Sin duda, uno de los atributos agonizantes de nuestra era posterior al 11-S es la necesidad permanente de reafirmar realidades que han sido demostradas una y otra vez, y negadas con la misma obstinación por quienes ocupan el poder oficiel
Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post-September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power.
Beyond Endless War: Terror, Iraq, and the Growth of American
Anticipating the Petraeus Report from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner interviewed by Michael
Mark Danner interviewed by Harry Kreisler, of U.C. Berkeley’s International
Being invited to deliver a commencement address to the Department of Rhetoric is akin to being asked out for a romantic evening by a porn star.
Reporting on Iraq, Living in Terror from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Carolin Emcke and
The Making of Quagmire: Iraq and the War on Terror from Mark
In the ruined city of Fallujah, its pale tan buildings pulverized by Marine artillery in the two great assaults of this long war (the aborted attack of March 2004 and then the bloody, triumphant al-Fajr (The Dawn) campaign of the following November), behind the lines of giant sandbags and concrete T-walls and barbed wire that surrounded the tiny beleaguered American outpost there, I sat in my body armor and Kevlar helmet and thought of George F. Kennan.
Iraq’s Third Act from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner and John Mearsheimer interviewed
Bush in Winter: Democracy, the Elections, and Bush’s Iraq
Iraq: The War of the Imagination from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner interviewed