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Bertolt Brecht wrote this of empire long ago: ‘Who built the seven gates of Thebes?The books are filled with names of kings.Was…
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.
The recent revelations about the man often seen as the “moral hero” of the Watergate scandal, the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, have…
It’s finally Wizard of Oz time in America. You know — that moment when the curtains are pulled back, the fearsome-looking wizard…
Two presiding deities — and lively ghosts they are — continue to hover over the present administration: Vietnam and Watergate. Though the…
[Note: We are in such an age of extremity that perfectly sane people can mistake satire for reality. I’ve run into this…
The motto of this administration might easily be: ‘failing upward.’ Of course, that’s not hard when those leading the country into catastrophe…
Since Guardian correspondent Rory Carroll was briefly kidnapped in Baghdad and the paper recalled its reporters while it reviewed the situation, there…
Those in the anti-fascist struggle of the 1930s who went off to fight in the Spanish Civil War were later termed “premature…
In September 2001, the President announced that we were at war with terrorism. It was to be a conflict far longer than…
Remember when the Democrats were keeping their powder dry for the fierce battle against the President’s still unknown second nominee to the…