Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com ("a regular antidote to the mainstream media"), is the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of American triumphalism and the Cold War, and coeditor of History Wars, the Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past.
Author's Articles
In American politics the military is our church, “national security” our Bible, and nothing done in the name of either can be wrong.
Wed Jan. 27, 2010 11:02 AM PST
The US military, al-Qaeda, and a war of futility.
Thu Jan. 14, 2010 11:27 AM PST
Making sense of the new CIA battlefield in Afghanistan.
Mon Jan. 11, 2010 11:06 AM PST
Why all the president's Afghan options are bad ones.
Sun Nov. 1, 2009 8:01 PM PST
Lessons from the long war and a blowback world.
Mon Oct. 19, 2009 9:12 AM PDT
War of the worlds hits Kabul.
Thu Oct. 8, 2009 8:52 AM PDT
Petraeus, McChrystal, and the Surgettes.
Thu Sep. 24, 2009 9:58 AM PDT
It's hard for Americans to grasp that Washington is a war capital, that the U.S. is a war state that garrisons much of the planet, and that the norm for us is to be at war.
Thu Sep. 17, 2009 10:13 AM PDT
The long, slow death of American triumphalism.
Wed Aug. 26, 2009 9:13 AM PDT
In imagistic terms, the Bush administration biked into Iraq. Now how are we going to bike out?
Thu Aug. 13, 2009 9:00 AM PDT
Mourning Michael Jackson, ignoring the Afghan dead.
Tue Jul. 7, 2009 9:19 AM PDT
He may be remarkable in many ways, but Obama is also president of the United States—an empire that now lives off war and the preparations for future war.
Mon Jun. 15, 2009 9:10 AM PDT
A commencement speech for every graduate of the class of '09—and who didn't think of this last year as an education?
Tue Jun. 2, 2009 12:18 PM PDT
The early moves of the Obama administration—combined with the momentum of the situation it inherited—have resulted in the expansion of the Af-Pak War in at least six areas.
Thu May. 21, 2009 10:39 AM PDT
In the Pentagon's eternal arms race of one, a major vote is being cast for future Terminator wars.
Thu May. 7, 2009 9:24 AM PDT
We forget the killings in Afghanistan easily, since they don't seem to impinge on our lives. Perhaps that's one of the benefits of fighting a war on the periphery of empire.
Thu Apr. 23, 2009 8:37 AM PDT
Unmanned aerial vehicles, pilotless surveillance, and assassination drones will be patrolling our expanding global battlefields, hunting down human beings.
Tue Apr. 7, 2009 1:17 PM PDT
Like our present financial bailouts, the new Obama plan for Afghanistan is superannuated on arrival.
Tue Mar. 31, 2009 11:28 AM PDT
Unlike 9/11, the economic crisis has produced no dust, no ash, no sirens. And yet the effect might be far more apocalyptic and the lives swallowed up far greater.
Mon Mar. 23, 2009 8:34 AM PDT
In politics, it's well accepted that hawks are "realists" and doves are "dreamers."
Tue Mar. 10, 2009 3:43 PM PDT
Empire-speak can both shield us from global realities and blind us to them.
Mon Mar. 2, 2009 10:15 AM PST
Aerial warfare has always been essentially directed against civilians
Thu Jul. 27, 2006 11:00 PM PDT
The efficacy of violence has been the most fundamental belief in these last catastrophic years.
Sun Jul. 16, 2006 11:00 PM PDT
...in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, in the United States, and in relation to the planet itself.
Tue Jul. 4, 2006 11:00 PM PDT
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