Author: Tom Engelhardt

Tomgram: Engelhardt, War as the President’s Private Preserve

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch Tomgram: Engelhardt, War as the President's Private Preserve Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 5:19pm, March 11, 2012. The 0% Doctrine Obama Breaks New Ground When It Comes…

Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Arrival of the Warrior Corporation

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch Remotely Piloted War How Drone War Became The American Way of Life By Tom Engelhardt In the American mind, if Apple made weapons, they would undoubtedly be…

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Kicking Down the World’s Door

Tom Englehardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: Offshore Everywhere How Drones, Special Operations Forces, and the U.S. Navy Plan to End National Sovereignty As We Know It By Tom Engelhardt Make no mistake: we’re…

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Iran Through the Looking Glass

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Iran Through the Looking Glass Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 5:57pm, January 29, 2012. Tom Englehardt writes at The Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com: "Iranian Aircraft Carriers in the Gulf of Mexico…

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Superpower Adrift in an Alien World

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com "Obama's Mission Accomplished Moment? And a Military-First Policy on a Destabilizing Planet By Tom Engelhardt Here’s the ad for this moment in Washington (as I imagine it):…

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Lessons from Lost Wars in 2012

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: "It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact.  It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana.  It was to be “mission…

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Restless Planet

From Tomdispatch: "On the streets of Moscow in the tens of thousands, the protesters chanted: “We exist!”  Taking into account the comments of statesmen, scientists, politicians, military officials, bankers, artists, all the…

Tomgram: Engelhardt, The 1% Election

Sometimes words outlive their usefulness.  Sometimes the gap between changing reality and the names we’ve given it grows so wide that they empty of all meaning or retain older meanings that only…