Backtalk, December 1, 2005

Can a Nuclear Strike on Iran Be Prevented? Given that the vast majority of the evidence presented in this article is incontrovertible, why is there no public debate? If this is so obvious as to be visible to all parties interested in the developments currently taking...

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Backtalk, November 25, 2005

'A Conspiracy So Vast…'Great article at Antiwar.com!I was wondering if you have read about the Judy Miller 9/11 attack warnings that were never published (except indirectly as shown below).In July of 2001 Judy Miller had top secret intelligence that a major...

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Backtalk, November 19, 2005

In Praise of 'Virtual States'Might your virtual state concept suggest one human world and many divisions of government because the virtual states place the power of nations at rest?Clearly there is a human right, fully thwarted by the nation-state system, that...

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Backtalk, November 17, 2005

A 'Legal' US Nuclear Attack Against IranIt's much worse than that. This is self-fulfilling prophecy.The Iranians know what's going on: Whatever evidence Iran provides will be dismissed as lies by the U.S. Like Iraq, no denial or evidence will ever be sufficient. The...

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Backtalk, November 12, 2005

The Last Lie of the Iraq War ExposedThanks for the well-written article. Finally people are starting to get the message, but I believe it will take more time to expose all of the corruption and lies. At least the real news is starting to come out more in the...

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Backtalk, November 9, 2005

My Weekend With the Wonks Leon Hadar's well-written article on his meetings with the Washington policy wonks, "My Weekend with the Wonks," is another bad omen of comparison between the Iraq war and Vietnam. Hadar says the wonks today have no clear answers to Iraq or...

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Backtalk, October 29, 2005

Iraq by the Numbers George Bush stated that he would rather fight terrorism in Iraq than in the United States. But what if the result is the same? The next big number in Iraq is going to be when the number of American soldiers killed there is equal to the number of...

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Backtalk, October 28, 2005

Powell Aide Blasts Rice, Cheney-Rumsfeld 'Cabal'You once disputed my insistence that we are face to face with fascism. Do you still feel that we are not?~ Hal O'LearyJim Lobe replies:I think fascism has a number of attributes that don't apply, the most important...

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Backtalk, October 25, 2005

Niger Uranium Forgery Mystery Solved?I solved that mystery a long time ago. Why did nobody, nobody in the government, ever say that Niger was a "bad" country? According to the evidence, Niger was selling uranium to Saddam Hussein, who was going to make a nuclear bomb...

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Backtalk, October 20, 2005

Good News, or Urban Legends?Stan, Congratulations on an excellent article. Did you know the U.S. is spending $23,000 per Iraqi citizen on the occupation ($60 billion divided by 26 million population)? Why don't we just withdraw all troops and all reconstruction...

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