via Tom Dispatch
On returning from his first trip to the Gaza Strip, Noam Chomsky told Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, “It’s kind of amazing and inspiring to see people somehow managing to survive as caged animals subject to constant, random, sadistic punishment only to humiliate them, no pretext. Israel and the United States keep [...]
History, Farce, and David Petraeus
History, it is said, arrives first as tragedy, then as farce. First as Karl Marx, then as the Marx Brothers. In the case of twenty-first century America, history arrived first as George W. Bush (and Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and [...]
(Provided Your Home is the Middle East)
By Nick Turse
via Tom Dispatch
A billion dollars from the federal government: that kind of money could go a long way toward revitalizing a country’s aging infrastructure. It could provide housing or better water and sewer systems. It could enhance a transportation network or develop [...]
via Tom Dispatch
[Note for TomDispatch Readers: As many of you know, without the Nation Institute, a no-name listserv would never have become TomDispatch -- and that splendid outfit has supported this site ever since. Let me recommend one thing in return: each year the Institute holds a gala dinner to raise much-needed [...]
via Tom Dispatch
[Note for TomDispatch Readers: The latest Dispatch Books volume, Nick Turse’s The Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare,is now available at Amazon for those who buy there and can also be purchased directly at the website of our independent political publisher, Haymarket Books. In addition, [...]
How the Empire Changed Its Face, But Not Its Nature
By Nick Turse
via Tom Dispatch
They looked like a gang of geriatric giants. Clad in smart casual attire — dress shirts, sweaters, and jeans — and incongruous blue hospital booties, they strode around “the world,” stopping to stroke their chins and [...]
How the U.S. and Pakistan Became the Dysfunctional Nuclear Family of International Relations
By Dilip Hiro
via Tom Dispatch
The United States and Pakistan are by now a classic example of a dysfunctional nuclear family (with an emphasis on “nuclear”). While the two governments and their peoples become more suspicious and resentful of [...]
The Discrediting of U.S. Military Power
via Tom Dispatch (a version of this article appeared in the LA Times)
Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the twentieth century. You could say that we experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism — think of it [...]
Joe McCarthy Would Understand
via Tom Dispatch
First came the hullaballoo over the “Mosque at Ground Zero.” Then there was Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida, grabbing headlines as he promoted “International Burn-a-Koran Day.” Most recently, we have an American posting a slanderous anti-Muslim video on the Internet [...]
Total Tops Iraq at That War’s Height
via Lobe Log
By Nick Turse
via Tom Dispatch
Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten “stimulus packages” of the modern era, a construction boom in the middle of nowhere with materials largely shipped in at enormous expense to no [...]
En Español
The Latest
From IPS News
- Media Freedom Declining Across Europe, With Implications for Rule of Law
- UN Secretary-General’s message for World Press Freedom Day
- Disinformation in the Super Election Year
- Rainy Chiloé, in Southern Chile, Faces Drinking Water Crisis
- We Should Aim to be at Peace with Nature, Says David Cooper of UN Convention on Biological Diversity
- How Israel Has Used US Weapons to Commit War Crimes
- Press Freedom and Climate Journalism: United in Crisis
- World Press Freedom Day 2024
- Gaza Journalist Describes 33 Harrowing Days in Israeli Custody
- The Tragic Death of Palestinian Journalists
- Online fundraising for IPS Inter Press Service at Razoo