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.
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
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, Source: Tomdispatch.com
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, Source: University of Massachusetts Press
Like Hilton, Petraeus is a vain media darling with almost no credibility.
Posted on Sep 12, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
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, Source: Tomdispatch.com
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, Source: Tomdispatch.com
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, Source: Tomdispatch.com
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, Source: Tomdispatch.com
In Iraq and beyond, America's empire of permanent bases grows at an alarming pace.
Posted on Jun 14, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The U.S. is building an embassy in the heart of Baghdad's embattled Green Zone that will be the largest embassy on the planet -- big enough to embody the Bush administration's vision of an American-reordered Middle East.
Posted on May 30, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Using publicly available numbers, one can calculate that the U.S. government values an innocent civilian slaughtered by al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001 at $1.8 million, and an Iraqi civilian killed by Marines at $2,000.
Posted on May 15, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The administration's language for the President's plan in Baghdad creates a "new" plan out of ancient, failed strategies, ignores some of Iraq's recent horrendous past, and strips us of our responsibility for it.
Posted on Apr 25, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
If so many people are fed up with the war, why is everyone so silent? Is this the way it usually feels in the heartlands of great empires until the barbarians actually do come knocking at the gates?
Posted on Mar 27, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Seymour Hersh's recent report that Iran-Contra veterans working out of Dick Cheney's office are using stolen funds from Iraq to arm al Qaeda-tied groups and foment a larger Sunni-Shia war is a
very big deal.
Posted on Mar 17, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Whether it's the size of the military deployment in Iraq, the financial cost of the war or the amount of time US troops are spending in Iraq, the numbers keep creeping up, even as the situation deteriorates.
Posted on Mar 12, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
American dead of the Iraq and Afghan occupations come disproportionately from rural America.
Posted on Jan 27, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
If we were to follow the recommendations of James Baker's Iraq Study Group, we'd be embedded in Iraq for at least another three to five years.
Posted on Dec 5, 2006, Source: Tomdispatch.com
While everyone in Washington is treating Bush Senior's ally Robert Gates' Pentagon arrival and James Baker's Iraq Study Group report as godsends that will end the war in Iraq, it's quite likely that they will deploy more troops and stay there indefinitely.
Posted on Nov 22, 2006, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Yesterday's elections marked the beginning of the end of Bush's Global War on Terror; here's what to look for next as we take apart the imperial state.
Posted on Nov 8, 2006, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Apt quotes from some of the most eloquent Bush critics in our era -- from Howard Zinn to Barbara Ehrenreich.
Posted on Oct 16, 2006, Source: Tomdispatch.com
What if there had been no giant cloud of destruction capable of bringing to mind the look of "the day after," no images of crumbling towers worthy of
Independence Day?
Posted on Sep 9, 2006, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
The Earth was knocked off its axis with America's atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 61 years ago. In some ways, we haven't yet recovered.
Posted on Aug 8, 2006, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The administration has painstakingly created a fictitious bubble of safety in its Baghdad 'Green Zone.' Now Bush expects us to buy into the belief that he's made us all safer, here and abroad.
Posted on Jun 29, 2006, Source: Tomdispatch.com
In this in-depth interview, Barbara Ehrenreich reveals how the class war rages on, and why middle-class Americans are so worried.
Posted on Jun 6, 2006, Source: Tomdispatch.com
This weekend's enormous anti-war march in New York City was unlike earlier protests, in part because none of the protesters even remotely believed the President would listen to them.
Posted on May 1, 2006, Source: Tomdispatch.com
While Bush talked a great game when it came to exporting democracy to the Middle East, his main exports have been mayhem and ruins.
Posted on Apr 5, 2006, Source: Tomdispatch.com
No matter how much the military hems and haws about withdrawing from Iraq, the bases we're installing tell the real story.
Posted on Feb 17, 2006, Source: Tomdispatch.com
In Bush's fifth State of the Union speech, we can only begin to guess what words will come back to haunt him in the coming year.
Posted on Jan 31, 2006, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Starting when he blinked in the face of Cindy Sheehan's challenge, the political landscape has tilted steeply away from President Bush in recent weeks.
Posted on Nov 26, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
In keeping with Bush's bass-ackwards management style, we present a gallery of the rogues, criminals and liars he has promoted or awarded for their grave mistakes.
Posted on Nov 10, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The staggering turnout of Saturday's antiwar protest in Washington DC reflected the American public's growing opposition to the war in Iraq.
Posted on Sep 26, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The language Bush has used in recent speeches about Iraq and Cindy Sheehan illustrates why his message (and approval rating) is starting to fail.
Posted on Aug 30, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Cindy Sheehan's blunt, take-no-prisoners approach has been remarkably successful and may even spark the Iraq War's first 'tipping point.'
Posted on Aug 15, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Connect some recent media 'dots' to a few forgotten ones and you have framework for understanding the Plame case.
Posted on Jul 29, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The massive footprints left by spies in Italy have given us a glimpse into the Bush administration's "shadow war" being conducted -- on our behalf -- through the CIA.
Posted on Jul 25, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
As reality grows ever darker, our President never ventures far from his scripted version of a fictional world that is nowhere to be seen.
Posted on Jul 12, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
A plan to reorganize military bases at home is just one piece of a larger puzzle that involves the projection of American power into the distant lands that most concern us.
Posted on Jun 3, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
What we have been seeing throughout Latin America -- as along Russia's border -- has been a serial revolt in country after country against the Cold War world and the imperial orders it imposed on its near abroads.
Posted on May 7, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
In Iraq, we can see the same basic pattern recurring as happened in Vietnam -- recent glowing statements about insurgency downticks that were followed by reports on upticks in fighting in Iraq with a similar slow erosion of support for the war in the United States.
Posted on Apr 26, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Yesterday's Senate hearing on the Patriot Act reveals how far we've come from a functioning civil society.
Posted on Apr 8, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
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