Alone and Delusional on Planet Earth

By Tom Engehardt, TomDispatch Sep 6, 2013 In an increasingly phantasmagorical world, here’s my present fantasy of choice. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

And Then There Was One

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch May 8, 2013 To this day, we’ve never quite taken in the moment when Soviet imperial rot unexpectedly -- above all, to Washington -- became imperial crash-and-burn. Left standing, the United States -- the Cold War's victor -- seemed like an empire of everything under the sun. It was as if humanity had always been traveling toward this spot. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Obama’s Terror Campaign

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 22, 2013 The president maintains a "global system of kidnapping, torture, rape and murder" to demoralize and coerce those who would oppose the American-led neoliberal empire, political economist Rob Urie writes in CounterPunch. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Tom Engelhardt

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 21, 2013 At least three times a week, there is one place online where readers can go for the most comprehensive coverage possible of the workings of American Empire. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind

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Psy Shames Himself With Unqualified Apology (Video)

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 9, 2012 By delivering a servile apology for singing lyrics that violently denounced the American military in 2004 at the height of its invasion of Iraq, South Korean rapper Psy has shown that, like many who enjoy fame and fortune, he has no backbone when it comes to criticizing American imperialism.South Korean rapper Psy's servile apology for singing lyrics that violently denounced the American military shows he has no backbone when it comes to criticizing American imperialism. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Memo to the Military: Give a Damn About the Warming Planet

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 11, 2012 Global warming could be American imperialism’s undoing if Pentagon officials don’t prepare accordingly, a group of experts effectively reported in a study warning against such “climate surprises” as natural disasters, sea-level rise, drought and epidemics. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Who Lost the World?

By Ira Chernus, TomDispatch Oct 31, 2012 Who lost Libya? Indeed, who lost the entire Middle East? Those are the questions lurking behind the endless stream of headlines about “Benghazi-gate.” But the question we should really ask is: How did a tragic but isolated incident at a U.S. consulate, in a place few Americans had ever heard of, get blown up into a pivotal issue in a too-close-to-call presidential contest? Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Overwrought Empire

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Oct 10, 2012 The U.S. is now the sole planetary Top Gun in a way that empire-builders once undoubtedly fantasized about: alone and essentially uncontested. By all the usual measuring sticks, it should be supreme in a historically unprecedented way. And yet it couldn’t be more obvious that it’s not. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Roots of Gore Vidal’s Discontent

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 2, 2012 Gore Vidal, the high-born author and activist who died Tuesday at the age of 86, was a man who had grand, democratic ambitions for his country -- a nation that became a pale, mocking imitation of the place he knew during his pre-World War II boyhood -- says his longtime friend Bob Carr, the current Australian minister of foreign affairs. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Morris Berman and the Decline of America

Staff / Truthdig Feb 11, 2012 American cultural historian and social critic Morris Berman shared the findings in his new book “Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline” with an audience at Seattle’s Elliot Bay bookstore last fall. Like much of the tidings brought to us by the best of our sober-eyed critics, his forecast for the future of the republic and the welfare of its coming generations is not hopeful. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Offshore Everywhere: The Plan to End National Sovereignty as We Know It

By Tom Engelhardt Feb 6, 2012 The defense cuts that will change the American way of war may mean little in monetary terms, but in imperial terms they will make a difference: They will offer a direct challenge to national sovereignty. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )