The Real McCain–and It Isn’t Pretty

CNN's Jeff Greenfield could hardly believe his ears. After listening to Senator John McCain's virtriolic "concession speech," he looked positively bewildered and not a little deflated: "You know, " he said, "I'm a little stunned, because it is some of the toughest...

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Toward An American Foreign Policy

It is easy – sometimes all too easy – to criticize American foreign policy and those who make it in these days of sole-superpower listless empire maintenance. Quite frankly, the United States faces few if any severe challenges certainly not to its existence...

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Kosovo and Presidential Politics

It has been almost a year since our "humanitarian" bombers unleashed their vengeance on the former Yugoslavia, a year since the War for Ethnic Diversity claimed its first victims – and what have we got to show for it? Well, let's see: 150,000 Serb refugees,...

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Anschluss 2000, Or Get It in Writing

The ongoing excitement, hysteria, and agitprop surrounding the internal affairs of Austria has made me postpone a topic in order to address a few matters which may be of some interest to our European friends. Certainly, "fascists" are everywhere these days....

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John McCain and the War Party

The McCain stampede is on, even before the South Carolina election results are in. As I predicted in my election night column about the New Hampshire primary, "Like rats leaping from a sinking ship, the political hacks and neoconservative apparatchiks who latched on...

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Russian Developments and Austrian Absurdities

My clip files hold news stories from as far back as last September parroting government predictions that the taking of Grozny by the patriotic forces of the Fatherland was imminent. When former Gen. William Odom told me in December that the Russian army is still...

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McCain Rocks the Vote

The astonishing rise of Senator McCain in the American presidential race has prompted the pundits to examine his life story and career. Inevitably, there is lots of stuff about the war hero, campaign finance reformer and anti-tobacco missionary. McCain is also known...

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Who Killed Pavle Bulatovic?

The assassination of Yugoslavia's defense minister, Pavle Bulatovic, by gunmen inside a Belgrade restaurant throws the spotlight once again on the former Yugoslavia – and dramatizes the developing crisis. For Bulatovic was a key component of Milosevic's ruling...

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