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“In this time of testing, our troops can know: The American people are behind you. Next week, our nation has an opportunity…
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.
“At a breakfast meeting with reporters, Wolfowitz said he hasn’t read the [Downing Street] memos because he doesn’t want to be ‘distracted’…
Right now, the price of a barrel of crude oil is flirting with $60; a Chinese state-controlled oil company has made an…
Republican Congressman Walter B. Jones (famed for insisting that the Congressional cafeteria re-label French fries as ‘freedom fries’ on its menu), a…
Imagine that the Pentagon Papers or the Watergate scandal had broken out all over the press — no, not in the New…
Welcome to Iraq… but call it Vietnam. If we haven’t all gone down the rabbit hole in Baghdad and come out in…
In my non-Tomdispatch life as a book editor, I used to have a modest dream. Every season, editors like me send the…
The last few weeks have been base-heavy ones in the news. The Pentagon’s provisional Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) list, the first…
Call it Star Wars, parts VII-XXII; but last week, just as Revenge of the Sith was opening galaxy-wide — multiplexes on Tatooine…
On March 19th, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discussed the “metrics” of measuring success in Iraq with Steve Inskeep of National Public…