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“No Fly Zone”? Senator Kerry, the UN Charter is Supreme Law

March 8, 2011

Surely no-one has been surprised to see Senator McCain engaged in what Defense Secretary Gates has rightly called "loose talk" about the use of U.S. military force in Libya. But to see Senator John Kerry, the Democratic head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee – the man who as a Vietnam veteran joined other anti-war…

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U.S. Military Still Lying About Special Forces Night Raid in Afghanistan

April 9, 2010

U.S. officials are “probing a possible attempted coverup” in the deaths of five Afghan civilians in February in a raid carried out by U.S. Special Forces accompanied by Afghan troops, the Los Angeles Times reports. Among the charges is that the bodies were tampered with by U.S. forces to conceal the cause of death. But…

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The Day They Arrested President Roosevelt

July 17, 2009

What a dark day for American democracy it was – February 5, 1937, the day they arrested President Roosevelt. The pretext for this assault on democracy was President Roosevelt’s proposal of the Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937, which would have allowed President Roosevelt to appoint more members to the Supreme Court, which had blocked New…

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LAT, Arias: US Must Pressure Honduran Coup Leaders

July 14, 2009

Some people may have hoped that the problem of the coup in Honduras would magically go away once talks began between President Zelaya and leaders of the coup regime under the mediation of Costa Rica’s President Oscar Arias. But of course it wasn’t so and it isn’t so. For the mediation to succeed, a key…

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“No Fly Zone”? Senator Kerry, the UN Charter is Supreme Law

U.S. Military Still Lying About Special Forces Night Raid in Afghanistan

The Day They Arrested President Roosevelt

LAT, Arias: US Must Pressure Honduran Coup Leaders