Plamegate: Dick Cheney’s Role

In yesterday's essay, "Why Plame Matters," we suggested that the White House assault on the reputations of former ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife had much to do with "the particular lie that Wilson exposed," and we discussed the unusual role...

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Backtalk, July 20, 2005

'PlameGate' Hardly a Summer Squall "'Plamegate' Hardly a Summer Squall" is very important in making people understand that the Plame leak is only the tip of the unexposed iceberg-sized scandal of fabricated intelligence. However, what everyone except UPI's Richard...

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US, India Open Can of Nuclear Worms

NEW DELHI - More than 30 years after the United States walked out of a nuclear cooperation agreement with India because the latter conducted an atomic test, the two countries have agreed to resume collaboration in civilian nuclear energy. A joint-statement issued by...

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FBI Targets Bush Critics

Those who remember recent history will not be surprised to learn that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been amassing files on the American Civil Liberties Union, Greenpeace, and other critics of the George W. Bush administration. Back in the 1960s and...

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US Chumminess With India Roils Strategic Waters

This week's agreement by U.S. President George W. Bush to sell advanced nuclear technology to India, coming three weeks after the signing of a 10-year bilateral defense agreement that makes New Delhi eligible to buy sophisticated U.S. military equipment, confirms a...

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The Crock of Appeasement

The warmongers, imperialists, and just plain greedy who wish to use up U.S. troops to gain their ill-gotten goods love to use the word "appeasement." Anyone who stands against their expansionist ambitions will be tagged with this term. In the lexicology of...

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Getting Serious About a No-Nuke Korea

While in Beijing two weeks ago, Condi told her media sycophants that she and President Bush "have no intention to invade or attack North Korea." Furthermore, "we look forward to making progress in the six-party talks because we must all be dedicated to...

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Backtalk, July 19, 2005

Moonie McCarthyism Why are you posting links from the World Peace Herald? Who are these folks anyway? A quick Google search reveals them to be a publication founded by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who also founded the Washington Times, a neocon organ. Their "news" seems to be...

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