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Watch most TV channels and if Iraq is the subject, you see bombs going off. You hear grisly tales of tortured Iraqis…
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.
You’ve heard the President and Vice President say it over and over in various ways: There was a connection between the events…
We knew it was coming. Not, as conspiracy theorists imagine, just a few top officials among us, but all of us —…
Barbarism seems an obvious enough category. Ordinarily in our world, the barbarians are them. They act in ways that seem unimaginably primitive…
The single most basic fallacy underlying the present American catastrophe in Iraq is the belief that the U.S. can somehow solve that…
Even though we promptly dubbed the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York City “Ground Zero” — once a term reserved…
Barbarism seems an obvious enough category. Ordinarily in our world, the barbarians are them. They act in ways that seem unimaginably primitive…
So, as the world spins on a dime, where exactly are we? As a man who is no fan of fundamentalists of…
One of these days, some scholar will do a little history of the odd moments when microphones or recording systems were turned…
As every political junky in the country now knows, just before finding himself not indicted by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Karl Rove…