Category: War

Detailed, orderly and articulate

Obama Isolates Netanyahu as Head of Warmongers By Barak Ravid, Aug 06, 2015 12:34 AM   WASHINGTON – Some 200 people gathered at a plaza named for Saudi King Salman at American University in Washington on Wednesday and waited for U.S. President Barack Obama’s address on the nuclear deal reached last month with Iran. A …

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Funny things

Dear editor, This is a letter about funny things. A random collection perhaps, but some readers may discern a veritable fountain of flummery, deep and wide, that flows through them all. Funny thing about that young bigot slaughtering all those people away yonder in a Charleston church just a few weeks ago. Suddenly there’s a …

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40 years after

Ode to Nam on the 40th Anniversary of its End By J. Randall O’Brien, February 15, 2015   He came home from Nam But never made it back. I saw him last just before He left for the war. We celebrated his return His presence being our only lack. Cheering glasses were raised Repeatedly before …

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Hazardous, illusory, and sadly unchallenged

America’s Virulent, Extremist Counterterrorism Ideology By Micah Zenko, May 21, 2015   Throughout the 13-plus years of the war on terrorism, one line of effort that everyone in Washington agrees on is the necessity to counter the ideology put forth by terrorist groups. Unfortunately, everyone also agrees that U.S. government agencies have done a terrible …

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We are all guilty

Too By The Observer (Arkansas Times), April 23 2015   There’s an enemy out there, lurking in the dark. It’s the enemy of every human being and — The Observer has become convinced over the years — the root of all evil, no matter what you’ve heard about the Greenback Dollar. Money, it turns out, …

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Denial is fraught with peril

Armenian genocide: To continue to deny the truth of this mass human cruelty is close to a criminal lie By Robert Fisk, Monday 20 April 2015   At seven o’clock on Thursday evening, a group of very brave men and women will gather in Taksim Square, in the centre of Istanbul, to stage an unprecedented …

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Oh brother! Where art thou?!

Dear editor: Oh brother! Where art thou?! I mean really, where do you get this stuff? There must be something in the water here. A few weeks ago, a bizarre prognostication of smiting from outer space appeared on the pages of this newspaper. In the religion section. Apparently asteroid BL86, in just 12 short years, …

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