Saddam’s Gone – Why Aren’t We?

When Saddam was first captured, the accolades bestowed upon Mr. Bush were empirical proof enough for me that there would be a permanent presence of U.S. troops in Iraq. The successful snatching of Saddam was enough to validate the entire unconstitutional war in the...

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Rep. Paul Denounces National ID

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Ron Paul today denounced the national ID card provisions contained in the intelligence bill being voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives, while urging his colleagues to reject the bill and its new layers of needless bureaucracy....

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ElBaradei 1, Bolton 0

Mohamed ElBaradei will serve a third term as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Since abject failure appears to be among the criteria for being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, look for John Bolton – currently...

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Waste of War Still Killing in Afghanistan

NEW YORK - For the first time, many more civilians are being killed and maimed in Afghanistan by dud munitions than by landmines, which were more or less outlawed in 1999 but linger around the world as the wreckage of earlier wars. A study published in Friday's...

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America’s Death Squads

Six months in jail – for a wanton murder. That's fair, now isn't it? It is if the victim is Iraqi, and the murderers are four American soldiers – that's what a military court recently decided, and it's a verdict that tells us everything we need to know about...

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Issues for East Asia: A Sinocentric View

Yu Bin's recent article for Asia Times Online is a very Sinocentric view of the growing pains East Asia will face as the region grows increasingly more influential and substantially richer. Yu Bin goes into three major problems: China's relationship with its own poor...

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ElBaradei and North Korea

According to various reporters, last week Mohammed ElBaradei – Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency – "urged North Korea to promptly resume multilateral negotiations on dismantling its nuclear weapons programs." He didn't....

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No Peace in Palestine

There will be no peace in Palestine. Don't be fooled by statements of politicians and by the press's careful avoidance of reporting the real facts of the situation. The bulk of the Jewish settlements – around 200,000 people – are in the West Bank. The...

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