Killing at least sixteen Afghan civilians as they slept. Urinating on dead Afghan bodies while laughing about it. Setting fire to their Korans. Day after day, a tired American public hears that these are just “isolated acts” and that these incidents “cast shadows” and “complicate” Washington’s plan for a gradual withdrawal of troops over the [...]

Obama Breaks New Ground When It Comes to War With Iran When I was young, the Philadelphia Bulletin ran cartoon ads that usually featured a man in trouble — dangling by his fingers, say, from an outdoor clock.  There would always be people all around him, but far too engrossed in the daily paper to notice.  [...]

Han muerto más empleados de la empresa L-3 Communications que soldados de casi todos los países “aliados” en Irak y Afganistán, con la excepción de Estados Unidos y Reino Unido. L-3 ocupa el noveno puesto mundial de empresas que más dinero se embolsan como proveedores de armas y de servicios militares: más de 13.000 millones de [...]

 Media smears suggest Swedish complicity in a Washington-driven push to punish Julian Assange War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception is essential for starting an unpopular colonial war. Like the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, attacks on Iran [...]

Real Money for an Imaginary War At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California.  American police forces had been “militarized,” many commentators worried, as though the firepower and callous tactics on display were anomalies, surprises bursting [...]

El número de enero-febrero de la revista Foreign Affairs ofrece un artículo de Matthew Kroenig titulado Tiempo de atacar a Irán; por qué un ataque es la opción menos mala, junto con comentarios sobre otras formas de contener la amenaza iraní. Los medios resonaron con advertencias sobre un posible ataque israelí contra Irán mientras Estados Unidos [...]

Is it all over but the (anti-American) shouting — and the killing?  Are the exits finally coming into view? Sometimes, in a moment, the fog lifts, the clouds shift, and you can finally see the landscape ahead with startling clarity.  In Afghanistan, Washington may be reaching that moment in a state of panic, horror, and confusion.  [...]

Introducción del editor de TomDispatch En mayo de 2007, tropecé con bocetos en el sitio en la web de una firma arquitectónica de Kansas contratada para construir una monstruosa embajada combinada con ciudadela para el centro de comando de Gran Medio Oriente en 42 hectáreas en el centro de la capital iraquí, Bagdad. Presentaban las impresiones [...]

Part 1 Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated — Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.  Others are ignored, and we can often learn valuable lessons from them about what is likely to lie ahead.  Right now, in fact. At the moment, we are failing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John [...]

George Orwell acuñó el útil término “nopersona” para personas a las que se niega el estatuto de personas  porque no acatan la doctrina estatal. Podemos agregar el término “nohistoria” para referirnos a la suerte de nopersonas, expurgadas de la historia por motivos semejantes. La nohistoria de las nopersonas se recuerda a lo largo de los los [...]