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Michael Klare on oil wars and the American military
8 Ekim 2004
So here we are. The price of a barrel of crude oil leapt to $52.02 on the New York Mercantile Exchange yesterday, having breached the $51...
Chernus, Presidential fiction on the morning after
4 Ekim 2004
Normally surrounded by blanketing "security," the President's campaign road events -- with their carefully reserved tickets, their...
Xtreme weather meets Xtreme media bubble
28 Eylül 2004
We know that the President and his companions live in a bubble world. When he travels the foreign peripheries of our planet, for instance,...
Are we in Saidad or Baghgon?
22 Eylül 2004
Journalist Jennifer Harper had come across a "solicitation" from the Pentagon's futuristic research arm, DARPA (the Defense Advanced...
Incident on Haifa Street
22 Eylül 2004
Oil production, which Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz once swore would fund the reconstruction of a democratic Iraq, is now...
Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson on electing the Pentagon's man
15 Eylül 2004
When we read of the coming election, what we mainly read about is "the horse race."
September 33rd
14 Eylül 2004
If your child or spouse or friend has not died there or your friends or relatives aren't billeted there, the war in Iraq is an abstraction...
Nothing New in the World
14 Eylül 2004
"Memory says, 'I did that,'" Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote. "Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields."
Rebecca Solnit on nuclear Nevada
7 Eylül 2004
As part 2 of Tomdispatch's Hiroshima-Nagasaki week of nuclear posts, I offer Rebecca Solnit's latest tale from the Wild West where,...
Jonathan Schell on the empire that fell as it rose
6 Eylül 2004
Had anyone in Washington bothered to read Jonathan Schell's prophetic -- or perhaps I should just say, historically on the mark -- book The...
The I[raq] of the Storm: Voices from the Convention Floor
2 Eylül 2004
Tuesday at Madison Square Garden was the Republican Convention's "People of Compassion" program. It was the night when Conan the Barbarian...
Voices from the March to Nowhere
31 Ağustos 2004
The antiwar, anti-Bush movement, which had disappeared from New York's streets after a final massive but depressed demonstration with the...
Unidentified Flying Words (UFWs) and other strange sightings
25 Ağustos 2004
In the last couple of weeks, if you weren't ducking UFWs (Unidentified Flying Words), perhaps you were wishing you could be transported to...
What do we call the enemy?
20 Ağustos 2004
Self-censorship, conformity, and craven bowing to administration propaganda of the sort admitted to by the Washington Post are, however,...
The imperfect media storm or George Bush and the Temple of Doom
19 Ağustos 2004
"Well, I had just been told by [Chief of Staff] Andrew Card that America was under attack. And I was collecting my thoughts. And I was...
Nuclear War Plans
17 Ağustos 2004
On August 12, 1960, while involved in preparations for developing the American military's initial Single Integrated Operational Plan...
Najaf
17 Ağustos 2004
What's wrong with this picture? The United States invaded Iraq to "liberate," above all others, that country's oppressed Shiites, so many...
Gambling in Najaf: Iraq as the Twenty-First Battleground State
16 Ağustos 2004
The Bush administration has embarked on a desperate military adventure in hopes of creating the appearance of a pacified Iraq. The assault...
Surprise!
10 Ağustos 2004
Among Bush administration opponents -- and not just those on the Internet either -- there's a deep-seated, Florida-inspired, and not...
Three characters, no dialogue
6 Ağustos 2004
Here we are cycling for the 59th time since 1945 past August 6, the day the Earth stood still (to steal the title of a 1951 sci-fi film)....
A Truce with the Muslim World
5 Ağustos 2004
It is time for the United States to declare a truce with the Muslim world, and radical Islam in particular.
An All-Orange World
5 Ağustos 2004
No 9/11 Commission is necessary; no Senate Intelligence Committee need be convened.
Attack Dogs
4 Ağustos 2004
Fill in Baghdad or Ramadi or Falluja or Baquba or numerous other Iraqi cities and towns (without dropping that "hotbed of violence") and...
The Sarajevo of Iraq: Worsening Kurdish-Arab Friction Threatens the Region
26 Temmuz 2004
In the ongoing crisis in Iraq, one factor has remained unchanged: the loyalty of the Kurds to Washington. Whereas, for most Arabs, March...
