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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing:  “All the Vice President’s Men”
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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing: “All the Vice President’s Men”

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Dick Cheney and the Iraq War – was it about Oil? How Cheney coarsened American politics

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Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

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The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

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Urdu Press Blames US for Crisis

Urdu Press Blames US for Crisis

While Gen. Musharraf maintains that he was forced to make his most recent coup by the threat of Muslim extremism, many of Pakistan’s Urdu newspapers […]

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State of Emergency in Pakistan

State of Emergency in Pakistan

Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf has made a second coup. Over his eight years of military dictatorship, he had dressed his government up in the outward […]

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Female US Soldier Killed Bush Envoy Resigns over Unfair Policies toward Turks

Female US Soldier Killed Bush Envoy Resigns over Unfair Policies toward Turks

Barnett Rubin at our Global Affairs site is live-blogging the state of emergency in Pakistan, declared by Gen Pervez Musharraf. My essay, “Combating Muslim Extremism,” […]

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Oaths, the Constitution, and the US Embassy in Iraq

Oaths, the Constitution, and the US Embassy in Iraq

The Bush administration is taking a hard line on dragooning civilian Foreign Service Officers into serving in the war zone of Iraq. The article contains […]

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Curveball is Alive

Curveball is Alive

It isn’t surprising that Iraqi expatriates like Curveball should be trying to peddle a load of horse manure about Iraqi ‘weapons programs’ in the early […]

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Iraq
More on the Need to Close down the US Embassy in Baghdad

More on the Need to Close down the US Embassy in Baghdad

More on the need to pressure Congress to close the US embassy in Baghdad (see below). First, here is some correspondence: ‘As a retired foreign […]

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Iraq
Time to Close the US Embassy

Time to Close the US Embassy

I don’t try to start an internet campaign very often, because the blogosphere has its own priorities and logic that are democratic and should not […]

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Anti-Gay Church Fined by Court Can Robertson be far Behind?

Anti-Gay Church Fined by Court Can Robertson be far Behind?

A jury has found an independent “Baptist” church (which doesn’t actually appear to have anything to do with the Baptist Church) in Topeka, KS, guilty […]

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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

In my absence, my readers are making what seem to me especially substantial, informed and incisive comments, and several of those posted today seemed to […]

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