‘Progressives’ for Slavery

The inside-the-Beltway debate over the size of the military is about how to increase the number of troops by 100,000, not whether to do so. At a recent debate on the draft sponsored by the Center for American Progress (CAP), the views ranged from reinstating the draft...

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Student Protest Stops CIA at NYU

A planned CIA recruiting event at New York University (NYU) was canceled after the Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) called a protest demanding the CIA abandon its recruiting program at NYU. Twenty hours before the recruiting event was scheduled to begin, its organizers...

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Tenet’s Pack of Lies

Chapter One of the just-completed report [.pdf] by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction purports to be a case study of the intelligence used to justify Operation Iraqi Freedom: "As war loomed,...

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In Defense of John Paul II, Peacemaker

Unfazed by the antiwar demonstrations that thronged the streets of London on the eve of war with Iraq, British Prime Minister Tony Blair was more concerned with the Pope's disapproval as he prepared to meet with the Holy Father. After all, this was the man who had...

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Not Invented Here

The report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction begins thusly; "On the brink of war, and in front of the whole world, the United States government asserted that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted...

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Honest Intelligence Needed

The latest commission looking into intelligence failures on Iraq reports a certain consistency in the performance of the intelligence community. We are informed that we also "know disturbingly little about the weapons programs" of other countries – such as Iran....

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Bush’s Plan to Hit Iran

Scott Ritter discusses Bush's plan to be ready for war on Iran by June, 2005 on Air America with Charles Goyette. Interview conducted Mar. 31, 2005. Download MP3 Scott Ritter is the former UN Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq, 1991-1998 and author of Frontier Justice:...

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Too Many Friends in Undemocratic Places?

As the U.S. State Department was unveiling its third annual report on "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy" this week, four of the country's best-known legislators came together to introduce a bipartisan bill to boost the promotion of democracy throughout...

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If You Build It, They Will Kill

There's that classic line of career advice to the confused young hero of the 1967 film The Graduate: "I want to say one word to you. Just one word… plastics." With the perspective of a few extra decades under our belts (or beltways), that word probably should...

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