Tom Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com, is the co-founder of the American Empire Project at Metropolitan Books. His book, "The End of Victory Culture" (University of Massachusetts Press), deals with victory culture's...
Tom Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com, is the co-founder of the American Empire Project at Metropolitan Books. His book, "The End of Victory Culture" (University of Massachusetts Press), deals with victory culture's crash-and-burn sequel in Iraq. In June 2008, the first Tomdispatch collection, "The World According to Tomdispatch; America in the New Age of Empire" (Verso Books) was published and his newest book is "Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World." Engelhardt is a Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
Tom Engelhardt / TruthdigAug 17, 2017
The politicians and pundits who once wouldn’t have hesitated to take credit for U.S. military domination are now placing the blame elsewhere. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchJun 16, 2017
President Trump is giving America's tottering domestic and global systems the push that will send them over the edge. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchMay 16, 2017
Iraq’s military (and the U.S. Air Force), claims to be avoiding destruction in Mosul, but large parts of the city are likely to be left in ruins. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TruthdigApr 25, 2017
Trump has lifted restraints on field commanders and let the military send more personnel to the Middle East. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchApr 4, 2017
For over 15 years, the U.S. has been fighting failed or failing wars—efforts that seem only to spread the terrorism they’re supposed to eradicate. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchMar 17, 2017
If you want to know where Donald Trump came from, don’t look to reality TV or Twitter. Look someplace far more improbable: Iraq. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TruthdigJul 27, 2016
In this era, everything that further militarizes American foreign policy, puts the national security state in command and assures the continued demobilization of a scared and rattled citizenry creates yet more uprooted souls, more children without childhoods, more refugees. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatchJan 14, 2012
When it came to rolling out a new 10-year plan for the future of the U.S. military recently, President Obama was at the top of his game. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatchJan 4, 2012
It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana. It was to be “mission accomplished” all the way. And then, of course, it wasn’t. And then, almost nine dismal years later, it was over (sorta). Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TruthdigNov 9, 2011
How about a moment of silence for the passing of the American Dream -- Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent nuclear arsenal, dumb and even dumber decisions, a bloody civil war, dead Americans, crony corporations, a trillion or more taxpayer dollars flushed down the toilet. You know, George W. Bush's dream. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TruthdigNov 20, 2009
President Obama will undoubtedly address the American people on whatever decision he makes about the war in Afghanistan. Every sign indicates that it will not sound like this. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TruthdigSep 18, 2007
There's a lot of talk about religious fundamentalism these days, but how much do we really know about the brand of Christian fundamentalism that has developed in America since, and in response to, the Enlightenment? Author James Carroll holds forth on the subject in this interview with TomDispatch editor Tom Engelhardt. Dig deeper ( 23 Min. Read )
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Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchJan 27, 2020
We finally see a spark of global acknowledgement about the urgency of the crisis, thanks to Greta Thunberg and Australia's fires. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchApr 28, 2019
Even for an old man like me, it’s a terrifying thing to watch humanity make a decision to commit self-harm on a mass scale. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchApr 15, 2019
From Somalia to Syria, U.S. wars are off the charts. With the 2020 election around the corner, there might be yet another war on the horizon. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchMar 5, 2019
We have two intractable issues, one intractable president and an intractable world, but what if that weren’t so? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchJan 27, 2019
Trump is right: Russia’s Afghan misadventure is a remarkably logical place to start when considering the present U.S. debacle there. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchMar 4, 2018
To get a picture of “blowback” in action, just do an internet search for such phrases as “warmest years,” “rising sea levels” and “future climate refugees." Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchJan 27, 2018
If you’re still convinced that James Mattis, H.R. McMaster and James Kelly are the “adults” in the Trumpian playroom, check out Afghanistan and think again. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchJan 6, 2018
More than a decade and a half after an American president spoke of 60 or more countries as potential targets, we finally have a visual representation of the true extent of the war on terror. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchDec 23, 2017
It’s up to us to protest, resist, change, communicate and convince, to fight for life rather than its destruction in the age of Trump. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchSep 23, 2017
How will endless wars and climate change impact the U.S. in the next eight years? Author Tom Engelhardt offers a fictional look at a dismal future. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
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