The Nuclear Renaissance

On Aug. 6, 1945, the day that was to prove the blindingly bright dawn of the atomic age, Little Boy, a 9,700-pound baby with the look of "an elongated trash can with fins," had already been loaded into the specially prepared bomb bay of a B-29. The night before, in...

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The War Party’s
War on the Media

The U.S. government doesn't like what the media is reporting in Iraq, but don't worry, they have a solution: shoot them, then arrest them. At the beginning of last month, a cameraman with CBS press credentials was shot and arrested on suspicion of "insurgent...

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Beat the Peaceful, Embrace the Violent

The day before yesterday, two demonstrations were held, just a few dozen kilometers apart. One took place at the Homesh settlement, not far from Jenin. Tens of thousands of settlers and their sympathizers came to demonstrate against the planned evacuation of this...

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Bye-Bye, Bush Doctrine

"The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most dangerous weapons." This excerpt from his "Axis-of-Evil" State of the Union of 2002 is the heart of the Bush Doctrine. Under it, we invaded Iraq. To...

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Fool’s Paradise

About a year ago, I had lunch with someone who then held a relatively high position in America's homeland security forces. During our conversation, I casually referred to "somebody setting off a suitcase nuke in an American city." He replied, "That will happen." I...

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Backtalk, May 3, 2005

9-11 Conspiracy Fact & FictionThe appearance on the very same day of Justin Raimondo's "Waco as Metaphor" and someone else's "911 Conspiracy: Fact & Fiction" has me puzzled. The two messages seem to clash.By linking the official lies about Waco and Iraq, Raimondo...

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Out of the Superpower Orbit

Of the two superpowers that faced each other down in an almost half-century-long Cold War, one – the United States – emerged victorious, alone in the world, economically powerful, militarily dominant; the other, never the stronger of the two, limped off, its...

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PATRIOT Act Should Ride Into the Sunset

When Congress passed the PATRIOT Act in the emotional aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a sunset provision was inserted in the bill that causes certain sections to expire at the end of 2005. But this begs the question: If these provisions are critical tools in...

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How Communists Became Republicans

Who and what is a neoconservative? Where do they come from? What do they have to do with Leon Trotsky, with Leo Strauss? How and why did they lie us into war with Iraq? These were my questions for Justin Raimondo on my radio show April 30, 2005, and this is what he...

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