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"We like to believe that American leaders are cut from entirely different cloth. But I don’t think so. In some respects, the terrible compromises made by Tariq Aziz are more explainable than ones that are routine in U.S. politics."
What happened to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was troubling. On the one hand, because she dared to challenge the way supporters of Israel have worked to silence debate on US policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she became a victim of...
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President Bush’s Metamorphosis in Foreign Policy
"President George W. Bush is not the first recent president to use military power to intervene in the affairs of other countries, but he probably has been the most reckless and incompetent."
The Urbanity of Evil
"We like to believe that American leaders are cut from entirely different cloth. But I don’t think so. In some respects, the terrible compromises made by Tariq Aziz are more explainable than ones that are routine in U.S. politics."
The Urgent Need for a Biden-Putin Summit
By Norman Solomon
Last week’s outbreak of rhetorical hostilities between the White House and the Kremlin has heightened the urgent need for a summit between...
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