Larry Franklin’s October SurpriseJustin: First, you cannot use the words fundamentalists and evangelicals interchangeably; they are not. Evangelicals are spirit-filled Christians who know, because of their daily walk with God, that the most important thing in all history was Jesus’s death on Calvary. You have to keep that in mind when you are talking about …
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UNITED NATIONS – When the League of Arab States was created in 1945, it was perceived as the ultimate symbol of Arab nationalism in a politically and militarily demoralized Middle East. But in recent years, the 22 members of the pan-Arab organization have been struggling to find common cause, and their meetings have been characterized …
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MONTEVIDEO – Freedom of expression worldwide has been under threat since agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last week seized two Internet servers hosting Web sites of the Independent Media Centers. In Latin America, Indymedia Brazil and Uruguay are directly affected. "The incident resembles a Kafka novel," Pablo Ortellado of Indymedia Brazil …
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Two years ago, when The American Conservative magazine was launched, Franklin Foer of The New Republic accorded us a gracious welcome. “Buchanan’s Surefire Flop,” he titled his essay. It began, “Buchanan and his rich friends could not have chosen a worse time to start a journal of the isolationist right.” Foer went on: “9/11 hasn’t …
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In a recent newspaper column, Robert Novak reiterated his earlier reporting that the Bushies are planning to get out of Iraq ASAP – that is, as soon as politically feasible, starting right after the January 2005 elections. Citing unnamed administration officials in the first instance, the veteran conservative columnist – who opposed the invasion of …
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Eleven prisoners captured by the Bush administration in its “war on terrorism” have disappeared, opening a “gateway” to torture and other abuses prohibited by global law, says a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). U.S. officials have confirmed they have six of the detainees in custody, according to the document, “Disappeared: The CIA’s Long-Term …
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When the Iraqi Survey Group released its long-awaited report last week that said Iraq eliminated its weapons programs in the 1990s, President George W. Bush quickly changed his stance on why he authorized an invasion of Iraq. While he campaigned for a second term in office, Bush justified the war by saying that Saddam Hussein …
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Every now and then, an article catches my eye that seems to sum up the worst of Washington-based access journalism (“just the spin, ma’am”) in our imperial press. On Friday, the morning of the second presidential debate, just such a piece – "Pentagon Sets Steps to Retake Iraq Rebel Sites" – made it onto the …
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As antiwar sentiments are beginning to overtake the mainstream, we ironically risk seeing the antiwar voices moderating their positions to the point of not being antiwar at all. The Iraq war was a “colossal error” in John Kerry’s words, and it is indeed refreshing to hear mainstream voices echo this viewpoint. There are no weapons …
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