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“We are heroes in error… What was said before is not important.” (Ahmad Chalabi on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction) The papers…
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.
Here we are one year later. Forget that fruitless search for missing weapons of mass destruction or the way our leaders inadvertently…
Traffic jam on the Beltway Here’s a little rundown of various developments of the last week, not a single one of which…
When the wrong people say the right things Hosni Mubarak of Egypt is hardly a paragon of virtue, though, to the tune…
I’m assured by a reader that the Great Wall of China is not, in fact, visible from space. Is this then just…
Our newspapers and TV news have been full of reports lately on how the Bush administration ‘cherry-picked’ intelligence to shore up the…
The Washington Consensus (of one) “The Bush administration makes no secret that it sees the Iraq war as the prototype for future…
Quote of the day: “Michael O’Hanlon, a military specialist at the Brookings Institution, said the discretionary funds readily available to fill any…
It’s not just the President’s obvious critics to his left who are lining up to have a go at him. Conservatives of…
Two lines which not so long ago seemed firm as battlements — places where a sign reading ‘Go no further’ might well…