Reuters on Philadelphia council condemns Patriot Act: Philadelphia on Thursday became the largest U.S. city to date to condemn the USA Patriot Act as a threat to the constitutional rights […]
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Author: James Landrith
General Zinni Dissents
Jan Barry writing for Veterans Against The Iraq War on Retired General Dissents, Big Media AWOL: Working for peace in the Middle East is more important than waging war in […]
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Administration Scripts Another War
Michael Theodoulou writing for the Christian Science Monitor on 'Crude' US rhetoric could boost Iran's hard-liners: There is an unpleasant sense of deja vu in Tehran. In 2001, Iran helped […]
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The Long, Dark Backpedal of Shame
Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus of The Washington Post on U.S. Hedges on Finding Iraqi Weapons: Officials Cite the Possibility of Long or Fruitless Search for Banned Arms: Pressed in […]
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Victim Disarmament, Pentagon Style
Tyler Marshall of the Los Angeles Times on Search prompts rioting in Iraq: In the third consecutive day of Iraqi violence against US military occupation, residents enraged over house-to-house searches […]
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Biometric Blues
NCPA on Biometrics May be Impractical: Biometrics — the statistical study of biological phenomenon such as the shape of your face, the minutiae of your fingertips, the bone structure of […]
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The Ghost of Gulf War Future
The Guardian on 'Gulf war syndrome' soldiers threaten legal action: Four soldiers have threatened to sue the Ministry of Defence after suffering symptoms similar to "Gulf war syndrome", their lawyer […]
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More Friendly Neo-con Bashing
Karen Kwiatkowski on Neocons on the Outs?: We have seen them in action – chicken hawks who conveniently missed out on military service, who safely skipped the wars of their […]
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The Myth of the Indispensable Chickenhawk
Bob Wallace on The Brain of the Chickenhawk: These men are deserving of nothing but contempt. They're cowards, all of them. They think they are so intellectually and morally superior […]
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Ali G
I've been watching back to back episodes of Da Ali G Show for the last two hours. As Radley said, "He's brilliant." I haven't laughed this hard since I first […]
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