Category: American Empire

Edited by Marjorie Cohn Just published by NYU Press Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several…

By Steve Greenhouse / The New York Times / January 3, 2011 Faced with growing budget deficits and restive taxpayers,…

By Chalmers Johnson / Tom Dispatch / August 17, 2010

In 1962, the historian Barbara Tuchman published a book about the start of World War I and called it The Guns of August. It went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. She was, of course, looking back at events that had occurred almost 50 years earlier and had at her disposal documents and information not available to participants. They were acting, as Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara put it, in the fog of war.

So where are we this August of 2010, with guns blazing in one war in Afghanistan even as we try to extricate ourselves from another in Iraq?

  By Howard Zinn / Howard Zinn’s Zspacepage Al Jazeera speaks to Howard Zinn, the author, American historian, social critic…