Steve Clemens has returned to Iraq. The last time he visited was 10 years ago. Here are his experiences and impressions. The links to Steve's blog are below. Rather than publish the articles, I have included links to his blog for the four he has written so far. Photos are included in these articles on Mennonista. More
Steve Clemens has returned to Iraq. The last time he visited was 10 years ago. Here are his experiences and impressions. The links to Steve's blog are below. Rather than publish the articles, I have included links to his blog for the four he has written so far. Photos are included in these articles on Mennonista. More
Tom Engelhardt> Washington’s Militarized Mindset The Military Solution> The Lessons Washington Can’t Draw From the Failure of the Military Option By Tom Engelhardt July 5, 2012 Tom Dispatch Americans may feel more distant from war than at any time since World War II began. Certainly, a smaller percentage of us — less than 1% — serves More
Tom Engelhardt> Washington’s Militarized Mindset The Military Solution> The Lessons Washington Can’t Draw From the Failure of the Military Option By Tom Engelhardt July 5, 2012 Tom Dispatch Americans may feel more distant from war than at any time since World War II began. Certainly, a smaller percentage of us — less than 1% — serves More
Tomgram, Tom Engelhardt> Juan Cole, The Iran Conundrum Posted by Juan Cole April 12, 2012 TomDispatch Juan Cole’s article, “Why Washington’s Iran Policy Could Lead to Global Disaster: What History Should Teach Us About Blockading Iran” is posted separately on WAMMToday. Negotiators for Iran, the U.S., Britain, China, France, Russia, and Germany are to meet in More
Left Behind: What We Lost in Iraq and Washington, 2009-2012 09 April 2012 Peter Van Buren TomDispatch via Truthout People ask the question in various ways, sometimes hesitantly, often via a long digression, but my answer is always the same: no regrets. In some 24 years of government service, I experienced my share of More
Tongue-cutting at Al Jazeera BY GLENN GREENWALD March 31, 2012 Salon.com John Podhoretz (updated below [Sun.]) I’m currently conducting interviews as a follow-up to the rather acrimonious debate that erupted this week from my argument that “terrorism expertise” is not an actual discipline, but rather (like the term “terrorism” itself) just another instrument for legitimizing the violence More
Scoring the Global War on Terror From Liberation to Assassination in Three Quick Rounds A war that once occupied center stage in national politics has now slipped to the periphery, with legal and moral questions raised by the war left dangling in midair. Andrew Bacevich February 19, 2012 TomDispatch.com With the United More
