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 / TruthdigJul 27, 2007
Although the concept of withdrawing American troops from Iraq has gone mainstream, the word has been repurposed by the very people opposed to such a plan. Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TruthdigJul 9, 2007
Civilian deaths as a result of ground operations (see Haditha) often evoke cries of barbarism from the media, but the killing of innocents in airstrikes is routinely characterized as "collateral damage" and a cold fact of modern warfare. Tom Engelhardt of Tomdispatch proposes that we start to speak honestly about the devastation American military operations have rained down on Afghanistan and Iraq and see "collateral damage" for what it really is: carnage. Dig deeper ( 23 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TruthdigJun 11, 2007
If the Bush administration is only now considering the possibility of a South Korea-style military presence in Iraq, then why has it been building permanent bases since the start of the occupation? Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )
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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