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The headline of this New York Sun article by Eli Lake on the progress of the case [.pdf] against Lawrence A. Franklin, a Pentagon analyst accused of handing over sensitive information to Israel, has got to take the cake for sheer gall: “Pentagon Analyst In Israel Spy Case Is Called a ‘Patriot’”! You can’t make … Continue reading “Why Did Feith Resign?”

KATHMANDU – Nearly four months after the royal coup in Nepal, the Indian press this week unveiled secret links between India’s intelligence services and Nepal’s Maoist rebels. But curiously, the revelations have failed to kick up a raging controversy in Nepal. On Wednesday, The Times of India newspaper reported from Delhi that top Maoist leader … Continue reading “Nepal’s Strange Restraint in the Face of Indian Revelations”

UNITED NATIONS – When UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was asked recently about his likely successor when he completes his second five-year term next year, the UN chief hinted at the possibility that an Asian might take over from him. "Yes, it is true that the secretary-general of the United Nations is elected on a [geographical] … Continue reading “Asia, Eastern Europe Head for Showdown Over New UN Chief”

What are we to make of the news reports that Baghdad is to be encircled and divided into smaller and smaller sections by 40,000 Iraqi and 10,000 U.S. troops backed by U.S. airpower and armor in order to conduct house-to-house searches throughout the city to destroy combatants? Is this generous notice of a massive offensive … Continue reading “Bush Opts for Civil War in Iraq”

Sir David King, her majesty’s chief scientist, has declared “global warming” to be a more serious threat to mankind than international terrorism. Hans Blix, former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, concurs. James Lovelock, father of the Gaia hypothesis, thinks King and Blix – if anything – still underestimate the seriousness of the … Continue reading “Iranian Nuclear Power Crazy? Think Again”

To honor those who have died in Iraq, Democracy Rising interviewed the founder of Gold Star Families for Peace – an organization made up of families who have lost members to the Iraq War. Cindy Sheehan lost her son, Casey, to the war/occupation and founded Gold Star Families for Peace. To learn more about their … Continue reading “Honor Our Children’s Sacrifices”

Dear Senators and Congressmen: My father loved his country. In 1943, he volunteered for the Army Air Corps, and at age 19 became a B-17 aircraft commander. He flew 25 missions into the heart of Germany to help defeat the Third Reich and protect the American way of life. When I was a teenager, he … Continue reading “Preserve the Republic –
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Tiptoeing around growing tensions between the United States and Venezuela, the new secretary-general of the Organization of American States (OAS) called Thursday for the creation of “objective and practical mechanisms” to assess member states’ adherence to their commitments under the 2001 Inter-American Democratic Charter (IADC). But Jose Miguel Insulza, who was elected to the post … Continue reading “Chilean Takes Helm of OAS Amid US-Venezuela Tensions”

If you look at the past 100 years or so, you will see plainly that there has always been an “ism” at the gates. The old idea of controlling the people and increasing government power by warning of an “enemy at the gates” dates back to the Roman Empire, and probably well before that. It … Continue reading “The ‘Ism’ at the Gate”

In his essay “War is the Health of the State,” Randolph Bourne criticizes war as an enterprise that increases the state’s control over its subjects. During times of peace, people think less about the state and more about living their everyday lives. However, when war starts, the people and the state become one, and the … Continue reading “‘Manly’ Teddy and the Neocons”