Serial Warriors
The Face in the Mirror
[Note for TomDispatch readers: Last year, at my birthday, I wrote "When I'm 64... ,"a post about war and (lack of) peace in my time. Another year has rolled around, as it tends to do, so think of what follows as further scribbled notes, stuffed in an e-bottle, and set...
Everything That Happens in Afghanistan Is Based on Lies or Illusions
The Remaking of Iraq
Anthony Shadid has, without a doubt, been the finest American mainstream journalist to cover Iraq in the period after the 2003 invasion. He's now back in Baghdad for the Washington Post, telling the saddest story of all ("In the City of Cement"). Here's part of what...
Colonizing Iraq
Will What We Don’t Know (or Care to Know) Hurt Us?
A Modest Proposal for Garrisoned Lands
A Secret History of Dissent in the All-Volunteer Force
Shorter title: Dissent in the Volunteer Military
Resistance didn’t end with Vietnam, says Dahr Jamail
read moreThe Weeks of Living Dangerously
The armed might of the state (and its auxiliary forces) remains in the hands of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and its "reelected" President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has, according to Neil MacFarquhar of the New York Times, solidified control over the Interior...
