SMEARING THE GERMANS

The comment by the German Minister of Justice that President Bush was focusing on Iraq to divert attention from domestic problems – "That's a popular method. Even Hitler did that" – came in the midst of an all-out propaganda offensive by the War...

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LET THE UN INSPECTORS IN

The recent conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) opened with an announcement that Cuba would become a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The last three hold-outs in the world are Israel, India, and Pakistan. The Arab states, led...

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BACK DOOR TO WAR

The Americans won't take "yes" for an answer. Here is how the war-maddened Bush administration is dealing with Iraq's decision to let in the UN weapons inspectors: "Saddam Hussein's words cannot be taken at face value." – White House press...

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ATTACK OF THE GREED-HEADS

No wonder all those crunchy-granola kids hate capitalism, or think they do. Getta loada this from today's [September 15] Washington Post: "Although senior Bush administration officials say they have not begun to focus on the issues involving oil and Iraq,...

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WHY THIS WAR?

The President's war speech to the United Nations, delivered just a day after the first anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, not only underscored the paucity of his case, but pointed to the great diversion represented by this new adventure:...

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9/11 DISCONNECT

I had landed at JFK Airport just seven hours earlier, on 9/10, and was groggy when my father roused me at 9:50 that fateful morning—but what was happening on the television screen burnt through the veil of sleep and seared me in my soul. "Good God, look what...

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WE’RE MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Antiwar.com is making a difference. I first realized this when commentators  outside our little circle of noninterventionist policy wonks and activists began referring to "the War Party" in heartily derisive tones. Of course, it’s a logical name...

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PROPAGANDA WARS

As the War Party revs up its propaganda machine – the War Street Journal, the New York Post, Andrew "Bareback" Sullivan – we are awash in such a flood of b*llsh*t that the stench, let alone the sheer quantity, is enough to induce spasms of...

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LET’S VOTE ON IT

As America returns to offices and factories after the long Labor Day holiday, the realization that this may be the last summer before a long and horrendous war has focused the nation’s attention on the issue policy wonks and ideologues have been debating for...

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