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The Hollow Politics of Escalation

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Timetables, Escalation, War, Benchmarks, New York Times, Afghanistan, I. F. Stone, David Obey, Jack Reed, Politics News
Norman Solomon

An underlying conceit of the new spin about benchmarks and timetables for Afghanistan is the notion that pivotal events there can be choreographed from Washington.

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Review: Spies: the Rise and Fall of the KGB in America and "Three Tales of I.F Stone and the KGB: Kalugin, Venona and the Notebooks"

Myra MacPherson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Max Holland, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, I.F. Stone, Alexander Vasiliev, Spies, Three Tales of if Stone and the KGB, Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, I. F. Stone, World News
Myra MacPherson

Sometimes one cannot glean the truth by a book's title. This is the case with Spies, regarding the thin documentation of journalist I.F. Stone as a stellar spy in the 1930s.

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A Hundred Eyes for an Eye

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gandhi, Israelis, Human Rights, Gaza, Arabs, Phyllis Bennis, Israel, Institute for Policy Studies, Geneva Conventions, Palestinians, I. F. Stone, World News
Norman Solomon

Routinely, the politicians and pundits of Washington can't summon minimal decency in themselves or each other on the subject of Israel and Palestinians.

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