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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Rethinking Failed Policies

  Watch Ron Paul's speech on video.     We have been warned. Prepare for a broader war in the Middle East, as plans are being laid for the next U.S.-led regime change – in Syria. A UN report on the death of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri...

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Condi’s True Confessions

On Oct. 19, 2005, the American secretary of state, AKA the Tea Lady, did something extraordinary for the Bush administration. She told the truth. According to the Oct. 20 Washington Times, in testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ms. Rice said "that it...

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A Time for Reconsideration

From a military or strategic standpoint, to be sure, there's not that much significance to the figure of 2,000 U.S. military personnel – Staff Sgt. George Alexander Jr., 34, of Killeen, Texas, was the sad milestone, although some will dispute whether he was #...

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Dresden – Budapest – Tbilisi – Baku

Dresden In Dresden, I visited the daughter of my mother's old friend Guenter Reimann, author of The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism, a seminal study known to many classical libertarians. Karen showed me around and told me how the German economy strangled...

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Iraq by the Numbers

Just before the January 2005 Iraqi elections, I was quoted in one media outlet: "Those who believe that the elections will result in a calming effect in Iraq are just wrong. The violence will increase and get uglier." I went on to say: "And if 150,000 U.S. troops...

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Bush’s October Surprise

Those in the anti-fascist struggle of the 1930s who went off to fight in the Spanish Civil War were later termed "premature antifascists." Perhaps, in the same spirit, I might be considered a premature Bush-administration implodist. On Feb. 1, 2004, reviewing the week...

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On Hold…

With the announcement that there would be no announcement Thursday in the CIA leak case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald is giving me an ulcer – so you can imagine what he's doing to Scooter Libby. Oh, we know he and his little elves are working assiduously to make sure we...

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Two Thousand Dead – and for What?

These are not the halcyon days of George W. Bush. With his approval rating below 40 percent, his reputation as a decisive leader ravaged by Katrina, his conservative base shattered by Harriet, and his closest aide facing indictment, the president is said to be...

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Who Are We to Pick Syria’s President?

Someone should tell Condi Rice that the game is up. With the Bush administration dissolving in illegalities committed by key officials in their attempts to protect the lies that they used to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the secretary of state is trying to ramp...

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