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Poll of the week shows President is not pol of the week: ‘President Bush’s public support dropped sharply over the past month,…
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.
Guess who’s already calling around town in search of figures to be named to the “independent commission” to investigate intelligence failures in…
What a week! Strange quotes, strange events, strange sightings. It was the sort of workaday week that makes you wonder whether the…
And speaking of empires: Tips on how to improve relations with the United (no empire here) States of America and associated bases…
I was one of those space kids of the 1950s. An only child, bored with my life, I spent an inordinate amount…
Fly me to Iraq Eight American soldiers have died (AFP, 1/25/04) and a number more have been wounded in the last…
At the Commondreams website there is a remarkable new poll to be published in Newsweek, 1/26. After two months of a polling…
Picking up the New York Times, my hometown newspaper, the morning after the President delivered his State of the Union address, I…
Then there were the Kurds pushing against the CPA for something barely short of an independent Kurdistan, the Sunnis organizing politically, and…
Life in Bush’s America, or more dead ducks: “Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent part of last…