Osama bin Laden’s latest video was broadcast on al-Jazeera on Monday, in which he commanded Muslims to boycott the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq and expressed his approval of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Zarqawi had been a rival of bin Laden’s in Afghanistan, and had earlier declined to share resources with al-Qaeda. But in …
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Are the neoconservatives and their neoliberal collaborators in the global crusade for democracy pushing America into confrontation and a second Cold War with Russia? So it would seem. Ex-CIA director James Woolsey threw out the word “fascist” on FOX News the other night in describing Putin’s Russia. Earlier, he was quoted as saying, “The …
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NEW YORK – The Bush administration appears set to maintain the secrecy that has characterized its workings since 2001. The latest evidence is a directive from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) instructing its employees and contractors to share sensitive but unclassified information only with those having a need to know it. All 180,000 department …
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Parents of three U.S. soldiers killed in the war in Iraq are on their way to that country as part of a humanitarian mission aimed at showing a different face of the United States to Iraqis displaced by fierce fighting in Fallujah. Along with representatives of several antiwar groups, including San Francisco-based Global Exchange, CodePink, …
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As I began to read Antiwar.com some three years ago, just before the launching of Operation "Enduring Freedom," I had a frame of reference to analyze empires and expansionism, but scarce data to apply it to the contemporary U.S. Let me put that framework in a nutshell. It was based in Eric Voegelin‘s political science. …
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Justin Logan, a research assistant in the foreign policy studies program at the Cato Institute, has come up with a useful new term: “Can we get a name for inappropriately invoking the appeasement of Nazis? This is a tactic frequently used by neocons and various sundry warmongers who wish to portray opposing various wars as …
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In a recent column documenting the alleged hopelessness of dragging the Democratic Party back into alignment with mainstream America, George Will unwittingly put his finger on what is soon likely to ail the GOP as well: the impossibility of reconciling its underlying agenda with the values of the American people. Will’s column draws much inspiration …
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After weeks of rampant speculation and political intrigue of the highest order, the mystery of Viktor Yushchenko’s rapid and startling facial disfigurement was settled with a simple blood test and reported with bold finality: The Ukrainian presidential candidate was poisoned with dioxin. Not just routinely poisoned. No, it was a silver-medal performance, scoring a blood …
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The dump is a dusty wasteland. Heaps of Baghdad’s rotting wastes are strewn about several square miles of the battered capital city. Engaged in their futile battle to remove the endless amounts of garbage from streets, blue garbage trucks rumble through the stinky dump, adding their loads of filth. Thirty-two-year-old Hattim lives in this wasteland …
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