La nueva mitología de la Santísima Trinidad pregonada por Washington a un mundo crédulo es que la guerra en Libia se acabó, que la guerra de Iraq se acabará la víspera de Año Nuevo y la de Afganistán en 2014. Oh sí; y Lindsay Lohan es una reencarnación de la Virgen María. Concentrémonos en Iraq. Hay un [...]

One not-so-funny fact about Washington is that nearly all the news media stars who fell for neoconservative falsehoods about Iraq are still around to fall for new ones on Iran, even some like Richard Cohen who briefly regretted his earlier gullibility Paul R. Pillar, my former colleague in the CIA’s analytical division, has raised a warning [...]

Slowly but surely, the United States is creeping deeper and deeper into a disastrous war in Pakistan. The peace movement and its political and media allies need to be ready. There is a growing community of activists and journalists already protesting and documenting the aerial drone wars over Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya.[1] [...]

El 1 de julio de 2002, aviones estadounidenses bombardeaban una boda afgana en la pequeña aldea de Deh Rawud. Situada al norte de Kandahar, la aldea parecía protegida por el cúmulo de montañas que la circundan. Durante unas cuantas horas, sus gentes pensaron estar seguras frente a una guerra que jamás habían propiciado. Celebraban el [...]

On July 1, 2002, US planes bombed an Afghan wedding in the small village of Deh Rawud. Located to the north of Kandahar, the village seemed fortified by the region’s many mountains. For a few hours, its people thought they were safe from a war they had never invited. They celebrated, and as customs go, [...]

When the United States attacked Afghanistan ten years ago, we were told that not only were we going after those who had attacked us but also that we would liberate Afghan women from the Taliban.  It was a very effective selling point; there is nothing we tend to like better than rescuing helpless women.  But [...]

Son las armas más sexys del arsenal de EE.UU. Otros países se desesperan por conseguirlas. Casi todo el que escribe sobre ellas se convierte en un grupi. Los periodistas que exploran su futuro deslumbrante se desvanecen ante sus tecno-talentos potencialmente maravillosos. Hablo, por cierto, de los drones sin piloto, con nuestros sombríos nombres de Predators [...]

In the world of weaponry, they are the sexiest things around.  Others countries are desperate to have them.  Almost anyone who writes about them becomes a groupie.  Reporters exploring their onrushing future swoon at their potentially wondrous techno-talents.  They are, of course, the pilotless drones, our grimly named Predators and Reapers. As CIA Director, Leon Panetta [...]

Looking for a bookshop that was no longer there, I walked instead into a labyrinth designed as a trap. Leaving became an allusion, rather like Alice once she had stepped through the Looking Glass. Walls of glass curved into concentric circles as one “store” merged into another: Armani Exchange with Dinki Di Pies. Exits led [...]

Lo que recordará el futuro de la decadencia y la caída de EE.UU. 1, Torres Gemelas Dentro de dos años la plantilla de Vanity Fair y del New Yorker se mudará al edificio más atormentado del mundo. Allí, la élite de los fotógrafos de celebridades, cronistas de sociedad y periodistas de revistas podrían encontrar algunas nuevas musas [...]