Tom Dispatch

How to Create a WIA—Worthless Intelligence Agency

In term two, fantasy will reign supreme when it comes to the sort of intelligence the President and his cronies might care to hear.

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| Wed Nov. 24, 2004 1:00 AM PST

Iraq, the Press and the Election

The war didn't play its expected role in the election—in part because the media blunted its significance.

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| Mon Nov. 22, 2004 1:00 AM PST

Draining the Swamp

The Iraqi people have not bought into what the Americans are selling. No amount of military activity is going to change that.

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| Fri Nov. 19, 2004 1:00 AM PST

The Carthaginian Solution

A collage put together from the eyewitness accounts of reporters in Fallujah, most embedded with U.S. troops.

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| Thu Nov. 18, 2004 1:00 AM PST

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The Missing Voices of Our World

American voices from our earliest moments to this week.

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| Tue Nov. 16, 2004 1:00 AM PST

Mapping the Election

A tour of the first post-election remappings of America. Some will give you hope, others throw you into despair.

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| Mon Nov. 15, 2004 1:00 AM PST

Four Times Falluja Equals?

Four possible scenarios from our now Fallujanized world and what they tell us about Iraq and ourselves.

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| Thu Nov. 11, 2004 1:00 AM PST

Apocalypse Denial

We remain as a nation in denial of our own future and, far more important, that of our children and grandchildren.

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| Tue Nov. 9, 2004 1:00 AM PST

No Carrots, All Stick

Blinkered Bush is set to blunder again in Iraq—and Iran.

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| Mon Nov. 8, 2004 1:00 AM PST

Abolish the CIA!

From the penumbra of the secret world of the Bush administration and the CIA will come future acts sure to outrage Americans.

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| Fri Nov. 5, 2004 1:00 AM PST

The Election Hangover of a Lifetime

A little over half of voting Americans voted for another Bush term. Now, they have to live with it. Unfortunately, so do we.

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| Wed Nov. 3, 2004 1:00 AM PST

Off the Charts

Sinclair Broadcasting's political vision: an empire made of TV stations.

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| Thu Oct. 28, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

The Struggle for America's Soul

Acknowledging not only the losses and disasters of the last three years, but also the recent upsurge of creative opposition.

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| Wed Oct. 27, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Letters from the Home Front

Voices of Americans who have to deal with the fallout from the mess this administration has created in Iraq.

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| Mon Oct. 25, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Invitation to a Degraded World

We're less far than we might imagine from a world where an Orwellian formula like "illusion is reality" could pass muster.

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| Fri Oct. 22, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Captain America

The United States, in an arms race of one, is creating ever more frightening and destructive weapons systems for the coming decades and beyond.

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| Fri Oct. 15, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Yellow Journalism

Anonymous sources, so beloved of our prestigious newspapers, make reading those papers a ridiculous act of faith for the rest of us.

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| Tue Oct. 12, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Oil Wars

Transforming the American Military into a Global Oil-Protection Service.

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| Sun Oct. 10, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

The Opiate of the Electorate

Opinion polls are the narcotic of choice for the politically active part of the American electorate—and the negatives, as pollsters might say, outweigh the positives.

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| Wed Oct. 6, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Withdrawal on the Agenda

The idea of withdrawal from Iraq—long tabooed in the mainstream media—has begun to percolate upwards.

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| Mon Oct. 4, 2004 12:00 AM PDT