Backtalk, May 3, 2005

9-11 Conspiracy Fact & FictionThe appearance on the very same day of Justin Raimondo's "Waco as Metaphor" and someone else's "911 Conspiracy: Fact & Fiction" has me puzzled. The two messages seem to clash.By linking the official lies about Waco and Iraq, Raimondo...

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Out of the Superpower Orbit

Of the two superpowers that faced each other down in an almost half-century-long Cold War, one – the United States – emerged victorious, alone in the world, economically powerful, militarily dominant; the other, never the stronger of the two, limped off, its...

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PATRIOT Act Should Ride Into the Sunset

When Congress passed the PATRIOT Act in the emotional aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a sunset provision was inserted in the bill that causes certain sections to expire at the end of 2005. But this begs the question: If these provisions are critical tools in...

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How Communists Became Republicans

Who and what is a neoconservative? Where do they come from? What do they have to do with Leon Trotsky, with Leo Strauss? How and why did they lie us into war with Iraq? These were my questions for Justin Raimondo on my radio show April 30, 2005, and this is what he...

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Nuclear Weapons Talks Open Amid Crisis

UNITED NATIONS - When world powers adopted a treaty to stop the spread of nuclear weapons some 35 years ago, many hoped it would pave the way for total disarmament. Instead, nations, including some that created the 1970 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), have...

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The Dubious Legality of the Iraq War

Evidently, Prime Minister Tony Blair failed to "properly inform" the House of Commons about the legality of the Bush-Blair use of force against Iraq. Indeed, Blair may have deliberately misinformed them. Commons passed on March 19, 2003, the British Government's...

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The Palestinian Gandhi

"Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?" is a quite popular question, especially abroad. You won't often hear it asked (with the inevitable self-righteous shrug) here in Israel: after all, the Israeli culture itself worships violence, with the semantic field of "war" being...

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The Palestinian Gandhi

"Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?" is a quite popular question, especially abroad. You won't often hear it asked (with the inevitable self-righteous shrug) here in Israel: after all, the Israeli culture itself worships violence, with the semantic field of "war" being...

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