo or something. Period. A...
Backtalk, May 6, 2008
What the Iraq War Is About I don't think so! I do not think Bush or Cheney care even one little bit about Israel. I do not think it is about peak oil, either. One day in an article that impressed me was a simple saying that makes complete sense: "follow the money."...
Backtalk, April 22, 2008
Israel Loves Mugabe Justin Raimondo's memory has failed him. I have never supported Robert Mugabe. Even during the war of liberation I supported his then rival Joshua N'Komo. I have many times criticized Mr. Mugabe, in print and on my radio shows. I have never met Mr....
Backtalk, April 8, 2008
Was WWII Really 'The Good War'? Pat Buchanan says: "[T]he destruction of the Jews of Europe was a consequence of this war, not a cause." Perhaps it was not a "cause" of the war, but neither was it a consequence. The murder of the Jews was uppermost in the minds of the...
Backtalk, April 3, 2008
Why They Hate China I must take issue with Justin Raimondo's characterization of China's changes over the past decade or so as the development of a free market and an unleashing of the "entrepreneurial sprit." China's reforms have indeed been capitalist, but hardly...
Backtalk, March 23, 2008
Why Did the US Invade Iraq? Mr. Lobe discussed and dismissed the role of Big Oil, but he does not consider (for want of a good term) peripheral oil. I mean companies that are ancillary to the big oil companies, such as Halliburton and Bechtel. These are companies...