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,… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading