The War Party’s Worst Week

It was a disastrous week for the War Party, as the lies that lassoed us into Iraq were definitively debunked, and Bush, in a vain effort to defend the indefensible, was once again humiliated on national television by his Democratic opponent. The Duelfer report showed...

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Kerry Caught in the Big Lie

The presidential debates are going nowhere. Why? Because both President George Bush and Senator John Kerry are encapsulated in a big lie. The lie is too big to be acknowledged. Both candidates repeat the mantra that Saddam Hussein was dangerous to America and had to...

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Homage to Truthtellers

Well, Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence Charles Duelfer has just sung his "swan song" to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Although their names weren't mentioned, Duelfer's song essentially constitutes long overdue homage to (a) Hans...

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Indymedia’s Internet Servers Confiscated

LONDON - Agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday seized two Internet servers in Britain that host the Web sites of the global news network Indymedia. Two days later, there was still no clarification of why the computers were confiscated...

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Egyptian Tourism Expected to Withstand Bombings

CAIRO - Bomb blasts at two holiday resorts in Egypt's Sinai peninsula have sent shivers through the tourism industry, but tour operators expect the country's biggest foreign currency earner to suffer only minor damage. "The attack was very contained and seemed to...

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Afghan Irregularities Prompt Candidates’ Protests

Inter Press Service/Pajhwok News KABUL - Voter turnout was heavy in Afghanistan's first direct presidential election in recent history, but irregularities in the voting process prompted calls for the results to be nullified. Due to a heavy turnout, and despite rain...

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Not Enough Troops – or Truth

It's not an if, it's a when. Pentagon officials have indicated that they plan to send as many as 15,000 more troops to Iraq during the first four months of 2005, and President Bush continues to insist that "we will stay the course" until Iraq is stabilized....

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No Palestinian State, No Peace for America

Now we know the truth. Neither the Bush administration nor the Israeli government has any intention whatsoever of allowing the Palestinians to establish their own state. That means, of course, that both have been lying, not only to the Palestinians but to the American...

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The Worst Way to Fight Terror

The 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act (H.R. 10) is yet another attempt to address the tH.R.eat of terrorism by giving more money and power to the federal bureaucracy. Most of the reforms contained in this bill will not make America safer, though they definitely...

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