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Quotes of the day: “Saddam should not have been a hard act to follow. After 30 years of disastrous wars, Iraqis wanted…
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.
While the situation in Iraq was devolving and his national security advisor was preparing to testify under oath — or do I…
Here’s a scenario for you: American aircraft are firing into residential neighborhoods inhabited by the very people we claim to be protecting;…
The clue for seventeen across, a seven-letter empty space in the Friday March 26 New York Times crossword puzzle was “detainee’s entitlement.”…
If anything can be called “amusing” any more, the most amusing political headline of the week certainly appeared on the front page…
Imperial quote of the week (or: you don’t keep the New Rome waiting in the New Spain): “A senior administration official traveling…
Quote of the day: As Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism “tsar,” tells it in his new book Against All Enemies, on…
Yesterday, I took my small sign — “Lies!” — out onto the streets of New York City for several hours. If you’re…
Quotes for the first anniversary of our most recent Iraqi War: Donald Rumsfeld on the handing over of “sovereignty” to Iraqis…
From the beginning, with the exception of the sizeable contingent of British troops, the “coalition” in Iraq has been nothing less than…