02 December 2010
The invisible government
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Robert Koehler
Once again, the curtain of secrecy is drawn back and Olympus looks more like Oz. The machinations of empire turn out to be banal and ordinary.

In a time of endless war, when democracy is an orchestrated charade and citizen...
26 November 2010
Afghanistan is about perpetual war
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Harvey Wasserman
The war in Afghanistan is about perpetual war, not Afghanistan.

It's about preventing democracy in the United States, not bringing it to Southwest Asia.

And it is the tombstone of the Obama Presidency.
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26 November 2010
"Die for a Tie" -- How the Korean War began
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David Swanson
An excerpt from the just published book "War Is A Lie" War is a Lie
After two world wars with a depression in between, none of which Americans had submitted to voluntarily, President Harry S Truman...
24 November 2010
Iran-Nuke NIE Stopped Bush on War
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Ray McGovern
Why should George W. Bush have been “angry” to learn in late 2007 of the unanimous judgment of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran had stopped working on a nuclear weapon four years earlier? Seems to me he might have said “Hot Dog...
21 November 2010
A follow up on my fifth grade essay: education at gunpoint
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Ramzy Baroud
I recall the first sentence of my fifth grade essay on "Education and Youth". Written with the occasional aid of my father, and dotted with clichés, it might have read something like this:

"Youth is the backbone of any nation...
20 November 2010
Obama wooing “Economic Royalists”
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Norman Solomon
In his first term, President Franklin Roosevelt denounced "the economic royalists." He drew the line against the heartless rich: "They are unanimous in their hate for me -- and I welcome their hatred."

What a...

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