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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Failing to heed history and reality in Afghanistan, we may very well disappear into the superpower dustbin like Russia.
Posted on Feb 6, 2009
Judging by our wars, we're not much more advanced than ancient civilizations.
Posted on Jan 8, 2009
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Just because there's a will doesn't mean there's a way.
Posted on Jul 11, 2008
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
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
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
"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
The Iraq war won't end, but in the Pentagon they're already arguing about the next one.
Posted on May 6, 2008
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
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
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
Five years into Iraq, Bush denies any link between Americans' economic pain and war spending.
Posted on Feb 29, 2008
The New York Times' right-wing columnist isn't just wrong in his ideology -- he is simply wrong.
Posted on Feb 22, 2008
When did immediate military withdrawal from Iraq stop being an option?
Posted on Feb 22, 2008
The refugee crisis is working!
Posted on Feb 11, 2008
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
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
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
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
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
Congress wants to further mess Iraq up by splitting it into three areas. Iraq Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki calls the plan a "disaster."
Posted on Oct 6, 2007
With its dazzling array of propaganda techniques in Iraq, the U.S. military has learned how to conduct war and defeat the press at the same time, as this excerpt from author Tom Engelhardt's
End of Victory Culture explains.
Posted on Sep 22, 2007
Like Hilton, Petraeus is a vain media darling with almost no credibility.
Posted on Sep 12, 2007
As Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus prepares to give his own cooked-up statistics on the 'progress' in Iraq, here's the rundown on the numbers that give the true picture of what a disaster the occupation has been.
Posted on Sep 10, 2007
The number of taxpayer-paid private contractors in Iraq, the number of bullets fired for each insurgent killed, the percentage of amputations performed on U.S. war-wounded: a compilation of numbers puts Iraq into perspective.
Posted on Aug 16, 2007
Americans are waiting for General David Petraeus to report to Congress in September on the "progress" of the President's surge strategy. But there's no reason to wait for September. Here's a look at some telltale numbers that show the horror in Iraq.
Posted on Jun 28, 2007
From "mission accomplished" through those endless "turning points" and "the precipice," American officials in Baghdad and Washington haven't been sparing with the use of images or analogies. Can you pass the War of the Words quiz?
Posted on Jun 18, 2007
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