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Is The U.S. Press Cowed By The Bush Administration?
Since December 16, 2005, when the New York Times published its article revealing Bush’s program of spying domestically without court-approved wa...

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U.S. Soldier Shoots Innocent Woman Dead in New York City
Yesterday, I wrote of my disgust in reaction to a New York Times article on Army preparedness training which made clear that U.S. soldiers are not...

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The Nauseating U.S. Military Culture
Today’s New York Times carries an article on Iraq war preparedness training for soldiers at Fort Dix in New Jersey. Much evidence appears in the article that the militaristic U.S. culture is one of dep...

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Hiding the Truth About War is Not Worthy of People Who Would Call Themselves Civilized
Scott Cameron, a Vietnam veteran who has undergone 46 operations to repair damage done to his person in that war, recently spent $100 of his ...

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Should Bush Be Tried As A War Criminal?
One of the points Bush refuses to address in discussing his Iraq war is the morality of having begun a war in the absence of an imminent th...

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On Who Started The Iraq Invasion
George W. Bush’s forcefully argued, deceitful propaganda in favor of his murderous invasion of Iraq should be exposed for the utter hokum it...

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Trembling Before The Caliphate
The current line coming from the Bush administration is that we must stay in Iraq because if we do not, radical Muslims will establish a ne...

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A Distressing Truth: The Iraq War Is All About The Oil
The oil industry in Iraq under Saddam Hussein was nationalized. Now in Iraq, steps are being taken to privatize the greater part of the oi...

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What Bush Doctrine?
For a while now, foreign policy minded liberals have been arguing the strengths and weaknesses of the Bush Doctrine. Does the doctrine of pr...

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Do You Recognize A Monster When You Are Looking At One?
A report in the New York Times on the genesis of George W. Bush’s “Plan for Victory” address and its accompanying document makes clear that this comm...

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The Dangers of Being in Iraq
If there’s anything worse than George W. Bush’s being purposefully misleading as regards events in Iraq, it would be American citizens wh...

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