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The People of Afghanistan Have Nothing To Do With Bin Laden
RAWA

9/21/01

Don't Press the Panic Button
by Dave Kopel

9/21/01

Killing the Stock Market
by Lew Rockwell

9/21/01

Words We Do Not Want To Hear
by Jeff Snyder

9/21/01

Warnings Were on Page One
by John Balzar

9/21/01

First, Define the Battlefield
by Michael Walzer

9/21/01

If Civil Liberties Are Destroyed, Terrorists Have Won
by Mark Littlewood
9/20/01

Not Easy Being an Arab-American
by Sherri Muzher

9/20/01

Despair Feeds Hatred, Extremism
by Sandy Tolan
9/20/01

Bin Laden: The Balkan Connection
by Srdja Trifkovic

9/19/01

In the Death Zone
by Tom Carew
9/19/01

The Overlooked Flaw in Retaliation
by Harry Browne

9/19/01

Christians Should Not Charge Into 'Holy War'
by Simon Jenkins

9/19/01

Randians for Mass Murder
by Milton Batiste

9/19/01

So What is Wrong With a Court of Law?
by John-Paul Leonard

9/18/01

Bush Team Agrees Something Must Be Done – But What?
by Robert Novak

9/18/01

God Bless America, and the Rest of the World
by Sam Bahour

9/18/01

War Dementia
by Karen De Coster

9/18/01

The Cold War is Over But US Preparation for it Continues
by Robert Higgs
9/18/01

A Call to Action for Peace
by Robert Jensen

9/18/01

Leviathan Goes to 'War'
by David Bardallis

9/18/01

Time to Think Before We Act
by David Harris

9/18/01

'We Are At War'
by Thomas Greene
9/18/01

The Need for Dissent
by George Monbiot

9/18/01

Mindless Violence is Not an American Value
by Robert Jamieson, Jr.

9/17/01

Terror and Diplomacy are Natural Enemies
by Salim Muwakkil

9/17/01

War Without End
by Franklin Harris

9/17/01

Is Rational Discourse Another Casualty of Tuesday's Attacks?
by Ben Fritz

9/17/01

Between Wisdom and War
The American Cause

9/17/01

The Lost Opportunities of Liberty
by Gilles d'Aymery

9/17/01

On Congressional Authorization of Force
by Rep. Ron Paul
9/17/01

Why Do They Hate the US
by John Roberts
9/17/01

Freedom Trumps Fear
Los Angeles Times

9/16/01

War is Good for Business
by Michel Chossudovsky

9/16/01

Seek Justice, Not War
The Observer

9/16/01

The Hawks are Hovering – Prepare for More Bombs
by Michael Byers
9/16/01

The DC Horror Show
by Lew Rockwell
9/15/01

We Need the Rule of Law, Not the Rule of War
by James Carroll
9/15/01

The Bigger They Come, The Harder They Fall
by Matthew Parris

9/15/01

Budget Battle Over – Blank Check Wins
by Robert Novak

9/14/01

War is Not the Only Option
by Robert Jensen

9/14/01

A Unanimous Triumph for Masters of War
by Norman Solomon

9/14/01

What Became of Tolerance in Islam?
by Khaled Abou el Fadl

9/14/01

One Way to Beat the Bombers
by Rick Salutin

9/14/01

An Eye for an Eye: Not the Answer
by David Dieteman

9/14/01

How Could This Happen?
by Chris Floyd

9/14/01

Is this Nothing More than Good versus Evil?
by William L. Anderson

9/14/01

The Warmongers
by Jeremy Sapienza

9/14/01

Message from Serbia to Grieving Americans
by Aleksandar Pavic
9/13/01

Who Is Osama Bin Laden?
by Michel Chossudovsky
9/13/01

Playing Into the Terrorists Hands
by Kristen Philipkoski

9/13/01

Blowback!
by Jeff Sommers

9/13/01

Americans Can't See Why They Are Hated
by Seumas Milne

9/13/01

Sharon's War on Terrorism
by Joseph Sobran

9/13/01

The Mind of a Terrorist
by Jude Wanniski

9/12/01

In a Libertarian America
by Thomas Knapp

9/12/01

A Call for Temperance
by Matthew Berliant

9/12/01

US Paying the Price for Arrogance of Power
by Jonathan Power

9/12/01

Terrorism and Our Democracy
by Robert Kuttner

9/12/01

We Must Remember Our Responsibilities
by Rep. Ron Paul

9/12/01

Terrorists Are Made, Not Born
by Bruce Shapiro
9/12/01

The Wrong Reaction
by Stephen Zunes
9/12/01

The War Comes Home
by Rahul Mahajan

9/12/01

Why Many Arabs Hate America
by Scott McConnell
9/12/01

The Unending War Comes Home
by Ryan McMaken

9/12/01

Attacks Designed to Provoke US Into Costly Military Adventure
by Robert Fisk

9/12/01

American Interventionism and the Terrorist Threat
by Jon Basil Utley

9/12/01

The Unknown Enemy
by Joseph Sobran

9/12/01

Terrorist Target America: First Impressions
by Thomas Fleming

9/11/01

Resisting Hysteria
by Jesse Walker

9/11/01

Who Saw It Coming?
by Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair

9/11/01

The Darkest Day
by Michael Lopez-Calderon

9/11/01

Hobbled First Amendment
by Geoff Metcalf
9/10/01

Pure Fiction in Macedonia
by Gary Dempsey

9/9/01

Israel: Into the Abyss
by Neve Gordon
9/8/01

Government Secrecy Overkill
Birmingham Post-Herald

9/7/01

The Perils of Intervention
by Geoffrey Wheatcroft

9/7/01

US Missile Ploy Risks Bigger Nuclear Arms Race
Sacramento Bee

9/6/01

If China Builds More Warheads
by Rose Gottemoeller

9/6/01

Bush's Nuclear Footsie With China
by Matthew Rothschild

9/6/01

US Policy on Defense Spells Danger
by James Travers
9/6/01

The Macedonian Phrase-Book: Writing NATO's Dictionary of Control
by Christopher Deliso

9/5/01

NATO Mission is a Farce
Video Interview with James Bissett
9/5/01

Wanted: An Enemy to Justify $344 Billion War Budget
by Ben Cohen

9/4/01

When Israel's Future Collides With the Past
by Leon Hadar
9/4/01

British Media Lies on Macedonia
by Rick Rozoff

9/3/01

Bush's 'Tough' Approach on Iraq
by Khalil Osman

9/2/01

What Are We Doing in Macedonia?
by Marcus Tanner

9/1/01

Humiliated and Punished, Palestinians Have No Way Out
by Muhanned Tull

8/31/01

Propaganda and War
by Edward Said

8/31/01

Collateral Damage: Your Tax Dollars at Work
by Ibn El-Sign

8/30/01

The ICTFY is Illegal
by Slobodan Milosevic

8/30/01

Missile-Shield Fantasies Threaten Better Defenses
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

8/30/01

Why the Macedonia Agreement Will Fail
by Sam Vankin

8/30/01

Treaties Don't Belong to Presidents
by Bruce Ackerman

8/29/01

Ethnic Cleansing and Minority Rule
Assoc. of Macedonian Communities of Australia

8/27/01

FDR and Pearl Harbor: the FOIA Revelations
by Doug Cirignano

8/21/01

Palestinians Are Not Mexicans, and Israel Is Not America
by Derek Copold
8/19/01

Wen Ho Lee: Guilty Until Proved Innocent
by Robert Scheer

8/17/01

Defund the UN
by Rep. Ron Paul

7/18/01

US Military Must Disengage From the Philippines
by Doug Bandow

3/28/01

War is a Racket
by Gen. Smedley Butler

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E-Terror in America
by Joel Miller

9/21/01

'Infinite Justice' – Words Have Meanings
by Steve Trinward

9/21/01

Neocons and Demagogues
by Steven Greenhut

9/21/01

Why They Hate Us
by Scott McConnell

9/21/01

Death in the Khyber
by Philip Hensher

9/21/01

America's Unlimited War
by Rahul Mahajan and Robert Jensen
9/21/01

Bigger Military Not the Solution to Terrorism
by Charles Peña

9/20/01

United States Now Pays For the Error of Our Ways
by Sheryl McCarthy

9/20/01

Bomb Someone – Anyone!
by John Galvin

9/20/01

The Lost Heroes of Engine 23
by Bowen Smith
9/20/01

Dancing in the Streets
by Hunt Tooley
9/19/01

Let's Trade War Criminals
by Bob Wallace

9/19/01

This is the Time to Defend the Right to Dissent
The Independent

9/19/01

Bin Laden, Iran, and the KLA
by Christopher Deliso

9/19/01

Islam is a Religion of Peace, Not Terrorism
by Muhammed Ali

9/18/01

Fly the Peace Flag
by Rob Moody

9/18/01

US Pays the Price of Empire
by Pat Buchanan

9/18/01

A Bully With a Bloody Nose is Still a Bully
by Charlotte Raven

9/18/01

It's Meaningless to Declare War on a Tactic
The Independent

9/17/01

Benjamin Franklin or Nostradamus – Decide Before It's Too Late
by Mick Hume

9/17/01

War is Not the Answer
by Jeff Elkins

9/17/01

Bin Laden vs. Congress
by Gary North

9/17/01

Bush's Call for War Play Into Terrorists' Hands
by William Pfaff

9/17/01

Retribution
by Harry Browne
9/17/01

Personal Freedoms Should Be Enhanced After Attack
by Owen McShane
9/17/01

Pearl Harbor II or a Second Sarajevo?
by Eric Margolis

9/16/01

US Must Rediscover Values to Reclaim Values
by Gerald Warner

9/16/01

Let Response be Decent, Noble
by Anthony Robinson

9/16/01

Apocalypse Now?
by John Buell

9/16/01

Bush is Walking Into a Trap
by Robert Fisk

9/16/01

What Does Revenge Accomplish?
by C. Alton Robertson

9/15/01

The Middle East
by David Dieteman

9/15/01

The Penknife and the Bomb
The Guardian

9/15/01

Remembering the Last US Retaliation Against Terror
by Jeff Cohen
9/15/01

The Cycle of Violence
by Harry Browne

9/15/01

And The Walls Came Tumbling Down
by James T. Phillips
9/15/01

Why Give the Fanatics the War They Want?
by Martin Woollacott
9/15/01

An Afghan-American Speaks
by Tamim Ansary

9/14/01

Dangerous Times for US Foreign Policy
by Stephen Zunes

9/14/01

On the Bombings
by Noam Chomsky

9/14/01

Dealing With the Preliminaries
by Alan Bock

9/14/01

This Fireball of Fear and Loathing
by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

9/14/01

The Blasts
by Joseph Sobran
9/14/01

America Should Not Squander Its Sympathy
by Simon Jenkins
9/14/01

It’s Not about Security
by Brian Dunaway

9/14/01

A Vicious Circle
by Roland Watson

9/14/01

Bin Laden: How the US Helped Midwife a Terrorist
by Ahmed Rashid

9/13/01

A Prayer for the Dead
by Patricia Wanniski

9/13/01

How to Defeat Bin Laden
by Michael Klare

9/13/01

Limiting Our Freedom Won't Help
by Jeffrey Rosen

9/13/01

Commentators Quick to Beat Their Pens Into Swords
by Howard Kurtz

9/13/01

Bush Can Launch Missiles or Change Foreign Policy
by Jonathan Freedland
9/13/01

The Morning After
by Diana Johnstone

9/13/01

Terror Attacks, New to Us, Not to Afghans
by James Ingalls

9/13/01

International Ring to the Unimaginable
by John Pilger
9/13/01

Pouring Gasoline on the Fire
by David Dieteman
9/13/01

In the Aftermath of Slaughter
by William L. Anderson

9/13/01

Who is Osama Bin Laden?
by Michel Chossudovsky

9/12/01

Don’t Let the Terrorists Achieve Their Greatest Victory
by Paul Weyrich

9/12/01

Sense and Nonsense About the Bombings
by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

9/12/01

What's the Message?
by Michael Young

9/12/01

Reaping the Whirlwind
by George Galloway, MP

9/12/01

For America, A Dose of Reality
by Derrick Jackson

9/12/01

So Much For That Missile Shield
by Geoffrey York

9/12/01

When Will We Learn?
by Harry Browne

9/12/01

Fire Ants Attack Elephant
by William Markiewicz

9/12/01

Reaping the Whirlwind
by Gene Callahan
9/12/01

Reflections on the World Trade Center Attack
by Bob Murphy

9/12/01

NATO Playing Favourites in Treatment of Indicted War Criminal
by Scott Taylor
9/10/01

Macedonia: Another 'Peace Farce' in the Making
by Bob Djurdjevic

9/9/01

US Policy on Sanctions is Just Fine with Saddam
by Haroon Siddiqui
9/9/01

Disband NATO: The Cold War is Over
by J. David Galland
9/8/01

Who is Behind Human Rights Watch?
by Paul Treanor

9/7/01

As He Pushes Missile Defense, Bush Ignores Larger Threats
by Trudy Rubin

9/7/01

Uncle Sam Goes Red in Belarus
by Daniel McAdams

9/7/01

Saving Israel From Itself
Lebanon Daily Star

9/7/01

Tracking the Elusive Costs of Star Wars
by Loring Wirbel

9/6/01

Nuclear Madness Sweeps the White House
by Arianna Huffington

9/6/01

Hiding Germ Warfare Research
by Elisa Harris
9/6/01

US Admits Subverting Belarus Election
by Stephen Gowans

9/5/01

Telling the Other Side of the Story
by George Hishmeh
9/5/01

The Daily Reality of Israel's Occupation
by Chris Smith

9/4/01

The CIA Goes Primetime on CBS
by Jeff Cohen

9/4/01

The OSCE in Belarus as the Midwife of Instability
by Nataliya Airepatova

9/4/01

Iraq: Eleven Years of Sanctions
by Asma Rashid

9/4/01

Iraqi Sanctions: Myth and Fact
by Jeff Lindemyer
9/3/01

A Selective Service
by Manuel Miles

9/2/01

Is Beit Jala Burning?
by Uri Avnery
9/2/01

A Tale of Two Countries: Turkey and Macedonia
by Rick Rozoff

9/1/01

Demobilize the Army
by Carlton Meyer

9/1/01

Judge, Jury, and Executioner
by Saleh Abdel-Jawad
8/31/01

Blowback and Body Bags
by Raymond Kent

8/31/01

Where Is Our Outrage Over Iraq?
by Reggie Rivers

8/30/01

Kostunica vs. Djindjic: No Showdown in Belgrade
by Srdja Trifkovic & Michael Stenton

8/29/01

US Supporting Military Brutality in Indonesia
by Peter Dale Scott
8/27/01

US Aid Fuels Colombia Violence
by Sandra Alvarez

8/24/01

Ridiculous for US to Push Putin Over Untried Missile System
Newsday

8/23/01

The Principal Palestinian Grievance
by Holger Jensen

8/13/01

The Definition of Terrorism
by Brian Whitaker

5/7/01

Today's Mideast Conflict – Born at Versailles
by Ron Holland

5/1/01

More Bad News
by David Dieteman

9/21/01

Embracing Common Sense
by Alan Bock

9/21/01

Blair Has Made Britain a Target
by John Pilger

9/21/01

Searching for Justice, Not a Global Conflict
by Louise Wisechild
9/21/01

Blank Check
by Chris Floyd
9/21/01

America Far From Innocent
by Scott Laderman
9/20/01

Islamic Peoples are Already Victims of US Power
by John Pilger
9/20/01

Bush is Playing Into Bin Laden's Hands
by Thomas Greene
9/20/01

Freedom Flees in Terror
by Paul McMasters

9/19/01

Mainstream Media Reaction: Who's Pulling the Strings?
by John Sharp
9/19/01

Attacks are a Disaster for Palestinians
by Ramzy Baroud
9/19/01

Osama and Goldstein
by William Anderson

9/19/01

Better To Be Silent Than Out of Step
by Andrew Buncombe

9/19/01

Afghan Women the First Victims of Terrorism – and US Bombs
by Wendy McElroy

9/18/01

Freedom: Paramount in the War Against Terrorism
by Clint Bolick

9/18/01

Don't Form a Lynch Mob to Fight Terrorism
by Hugh Pearson

9/18/01

Evil Personified
by Ryan McMaken

9/18/01

How to Capture Bin Laden
by Brad Edmonds

9/18/01

Washington Wants Afghanistan
by Jared Israel, Rick Rozoff & Nico Varkevisser
9/18/01

Media March to War
FAIR

9/17/01

Acts of War
by David Dieteman

9/17/01

Waist Deep In The Big Muddy, And The Big Fool Says To Press On
by Stephen Gowans

9/17/01

CIA's Tracks Lead in Disastrous Circle
by Robert Scheer

9/17/01

On the Verge of War, Look Before You Leap
by Constantine Gutzman
9/17/01

Wages of War
Times of India

9/17/01

US Policy Backfires from Colombia to Afghanistan
by Kim Alphandry

9/16/01

Bin Laden Driven to Protect Islam From US Control
by William Beeman

9/16/01

US Roles in Mideast Drive Muslim Extremists
by Steven Leibo

9/16/01

Ignoring the Truth of the Middle East
by Richard Ingrams
9/16/01

Dirty Little Secrets About Terrorism
by Thomas Walkom

9/16/01

Paying the Price of Empire
by Bill Kaufmann

9/16/01

Attack Proves Bigger is Not Better
by Paul Clark
9/15/01

Military Action Will Make Matters Worse
by George Galloway, MP

9/15/01

Beware Unintended Results
by Anthony Lewis

9/15/01

Beware the Bushfire
by Siddharth Varadarajan

9/15/01

Why They Attack Us
by Samuel Francis
9/15/01

We Mustn't Give Government a Blank Check
Independent Institute

9/14/01

Explaining the Unexplainable
Jane's Defense Weekly

9/14/01

America, We Feel Your Pain, Do You Feel Ours?
by Ramzy Baroud

9/14/01

Body Counts and Head Counts
by Jon Carroll

9/14/01

Addressing the Sources of Violence Against the US
by Steve Niva

9/14/01

War Isn't a Game After All
by Naomi Klein

9/14/01

The American Century Ends With A Bang
by James Ostrowski

9/14/01

America's Black September
by Srdja Trifkovic
9/14/01

Goading Us Into War
by Daniel McCarthy

9/14/01

The Next Casualty: The Bill of Rights?
by Alexander Cockburn

9/13/01

This is No Pearl Harbor
by Robert Novak

9/13/01

Terrorism, Television, and the Rage for Vengeance
by Norman Solomon

9/13/01

Enough!
by Michael Betzold

9/13/01

International Crime, Not War
by Tom Barry and Martha Honey
9/13/01

Shades of Rome Hang Over Washington
by Robert Harris

9/13/01

What Was the Motive?
by Gary North
9/13/01

Why Did It Happen?
by Rob Moody

9/13/01

Can Liberty Survive Terrorism?
by J.D. Tuccille

9/12/01

Life, Liberty, and the Obligation to Defend Both
by Harold Meyerson

9/12/01

We Condemn All Terrorism
by Hanan Ashrawi
9/12/01

Bush's Press Conference: Into the Abyss
by Rick Rozoff

9/12/01

Fight the Right War
by William Norman Grigg
9/12/01

Day of Sadness, Anger and Fear
by Robert Jensen

9/12/01

Attack on Trade
by Lew Rockwell
9/12/01

Terrible Acts, But the Response Must Be Civilized
The Independent

9/12/01

The Awesome Cruelty of a Doomed People
by Robert Fisk

9/12/01

Don't Fight Fire With Fire
by Simon Jenkins

9/12/01

The Chickens Come Home to Roost
by John Keller

9/12/01

Level-Headed Response
by Steve Farrell & Steve Montgomery

9/11/01

Time to Reassess US-China Relations
by Srdja Trifkovic

9/11/01

From America's Poor to Israel's Rich
by Ramzy Baroud

9/9/01

Close Bases Overseas, Not Just at Home
by Kyle Lohmeier

9/9/01

Belarus: Election Fever and NATO's Invisible Army
by Christopher Deliso
9/8/01

Israel: A Failing Experiment
by Sam Bahour

9/8/01

What Will Happen in Macedonia?
by Jan Oberg

9/7/01

Behind Bush's 'America First' Foreign Policy
by Steve Montgomery & Steve Farrell

9/7/01

Apartheid Roads and Other Discriminatory Policies
by Daoud Kuttab
9/7/01

Conflict Building in Oil-Rich Caspian
by Franz Schurmann

9/6/01

We're in Iraq to Protect Kurds?
by Reggie Rivers

9/6/01

Fruits of US Balkans Policy: War and Greater Albania
by Boris Shmelev

9/6/01

The UN is Shackled to a False Sense of Guilt
by Simon Jenkins
9/5/01

Bulldozers Building the Palestinian Resistance
by Amira Hass
9/5/01

Soul-Searching Needed
Jordan Times

9/5/01

Farewell to Arms Reduction
The Age

9/4/01

Pre-Election Report from Belarus
British Helsinki Human Rights Group

9/3/01

Separate and Unequal in the West Bank
by Amira Hass
9/2/01

The Killing Fields of Palestine
by Edna Yaghi

9/1/01

Assassinating Israel's Adversaries Is Wrong and Also Dumb
by Vincent Cannistraro
8/31/01

A Mess of NATO's Own Making
by Holger Jensen

8/31/01

America's Scary 'Safer' World
by Gordon Barthos
8/31/01

Macedonia: Third Time Wrong
by David Chandler

8/30/01

Halt Colombia Drug War Spraying
St. Petersburg Times

8/29/01

Ignoring Apartheid
by Ihab Abu Ghosh

8/28/01

Was Gandhi Anti-Semitic?
by Sean Gonsalves

8/28/01

Under the Noses of the CIA's Top Officials
by Yoichi Clark Shimatsu

8/28/01

West Bank Dreamin'
by Eric Alterman
8/24/01

More Evidence NATO is Behind Guerrillas in Macedonia
by Stephen Gowans

8/23/01

Who Wins a War of Attrition?
by William Markiewicz

8/16/01

Spinning a War
by Maggy Zanger

8/14/01

Faith-Based Missile Defense Rigged by Pentagon
by Samir El-Moghrabi
8/4/01

Israel Sharpens Its Axe
by Edward Said

7/13/01

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