“Reformer” wins Serbian election

According to preliminary results of the runoff election, Boris Tadic of DOS - I mean, DS - is the new President of Serbia, having won 54% of the votes by 48% of the Serbian electorate. Notes our resident Balkans observer Chris Deliso, the results were accompanied with...

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Fahrenheit 9/11: Another View

I think that Eric Garris, our esteemed webmaster, expected too much from this movie, and, with all the promotional controversy surrounding it, one can hardly blame him. I think we have to take Michael Moore’s movie for what it is, not for what we wanted it to be: it...

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I Could Be Wrong…

A guest blog entry responding to my brief review of Fahrenheit 9/11:Eric, I understand your reaction. I think If I had gone alone, I would be of the same mind. I, however, accompanied two people with whom I had tried to interest in the questions surrounding 9-11 and...

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Cold War Play’s Themes Still Painfully Relevant

A Review of Lee Blessings’ A Walk in the Woods The California Theatre Center of Sunnyvale, California, has chosen for its summer season to revive contemporary playwright Lee Blessing’s 1988 play A Walk in the Woods, a microcosm of the entire Cold War, presented in an...

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Sorry, I Didn’t Like It

Please note that this is a blog entry. It is the opinion of the author and doesn't represent the views of everyone at Antiwar.com. So all you angry letter-writers can address me personally, not all of Antiwar.com. I really wanted to like Fahrenheit 9/11.I was excited...

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Taliban Still Scum

"Taliban Say They Killed Women Poll Workers" – the Taliban still show themselves to be heartless scum, proudly vaunting the fact they killed women poll workers and children. Let us remember the immense courage RAWA displayed showed for many, many years in the...

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Weekend Reading

If you're looking for some reading material this weekend, check out the current dead-tree issue of The American Conservative, featuring an interesting interview with Ralph Nader and a review of Sean Hannity's latest masterpiece by moi (not available online).

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All the Warbots Will Be Talking About

The definitive al-Qaeda-Iraq connection. What they won't be mentioning:The document states that Iraq agreed to rebroadcast anti-Saudi propaganda [mid 1990s], and that a request from Mr. bin Laden to begin joint operations against foreign forces in Saudi Arabia went...

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Euro Busybodies Extend Their Balkans Meddling

A reader responds to this January post with this plea regarding Romania's (read: the European Union's) tyrannical new adoption law:This law is breaking the hearts of families around the world. The law is cruel to the Romanian children and loving families that wish to...

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Changing the banner

Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi blogger, shares his personal views on the June 30th "liberation" of Iraq.The American army is building six permanent bases in Iraq, three surrounding Baghdad, one in the south, on in the east and on in the north. The three surrounding Baghdad are...

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