History will probably show George W. Bush to have been a bold president, ready to gamble his legacy at a moment's notice. Some risk-taking has paid off for him, and other rolls of the dice haven't. Even in instances where Bush's chutzpah got results, the policy goals...
The violent reaction from the Serbian "street" to Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence is "blowback" – as the writer Chalmers Johnson terms it – with a vengeance, and we have not yet experienced the worst of it. The U.S. attack on Kosovo has come...
From Chiapas, Mexico, and Vietnam's Mekong Delta to West Africa (where a war against women is now underway), TomDispatch has lately been traveling to some of the more scarred places on the planet. Today, Jen Marlowe, a documentary filmmaker and human rights activist...
Updated at 1:00 a.m. EST, Feb. 26, 2008Turkish forces continued to battle PKK forces in northern Iraq, even as the White House urged Turkey to limit the incursion. The actual number of casualties is unknown as both sides are giving conflicting figures. Elsewhere, at...
Updated at 10:25 a.m. EST, Feb. 25, 2008Suicide bombers using the Arbaeen religious observance to attack Shi'ite pilgrims, exacted a heavy toll today in Baghdad and Iskandariya. Meanwhile, fighting continues between Turkish troops and PKK rebels in northern Iraq....
BAGHDAD - What the US has been calling the success of a "surge," many Iraqis see as evidence of catastrophe. Where US forces point to peace and calm, local Iraqis find an eerie silence. And when US forces speak of a reduction in violence, many Iraqis simply...
I am hardly of the party that thinks democracy as such is the key to all things true and beautiful in politics; indeed, I'm generally persuaded that the majority is almost always wrong, that any policy labeled "populist" is likely to be informed by...
On 21 August, 2007, Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency came to an "understanding" with Iran on a "work plan" for resolving outstanding "issues" tangentially related to the implementation of...
Updated at 12:12 a.m. EST, Feb. 24, 2008At least 39 Iraqis were killed and another 10 were wounded in the latest round of routine violence. In northern Iraq, Turkish security operations left 55 PKK separatists and two Turkish soldiers dead. The PKK claimed to have the...
With the occupation of Iraq soon to enter its sixth year and the looming possibility of war against Iran, it's easy for Americans not to notice the Bush administration's attempt to expand the U.S. military presence in Europe. A new Cold War between the United States...
