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.
The Bush administration managed to turn that misplaced we had fear after 9/11 into something like prophecy and bring down the house.
Posted on Oct 14, 2008
America garrison the globe in ways that really are unprecedented, and yet, if you live in the United States, you basically wouldn't know it.
Posted on Sep 8, 2008
The media's already losing interest on the anthrax story, but there are plenty of simple questions that really deserve answers.
Posted on Aug 19, 2008
The motto of the Bush administration might have been: Pay any price. Or, rather, make everyone else pay the price for us to remain in denial.
Posted on Aug 2, 2008
We have become a nation of wedding crashers, the uninvited guests who arrived under false pretenses, tore up the place, offering nary an apology.
Posted on Jul 15, 2008
Just because there's a will doesn't mean there's a way.
Posted on Jul 11, 2008
Five years after the invasion, to speak of this urge to surge and its results as "success" or as "good news" is essentially obscene.
Posted on Jun 30, 2008
If Iraq's main product had been video games, the media might have been quicker to ask tough questions about the war's effects on our kids' lives.
Posted on Jun 25, 2008
In the last five-plus years, untold billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent on the construction and upgrading of permanent bases.
Posted on Jun 15, 2008
"Kill them." Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's memoirs contain a transcript from a bloodthirsty and over the top private speech by Bush.
Posted on Jun 1, 2008
The Iraq war won't end, but in the Pentagon they're already arguing about the next one.
Posted on May 6, 2008
Since the press doesn't bother to ask key questions, here's an attempt to unravel the situation in Iraq.
Posted on Apr 24, 2008
Gen. David Petraeus ought to level with the American public about the dire state of affairs in Iraq in his testimony to Congress this week.
Posted on Apr 8, 2008
Attacks all over the planet by U.S. Predator planes suggest Bush thinks he has the "right" to kill civilians.
Posted on Mar 17, 2008
Five years into Iraq, Bush denies any link between Americans' economic pain and war spending.
Posted on Feb 29, 2008
The New York Times' right-wing columnist isn't just wrong in his ideology -- he is simply wrong.
Posted on Feb 22, 2008
When did immediate military withdrawal from Iraq stop being an option?
Posted on Feb 22, 2008
The refugee crisis is working!
Posted on Feb 11, 2008
The U.S. recently dropped 100,000 pounds of bombs on a small village in Iraq to combat 'al-Qaeda' -- part of the growing air war in Iraq.
Posted on Feb 4, 2008
There are dire consequences that Americans will have to face now that torture and imprisonment of innocent people is everyday government practice.
Posted on Jan 5, 2008
Vast stretches of Iraq have turned into construction sites run by the Pentagon, while Bush makes up claims that Iraqis support an "long-term relationship."
Posted on Dec 4, 2007
As droughts reach record levels worldwide, no one is asking the tough question: What happens when there is not enough water to go around?
Posted on Nov 25, 2007
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
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
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
Like Hilton, Petraeus is a vain media darling with almost no credibility.
Posted on Sep 12, 2007
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
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
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
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
In Iraq and beyond, America's empire of permanent bases grows at an alarming pace.
Posted on Jun 14, 2007
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
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
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
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
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
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
American dead of the Iraq and Afghan occupations come disproportionately from rural America.
Posted on Jan 27, 2007
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
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
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