Tom Dispatch

Three Myths of Israel's Insecurity

And why they must be debunked.

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| Mon Apr. 18, 2011 11:24 AM PDT

The Planet Strikes Back

Why we underestimate the earth and overestimate ourselves.

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| Thu Apr. 14, 2011 1:44 PM PDT

America's Trigger-Happy Foreign Policy

For three decades US presidents have blindly used force in the Middle East. Obama is no different.

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| Wed Apr. 13, 2011 11:59 AM PDT

Goodbye to Chalmers Johnson

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| Mon Apr. 11, 2011 2:54 PM PDT

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The Blowback World of Chalmers Johnson

Remembering the man and his work.

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| Mon Apr. 11, 2011 2:29 PM PDT

Energy Is Ugly: Tar Sands Edition

Oil imported from Canada's tar sands has twice the environmental cost of normal crude. Did we mention that they're our biggest supplier?

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| Thu Apr. 7, 2011 11:56 AM PDT

The Servant Problem

In search of the lost battalion of America’s unemployed.

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| Mon Apr. 4, 2011 12:25 PM PDT

The Madison Effect

Were the Wisconsin protests the beginnings of a new movement or the last gasps organized labor?

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| Thu Mar. 31, 2011 1:40 PM PDT

America’s Growing Intolerance

How “enemy creep” Is Gitmo-izing America.

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| Wed Mar. 30, 2011 12:01 AM PDT

Unpacking the Earthquake Kit

What you need to survive the unexpected.

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| Mon Mar. 28, 2011 11:37 AM PDT

A Word on Libya

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| Thu Mar. 24, 2011 2:19 PM PDT

How the “Peaceful Atom” Became a Serial Killer

The nuclear myth melts down.

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| Thu Mar. 24, 2011 1:36 PM PDT

Imagining the Worst That Could Happen in Japan

Japan's nuclear disaster and our apocalyptic imagination.

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| Tue Mar. 22, 2011 12:40 PM PDT

Hope and Revolution in 2011

The boiling point of water is straightforward, but the boiling point of societies is mysterious.

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| Mon Mar. 21, 2011 2:27 PM PDT

How Drone Warfare Creates Terrorists

No matter how much anyone talks about "surgical" strikes and precision bombing, air power and civilian deaths are inextricably bound together.

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| Thu Mar. 17, 2011 12:53 PM PDT

America's Bahrain Cop-Out

How the tiny kingdom strong-armed the president of the United States.

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| Tue Mar. 15, 2011 2:37 PM PDT

Is Egypt the Future IndoTurkeZil?

Arab nations don't have to look far to find examples of healthy democracies in the Islamic world.

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| Mon Mar. 14, 2011 2:34 PM PDT

The Embarrassments of Empire

Washington wonders what to say about Arab freedom.

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| Thu Mar. 10, 2011 2:49 PM PST

Where Did All the Fatwas Go?

How a revolution of hope is changing the way Americans look at Islam.

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| Tue Mar. 8, 2011 1:36 PM PST

What Our Secretaries of Defense Keep Getting Wrong

It doesn’t seem like the hardest lesson in human history to grasp, but it has been: don’t go in.

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| Tue Mar. 8, 2011 1:01 AM PST