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AlterNet
April 16, 2018
Tom Engelhardt is a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The United States of Fear as well as a history of the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. He is a fellow of the Nation Institute and runs TomDispatch.com. His latest book is Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars,Ãâà...
LobeLog
April 16, 2018
by Tom Engelhardt. The lessons of history? Who needs them? Certainly not Washington's present cast of characters, a crew in flight from history, the past, or knowledge of more or less any sort. Still, just for the hell of it, let's take a few moments to think about what some of the lessons of the last years of theÃâà...
Antiwar.com
March 29, 2018
... War and Terror Since World War II, John Feffer's dystopian novel Splinterlands, Nick Turse's Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead, and Tom Engelhardt's Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World. Copyright 2018 Rebecca GordonÃâà...
LobeLog
March 29, 2018
by Tom Engelhardt. A record? Come on! Don't minimize what's happening. It's far too unique, too unprecedented even to be classified as “historic.” Call it mega-historic, if you wish. Never from Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar to Soviet despot Joseph Stalin, from the Sun King Louis the XIV to PresidentÃâà...
The Nation.
March 27, 2018
By Tom Engelhardt. March 27, 2018. fb; tw; mail; Print; msg; wa; sms. Trump Speaks with Reporters. Donald Trump speaks with reporters on December 22, 2017. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci). EDITOR'S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receiveÃâà...
Fair Observer
March 23, 2018
One form of blowback from the disastrous wars that were meant to create the basis for a Pax Americana helped to produce the conditions that put Donald Trump in the White House. You want to see “blowback” in action? That's easy enough. All you need is a vague sense of how Google search works.
LobeLog
March 20, 2018
... Splinterlands, Nick Turse's Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead, and Tom Engelhardt's Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World. Copyright 2018 Andrew J. Bacevich. Photo of A.G. Sulzberger by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times.
Antiwar.com
March 15, 2018
I've long been struck by one strange aspect of the most recent part of the American Century: just how demobilized this country has been in the midst of distant wars that have morphed and spread for almost 17 years. I was born in July 1944 into a fully mobilized country fighting World War II in Europe and theÃâà...
Antiwar.com
March 9, 2018
Here's a thoroughly humdrum figure from the post-9/11 world: this February an estimated 1,294 people were killed in Iraq and another 266 wounded, including ISIS militants, numerous civilians, Iraqi security forces, Kurds, and Turks. Few of them died in major combat, just low-level incidents, suicideÃâà...
LobeLog
March 8, 2018
by Tom Engelhardt. You want to see “blowback” in action? That's easy enough. All you need is a vague sense of how Google Search works. Then type into it phrases like “warmest years,” “rising sea levels,” “melting ice,” “lengthening wildfire season,” or “future climate refugees,” and you'll find yourselfÃâà...
Toward Freedom
March 7, 2018
When it comes to unintended consequences of American policy, Donald Trump is just the tip of the iceberg. You want to see “blowback” in action? That's easy enough. All you need is a vague sense of how Google Search works. Then type into it phrases like “warmest years,” “rising sea levels,” “melting ice,”Ãâà...
LobeLog
March 7, 2018
by Tom Engelhardt. You want to see “blowback” in action? That's easy enough. All you need is a vague sense of how Google Search works. Then type into it phrases like “warmest years,” “rising sea levels,” “melting ice,” “lengthening wildfire season,” or “future climate refugees,” and you'll find yourselfÃâà...
Antiwar.com
February 27, 2018
What company gets the most money from the U.S. government? The answer: the weapons maker Lockheed Martin. As the Washington Post recently reported, of its $51 billion in sales in 2017, Lockheed took in $35.2 billion from the government, or close to what the Trump administration is proposing for theÃâà...
Antiwar.com
February 25, 2018
Despite the dystopian fantasies about nuclear terror and destruction that hit popular culture in the Cold War era and those "duck and cover" drills kids like me experienced in school in the 1950s, the American people were generally sheltered from a full sense of the toll of a nuclear cataclysm. Consider, forÃâà...
LobeLog
February 24, 2018
by Tom Engelhardt. If you're in the mood, would you consider taking a walk with me and, while we're at it, thinking a little about America's wars? Nothing particularly ambitious, mind you, just — if you're up for it — a stroll to the corner. Now, admittedly, there's a small catch here. Where exactly is that corner?
Antiwar.com
February 20, 2018
Recently, the Pentagon's top Asia official, Randall Schriver, told senators that the Afghan war would cost this country's taxpayers $45 billion in 2018, including $5 billion for the Afghan security forces, $13 billion for U.S. forces in that country, and $780 million in economic aid. How the other $26 billion wouldÃâà...
Antiwar.com
February 15, 2018
When it comes to America's wars, more than 16 years later our generals are victorious. Not, of course, in the distant lands where those conflicts grind on unendingly, but in the one place that matters: Washington, D.C. Could there be a more striking sign of that than the elevation of three of those generals toÃâà...
The Nation.
February 13, 2018
By Tom Engelhardt. February 13, 2018. fb; tw; mail; Print; msg; wa; sms. Hagel speaks with Afghanistan troops. US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to troops at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, on December 8, 2013. (Reuters / Mark Wilson). EDITOR'S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stayÃâà...
The Nation.
January 25, 2018
By Tom Engelhardt. January 25, 2018. fb; tw; mail; Print; msg; wa; sms. Trump in a Car MAGA. President Donald Trump waves to spectators as he climbs into a car outside his New Jersey golf club in July. (AP Photo / Julie Jacobson). EDITOR'S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top ofÃâà...
The Nation.
November 30, 2017
If we want to understand how we got to this point, we have to look closely at the monster we elected. By Tom Engelhardt. November 30, 2017. fb; tw; mail; Print; msg; wa; sms. Donald Trump in the Spin Room. Donald Trump in South Carolina in 2016. (AP Photo / Rainier Ehrhardt). EDITOR'S NOTE: This article originallyÃâà...
LobeLog
November 18, 2017
Tom Engelhardt. Whistling Past the Graveyard (of Empires). Published February 24, 2018 by Tom Engelhardt Leave a Comment Ãâ÷ Cemetery Tombstone Tomb Graveyard Stone Grave. by Tom Engelhardt If you're in the mood, would you consider taking a walk with me and, while we're at it, thinking a little about America'sÃâà...
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
... Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power, as well as John Dower's The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II, John Feffer's dystopian novel Splinterlands, Nick Turse's Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead, and Tom Engelhardt's Shadow Government: Surveillance,Ãâà...
The Nation.
December 31, 1999
When it comes to unintended consequences of American policy, Donald Trump is just the tip of the iceberg. By Tom Engelhardt. March 1, 2018. fb; tw; mail; Print; msg; wa; sms. Trump Climate Change. President Trump announces that the United States is withdrawing from the Paris Accord, June 1, 2017. (Cheriss May / SipaÃâà...
The Nation.
December 31, 1999
By Tom Engelhardt. April 12, 2018. fb; tw; mail; Print; msg; wa; sms. Trump speaks to navy and shipyard personnel. President Donald Trump in Virginia in 2017. (AP Photo / Steve Helber). EDITOR'S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receiveÃâà...
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