Kiss the Era of Human Rights Goodbye
Recently, in a Washington Post op-ed, Mark Danner wrote: "However much we would like the [torture] scandal to be confined to the story of what was done in those isolated rooms on the other side of the world where interrogators plied their arts, and in the...
Whose Century Was That?
How Safe Do You Actually Want to Be?
Pirates of Procurement
Déjà Vu All Over Again in Afghanistan
It didn't take long. Only 11 days after Barack Obama entered the Oval Office, a Newsweek cover story proclaimed the Afghan War "Obama's Vietnam." And there wasn't even a question mark. As John Barry and Evan Thomas wrote grimly in that January piece,...
Will Israel Attack Iran?
Requiem for the War on Terror
On Monday, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced his version of the new Pentagon budget. Looked at one way, his suggested changes were significant, even startling given how deeply the giant armament companies have embedded themselves and their new generations of...
Filling the Skies With Assassins
Wars Abroad Continue at Home
Whether it's $900 billion, more than one trillion dollars, or even, in the long run, several trillion dollars, the spiraling costs of George Bush's wars – one of which is now in the grim process of becoming "Obama's War" – are indisputable. It's hardly less disputable...
