Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch.com. November 27, 2011.
A lawsuit being heard this month will likely define the free speech rights of federal employees and so determine the quality of people who will make up our government.
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. November 13, 2011.
Don’t let anyone say that the United States got nothing out of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Americans take home a fitting prize: Saddam's toilet.
Medea Benjamin, Charles Davis, AlterNet. October 24, 2011.
Contrary to what you're likely to hear from the political and media establishment, the only thing worth celebrating is this war's end, not what it accomplished.
Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com. September 15, 2011.
America's rise to supremacy was fueled by control over the world's oil supply. Now, the decline of the U.S. coincides with the decline of oil as a major energy source.
Enmired in wars with phantoms, Washington has been blindsided by every major trend of the last decade. We may be going deeper into the darkness than any of us dare to imagine.
Michael Moore, Hatchett Book Group. September 11, 2011.
After Michael Moore slammed President Bush and the invasion of Iraq, he faced death threats, intimidation, harassment and even assaults in broad daylight.
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. September 8, 2011.
We could stop using it to make ourselves feel like a far better country than we are. We could leave the dead in peace and take a hard look at ourselves in the nearest mirror.
Joseph Stiglitz, Al Jazeera English. September 6, 2011.
The September 11, 2001, attacks by al-Qaeda were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama bin Laden probably never imagined.