Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Conservatives and the Courts

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It is always amusing to watch conservatives react to court decisions they don’t like. They were firmly in character last week when Federal D...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Israel's Manipulation of the Public

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From Larry C. Johnson on Alternet.org: Witness what happens when a reporter tells the public that Israel was trying to manipulate public pe...
Sunday, August 20, 2006

Polarization Needed

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When Sen. Joseph Lieberman lost his Connecticut Democratic primary to an anti-war candidate, he used his concession speech to decry the poli...
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Friday, August 18, 2006

The Constitution Within

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In recent columns I've argued that a free society depends ultimately on people having a proper sense of just conduct. This means more th...
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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Who Wanted Peace? Who Wanted War?

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Here's another of my articles from the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs , again from 1991. It demonstrates the falsehood of the ...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

U.S. Journalists Ignore Israeli State Terrorism

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Here's an article I wrote for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs , May/June 1991. It's particularly relevant today: Many p...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006

How to Endanger the American People

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"President Bush asserted yesterday that Hezbollah was defeated in its month-long conflict with Israel, casting the fighting that killed...
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Friday, August 11, 2006

Don't Talk Trade, Free It

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The collapse late last month of world trade talks, known as the Doha Round (after the capital of Qatar), was overshadowed by continuing bad ...
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Obscuring the Reasons for 9/11

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From Ivan Eland of the Independent Institute: As both the Bush administration and its client government in Israel, with their invasions of A...
Sunday, August 06, 2006

"Our Greed for Land"

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From Gideon Levy in Haaretz : This miserable war in Lebanon, which is just getting more and more complicated for no reason at all, was born ...
Saturday, August 05, 2006

MLL Online

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Brad Spangler has announced the start of MLL Online, a website for the Movement of the Libertarian Left. Have a look here . Brad says, ...

Mr. Bush, Are You There?

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If President Bush is trying to convince us that he hasn’t the slightest understanding of the Middle East, then he’s doing an outstanding job...
Friday, August 04, 2006

Eminent Domain and Other Corporate Welfare

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Driving south on I-65 through Alabaster, Alabama, last week, I noticed a sprawling new shopping center on my left. Wal-Mart stood out promin...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Speaking Truth to Power

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Israel has failed to understand that it cannot expel a people and call itself the victim; that it cannot conquer its neighbours and treat an...
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

"Sorry" Doesn't Cut It

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From Adam Shatz in today's LA Times : Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that Israel did, in fact, make the same mistake twice in ...
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Independent Iraq

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It looks like George II really did set up an independent Iraq. From the AP yesterday : Iraq's vice president on Monday accused Israel of...
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Monday, July 31, 2006

"Respecting Lebanon's Sovereignty

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From Ran HaCohen: Since Israel withdrew from Lebanon six years ago, then, it hasn't given its northern neighbor even a single day of qui...
Friday, July 28, 2006

Where Is the Constitution?

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The question in the title is not like "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?" The answer isn't the National Archives. I mean...
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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Not World War III

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When a war breaks out somewhere, two sound principles for civilized people are: (1) demand an immediate ceasefire and, failing that, (2) kee...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Another Anti-Semite Is Born

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On CNN today I saw a woman in Tyre, Lebanon, whose apartment had fallen in on her thanks to Israeli bombers, shout, "Death to Israel. G...