Editor's note: On Tuesday, we linked to an excerpt of a Noam Chomsky essay from a forthcoming book. TomDispatch has a longer excerpt, which is linked to below. This is, of course, the week before the tenth anniversary of the day that “changed everything.” And enough...
Use them now, because Washington Times reporter Eli Lake is moving on up to Newsweek. Lake is the latest Iraq hack and all-purpose neocon instrument to demonstrate the one rule of post-9/11 journalism: there's always work if you're always pro-war. All jokes aside, I'm...
What Palestinians living under occupation face on a daily basis is often overlooked. There is this entirely false conception popular among Joe Smoes as well as policy wonks that the conflict consists of two equal sides and an elusive solution. Elliot Abrams, senior...
Studies show that it really is impossible to be totally objective. A recent one asks a set of people that if they lose a trial they brought, if they should still have to pay the defendant's legal fees. 80% said no. But if the question was flipped -- should you have to...
A Daily Telegraph exclusive, long on innuendo but positively spartan in details, starts with a leaked Christmas letter from British spy officials to former Libyan Foreign Minister Musa Kusa, in which they admit to releasing a Libyan dissident who they eventually...
Apparently even the Dutch, those most contemplative guardians of high civilization, have begun using Washington's crude definition of "terrorism" -- that is, Anything We Don't Like. Sunny Ofehe, a Netherlands resident and activist from Nigeria's Niger Delta region,...
Along with all the media buzz about how everyone is coming together in wonderful harmony to agree that military spending should at least be considered for possible cuts along with the rest of the budget, are totally false claims of withdrawal. No, not "withdrawals" of...
The recent uptick in drug-related violence in Mexico has been met with the predictable sledgehammer-like martial responses and pledges of harsh crackdowns by Washington. President Obama said the "United States is and will remain a partner in this fight" against drug...
I'm always impressed by the mainstream's ability to completely ignore the lies and illegality of the Washington leadership, and the case of Libya has exemplified that sort of willful ignorance. We know the rap sheet by heart at this point: waging a war without the...
The National Football League, which almost went dark this season because the front office and NFLPA couldn't agree on the terms of their players' gazillion-dollar contracts, is launching its 2011 season on Sunday, the 10-year mark of the 9/11 attacks. If the very idea...
