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Category: 2001-2006

  • Welcome to the American Gestapo

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    Wonder if any of the vast sums of money approved Tuesday for the new Department of Homeland Security are set aside for black uniforms with knee-length boots and black leather trench coats?

  • Humanitarian Group Fined $50,000….

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    .. for bringing medicine to Iraq…members don’t care and intend to raise thousands more to keep braking the embargo…

  • Drugs, Guns and Money

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    (Interesting Read?) Busted, a new anthology, and the case for legalization

  • Bush’s War on the Condom

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    U.N. report documents the failures to curb AIDS

  • We Are Being Set Up For A War Against Iraq

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    In North Carolina last month, a woman attending a lecture I was giving asked me when America would go to war in Iraq. I told her to watch the front page of The New York Times and The Washington Post for the first smear campaigns against the UN inspectors. And bingo, right on time, the…

  • Common Myths in Iraq Coverage

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    An issue as serious as the Iraq crisis deserves the highest possible degree of accuracy from the press. U.S. media coverage, however, is marked by frequent misstatements and distortions of reality– some of which have been made repeatedly, even after being pointed out by critics.

  • Oil Is Our Damnation

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    IT’S AN UNDERSTATEMENT TO SAY THAT Baghdad is a congested city. Practically every car on the streets is a taxi. And while the government has recently put a fleet of shiny new yellow taxis on the roads, most of the cabs are “private.” Teachers, engineers, sometimes even doctors, drive the family car to make ends…

  • Bush administration sabotages inspections

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    Now that United Nations weapons inspectors have arrived in Iraq, most Americans want the inspection process to work. But the hawks in the Bush administration are petrified that it will, and doing their best to undermine it.

  • U.S. Defends Burying Iraqi Troops Alive

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    The Pentagon said that a “gap” in the laws governing warfare made it legally permissible during the gulf war for U.S. tanks to bury thousands of Iraqi troops in their trenches and for U.S. warplanes to bomb the enemy retreating along the so-called Highway of Death.

  • The War Against Reason

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    by Harold Pinter … There’s an old story about Oliver Cromwell. After he had taken the Irish town of Drogheda the citizens were brought to the main square. Cromwell announced to his lieutenants: “Right! Kill all the women and rape all the men.” One of his aides said: “Excuse me, general. Isn’t it the other…