As every political junkie in the country now knows, just before finding himself not indicted by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Karl Rove went to a fundraiser in New Hampshire and launched the Republican campaign for the 2006 midterm elections. Its simple goal...
The history of occupation is not just that of Palestinian suffering and Israeli aggression; it is also the history of its ideology, the history of the fictions the Israeli society fabricates in order to justify its major colonial project which has just entered its...
with Ali Fadhil One and a half years after the November 2004 U.S. military assault on Fallujah, residents tell of ongoing suffering, lack of jobs, little reconstruction and continuing violence. The US military launched Operation Phantom Fury against the city of...
Excerpt from Our Generals Don’t Even Know Who We Are, coming from Cumberland House Publishing in October Amar Abdul Rahman was a survivor. He was also a fiercely patriotic Iraqi and thought of himself as an honest man – two things that did not always go...
The goal of our foreign policy – as advocated by activists across the political spectrum – has long been the substitution of sycophantic regimes for existing "criminal" regimes. What makes a regime criminal? Well, for some of the crazies, the regime is...
UNITED NATIONS – If one were to ask Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena why she chose to report from Afghanistan, Algeria, Somalia and Iraq prior to February 2005, despite the many perils that face reporters in war zones and areas of conflict, her response would...
At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention David Rieff Simon & Schuster 270 pp. It appears to be the season for second thoughts about American intervention in Iraq. William F. Buckley says the war was a mistake. National Review's John Derbyshire...
Why I Won't Renew With Amnesty InternationalWhen Mr. Henderson wrote this – "When government intervenes, the particular government officials making the decisions have very little of their own wealth on the line. They don't get spectacularly rich if they make a...
[The person who runs TomDispatch is not usually the focus of this space, but I decided to make an exception and run this Nick Turse interview with me. It's my way of announcing some TomDispatch news: All the interviews I've done so far for the site are to be collected...
The partisan war dance over Iraq began with the GOP's "stay the course" resolution [.pdf], and now the Senate has debated – and rejected – two Democratic alternatives: one saying we ought to "redeploy" the troops to the nearest convenient...
