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"Memory says, 'I did that,'" Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote. "Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields."

If your child or spouse or friend has not died there or your friends or relatives aren't billeted there, the war in Iraq is an abstraction and American deaths in Baghdad or Baquba or Najaf at best tiny, abstract tragedies like those "walls" of faces of the dead in periodic newspaper memorials, each

As part 2 of Tomdispatch's Hiroshima-Nagasaki week of nuclear posts, I offer Rebecca Solnit's latest tale from the Wild West where, unbelievably enough, the government suffered a genuine setback in its domestic nuclear wars.

Had anyone in Washington bothered to read Jonathan Schell's prophetic -- or perhaps I should just say, historically on the mark -- book The Unconquerable World, Iraq could not have happened and all the dreams of the neocons, hatched in the claustrophobic confines of right-wing think tanks and the co

Tuesday at Madison Square Garden was the Republican Convention's "People of Compassion" program. It was the night when Conan the Barbarian turned into Kindergarten Cop; when the Bush daughters let us know their hamster didn't make it either; when Laura attested to the President's humanity...

The antiwar, anti-Bush movement, which had disappeared from New York's streets after a final massive but depressed demonstration with the war already underway in April 2003, was back -- and the mood was different indeed. Gone was the carnival atmosphere of early antiwar marches. The

In the last couple of weeks, if you weren't ducking UFWs (Unidentified Flying Words), perhaps you were wishing you could be transported to Roswell, New Mexico, or Nevada's infamous Area 51 where the strangest thing you might run into would be well-prese rved, if spindly, alien bodies of a sort seen

Self-censorship, conformity, and craven bowing to administration propaganda of the sort admitted to by the Washington Post are, however, just the tip of the media iceberg.

"Well, I had just been told by [Chief of Staff] Andrew Card that America was under attack. And I was collecting my thoughts.

What's wrong with this picture? The United States invaded Iraq to "liberate," above all others, that country's oppressed Shiites, so many of whose rebellious relatives were buried in those "killing fields" Saddam Hussein created while crushing their 1991 uprising.

On August 12, 1960, while involved in preparations for developing the American military's initial Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP), Admiral Arleigh Burke met with Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke for a blunt discussion.

The Bush administration has embarked on a desperate military adventure in hopes of creating the appearance of a pacified Iraq.

Among Bush administration opponents -- and not just those on the Internet either -- there's a deep-seated, Florida-inspired, and not unreasonable fear of an October or even November 2nd "surprise."

Here we are cycling for the 59th time since 1945 past August 6, the day the Earth stood still (to steal the title of a 1951 sci-fi film). Remembrance of August 6, Hiroshima Day, is receding even in Japan where the aging hibakusha or survivors of the blast are dying off.

It is time for the United States to declare a truce with the Muslim world, and radical Islam in particular.

No 9/11 Commission is necessary; no Senate Intelligence Committee need be convened.

Fill in Baghdad or Ramadi or Falluja or Baquba or numerous other Iraqi cities and towns (without dropping that "hotbed of violence") and you've got a template for the post-war war as it's been fought for months.

In the ongoing crisis in Iraq, one factor has remained unchanged: the loyalty of the Kurds to Washington.

There's nothing like seeing a well-oiled machine clank to a halt to help you spot problems.

Among the early goals of the Bush administration, controlling global energy flows was certainly right at the top of the list; so imagine the irony (not that Bush's men are much into irony) -- this administration might, in part, be sunk by soaring domestic gas prices.

Marshall Auerback on oil surprises

If the new Iraq-to-be is not a state, what is it? A half century ago one could talk about colonies, protectorates, and spheres of influence, but in our supposedly post-colonial world, the vocabulary is poorer.

There is no turning back from the Abu Ghraib photo scandal. No matter how hard President Bush and his senior aides try, they won't be able to restore the last bit of the fig leaf that once covered their illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Who could catalogue the lies of our times? In fact, the category "lies" hardly covers the matter. Take a simple example, just now on front pages everywhere: the President invites the press in for a post-cabinet-meeting moment.

The only small problem with the whole discussion of sovereignty, of course, lies in recalcitrant Iraq which is now so darn sovereign that the Pentagon is madly figuring how to: withdraw troops from far-flung garrisons elsewhere on this small planet to reinforce our now-no-longer-occupying army of 13

Our President had to feel some relief, wrapping himself in his father's 48-star flag. Here, finally, was a glorious war experience that a bunch of ragtag insurgents, terrorists, Baathist dead-enders, and general riffraff couldn't take away from us.

Petrol arzının giderek düştüğü, fiyatların yükseldiği bir dönemi kontrol altında tutabilmek için Amerika'nın bir planı var mı? Soru açık, ama sakın bunu bir Demokrat'a sormayın.

I won't destroy a second of suspense if I tell you that the Northern Hemisphere is turned into a snowball within a few cataclysmic Hollywood days, and an ice chunk by movie's end -- but couldn't Emmerich have left the ice-cubed Statue of Liberty to Planet of the Apes where it should remain forever a

Please tell us: If we plan to return Iraq to the Iraqis, why is the U.S. currently building fourteen permanent bases there?

This weekend, as the global-warming disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow sweeps like a tsunami through our multiplexes, it's worth remembering that between our present hot, agitated summers and a desperately overheated (or ice-cold) future is where all the fun lies -- for a few companies anyway (an