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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 12:00 AM

The foreign policy community

America's bipartisan foreign policy orthodoxies and their scholar-guardians are in desperate need of challenge.

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  • Thursday, August 9, 2007 11:17 AM

    'Serious'

    Just as Barack Obama is accused of not being 'serious' in the foreign policy arena, so it is with John Pilger who is accused of not being 'serious' in the journalism arena. Seems to me that the two go hand in hand. People need to be aware of what is being done in their name. These days we need more people to speak truth to power and believe nothing until it is officially denied.

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