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Thursday, September 21, 2006

AMERICA HAS JUST LOST TWO MORE WARS

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September 21, 2006 AMERICA HAS JUST LOST TWO MORE WARS For a country which takes excessive pride in flags, uniforms, and marching bands and ...
Friday, September 15, 2006

DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

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September 15, 2006 DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE The rise now of China, Japan, Europe, and others – India, Korea, and to some extent Russia...
Sunday, September 03, 2006

FLAT DADDY: WEIRD STUFF FROM AMERICA'S MILITARY

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September 3, 2006 FLAT DADDY I thought I knew every twist of American popular culture, but apparently not. It is an inventive society, and w...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

WHY MUST THE RIGHT WING SOUND SO BRUTALLY STUPID?

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July 31, 2006 WHY MUST THE RIGHT WING SOUND SO BRUTALLY STUPID? Just when I thought he had shown a glimmer of statesmanship, Stephen Harper,...
Friday, July 28, 2006

DELUSIONAL EXPECTATIONS

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July 28, 2006 DELUSIONAL EXPECTATIONS At this writing, Israel has killed six hundred civilians in Lebanon, including more than one hundred c...
Tuesday, July 18, 2006

WHEN TERROR IS JUST FINE

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July 18, 2006 WHEN TERROR IS JUST FINE Following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Czech partisans in 1942, Hitler’s government exec...
Saturday, July 08, 2006

AFGHANISTAN IS NO ONE'S WAR

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July 7, 2006 AFGHANISTAN IS NO ONE'S WAR A summary of events leading to the invasion of Afghanistan is helpful. Following 9/11, the Tale...
Friday, June 30, 2006

WHY AMERICAN LIBERALISM IS IMPOSSIBLE

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June 29, 2006 WHY AMERICAN LIBERALISM IS IMPOSSIBLE I heard an interview the other day with Peter Beinart who has a new book called The Good...
Friday, June 09, 2006

TERROR IN TORONTO OR TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT?

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June 9, 2006 TERROR IN TORONTO OR TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT? The arrest in Toronto of seventeen men, mostly quite young, for conspiracy to bomb pl...
Thursday, May 11, 2006

THE ICEMAN COMETH...CANADA'S NEW PRIME MINISTER STARTS GOVERNING

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May 11, 2006 THE ICEMAN COMETH Canada's New Prime Minister, Stephan Harper, Starts Governing Stephan Harper's first budget, while ma...
Sunday, April 30, 2006

OH, SAY, CAN YOU SEE XENOPHOBIA IN A LAND OF IMMIGRANTS?

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OH, SAY, CAN YOU SEE XENOPHOBIA IN A LAND OF IMMIGRANTS? "One of the important things here is that we not lose our national soul,"...
Saturday, April 22, 2006

AMERICA'S GULAG: THE CIA FIRES THE WHISTLEBLOWER

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April 22, 2006 AMERICA'S GULAG Often small things provide the most disturbing evidence for world-changing events, as when naturalists ob...
Monday, April 10, 2006

WHAT DID STEPHEN HARPER ACTUALLY WIN?

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February 5, 2006 WHAT DID STEPHEN HARPER ACTUALLY WIN? There has been a lot of noise about the victory of Stephen Harper, leader of Canada’s...