Democracy Won’t Stop Terrorism

Most of the debate surrounding the Iraqi occupation concerns tactical questions. How many soldiers are needed, how many schools have opened, how many terrorists have been killed? In Donald Rumsfeld's famous formula, American success is ultimately to be determined by...

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Case Closed, Condi

Ever since Condi Rice became secretary of state, she and her lackeys have been running around in circles of diminishing radius, muttering something about the "necessity" of referring Iran to the UN Security Council for "action." What necessity?...

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A Torturous Silence

Where do American religious leaders stand on torture? Their deafening silence evokes memories of the unconscionable behavior of German church leaders in the 1930s and early 1940s. Despite the hate whipped up by administration propagandists against those it brands...

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The Heart of Darkness

"The website has become a stomach-churning showcase for the pornography of war – close-up shots of Iraqi insurgents and civilians with heads blown off, or with intestines spilling from open wounds. Sometimes photographs of mangled body parts are displayed: Part...

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No Child Left Alive

"As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed; And the Piper advanced and the children followed, And when all were in to the very last, The door in the mountain-side shut fast." - Robert Browning, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan generating...

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The Antiwar Majority

The massive antiwar demonstration in Washington, D.C., over the weekend – with attendance estimates ranging from 100,000 to 200,000 – dramatized what the pollsters already know: the Iraq war is hugely unpopular, and public opposition is increasing by leaps...

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Voices From the Frontlines of Protest

(Photos by Tam Turse) George was out of town, of course, in the "battle cab" at the U.S. Northern Command's headquarters in Colorado Springs, checking out the latest in homeland-security technology and picking up photo-ops; while White House aides, as the Washington...

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Sharon Appears the Struggling Dove

JERUSALEM - In the last two weeks, they have become the most courted, the most polled, and the best-fed group of people in Israel. For good reason: they hold the fate of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the ruling Likud party, and possibly even that of the state of...

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Such a Blot

Colin Powell recently confessed that his presentation of US "intelligence" – which turned out to be all wrong – to the UN Security Council to justify Bush's unprovoked and unsanctioned war of aggression against Iraq was a "blot" on his...

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