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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.
Nick Turse stands at the door, a frizz of curly black hair, a fringe of beard, in a dark T-shirt and green…
The history of war-atrocity snapshots did not start with the Abu Ghraib screen-savers from hell. After all, photography itself came into being…
The press tells us that our “thrilled” President was “conservative” or “carefully guarded,” or expressed “cautious optimism” in responding to the death…
First news stories about the My Lai massacre (picked up from an army publicity release), March 1968: The New York Times labeled…
In recent months, among other uproars and scandals, Americans learned that the Defense Department has been collecting intelligence on and tracking domestic…
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Recently, a number — one billion — in the New York Times stopped me in my tracks. According to a report commissioned…
“We must perhaps reluctantly accept that we have to help this region become a normal region, the way we helped Europe and…
It’s the perfect day for a march. Sunny, crisp, clear, spring-like. The sort of day that just gives you hope for no…