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How imperialism fomented Islamist violence
November 4, 2005Devil’s Game: How the United States helped unleash fundamentalist Islam Robert Dreyfuss Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, November 2005 Hardcover, 400 pp., $27.50 President Bush has just repeated his foggy-brained assertion that somehow al-Qaida and “communism” are the...
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Hurricanes and war
November 4, 2005Replacing emergency relief with war is not new in world or U.S. history. Even disasters separated by more than half a century have similarities. In the spring of 1952, during the Korean War, a Missouri River...
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Using Katrina to exploit immigrants
November 4, 2005So far, the immigrant-haters have not found a way to actually blame Latino immigrants for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. But there is plenty of immigrant-bashing going on in the wake of the storms. CNN’s Lou Dobbs,...
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As in WWII, the president should limit oil profits
November 4, 2005The author rightly notes that many Americans are dubious about this president’s war propaganda. Like a growing number of Americans, we reject the Bush policy of global war. But this article has an important point, that...
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Bush nominee slaps Parks legacy
November 4, 2005We stand on the shoulders of giants, and one of those, the diminutive Rosa Parks, was honored by the American people this week, as her body lay in the Capitol Rotunda and thousands walked to pay...
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