Bumpin’ It in China

It's 3 o'clock and the sun is shining down bright upon the scattered groups of people hanging about in front of the shopping complex. A huge banner over the front façade blows gently in the breeze – the number "8" fills the banner, and hundreds of tiny photos...

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Gujarat Pogrom Costs Chief Minister Modi US Visa

NEW DELHI - It's a rarity for the United States to lend its ear to Indian human rights campaigners, let alone take any action on their petitions. But Washington's cancellation Friday of a U.S. visa given to right-wing politician Narendra Modi, blamed by human rights...

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Dirty Tricks Revisited

In chronicling the crimes of the War Party, surely the worst, from a libertarian point of view – excluding large-scale war crimes committed on the ground in Iraq – are those that are even now inflicting fatal wounds on our political system here at home. War,...

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Dealing with China

Let me deal first with an issue raised by a reader who called me Monday morning after hearing a brief synopsis on the radio and asked if I had yet read the long piece in Sunday's New York Times dealing with assertions from both the Iraqi interim government and the...

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The Intelligence Made
Them Do It

Let's review now. It was bad intelligence that made President George W. Bush invade Iraq, right? No, you say, and you are correct; that is just White House spin. The "intelligence" was conjured up many months after President George W. Bush's decision to attack. Now,...

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A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Iraq Edition

I visited Baghdad as a reporter a few years before the US invasion. There were posters and statues of the ousted President Saddam Hussein everywhere. But not one checkpoint. Those lucky enough, or maybe unfortunate enough to report from the occupied Iraqi capital...

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Two Year Anniversary of Iraq War Kicks Off in DC

Demonstrations against the Iraq War scheduled to occur in nearly 600 cities in all 50 states this weekend, kicked off this Thursday across the street from the White House in Washington, DC as representatives of veterans groups and others signed a document pledging to...

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Sandbagging the NSG

Why did Secretary of State Rice make India the first stop on her whirlwind Asian tour? Perhaps to see if she could sabotage yet one more Iranian deal-in-the-making. Not content with sabotaging the current Iranian negotiations with the European Union on trade and...

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The Character Assassins

Every couple of months or so, Stephen Schwartz, aka Suleyman Ahmad, aka "Comrade Sandalio," the Trotskyite-cum-Sufi, turns up with a long, vehement screed recycling the same tired charges against Antiwar.com and me, albeit worded a bit differently. Of course, David...

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