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The Golden Age of Special Operations (Government, US Wars and Military Action)

Globalizing the global war on terror.

Andrew J. Bacevich
Sacha Baron Cohen, second from left, in The Dictator
Outrageous (Film, Books and the Arts)

Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator; Emad Brunat and Guy Davidi’s 5 Broken Cameras

Stuart Klawans
Cradle Knoll (Poems, Books and the Arts)
Merrill Gilfillan
Kurt Vonnegut
'I Was There': On Kurt Vonnegut (Fiction, Books and the Arts)

Kurt Vonnegut sought to fool us with his eyes wide open.

William Deresiewicz
Occupy New Haven
Could Occupy New Haven's Eviction Reinvigorate the Movement? (Housing and Homelessness, Occupy Wall Street, Cities)

Just after its six-month anniversary, the last occupation in New England was evicted. Freed from maintaining camp life, will the occupiers' momentum return?

Melinda Tuhus
Pandsher Valley, September 2008
Ideology and Electricity: The Soviet Experience in Afghanistan (History, Books and the Arts, World)

Rodric Braithwaite, Jonathan Steele and Artemy Kalinovsky analyze the forgotten history of Afghan communism and the Soviet occupation.

Christian Parenti
Taking Uncle Sam for a Ride (Foreign Policy, War and Peace, US Wars and Military Action)

How Pakistan makes Washington pay for the Afghan war.

Dilip Hiro
César Aira
Unmanageable Realities: On César Aira (Fiction, Books and the Arts)

Varamo is the latest novel-in-translation from Argentina’s slipperiest living writer.

Marcela Valdes
The Afghan Syndrome (US Wars and Military Action)

Vietnam has left town. Say hello to the new syndrome on the block.

Tom Engelhardt
BDS and the Park Slope Food Coop: Why the Vote Against Was a Win for the Boycott (Movements, World)

It doesn't actually matter if the Coop boycotts Israel or not. Just having the debate is a symbolic victory for the pro-boycott camp. 

Kiera Feldman