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President Bush’s recent vows to pursue a "forward strategy of freedom" in the Islamic world are in the spotlight as a close ally, Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, comes under attack by human rights groups. Despite Western pressure, Karimov has outlawed opposition parties, harassed and imprisoned dissidents, and, despite his own promises, failed to take meaningful … Continue reading “Uzbek Leader Becoming Embarrassment to West”

The Russian parliamentary election, in which maximum leader Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party (which seems to stand mainly for “we’re in power and handing out favors, so keep us in power”) got 37.1 percent of the vote – which could translate into a working majority with coalition parties in the Duma and maybe even a … Continue reading “Russian Regression?”

A nascent empire falls in love with its “liberating” political and economic state system and decides it is time to export its domestic model to other countries by means of war, of course. Liberation to all is the ultimate goal. No, it is not early 21st century, the leader is not George W. Bush, the … Continue reading “Iraq Is No Vietnam, But It May Be Poland”

Praise I would just like to say, you all run one bad ass f*ckin news distribution center. I am a service member in the USAF and would like to say that this is where I go to see what the f*ck has gone wrong in this administration. ~ T. Henigma ‘Go F*ck Yourself, Mr. President‘ … Continue reading “”

Re-election year is shaping up as positively for George W. Bush as it did for LBJ in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1972. Recall: Both LBJ and Nixon had engineered surging economies for the election year. Both held the face cards in foreign policy in wartime, with electorates wary of the perceived radicalism of their … Continue reading “Three of a Kind?”

I shivered, a little, as I watched Lisa Meyers’ report on NBC the other night: “New and threatening messages have been received from Al Qaeda. There’s a videotape aimed at American and Saudi Arabian rulers and another that includes what appears to be well-produced footage of the 9/11 attacks – raising still other questions.” This … Continue reading “Shock Video: Who Shot New 9/11 Tapes?”

On one point, all sources appear to agree: what happened in the northern Sunni town of Samarra last Sunday could tell us a great deal about whether U.S. forces are likely to succeed or fail in pacifying and stabilizing Iraq. That there was a three-hour battle between U.S. soldiers and Iraqis is also not in … Continue reading “A Sunday in Samarra”

On November 6th, George W. Bush announced that America, through it’s interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan was leading a "global democratic revolution". That he should have made such remarks on the eve of Leon Trotsky’s birthday – the architect of "global socialist revolution" – was of course just coincidence. However, the similarities between Trotsky’s idea … Continue reading “America’s Foreign Policy and the Sword of Empire”

While U.S. Treasury officials scour financial records worldwide to stop funds donated by wealthy Arabs from flowing to radical Islamist groups, a small group of U.S. citizens is trying to shut down a major source of funding for Jewish extremists in Israel and the occupied territories. Its target is a gambling casino located half a … Continue reading “Group Contests Casino Owned by Pro-Israel Extremists’ Backer”

Too many Americans seem to think that everything in politics is about being either for President Bush or against him. They are encouraged to do so by partisan propagandists. That’s wrong. That’s no different from people living in a dictatorship who have only one choice, to be either for the dictator or against him. We … Continue reading “Not About Bush”