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Commentary Flanders: Noam Chomsky, Model Terrorist?

Commentary, February, 10 2002 Laura Flanders
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A couple of weeks back, Human Rights Watch announced in their annual World Report that repressive governments around the world are exploiting the "war against terrorism" to clamp down on domestic dissidents.

Commentary Podur: What Are The Rules?

Commentary, January, 20 2002 Justin Podur
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Years ago I interviewed someone who had traveled all over Central and Eastern Europe and Central and South Asia studying states and civil wars and how and why states failed. 'People ask me what's worse, an authoritarian state or no state,' he said...

Commentary Prashad: The Age Of Scorpio (vrishchika): Star Wars And Star Signs

Commentary, December, 30 2001 Vijay Prashad
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This is the dawning of the Age of Scorpio, or as our Sanskrit texts have it, the Age of Vrishchika.

Commentary Brecher: Open Letter from an American to the World: HELP!

Commentary, December, 28 2001 Jeremy Brecher
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The Bush Administration is blundering into a global conflagration. There is currently no force within the U.S. likely to stop it. It is up to the rest of the world, and especially AmericaÕs friends and allies Ð both governments and their citizen...

Commentary Herman: Coalitions Of The Willing, Coerced, And Bribed

Commentary, December, 24 2001 Edward Herman
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When the United States pummels tiny states like Grenada and Panama, the U.S. media and public have no apparent embarrassment at the imbalance of power and the bully-boy aspect of the incursions; in fact, there is pride at super-Goliath beating up ...

Commentary Jensen: Why I Write (for Newspapers)

Commentary, December, 20 2001 Robert Jensen
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My clearest memory of the 1991 Persian Gulf War is a few moments on a bus when the world melted in front of me.

Commentary Wise: Playing the World War Two Card: Nostalgia in the Crusade Against Terrorism

Commentary, December, 16 2001 Tim Wise
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Traveling through airports, as I often do, can prove to be quite an educational experience. Therein, one can engage in people watching, examine the culinary habits of corporate types and tourists, and occasionally gain insight into the mindset of ...

Commentary Cromwell: Terror, Delusion And Obscenities

Commentary, December, 09 2001 David Cromwell
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A few weeks ago, while awaiting a flight from Heathrow to Glasgow, I encountered an alleged war criminal walking around freely. His name? Robin Cook. Yes, the former British foreign secretary, now leader of the House of Commons. Iraq, Serbia, East...

Commentary Marable: The Failure of U.S. Foreign Policies

Commentary, November, 20 2001 Manning Marable
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The bombing campaign against the people of Afghanistan will be described in history as the "U.S. Against the Third World." The launching of military strikes against peasants does nothing to suppress terrorism, and only erodes American credibility ...

Commentary Mokhiber: Kill, Kill, Kill

Commentary, November, 19 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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In a recent interview with the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, Osama bin Laden justified the killing of innocent Americans this way :

Commentary Herman: Genocide As Collateral Damage, But With Sincere Regrets

Commentary, November, 10 2001 Edward Herman
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The Bush Afghan war calls up memories of the Vietnam war in both actions and rhetoric: the massive use of superior arms heavily impacting civilians, deliberate food deprivation, wholesale terror allegedly combatting "terrorism," but always "sincer...

Zmag Article Lindemyer: Iraqi Sanctions: Myth and Fact

Zmag Article, November, 01 2001 Jeff Lindemyer
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Iraqi Sanctions: Myth and Fact

Commentary Wise: Who’s Being Naïve? War-Time Realism Through the Looking Glass

Commentary, October, 28 2001 Tim Wise
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To hear those who support the current air assault on Afghanistan tell it, those of us who doubt the likely efficacy of such a campaign, and who question its fundamental morality are not only insufficiently patriotic but dangerously naïve.

Commentary Solomon: War Needs Good Public Relations

Commentary, October, 26 2001 Norman Solomon
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For some people, war is terror, disaster and death. For others, it's a PR problem.

Commentary Pilger: A war in the American tradition

Commentary, October, 16 2001 John Pilger
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The Anglo-American attack on Afghanistan crosses new boundaries. It means that America's economic wars are now backed by the perpetual threat of military attack on any country, without legal pretence.

Commentary Solomon: Media Spin Revolves Around The Word "terrorist"

Commentary, October, 06 2001 Norman Solomon
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During the first two days of this month, CNN's website displayed an odd little announcement. "There have been false reports that CNN has not used the word 'terrorist' to refer to those who attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon," the noti...

Commentary Prashad: Forward Into the Past: US War Aims

Commentary, October, 05 2001 Vijay Prashad
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The US State Department-Pentagon has a bad record on war aims. During the lead-up to the Gulf War, the Bush administration, Part 1, argued that the US was needed to liberate Kuwait.

Commentary Herman: ANTITERRORISM AS A COVER FOR TERRORISM

Commentary, October, 05 2001 Edward Herman
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During the Cold War the United States supported a string of terror states, from the immediate post-World War backing given Thailand dictator Phibun Songkhram, "the first pro-Axis dictator to regain power after the war," to its support of Suharto, ...

Commentary Burchill: The US, Indonesia, and Terror

Commentary, October, 01 2001 Scott Burchill
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In a bid to build its coalition for a war against terrorism, the United States has demonstrated that it is keen to have on side the world's biggest Islamic nation, Indonesia. Support from Indonesia, an ally of the United States from the late 1960s...

Commentary Albert: What's Going On?

Commentary, September, 28 2001 Michael Albert
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The U.S. response to September 11 seeks to benefit elites in the U.S., and, to a lesser degree, around the world. There are various goals.

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