Articles by Tom Engelhardt

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It’s a $cam!

The American way of war.

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11/13/2015

You Swim, They Phish

Tom Englehardt on the last commencement address.

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5/30/2014

Thug State

Tom Englehardt on how it operates.

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2/21/2014

The Dictionary You Need

Of the Global War on You.

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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

They seek to control the whole world.

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12/17/2012

Monopolizing War? What America Knows How to Do Best

Killing people en masse.

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9/15/2012

The Best Laid Plans

It can’t trust its paid collaborators.

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8/28/2012

Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad

Alfred McCoy on the routine American use of torture.

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8/15/2012

Sick of Being Occupied

Collaborators turn on their invaders.

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8/1/2012

To the Security-Industrial Borg

You're just a bug.

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7/21/2012

Is the US Run by a Military Junta?

It might as well be.

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7/6/2012

The Deliberate Murdering of Wedding Parties

US criminality in Afghanistan.

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6/19/2012

The Assassin-in-Chief

The real nature of the US presidency.

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6/6/2012

The Golden Age of Covert Murder

Andrew Bacevich on the special-ops empire.

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5/30/2012

A Shining Drone Upon a Hill

The real US, far from being an example, is a killing machine.

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5/16/2012

Panopticon Government

And the American police state. Article by Tom Engelhardt.

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4/6/2012

The 12th Anniversary of American Cowardice

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

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3/29/2012

Global Gangster

Andrew Bacevich on Uncle Sam.

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2/28/2012

Only the US Will Have National Sovereignty

Drones, death squads, and the US Navy will destroy it for everyone else.

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2/7/2012

The Isolation of Iran

It's a myth, says Pepe Escobar, which means the petrodollar is doomed.

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1/25/2012

Decline and Fall

Tom Engelhardt on the meaning of lost US wars.

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1/5/2012

The Predator Drone Empire

Nick Turse on Murder, Inc.

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10/18/2011

Conning the Con Men

Nigerian letters to DC.

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9/27/2011

America’s Blowback Empire

Expect more criminal wars and colonization in the Middle East, says Nick Turse.

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9/20/2011

Mr. Bloomberg, Tear Down That Building

Tom Engelhardt on the creepy "Freedom Tower" and the whole 9/11 religion.

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9/9/2011

The Imperial Mentality

From the left, Noam Chomsky on 09/11/01.

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9/7/2011

The Pentagon’s Fake Jihadists

Tom Engelhardt on what the GWOT is really all about.

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8/24/2011

Is America’s War Fever Breaking?

A decade after our most recent descent into madness, the possibility of recovery beckons, says Andrew Bacevich.

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7/6/2011

O Holy Military, Bless Me as I Do Thy Will

Tom Engelhardt on Obama's obeisance to the Pentagon junta.

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7/1/2011

Welcome to Post-Legal America

Tom Engelhardt on US authoritarianism.

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5/31/2011

The Sickening Culture of the Imperial Court

And its endless killing. Article by William Astore.

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5/14/2011

Weapons of Mass Disruption

Non-violent protest has the potential to strangle even the most brutal regime, says Michael Schwartz.

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2/18/2011

Bradley Manning Is a Hero

Yet the alleged WikiLeaks informant is being tortured in a cage.

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2/12/2011

Pox Americana

Tom Engelhardt on the real nature of the empire.

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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