Imperial Psychosis on Display By now, it seems as if everybody and his brother has joined the debt-ceiling imbroglio in Washington, perhaps the strangest homespun drama of our time. It’s as if Washington’s leading political…
Category: Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The End of Victory Culture, runs the Nation Institute’s TomDispatch.com. His latest book is The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s (Haymarket Books).
Washington’s Singular Accomplishment In the method, there is madness; in the comedy, nightmare; in the tragedy, farce. And despite everything, there’s still good news when it comes to what Americans can accomplish in the face…
A soldier from A Company, 1 Rifles is pictured facing the downwash of a departing Merlin helicopter during Operation Omid Haft near the town of Alikosi in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (Photo: POA(PHOT) Hamish Burke /…
George W. who? I mean, the guy is so over. He turned the big six-five the other day and it was barely a footnote in the news. And Dick Cheney, tick-tick-tick. Condoleezza Rice? She’s already…
It’s already gone, having barely outlasted its moment — just long enough for the media to suggest that no one thought it added up to much. Okay, it was a little more than the military…
[Note to TomDispatch Readers: Consider today’s post a stand-alone companion to my previous piece “Welcome to Post-Legal America.” And keep in mind that the offer of a signed, personalized copy of Adam Hochschild’s bestselling…
Post-Legal America and the National Security Complex Is the Libyan war legal? Was Bin Laden’s killing legal? Is it legal for the president of the United States to target an American citizen for assassination? Were…