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...
Palestinian Violence Overstated, Jewish Violence Understated
The American media in its 24/7 half-life tends to turn the surprises of history, large and small, into flood-tide events. They sweep over us, offering a kind of news satiation that leads quickly enough to forgetfulness -- as the media moves on. And then the subjects...
Obama Looses the Manhunters
Downloading Disaster
It helps to have spent a childhood reading sci-fi. It means nothing bizarre really surprises you. In June 2008, TomDispatch regular William Astore wrote a post about how the Air Force had jumped big time into cyberspace. That service had even bigger dreams for a "$30...
