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[Tom Engelhardt’s dispatches have been posted on ZNet for more than two years now, earning him this autobiographical pitch and a poem…
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.
Recently, our top commander in Iraq, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., was brought back to the United States, officially to consult with…
[Linked photos by Tam Turse] George was out of town, of course, in the ‘battle cab’ at the U.S. Northern Command’s headquarters…
Not long after Baghdad fell to American troops, it was already apparent that the United States was part of the problem, not…
The strangest aspect of media coverage of our invasion and occupation of Iraq involved that country’s oil. Everyone, including the Bush administration,…
Don’t say they can’t. They can — and they did. Despite every calumny, it turns out that the Bush administration can put…
“At times it is hard to ignore the comparisons between Baghdad (where I was less than a month ago and have spent…
The headline was: ‘Direct hit in New Orleans could mean a modern Atlantis,’ and the first paragraph of the story read: ‘More…
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to…
Extraordinary renditions, torture, abuse, humiliation, detention without charge or end, an obsession with protecting American officials (and military men) from future foreign…