“Utter nerve” – that’s how the dictionary defines chutzpah, and that just about sums up, in a single, wonderfully descriptive Yiddish word, Richard Perle‘s recent suggestion that “heads should roll” in the U.S. intelligence community. We didn’t find the “weapons of mass destruction” Perle and his neocon buddies insisted were there in the run-up to …
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“The message is that there are no ‘knowns’. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know. So when we do the best …
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Election years are typically full of the kind of vulgar sound and fury calculated to make sensible people despair of the possibility of civilized life. In his remarkable autobiography, “Memoirs of a Superfluous Man” (an underappreciated masterpiece that deserves a much wider audience) the American essayist Albert Jay Nock tells of the “wigwam,” or political …
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Corporate Warriors Thank you for maintaining this site. Do you have a statistic about how many “contractors” have been killed /injured in Iraq? ~ PR Ford Sam Koritz replies: David Lazarus wrote about this subject in the January 21 San Francisco Chronicle (“Taking the War Private“), citing anonymous US officials’ claims that several dozen contractors …
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Louise Arbour had it easy. She followed NATO’s instructions, made only as much fuss as she was told, and retired to the Canadian Supreme Court. It fell on Carla Del Ponte, her successor as the Head Inquisitor of the Hague kangaroo court, to actually put together and prosecute a case against Slobodan Milosevic and the …
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With only four months to go before scheduled elections in Afghanistan, a growing number of observers are concerned that balloting might aggravate rising ethnic tensions between the northern and southern parts of the country. Some experts are calling for the elections to be put off until next year. A delay would enable both international donors …
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A ½-hour interview conducted by “Philip Dru.” Check out his other interviews with prominent libertarians and antiwar personalities. Recorded January 4, 2004 WMV format (requires Windows Media Player)MP3 format (download requires any MP3 player)Gene Healy is Senior Editor at the Cato Institute.
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e040218.html
After torturing her son to death, allegedly by boiling him in water, the government of Washington’s closest Central Asian ally, Uzbekistan, has sentenced his 62-year-old mother to six years of hard labor in prison, according to human rights groups, who are calling on the Bush administration to speak out against the continuing persecution of independent …
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You know something is up when even Bill O’Reilly, the Fox network’s champion bloviator, is admitting that he was wrong about the “weapons of mass destruction” he and the rest of the War Party insisted were in Iraq. Of course, it was still a good idea to go to war, in his view, because Saddam …
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