Tom Dispatch

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Jobs

How racism, global economics, and the new Jim Crow fuel Black America's crippling jobs crisis.

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| Tue Jul. 5, 2011 12:20 PM PDT

The End of the Afghan War: Don't Hold Your Breath

Obama's "way forward in Afghanistan" doesn't promise any real progress at all.

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| Thu Jun. 30, 2011 3:31 PM PDT

Post-9/11 War Fever

The US has a long history of war fever. A decade after 9/11, has our fever started to abate?

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| Tue Jun. 28, 2011 12:42 PM PDT

The Thirty-Year Energy War

As the world's giant energy corporations race to find fossil fuel alternatives, a global battle for new energy sources is emerging. Which energy sources are the contenders?

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| Mon Jun. 27, 2011 12:45 PM PDT

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Redefining the Language of War: Nine Words With New Meanings

Victory? Let's say "successfully implementing the president's strategy" instead.

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| Thu Jun. 23, 2011 3:53 PM PDT

Attacking Libya—and the Dictionary

If Americans don’t get hurt, war is no longer war.

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| Wed Jun. 22, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

How Not to End the War on Terror: the Bin Laden Effect

And 5 symbolic steps Obama can take to show that he's serious about ending the war on terror.

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| Tue Jun. 21, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

How the West Was Lost

The American West in flames.

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| Thu Jun. 16, 2011 4:50 PM PDT

How the US Military and Government Are Like Siamese Twins Sharing the Same Brain

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| Tue Jun. 14, 2011 5:04 PM PDT

How Food Became Wealth in America

Here I was being offered the chance to eat money—equivalent in the American scheme of things to the body and blood of Christ—and I was refusing the sacraments.

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| Mon Jun. 13, 2011 2:39 PM PDT

How Not to Withdraw from Iraq

Even as we withdraw troops, the enormity of the US embassy compound in Baghdad sends the wrong message.

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| Sat Jun. 11, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

How the National Security Complex Feeds on Terrorism Fears

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| Thu Jun. 9, 2011 5:23 PM PDT

How to Wreck a Planet 101

Three energy developments that are changing your life.

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| Mon Jun. 6, 2011 2:48 PM PDT

Obama Strikes Out on Global Warming

It's time for the president to say no to the fossil fuel wish list.

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| Fri Jun. 3, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

Dumb Question of the Twenty-first Century: Is It Legal?

Post-legal America and the national security complex.

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| Tue May. 31, 2011 1:02 PM PDT

Israel and the Palestinians Through the Looking Glass

The myths that underpin the failure of American policy in the Middle East.

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| Thu May. 26, 2011 1:11 PM PDT

Pakistan Plays the China Card

Has the Obama administration miscalculated in Pakistan?

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| Tue May. 24, 2011 12:56 PM PDT

DSK, the IMF, and the Legacy of Colonialism

What makes the sex scandal so resonant is the way the alleged assailant and victim model larger relationships around the world, starting with the IMF's assault on the poor.

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| Mon May. 23, 2011 12:58 PM PDT

Bored to Death in Afghanistan (and Washington)

If nobody told you otherwise, you could easily believe that almost every breaking Afghan story came from some previous year of the war.

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| Thu May. 19, 2011 3:55 PM PDT

Obama’s Middle East Speech: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing?

How the president and the Pentagon prop up Middle Eastern despots and American arms dealers.

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| Wed May. 18, 2011 3:00 AM PDT