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Wars of Attrition
By Tom Engelhardt | Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Green Zones of the Mind, Guerrillas, and a Technical Knockout in Afghanistan
By Nick Turse
Republished by Tom Dispatch
Recently, after insurgents unleashed sophisticated, synchronized attacks across Afghanistan involving dozens of fighters armed with suicide vests, rocket-propelled grenades, and small arms, as well as car bombs, the Pentagon was quick to emphasize what hadn’t happened. “I’m not minimizing the [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Tet, Tom Dispatch, Tom Engelhardt, Vietnam
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How Pakistan Makes Washington Pay for the Afghan War
By Dilip Hiro
Posted by Tom Dispatch
The following ingredients should go a long way to produce a political thriller. Mr. M, a jihadist in an Asian state, has emerged as the mastermind of a terrorist attack in a neighboring country, which killed six Americans. After sifting through [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Dilip Hiro, NATO, Obama, Pakistan, Tom Engelhardt, Washington
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What History Should Teach Us About Blockading Iran
By Juan Cole
Posted by Tom Dispatch
It’s a policy fierce enough to cause great suffering among Iranians — and possibly in the long run among Americans, too. It might, in the end, even deeply harm the global economy and yet, history tells us, it will fail on its [...]
Tags: blockade, embargo, Hormuz, iran, israel, Juan Cole, Khamenei, Obama, sanctions, Tom Dispatch, Tom Engelhardt
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Blown Away
By Tom Engelhardt | Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
How the U.S. Fanned the Flames in Afghanistan
By Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
Posted by Tom Dispatch
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, [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, bagram, Dempsey, Karzai, Koran burning, NATO, Obama, Occupation
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“Losing” the World
By Tom Engelhardt | Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
American Decline in Perspective, Part 1
By Noam Chomsky
Published by Tom Dispatch
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 [...]
Tags: America, China, Chomsky, iran, iraq, Kennedy, Vietnam
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It Can’t Happen Here
Posted by Tom Dispatch
Exclusive: New Iranian Commando Team Operating Near U.S.
(Tehran, FNA) The Fars News Agency has confirmed with the Republican Guard’s North American Operations Command that a new elite Iranian commando team is operating in the U.S.-Mexican border region. The primary day-to-day [...]
Tags: iran, Iran nuclear, Iran threat, Mexico, Tom Dispatch, Tom Engelhardt, War
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Weapons ‘R’ Us
By Tom Engelhardt | Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Making Warbirds Instead of Thunderbirds
By William J. Astore
Republished by Tom Dispatch
Perhaps you’ve heard of “Makin’ Thunderbirds,” a hard-bitten rock & roll song by Bob Seger that I listened to 30 years ago while in college. It’s about auto workers back in 1955 who were “young and proud” to be [...]
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Following the Money in the Iran Crisis
Posted by Tom Dispatch
By Pepe Escobar
Let’s start with red lines. Here it is, Washington’s ultimate red line, straight from the lion’s mouth. Only last week Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said of the Iranians, “Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But [...]
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Debacle!
By Tom Engelhardt | Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
How Two Wars in the Greater Middle East Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower
Reposted by arrangement with Tom Dispatch
By Tom Engelhardt
It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana. It was to be “mission accomplished” all the way. And [...]
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What a Busted Robot Airplane Tells Us About the American Empire in 2012 and Beyond
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By Nick Turse
The drone had been in the air for close to five hours before its mission crew realized that something was wrong. The oil temperature in the plane’s turbocharger, they noticed, [...]
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