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Empire or Republic?

War doesn’t pay, nor does imperial ambition. This proposition should be evident to anyone who has paid attention to the fivefold increase in the price of oil since George W. Bush took office. The principle of nonintervention is neither liberal nor conservative in orientation, and at the inception of the Republic it was accepted as a commonsense.

Posted on Jun 14, 2008 65 COMMENTS


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Tom Hayden’s New Port Huron Statement

The veteran social activist writes a new preface to the manifesto that helped shape a generation’s views on racial equality, participatory democracy and the military industrial complex.

Posted on Apr 10, 2006 6 COMMENTS


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Illustration by Karen Spector

Taking On the Israel Lobby

Two respected researchers have touched off a firestorm with their report arguing that America’s pro-Israel lobby has badly damaged the United States’ strategic interests. Check out this Truthdig report on the reactions from all sides of the debate.

Posted on Mar 27, 2006 61 COMMENTS


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In Full: Statement of Freed Activist

Two days after being freed from a four-month captivity in Iraq, UK peace activist Norman Kember tries to deflect attention away from himself and onto Iraqis suffering amid the continuing violence.

Posted on Mar 25, 2006 1 COMMENT


Muqtada al_Sadr
From elconfidencial.com

The Roots of the Iraqi Civil War

This excellent article from the Boston Review opens with a brutal killing and goes on to stitch together the disparate threads of the sectarian violence now wracking the country.

Posted on Mar 24, 2006 6 COMMENTS


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