Tag Archives: Global War on Terror
Victoria Brittain> Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror
Tomgram: Victoria Brittain, Fighting a Global War of Terror “Here was the texture of a hidden war of continual harassment against a largely helpless population. This was how some of the most vulnerable people in British society — often already traumatised refugees and torture survivors — were made permanent scapegoats for our post-9/11, and then […]
Syria> Why We Say No to Intervention> Downloadable leaflet
Syria: Why We Say No to Intervention August 7, 2012 Stop the War Coalition Download leaflet: Front… Back… THE WEST is already intervening in Syria and any escalation can only make matters worse. Early this year President Obama authorised the CIA to support the opposition in trying to topple the Assad regime. Arms are being channelled mainly […]
Voice of Art – Iraq Veterans Against the War, Pt. 3
Published on Jul 13, 2012 by iamOTHER Follow Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) artists as they plan to lead a march of 20,000 protesters at the NATO summit in Chicago. There veterans and service members throw back their Global War on Terror medals in symbolic protest of the hypocrisy and failed military policies of the US and […]
Tom Engelhardt> Washington’s Militarized Mindset
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 […]
Andrew Bacevich> Scoring the Global War on Terror> From Liberation to Assassination in Three Quick Rounds
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 […]
Book Review> The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation | Books | TomDispatch
The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation By Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch JUST PUBLISHED: 2007 second edition with a new preface and an afterword on how America’s “victory culture” returned in the George W. Bush era, only to crash and burn in Iraq. An updated analysis of the […]
William Astore> Fighting 1% Wars> Why Our Wars of Choice May Prove Fatal
Fighting 1% Wars Why Our Wars of Choice May Prove Fatal William Astore December 8, 2011. Tom Dispatch America’s wars are remote. They’re remote from us geographically, remote from us emotionally (unless you’re serving in the military or have a close relative or friend who serves), and remote from our major media outlets, […]
Sex and the Single Drone> The Latest in Guarding the Empire> by Tom Engelhardt
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Washington’s Field of Screams Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 9:31am, September 29, 2011. TomDispatch.com [In May I wrote a piece for TomDispatch, “Welcome to Post-Legal America,” about ways in which, in the name of protecting American “safety,” the very concept of legality has ceased to be applied to our National Security Complex -- other than, […]
Crisis of Confidence: How Washington Lost Faith in America’s Courts, by Karen J. Greenberg
Tomgram: Karen J. Greenberg, Taking the Justice Out of the Justice System Posted by Karen J. Greenberg, August 21, 2011. TomDispatch.com Can you even remember the world before 9/11? You know, the one where you weren’t stripped in the airport or body-wanded at the ballpark? It’s as much a lost world as anything Conan Doyle ever imagined. And it seems there’s no turning […]
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