Stories by Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt, editor of Tomdispatch.com, is co-founder of the American Empire Project and author of The End of Victory Culture.
Can we avoid an approach to Afghanistan where impending disaster is seen as an invitation to make things even worse?
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
For 30 years we've been deeply involved in creating, financing, and sometimes arming a part of the world that has shown willingness to create violence on our own soil.
Posted on Oct 20, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
As Obama is facing a lose-lose proposition in Afghanistan, we have to look hard at the role of Gen. McChrystal and the political motivation of Gen. Petraeus.
Posted on Sep 26, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
As much as it might seem that most of us are going along, living peaceful lives, there's another kind of America that operates on the same soil -- a warfare state.
Posted on Sep 22, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Maintenance cost for the force of 450,000 Afghan soldiers and police U.S. generals dream of creating: approximately 500% of the Afghan budget.
Posted on Sep 9, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Joe is back yet again with his new movie and assorted products -- but the world he inhabits this time is completely sponged of our current predicaments abroad.
Posted on Aug 29, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
We can't just "move forward." We need to face who we've been and just how badly we've acted, if we care to become something better.
Posted on Jul 27, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Empire. It's the word no one in Washington can say. Its absence from the conversation is at the heart of what makes our empire so hard to define.
Posted on Jun 12, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Stanley McChrystal comes from a world where killing by any means is the norm and a blanket of govt. secrecy provides the necessary protection.
Posted on May 22, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
It's the norm for U.S. civilian and military leaders to talk about what other countries "must do" -- but it's a radical and dangerous mindset.
Posted on May 9, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Every year we kill thousands of innocent people. Does that seem reasonable? Does that seem right? Is your supposed safety worth that?
Posted on Apr 24, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Hunter-killer drones armed with Hellfire missiles are patrolling the Pentagon's expanding global battlefields: It's a scene right out of Terminator.
Posted on Apr 8, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
As the global economy melts down, so is the planet, with droughts threatening food production and industry across the world.
Posted on Feb 19, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Failing to heed history and reality in Afghanistan, we may very well disappear into the superpower dustbin like Russia.
Posted on Feb 6, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Judging by our wars, we're not much more advanced than ancient civilizations.
Posted on Jan 8, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Wherever we go, our "stuff" goes with us -- in such large quantities that removing it could prove more daunting than invading in the first place.
Posted on Nov 21, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Obama is about to enter a hornet's nest of entrenched interests and ideology. Electing him was the easy part. Now the real work begins.
Posted on Nov 13, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The Bush administration managed to turn that misplaced fear we had after 9/11 into something like prophecy and bring down the house.
Posted on Oct 14, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
America garrisons the globe in ways that are truly unprecedented, but if you live in the United States, you rarely hear a word about it.
Posted on Sep 8, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The media's already losing interest on the anthrax story, but there are plenty of simple questions that really deserve answers.
Posted on Aug 19, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The motto of the Bush administration might have been: Pay any price. Or, rather, make everyone else pay the price for us to remain in denial.
Posted on Aug 2, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
We have become a nation of wedding crashers, the uninvited guests who arrived under false pretenses, tore up the place, offering nary an apology.
Posted on Jul 15, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Just because there's a will doesn't mean there's a way.
Posted on Jul 11, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Five years after the invasion, to speak of this urge to surge and its results as "success" or as "good news" is essentially obscene.
Posted on Jun 30, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
If Iraq's main product had been video games, the media might have been quicker to ask tough questions about the war's effects on our kids' lives.
Posted on Jun 25, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
In the last five-plus years, untold billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent on the construction and upgrading of permanent bases.
Posted on Jun 15, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
"Kill them." Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's memoirs contain a transcript from a bloodthirsty and over the top private speech by Bush.
Posted on Jun 1, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The Iraq war won't end, but in the Pentagon they're already arguing about the next one.
Posted on May 6, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Since the press doesn't bother to ask key questions, here's an attempt to unravel the situation in Iraq.
Posted on Apr 24, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Gen. David Petraeus ought to level with the American public about the dire state of affairs in Iraq in his testimony to Congress this week.
Posted on Apr 8, 2008, Source: TheNation.com
Attacks all over the planet by U.S. Predator planes suggest Bush thinks he has the "right" to kill civilians.
Posted on Mar 17, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Five years into Iraq, Bush denies any link between Americans' economic pain and war spending.
Posted on Feb 29, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The New York Times' right-wing columnist isn't just wrong in his ideology -- he is simply wrong.
Posted on Feb 22, 2008, Source: The Nation
When did immediate military withdrawal from Iraq stop being an option?
Posted on Feb 22, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The refugee crisis is working!
Posted on Feb 11, 2008, Source: The Nation
The U.S. recently dropped 100,000 pounds of bombs on a small village in Iraq to combat 'al-Qaeda' -- part of the growing air war in Iraq.
Posted on Feb 4, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
There are dire consequences that Americans will have to face now that torture and imprisonment of innocent people is everyday government practice.
Posted on Jan 5, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Vast stretches of Iraq have turned into construction sites run by the Pentagon, while Bush makes up claims that Iraqis support an "long-term relationship."
Posted on Dec 4, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
As droughts reach record levels worldwide, no one is asking the tough question: What happens when there is not enough water to go around?
Posted on Nov 25, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
As the occupation of Iraq continues, the number and magnitude of demonstrations appear to be shrinking. What is happening to the protest culture of wars past?
Posted on Oct 30, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
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