Our new language of perpetual war
From "victory" to "withdrawal," we look at nine words that have been redefined to justify our military actions
Thursday, Jun 23, 2011 9:01 PM UTC 12Politics War Room
Tom Engelhardt
Politics War Room
How our irrational fear of terrorism is costing us
We waste more and more on national security. Why won't the government spend money fighting more pressing dangers?
Thursday, Jun 9, 2011 4:01 PM UTC 22Politics National security, War Room
There is no rule of law in America
In our nation of torture, assassinations and foreign invasions, the question of legality has become obsolete
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 5:01 PM UTC 31Politics National security, War Room
Why can’t we learn from our mistakes in Afghanistan?
When it comes to our endless occupation, the same depressing story lines keep playing out again and again
Thursday, May 19, 2011 9:01 PM UTC 11Politics Afghanistan, War Room
Osama bin Laden’s American legacy
The terrorist mastermind may be dead, but the two senseless wars we're waging against him live on
Thursday, May 5, 2011 5:01 PM UTC 21Politics Osama Bin Laden, War Room
Why China may not be No. 1
The country's brewing domestic issues could easily overwhelm its imperial ambitions
Monday, May 2, 2011 8:30 PM UTC 14Politics China, War Room
Sleepwalking into the imperial dark
America today: What it feels like when a superpower runs off the tracks
Tuesday, Apr 19, 2011 9:01 PM UTC 39Politics U.S. Economy, War Room, Iran, Iraq
The worst that could happen in Japan
What's missing in the media's Fukushima coverage? Thinking the unthinkable
Tuesday, Mar 22, 2011 9:15 PM UTC 34Politics Nuclear Power, War Room, Japan
Taking the “war” out of air war
What US air power is actually doing in the War on Terror
Thursday, Mar 17, 2011 5:30 PM UTC 24Politics Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Iraq
What our Secretaries of Defense keep getting wrong
Gates still doesn't understand the real mistake we made in Afghanistan and Iraq: sending troops in at all
Monday, Mar 7, 2011 7:20 PM UTC 21Politics Robert Gates, War Room
All-American decline in a new world
5 ways Washington is oblivious to the changing realities of the Middle East
Thursday, Feb 24, 2011 4:25 PM UTCPolitics Afghanistan, War Room
The easy way to cut $100 billion
Serious about fixing our budget woes? Then it's time to defund the unwinnable disaster in Afghanistan
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 5:10 PM UTC 23Politics Afghanistan, Barack Obama
Pox Americana
Why we shouldn't date the end of the Cold War to 1991 in Eastern Europe, but to 2011 in the Middle East
Monday, Feb 7, 2011 7:01 PM UTC 12Politics Egyptian Protests
In the crosshairs
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan go underreported even as the nation mourns victims of the Loughner shooting
Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011 9:01 PM UTC 28News Afghanistan, Jared Loughner
What American casualties in Afghanistan?
After one of the war's bloodiest months, our mounting military dead are more invisible than ever
Wednesday, Dec 8, 2010 1:20 AM UTC 34News Afghanistan War Logs
How our “security” obsession costs us
As the TSA feels you up and dresses you down, terrorists are tearing a hole in a new target: The U.S. economy
Tuesday, Nov 30, 2010 10:01 PM UTC 48News National security, Terrorism
Suffering from the ballot box blues
Today, I cast my vote in the most dispiriting election of my lifetime
Tuesday, Nov 2, 2010 8:30 PM UTC 24News 2010 Elections
Handicapping the global midterms
Future looks bright for the Taliban and China, but prospects are dim for Obama and the American economy
Wednesday, Oct 27, 2010 1:01 AM UTC 14News Foreign policy, China, Iran, Iraq
Are we ever leaving Afghanistan?
By 2016, U.S. forces may drop to below 68,000, but they won't dwindle to zero any time soon
Friday, Oct 1, 2010 1:01 AM UTC 37News Afghanistan, U.S. Military
One and a half cheers for American decline
The future is not ours -- and that's good news. Losing our world power status will let us focus on problems at home
Tuesday, Sep 21, 2010 5:01 PM UTC 59News U.S. Military, Afghanistan
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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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