Wednesday: 7 Iraqis Killed, 22 Wounded
With the country recovering from yesterday’s deadly bombing and hostage situation in Tikrit, Iraqis were faced with more violence but a significantly lower tally of casualties. At least seven Iraqis were killed and 22 others were wounded in new attacks.
read moreObama Speech Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
Widely praised as an effective defense of Washington's 10-day-old military intervention in Libya, President Barack Obama's speech Monday evening appears to have left several key questions about his future intentions unanswered. While confirming that the ouster of...
You Lie, Mr. President
I couldn’t bear to watch the President’s why-we’re-in-Libya speech as it was broadcast: it’s Spring, after all, and my garden needs planting. Priorities, priorities, priorities: so important, in politics and in life. We all have our priorities:...
War Without Representation
"The Congress shall have power to … declare war." - United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8 In America, 2011, history is given yet another example of a nation in which one person, in this case called “the president," can launch all of his subjects into war...
High Costs May Not Be the Worst Aspects of the Attack on Libya
As if getting enmeshed in a third simultaneous war—with costs soaring in a time of economic peril, yawning budget deficits, and national debt—when no vital national interest was at stake wasn’t bad enough, that is not the worst of it. As in George W. Bush’s invasion...
Intolerance ‘R’ Us
[Note for TomDispatch Readers: As of Wednesday, I’ll be off the grid for a week. Back April 8. TomDispatch will be unaffected and will post as usual thanks to associate editors Nick Turse and Andy Kroll. But for those writing in with comments, requests, or anything...
Tuesday: 63 Iraqis Killed, 108 Wounded
Updated at 9:12 p.m. EDT, Mar. 29, 2011
At least 63 Iraqis were killed and 108 were wounded today. The worst attack targeted the Salah ad Din provincial council and left several lawmakers dead. U.S. forces were called in to assist Iraqi security forces there. Also, Arab residents in Ninewa province are outraged the province has a new Kurdish governor and Turkmen council chief.
read moreJihad Hunters vs. the Neocons
An Administration Out of Control
To hear Rep. Ron Paul deliver this address, click here. Last week the Obama administration took the United States to war against Libya without bothering to notify Congress, much less obtain a constitutionally mandated declaration of war. In the midst of our severe...
