Bush Pronouncements Boost Hezbollah Vote

The White House calls for democracy in Lebanon have not produced the results they were hoping for. In yesterday's third round of voting, neocon poster boy Walid Jumblatt was trounced by a Syrian-alligned coaltion led by former general Michel Aoun. Even more of a...

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Full-page Anti-AIPAC ad in today’s NY Times

Today's New York Times (print edition) has a full-page advertisement on page 5 from the Council for the National Interest Foundation headlined: AIPAC’s Agenda is Not America’sThe ad is well-done and makes excellent points, including: ISRAEL, STOP SPYING ON AMERICA! I...

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Justin Raimondo on Democracy Now! (archived)

Justin Raimondo appeared on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! Friday morning. He discussed the situation in Uzbekistan. He appeared live early this morning -- the show is available today on satellite TV and is now available archived on the Democracy Now! Website. A...

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Sgt. Benderman goes to court

Report by Debbie ClarkOn Thursday, May 12, 2005, I attended the new Art. 32 investigative hearing at Fort Stewart, Georgia of the case against Sgt. Kevin Benderman, a soldier who requested conscientious objector status subsequent to serving in the invasion of Iraq in...

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Persuasive Case the Draft Is Coming

I have been skeptical about the likelihood of a military draft in the near future, but I am starting to think it is inevitable. In the Washington Monthly, Phillip Carter and Paul Glastris give a very persuasive case for the draft, given a commitment to an...

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The Schwartz File

Many people wrote me about my post yesterday ("Stephen Schwartz, Web Moron") thinking that Mr. Schwartz must have been joking when he demanded we stop linking to his photograph.I assure you, Stephen Schwartz was not joking. I am including excerpts from the...

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