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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
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The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give
(But won't.)
—Thu Nov. 19, 2009 10:27 AM PST -
Droning On
Why military dreams fail—and why it doesn't…
—Tue Nov. 10, 2009 1:28 PM PST -
Too Big to Fail: Afghanistan as a Bailout State
Why all the president's Afghan options are bad ones…
—Sun Nov. 1, 2009 8:01 PM PST -
Will Today's U.S.-Armed Ally Be Tomorrow's Enemy?
Lessons from the long war and a blowback world.
—Mon Oct. 19, 2009 10:12 AM PDT -
Are We the Martians of the Twenty-First Century?
War of the worlds hits Kabul.
—Thu Oct. 8, 2009 9:52 AM PDT -
How to Trap a President in a Losing War
Petraeus, McChrystal, and the Surgettes.
—Thu Sep. 24, 2009 10:58 AM PDT -
Is America Hooked on War?
It's hard for Americans to grasp that Washington is…
—Thu Sep. 17, 2009 11:13 AM PDT -
Afghanistan by the Numbers
Measuring a war gone to hell.
—Tue Sep. 8, 2009 9:54 AM PDT -
G.I. Joe, Post-American Hero
The long, slow death of American triumphalism.
—Wed Aug. 26, 2009 10:13 AM PDT -
Biking Out of Iraq
In imagistic terms, the Bush administration biked…
—Thu Aug. 13, 2009 10:00 AM PDT -
Don't Turn the Page on History
Facing the American world we created.
—Thu Jul. 23, 2009 4:55 PM PDT -
Borrowed Time
Looking back after 65 years in this world.
—Mon Jul. 20, 2009 10:53 AM PDT -
Are Afghan Lives Worth Anything?
Mourning Michael Jackson, ignoring the Afghan dead…
—Tue Jul. 7, 2009 10:19 AM PDT -
The Ir-Af-Pak War
He may be remarkable in many ways, but Obama is also…
—Mon Jun. 15, 2009 10:10 AM PDT -
Redefining the World
A commencement speech for every graduate of the class…
—Tue Jun. 2, 2009 1:18 PM PDT -
The Pressure of an Expanding War
The early moves of the Obama administration—combined…
—Thu May. 21, 2009 11:39 AM PDT -
Everyday is Doomsday in Washington
In the Pentagon's eternal arms race of one, a major…
—Thu May. 7, 2009 10:24 AM PDT -
Questions to Ask in the Dead of Night
We forget the killings in Afghanistan easily, since…
—Thu Apr. 23, 2009 9:37 AM PDT -
Filling the Skies with Assassins
Unmanned aerial vehicles, pilotless surveillance,…
—Tue Apr. 7, 2009 2:17 PM PDT -
The A.I.G. of American Foreign Policy
Like our present financial bailouts, the new Obama…
—Tue Mar. 31, 2009 12:28 PM PDT -
A Second 9/11 in Slow Motion
Unlike 9/11, the economic crisis has produced no dust…
—Mon Mar. 23, 2009 9:34 AM PDT -
Addicted to Force, Addicted to Failure
In politics, it's well accepted that hawks are "realists…
—Tue Mar. 10, 2009 4:43 PM PDT -
The Dictionary of American Empire-Speak
Empire-speak can both shield us from global realities…
—Mon Mar. 2, 2009 10:15 AM PST -
Nobody Knows How Dry We Are
Burning questions on global drought.
—Tue Feb. 17, 2009 5:44 PM PST -
The Middle East and the Barbarism of War from the Air
Aerial warfare has always been essentially directed…
—Fri Jul. 28, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
Bush's Faith in Force and the Middle East in Flames
The efficacy of violence has been the most fundamental…
—Mon Jul. 17, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
The Bush Administration's Destabilization Policies
...in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, in the United States…
—Wed Jul. 5, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
Karl Rove's Gamble
He's betting that Americans will prefer to live in…
—Mon Jun. 26, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
War Porn and Iraq
Photographing war was the province of photojournalists…
—Wed Jun. 14, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
The Post-Zarqawi "Years"
How many more turning points in Iraq can the American…
—Mon Jun. 12, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
Collateral Damage: The "Incident at Haditha"
The tragedy is eerily reminiscent of My Lai—and…
—Wed Jun. 7, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
Post-Haditha Math
Talking points on a massacre.
—Wed Jun. 7, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
A Guided Tour of Class in America
Barbara Ehrenreich on the prey and the predators
—Mon Jun. 5, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
Proliferation Wars in the Intelligence Community
The Tangled Web of American "Intelligence"
—Tue May. 30, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
The Arrogance of American Power
Part II: Drifting down the path to perdition
—Thu May. 25, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
The Delusions of Global Hegemony
A critic of American militarism discusses the limits…
—Tue May. 23, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
Memorializing the Dead of 9/11
Reflections on a Billion-dollar Gravestone
—Tue May. 16, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
The Imperial City and the City of Slums
Part II: The Pentagon vs. Those on the Periphery
—Thu May. 11, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
Turning a Planet into a Slum
What the urban dumping grounds of the poor mean for…
—Tue May. 9, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
This Is Our Destiny
On bombing Iran and other fantasies of American power…
—Fri May. 5, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
Giving Bush a Pink Slip
Marching in New York City
—Mon May. 1, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
The Media on Speed
The editor of the Nation talks about trying…
—Thu Apr. 20, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
History Ambushes the Bush Administration
On the domestic and foreign fronts -- from…
—Mon Apr. 17, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
The Hyperpower Hype and Where It Took Us
The Bush administration bought its own spin after…
—Mon Apr. 3, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
Whatever Happened to Congress?
Part II: On Our Fading Republic
—Wed Mar. 22, 2006 12:00 AM PST -
On Our Military Empire
Part I: Cold Warrior in a Strange Land
—Tue Mar. 21, 2006 12:00 AM PST -
Iran and the Irrationality Factor
Connecting the Dots, Bush-Style
—Mon Mar. 20, 2006 12:00 AM PST -
Weaponizing the Shark and Other Pentagon Dreams
From the Annals of Full-Spectrum Dominance
—Tue Mar. 7, 2006 12:00 AM PST -
Iraq: The Precipice, the Brink, the Abyss
And Other Images from a No-Name War
—Thu Mar. 2, 2006 12:00 AM PST -
Bush's State of Exception
With the Bush administration, power trumps law and…
—Mon Feb. 27, 2006 12:00 AM PST -
War of the Quailhawks
How Cheney's hunting mishap puts the Iraq invasion…
—Tue Feb. 21, 2006 12:00 AM PST -
Can you say "Permanent Bases"?
The American media can't.
—Tue Feb. 14, 2006 12:00 AM PST -
The Weirdness of Bushworld
Reflecting on an action-packed week almost too absurd…
—Mon Feb. 6, 2006 12:00 AM PST -
The Global State of Disunion
What sort of empire are we?
—Mon Jan. 30, 2006 12:00 AM PST -
Bush v. Reality
War, Trials, Leakers, Investigations, Packed Courts…
—Thu Jan. 12, 2006 12:00 AM PST -
Iraq Air War: Where's the Coverage?
Don't expect to find it in the US media.
—Wed Jan. 11, 2006 12:00 AM PST -
The Unrestrained President
We now face a cult of imperial presidential power.
—Wed Jan. 4, 2006 12:00 AM PST -
The Political Folly Awards of 2005
An account of the festivities that caught the spirit…
—Tue Jan. 3, 2006 12:00 AM PST -
The Anthrax Attacks and the Costs of 9/11
Those powder-filled envelopes of October 2001 are…
—Mon Dec. 19, 2005 12:00 AM PST -
How the President Got A Life
Bush was a leader adrift.…
—Thu Dec. 8, 2005 12:00 AM PST -
How (Not) To Withdraw from Iraq
Making sense of the sudden post-Murtha hurricane of…
—Fri Dec. 2, 2005 12:00 AM PST -
The Fall of Bob Woodward
A reporter who once brought down one corrupt administration…
—Tue Nov. 22, 2005 12:00 AM PST -
Losing the Fear Factor
How The Bush Administration Got Spooked
—Mon Nov. 21, 2005 12:00 AM PST -
Ghosts of Vietnam and Watergate
Proving Worse as Facts Emerge
—Fri Nov. 18, 2005 12:00 AM PST -
"A Felon for Peace"
A former military officer and diplomat turned activist…
—Fri Nov. 11, 2005 12:00 AM PST -
White House Ethics Lesson
From the Hope Springs Eternal Department
—Thu Nov. 10, 2005 12:00 AM PST -
Bush's Wall of Shame
Honoring those who have blundered, lied, manipulated…
—Mon Nov. 7, 2005 12:00 AM PST -
A Case of Presidential Fraud?
At the heart of the case that brought us into this…
—Mon Oct. 31, 2005 12:00 AM PST -
Will the Bush Administration Implode?
Bush's October Surprise: A Critical-Mass Moment
—Wed Oct. 26, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Facing a Nameless War
For over two years now, we've been fighting a war…
—Fri Oct. 21, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Throwing Grenades in the Global Economic Cockpit
An Interview with Juan Cole (Part 2)
—Wed Oct. 19, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
The Treasure, the Strongbox, and the Crowbar
An interview with blogger and Middle East expert Juan…
—Mon Oct. 17, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
The Democrats' Urge to Lose
How do you help someone that doesn't want help?
—Thu Oct. 13, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Last One to Leave, Please Turn On the Lights
Experiencing Withdrawal Symptoms in Iraq
—Mon Oct. 3, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Our Imploding President
An Interview With Cindy Sheehan
—Thu Sep. 29, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Katrina and Cindy Blow into Town
Voices from this weekend's anti-war demonstration…
—Sun Sep. 25, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
The Presidency Shines
The Can-do Bush Administration Does...and the Presidency…
—Sun Sep. 18, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Corporations of the Whirlwind
The Bush-friendly companies that ate Iraq are preparing…
—Wed Sep. 14, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
The Mosquito and the Hammer
Columnist and author James Carroll on our post 9/11…
—Mon Sep. 12, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
The Outer Limits of Empire
An Interview With Howard Zinn
—Thu Sep. 8, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
New Orleans: Iraq in America
The Perfect Storm and the Feral City
—Mon Sep. 5, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Catapulting the Propaganda
The President, Cindy Sheehan, and How Words Die
—Mon Aug. 29, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
No Accountability, No Shame
Torture, detention without end, extraordinary rendition…
—Fri Aug. 26, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Is Iraq Vietnam on Crack Cocaine?
The hawks and neocons who first started us off in…
—Thu Aug. 25, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Bush's Summer-of-Cindy Reading List
A Besieged-in-Crawford Reading List for the President…
—Mon Aug. 22, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Cindy Sheehan's War
Cindy, Don, and George: On Being in a Ditch at the…
—Mon Aug. 15, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Chaos under Heaven: The Bush Administration's Not-So-Silly Season
On withdrawal maneuvers and other half-baked schemes…
—Mon Aug. 8, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
A Young Man's Death: What Have We Come To?
A letter catches something of the sobering spirit…
—Wed Aug. 3, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Stop, Thief!
Why can't John G.…
—Thu Jul. 28, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
The Media's Roving Eye
Connect some recent media "dots" to a few forgotten…
—Wed Jul. 27, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
The Spies Who Came In From the Hot Tub
The CIA's war on terror meets La Dolce Vita -- courtesy…
—Fri Jul. 22, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Boy President in a Failed World?
How the president's fantasy version of the world is…
—Mon Jul. 11, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Immoral Relativism and Other Distractions of the Age of Bush
When it comes to acts that are clearly wrong, Bush…
—Tue Jun. 28, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Withdrawal on the Agenda
What to make of the most recent proposals to pull…
—Wed Jun. 22, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Iraq as Vietnam
We've all gone down the rabbit hole in Baghdad and…
—Wed Jun. 15, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Bases, Bases Everywhere
Defense Department planning in Iraq, 2003-2005: It…
—Wed Jun. 1, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Crossing Nuclear Thresholds
The Bush administration is slowly, and quite consciously…
—Thu May. 26, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
The Return of the Body Count
The reality of Iraq bears next to no relation to the…
—Mon May. 23, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Politics in an Age of Fiction
While George W.…
—Wed May. 11, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Losing the American "Near Abroad"
What if the Cold War turned out to be a loser/loser…
—Mon May. 2, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Creating an Uncivil Society
The Bush assault on civil liberties and the most basic…
—Wed Apr. 6, 2005 12:00 AM PDT -
Xmas Between the Covers
'Tis the season, reach for your wallet.
—Fri Dec. 10, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Which War is This Anyway?
To what degree are American reporters destined to…
—Mon Nov. 29, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Draining the Swamp
The Iraqi people have not bought into what the Americans…
—Fri Nov. 19, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
The Carthaginian Solution
A collage put together from the eyewitness accounts…
—Thu Nov. 18, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Mapping the Election
A tour of the first post-election remappings of America…
—Mon Nov. 15, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
The Election Hangover of a Lifetime
A little over half of voting Americans voted for another…
—Wed Nov. 3, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
A Couch Potato's Guide to Election Night
The factors to consider as we turn on our television…
—Mon Nov. 1, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Osama's Surprise: bin Laden as Global Shock Jock
OBL has the instincts of a network programmer.…
—Sun Oct. 31, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Letters from the Home Front
Voices of Americans who have to deal with the fallout…
—Mon Oct. 25, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Aboard the Good Ship USS State of Denial
In the final run-up to the election, we're still inside…
—Mon Oct. 18, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Yellow Journalism
Anonymous sources, so beloved of our prestigious newspapers…
—Tue Oct. 12, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Withdrawal on the Agenda
The idea of withdrawal from Iraq—long tabooed in…
—Mon Oct. 4, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Xtreme Weather Meets Xtreme Media Bubble
It's quite possible there's a link between the Florida…
—Mon Sep. 27, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Creating Our Own Dream Enemy
Soon after the President declared Iraq "the central…
—Fri Sep. 24, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Are we in Saidad or Baghgon?
Iraq is, in a sense, Vietnam but transposed to the…
—Tue Sep. 21, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Incident on Haifa Street
The insurgency in Iraq has altered; U.S.…
—Mon Sep. 20, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
September 33rd
Many thousands all over the world have suffered, since…
—Mon Sep. 13, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Return to NORTHCOM
The power to crush, even to threaten to crush, is…
—Thu Aug. 26, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Unidentified Flying Words
Nine recent strange sightings from our bizarro world…
—Mon Aug. 23, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
War Words: Who's Writing this Stuff?
The media use language on Iraq that might have been…
—Thu Aug. 19, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Stories Missing from U.S. Media
A partial list of occupation/war stories that have…
—Wed Aug. 18, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
The Perfect Media Storm
Why should journalists be globally apocalyptic when…
—Mon Aug. 16, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Planning for World's End
In the Cold War, Americans, endlessly thinking about…
—Thu Aug. 12, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Hiroshima Story
With August 6, Hiroshima Day, in mind, the author…
—Thu Aug. 5, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Sovereign Iraq
Sovereignty, it seems, begins at home -- and home…
—Mon Jul. 26, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
The Way We Were
From ready-to-gamble visionaries to bunker-mentality…
—Wed Jul. 7, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
A New Pseudostate
What have we created in Iraq, and what does it say…
—Mon Jun. 28, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
The Strangeness of Our Moment
Can the U.S.…
—Fri Jun. 4, 2004 12:00 AM PDT -
Signs of the Times
Bush's wars may be global, but as this weekend's protests…
—Mon Mar. 22, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
After November...?
A quick leap into a future in which George Bush has…
—Mon Mar. 15, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Beltway Traffic Jam
Things don't look good for the Bush administration…
—Mon Mar. 8, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Imperial Fundamentals
Even now, the Washington unilateral strategists know…
—Mon Mar. 1, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Quaqmire World
Bush has a tougher campaign ahead than many pundits…
—Mon Feb. 23, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Justice a l'Orange
Trailing behind the Bush administration: a growing…
—Thu Feb. 19, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Iraqnophobia
Who's afraid of talking about the costs of this war…
—Mon Feb. 16, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Credibility Gap
Bush has reached a tipping point: the press is at…
—Thu Feb. 12, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Keeping Secrets
In the Age of Bush, information control has become…
—Mon Feb. 9, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Flushing Cheney
The veep's been shoved out of the shadows.…
—Mon Feb. 2, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Fly Me to...
Bush may have his eyes on the moon, but his ratings…
—Mon Jan. 26, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Shock and Sham
Anyone surprised by O'Neill's 'shocking' allegations…
—Tue Jan. 20, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Sad Times
The paper of record misses the boat.…
—Mon Jan. 12, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Empire of Lies
Iraq is slowly being pushed off the front pages, which…
—Mon Jan. 5, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Good Riddance
This was a miserable year for just about everyone --…
—Fri Jan. 2, 2004 12:00 AM PST -
Our Imperial Justice
American justice gets shipped overseas, and into a…
—Mon Dec. 22, 2003 12:00 AM PST -
Off the Script
Can the Pentagon's neocons survive any more missteps…
—Mon Dec. 15, 2003 12:00 AM PST -
Just Another Week
Outside the gated Green Zone, lawlessness reigns in…
—Thu Dec. 11, 2003 12:00 AM PST -
The Kill-Off
Bush's undercovered, devastating shock-and-awe campaign…
—Mon Dec. 8, 2003 12:00 AM PST -
The Neo-Imperialists
Bush's evolving empire goes well beyond devolving…
—Mon Dec. 1, 2003 12:00 AM PST -
The Scorecard
Grading the progress of Bush's various wars requires…
—Mon Nov. 24, 2003 12:00 AM PST -
Bush's Gated Community
In George W's clamped-down world, liberties are limited…
—Wed Nov. 19, 2003 12:00 AM PST -
Hothouse Shrub
Bush logic and the resistence to environmental reality…
—Mon Nov. 10, 2003 12:00 AM PST -
Everything's Private
Private contractors in Iraq might be the largest U…
—Tue Nov. 4, 2003 12:00 AM PST -
Mission Unaccomplished
Our leaders who spoke with one voice, now speak in…
—Thu Oct. 30, 2003 12:00 AM PST -
Holy Warriors
—Mon Oct. 20, 2003 12:00 AM PDT -
Holy Warriors
—Mon Oct. 20, 2003 12:00 AM PDT -
Washington Implodes
—Mon Oct. 6, 2003 12:00 AM PDT -
Missing Words
—Tue Sep. 30, 2003 12:00 AM PDT -
Some Silver Lining
—Mon Sep. 29, 2003 12:00 AM PDT -
Revenge of Reality
—Mon Sep. 22, 2003 12:00 AM PDT -
A Lost War
—Wed Sep. 3, 2003 12:00 AM PDT -
World Behind Bars
—Thu Aug. 28, 2003 12:00 AM PDT -
'Foreign' Logic
—Mon Aug. 25, 2003 12:00 AM PDT -
Losing Control
—Mon Aug. 11, 2003 12:00 AM PDT -
Embedded in Washington
When it comes to the mainstream media, embedded journalism…
—Fri Apr. 4, 2003 12:00 AM PST
Author's Blog Posts
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Afghaniscam
—Tue Nov. 17, 2009 3:20 PM PST -
Apocalypse Then, Afghanistan Now
—Mon Oct. 12, 2009 10:11 AM PDT -
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the Bomb
—Wed Oct. 7, 2009 11:15 AM PDT -
Why I Was So Wrong on September 11th
—Fri Sep. 11, 2009 1:56 PM PDT -
The Great Exception
—Mon Aug. 31, 2009 11:07 AM PDT -
Hiroshima and Me
—Tue Aug. 4, 2009 11:37 AM PDT
