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Stan Goff

Stan Goff is a freelance writer, speaker, and consultant in Raleigh, NC. He is retired from the US Army, where he spent a career largely in Special Operations and worked in eight conflict areas. He is the author of “Hideous Dream – A Soldier’s Memoir of the US Invasion of Haiti” and “Full Spectrum Disorder – The Military in the New American Century,” both from Soft Skull Press. His Website is http://home.igc.org/~sherrynstan/.

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Commentary

Cover Story: Time for Kerry to Step Up on Haiti

By Stan Goff

“Substantial Negro support is not necessary to national Republican victory,” said Kevin Phillips, the mastermind behind Nixon’s Southern Strategy, at the time. “The GOP can build a winning coalition without Negro Votes. Indeed, Negro-Democratic mutual identification was a major source of Democratic loss, and Republican Party or (George Wallace’s) American Independent Party profit, in many…

"Substantial Negro support is not necessary to national Republican victory," said Kevin Phillips, the mastermind behind Nixon's Southern Strategy, at the time. "The GOP can build…

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Commentary

US Goal: Declare Haiti a”Failed State”

By Stan Goff

In any such scenario, the armed opposition or foreign troops would face a very hostile reception from an armed and angry Haitian people. “With President Aristide, the people began a real revolution,” said Pierre Antoine Lovinsky, head of the September 30 Foundation which champions victims of the 1991 coup. “And that revolution will not go…

In any such scenario, the armed opposition or foreign troops would face a very hostile reception from an armed and angry Haitian people. “With President Aristide,…

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Commentary

War, Race and Elections

By Stan Goff

(2) that someone other than Iraqis has to oversee their future to prevent some amorphously defined but nightmarish post-Ba’athist reckoning. The first notion about Bush lunacy and multilateralism fails to understand what the actual history and nature of so-called multilateralism is, which is a form of cooperative plunder by the Euro-American and Japanese North waged…

(2) that someone other than Iraqis has to oversee their future to prevent some amorphously defined but nightmarish post-Ba'athist reckoning. The first notion about Bush lunacy…

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