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Today's source of blindingly great insights about our world, our time14 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 week ago: Posting will be erratic for the next 3 weeks, but the FM website team will endeavor to bring you rar … more →

Tags: Geopolitical News, South Park, tomdispatch, William Astore

FM newswire for 4 December, hot articles for your morning reading8 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 2 weeks ago: Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom, with 7 sections of hot news.  Lot’s happenin … more →

Tags: Geopolitical News, Afghanistan War, Barack Obama, China, drugs, european centre for disease prevetion and control, Glaciers, Goldman Sachs, h1n1

Obama's decision on Afghanistan to come next Tuesday

mosaic2010 wrote 4 weeks ago: … but what will it be? By Christina Hill A poll done by CBS News stated only 38 percent of Ame … more →

Tags: Afghanistan, obama, Afghanistan decision

Why All the President's Afghan Options Are Bad Ones14 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 month ago: Another brilliant essay by Tom Englehardt — attempting to describe the insanity that is our Af … more →

Tags: Iraq / Afghanistan, Afghanistan War

Afghanistan as a Bailout State - Too Big To Fail?

keikiokaaina wrote 1 month ago: costofwar.com As of 11:35am HST Nov. 4, 2009 Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 – $927,991,595,182 … more →

Tags: Politics, Community, Commentary, INTERNATIONAL, National, Emergency Preparedness - Community Resilience, Afghanistan, Karen DeYoung, Tomgram: Afghanistan as a Bailout State

Jo Comerford explains the Joys of Perpetual War4 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 2 months ago: Introduction by Tom Engelhardt If you want a picture of how Washington deals with American war-makin … more →

Tags: America's Long War, barry mccaffrey, Jo Comerford, tomdispatch

TomGram: "The Imperial Presidency 2.0"4 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 2 months ago: The power of the Presidency grows inexorably for many reason.  One is the political ratchet:  each A … more →

Tags: america, Barack Obama, David Swanson, President Bush, war presidents

A question for "War of the World" fans: Are we like the Martians, invaders from the sky?23 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 2 months ago: Are we living during the … “War of the Worlds“ London, 1898; Kabul, 2009 By Tom En … more →

Tags: History, Iraq / Afghanistan, Our Military, Afghanistan War, H. G. Wells, War of the worlds

Interview with a Canadian about our mission in A/Stan4 comments

reneethewriter wrote 2 months ago: Interview. First of two parts. Note: This is not the individual being interviewed. —— … more →

Tags: Canada's World, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, President Obama, Heroin, Richard Holbrooke, New York Times, New Yorker

Tom explains what it costs to run for public office11 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 2 months ago: Today’s reading recommendatio:  “Is Democracy Melting“, Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatc … more →

Tags: america, Campaign, tomdispatch

We need not bow before our Emperior (yet)19 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 3 months ago: We don’t see the madness of our the descent in to Empire.  The rest of the world does, however … more →

Tags: america, American Empire, Dana Milbank, Michelle Obama, tomdispatch

Canada in Afghanistan: Canadians urged to see success2 comments

reneethewriter wrote 3 months ago: As our Afghanistan casualties grow – 131 war dead – many of Canada’s opinion leaders this mont … more →

Tags: Canada's World, Afghanistan, CBC, Christie Blatchford, stockwell day, SNC-Lavalin, Robert Fisk, Globe and Mail, CiDA

Tom Engelhard asks "Is America is hooked on War?"19 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 3 months ago: Good question.  I wish I knew the answer.  This is one of the best articles to date by Englehardt, I … more →

Tags: America's Long War, 1984, GEORGE ORWELL, Newspeak, tomdispatch

Tomdispatch site and Ortiz: 'A moment of silence before I start this poem'

beenasarwar wrote 3 months ago: Emmanuel Ortiz protests in front of the Minneapolis Federal Building against the U.S. bombing of Sud … more →

Tags: War-on-terror, allende, 9/11, Emmanuel Ortiz, Rebecca Solnit, Chile, Palestine, Israeli Occupation, Somalia

Thoughts about 9-11-01 from Rebecca Solnit6 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 3 months ago: History becomes clear only with the passage of time.  After 8 years we can only now begin to see vag … more →

Tags: America's Long War, tomdispatch, 9/11, Rebecca Solnit, Naomi Klein

Why I Was So Wrong on September 11th

keikiokaaina wrote 3 months ago: Why I Was So Wrong on September 11th: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/09/why-i-was-so-wrong-sep … more →

Tags: Commentary, National, Emergency Preparedness - Community Resilience, Sept 11th, Tom Dispatch, A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit, the shock doctrine, Naomi Klein

"Afghanistan by the Numbers - Measuring a War Gone to Hell", by Tom Engelhardt12 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 3 months ago: Another chapter in that long series of American classics, Know your wars.  By comparison with Engleh … more →

Tags: Iraq / Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan

Hiroshima Mon Amour

aroundthesphere wrote 4 months ago: 64 years ago August 6, Hiroshima. Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes brings the poetry at Moderate Voice. Tw … more →

Tags: History, Military Issues, Alan Caruba, canada free press, Chris Good, Daniel Ellsberg, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Editor and Publisher, Frida Berrigan

Empire's Paranoia About the Pashtuns (Part 3)3 comments

Dr. Nayyar Hashmey wrote 4 months ago: E Battery Royal Horse Artillery escaping from the overwhelming Afghan attack at the Battle of Maiwan … more →

Tags: Political Essays & Commentaries, News, Views & Analysis, Op-Eds, Taliban, al-Qaeda, Iran, Waziristan, Juan Cole, the Mahsud Tribe


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