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Here’s the most basic news report from America’s Iraq over the last half-year, a recent Associated Press piece in its entirety; three…
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.
Remember the pundits who swore that sides were so set in this election, political minds so made up that Kerry would be…
On Tuesday, I slipped my cell phone into my holster, my Mother Jones credentials into my backpack, and headed for the Fleet…
Sovereign-Iraq quote of the week: “Military analysts talk about ‘standing up’ a new army as if it’s as simple as placing toy…
“Yellow decorating: Van Gogh called it ‘a color capable of charming God.’ You may relegate it to the kitchen or a bathroom,…
No place too small: While Pentagon officials swear that no draft is on the horizon (the horizon being, of course, November 2,…
…or was it Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with the rope? On Friday the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee issued its 511…
Here we are just past our Independence Day, past that moment in memory when the United States was, by active example, a…
When the “transition” moment occurred in Baghdad — so tightly was the secret held that not even comrade-in-arms Tony Blair knew the…
Finally, the week of “transition” has come. The rolling of drums (or is that the boom of mortars?), the handing over of…