The Secret’s Out – Now What?

Yesterday, London's Sunday Times published the text of another SECRET UK EYES ONLY briefing document prepared for senior British officials. This one was dated July 21, 2002, two days before British intelligence chief Richard Dearlove gave Prime Minister Tony Blair and...

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A Palliative for Neo-Crazy Lies

Because Bush-Bolton and the neo-crazies have legions of sycophants ensconced at all major media outlets, feeding you a daily diet of lies, misrepresentations, and false innuendo about – among other things – Iran's nuclear programs, you're probably in need of...

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Backtalk, June 14, 2005

Who Cares About Iraqis? I am a soldier currently stationed in Camp Ar-Ramadi. I do not believe this war is justified and feel that there should be a timetable set for a withdrawal. However, I do not totally agree with the article, "Who Cares About Iraqis?" I do not...

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The Scourge of Militarism: Rome and America

In September 2003, only four months after our president's "Mission Accomplished" moment on the USS Abraham Lincoln, it was already evident to some of us that neocon dreams of establishing a robust Pax Americana on the planet were likely to be doomed in the sands of...

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Solzhenitsyn’s Maxim

Terrorists chose Russia's "National Day" – the celebration of Russia's rebirth in the ashes of the Soviet Union – to strike once again, as they did at Beslan. As the passenger train coming from Grozny, capital of war-torn Chechnya, approached the village of...

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American Gulag

In case you haven't noticed it, the Bush administration's standard response to any criticism is to attack the critic. Ad hominem attacks are designed, of course, to avoid the subject of the criticism. Such a tactic greatly appeals to armchair patriots with petrified...

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Bolton, the Unlawful

Guess what? The man President Bush wants to be our Ambassador to the United Nations has frequently interfered – as Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security – in personnel and operations matters of various UN agencies in a manner...

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War: Realities and Myths

The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief. They know the lies the victors often...

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