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Tom Engelhardt

China
A Modest Proposal for Trump: End Trade War & Maybe China will Build you a Wall (They have Experience)

A Modest Proposal for Trump: End Trade War & Maybe China will Build you a Wall (They have Experience)

Tom Engelhardt

Admittedly, you continue to claim that your wall is already being built, but of course it is not

Donald Trump
An Obituary for the Republic:  Hail the Tweetocracy

An Obituary for the Republic: Hail the Tweetocracy

Tom Engelhardt

They applied their Roman-style vision of an imperial America to the actual world

Afghanistan
When America loses the Forgotten Afghanistan War, will it Leave the US Broken?

When America loses the Forgotten Afghanistan War, will it Leave the US Broken?

Tom Engelhardt

Like the Red Army, the U.S. military will finally leave that country in defeat and will bring that defeat home with them.

Climate Change
Climate Sabotage & Forever Wars: Is America the Most Dangerous Country in the World?

Climate Sabotage & Forever Wars: Is America the Most Dangerous Country in the World?

Tom Engelhardt

On Climate Change, quagmire seems like an appropriate image, as long as we keep in mind that we are the aggressors.

Donald Trump
Why does the MSM let Trump set the News Agenda, Every Minute of Every Day?

Why does the MSM let Trump set the News Agenda, Every Minute of Every Day?

Tom Engelhardt

And why so little reporting on the 50 US bases in the Middle East?

Donald Trump
The Trump Show:  The Real Fake News is obsessing about the President 24/7

The Trump Show: The Real Fake News is obsessing about the President 24/7

Tom Engelhardt

Never, not ever, has a single human being been so inescapable.

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: America's Longest Forgotten War Turns a grim 17

Afghanistan: America’s Longest Forgotten War Turns a grim 17

Tom Engelhardt

(Tomdispatch.com) | – We’re already two years past the crystal anniversary and eight years short of the silver one, or at least we would be, had it been a wedding — and, after a fashion, perhaps it was. On October 7, 2001, George W. Bush launched the invasion — “liberation” was the word often used […]

National Security State
How the Neocons' 'New American Century' Crashed and Burned

How the Neocons’ ‘New American Century’ Crashed and Burned

Tom Engelhardt

(Tomdispatch.com) – When you think about it, Earth is a relatively modest-sized planet — about 25,000 miles in circumference at the Equator, with a total surface area of 197 million square miles, almost three-quarters of which is water. It’s not so hard, if you’re in a certain frame of mind (as American officials were after […]

Afghanistan
Our Thirty Years War of the 21st Century

Our Thirty Years War of the 21st Century

Tom Engelhardt

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Fair warning. Stop reading right now if you want, because I’m going to repeat myself. What choice do I have, since my subject is the Afghan War (America’s second Afghan War, no less)? I began writing about that war in October 2001, almost 17 years ago, just after the U.S. invasion […]

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