Two Sides of the Same Coin

"British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Saturday the 'evil ideology' of al-Qaeda must be pulled up by the roots as the death toll from last week's London subway and bus bombings rose to 55. 'Within Britain, we must join up with our Muslim community to take on...

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Watching the Watchdogs

For the past few years, U.S. citizens have lived with an increasingly secretive government. More official documents are being classified than ever before – at least 16 million last year alone – while the declassification process, which made millions of...

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‘PlameGate’ Hardly a Summer Squall

While to people living outside the Washington Beltway, the current affair over the disclosure by top White House officials of the identity of a covert intelligence officer may seem somewhat esoteric, the stakes could not be higher. It is not just that Karl Rove,...

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UK Cleric: ‘Reclaim Islam From Terrorism’

LONDON - A leading Islamic scholar in Britain has asked for the Muslim community to come together to "reclaim Islam from terrorism." He made his call after the terrorist bomb blasts in London Underground trains and on a bus July 7 that killed 55 people and...

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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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Condemning the Killers Is Not Enough

Direct responsibility for Thursday's terrorist outrages in London lies, of course, with those who planted the bombs. Ultimate responsibility is another matter. In the aftermath of the carnage – only one British MP, the rebel antiwar activist George Galloway, has...

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Was Jane Right?

I was 20, and the so-called Vietnam War was just heating up. I did my homework on Vietnam because teachers challenged my opinions. I thought the early antiwar protesters were completely wrong; we had to stop those dirty commies, after all. The newspapers told us so....

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Can Congressional Republicans Save Bush?

If President Bush has competent advisers, he must know that his Iraqi war has become a liability for him and for the Republican Party and might easily become a catastrophe. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that 45 percent of Americans doubt President...

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US Proliferation Rhetoric and Reality

Last year, President Bush made a number of proposals to "strengthen" the existing weapons of mass destruction proliferation-prevention regime. He proposed expanding his Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) to interdict what he deems to be illicit...

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