India Abandons Global Nuclear Disarmament

NEW DELHI – Seven years after blasting its way into the world's "nuclear club," India has executed a major shift in its policy stance by jettisoning its long-standing advocacy of global nuclear disarmament in favor of nuclear non-proliferation. On...

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Smoking Guns and Red Herrings

Implosion update: And so they fall: Tom DeLay just weeks back. Harriet Miers yesterday. I. Lewis ("Scooter") Libby today. Prepare yourself. It's going to be a long, hard dive into deep waters that should, sooner or later, lead us back to the beginning. Think of...

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The Nucleus of the Scandal

The White House still maintains there was evidence other than crude forgeries to back its prewar charge Saddam Hussein was trying to procure uranium from Niger, giving a reed of hope to loyal defenders that the whole Iraq nuke scare wasn't an orchestrated fraud...

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Cheney’s Top Aide Indicted in CIA Leak Case

with Katherine Stapp US Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff and top national security aide resigned Friday, hours before a grand jury formally indicted him on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice following a 22-month probe into the public disclosure...

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A Formidable Hawk Goes Down

Losing I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, perhaps the most influential national security official without a formal cabinet rank, marks a serious blow to the George W. Bush administration and particularly to the hawks who led the drive to war in Iraq. Like his boss...

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Historic Opportunity

Last week, James Moore, a former television news correspondent and the co-author of the bestselling Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, wrote an op-ed piece entitled "Fitzgerald's Historic Opportunity" that appeared originally at...

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Libby: The War Party’s Kamikaze

"It's not over." Out of Fitzgerald's hour-long press conference, these three words had the most resonance. Before we get into that, however, let's look at the man who has come out from behind the screen of this very closely-held investigation. Fitzgerald's debut at...

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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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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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