An Increasingly Aerial War
When the air war shows up at all in our press, it is never as a campaign, but as scattered bare-bones reports of individual attacks on specific targets, almost invariably based on military...
View ArticleTracing the Trail of Torture
They told him, “We are going to cut your head off and send you to hell.” Ali Abbas, a former detainee from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, was filling me in on the horrors he endured at the hands of...
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“You reach a place where you look at life like it’s nothing.”
Tuesday, August 1, 2006 Walking into the scene of the massacre yesterday in Qana felt like entering a bottomless pit of despair. A black whole of sadness, regardless of the fact that the bodies of the...
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Iraq from the Inside of an Armored BMW
Introduction by Tom Engelhardt [Note to TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who have, in recent months, clicked on the new “Resist Empire, Support TomDispatch” button to the right of this screen and...
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Refusing to Comply
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. On May 1st at Fort Hood in central Texas, Specialist Victor Agosto wrote on a counseling statement, which is actually a punitive U.S. Army memo:...
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Lost in Military Limbo
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Echo Platoon is part of the 82nd Replacement Detachment of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Soldiers in the platoon are...
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Where Will They Get the Troops?
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. As the Obama administration debates whether to send tens of thousands of extra troops to Afghanistan, an already overstretched military is...
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Living with No Future in Today’s Iraq
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Back then, everybody was writing about Iraq, but it’s surprising how few Americans, including reporters, paid much attention to the suffering of...
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What These Climate Scientists Said About Earth’s Future Will Terrify You
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. I grew up planning for my future, wondering which college I would attend, what to study, and later on, where to work, which articles to write, what...
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Americans Stopped Caring About Iraq in 2011, But the Horrors Continued
This story is a collaboration between Truthout and TomDispatch.com and first appeared on their respective websites. For Americans, it was like the news from nowhere. Years had passed since reporters...
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