Andy McCarthy's exclamation of despair: We know that Ron Paul did great in the Republican presidential debate sponsored by Fox News and held in Durham, New Hampshire, because how else can we explain neocon Andy McCarthy's exclamation of despair over at the National...
Updated at 11:10 p.m. EDT, Sept. 7, 2007On an otherwise quiet Friday military officials announced that a British soldier and seven GIs were killed in separate incidents over the last couple of days. Iraqis fared better--only 25 Iraqis were killed and 11 wounded in...
Repatriated Guantánamo Bay detainment camp prisoners have once again been mistreated at the hands of their home countries despite "diplomatic assurances" of humane treatment made to the US government, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday. The...
Updated at 12:30 a.m. EDT, Sept. 7, 2007At least 49 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 45 more were wounded in the latest violence. One American servicemember was killed in a non-combat incident yesterday. Meanwhile, security experts are questioning the methodology...
Victor Davis Hanson, previously a classics professor at Fresno State specializing in the military history of ancient Greece and currently embedded at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, is a fervent apologist for the Bush administration's interventionist foreign...
In reference to coercive British rule, Tom Paine once told Americans that there is something absurd about the idea that the entire continent of North America should be forever ruled by the little island of Great Britain. Paine, as always in his work, was trying to...
President Jimmy Carter was demonized for pointing out in his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, that there are actually two sides to the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Distinguished American scholars, such as John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have suffered the same...
Future historians studying the decline and fall of the American Empire will probably focus on George W. Bush's disastrous Iraqi adventure – the modern-day equivalent of Alcibiades' Sicilian expedition – to explain the pathology of a global hyper-power....
FALLUJAH - A brave new attempt is under way to project that all is well now with Fallujah. Residents know better – or worse. Former Iraqi minister of state for foreign affairs Rafi al-Issawi visited Fallujah, 60 km west of Baghdad, Aug. 22. Issawi, who resigned...
[Note for TomDispatch readers: In the weeks when the first Gulf War was underway – it seems a lifetime ago – I began researching a book on the history of American triumphalism (which I came to call "victory culture"), especially as I had experienced it in my...
