Imagine that the Pentagon Papers or the Watergate scandal had broken out all over the press – no, not in the New York Times or the Washington Post, but in newspapers in Australia or Canada. And that, facing their own terrible record of reportage, of years of...
Who is the Gene McCarthy of this generation? For those too young to recall, in late 1967, Gen. Westmoreland came home to ask LBJ for 200,000 more troops for Vietnam, in addition to the 500,000 already committed. LBJ told him no. Vietnam was the issue of the day. And...
The Downing Street memos have created such a stir that even Congress is rubbing its eyes and awakening from its long slumber to ask questions about the Iraq war: a hearing convened by antiwar Democrats, chaired by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), has created...
No thanks to the domestic and international neo-crazy media sycophants, you probably now know about the "Downing Street memo." The memo is actually the minutes – stamped "Secret and Strictly Personal – UK Eyes Only" – of a meeting between...
Keep them behind the war curve. While some Americans are exposing the deception for the latest war, steadily lay the groundwork for the next one. Focus plenty of news reports on alienated youth in Iran, spotlighting despair that borders on nihilism. Meanwhile, give...
Now that Sunni Arabs have been included, Iraq's parliamentary committee that is drafting the new constitution is the closest to an elected, representative body that the country has ever seen. In the two months that the committee now has to come up with the draft and...
Pax Americana has got problems – not just in the Middle East and East Asia, but in the imperium's own backyard. Latin America's turn to center-left politicians and the rise of what the U.S. Southern Command calls "radical populism" have sent Defense Secretary...
[Note: I couldn't resist interrupting my "Best of TomDispatch" series – there are still two to go – to bring you the latest Jonathan Schell "Letter from Ground Zero" columns from the upcoming issue of the Nation magazine, whose editors have been kind enough,...
JERUSALEM – It might have been expected that Israel, not wanting to have pictures broadcast of Palestinians triumphantly entering the evacuated homes of settlers in the Gaza Strip, would want to demolish those homes. It might equally have been expected that the...
BEIRUT - Lebanon's formerly anti-Syrian General Michel Aoun is on the verge of outmaneuvering the country's main anti-Syrian opposition alliance. All eyes are now on the last round of Lebanon's four-stage parliamentary elections, next Sunday in the north. A spokesman...
