by Alfred McCoy For even the greatest of empires, geography is often destiny. You wouldn’t know it in Washington, though. America’s political, national security, and foreign policy elites continue to ignore the basics of geopolitics that have shaped the fate… Continue Reading
by David Isenberg Undoubtedly, there are many aspects of the just-released summary of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program that can and should be pondered. But, having written on the… Continue Reading
via Tom Dispatch [Note for TomDispatch Readers: As many of you know, without the Nation Institute, a no-name listserv would never have become TomDispatch — and that splendid outfit has supported this site ever since. Let me recommend one thing in return:… Continue Reading