Antiwar Breakthrough!

Thanks to the editors of The American Conservative for putting my piece on the antiwar movement online – that means I don't have to write a column today! Not that I'm going to be idle. Because, you see, I have to get together yet another fundraising letter...

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The Lying Game

We are now being inundated with hosannas to Colin Powell's UN speech as having "delivered the goods" and, supposedly, a knockout blow to the "give inspections a chance" crowd, but I don't believe a word of it because, well, I can't say it any better than my friend Jim...

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Free Taki!

The idea that the "allies" – basically, the U.S. and Britain – are two liberal "democracies" that are bound and determined to "liberate" Iraq from the evil repressive Saddam has always been a complete crock. The...

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The Kook Factor

We've heard much about the "radicalism" of the antiwar movement, even as it becomes more mainstream. The War Party focuses on the most marginal elements in an effort to characterize the movement as kooky. This is not only a smear, but an effort to divert...

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Our Reds and Theirs

Okay, the jig is up: the New York Daily News has got my number, and I might as well confess. According to the News: "Iraq sent spies from Canada to New York and Washington this month to snoop and stir up anti-war demonstrations, according to a government report...

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Beware the Ides of March

If you think I'm going to miss EastEnders in order to hear the "State of the Union" address you are wrong, wrong, wrong. Why bother, when I know the state of the union sucks? No sooner did Hans Blix open his mouth then the Dow started tanking; our war birds...

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Growing Up

While the War Party brays about all the glorious sacrifices we'll have to make to win the War on Everyone, and opines that privation on the home front builds character as well as empire, it looks like there's some wavering in the ranks. Writing in "The...

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Israel’s Amen Corner

[Justin Raimondo is on the road. What follows is the text of a speech he delivered on Thursday to the Palestine Center conference, at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C.] How is it that U.S. policy in the Middle East has essentially nothing to do with vital...

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Target: Scott Ritter

Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector who quit in 1998 and now says the U.S. is intent on manufacturing phony "evidence" of arms violations as a pretext for war, is the victim of what may be the sleaziest set-up job in recent history, a smearing so...

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Listen Up, Soldier

You're an American GI, and you signed up because you love your country, you want to defend it, and you also want to improve the quality of your own life in a dead economy. You're willing to fight anywhere they send you, obey orders like a good soldier, and you think...

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