The Corruption Game
What the Tunisian Revolution and WikiLeaks Tell Us about American Support for Corrupt Dictatorships in the Muslim World
By Juan Cole
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Here’s one obvious lesson of the Tunisian Revolution of 2011: paranoia about Muslim fundamentalist movements and terrorism is causing Washington to [...]
The Year of Living Dangerously
Rising Commodity Prices and Extreme Weather Events Threaten Global Stability
By Michael T. Klare
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Get ready for a rocky year. From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play [...]
How the Power of Myth Keeps Us Mired in War
Why Are We Still in Afghanistan?
By Ira Chernus
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
When I try to figure out why we are still in Afghanistan, though every ounce of logic says we ought to get out, an unexpected [...]
Extremist Killing Is as American as Apple Pie
Murders Grow on the Far Right Four Decades After Martin Luther King
By Stephan Salisbury
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
The landscape of America is littered with bodies.
Why Peace Is the Business of Men (But Shouldn’t Be)
A Modest Proposal for the Immodest Brotherhood of Big Men
By Ann Jones
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Looking for a way out of Afghanistan? Maybe it’s time to try something entirely new and totally different. So how about [...]
The Urge to Surge
Washington’s 30-Year High
By Tom Engelhardt
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
If, as 2011 begins, you want to peer into the future, enter my time machine, strap yourself in, and head for the past, that laboratory for all developments of our moment and beyond.
Just as [...]
A Flood of Drone Strikes
What the Wikileaks Revelations Tell Us About How Washington Runs Pakistan
By Fatima Bhutto
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
With governments like Pakistan’s current regime, who needs the strong arm of the CIA? According to Bob Woodward’s latest bestseller Obama’s Wars, when Pakistan’s President Asif Ali [...]
One November’s Dead
The American War Dead Disappear into the Darkness
By Tom Engelhardt
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
America’s heroes? Not so much. Not anymore. Not when they’re dead, anyway.
Remember as the invasion of Iraq was about to begin, when the Bush administration decided to seriously enforce [...]
The New War Congress
An Obama-Republican War Alliance?
By David Swanson
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
To understand just how bad the 112th Congress, elected on November 2nd and taking office on January 3rd, is likely to be for peace on Earth, one has to understand how incredibly awful [...]
Will the GOP’s Victory Energize Mideast Doves?
Every Action Provokes a Reaction
By Ira Chernus
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Palestine as America’s next Vietnam? Like all historical analogies, it’s far from perfect. We aren’t about to send the U.S. Army to the West Bank or Gaza to kill and die [...]
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