In Monday's meeting between top U.S. and Chinese officials – touted as an unprecedented inaugural – the U.S., as usual when facing China across the negotiating table, is at a distinct disadvantage. At this very moment, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chris...
A Young Man’s Death in Iraq
I'm too old for the typical Web site with lots of posted back-and-forth commentary. So the TomDispatch e-mail box is – and often I regret this – normally my own private adventure. I'm regularly amazed by the letters that come in, many encouraging, some...
Armageddon Gets No Press
What has become of the print and TV media watchdogs who hounded President Nixon from office because he lied about when he learned of a minor burglary of no consequence in itself? What became of the watchdog media that bayed after President Reagan because some...
Gitmo’s Kangaroo Court
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) obtained two leaked e-mails from former military prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay over the weekend. The e-mails both claim that the military committees set up to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are "rigged,...
Dating Cheney’s Nuclear Drumbeat
In a recent piece, "The Media's Roving Eye," trying to establish a timeline that would offer context for the Plame case, I wrote the following: "Vice President Cheney started the administration's atomic drumbeat to war in Iraq with a series of speeches on...
Operation Withdrawal Scam
A few days ago, the White House launched a new phase of its propaganda siege for the Iraq war. The opening salvo came on July 27, when the commander of American forces in Iraq said that continuation of recent trends would make possible "some fairly substantial...
Individualism vs. War
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran foreign correspondent, having covered foreign conflicts in Argentina, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Columbia, Guatemala, Bosnia, Iraq, Sudan, Algeria, India, Israel/Palestine, Turkey, and Kosovo for the New York Times, Dallas...
The Politics of Troop Withdrawal
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Taking Down the Neocons
The War Party is facing disaster on a number of fronts, both foreign and domestic: in Iraq, the stubborn defiance of the insurgency and squabbling political factions underscores the failure of the occupation and its unraveling into an all-out civil war. Under the...
Why Conservatives Should Oppose the Iraq War
In this video, Congressmen Ron Paul (R-Texas) and John Duncan (R-Tenn.) discuss why true conservatives should oppose the undeclared and unnecessary war in Iraq. Speeches delivered on the House floor June 14, 2005. Windows Media Player required. Click here to watch.