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Roundup Top 10 Archives July 2006 to September 2006

Week of September 25, 2006

#1 John J. Miller: Is Military History Dead?
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/9/#30356

#2 Geoffrey Wheatcroft vs. Carol Gould: Was Israel Born of Terrorism?
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/9/#30354

#3 Jonathan Zimmerman: How U.S. goes wrong in education
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/#30340

#4 Eric Alterman: The facts behind the Fox interview with Bill Clinton
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/#30295

#5 Ruth Franklin: Anti-Semitism in Poland after World War II was even worse than you thought
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/9/#30267

#6 Daniel Pipes: Intimidating the West, from Rushdie to Benedict
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/#30264

#7 Juan Cole: Chavez and the Devil (Chickens Coming Home to Roost)
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/#30169

#8 David Greenberg: Even Presidents Doodle
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/9/#30259

#9 Tsuneishi Kei-ichi: New Facts about US Payoff to Japan’s Biological Warfare Unit 731
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/9/#30220

#10 Paul Rockwell: The Lt. Watada Case ... A Day of Reckoning for US Courts
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/9/#30346

Week of September 18, 2006

#1 Steve Conn: Iraq Isn't Vietnam ... It's Cambodia
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/#30164

#2 Karen Armstrong: We cannot afford to maintain these ancient prejudices against Islam
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/#30101

#3 Martin Kramer: Islamism and Fascism ... Dare to Compare
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/#30100

#4 Robert Parry: Bush Shields Dad on Chile Terrorism
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/9/#30175

#5 Saul Landau: How 9/11 Exposed Pinochet's Criminal Career as a Narcotrafficker
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/9/#30073

#6 Bret Stephens: Pope Provocateur
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/9/#30084

#7 Peter Beinart: Just Who Is Our Enemy?
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/9/#29987

#8 Fareed Zakaria: Mao & Stalin, Osama & Saddam
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/9/#29939

#9 Robert F. Turner: Executive Power in Wartime
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/9/#29919

#10 Stan Winer: South Africa's New Fascism
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/9/#29930

Week of September 11, 2006

#1 Max Blumenthal: ABC 9/11 Docudrama's Right-Wing Roots
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/9/#29929

#2 Eric Alterman: Lying About 9/11? Easy as ABC
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/#29897

#3 Tony Judt: The Strange Death of Liberal America
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/#29936

#4 Gary Leupp: A Third to Half of Americans Still Link Saddam, 9/11
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/#29875

#5 Juan Cole: On Bush and Rockefeller
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/#29867

#6 Ira Chernus: The Day th! at Changed Everything (No, Not 9-11)
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/#29832

#7 Max Holland: Should ABC Have Yanked The Path to 9/11?
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/9/#29931

#8 Anne Alexander: Unpicking the knots: War and imperialism in the Middle East
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/9/#29872

#9 Fareed Zakaria: Mao & Stalin, Osama & Saddam
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/9/#29939

#10 Leon Wieseltier: What would Niebuhr do?
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/9/#29896

Week of September 4, 2006

#1 Sidney Blumenthal: Cheney Picks a Biographer
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/9/

#2 Niall Ferguson: Did the U.S. overreact to Sept. 11?
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/

#3 Juan Cole: Shiite vs. Shiite
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/

#4 Thomas Sowell: Fanatics with Nukes
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/

#5 David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz: 9/11: Katrina Started at Ground Zero
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/

#6 ! Tom Engelhardt: 9/11 in a Movie-Made World
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/

#7 Ivan Eland: What If the U.S. and Iranian Presidents Did Debate?
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/9/

#8 Daniel Martin Varisco: Bush's Misleading Talk About Democracy
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/9/

#9 Gerald Posner: Why protect the Saudi royal family and Pakistani
military? http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/9/

#10 Katha Pollitt: The Trouble with Bush's 'Islamofascism'
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/9/

Week of August 14, 2006

#1 David Greenberg: Is Lamont Another McGovern?
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/8/#29282

#2 John Keegan: What went wrong in Iraq--and how to make it right.
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/8/#29280

#3 Niall Ferguson: The Next War of the World
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/8/#29355

#4 Alan Dershowitz: Hezbollah's Final Solution
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/29119.html

#5 Stephen Morris: It Is Islamic Fascism
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/8/#29253

#6 Michael Auslin: North Korea's Marshall Plan
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/8/#29252

#7 Stephen Kinzer: The 14 Governments the US has Overthrown
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/8/#29305

#8 Julie Bishop: If we forget our nation's past, we will fail our future
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/8/#29284

#9 Humberto Fontova: Historians Have Absolved Fidel Castro
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/8/#29233

#10 David Halberstam: Romney's unlearned lesson
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/8/#29234

Week of August 7, 2006

#1 Bernard Lewis: On the chances"MAD" would deter Iran from using nukes
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/8/

#2 Walid Phares: Hezbollah's Political Blitzkrieg
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/8/

#3 Mark LeVine: 101 Uses of Chaos
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/8/

#4 Gabriel Kolko: 21st century technology and primitive political attitudes
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/8/

#5 Gary Leupp:"Kill All Military Age Men!"
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/29100.html

#6 Juan Cole: Bush, Islamic Fascism and the Christians of Jounieh
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/8/

#7 Jon Wiener: Beyond My Lai ... New Revelations of Vietnam Atrocities
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/8/

#8 Michael B. Oren: Israel could lose the war but win the peace
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/8/

#9 Conn Hallinan: How the Irish Can Save the Middle East
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/8/

#10 Ilan Stavans: What's civil rights history without Latinos?
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/8/

Week of July 31, 2006

#1 Juan Cole: Sistani Threatens US over Israeli War on Lebanon
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28743.html

#2 Immanuel Wallerstein: What Can Israel Achieve?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28882.html

#3 Timothy Garton Ash: Middle East War: Made in Europe
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28752.html

#4 Joseph A. McCartin: Remembering the day the strike died, 25 years ago
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28803.html

#5 Victor Davis Hanson: The Brink of Madness
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28880.html

#6 Jonathan Zimmerman: What would Lincoln do? -- Trading our liberties for security
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28776.html

#7 Walter Dellinger et al: Untangling the Debate on Signing Statements
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28850.html

#8 John Keegan: It's Not Another World War One
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28753.html

#9 Neve Gordon: Academic Freedom after September 11
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28818.html

#10 Evan Thomas and Andrew Romano: How American Myths (like 9-11) Are Made
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28893.html

Week of July 24, 2006



#1 Juan Cole: Congress Expects Islamic Dawa to Support Israel, Condemn
Hizbullah
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28651

#2 Daniel Pipes: Arabs Disavow Hizbullah
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28637

#3 John Voll: The"Guns of Lebanon 2006" are NOT the"Guns of August 1914"
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28580

#4 ABA Report: History of Signing Statements Shows Bush II Has Gone Further
than Predecessors
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28588.html

#5 Richard Gott: The brutal story of British empire continues to this day
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28628

#6 Neve Gordon: Talking down the war
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28573

#7 Arthur Herman: What Nasser wrought when he seized Suez a half century ago
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28667

#8 Thomas E. Ricks: In Iraq, Military Forgot the Lessons of Vietnam
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28549.html

#9 David Greenberg: Why the villain of The History Boys is the better
teacher
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28583.html
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#10 John Dean: The Story Behind the Bogus History of Watergate Presented in
Silent Coup http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28541.html

Week of July 17, 2006

#1 Kevin Baker: Stabbed in the Back!
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28306

#2 Michael B. Oren: Why Israel should bomb Syria
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28495

#3 Daniel Pipes: Israel has a war to win
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28492

#4 Michael T. Klare: An Imperial Defeatist -- And Proud of It
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28446

#5 Juan Cole: Israel's Maximal Option
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28441

#6 Ted Steinberg: Why Deregulation Is to Blame in part for Katrina and Other
Natural Disasters
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28414

#7 Robert Jensen: Florida's Fear of History
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/200! 6/7/#28428

#8 Mark Tushnet & Saul Cornell: The Second Amendment & Gun Control ... An
Email Dialogue
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28392

#9 Richard Cohen: Hunker Down With History
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/7/#28421

#10 H-Diplo Roundtable: Eric Alterman, When Presidents Lie
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/7/#28498

Week of July 10, 2006

#1 Noemie Emery : Truman's heirs are Republicans now
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/7/#28175

#2 Samar Assad: A History of Israeli-Palestinian Prisoner Exchanges
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/7/#28173

#3 Benny Morris: The Future of Hamas
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28108

#4 Daniel Pipes: Trouble in Londonistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#28111

#5 Victor Davis Hanson: The Subtexts of War
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#27993

#6 Charles Krauthammer: Why Israel Is Being Attacked
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/7/#28158

#7 Marwan Bishara: Israel on the Offensive
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/7/#28140

#8 David Hirst: Overnight Lebanon has been plunged into a role it endured
for 25 years http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/7/#28135

#9 Edward Rothstein: Democracy's Best Friend or Antidemocratic Elitist?
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/7/#28117

#10 David R. Roediger: Whiteness Studies ... Where Things Stand Now
http://hnn.us/roundup/11.html#28174

Week of July 3, 2006

#1 Stephen Kinzer: Interviewed About American Imperialism
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/14/2006/6/#27493

#2 Daniel Pipes: The Vatican Confronts Islam
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#27754

#3 Josiah Bunting III: How do our leaders shape up to the Founders?
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/7/#27702

#4 Sidney Blumenthal: The imperial presidency crushed
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/7/#27822

#5 Theodore L. Gatchel: Democrats' 'metrics' -- Who decides that a war is
lost?
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#27689

#6 Stephen Cohen: The New American Cold War
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/7/#27704

#7 Mary Beth Norton: History Under Construction in Florida
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/7/#27623

#8 Nathan Newman: Ulysses Grant: ...Our Greatest President?
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/7/#27759

#9 Christopher Reed: Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Aso refuses to
acknowledge his family firm's use of PoWs as forced labour
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/7/#27683

#10 Paul Rogat Loeb: Joe Lieberman's Loyalties
http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/12/2006/7/#27826