If You’re in the Bay Area This Weekend

Speaking of WMDs that do exist... For some reason or other, a few dozen Nobel prize-winning scientists and other smarty-pantses are concerned that America and Russia still have enough nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert to destroy civilization ("Nobel Laureates say...

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Suffocation chambers

Three years ago, under the psuedonym "Jim Rissman," I wrote a piece for Antiwar that was then used by Freedomfiles.org to anchor its "Atrocities against the Afghan People" section. The Northern Alliance, a U.S. client, took prisoners "in a U.S.-orchestrated military...

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Juan Cole and Robert Pape Interviews

Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show I will be asking Juan Cole many questions about the situation in Iraq and in the second hour, I'll be talking with Robert A. Pape about his book Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. Saturday 4-6 pm eastern...

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Orange Revolution Comes Full Circle

As is common with such revolutions, the democratic free-market Orange revolution in Ukraine continues to show signs of having turned sour before it began. Anders Aslund writes, "Last year Ukraine enjoyed economic growth of 12 percent; in the first four months of this...

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Official Truth in a nutshell

I wrote "Smokescreen" in the early hours of July 13, so I could not have read, much less mentioned, an editorial that appeared later that morning in Newsday. Titled "Serbs finally look within," the editorial manages to pull together just about every strand of Official...

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Kosovo and Iraq

Many don't see the parallels: each was (is) a failed foreign policy. Few politicians, liberals, "conservatives" or pundits supported or opposed both. Except of course, Antiwar.com. Here are some choice quotes from many who were critical of the US intervention in...

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Re: A Balkans Connection?

As Justin said, the possiblity has indeed been raised that the explosives used in the London came from the Balkans; the first rumor was that explosives were Serbian, but just as the accusations in the run-up to the Iraq invasion that Serbs "supplied Saddam", this...

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The London Bombers: A Balkan Connection?

Four of the London bombers have been identified: they are Hasib Hussein, 19, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, "Rashid Facha, a British-born Pakistani in his twenties; and Jacksey Fiaz, about 35." Juan Cole tosses us this interesting lead from Al-Sharq al-Awsat: "There are reports...

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