Tom Engelhardt: Turning 74 in a Failing World
Three Failing Experiments? Mine, America’s, and Humanity’s. There was a period in my later life when I used to say that, from the age of 20 to my late sixties, I … Continue reading
W.J. Astore: Ending Wars, Not “Winning” Them, Should Be America’s Goal
Beware the tunnels you choose to go down (Wikimedia) . You can’t win wars that should never have been fought. The U.S. should never have fought the Iraq and Afghan … Continue reading
Sam Haselby: These should be the end times for American patriotism
Patriotism is the organising passion of modern political life in the United States yet its vitality defies obvious explanation. The country has no national education system. There’s neither compulsory military … Continue reading
Video: Glenn Greenwald with Tom Engelhardt
. . In this one hour video recorded on September 27, 2017 at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald talks about his work. Afterwards, … Continue reading
Betsy Hartmann: Climate Change and Privileged Despair
People can and do cooperate in times of environmental disaster and stress—why isn’t that part of the dominant narrative? Doomsday panic is as American as apple pie, though the precise … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Pentagon proposes using nuclear weapons against terrorists
The Pentagon’s new Nuclear Posture Review calls for dropping nuclear bombs on countries that harbor terrorists. The draft of the Pentagon’s proposed plan to “update” the United States’ nuclear weapon … Continue reading
Appellate Court Judge Janice Rogers Brown: Democracy Is Broken and Congressional Oversight is a Joke
A senior judge has today described American democracy as “broken” and Congressional oversight a “joke” in failing to check the US drone killing program. In a concurring opinion in the … Continue reading
Andrew J. Bacevich: What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss
24 Key Issues That Neither the Washington Elite Nor the Media Consider Worth Their Bother Donald Trump’s election has elicited impassioned affirmations of a renewed commitment to unvarnished truth-telling from … Continue reading
Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese: A Failing Empire
The United States is a failing empire: the domestic economy has fallen to a level equivalent to a developing nation for most of us while the stock markets, especially for weapons-makers, are … Continue reading
Michael Gregory: Battleship America
Most Americans, like most people in the world for the past hundred years, have lived with the threat of war hanging over them, or have been in actual combat. For … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: The Sweet Nostalgia for War
Donald Trump and the triumph of fantasy The other day, I walked across much of Manhattan Island on the street where I grew up. Once upon a time, in a … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: A 9/11 Retrospective — Washington’s 15-Year Air War
Bombs Away! Their Precision Weaponry and Ours. On the morning of September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda launched its four-plane air force against the United States. On board were its precision weapons: … Continue reading
W.J. Astore: The Many Purposes of War
Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military theorist who wrote at the end of the Napoleonic Era, is noted for saying that war is a continuation of politics. That saying explains … Continue reading
