Hurled Shoes: Bush's Epitaph
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
The loathing that led an Iraqi to hurl shoes at Bush serves as the world's final verdict on US folly in Iraq. It's also a caution for Obama as he ponders Afghanistan.
2008
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Iraq Pact Challenges Antiwar Movement
Tom Hayden : US Foreign Policy
The US-Iraq Security Pact signals the war is ending--though not soon enough--and challenges peace activists to broaden their agenda against new quagmires.
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Worse Than Guantánamo
David Enders : Jails & Prisons
What will the United States do with 20,000 Iraqis in legal limbo?
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Bush's Time Horizon in Iraq
Allen McDuffee : George W. Bush
Everyone was baffled by the President's use of the term "time horizon" for withdrawal from Iraq. But when you consider the term's origin on Wall Street, it makes perfect, cynical sense.
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Blackwater's Not Going Anywhere
Jeremy Scahill : Blackwater
Anyone who thinks Blackwater is in serious trouble is dead wrong. Business has never been better for Blackwater and its future looks bright.
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The Wedding Crashers
Tom Engelhardt : George W. Bush Administration
In Bush's wars, the singer dies, the bride does not get a chance to run away, and the event might be relabeled my big, fat, collateral damage wedding.
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The Iraqi Oil Ministry's New Fave Five
Nick Turse : Oil
Mainstream media should consider these leads as they change gears from no-comment to hot-pursuit when it comes to the story of Iraq's most sought after commodity.
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The Year of the Prisoner
Alexander Cockburn
Will Bush make America the ultimate POW by launching an attack on Iran?
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Can Obama Resurrect Real Conservatism?
Susannah Vila : Politics
A conversation with Andrew Bacevich about what conservatives and progressives can hope for in the post-Bush era.
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Iraq's Iranian Lovefest
Robert Scheer : Media Analysis
Ahmadinejad's triumphal visit to Baghdad highlights the abject failure of the Bush doctrine. But US media yawned.
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The Dot Matrix
Laila Lalami : Fiction
In I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, novelist Sinan Antoon explores themes of love, loss, identity and resistance in the face of political oppression.
2007
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State of the World 2008
Barbara Crossette : US Foreign Policy
The United Nations' chief troubleshooter and mediator, Lakhdar Brahimi, considers what should come next in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan and how US foreign foreign policy went so far astray.
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Muqtada al-Sadr's Power Grab
Mohamad Bazzi : US Foreign Policy
The bad boy of Iraqi politics is going back to school. al-Sadr's plan to become an ayatollah has enormous implications for Iraqis and the United States.
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Iraq's Civil Resistance
Bill Weinberg : Activism & Organizing
The secular left brings together unionists, women's organizations and students.
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Who Lost Pakistan?
How often can the Bush Administration be caught off guard by the consequences of its own actions? Endlessly, it seems.
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The New American Imperium
The Democrats appear to be anti-Iraq War. But they surely are not acting like opponents of imperial overreach.
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Whose Genocide Counts?
The House Foreign Affairs Committee bravely declares the 1915 slaughter of Armenians in Turkey genocide. Why not put the same label on themselves, for their role in the Iraq catastrophe?
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Iraq: The Other Surge
Across the political spectrum in Iraq, a nationalistic bloc is emerging to challenge the Kurdish and Shiite separatists who have held sway under US tutelage.
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An Inconvenient Truth
Andrew Cockburn : Saddam Hussein
In 1988 US officials helped disguise Saddam's chemical attack on Halabja. But when it came time to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, they acted outraged.
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Iraq's Founding Mother
A biography of Gertrude Bell investigates the woman who created Iraq out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire.
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Persian Ghosts
Chris Toensing : Islam & Muslims
The complex historical tensions between Sunnis and Shiites are not enough to explain the current crisis in the Middle East.
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A Permanent Military Empire
Tom Engelhardt : US Foreign Policy
To mainstream media, the Bush Administration's full-scale garrisoning of Planet Earth is simply not a news story. But in Iraq beyond, America's empire of permanent bases grows at an alarming pace.
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Iraq: The New Korea
Bush's proposal to model America's presence in Iraq is as outlandish as it is alarming.
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Training Iraq's Death Squads
Spencer Ackerman : Nation Building
The Army's plan to professionalize Iraq's police could backfire, as militia-infiltrated squads become more effective killers.
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'Democracy' Is Hell
Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women
In a gruesome marriage of technology and medieval barbarity, an Internet video records the stoning death of a 17-year-old Kurdish girl. Welcome to the new Iraq.
This week: Liberal living coast to coast. A look at the forthcoming "Nation Guide to the Nation," with Katrina vanden Heuvel. Plus: Patty Hearst, and Obama's choice for Secretary of Education. (13mb mp3)
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