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Predicting the Uniparty: Peter Oborneâ€™s "The Triumph of the Political Class"

Mark Gullick •ï¿½July 23, 2024

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Words and phrases often enter the political lexicon via the US media before crossing the Atlantic Ocean to the UK, and one such recent migrant is the â€œunipartyâ€. The Americans have been using it for some time, and the Right-of-center media in Britain are now cautiously trying it out. The idea, of course, is that... Read More

The Priority Must be to Put Bush, Blair and Cheney Behind Bars, Before Trump

Jonathan Cook •ï¿½October 2, 2023

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There is not much to thank Dick Cheney for. But perhaps he deserves credit for one thing: illustrating how effectively our political systems can rehabilitate even the most monstrous of moral monsters. Just watch this short clip that went viral on X (formerly Twitter), in which Cheney warns against the re-election of Donald Trump. Perhaps... Read More

The Extreme Center: How the Neocons Went Woke

Oliver Williams •ï¿½May 2, 2023

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No lessens, no consequences The Iraq war was spearheaded by a remarkably small group of people. It has become politically untenable to justify that overt disaster and some of the key architects of that war have, much belatedly, come to acknowledge as much. As late as 2013 Max Boot was still arguing there was No... Read More

Perhaps We Need More Uncertainty, Maybe

Ted Rall •ï¿½January 21, 2022

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"We know where they are," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in March 2003 about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. "They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." We found nothing. Rumsfeld knew nothing. A year after the invasion, most voters believed the Bush administration had lied America... Read More

I Am a Victim of Republican Cancel Culture

Ted Rall •ï¿½March 26, 2021

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The debate over cancel culture centers around how the Democratic Party, "woke" activists and politically correct "social justice warriors" expel people from social acceptability or force them into joblessness because something they said or did provoked an online mob. But Republicans have been canceling people for much longer. I am living proof. My career grew... Read More

Humanity at the Crossroads

Connecting the Dots to Our Brave New World

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½June 17, 2020

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Humankind is at a cusp, a point of transition between two different states of governance and existence. The world today is like a sack being slowly filled while the string around the opening is pulled increasingly tighter to prevent the contents from escaping confinement. The shadows of this future are everywhere to be seen but... Read More

No Pardons for Neocon War Crimes (Part 2)

Ilana Mercer •ï¿½February 20, 2020

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â€œHOW does America change if our intelligence agencies were more accurate in their assessment of Saddam Husseinâ€™s chemical and nuclear weapons programs?â€ The question was posed, just the other day, in â€œMake America Competent Again,â€ by David French, at the Dispatch, a neoconservative website. The tract is an agony auntâ€™s meander that calls on shoring-up... Read More

War with Iran Would Become 'Trump's War'

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½June 18, 2019

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President Donald Trump cannot want war with Iran. Such a war, no matter how long, would be fought in and around the Persian Gulf, through which a third of the world's seaborne oil travels. It could trigger a worldwide recession and imperil Trump's reelection. It would widen the "forever war," which Trump said he would... Read More

"The Holocaust" Is a Myth That Conceals Our Shame

Kevin Barrett •ï¿½April 15, 2019

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I love the words, music, and soul of my Israeli-born truth jihadi brother Gilad Atzmon. In fact, I enjoy his company so much that just about every year I take up the largely thankless task of organizing a public event for him here in Israeli-occupied Madison, Wisconsin. Last year the local Israeli Occupation forces got... Read More

Rand Paul's Senate Vote Rolls Back the Warfare State

Ron Paul •ï¿½September 18, 2017

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Last week, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) reminded Congress that in matters of war, they have the authority and the responsibility to speak for the American people. Most Senators were not too happy about the reminder, which came in the form of a forced vote on whether to allow a vote on his amendment to repeal... Read More

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Why Readers Shouldnâ€™t Trust Staff Reporters

Eric Zuesse •ï¿½January 19, 2017

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Journalism â€” especially about important matters â€” is not a profession. Itâ€™s a calling. Or else, if itâ€™s not a calling, then it is public relations; it is propaganda, â€œPRâ€ â€” done for the purpose of receiving pay, not really for the purpose of conveying truth. But propaganda isnâ€™t journalism at all. Itâ€™s not merely... Read More

What Does It Mean When War Hawks Say, â€œNever Trumpâ€?

The Enemies of My Enemy May Be War Criminals

Rebecca Gordon •ï¿½August 21, 2016

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Itâ€™s not every day that Republicans publish an open letter announcing that their presidential candidate is unfit for office. But lately this sort of thing has been happening more and more frequently. The most recent example: we justheard from 50 representatives of the national security apparatus, men -- and a few women -- who served... Read More

Khizr Khan and the Triumph of Democratic Militarism

Ted Rall •ï¿½August 2, 2016

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Against the wishes of her New York Democratic constituents, Hillary Clinton voted with Senate Republicans to invade Iraq. (It was a pivotal vote. Without Democratic support, George W. Bushâ€™s request for this war of aggression would have failed.) Humayun Khan, 27, was an army captain who got killed during that invasion. Eight years later, the... Read More

Trump Called Bush A Liar & He Won South Carolina (Nevada, Too)

Ilana Mercer •ï¿½February 27, 2016

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Donald Trump has buried George W. Bush, for good. Or so we hope. This might not be "Morning in America," but it is a moral victory for values in America. Somewhere in those Judeo-Christian values touted by â€œvalues votersâ€ is an injunction against mass murder. Before the February 20 South Carolina primary, it looked as... Read More

Bush Haunts the GOP

Eric Margolis •ï¿½February 20, 2016

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â€œThe evil that men do lives after them,â€ wrote Shakespeare. A prime example, former US President George W. Bush who appeared last week campaigning in South Carolina for his amiable younger brother, Jeb. George W. continues to haunt the Republican Party and damage its electoral chances. At home, Bush has been staying out of public... Read More

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The major media overlooked Communist spies and Madoffâ€™s fraud. What are they missing today?

Ron Unz •ï¿½April 29, 2013

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In mid-March, the Wall Street Journal carried a long discussion of the origins of the Bretton Woods system, the international financial framework that governed the Western world for decades after World War II. A photo showed the two individuals who negotiated that agreement. Britain was represented by John Maynard Keynes, a towering economic figure of... Read More

The Dean Derailment

Stephen J. Sniegoski •ï¿½February 3, 2004

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The Establishment media essentially removed Howard Dean from the presidential race. As Sam Smith puts it in his article at CounterPunch, "Dean in Freefall: Howard's End?", the primary cause of Dean' demise was "the most excessive and gratuitous media assault on a presidential candidate in recent times." Dean has indeed received a bad press. For... Read More

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