THE SECRET WAR

You really have to hand it to the Israelis: they are nothing if not blatant. Their response to Fox News reporter Carl Cameron's devastating exposé of Israel's massive spy operation in the US can hardly be repeated with a straight face. Mark Regev, a spokesman...

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THE 9/11 ENIGMA

That was pretty exciting there, at least for a while: the Northern Alliance was closing in on Osama bin Laden, or so we were told, and the battle of Tora Bora was going to be Al Qaeda's Gotterdammerung: the Mad Sheik's last stand. They heard Osama's voice giving...

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9/11 – WHAT WAS ISRAEL’S ROLE?

When is American foreign policy going to start putting America first? The US had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by vetoing a UN resolution condemning violence on all sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The resolution condemned terrorism, no matter...

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ET TU, ISRAEL?

I couldn't help but laugh as I read the following entry in Andrew Sullivan's weblog: "People ask why Americans tend to sympathize more with Israelis than Palestinians. It's not racism. It's a recognition that, for all their failings, the Israelis live in the same...

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WARMONGERS ON THE LEFT

The idea that US foreign policy sowed the seeds of 9/11 is denounced as "anti-Americanism" and "blaming the victim" by our wartime intelligentsia, including such notables as Christopher Hitchens. The acerbic British-born journalist, who juggles...

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THE HORROR OF IT ALL

The horror of life in wartime – and getting more horrible by the minute – reached a new nadir on Pearl Harbor Day, when MSNBC trotted out Doris Kearns Goodwin to talk about the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. Kearns, the Godmother and...

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HOROWITZ GOES HAYWIRE – AGAIN

HOROWITZ GOES HAYWIRE – AGAIN Witch-hunter answers Raimondo – whines about 'character assassination' Editorial note: We reprint below a letter posted on David Horowitz's Frontpage site, Horowitz's crazed answer, and Justin Raimondo's rejoinder. HOROWITZ...

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FEAR HAS ITS USES

As the portentous sixtieth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor approached, the scene was set for yet another vague warning of an imminent terrorist threat, this time from the Chicken Littles over at the Office of Homeland Defense: "The threats we are picking up...

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HOROWITZ GOES HAYWIRE

David Horowitz, the ex-Communist and former Black Panther groupie turned stereotypical right-winger, has kicked off his pro-war "Think Twice" speaking tour of college campuses on a rather bizarre note. The "red diaper baby" who morphed into a neoconservative went to...

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ASHCROFT’S REIGN OF TERROR

"Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other or one will destroy the other. That we know. Yet never...

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