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War at Christmas time
December 15, 2006The forked desert road leads to nowhere. Each crossroad, each corner of a dusty street Evokes not the sleepy town of Bethlehem, But the chaos found in Fullujah or In the gutted houses of Tikrit, Along...
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The post-abundance era
December 15, 2006Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, foreign policy analysts have struggled to find a term to characterize the epoch we now inhabit. Although the “post-Cold-War era” has been the reigning expression, this label now...
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Fortresses of working-class power
December 15, 2006A nightmare for progressives leading up to the Nov. 7 elections was that Maryland voters would go against the grain and elect Republican Michael Steele, an African American, to the U.S. Senate seat held by retiring...
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Making connections on terrorism
December 15, 2006Charged with possessing deadly weapons, Santiago Alvarez of Florida plea-bargained, dodged a potential 50-year sentence, and now goes to jail for four years. Alvarez, like some other right-wing Cuban Americans, has paid for, organized and carried...
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LETTERS
December 15, 2006Pinochet I think that it is a shame that the courts allowed Augusto Pinochet to escape punishment because of alleged, and real, medical problems. Former dictators should not be immune from prosecution for torture, murder, war...
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