Archive for the ‘war’ Category
Monday, March 10th, 2008
The Bush administration likes to think of itself as nuclear policeman to the world. North Korea? Put those missiles back in your pants. Iraq? Wipe that nuclear smirk off your face. Iran? No nuclear for you at all.Read the full story
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
It looks like, even though there isn't much meat on it, the US will continue to gnaw on the Iran bone. Let's just hope we don't crunch through and wind up with splinters in our mouth.Read the full story
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
If Afghanistan was Russia's Vietnam, Chechnya is its Iraq. A candidate for bravest woman of this young century, Anna Politkovskaya paid the ultimate price for her reporting on how much the Chechnyan people have suffered.Read the full story
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Because submunitions (miniature bombs nested inside the mother bomb) dropped by the US in Iraq, "some shaped like tiny bottles with short ribbons and others that are yellow with tissue parachutes, litter gardens and roof tops," according to UNICEF. The cute little "bomblets," as they've been called, are child magnets.Read ...
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
Hillary's not just talking tough to win votes. For her, war is the option of first resort.Read the full story
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Better late than never.Read the full story
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
Hillary Clinton's Iran vote not only gives Bush a free pass to attack, it demonstrates an ignorance of foreign policy as frightening as his.Read the full story
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Life as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate is not as awash in laurels as you might think. Aung San Suu Kyi (1991) has spent 10 of the last 17 years under house arrest. Meanwhile, Mohamed ElBaradei (2005) has been the object of an ongoing campaign by the administration to make ...
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
You remember history. It’s that stuff that those who don’t remember it should and those who remember it too much shouldn’t. The US and Iran’s mutual history -- all history, in fact -- can be broken down to two basic grievances that even a child can understand. In other words: ...
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