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If you've ever wondered who's behind the antiwar movement, in the Vietnam War era or today, a book you'll want to read is Roger Canfield's Comrades in Arms: How the Ameri-Cong Won the Vietnam War, written by an author known to many of us here. Canfield documents in greater detail than any previous book Hanoi's direction of the Vietnam antiwar movement, the impact of the protests on losing the war, and the continuing influence of the Vietnam antiwar movement on the strategies and tactics still used by America's enemies today. "Hanoi made the peace movement the critical element in its...

Did Bush fix the elections? - 11/09/2004 10:54 Why did Kerry throw in the towel so soon? The appearance of Osama bin Laden bang on cue was suspicious, to say the least, as is now the increasing evidence pointing toward election fraud in the United States of America on November 2nd. Exit polls in sensitive districts just don't add up to the official figures. Did Bush fix it? In Ohio, for instance, the sensitive state which gave Bush the 20 electoral college votes he needed, CNN exit polls among women awarded Kerry the vote by 53 to 47% and among...

Johannesburg When US President George W Bush launched his military assault on Iraq, he launched a parallel assault on the way the world conducts its affairs. In what history will regard as a dangerous fit of hubris, he trusted his native intelligence. In so doing, he placed the unilateral interests of his country above the concerns of multilateral institutions such as the United Nations. He arrogated to himself and his narrow political coterie the right to arbitrate over world affairs and to determine the destiny of distant peoples. On June 30, he will hand over the remnants of a shattered...

Spy recently reported confusion at the BBC over what to call Harrods boss Mohamed (al) Fayed. Now, I hear that descriptions of Saddam Hussein are the latest target of a corporation diktat. "An e-mail has been circulated telling us not to refer to Saddam as a dictator," I'm told. "Instead, we are supposed to describe him as the former leader of Iraq. "Apparently, because his presidency was endorsed in a referendum, he was technically elected. Hence the word dictator is banned. It's all rather ridiculous." The Beeb insists that the e-mail merely restates existing guidelines. "We wanted to remind journalists...

A War Without End By JOHN W. BRINSFIELD FORT JACKSON, S.C. Soon thousands of American soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines will rotate back home to their families from the surreal experience of war. Many will barely be out of their teens, most in their early 20's; but they will all be changed forever. This recent war in Iraq has changed America, too. We have been reminded again that there are enemies who hate us for our values and for our way of life. But in addition to that, we now have another generation who has been forced into the ambiguities,...