Where Have All the Graveyards Gone?
The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors
By Adam Hochschild
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
What if, from the beginning, everyone killed in the Iraq and Afghan wars had been buried in a single large cemetery easily accessible [...]
Hueys Over Yemen
Is U.S. Aid Suppressing Another Mideast Freedom Struggle?
By Nick Turse
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
In recent weeks, Yemeni protesters calling for an immediate end to the 32-year reign of U.S.-backed President Ali Abdullah Saleh have been met with increasing violence at the hands of state [...]
An Arab Spring for Women
The Missing Story from the Middle East
By Shahin Cole and Juan Cole
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
The “Arab Spring” has received copious attention in the American media, but one of its crucial elements has been largely overlooked: the striking role of [...]
Washington on the Rocks
An Empire of Autocrats, Aristocrats, and Uniformed Thugs Begins to Totter
By Alfred W. McCoy and Brett Reilly
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
In one of history’s lucky accidents, the juxtaposition of two extraordinary events has stripped the architecture of American global power bare for [...]
Sleepwalking into the Imperial Dark
What It Feels Like When a Superpower Runs Off the Tracks
By Tom Engelhardt
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
This can’t end well.
But then, how often do empires end well, really? They live vampirically by feeding off others until, sooner or later, [...]
Three Myths of Israel’s Insecurity
And Why They Must Be Debunked
By Ira Chernus
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Here are the Three Sacred Commandments for Americans who shape the public conversation on Israel:
1. For politicians, especially at the federal level: As soon as you say the [...]
Not Why, But How
To the Shores of (and Skies Above) Tripoli
By Andrew J. Bacevich
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
It is a commonplace of American politics: when the moving van pulls up to the White House on Inauguration Day, it delivers not only a closetful of gray suits [...]
America’s Growing Intolerance
How “Enemy Creep” Is Guantanamo-izing America
By Karen J. Greenberg
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Just in case you thought that “political correctness” had been thoroughly discredited in the culture wars of the 1990s, it’s back — and this time it’s being treated as [...]
The Butterfly and the Boiling Point
Charting the Wild Winds of Change in 2011
By Rebecca Solnit
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
Revolution is [...]
The Disappearance of the Nightmare Arab
How a Revolution of Hope Is Changing the Way Americans Look at Islam
By James Carroll
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Since 2001, Americans have been living with a nightmare Arab, a Muslim monster threatening us to the core, chilling our souls with [...]
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