by Tom Engelhardt | Dec 15, 2010 | War & Peace
Remember as the invasion of Iraq was about to begin, when the Bush administration decided to seriously enforce a Pentagon ban, in existence since the first Gulf War, on media coverage and images of the American dead arriving home at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware?...
by David Swanson | Nov 24, 2010 | War & Peace
Oddly enough, doing so brings some surprising silver linings into view. The House and Senate have had Democratic majorities for the past four years. In January, the House will be run by Republicans, while the Democratic majority in the Senate will shrink. We still...
by Tom Engelhardt | Nov 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
— the single most reflexive political act of my life — in the single most dispiriting election I can remember. As I haven’t missed a midterm or presidential election since my first vote in 1968, that says something. Or maybe by the time you’ve...
by John Feffer | Nov 7, 2010 | Human Rights, War & Peace
The Muslims were bloodthirsty and treacherous. They conducted a sneak attack against the French army and slaughtered every single soldier, 20,000 in all. More than 1,000 years ago, in the mountain passes of Spain, the Muslim horde cut down the finest soldiers in...
by Tom Engelhardt | Oct 20, 2010 | War & Peace
You could even say that I celebrated my ninth birthday last week, without cake, candles, presents, or certainly joy. I’ve had two mobilized moments in my life. The first was in the Vietnam War years; the second, the one that leaves me as a nine-year-old, began...
