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Tom Engelhardt

Iran
Iranian Aggression?  Or American?  Even Great US News Outlets can’t Escape Jingoism

Iranian Aggression? Or American? Even Great US News Outlets can’t Escape Jingoism

Tom Engelhardt

Tomdispatch.com) – Headlined “U.S. Seeks Other Ways to Stop Iran Shy of War,” the article was tucked away on page A9 of a recent New York Times. Still, it caught my attention. Here’s the first paragraph: “American intelligence and military officers are working on additional clandestine plans to counter Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf, […]

Donald Trump
If Donald Trump is the Symptom, Then What is the Disease?

If Donald Trump is the Symptom, Then What is the Disease?

Tom Engelhardt

(Tomdispatch.com) – Don’t try to deny it! The political temperature of this country is rising fast. Call it Trump change or Trump warming, if you want, but grasp one thing: increasingly, you’re in a different land and, whatever happens to Donald Trump, the results down the line are likely to be ever less pretty. Trump […]

Corruption
Chickens Came home to Roost: US meddled in Foreign Elections for Decades

Chickens Came home to Roost: US meddled in Foreign Elections for Decades

Tom Engelhardt

(Tomdispatch.com) – In this country, reactions to the Mueller report have been all-American beyond belief. Let’s face it, when it comes to election meddling, it’s been me, me, me, 24/7 here. Yes, in some fashion some set of Russians meddled in the last election campaign, whether it was, as Jared Kushner improbably claimed, “a couple […]

Climate Change
Not just Notre Dame:  With Global Heating, Arsonists have set the whole World on Fire

Not just Notre Dame: With Global Heating, Arsonists have set the whole World on Fire

Tom Engelhardt

We are, of course, talking about nothing short of the ultimate crime, but on any given day of our lives, you’d hardly notice that it was underway

Pentagon
One Hell of a Hangover: All the American Wars We haven't remembered Fighting that are Still going On

One Hell of a Hangover: All the American Wars We haven’t remembered Fighting that are Still going On

Tom Engelhardt

More than two years into the era of Donald TrumpAmerican air strikes in… yep, Somalia, are precipitously on the rise

Donald Trump
Naked Truth: The Grifter-in-Chief will Leave us Bankrupt and Holding the Bag

Naked Truth: The Grifter-in-Chief will Leave us Bankrupt and Holding the Bag

Tom Engelhardt

Donald Trump wasn’t actually a successful businessman at all, but a classic American con man

China
A Modest Proposal for Trump: End Trade War & Maybe China will Build you a Wall (They have Experience)

A Modest Proposal for Trump: End Trade War & Maybe China will Build you a Wall (They have Experience)

Tom Engelhardt

Admittedly, you continue to claim that your wall is already being built, but of course it is not

Donald Trump
An Obituary for the Republic:  Hail the Tweetocracy

An Obituary for the Republic: Hail the Tweetocracy

Tom Engelhardt

They applied their Roman-style vision of an imperial America to the actual world

Afghanistan
When America loses the Forgotten Afghanistan War, will it Leave the US Broken?

When America loses the Forgotten Afghanistan War, will it Leave the US Broken?

Tom Engelhardt

Like the Red Army, the U.S. military will finally leave that country in defeat and will bring that defeat home with them.

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