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Let me make an argument about Bush administration Iran policy — about the possibility that a regime-change-style, shock-and-awe air assault might someday…
Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt created and runs the website TomDispatch.com. He is also a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. A fellow of the Type Media Center, his sixth and latest book is A Nation Unmade by War.
Afghanistan remains the forgotten war and yet, in an eerie lockstep with Iraq, it seems to be following a distinctly Bush administration-style…
When we hear about the American dead in Iraq, we normally learn about the circumstances in which they died. Last Saturday, for…
It’s been a repetitive phenomenon of these last years–when fears about disaster (or further disaster, or even the farthest reaches of disaster)…
Just five days after the September 11th attacks in 2001, in a Q and A with reporters on the South Lawn of…
A Surge of Bodies On January 4th, the Pentagon “announced the identities” of six American soldiers who had died between December 28th…
Okay, folks, it’s time for a year-opening sermon. And like any good sermon, this one will be based on illustrative texts, in…
Although Vietnam flooded instantly back into American consciousness as the invasion of Iraq was launched in March 2003–along with its ancient vocabulary…
This is an old tale. Long forgotten. But like all good political bedtime stories, it’s well worth telling again. Once upon a…
Last week, someone slipped New York Times reporters Michael R. Gordon and David S. Cloud the secret memo finished by Secretary of…