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The Dictionary You Need

Of the Global War on You. Article by Tom Engelhardt.

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7/3/2013

The US Is Crawling With Informers and Agents Provocateurs

Like every such regime in history. Article by Todd Gitlin.

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6/28/2013

Secret Anniversaries of the Police State

What they celebrate, and don't pass on to us.

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3/29/2013

The Visible Government How the U.S. Intelligence Community Came Out of the Shadows

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12/17/2012

Monopolizing War? What America Knows How to Do Best

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9/15/2012

The Best Laid Plans

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8/28/2012

Sick of Being Occupied

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8/1/2012

To the Security-Industrial Borg

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7/21/2012

Is the US Run by a Military Junta?

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7/6/2012

The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties

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6/19/2012

The Assassin-in-Chief

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6/6/2012

The Golden Age of Covert Murder

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5/30/2012

A Shining Drone Upon a Hill

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5/16/2012

Panopticon Government

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4/6/2012

The 12th Anniversary of American Cowardice

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3/29/2012

Global Gangster

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2/28/2012

Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty

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2/7/2012

The Isolation of Iran

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1/25/2012

Decline and Fall

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1/5/2012

The Predator Drone Empire

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10/18/2011

Conning the Con Men

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9/27/2011

America’s Blowback Empire

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9/20/2011

Mr. Bloomberg, Tear Down That Building

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9/9/2011

The Imperial Mentality

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9/7/2011

The Pentagon’s Fake Jihadists

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8/24/2011

Is America’s War Fever Breaking?

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7/6/2011

O Holy Military, Bless Me as I Do Thy Will

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7/1/2011

Welcome to Post-Legal America

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5/31/2011

The Sickening Culture of the Imperial Court

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5/14/2011

Weapons of Mass Disruption

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2/18/2011

Bradley Manning Is a Hero

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2/12/2011

Pox Americana

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2/8/2011

The Eavesdropping Merchant of Death

Bill Hartung on Lockheed Martin and you.

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1/12/2011

1,180 Foreign Military Bases

Does the empire really have that many? Article by Nick Turse.

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1/10/2011

‘We’re #1, We’re #1′

The Mongols, that is. Article by William Astore.

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1/7/2011

Thirty Years of Oppression and Destruction

Tom Engelhardt on the most recent US interventions in the Middle East.

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1/6/2011

The American Empire Is Going Down

Here's how. Article by Alfred McCoy and Tom Engelhardt.

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12/6/2010

Cops Cop a Feel

It's the national security state in a nutshell.

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12/2/2010

When the American War State Goes Down

How old will you be?

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10/18/2010

The Struggle Over Pipelineistan

China is winning, and rightly so, say Pepe Escobar and Tom Engelhardt.

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10/13/2010

Gossip-Monger to the Governing Elite

Andrew Bacevich on the creepy Bob Woodward.

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10/2/2010

The Forever Fighters

Tom Engelhardt on the criminal gang of war.

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10/1/2010

Why Don’t They Love Us?

The benevolent, machine-gunning feds, that is. Article by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt.

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9/14/2010

How an Army Officer Went Straight

Andrew Bacevich awoke from the bloody dreams of war.

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8/28/2010

Should We Bomb Innocents, or Just Gun Them Down?

Tony Karon and Tom Engelhardt on the Iran war debate from Hell.

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8/25/2010

The Varicose-Vein Empire

Chalmers Johnson and Tom Engelhardt on sagging US imperialism.

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8/18/2010

Admirals and Generals Attack a Corporal

For telling the truth about a US war. Article by Tom Engelhardt.

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8/6/2010

Profligate Lunacy

Andrew Bacevich on the warfare state.

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7/30/2010

Big Screen and Recliner Imperialism

The predator drone sums up US foreign policy, says Tom Engelhardt.

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6/25/2010

Pragmatic Killing

Tom Engelhardt on Obamian wars.

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5/19/2010

America and the Dictators

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4/17/2010

Strange, Hmm?

Middle Easterners don't want armored aliens shooting up their countries.

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4/16/2010

The American Church Militant

It's the Pentagram. Article by William Astore and Tom Engelhardt.

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3/19/2010

Seven Days in May

Is the "defense" secretary dreaming of a military coup?

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2/2/2010

Authoritarian USA

Counterinsurgency war tactics are being used in our neighborhoods.

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11/19/2009

The Presidential Dictatorship

He can make war, spend, torture, occupy, spy without warrants, all in secret.

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10/19/2009

Wars of the World

Tom Engelhardt on Americans as the Martians of the 21st century.

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10/9/2009

Only the Government Army

Criminalizes changing your job. Article by Tom Engelhardt, Dahr Jamail, and Sarah Lazare.

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8/10/2009

Bringing Down Office Buildings, Homes, Schools, Hospitals, Temples, Churches

Of course, the "gooks" deserved to be nuked from a safe height, twice. Article by Tom Engelhardt.

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8/6/2009

Time To Liquidate the Democratic Empire

Chalmers Johnson and Tom Engelhardt on a 10-step plan.

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7/31/2009

How Dare They Resist the Empires?

British, Russian, American – even Macedonian and Roman – they've all hated the Pashtun. Article by Juan Cole and Tom Engelhardt.

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7/28/2009

A Life Against War

Tom Engelhardt on the face in the mirror.

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7/21/2009

The ‘Gooks’ of Afghanistan

Are their lives worth anything? Article by Tom Engelhardt.

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7/8/2009

The Vietnam-Era Draft Almost Wrecked the Military (Ha Ha)

But there is unrest in the volunteer legions too. Article by Dahr Jamail and Tom Engelhardt.

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7/1/2009

Barack’s Chief Enforcer

Tom Engelhardt on the bloodthirsty McChrystal.

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6/17/2009

Confronting the CIA’s Maze of Evil

Tom Engelhardt and Alfred McCoy on the heart of torture.

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6/12/2009

Forget ‘Terrorism’

The federal security apparat is far more of a threat.

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5/8/2009

Farewell, US Hegemony

And about time. Article by Andrew Bacevich and Tom Engelhardt.

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4/29/2009

The Empire Is Corrupting Our Language

The better to rule through lies. Article by Tom Engelhardt.

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3/2/2009

Tyrannical States Love Foreign Troops

Tom Engelhardt and William Astore on the US military.

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2/17/2009

Going Bankrupt for ‘National Defense’

Dismantle the empire, or wear a barrel. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Chalmers Johnson.

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2/3/2009

Five Questions for George Mitchell

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1/28/2009

Waltz With Bashir

Tom Engelhardt on the Israeli antiwar movie, now a graphic novel.

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1/26/2009

Yes You Can

Tom Engelhardt and Tony Karon on Gaza and Obama.

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1/23/2009

The Afghan Scam

Financial as well as military. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Ann Jones.

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1/12/2009

The Ponzi President

Tom Engelhardt on Bush the Destroyer.

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1/6/2009

Want To Constrain Terrorism?

Then stop promoting it, say Arundhati Roy and Tom Engelhardt.

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12/13/2008

The Imperial Transition

After the imperial campaign and before the imperial presidency. Article by Tom Engelhardt.

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12/9/2008

Deciphering the Afghan Debacle

Tom Engelhardt and Anand Gopal on the real Taliban.

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12/5/2008

The Obamacons

Will they murder Persians? Article by Tom Engelhardt and Robert Dreyfuss.

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12/3/2008

The Democratic Warfare State

Tom Engelhardt and Frieda Berrigan on the Pentabama.

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12/2/2008

A Truth-Telling State Functionary

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the unusual Lawrence Wilkerson.

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11/24/2008

Operation Predator

Tom Engelhardt and Tariq Ali on the bloody occupation of Afghanistan.

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11/17/2008

The Next Dear Leader

And the empire's long war. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Andrew Bacevich.

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10/31/2008

The US’s Iraq Desert

Tom Engelhardt: Archives Collaborators turn on their invaders. To the Security-Industrial Borg You're just a bug. Is the US Run by a Military Junta? It might as well be. The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties US criminality in Afghanistan. The Assassin-in-Chief The real nature of the US presidency. The Golden Age of Covert Murder Andrew Bacevich on the special-ops empire. A Shining Drone Upon a Hill The real US, far from being an example, is a killing machine. Panopticon Government And the American police state. Article by Tom Engelhardt. Global Gangster Andrew Bacevich on Uncle Sam. Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty Drones, death squads, and the US Navy will destroy it for everyone else. The Isolation of Iran It's a myth, says Pepe Escobar, which means the petrodollar is doomed. Decline and Fall Tom Engelhardt on the meaning of lost US wars. The Predator Drone Empire Nick Turse on Murder, Inc. Conning the Con Men Nigerian letters to DC. America's Blowback Empire Expect m

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10/24/2008

Grading Bush’s ‘War on Terror’

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10/22/2008

The Surge That Failed

An on-the-ground report by Anand Gopal.

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10/10/2008

Will the Election Matter?

Chalmers Johnson thinks so.

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10/8/2008

Third Front in the War of Terror?

Tom Engelhardt and Tariq Ali on the US invasion of Pakistan.

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9/17/2008

US Mass Murder

Tom Engelhardt on the war on Afghanistan.

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9/12/2008

The US Idol

Tom Engelhardt and Andrew Bacevich on the world's allegedly indispensable nation.

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9/10/2008

Imperial Planet

Tom Engelhardt on garrisoning the earth.

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9/5/2008

Apocalypse Later

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8/21/2008

Six Questions About That Federal Anthrax

Tom Engelhardt on regime WMD and regime lies.

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8/19/2008

Conservative DC

From the left, Tom Engelhardt and Thomas Frank on the horror.

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8/8/2008

Murderous Modern Times

Could the 21st century surpass the world-war-happy 20th?

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8/1/2008

The United States of Militarism

Good analysis of the real US (if not economically), from Tom Engelhardt and Chalmers Johnson.

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7/29/2008

Galloping Militarism

Tom Engelhardt and William Astore on the danger of all those tax-funded "warfighters."

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7/21/2008

The Wedding Bombers

Tom Engelhardt on US collateral murder.

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7/14/2008

Cheney Can Hold His Breath Until He Turns Blue

There will be no aggression against Iran, says Tom Engelhardt.

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7/10/2008

Surge Dirge

Tom Engelhardt on the militarist urge.

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6/30/2008

The Military-Industrial Stealth Complex

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the hidden merchants of death.

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6/25/2008

In the US Colony of Iraq

US military mega-bases finally make the news. Article by Tom Engelhardt.

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6/16/2008

Living in an Expeditionary World

Tom Engelhardt on his new book.

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6/11/2008

Militarizing Cyberspace

Your cyberspace. Article by Tom Engelhardt and William Astore.

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6/6/2008

Killing Spree

Tom Engelhardt and Chris Hedges on what it really means when the feds go to war.

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6/4/2008

‘Kill, Kill, Kill’

Tom Engelhardt: Archives Collaborators turn on their invaders. To the Security-Industrial Borg You're just a bug. Is the US Run by a Military Junta? It might as well be. The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties US criminality in Afghanistan. The Assassin-in-Chief The real nature of the US presidency. The Golden Age of Covert Murder Andrew Bacevich on the special-ops empire. A Shining Drone Upon a Hill The real US, far from being an example, is a killing machine. Panopticon Government And the American police state. Article by Tom Engelhardt. Global Gangster Andrew Bacevich on Uncle Sam. Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty Drones, death squads, and the US Navy will destroy it for everyone else. The Isolation of Iran It's a myth, says Pepe Escobar, which means the petrodollar is doomed. Decline and Fall Tom Engelhardt on the meaning of lost US wars. The Predator Drone Empire Nick Turse on Murder, Inc. Conning the Con Men Nigerian letters to DC. America's Blowback Empire Expect m

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6/2/2008

Lies About War

Tom Engelhardt, Christopher Cerf, and Victor Navasky on McCain's.

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5/30/2008

Garrison State, USA

Tom Engelhardt and Frida Berrigan on Bush's actual legacy.

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5/28/2008

The Real Security Threat

Tom Engelhardt on the US national security state.

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5/16/2008

Perpetual War

For perpetual power. Article by Tom Engelhardt.

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5/6/2008

Will Cheney Attack Asia?

That is how aggression against Iran will be seen, says Pepe Escobar.

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5/2/2008

The University of Imperialism

Chalmers Johnson on The RAND Corporation and the Rise of Imperialism, by Alex Abella.

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4/30/2008

The Real Matrix

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the Pentagon invading your life.

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4/25/2008

Cut and Run – Now

Tom Engelhardt on the one Iraq policy that makes sense.

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4/21/2008

Big Rock Murder Mountain

Tom Engelhardt and William Astore on how they learned to stop worrying and loathe the bomb.

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4/18/2008

Oops, Sorry We Killed You

Tom Engelhardt on the US war of terror.

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4/11/2008

Muqtada al-Sadr and the American Dilemma in Iraq

Tom Engelhardt and Patrick Cockburn on Petraeus's ghost.

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4/9/2008

The Ridiculous Surge

Tom Engelhardt and Ira Chernus on the failure of escalation.

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4/7/2008

The First Casualty

Tom Engelhardt on military disinformation.

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4/4/2008

Do Pentagon Killers Dream of Electric Bugs?

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on more diabolical weapons.

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3/31/2008

Destroying a City To Surge It

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz on the US attack on Baghdad.

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3/24/2008

The Military-Entertainment Complex

Nick Turse on the "golden age" of movie-militarist propaganda.

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3/21/2008

Counterfeit World

Bush's biographer should be Philip K. Dick. Article by Tom Engelhardt.

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3/17/2008

Visiting the Torture Museum

Tom Engelhardt and Karen Greenberg on understanding what the US is doing.

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2/22/2008

The Million-Year War

Tom Engelhardt on how never to withdraw from Iraq.

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2/20/2008

The Lost Kristol Tapes

Tom Engelhardt and Jonathan Schwarz on the new NY Times propagandist.

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2/15/2008

The Spectacle of Campaign 2008

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2/6/2008

Perpetual Guernica in Iraq

Tom Engelhardt on Bush's escalation.

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1/25/2008

Two Men, Two Legs

Nick Turse on remembering the victims of the US war on Vietnam.

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1/25/2008

Debt Is Sinking America

Chalmers Johnson on military Keynesianism and other evils.

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1/23/2008

An Imperialist Comedy

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1/19/2008

The Corpse on the Gurney

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1/18/2008

The $100 Barrel of Oil vs. the Global War on Terror

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1/10/2008

Yucking It Up for Imperialism and War

Tom Engelhardt and Chalmers Johnson on Charlie Wilson's War.

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1/7/2008

The Everyday Instruments of Empire

Tom Engelhardt and Greg Grandlin on death squads, disappearances, and torture.

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12/12/2007

Anti-Iranian Propaganda

Tom Engelhardt and Dilip Hiro on the warmonger frustrated, at least for now.

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12/7/2007

A Pentagon Construction Site

Tom Engelhardt on the future of Iraq.

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12/3/2007

Why Bush Won’t Leave Iraq

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz on his Catch-22.

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11/30/2007

Who’s the Enemy?

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11/13/2007

Go Imperial West, Young Man

Tom Engelhardt: Archives Collaborators turn on their invaders. To the Security-Industrial Borg You're just a bug. Is the US Run by a Military Junta? It might as well be. The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties US criminality in Afghanistan. The Assassin-in-Chief The real nature of the US presidency. The Golden Age of Covert Murder Andrew Bacevich on the special-ops empire. A Shining Drone Upon a Hill The real US, far from being an example, is a killing machine. Panopticon Government And the American police state. Article by Tom Engelhardt. Global Gangster Andrew Bacevich on Uncle Sam. Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty Drones, death squads, and the US Navy will destroy it for everyone else. The Isolation of Iran It's a myth, says Pepe Escobar, which means the petrodollar is doomed. Decline and Fall Tom Engelhardt on the meaning of lost US wars. The Predator Drone Empire Nick Turse on Murder, Inc. Conning the Con Men Nigerian letters to DC. America's Blowback Empire Expect m

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11/6/2007

The Antiwar Movement

Tom Engelhardt on where it is, and where it's going.

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10/30/2007

Iraqis as Animals

And US soldiers as big-game hunters. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse.

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10/27/2007

A Tissue of Neocon Lies

Tom Engelhardt and Chalmers Johnson on the intellectual justifications for the "war on terror."

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10/24/2007

Neocons Love Torture

And they love to write about it.

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10/22/2007

Ban the Bomb

Baseball and atomic. Article by Robert Lipsyte.

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10/20/2007

George W. Bonaparte

Juan Cole and Tom Engelhardt on pitching the imperial republic.

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8/24/2007

Escalation by the Numbers

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8/14/2007

Wall Streeters, Ivy League Profs, Mercs, Ad Men, Newsmen, Stunt Men, Burglars, and Con Men

Tom Engelhardt: Archives Collaborators turn on their invaders. To the Security-Industrial Borg You're just a bug. Is the US Run by a Military Junta? It might as well be. The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties US criminality in Afghanistan. The Assassin-in-Chief The real nature of the US presidency. The Golden Age of Covert Murder Andrew Bacevich on the special-ops empire. A Shining Drone Upon a Hill The real US, far from being an example, is a killing machine. Panopticon Government And the American police state. Article by Tom Engelhardt. Global Gangster Andrew Bacevich on Uncle Sam. Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty Drones, death squads, and the US Navy will destroy it for everyone else. The Isolation of Iran It's a myth, says Pepe Escobar, which means the petrodollar is doomed. Decline and Fall Tom Engelhardt on the meaning of lost US wars. The Predator Drone Empire Nick Turse on Murder, Inc. Conning the Con Men Nigerian letters to DC. America's Blowback Empire Expect m

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7/25/2007

What’s Really Happening in Iraq

And what you won't read in the MSM. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Dahr Jamail.

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7/13/2007

Planet Pentagon

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the US empire of bases.

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7/12/2007

Air Power Is Evil

Tom Engelhardt on carnage from above.

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7/10/2007

Lying-Central

Thus George Tenet. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Thomas Powers.

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6/29/2007

Surging Past the Gates of Hell

Tom Engelhardt on the numbers and Iraq.

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6/28/2007

Subverting Peace and Freedom

Tom Engelhardt and Roger Morris on Robert Gates and the CIA.

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6/26/2007

Blowback in Iran

For American detainees. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Karen Greenberg.

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6/19/2007

Them’s Fightin’ Words

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the rhetoric of the regime.

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6/13/2007

Why Iran Wants a Bomb

Tom Engelhardt and Dilip Hiro on preventing regime change.

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6/11/2007

Colonizing Iraq

Bush has always wanted permanent control, says Tom Engelhardt.

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6/8/2007

Imperialism Is Expensive

No state threatens the US, so it spends more and more on WMD. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Robert Dreyfuss.

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6/6/2007

The Age of Lying

Tom Engelhardt and Mark Danner on Bush's rhetoric for war and tyranny.

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6/2/2007

The Colossus of Baghdad

Tom Engelhardt on the imperial world, the US embassy.

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5/30/2007

How We Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Bomb

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5/23/2007

Arms Merchant to the World

Frida Berrigan and Tom Engelhardt on the military-industrial complex's export trade.

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5/22/2007

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

Chalmers Johnson and Tom Engelhardt on the inevitable.

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5/16/2007

Subverting the Superpower

Tom Engelhardt: Archives Collaborators turn on their invaders. To the Security-Industrial Borg You're just a bug. Is the US Run by a Military Junta? It might as well be. The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties US criminality in Afghanistan. The Assassin-in-Chief The real nature of the US presidency. The Golden Age of Covert Murder Andrew Bacevich on the special-ops empire. A Shining Drone Upon a Hill The real US, far from being an example, is a killing machine. Panopticon Government And the American police state. Article by Tom Engelhardt. Global Gangster Andrew Bacevich on Uncle Sam. Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty Drones, death squads, and the US Navy will destroy it for everyone else. The Isolation of Iran It's a myth, says Pepe Escobar, which means the petrodollar is doomed. Decline and Fall Tom Engelhardt on the meaning of lost US wars. The Predator Drone Empire Nick Turse on Murder, Inc. Conning the Con Men Nigerian letters to DC. America's Blowback Empire Expect m

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5/9/2007

Texas Chainsaw Massacre II

Bush's. Article by Tom Engelhardt.

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5/2/2007

The Sell-Out Democrats

Tom Engelhardt and Jeremy Scahill on funding two gov't armies.

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5/1/2007

A Global Virginia Tech

Tom Engelhardt and John Brown on massacres, private and public.

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4/26/2007

A Neocon Dictionary

Of the war on Iraq.

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4/18/2007

What the CIA Did to My Country

Behzad Yaghmaian on Iran.

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4/13/2007

What If Iran Invaded Mexico?

Noam Chomsky and Tom Engelhardt put the crisis in perspective.

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4/6/2007

Condi’s Free Ride

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3/31/2007

The Surge Has Been Defeated

Tom Engelhardt and Mike Davis on the weapon no one can stop.

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3/28/2007

Put it on a Billboard

Tom Engelhardt: Archives Collaborators turn on their invaders. To the Security-Industrial Borg You're just a bug. Is the US Run by a Military Junta? It might as well be. The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties US criminality in Afghanistan. The Assassin-in-Chief The real nature of the US presidency. The Golden Age of Covert Murder Andrew Bacevich on the special-ops empire. A Shining Drone Upon a Hill The real US, far from being an example, is a killing machine. Panopticon Government And the American police state. Article by Tom Engelhardt. Global Gangster Andrew Bacevich on Uncle Sam. Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty Drones, death squads, and the US Navy will destroy it for everyone else. The Isolation of Iran It's a myth, says Pepe Escobar, which means the petrodollar is doomed. Decline and Fall Tom Engelhardt on the meaning of lost US wars. The Predator Drone Empire Nick Turse on Murder, Inc. Conning the Con Men Nigerian letters to DC. America's Blowback Empire Expect m

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3/19/2007

Bush Plots Bloody Murder

Seymour Hersh exposes it, and no one notices.

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3/14/2007

Beware the Iraq Syndrome

Actually, beware the boomerang, say Tom Engelhardt and Ira Chernus.

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3/3/2007

Bush’s Future Iran War Speech

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2/26/2007

Surging Into Catastrophe in Iraq

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2/13/2007

Into the Abyss With George and Dick

Tom Engelhardt on Thelma and Louise imperialism.

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2/9/2007

Bombs Over Baghdad

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the secret US airwar in Iraq.

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2/8/2007

The New Investigation Season

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2/3/2007

Nemesis

She's at our door, say Tom Engelhardt and Chalmers Johnson.

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2/1/2007

Small-Town Soldiers

Tom Engelhardt on who's dying in Iraq.

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1/27/2007

Lying and Spying

Tom Engelhardt and Elizabeth de la Vega on the state.

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1/25/2007

The Big Non-Muddy

Tom Engelhardt and Adam Hochschild on the big push into the desert quagmire.

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1/22/2007

The Crusader’s Scorecard

Tom Engelhardt on George Bush, 2002–2007.

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1/20/2007

Surge and Dirge

Tom Engelhardt on Bush all alone in the dark.

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1/12/2007

Raptors and Robots

Tom Engelhardt and Frida Berrigan on the Pentagon's nightmare weapons of the future.

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1/11/2007

Planet Neocon

Tom Engelhardt and Robert Dreyfuss on stopping that world and getting off.

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1/5/2007

On the Imperial Path

Tom Engelhardt on what the emperor plans for 2007.

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1/3/2007

Good Evening, Vietnam

Tom Engelhardt on the Iraqi twilight.

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12/20/2006

A Christmas Guide to the ‘War on Terror’

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse are kidding (I think).

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12/15/2006

Daily Life Under the Occupation

In the Mesopotamian Hell. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Dahr Jamail.

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12/12/2006

Dictatorship USA

Tom Engelhardt and Karen Greenberg on unchained executive power.

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12/9/2006

More Troops, More Money, More Lying. More Time

None of it will work, say Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz.

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12/7/2006

That Rummy Memo

Tom Engelhardt on Don's last peep.

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12/6/2006

Baker to the Rescue!

Tom Engelhardt on how to stay in Iraq.

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12/5/2006

You Have the Right To Remain Silent

Tom Engelhardt and Elizabeth de la Vega on the indictment of George.

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12/1/2006

The People of the United States vs. George W. Bush

Tom Engelhardt and Elizabeth de la Vega on bringing him to court.

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11/28/2006

Daddy’s Boys

Will they extend the war?

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11/17/2006

The Empire Goes on the Defensive

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Klare on the meaning of Gates.

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11/15/2006

Apple Pie, Mom, and a Story for a Lost War

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11/14/2006

Millions of Dead

Tom Engelhardt and Doug Troutman on Veterans Day.

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11/11/2006

On the Beach

Tom Engelhardt on the outlaw empire and the wave.

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11/9/2006

Prison Planet

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the Bush regime as global jailor.

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11/3/2006

One Soldier Against the Empire

Move over, GI Joe, say Tom Engelhardt and Elizabeth de la Vega.

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11/1/2006

The Green-Zone Regime

Tom Engelhardt: Archives Collaborators turn on their invaders. To the Security-Industrial Borg You're just a bug. Is the US Run by a Military Junta? It might as well be. The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties US criminality in Afghanistan. The Assassin-in-Chief The real nature of the US presidency. The Golden Age of Covert Murder Andrew Bacevich on the special-ops empire. A Shining Drone Upon a Hill The real US, far from being an example, is a killing machine. Panopticon Government And the American police state. Article by Tom Engelhardt. Global Gangster Andrew Bacevich on Uncle Sam. Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty Drones, death squads, and the US Navy will destroy it for everyone else. The Isolation of Iran It's a myth, says Pepe Escobar, which means the petrodollar is doomed. Decline and Fall Tom Engelhardt on the meaning of lost US wars. The Predator Drone Empire Nick Turse on Murder, Inc. Conning the Con Men Nigerian letters to DC. America's Blowback Empire Expect m

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10/27/2006

The New Math and the Old Lying

Tom Engelhardt on numbers and death in Iraq.

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10/25/2006

Heck of a Job, Maliki

Is Bush about to overthrow his puppet Iraqi government? Article by Tom Engelhardt and Robert Dreyfuss.

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10/20/2006

The War Is Lost

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz on nine paradoxes.

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10/16/2006

George Bush’s War of the Words

Tom Engelhardt on Mission Unaccomplished.

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10/11/2006

Time To Impeach?

At least it's time to talk about it, say Tom Engelhardt and David Swanson.

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10/9/2006

A Libby Pardon for Christmas?

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10/5/2006

E-Corpses for the Pentagon

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Nurse on the military and myspace.com.

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10/3/2006

21 Questions for George

And other warmongers.

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9/29/2006

Permanent Bases and Permanent Prisons

Tom Engelhardt: Archives Collaborators turn on their invaders. To the Security-Industrial Borg You're just a bug. Is the US Run by a Military Junta? It might as well be. The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties US criminality in Afghanistan. The Assassin-in-Chief The real nature of the US presidency. The Golden Age of Covert Murder Andrew Bacevich on the special-ops empire. A Shining Drone Upon a Hill The real US, far from being an example, is a killing machine. Panopticon Government And the American police state. Article by Tom Engelhardt. Global Gangster Andrew Bacevich on Uncle Sam. Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty Drones, death squads, and the US Navy will destroy it for everyone else. The Isolation of Iran It's a myth, says Pepe Escobar, which means the petrodollar is doomed. Decline and Fall Tom Engelhardt on the meaning of lost US wars. The Predator Drone Empire Nick Turse on Murder, Inc. Conning the Con Men Nigerian letters to DC. America's Blowback Empire Expect m

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9/23/2006

The ‘Best and the Brightest’

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the actual contents of Bush's army.

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9/15/2006

The Real Link

Tom Engelhardt on Iraq and 9/11.

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9/14/2006

The Day That Changed Not Much at All

Tom Engelhardt and Ira Chernus on 911 and the cornered empire.

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9/11/2006

9/11 in a Movie-Made World

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9/9/2006

Talibanizing Afghanistan

Tom Engelhardt and Ann Jones on Bush's other failed war.

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8/29/2006

Among the Victims

Tom Engelhardt and Rasha Salti on life in Lebanon.

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8/25/2006

Seven Things You May Not Know About the Iraqi Disaster

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwarz on trying to make sense out of it.

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8/23/2006

Oliver Stone Is a Bushnik

Tom Engelhardt and Ruth Rosen on Stone's lying 9/11 movie.

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8/17/2006

Chaos Theory and the Middle East

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8/14/2006

Ex-Lebanon

Tom Engelhardt and Dahr Jamail on death and destruction.

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8/9/2006

The Regime Wants To Nuke Its Enemies

Tom Engelhardt on bunker-busting the nuclear taboo.

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8/7/2006

Getting an F in Counterinsurgency

Tom Engelhardt and Judith Coburn on Bush in Iraq.

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8/4/2006

Raining Death

Tom Engelhardt on air war.

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8/2/2006

Ex-Empire

It didn't work, say Tom Engelhardt and Jonathan Schell.

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7/27/2006

Torture USA

Tom Engelhardt and Karen Greenberg on the regime.

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7/21/2006

Being an Imperial ‘Defeatist’

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7/20/2006

Bush’s Faith and the Middle East

Faith in force.

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7/17/2006

The Destabilization Card

Tom Engelhardt on playing it at home and abroad.

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7/15/2006

Sexual Terrorism and Iraqi Women

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7/14/2006

The Scheherazade Strategy

Tom Engelhardt and Ira Chernus on Karl Rove's bedtime stories for Americans.

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7/8/2006

Bombs From Hell

Tom Engelhardt and Chris Ward on Pentagon fireworks.

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7/1/2006

‘History’ as a Tool of Imperialism

Tom Engelhardt and Andrew Bacevich on the misuse of American history.

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6/29/2006

The Green Zone Empire

Tom Engelhardt on the failing occupation, of Iraq and America.

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6/26/2006

On Not Giving Up

No matter what. Nick Turse interviews Tom Engelhardt.

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6/23/2006

Tom vs. the State Media

Nick Turse interviews Tom Engelhardt.

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6/22/2006

Permanent War

Tom Engelhardt and Robert Dreyfuss on the Iraqi insurgency and us.

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6/20/2006

The ‘Great Game’

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Klare on Iran and power politics.

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6/16/2006

War Atrocity Evidence in Iraq

Tom Engelhardt and David Swanson on what it means.

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6/15/2006

Suggestions for the Prez

As he blabs to the nation. Article by John Engelhardt and John Brown.

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6/13/2006

How To Watch the World Cup

Tony Karon on war by other means.

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6/9/2006

War Crimes Are Inevitable

Especially in wars of aggression.

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6/7/2006

Iran-Contra All Over Again

With many of the same creeps in power again. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Greg Grandin.

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6/2/2006

The Cuckoo’s Nest

Tom Engelhardt on the federal spyathon.

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5/31/2006

The Arrogance of American Power

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5/26/2006

The Mad Urge To Rule the World

Andrew Bacevich is interviewed by Tom Engelhart.

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5/24/2006

Dismantling Iraq

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz on what the regime is really doing.

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5/19/2006

The Billion-Dollar Tombstone

Tom Engelhardt on a monument to hubris.

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5/17/2006

Good Neighbor

Don Rumsfeldism in Latin America. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Greg Grandin.

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5/8/2006

Fantasies of Government Power

Tom Engelhardt on bombaphilia.

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5/5/2006

The Public Ideology of the Empire

Tom Engelhardt and Chalmers Johnson on peddling democracy.

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5/3/2006

‘Drop Bush, Not Bombs’

Tom Engelhardt at the huge, unpublicized antiwar march in New York.

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5/1/2006

Resigning From the State Department

To protest the drive to aggressive war. Article by Tom Engelhardt and John Brown.

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4/24/2006

Friendship With a Freer China?

Not exactly the US plan. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Michael Klare.

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4/20/2006

Ambushed by History

Tom Engelhardt: Archives Collaborators turn on their invaders. To the Security-Industrial Borg You're just a bug. Is the US Run by a Military Junta? It might as well be. The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties US criminality in Afghanistan. The Assassin-in-Chief The real nature of the US presidency. The Golden Age of Covert Murder Andrew Bacevich on the special-ops empire. A Shining Drone Upon a Hill The real US, far from being an example, is a killing machine. Panopticon Government And the American police state. Article by Tom Engelhardt. Global Gangster Andrew Bacevich on Uncle Sam. Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty Drones, death squads, and the US Navy will destroy it for everyone else. The Isolation of Iran It's a myth, says Pepe Escobar, which means the petrodollar is doomed. Decline and Fall Tom Engelhardt on the meaning of lost US wars. The Predator Drone Empire Nick Turse on Murder, Inc. Conning the Con Men Nigerian letters to DC. America's Blowback Empire Expect m

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4/17/2006

The CIA’s Car-Bomb University

Tom Engelhardt and Mike Davis continue their history.

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4/15/2006

History of the Car Bomb

Tom Engelhardt and Mike Davis on the poor man's F-16.

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4/13/2006

Defeat in Mesopotamia

Time to cut and run, say Tom Engelhardt and Robert Dreyfuss.

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4/7/2006

The Scene of the Crimes

Tom Engelhardt and Noam Chomsky on Iraq.

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4/5/2006

Hyperpower Hype

Tom Engelhardt on where it's led us.

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4/3/2006

Tools and Fools for the State

Tom Engelhardt and Mike Schwartz on why the media get the war wrong.

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3/29/2006

The Republic Totters

Whatever happened to Congress? Tom Engelhardt interviews Chalmers Johnson.

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3/23/2006

The Threat of Militarism

Tom Engelhardt interviews Chalmers Johnson, author of The Sorrows of Empire.

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3/22/2006

Insanity Defense

Tom Engelhardt on the threatened aggression against Iran.

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3/20/2006

Caged Monkeys for Bush

Tom Engelhardt and Orville Schell on being a journalist in Baghdad.

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3/15/2006

Shark and Awe

Tom Engelhardt on the Pentagon's push for "full-spectrum dominance."

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3/8/2006

The Torture Trail

From Guantanamo to Iraq. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Dahr Jamail.

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3/6/2006

The Unnamed War

Tom Engelhardt on why.

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3/3/2006

Torture and the Police State

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2/27/2006

The Tipping Point for Peace

In Vietnam, and Iraq. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Mark Engler.

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2/24/2006

The Quailhawks Go to War

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2/22/2006

The Crisis of the Republic

Goodbye to all that. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Jonathan Schell.

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2/17/2006

Evidence of Empire

Tom Engelhardt on the huge, permanent US military bases in Iraq.

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2/15/2006

Rubberstamp Congress Does Not Ban Torture

Tom Engelhardt and Alfred McCoy on the McCain fiasco.

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2/9/2006

Why Rove Will Fall

Tom Engelhardt and Elizabeth de la Vega on Bush's brain.

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2/4/2006

The CIA and the Bush Administration

Tom Engelhardt and Thomas Powers on that Risen book.

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2/1/2006

Our Client Army in Iraq

Tom Engelhardt and Gareth Porter on standing up, standing down, and balderdash.

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1/28/2006

The Rise of Political Islam

Tom Engelhardt and Dilip Hiro on why, and what it means.

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1/25/2006

Killing Civilians in Iraq

It's Vietnam all over again.

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1/23/2006

Kill the Indians Again

Tom Engelhardt and John Brown on the war on terror as a frontier war.

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1/21/2006

Peeping Prez

Tom Englehardt and Elizabeth de la Vega on on the notion that the president knows best.

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1/18/2006

Homeland Security Ate My Speech

Tom Engelhardt and Ariel Dorfman on the satiric reality.

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1/16/2006

Dangerous 2006

Tom Engelhardt: Archives Collaborators turn on their invaders. To the Security-Industrial Borg You're just a bug. Is the US Run by a Military Junta? It might as well be. The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties US criminality in Afghanistan. The Assassin-in-Chief The real nature of the US presidency. The Golden Age of Covert Murder Andrew Bacevich on the special-ops empire. A Shining Drone Upon a Hill The real US, far from being an example, is a killing machine. Panopticon Government And the American police state. Article by Tom Engelhardt. Global Gangster Andrew Bacevich on Uncle Sam. Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty Drones, death squads, and the US Navy will destroy it for everyone else. The Isolation of Iran It's a myth, says Pepe Escobar, which means the petrodollar is doomed. Decline and Fall Tom Engelhardt on the meaning of lost US wars. The Predator Drone Empire Nick Turse on Murder, Inc. Conning the Con Men Nigerian letters to DC. America's Blowback Empire Expect m

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1/13/2006

Murder From the Air

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz on US rules of engagement in Iraq.

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1/11/2006

War on Terror

Tom Engelhardt: Archives Collaborators turn on their invaders. To the Security-Industrial Borg You're just a bug. Is the US Run by a Military Junta? It might as well be. The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties US criminality in Afghanistan. The Assassin-in-Chief The real nature of the US presidency. The Golden Age of Covert Murder Andrew Bacevich on the special-ops empire. A Shining Drone Upon a Hill The real US, far from being an example, is a killing machine. Panopticon Government And the American police state. Article by Tom Engelhardt. Global Gangster Andrew Bacevich on Uncle Sam. Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty Drones, death squads, and the US Navy will destroy it for everyone else. The Isolation of Iran It's a myth, says Pepe Escobar, which means the petrodollar is doomed. Decline and Fall Tom Engelhardt on the meaning of lost US wars. The Predator Drone Empire Nick Turse on Murder, Inc. Conning the Con Men Nigerian letters to DC. America's Blowback Empire Expect m

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1/9/2006

Undoing Centuries of Struggle

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on repealing Magna Carta.

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1/7/2006

Deified Caesar

Tom Engelhardt on the cult of presidential power.

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1/5/2006

The Political Folly Awards of 2005

Tom Engelhardt passes them out.

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1/3/2006

Shoot the Moon

And forget the bell curve. Article by Elizabeth de la Vega.

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12/23/2005

A Bad Year for Goliath

How about David? Article by Tom Engelhardt and Rebecca Solnit.

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12/21/2005

Anthrax? What Anthrax?

Tom Engelhardt on suspicious federal behavior.

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12/19/2005

Killer Santa

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the warmmonger’s shopping list.

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12/17/2005

Those Democratic Freedom Bombs

Tom Engelhardt and Dahr Jamail on the secret air war on Iraq.

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12/15/2005

Disasters Are Federal Food and Drink

Tom Engelhardt on 9/11 and the Bush administration.

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12/10/2005

War Crimes Made Easy

Tom Engelhardt, Jeremy Brecher, and Brendan Smith on the presidential emperorship.

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12/7/2005

Leave! Stay! Stay! Leave!

The top 10 reasons for leaving (staying in) Iraq, by Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz.

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12/5/2005

The Iraq Withdrawal Frauds

And the real McCoy.

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12/2/2005

Yes, But They’re Our Islamo-Fascists

Robert Dreyfuss and Tom Engelhardt on nation building.

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11/30/2005

Imperial Ruins

Pompeii and Fallujah. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Jonathan Schell.

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11/24/2005

It’s About Time

Tom Engelhardt and Judith Coburn on the return of Watergate.

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11/23/2005

It’s Wizard of Oz Time

Tom Engelhardt: Archives Collaborators turn on their invaders. To the Security-Industrial Borg You're just a bug. Is the US Run by a Military Junta? It might as well be. The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties US criminality in Afghanistan. The Assassin-in-Chief The real nature of the US presidency. The Golden Age of Covert Murder Andrew Bacevich on the special-ops empire. A Shining Drone Upon a Hill The real US, far from being an example, is a killing machine. Panopticon Government And the American police state. Article by Tom Engelhardt. Global Gangster Andrew Bacevich on Uncle Sam. Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty Drones, death squads, and the US Navy will destroy it for everyone else. The Isolation of Iran It's a myth, says Pepe Escobar, which means the petrodollar is doomed. Decline and Fall Tom Engelhardt on the meaning of lost US wars. The Predator Drone Empire Nick Turse on Murder, Inc. Conning the Con Men Nigerian letters to DC. America's Blowback Empire Expect m

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11/21/2005

The Imperial Scribe and the Imperial Henchman

Tom Engelhardt and Elizabeth de la Vega on Bob Woodward and Lewis Libby.

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11/18/2005

Wagging More Dogs

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Klare on more wars to distract from presidential troubles.

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11/16/2005

A ‘Felon’ for Peace

Tom Engelhardt interviews former colonel and diplomat, Ann Wright.

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11/12/2005

We Had Correct Intel Before the War

We the peace movement, that is. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse.

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11/9/2005

Names on the Wall of Shame

Tom Engelhardt on allies for aggression.

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11/8/2005

The Empire Is Bad for Business

World hatred of the feds spills over onto American businesses. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Mark Engler.

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11/4/2005

The Resistance in Maysan Province, Iraq

First to Saddam, then to Bush. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz.

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11/3/2005

The Torture State

It's the presidential state. Article by Tom Engelhardt and David Cole.

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11/2/2005

The Criminal Conspiracy in the White House

Tom Engelhardt and Elizabeth de la Vega on Bush's war.

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10/31/2005

Smoking Guns and Red Herrings

An ex-prosecutor considers the Libby affair. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Elizabeth de la Vega.

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10/29/2005

The Secret Government Implodes

Tom Engelhardt on the last days of the cabal.

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10/27/2005

Should It Be Illegal To Name a Federal Op?

There's no exception in the First Amendment. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Steve Weissman.

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10/24/2005

Name That War

Tom Engelhardt: Archives Collaborators turn on their invaders. To the Security-Industrial Borg You're just a bug. Is the US Run by a Military Junta? It might as well be. The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties US criminality in Afghanistan. The Assassin-in-Chief The real nature of the US presidency. The Golden Age of Covert Murder Andrew Bacevich on the special-ops empire. A Shining Drone Upon a Hill The real US, far from being an example, is a killing machine. Panopticon Government And the American police state. Article by Tom Engelhardt. Global Gangster Andrew Bacevich on Uncle Sam. Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty Drones, death squads, and the US Navy will destroy it for everyone else. The Isolation of Iran It's a myth, says Pepe Escobar, which means the petrodollar is doomed. Decline and Fall Tom Engelhardt on the meaning of lost US wars. The Predator Drone Empire Nick Turse on Murder, Inc. Conning the Con Men Nigerian letters to DC. America's Blowback Empire Expect m

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10/22/2005

Casualties of the Bush Regime

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the treatment of those who told the truth.

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10/15/2005

War Story

Tom Engelhardt on books, movies, and more.

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10/10/2005

Will the Last American To Leave Iraq

Please turn on the lights?

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10/3/2005

An Almost Unimaginable Life

Tom Engelhardt interviews Cindy Sheehan.

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9/30/2005

Hurricane Cindy Shakes the White House

Tom Engelhardt on a very determined America marching.

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9/26/2005

Get Out Now

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwarz on the only policy that makes any sense.

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9/23/2005

The Missing Oil

Tom Engelhardt and Michael T. Klare on the Iraqi mystery.

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9/21/2005

The Destruction of the US Army in Iraq

Tom Engelhardt interviews James Carroll.

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9/12/2005

Military Resistance to the War

Tom Engelhardt interviews Howard Zinn on what can, and will, end the war most quickly.

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9/9/2005

Patriotic Pork

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the military-gastronomic complex.

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9/2/2005

Presidential Newspeak

And Cindy Sheehan's defense of truth.

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8/30/2005

Military Lawyers Opposed Torture

Bush civilians demanded it. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Karen Greenberg.

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8/27/2005

Iraq and Vietnam

The heartland experience. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Christian Addy.

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8/24/2005

When You’re Afraid To Leave Your Compound

A reading list for a besieged president, by Tom Engelhardt.

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8/22/2005

DC in Disarray

The administration, for the first time, faces an opponent who won't give in or give up, says Tom Engelhardt.

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8/15/2005

Mr. Rove, You Are Under Arrest

Tom Engelhardt and Elizabeth de la Vega on how to do it.

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8/12/2005

Poor Iranians

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz on victims of US imperialism.

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8/10/2005

The Global Struggle Against ‘Extremism’

Tom Engelhardt on chaos under Heaven.

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8/8/2005

An Immoral War in Microcosm

Tom Engelhardt and Chris Christensen on the death of a young man in Iraq.

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8/3/2005

Cheney Itching To Nuke

Tom Engelhardt and Jim Lobe on to plot to incinerate those who refuse to do US bidding.

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8/2/2005

Stop, Thief!

Tom Engelhardt on Roberts and the 2004 election.

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7/30/2005

Karl Rove and the Bomb

Tom Engelhardt and Jonathan Schell on the real meaning of the Plame affair.

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7/28/2005

The Spies Who Came in From the Hot Tub

Tom Engelhardt on the CIA's la dolce vita.

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7/22/2005

The Memo and the War

Mark Danner vs. Michael Kinsley. Article by Tom Engelardt.

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7/21/2005

Remembering the Other Dead in Iraq

The uncounted civilians. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Judith Coburn.

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7/18/2005

Lying to Teenage Recruits

It is standard operating procedure for the Deceitagon. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse.

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7/13/2005

The Malign Fictional World

Of the boy president. Article by Tom Engelhardt.

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7/11/2005

Robbing the Cradle of Civilization

Tom Engelhardt and Chalmers Johnson on US-enabled looting.

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7/8/2005

The Zarqawi Phenomenon

Is he real, or an invention of propaganda? Article by Tom Engelhardt and Dahr Jamail.

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7/6/2005

Dying for Your Country

Tom Engelhardt and Paul Loeb on what it means.

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7/1/2005

Immoral Relativists

Tom Engelhardt on the gang in charge.

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6/29/2005

An Amazing Turnaround

Tom Engelhardt on adding withdrawal to the national discourse.

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6/23/2005

Why the Memo Matters

Tom Engelhardt and Mark Danner on proof of government war crimes.

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6/21/2005

Good Morning, Iraq-nam!

Tom Engelhartdt and Jonathan Schell on what they're hiding.

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6/16/2005

Disassembling Freedom

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the Rummy Watch.

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6/4/2005

An Empire of Bases

Tom Engelhardt on where they are and what they mean.

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6/2/2005

Advice to English Majors

Work to change the regime. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Mark Danner.

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6/1/2005

Orbiting Nukes

Exterminate any people with a push of a button. Tom Engelhardt and Jonathan Schell on real proliferation.

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5/28/2005

Return of the Body Count

Tom Engelhardt on the metrics of losing.

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5/24/2005

The Life of an Unembedded Reporter

Tom Engelhardt and Dahr Jamail on living in two worlds.

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5/20/2005

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em

Nuke 'em. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Ira Chernus.

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5/18/2005

We Were Lied Into War

Tom Engelhardt and Mark Danner on the British smoking-gun memo.

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5/17/2005

Iranian ‘Nukes’

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5/16/2005

Politics in an Age of Fiction

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5/12/2005

The Renaissance of the Bomb

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5/4/2005

Convergence

Tom Engelhardt on parallels between the US and USSR.

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5/3/2005

Slave Army

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz on Bush's other Leave No Child Behind plan.

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4/28/2005

The Not So Super Superpower

Tom Engelhardt on the Iraq "uptick."

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4/26/2005

The Neocon Revolution

It's based on militarism. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Andrew Bacevich.

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4/23/2005

Making War Normal

Tom Engelhardt and Andrew Bacevich on the new American militarism.

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4/21/2005

The Real Estate Tsunami

A left-perspective on the bubble from Tom Engelhardt and Mike Davis.

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4/20/2005

How Will We Know VT Day?

Tom Engelhardt and Stephen Bodzin on victory in a never-ending war.

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4/19/2005

Armageddonism

Tom Engelhardt and Lisa Lambert on the ruling religion.

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4/18/2005

George’s Amazing Alphabet Book

Tom Engelhardt on the intel leak he got..

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4/13/2005

Blood, Oil, and Iran

Tom Engelhardt and Michael T. Klare take us behind the curtain.

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4/12/2005

Potemkin Elections

Tom Engelhardt and Mark Danner on the voting in Iraq.

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4/9/2005

Creating Civil Societies Across the World?

Just the opposite, say Tom Engelhardt and Jonathan Schell.

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4/7/2005

Drugs, Bases, and Jails

Tom Engelhardt on the administration's Afghan spring.

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4/6/2005

Merchants of Death

If you build it, they will kill. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse.

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4/2/2005

The First Casualty of War

Is truth, as always. Article by Tom Engelhardt and John Brown.

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3/31/2005

A Devil’s Dictionary

For the Bush era.

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3/29/2005

God’s Favored Empire?

Uniquely righteous, uniquely dangerous. Not a happy combination, says Tom Engelhardt.

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3/25/2005

Of Course There’s No Exit Strategy

Bushus Iraqus plans no exit.

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3/21/2005

Playing the Democracy Card

And other tricks. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Dilip Hiro.

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3/18/2005

Who Fears Chinese Prosperity?

Envious imperialists. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Chalmers Johnson.

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3/16/2005

Torture-iffic

Tom Engelhardt and Karen J. Greenberg on the legal war on terror.

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3/14/2005

The Manichean Crusade

Is it WWIV?

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3/11/2005

Pentagon Flopperoo

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz on why the military has failed, even in its own terms, in Iraq.

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3/7/2005

The Declining Superpower

Tim Engelhardt and Jonathan Schell on the soft financial underbelly of empire.

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3/4/2005

Middle Eastern Atomic Bombs

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3/2/2005

The Boy in the Bubble

Tom Engelhardt on Bush's Potemkin world.

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3/1/2005

The North Korean Bomb

Or does it even exist? Article by Tom Engelhardt and Gavan McCormack.

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2/25/2005

Rumsfeld’s Baloney

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the "defense" secretary.

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2/23/2005

The Funniest Lies for War

Tom Engelhardt presents the awards.

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2/22/2005

Another ‘Mission Accomplished’

Tom Engelhardt and Dilip Hiro on the new fault lines in Iraq, and America.

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2/17/2005

Village of the Living

Tom Engelhardt and Muzamil Jaleel on the war in Kashmir.

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2/12/2005

Winners and Losers in Iraq

Tom Engelhardt and Jonathan Schell on those elections.

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2/10/2005

Liberation Via Aerial Bombing

Tom Engelhardt and Dahr Jamail on what it's like.

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2/3/2005

Oppressing You for Your Own Good

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the homeland security state.

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1/31/2005

Tension in the Imperial Republic

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the homeland security state.

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1/29/2005

Bullets and Ballots

Tom Engelhardt and Dilip Hiro on the "elections."

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1/27/2005

All Hail the State?

Tom Engelhardt on the sickening sycophancy of the press.

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1/25/2005

The Empire of Torture

A "homeland" self-portrait from Tom Engelhardt and Jonathan Schell.

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1/21/2005

Too Long in the Desert Sun

Tom Engelhardt on neocon balminess.

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1/18/2005

Destroying a City To Save It

For the military-industrial complex, that is. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz.

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1/15/2005

Solipsistic US

Tom Engelhardt and Renato Constantino on tsunami hypocrisy and war.

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1/13/2005

Questions for Donald Rumsfeld

And here's your hood, Don. Article by Tom Engelhardt, Karen J. Greenberg, and Joshua L. Dratel.

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1/11/2005

Devastation Liberation

A non-embedded reporter looks at Iraq. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Dahr Jamail.

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1/8/2005

Gulag, USA

Tom Engelhardt on secret federal Devil's islands.

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1/6/2005

A History of ‘GI Joe’

What a war toy tells us about state killing and us.

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12/20/2004

America’s Fallujan Dystopia

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz on the meaning of pacification.

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12/18/2004

Electoral Fear Factor

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12/15/2004

Giving the Gift of War

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the military-industrial complex.

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12/13/2004

Air Power = Mass Murder

Tom Engelhardt on the bombing of cities.

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12/6/2004

Is the ‘Iranian Bomb’ a Cover?

For good, old-fashioned imperialism? Article by Tom Engelhardt and Dilip Hilo.

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12/3/2004

Which War Is This Anyway?

Tom Engelhardt is wondering.

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12/1/2004

Neocon Intelligence

Tom Engelhardt and Chalmers Johnson on the funny and chilling maneuvers.

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11/25/2004

Lying High and Low

Tom Engelhardt and Michael Massing on Iraq, the press, and the election.

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11/23/2004

On Iraqifying the Quagmire

Tom Engelhardt on the latest installment of the cakewalk.

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11/20/2004

The Carthaginian Solution

Tom Engelhardt on Fallujah.

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11/19/2004

The Missing Voices of Our World

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11/16/2004

Four Times Falluja Equals?

Tom Engelhardt and Mark LeVine on the future of the occupation.

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11/12/2004

Putting Fallujah to the Torch

Tom Engelhardt and Dilip Hiro on the eve of the sacking of a city.

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11/8/2004

A Blowback World

Tom Engelhardt and Chalmers Johnson on the CIA.

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11/6/2004

A Couch Potato’s Guide

To election night, by Tom Engelhardt.

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11/2/2004

Global Shock Jock

Tom Engelhardt on Osama.

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11/1/2004

A Political Empire of TV Stations

Tom Engelhardt and Jay Rosen on Sinclair-Clear Channel.

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10/29/2004

Letters From the Homefront

Tom Engelhardt on what mothers think of this war.

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10/26/2004

Bin Laden’s Illusions

And ours. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Jonathan Schell.

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10/25/2004

Costs of War

A mother's view of her son's Iraq. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Terri Wills Allison.

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10/21/2004

Captain America

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on sci-fi and the military-industrial complex.

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10/16/2004

George Bush, President of Mexico

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10/14/2004

Imperial Media

Tom Engelhardt on yellow journalism in DC.

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10/12/2004

Withdrawal on the Agenda

US troops are the war; they have to go.

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10/5/2004

Message to Kerry and Edwards

Help is not on the way. Article by Tom Engelhardt and Bruno Giussani.

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9/30/2004

US Out of Iraq

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9/23/2004

Are We in Saidad or Baghgon?

Tom Englehardt on the Pentagon's sci-fi war of the world.

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9/22/2004

Incident From Haifa Street

Tom Englehardt on what's really happening.

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9/21/2004

Hegemony or Survival

That is our choice, say Tom Englehardt and Noam Chomsky.

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9/18/2004

Electing the Pentagon’s Man

Tom Englehardt and Chalmers Johnson on real American politics.

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9/15/2004