Hebron, City of Terror

Israeli "security analysts" describe the Palestinian city of Hebron as a "city of terror". This is true: Israel’s state terrorism is nowhere as brutal. If you wish to see ethnic cleansing at work, Hebron is a good instance. Hebron Maps Take a...

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Holding Out for Hope?

Perhaps it's being pleasantly surprised at just how large the antiwar demonstrations around the world were last weekend. Perhaps it's the stubborn conviction that sooner or later enough people will figure out, and communicate to the administration, that the odds are...

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Rallying for War

Millions marched for peace this weekend in an outpouring of anger, frustration, and defiance at the conventional wisdom that war with Iraq is "inevitable." One million in London; half a million in Berlin; two million in Rome; 1.3 million in Barcelona;...

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Rally Against Fear

The Washington Times headline said it all: "Hysteria runs riot; networks fuel the fear." London’s Heathrow airport is surrounded by what one UK newspaper called a ring of steel, and anti-aircraft missiles are in position around Washington to defend...

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Sliding off the Fence

Slowly, collossal China has shifted its weight and taken somewhat of a stand on the two rogue nation vs. superpower crisis currently holding the world's attention. China's stance, inevitably, has placed it in opposition to the superpower – but not exactly...

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Send Hans Blix to Nes Ziona

Some of the victims were demonstrators. Some were children in their homes, trying to get away from the gas seeping under the door. Some were old men walking down the street. One of the victims was a thirteen year-old boy, playing in a schoolyard when a gas canister...

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Excuses and Justifications

Being the most destructive endeavor humanity has ever practiced, it is difficult to comprehend why wars seem like such a common phenomenon. That is, unless one realizes that the very root of the civic religion permeating the modern world is in human gullibility, and...

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One Battlefield, Two Wars

Colin Powell launched a preemptive strike early Tuesday morning against the latest evidence that the alleged Bin Laden-Al Qaeda link is a lot of malarkey. The first indication that anyone had of a new message from Osama bin Laden was Powell's statement to a Senate...

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