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Social movements should focus on targeting corporations and oppressive institutions rather than politicians
Michael Schwartz
Insurgency and war on a sea of oil
As the Arab Spring became an Arab Summer, the failure of other uprisings to replicate the regime changes in Tunisia and Egypt…
Memo to President Obama: Given the absence of intelligent intelligence and the inadequacy of your advisers’ advice, it’s not surprising that your handling of the…
On Friday October 22nd WikiLeaks released the "Iraq War Logs," in what they described as “the largest classified military leak in history.”…
Michael Schwartz, the author of War Without End: The Iraq War in Context and a commentator on U.S. wars and occupations for…
The U.S. media proclaimed Iraq’s March 7 election a vindication of the U.S. occupation before the voting even ended. But the reality…
How the mighty have fallen. Just a few years ago, an overconfident Bush administration expected to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, pacify…
What is going on in Iraq? The apparently momentous events in the last few months, the signing of the U.S.-Iraqi "Status of…
As the Smoke Clears in Iraq: Even before the spectacular presidential election campaign became a national obsession, and the worst economic crisis…