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29 October 2009
Is this Tom Friedman's "Walter Cronkite Moment" on Afghanistan?
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Harvey Wasserman
The Iraq war's chief New York Times cheerleader has reversed field on Afghanistan. Does it mean there will be no escalation?

In early 1968, after the devastating Tet Offense, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite pronounced the...
29 October 2009
Single-eye vision
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Robert Koehler
“What is seen with one eye has no depth.”

I’m thinking, as I ponder the wisdom of Ursula LeGuin, that American culture is at the end of what it can accomplish with its single-eyed vision. For all our material progress, for all...
28 October 2009
Did Obama/McCain choice matter?
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David Swanson
There appear to be two teams in Washington playing under the banners of elephants and donkeys. They have different platforms, use different rhetoric, call each other bad names, and (in the case of the elephants) filibuster bills and...
26 October 2009
Accepting the prize
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Robert Koehler
I may be wrong, but I think Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize because the selection committee was feeling as soul sick as I do at the ebbing of humanity’s great opportunity to corral global militarism and fundamentally...
24 October 2009
Beware a Times/Pentagon "virtual coup" on Afghanistan
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Harvey Wasserman
Some military coups are still done the old-fashioned way. Tanks surround the capital, generals grab the radio station, the slaughter begins.

Here our the Declaration of Independence scorned King George III for elevating his...
14 October 2009
Starting Another Year of War in Afghanistan
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Norman Solomon
October 2009 has begun with the New York Times reporting that “the president, vice president and an array of cabinet secretaries, intelligence chiefs, generals, diplomats and advisers gathered in a windowless basement room of the White...

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