And why so little reporting on the 50 US bases in the Middle East?
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Never, not ever, has a single human being been so inescapable.
Afghanistan: America’s Longest Forgotten War Turns a grim 17
(Tomdispatch.com) | – We’re already two years past the crystal anniversary and eight years short of the silver one, or at least we would be, had it been a wedding — and, after a fashion, perhaps it was. On October 7, 2001, George W. Bush launched the invasion — “liberation” was the word often used […]
How the Neocons’ ‘New American Century’ Crashed and Burned
(Tomdispatch.com) – When you think about it, Earth is a relatively modest-sized planet — about 25,000 miles in circumference at the Equator, with a total surface area of 197 million square miles, almost three-quarters of which is water. It’s not so hard, if you’re in a certain frame of mind (as American officials were after […]
Our Thirty Years War of the 21st Century
New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Fair warning. Stop reading right now if you want, because I’m going to repeat myself. What choice do I have, since my subject is the Afghan War (America’s second Afghan War, no less)? I began writing about that war in October 2001, almost 17 years ago, just after the U.S. invasion […]
Is America Sclerotic or still Youthful Enough to take on Imperial Presidency and Climate Change?
There was a period in my later life when I used to say that, from the age of 20 to my late sixties, I was always 40 years old; I was, that is, an old young man and a young old one. Tell that to my legs now. Of course, there’s nothing faintly strange in […]
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The Escalating Tragedy of American Imperial Overstretch
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