Serious conservatives, men such as Scott McConnell of The American Conservative and economist Paul Craig Roberts, along with such eminent libertarians as Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com and Lew Rockwell, are raising a surprising question: do the war in Iraq and the Bush administration’s desperate attempts to shore up support for that war have a whiff …
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Juan Cole discusses the Iraq election, U.S. foreign policy, and American misconceptions about the Middle East in this C-Span interview recorded Jan. 27, 2005. (40 minutes: click here, then click on the top Juan Cole link) Juan Cole is professor of history at the University of Michigan. Visit his blog.
The vagueness of the “war on terror” is easily the greatest known-but-hardly-reported scandal of the Bush administration. Words like “terror,” “terrorism,” and “terrorist” have no singular definitions, and Team Bush has added to the confusion with uses that conflict with official U.S. policy. For instance, the State Department’s definition of “terrorism” excludes acts committed by …
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is urging senators on both sides of the aisle to insist that Attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales commit to immediately appoint a special counsel to investigate and prosecute any criminal acts in the torture and abuse of detainees held by the U.S. government. According to the ACLU, senators should hold …
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Amid rising concern about the over-extension of U.S. military forces and the growing budget deficit, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a neoconservative group whose past foreign policy recommendations have often been followed by President George W. Bush, is urging Congress to add 25,000 new soldiers to U.S. ground forces each year over …
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Liberal columnist Mark Brown, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, is a typical liberal: he opposed the war – but "not to the point of joining any peace protests," heaven forfend. Content to wave from the nearest Starbucks, where he was nursing his double-Frappuccino nonfat latte, nevertheless he let people know where he stood. But let …
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BEIJING – There is a reason why China reacted calmly to U.S. President George W. Bush’s pledges to "oppose tyranny" and "spread freedom" around the world. Beijing is confident that the country is becoming indispensable to the United States, regardless of Bush’s rhetoric in his second inaugural speech – which critics have claimed as bordering …
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Should Americans have to give up the Bill of Rights in order to be “safe” from terrorists? Actually, it doesn’t matter what Americans think. The trade has already been made – and without any input from the people. The “democracy” that America is exporting is in fact a Homeland Security State with more surveillance powers …
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The U.S.-run administration in Baghdad failed to keep track of nearly $9 billion of money it transferred to various Iraqi ministries, according to an official audit released Sunday. The report by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction says that the now defunct U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) did not exercise adequate managerial control …
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