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Humans have the capacity to create and to destroy. It seems to me that if we do not rein in our destructive capacity, bugs will one day inherit an otherwise empty and barren planet. It’s no use assigning blame. The urge to destroy resides in every human heart. Violence is all too often the problem-solving … Continue reading “Boot the Imperialists”

A month-long U.N. conference on halting the spread of nuclear weapons neared the end of its first week Friday deadlocked over how to strengthen the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The meeting opened Monday without a set agenda. Diplomats warned it could end in four weeks without a final statement even as U.N. officials and disarmament advocates … Continue reading “US Nuclear Weapons Hypocrisy Highlighted at Conference”

JERUSALEM – Fatah maintained its position this week as the largest party by far in the Palestinian territories, despite earlier signs of weakness and a strong showing by the militant Hamas movement in the municipal elections. Preliminary results from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip show Fatah with 56 percent of the popular vote, … Continue reading “Vote Dampens Hamas Political Bid”

Those who know me often accuse me of being Pollyannaish in my long-range optimism, noting that I still believe, unlike most post-Marxists, that the state will eventually wither away (although I’ve come to accept the likelihood that it just might not happen during my lifetime). So take this with whatever saline dosage seems appropriate. It … Continue reading “With a Whimper?”

LONDON – The invasion of Iraq rebounded a little on the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair to dent his majority as he returned to a third term as prime minister. But it was not serious damage. Iraq did not prevent Blair from returning with a comfortable enough majority, and this is the first … Continue reading “Iraq Clouds Blair Victory”

A top secret British memorandum dated July 23, 2002 was leaked in the run-up to Thursday’s parliamentary elections in the UK (which Blair won, though his Labour Party was much weakened by public disgust with such shenanigans as the memo describes). It summarizes a report to Blair and others in the British government by Sir … Continue reading “The Smoking Gun”

Well, here we are, two years out (as they say in Washington) from “mission accomplished,” the president’s now-famous speech during the photo opportunity on an American carrier. The American death toll in Iraq is now 1,585, and the wounded exceed 10,000. The cost is about $300 billion. Somewhere between 140,000 and 150,000 Americans remain in … Continue reading “Mission Accomplished, Captain Queeg?”

Iran’s Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi’s address to the Seventh Review Conference of the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons was a diplomatic masterpiece – in sharp contrast to the undiplomatic badgering of the Conferees about alleged “loopholes” in the Treaty by the head of our delegation, Stephen Rademaker. Kharrazi focused on how to strengthen the … Continue reading “Iran Defends the NPT”

It was June 26, 2003, and three friends – Naor Gilon, chief of political affairs at the Israeli embassy in Washington; Steve Rosen, longtime policy director and key operative of the American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC); and Keith Weissman, AIPAC’s senior Iran specialist – were meeting for lunch at the Tivoli restaurant in Arlington, … Continue reading “Larry Franklin
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Excuse me if I sound irritable, but according to the gonzocons, I should by now be under a pile of smoking rubble. We’re having the British general election today. On Sept. 25 last year, gonzocon spiritual director Michael Novak gushingly reported the pearls of wisdom that the disgraced liar and now thankfully ex-prime minister of … Continue reading “The Gonzocon Terror Lie”