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Tom Engelhardt

Climate Change
Climate Sabotage & Forever Wars: Is America the Most Dangerous Country in the World?

Climate Sabotage & Forever Wars: Is America the Most Dangerous Country in the World?

Tom Engelhardt

On Climate Change, quagmire seems like an appropriate image, as long as we keep in mind that we are the aggressors.

Donald Trump
Why does the MSM let Trump set the News Agenda, Every Minute of Every Day?

Why does the MSM let Trump set the News Agenda, Every Minute of Every Day?

Tom Engelhardt

And why so little reporting on the 50 US bases in the Middle East?

Donald Trump
The Trump Show:  The Real Fake News is obsessing about the President 24/7

The Trump Show: The Real Fake News is obsessing about the President 24/7

Tom Engelhardt

Never, not ever, has a single human being been so inescapable.

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: America's Longest Forgotten War Turns a grim 17

Afghanistan: America’s Longest Forgotten War Turns a grim 17

Tom Engelhardt

(Tomdispatch.com) | – We’re already two years past the crystal anniversary and eight years short of the silver one, or at least we would be, had it been a wedding — and, after a fashion, perhaps it was. On October 7, 2001, George W. Bush launched the invasion — “liberation” was the word often used […]

National Security State
How the Neocons' 'New American Century' Crashed and Burned

How the Neocons’ ‘New American Century’ Crashed and Burned

Tom Engelhardt

(Tomdispatch.com) – When you think about it, Earth is a relatively modest-sized planet — about 25,000 miles in circumference at the Equator, with a total surface area of 197 million square miles, almost three-quarters of which is water. It’s not so hard, if you’re in a certain frame of mind (as American officials were after […]

Afghanistan
Our Thirty Years War of the 21st Century

Our Thirty Years War of the 21st Century

Tom Engelhardt

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Fair warning. Stop reading right now if you want, because I’m going to repeat myself. What choice do I have, since my subject is the Afghan War (America’s second Afghan War, no less)? I began writing about that war in October 2001, almost 17 years ago, just after the U.S. invasion […]

Climate Change
Is America Sclerotic or still Youthful Enough to take on Imperial Presidency and Climate Change?

Is America Sclerotic or still Youthful Enough to take on Imperial Presidency and Climate Change?

Tom Engelhardt

There was a period in my later life when I used to say that, from the age of 20 to my late sixties, I was always 40 years old; I was, that is, an old young man and a young old one. Tell that to my legs now. Of course, there’s nothing faintly strange in […]

Donald Trump
America’s other Crisis of Addiction besides Opioids:  Trump and War

America’s other Crisis of Addiction besides Opioids: Trump and War

Tom Engelhardt

America’s addiction crisis goes deeper than prescription drugs

National Security State
The Escalating Tragedy of American Imperial Overstretch

The Escalating Tragedy of American Imperial Overstretch

Tom Engelhardt

One of these days we may be facing “regime change” on a planetary scale

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