America’s dirty wars exposed
Jeremy Scahill's new book examines our newly militarized CIA and the blowback it's inspiring around the world
Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 4:16 PM UTCEntertainment TomDispatch.com, CIA
Tom Engelhardt
Entertainment TomDispatch.com, CIA
America’s imaginary homeland threats
North Korea is the latest country to be slapped with the dubious enemy label, regardless of the danger it presents
Monday, Apr 15, 2013 12:43 PM UTCPolitics TomDispatch.com, North Korea
America’s many blood-soaked anniversaries
Hiroshima. My Lai. The Iraq War. There are almost too many to count
Thursday, Mar 28, 2013 2:05 PM UTCPolitics TomDispatch.com, Hiroshima
Climate change is our most difficult issue
Why doesn't anybody seem to care?
Monday, Mar 4, 2013 12:31 PM UTC 54Politics Climate Change, TomDispatch
America’s idiotic drone gamble
The military has kept a Saudi base under wraps for two years. Given its success in the region, it's no wonder why
Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013 6:08 PM UTCPolitics TomDispatch.com, Drones
Drone strikes are “legal” because the government says so
The DOJ's new justification for attacks on U.S. citizens is just the latest proof we live in a lockdown state
Tuesday, Feb 5, 2013 4:54 PM UTCPolitics TomDispatch.com, Drones
The Pentagon: The global NRA
Obama has pledged to curb the sale of assault weapons at home, but how will he address American violence abroad?
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 2:38 PM UTCPolitics TomDispatch.com, Newtown
National Intelligence Council: U.S. is a “global security provider”
The center's new "Global Trends 2030" offers a predictably myopic view of America's future place in the world
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 3:32 PM UTCNews TomDispatch.com, Global Trends
U.S. Intelligence emerges from the shadows
America's covert wars continue, but on a far grander scale than we ever could have imagined a generation ago
Monday, Dec 17, 2012 5:35 PM UTCPolitics TomDispatch.com
Dear Barack: Stop terrorizing the planet
An open letter to the president to end his lethal -- and ever-expanding -- drone wars
Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012 3:14 PM UTC 19Politics TomDispatch.com, Mitt Romney
Petraeus: American decline writ small
The former general was once billed as the man who could save Iraq. Maybe that's why his downfall feels so symbolic
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012 3:15 PM UTCPolitics Iraq, Afghanistan, David Petraeus
Four more years — of gridlock!
Six billion dollars of campaign spending later, America is right back where it started
Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012 3:21 PM UTCPolitics Mitt Romney, Barack Obama
America’s supersized elections
The debate cycle has mercifully come to a close, but campaign big business is here to stay -- democracy be damned
Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 2:18 PM UTCPolitics Mitt Romney, Barack Obama
Humbled giant
The fall of the Soviet Union left the U.S. the last military superpower. Where did it all go so wrong?
Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012 3:10 PM UTC 33Politics U.S. Military, Libya, Cold War
Obama’s true challenge: Foreign policy, not Mitt
Can the president make it to the election without a catastrophic October surprise?
Monday, Sep 24, 2012 1:12 PM UTCPolitics Democratic Party, Mitt Romney
America’s war monopoly
The US is involved in military operations in countries you'd never expect. Further proof that war's what we do best
Thursday, Sep 13, 2012 1:42 PM UTC 10Politics TomDispatch.com, Iran, Yemen
Losing in Afghanistan
The U.S. plans to withdraw troops by the end of 2014, but it's likely to occupy the country for years to come
Monday, Aug 27, 2012 2:48 PM UTCPolitics TomDispatch, Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s escalating violence
The American mission in Afghanistan failed years ago. We've just refused to notice
Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012 10:59 PM UTC 12Politics TomDispatch, Afghanistan
The outrageous economics of maintaining classified information
And lack of transparency probably doesn't make you any safer
Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 8:47 PM UTC 14Politics TomDispatch, National security
Washington’s default military solution
What Washington can't learn from the failure of the Military option
Thursday, Jul 5, 2012 2:30 PM UTC 17Politics Government, Washington, D.C.
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Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project, runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. He is the author of "The End of Victory Culture," a history of the Cold War and beyond, as well as of a novel, "The Last Days of Publishing." He also edited "The World According to TomDispatch:
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