Americans of a certain age may remember the murder of students on the Kent State University campus 34 years ago and the anger it once aroused. On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen killed four college students and wounded nine others – one of them, Dean Kahler, is still paralyzed. He was, reported the FBI, …
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You didn’t have to be Nostradamus to predict the Iraq war would come to this. Heck, even I was able to predict it clearly. In a column for Antiwar.com as the Iraqi invasion began (March 2003), I wrote the following: “I’m not afraid of our troops conquering in Iraq. They’ll do that in short order. …
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When in 1970 Life magazine published photos taken by Senator Tom Harkin, then a lowly congressional aide, of the infamous “tiger cages” in which suspected Viet Cong men, women and even children were kept secretly – and crippled – by the U.S.-run South Vietnamese prison system, it was another nail in the coffin of a …
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The temperature in Washington heated up today as more news about torture in Iraq surfaced. Perhaps seeking a respite, President Bush escaped Washington, heading for South Bend, Indiana, and a campaign event. Elsewhere, in response the growing world-wide dismay over the abuses at the Abu Ghraib military prison, U.S. commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo …
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I don’t believe in democracy. In some liberal circles this makes me a heretic who should be shot. Less reactive liberals smiled blankly at my consternation at our British government’s collaboration with America in raining down hell on Yugoslavia – for “humanitarian,” cuddly reasons, of course. Letting the people of Yugoslavia kill each other was …
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There isn’t time to write this, which is why I’m tapping it out an hour or so into a return flight to San Francisco from New York, where I’ve just spoken to a group of 150 or so. And a most appreciative group it was. I was astonished to discover, however, that my appearance was …
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During the Cold War, Soviet intelligence agencies sometimes provided us "disinformation" – false information, intended to obscure the truth. Hence, there were frequently sharp differences of opinion within our own intelligence community as to whether or not information provided to us by Soviet "traitors-in-place" and/or "defectors" was genuine intelligence or disinformation. Now, anyone who provides …
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On the 25th of April, Australia commemorated Anzac Day – a day that pays tribute to all Australian servicemen in general, but particularly pays homage to those Australians who died during World War I. It was, predictably, used by the Australian Prime Minister John Howard to bolster support for the increasingly unpopular occupation of Iraq. …
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US Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, the officer who has been at the center of a storm about abuse and torture by US soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, broke her silence Saturday. General Karpinski was the commander of Abu Ghraib prison. Speaking to the press from her home in South Carolina, General Karpinski …
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