Hold Your Applause for the Supremes

An interview conducted by "Philip Dru." Check out his other interviews with prominent libertarians and antiwar personalities. Recorded July 3, 2004 WMV format (requires Windows Media Player) MP3 format (download requires any MP3 player) "Philip Dru" interviews Elaine...

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The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War

Complete report available here. I. Costs to the United States A. Human Costs U.S. Military Deaths: Between the start of war on March 19, 2003, and June 16, 2004, 952 coalition forces were killed, including 836 U.S. military. Of the total, 693 were killed after...

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Casualties in Iraq Anne Wicks: Please include those soldiers who have committed suicide while in Iraq and those who committed suicide as a result of PTSD once they returned to the United States. Thank you. Mike Ewens: We do. I believe that there have only been two...

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Israel Unleashed

The Israelis just had to get in on the fun. But then the stories of torture – of hooded, humiliated inmates at Abu Ghraib and other facilities – did have a familiar air, as if the Israelis were tutoring their American sock-puppets in the finer points of...

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Soap Opera Propaganda in Venezuela

CARACAS - The last battle for power is on in Venezuela, with a new soap opera shedding a positive light on President Hugo Chávez and his cause, and conflicting opinion poll results regarding the outcome of the Aug. 15 presidential recall referendum. Amores de...

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Old Europe AWOL in Iraq

In Istanbul, Jacques Chirac, in fine French style, gave the wet mitten to the face of the president of the United States. After President Bush had carried out the transfer of sovereignty to Iraq, as demanded by Old Europe, Chirac gave the "Non!" to French or NATO...

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Colombia’s Paramilitaries to Disarm?

BOGOTA - The Colombian government hopes to demobilize 14,000 right-wing paramilitary fighters by late 2005 – 95 percent of the combatants that the paramilitary leaders sitting down at the negotiating table in a remote village in northwestern Colombia claim to...

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Pakistan, India Try Peace

NEW DELHI - Nuclear rivals India and Pakistan have returned in earnest to the negotiation table after a break that witnessed a parliamentary election and path-breaking political changes in India. On May 28, they wrapped up the first round of talks to be held in six...

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Crisis in Asia

Foreign ministers attending the Asia Regional Forum – hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, in Jakarta, this week – agreed on the need for political reform in Burma and a diplomatic solution to the crisis on the Korean peninsula. Forum...

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