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Tomorrow’s Asia Cup Final football match between China and Japan promises to be an extremely tense event. Throughout the Asia Cup, the Chinese team has played in Beijing. Sold out crowds in the capital are thirsty for a victory after China’s ignominious World Cup appearance and they have brought a flag for every second fan … Continue reading “Sino-Japanese Grudge Match”

RAMALLAH – Another significant handshake in the history of Palestinians, not at the White House but before what remains of the Mukata’ah, the government center of the Palestinian Administration in Ramallah. The handshake at the Mukata’ah known also as ‘Arafat’s compound’ came not between Yasser Arafat and an Israeli Prime Minister but between Arafat and … Continue reading “A Handshake May Not Be Enough”

MONTREAL – When U.S. Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge stood in Washington last Sunday to warn that some of the country’s largest banks were being targeted by al-Qaeda terrorists, the mass media splashed the news on front pages and television screens – despite recent well-known intelligence failures in the "war on terrorism." And then it … Continue reading “Won’t Get Fooled Again?”

UNITED NATIONS – Iraq’s U.S.-installed interim government, which is planning to spend some two billion dollars on its military this year, has declared it is too poor to pay 14.6 million dollars it owes the United Nations. “Iraq was not in a position to pay what it owed to the United Nations, although it hopes … Continue reading “UN Bureaucrats Angry Over Iraq’s Refusal to Pay Dues”

In the world of international terrorism, both privatized and state-sponsored, passports and other identity papers are the coin of the realm. Terrorists targeting America are particularly eager to get their hot little hands on Canadian and New Zealand passports, for a number of reasons, most especially because the holders don’t need visas across a wide … Continue reading “Passport to Terror”

In an earlier column, "Two Marine Corps," I alluded to the increasing corruption I see at Quantico and in Headquarters Marine Corps. A number of Marines have asked me what I meant by that. Are Marines taking envelopes of money under the table? Are defense contractors flying them to Vegas for free weekends of poker, … Continue reading “Corruption in the Corps?”

Perhaps the most encouraging thing about the terrorist alert first issued on Sunday was the relatively extensive debate it engendered in much of the country, even though the alert was in some ways calculated to be responsive to criticisms of previous alerts. Instead of being a vague and generalized alert about a possible attack somewhere … Continue reading “Alert to Implications”

An Open Letter to the 9/11 PanelThere is no greater proof of Antiwar.com’s standing as the country’s (e-)Paper of Record than this: The equivalent of Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers have just been published. Who broke the story? You. Who else has it? So far, according to Google, nobody.Thank you for providing a forum for the … Continue reading “Backtalk, August 6, 2004”

Why did the Bush administration invade Iraq? Most left-wing critics – epitomized perhaps by Michael Moore’s blockbuster documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11– have rather reflexively argued that the economic factor, particularly the interests of Big Oil or “the ruling class,” must have been decisive. But many right-wing critics, who know the ruling class from the inside, lean … Continue reading “Attacking Neo-Cons From the Right”

Nebojsa Malic is traveling and we have had trouble receiving his column via cyberspace. We hope to have his next column soon. William Shakespeare’s Richard III opens with the memorable lines of earl Gloucester (later the eponymous king), “Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this sun of York;/ And all the … Continue reading “Summer of Discontent”