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Quote of the day: “I don’t think that the world gives us the luxury of picking areas,” [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy…
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.
With prices peaking (and peaking… and peaking…), the world looks a tad more peaked than it did not so many months ago…
A Little Background Music Shakar Odai, the head of the Internal Affairs Department of the Baghdad police was recently interviewed by David…
Have we really almost rolled around — yet again — to the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, this time amid much…
In the rush of recent news about renditions, extraordinary renditions, the beating to death and systematic abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan, the…
Throughout much of the Cold War, people feared above all else a global hot war, the third great one in a century…
There is a bleak wondrousness to this American world of ours. The Bush administration, after all, loathes fundamentalists — those dangerous fanatics…
‘The great motorcade,’ wrote Canadian correspondent Don Murray, ‘swept through the streets of the city… The crowds … but there were no…
If you go back to the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review of 2001 and the National Security Strategy of 2002, the Bush administration…
Thursday the news came in. The position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI), insisted upon by the 9/11 Commission, was finally filled.…