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Dave Stratman: Beware the Liberal War on Terror

Saturday, 3 July 2004, 7:42 pm | Guest Opinion

Many people who oppose the war in Iraq are living under a dangerous illusion: that the war is the work of a cabal of fundamentalist Christians and Jewish neo-conservatives who have hijacked the government for their own purposes–that the war, in other words, ... More >>

US Congress Endorses Sharon’s Annexation Plans

Thursday, 1 July 2004, 1:15 pm | Guest Opinion

On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives, in an overwhelming bipartisan vote, endorsed right-wing Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's efforts to colonize and annex large sections of the Palestinian West Bank, seized by Israel in the June 1967 ... More >>

Fitzsimmons Warns Of Decline Of Oil And Gas

Thursday, 10 June 2004, 3:26 pm | Guest Opinion

Last night I attended a public meeting of about forty people at Te Manawa here in Palmerston North. As coordinator of the energy-related RunnningOnEmptyNZ internet group , I was curious to see what Jeanette Fitzsimmons might say about the energy ... More >>

Guest Opinion: Count The Dead

Friday, 28 May 2004, 4:59 pm | Guest Opinion

President Bush might prefer to skip Memorial Day this year. In the buildup to the invasion of Iraq, he sold us a fantasy of military triumph with minimal American deaths. Most people bought it. More >>

Prisoner Torture Scam Is The Tipping Point In Iraq

Tuesday, 25 May 2004, 3:50 pm | Guest Opinion

No matter how hard President George W. Bush and his senior aides try, they won’t be able to restore the last bit of the fig leaf with which they had been covering their illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. More >>

Reflections On A Visit To The DPRK, April, 2004

Tuesday, 18 May 2004, 11:35 am | Guest Opinion

In April of each year an International Performing Arts Festival is held in the capital of the DPRK, Pyongyang. In 2004 NZ performers Richard Nunns and Kingi Tauroa participated. More >>

Annie Warmke: Longing For A Better Time In America

Tuesday, 18 May 2004, 11:34 am | Guest Opinion

There's nothing like turning on the ''telly'' and looking straight into the face of a woman GI smiling and pointing at something out of range of the camera. As the camera pulled back the image of a man with a hood over his head came into view, and ... More >>

Mac Deford: Don Rumsfeld and Al Capone

Monday, 17 May 2004, 1:52 pm | Guest Opinion

Should Rumsfeld be fired over the prisoner abuse scandal? Frankly, at this point, we're talking barn doors and escaped cows. More >>

Nathan Gray: Water Wars – A Nuclear Travesty

Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 11:53 am | Guest Opinion

A sonic boom pierces my ears as a military jet screams overhead towards Pakistan. I'm in the Indian state of Rajasthan, about 73 kilometres from the Pakistan border, staying in a 900 year-old palace fort with ancient temples and army troops all around. More >>

Saretta Wool: We Need to Talk

Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 11:42 am | Guest Opinion

Bullies need to dominate. The United States has become the world bully: a tormenter, an oppressor. We are under the so-called “leadership” of a dictator. Bush has been indicted as a war criminal, for crimes against humanity, for torture and wanton killing, ... More >>

Rima Anabtawi: Water Off My Throat

Tuesday, 11 May 2004, 3:12 pm | Guest Opinion

Water Off My Throat - The Heartbreak of Palestinian Truth By Rima Anabtawi May 5, 2004 - Connecticut More >>

Translation: The Mother Of All Oil Shocks

Friday, 30 April 2004, 11:32 am | Guest Opinion

Translated from Le Monde (Paris). A French elected official from the Green Party warns that there will be an oil crisis unlike any that preceded it by the end of the decade. He says our only hope is something hard to imagine: a worldwide agreement ... More >>

Fear Follows MLK Assassination, Yes Even Today

Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 11:52 am | Guest Opinion

36 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and 27 years after my investigation of the conspiracy that took his life I am still amazed at the reaction I get from people about it. More >>

A Woman in Tucson is Screaming, Crying

Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 11:37 am | Guest Opinion

In my 56 years on this beautiful planet; our home and mother, I have never seen the ravages of male recklessness, violence, oppression, and war so predominant and frightening as now. Gentlemen, and I use the term loosely, you have gone too far! You are destroying ... More >>

Ending The ''War On Terror'' Myth

Thursday, 15 April 2004, 11:26 am | Guest Opinion

The so-called ''War On Terror'' is a dangerous myth that is undermining American national security. This myth is a deliberate creation of the Bush Administration and their political allies. More >>

The Marines’ ''How To'' Handbook for Empire

Wednesday, 14 April 2004, 11:36 am | Guest Opinion

The Wall Street Journal, the official cheerleader publication for the neo-conservative effort to rejuvenate the U.S. Empire’s interventionist agenda around the world, carried a page one article April 7, 2004, entitled ''For Guidance in Iraq, Marines Rediscover ... More >>