Monthly Archive: April 2003

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Snatching Defeat from The Jaws Of Victory

The war against Iraq is on the road to failure in its most important, durable objective: to transform this construct of British imperialism, Baathist oppression, and American fantasies into a willing replica of Western...

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Blame It On September 11th

I have a good idea what websites this guy frequents. A Queens man who decapitated his Afghan filmmaking partner and put his head in a freezer will claim temporary insanity – caused by witnessing...

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Rights And Wrongs

Spare a thought for the 18 Afghans released this month from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They showed up yesterday in Kabul — cleared, for what it’s worth, of suspicion. One...

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Syria Next On The Chopping Block?

Although I flagged this ages ago (and in fact, it’s been part of the neocon Middle East war blueprints for over a decade), many people still seem to be in denial that the Bush...

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Meat Puppets

So I found three photos that illustrate how quickly a complex human being can be reduced to a piece of meat and all his varied drives reduced to a single post-mortem cause. This the...

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The Sack of Baghdad

Here’s a great article demonstrating the extraordinary farce and tragedy displayed in the ongoing destruction of Baghdad. I can’t help but think there’s some element of perverse vindictiveness in this directed against the Iraqis...

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Wag The Christian Dogs

This is one of the most detailed counterspin articles I’ve read in a while. During the pre-war media hype, much coverage was afforded to a “young” “antiwar demonstrator”, one “Reverand Kenneth Joseph”, who apparently...