Tomgram> Nick Turse, Did the Pentagon Help Strangle the Arab Spring? Tom Engelhardt December 13, 2011 Tom Dispatch Of all American military training programs around the world, the most publicized in recent years has been the one building up a local security force to replace U.S. (and NATO) troops as they ever More
He was 22… She was 12… Lessons From the Dead in a No-Learning-Curve World Tom Engelhardt Tom Dispatch He was 22, a corporal in the Marines from Preston, Iowa, a “city” incorporated in 1890 with a present population of 949. He died in a hospital in Germany of “wounds received from an explosive device while on More
Our Afghan War: Immoral, Ilegal, Ineffective... and It Costs Too Much by Leah Bolger Published on Monday, July 4, 2011 CommonDreams.org The Afghanistan War. War itself is inherently immoral, but especially so when the fight is not between two state-sponsored militaries, but rather between a military superpower and a third-world country with 70% of More
