With increased U.S. pressure on Iran and Israel's small-scale invasion of Syria, the stage appears set for an ultimatum concerning Iran's nuclear aspirations that many analysts and even foreign dignitaries warn may result in war. At the same time, both Russia and...
[Note to TomDispatch readers: After a long break, this is the 13th in a series of interviews at the site. The previous 12 were collected in the book Mission Unaccomplished: TomDispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters.] He's a man who knows...
To no one's surprise, Gen. David Petraeus wants to keep U.S. troops in Iraq at current strength – or given the Bush administration's facility at "figuring," greater strength – for at least six more months. If you listen more closely, you'll...
In his prepared statement to the U.S. House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees last week, Gen. David Petraeus claimed that Iran is using the Quds Force to turn Shi'ite militias into a "Hezbollah-like force" to "fight a proxy war against the...
The Iraqi government announced Monday that it had revoked the license of one of the most prominent private U.S. security firms operating in Iraq, a decision that is expected to cause friction with U.S. occupying forces, which have increasingly come to rely on private...
Updated at 11:30 p.m. EDT, Sept. 18, 2007At least 69 Iraqis were killed and 83 more injured during numerous bombings and armed attacks throughout the country. The oil infrastructure was also targeted. Five GIs were reported killed and three were wounded in separate...
Updated at 12:35 a.m. EDT, Sept. 18, 2007A day after a controversial shooting involving American contractors, the Iraq government says that it will revoke Blackwater USA’s license and prosecute any contractors who used excessive force during the incident. At...
Gen. David Petraeus proved my point. He's a political general. Worse than that, he said something in his Senate testimony that should infuriate the loved ones of every man and woman fighting in Iraq. "Is everything you are doing over there making America safer?" Sen....
For those still wondering why President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney sent our young men and women into Iraq, the secret is now "largely" out. No, not from the lips of former secretary of state Colin Powell. It appears we shall have to wait...
Amid all the brouhaha over Moveon.org's Petraeus-Betray-Us newspaper ad, the ongoing martyrdom of Britney Spears, and the latest on O.J., the punditocracy somehow managed to miss the most significant decision any American administration has ever made, bar none: Bush's...
