Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. October 20, 2009. An interview with Mark Danner, whose new book, Stripping Bare the Body, explores the strange notion of a democratic empire and the wars it wages.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. August 29, 2009. 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.
Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. July 31, 2009. The failure to begin to deal with our bloated military establishment will condemn the U.S. to a devastating trio of consequences.
David Bromwich, Tomdispatch.com. July 22, 2009. Younger generations of Americans are now being taught to expect no end of war -- and no end of wars. It wasn't always like that.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. June 12, 2009. 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.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. May 9, 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.
John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus. April 27, 2009. With the world's maritime chokepoints at risk, pirates are emerging as the latest non-state threat: the terrorists of the seas.
Mark Engler, Foreign Policy in Focus. April 21, 2009. Two disastrous wars and the economic meltdown have shaken America's superpower status. What can Obama do to help shape a sustainable global order?
Foreign Policy in FocusMarch 27, 2009. Will President Barack Obama draw down the American empire in order to meet the multiple challenges the country faces?
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. February 4, 2009. The economic crisis could plunge the U.S. into a long period of social instability. Our democracy is in peril; the threat of totalitarianism is real.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. December 24, 2008. In a series of departing interviews, Cheney challenges anyone to repudiate the imperial presidency constructed in the Bush era.
Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. September 29, 2008. If we don't cut back our ever-increasing military spending in a major way, the bankruptcy of the United States is inevitable.
Robert Scheer, Twelve. June 27, 2008. The huge "defense" spending going on in our name is irrational and costly, but there are powerful vested interests that want to keep it that way.
Michael Schwartz, Tomdispatch.com. May 27, 2008. Because of the Iraqis, the glorious sounding Global War on Terror has been transformed into an endless, hopeless actual war
David Michael Green, AlterNet. February 28, 2008. We've been in conflict for about half the period between World War II and the present but consider ourselves a "peace-loving" nation.
Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus. January 30, 2008. The neocons' project to create a "benign" global empire is dead, a victim of their own hubris.
