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Jul 02 2008
Flirting With Disaster
By MWC NEWS   

I have participated in several major organizational catastrophes. The most well known of them is the Vietnam War. I was aware on my first visit to Vietnam in 1961 that the situation there—a failing neocolonial regime we had installed as a successor to French rule—was a sure loser in which we should not become further involved. Yet a few years later, I found myself participating as a high-level staffer in a policy process that lied both the public and Congress into a war that, unbeknownst to me at the time, experts inside the government accurately predicted would lead to catastrophe.

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Jun 21 2008
On a quest for secular piety
By MWC NEWS   

Reviewing Tarek Fatah's "Chasing a Mirage"

Tarek personally asked me to review his book, Chasing a Mirage: the tragic illusion of an Islamic State (CM). It has been reviewed very favorably indeed in the Canadian media, especially the Asper-family owned newspapers. The right-wing National Post published long excerpts from the book in serial form, and frequently runs op-eds by Tarek.

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Jun 13 2008
Bursting the Dam of Containment
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A Review of Peter Hallward's 'Damming the Flood'

Haiti has never had a period without interference in its sovereignty. Indeed Haiti's history could be seen as one long, heroic struggle against such interference: first to overthrow the slavers and colonizers of France (and the rest of Europe), and then to fight for sovereignty against the US, which viewed Haiti as part of its domain, to dispose of according to its own whims.

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May 25 2008
Tarbela Damned-Pakistan Tamed, by C N Anand
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It is the little details, the exhaustive research, the encyclopedic knowledge of his subject, the Tarbela Dam, which makes this first novel of C.N. Anand not only exciting but a very good read.

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May 03 2008
CIA Lies and Stonewalling: The JFK Assassination
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In his new book Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA by Jefferson Morley, a former Washington Post columnist, Morley delves into an interesting and revealing aspect of the John Kennedy assassination.

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Tags:  Jacob G. Hornberger John Kennedy Lee Harvey Oswald CIA JFK Assassination
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