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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 [...]
Mission Accomplished: Iraq Today By Sami Rasouli WAMM Newsletter March/April 2012 Today, after nine years of American occupation and “nation-building,” Iraq is left with destruction. Tragically, the most affected segments of the population are women and children. An estimated three million Iraqi widows and five million orphans (one fifth of the country’s children) [...]
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 [...]
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, Hegemony and Its Dilemmas February 14, 2012 Tom Dispatch Back in May 2007, I stumbled across online sketches at the website of a Kansas architectural firm hired to build a monster U.S. embassy-cum-citadel-cum-Greater-Middle-Eastern command center on 104 acres in the middle of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. They offered an artist’s impressions of what [...]
Art Show> Not About Bombs Opening Reception DATE: Friday, February 3, 2012 TIME: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. LOCATION: Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55408 Can’t make it to the Opening Reception? The exhibit is open at Intermedia Arts from February 3 to March 3, 2012. Also watch for information on other exhibit programming. Given the [...]
Fired from MSNBC for Anti-War Views, Phil Donahue Speaks Out on Republicans and Journalism, While Campaigning for Norman Solomon in California The legendary talk show host, who lost his show because he opposed the Iraq war, discusses the wars, the presidential candidates, and more in an in-depth interview. January 16, 2012 | Consortium News / By Dennis Bernstein via [...]
Tomgram: Chase Madar, Accusing WikiLeaks of Murder Tom Engelhardt January 19, 2012 TomDispatch Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta called it “utterly deplorable.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed “total dismay.” General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was “deeply disturbed” that the actions in question would “erode the reputation of our joint force.” [...]
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Drone Disasters Posted by Nick Turse at 9:00pm, January 15, 2012. Tom Dispatch After almost two months in abeyance and the (possibly temporary) loss of Shamsi Air Base for its air war, the CIA is again cranking up its drone operations in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. The first two attacks of 2012 were launched within 48 hours [...]
Iraq: A country in shambles By Dahr Jamail | Al Jazeera English | Published: January 9, 2012 Despite promises made for improvements, Iraq’s economy and infrastructure are still a disaster. In Sadr City, Baghdad, the streets are cracked, filled with potholes, and strewn with refuse (Dahr Jamail / Al Jazeera Baghdad, Iraq – As a daily drumbeat of violence continues to [...]
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