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“When told yesterday that [German Chancellor] Schroeder believed Mr. Bush’s contract decision might violate international law, the president responded with a sarcastic…
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.
Sporting events of the imperium: The shooting party: “One of Washington‘s big guns came to Westmoreland County yesterday for a day’s…
Quote of the day (1): “Our military operations have as their object the defeat of the enemy, and the driving of…
Quote of the half-century: Captain Ted L. Shipman, American intelligence officer, “Only the fear of force gets results. It’s the Asian mind.…
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner was a British film of my youth. Such a title makes no sense today when…
Quote of the day: “‘They attacked and they were killed,’ General [Peter] Pace [vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] said…
Aid and comfort to himself: “Administration officials said Bush enjoys surprises and showing himself in charge, and Thursday’s whirlwind trip involved…
Quote of the half-century: Senator J. William Fulbright, 1966: “Power has a way of undermining judgment, of planting delusions of grandeur in…
More than two years after the World Trade Center towers came down and the President declared his “war on terrorism,” it seems…
Quote of the day: George Bush to British journalists, “I travel in somewhat of a bubble.” (Caren Bohan, “Bush to Keep Distance…