In October 2003, the TV series Frontline did a show from Iraq, “Truth, War, and Consequences,” that featured a remarkable scene shot…
Tom Engelhardt
It’s global-warming time again at Tomdispatch; or perhaps it’s the more neutral “climate-change” time favored, for its non-apocalyptic mildness, by the fossil-fuel…
There is something thoroughly inspiring when people, under the threat of death, turn out to vote in a country that has become…
In the United States, the long-awaited January 30 Iraqi election, might be labeled the “until” election or, more recently, the “in-the-days-before” election.…
‘‘It’s a finesse to give power to Rumsfeld — giving him the right to act swiftly, decisively, and lethally,’ the first Pentagon…
Recently I wrote once again about the spread of torture as a way of life in the Bush administration’s offshore imperium. I…
Here’s a strange, small tale of our times, as reported from Washington by Guy Dinmore in the sober British Financial Times (Powell…
The other day I posted a Dahr Jamail piece entitled, Iraq: The Devastation, but another word has recently come to mind that,…
There’s an old joke about a meeting between two men, one of whom is an egomaniac. The egomaniac yaks on endlessly about…
Here we are, because time has some of the qualities of a tsunami, deposited in 2005, whether we like it or not.…