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Still Living With Jack Bauer in a Terrified New American World

By Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch Jul 11, 2014 Once upon a time, if a character on TV tortured someone, it was a sure sign that he was a bad guy. Now, the torturers are the all-American heroes. From "24" to "Zero Dark Thirty," it’s been the good guys who wielded the pliers and the waterboards. We’re not only living in a post-9/11 world, we’re stuck with Jack Bauer in the 25th hour. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Why Washington Can’t Stop

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Oct 24, 2013 In terms of advanced and unchallenged military power, there has been nothing like the U.S. armed forces since the Mongols swept across Eurasia. No wonder American presidents now regularly use phrases like “the finest fighting force the world has ever known” to describe it. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Jeremy Scahill

BLANK Apr 28, 2013 With his new book "Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield," Jeremy Scahill brings the last decade of the American government's clandestine war making into the clearest possible focus. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Filling the Empty Battlefield

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Apr 23, 2013 With "Blowback," Chalmers Johnson aimed to paint a portrait of how America's informal empire and its historically unprecedented garrisoning of the world looked to others, and so explain why animosity and blowback were building globally. Now we have a secret history of 21st-century American war in Jeremy Scahill’s latest book, "Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield." Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

How the U.S. Intelligence Community Came Out of the Shadows

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Dec 18, 2012 The Invisible Government, published by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross in 1964, was groundbreaking, shadow-removing, illuminating. It caused a fuss from its very first paragraph, which was then a shockeroo: “There are two governments in the United States today. One is visible. The other is invisible.” Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )