Balkan Express turns 200

Columns, that is. Tomorrow’s edition will be the 200th appearance of my exclusive column for Antiwar.com. It began in the fall of 2000, in the aftermath of Serbia’s “October revolution,” and has chronicled events in the former Yugoslavia ever since: the Presevo...

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A New Cold War with China?

The China Post perceives a new cold war with the United States: "A new Cold War is taking shape after last week's U.S.-Japan joint statement that China is their biggest security threat and that Taiwan is key to keep Beijing's growing military might in check... It was...

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Russia developing ‘defense-proof’ Nukes

What a shock. I honestly didn't see this coming. What happens when you design a "missile defense", which might, someday, be able to stop all missile attacks, and thus nullify the ability of any nation in the world to respond to a US attack? This is what happens;...

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Vermonters want their troops back

From Democracy Now:The resolutions, every single one, and it got up to 56, more than 52, every single resolution begins with a plea to support and respect the troops. We need these people here. They're first responders, they're family, they're friends, they're workers...

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GOP Congressman calls on Bush to Nuke Syria

The US congress has certainly come a long way since the days of John C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams. Amy Goodman and Jackson Thoreau have both reported that congressman Sam Johnson (R-Texas) has called on president Bush to nuke Syria. Thoreau quotes Johnson as...

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A June Attack on Iran?

Gary Leupp, writing in Counterpunch; Before Bush's Tribunal of Freedom and Godliness, Syria stands guilty until proven innocent. The sentence on its regime was pronounced even before this Year Four, as was the sentence on Iran. The plan is to execute both before Year...

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The Third Stage of American Empire

William Rivers Pitt has a flawed, but compelling analysis of American Empire (posted at truthout.org), which he sees as having taken place in three stages; There have been three stages of American empire since the creation of this nation. Each has fed the other, and...

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Wolfowitz to World Bank?

Is Paul Wolfowitz getting kicked upstairs? From Aghanistan to Iraq to the World Bank -- the list of neocon conquests is impressive. What's next -- the Vatican? Or perhaps they aim a bit higher ....

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Occupation Schizophrenia

The Lebanese now seem determined to oust their occupiers. Nothing surprising about that. The desire to be free of foreign rule should be easily grasped by all. As Old Right icon Robert Taft said of American postwar interventionism,It is based on the theory that we...

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