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Engelhardt: More Torture, Less Impact
Znet Article, March, 05 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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The other day on Jerry Agar's radio show, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld responded to accusations about American atrocities at our prison in Guant...
Engelhardt: George's Inferno
Znet Article, March, 03 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Look at the polls. When Gallup's pollsters go out to ask Americans about the Bush administration and Iraq, they frame their questions this way: "Do you think the United Sta...
Engelhardt: War of the Quailhawks
Znet Article, February, 21 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Over a week ago, Vice President Cheney managed to put a couple of hundred pellets of buckshot into 78 year-old friend and Texas Republican Party builder, Harry Whittington. As the event turned into a national joke, edged with anger, and a late nig...
Engelhardt: Can You Say 'Permanent Bases'?
Znet Article, February, 14 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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We're in a new period in the war in Iraq -- one that brings to mind the Nixonian era of "Vietnamization": A President presiding over an increasingly unpopular war that won't end; an election bearing down; the need to placate a restive American pub...
Engelhardt: Another Bush Administration Week
Znet Article, February, 06 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Another Bush Administration Week
Engelhardt: Gorilla Empire?
Znet Article, January, 29 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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This Tuesday, the presidential State of the Union Address rolls around yet again. Only four Januaries have passed since the President used a State of the Un...
Engelhardt: Grown Up Screen Warriors
Znet Article, January, 20 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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In the 1940s and 1950s, when the generation of men now ruling over us were growing up, boys could disappear into a form of war play -- barely noticed by adults and hardly recorded anywhere -- that was already perhaps a couple of hundred years old....
Engelhardt: The Year of Living Dangerously
Znet Article, January, 12 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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2006 is sure to be the year of living dangerously -- for the Bush administration and for the rest of us. In the wake of revelations of warrantless spying by the National Sec...
Engelhardt: The Unrestrained President
Znet Article, January, 07 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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As 2006 begins, we seem to be at a not-completely-unfamiliar crossroads in the long history of the American imperial presidency. It grew up, shedding presidential constraints, in the post-World War II years as part of the rise of the national secu...
Engelhardt: The Political Folly Awards of 2005
Znet Article, January, 02 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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[Note to readers: Tomdispatch returns in the N...
Engelhardt: It Should Have Been Unforgettable
Znet Article, December, 18 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Imagine, for a moment, that someone had a finger on a pause button just after the attacks of September 11, 2001. That's not such a crazy thought. After all, most Americans watched the attacks and their aftermath on television; and, as coups de thÃ...
Engelhardt: A Signature Way of War
Znet Article, December, 14 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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From the destroyed Japanese and German cities of World War II to the devastated Korean peninsula of the early 1950s, from the ravaged South Vietnamese countryside of the late 1960s to the "highway of death" on which much of a fleeing Iraqi army wa...
Engelhardt: 'Gone Fishing,' How the President Got a Life
Znet Article, December, 09 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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The "usually disengaged" President, as columnist Maureen Dowd labeled him, had just returned from a prolonged, brush-cutting Crawford vacation to much criticism and a nation in trouble. (One Republican congressman complained that "it was hard for ...
Engelhardt: What, Me Torture?
Znet Article, December, 06 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Typically, when faced with a problem, the first thing Bush administration officials do is reach for their dictionaries to pretzel and torture words into whatever ...
Engelhardt: How (Not) to Withdraw from Iraq
Znet Article, December, 02 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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On the September 27th Charlie Rose Show, interviewing New Yorker editor David Remnick, Rose brought up the question of what the United States should do in Iraq. Should we "get out" -- or, as Remnick so delicately put it, should we "bolt"? Here was...
Engelhardt: American Ziggurats, Imperial Ruins, and Other Wonders of the Modern Age
Znet Article, November, 23 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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American Ziggurats, Imperial Ruins, and Other Wonders of the Modern Age
Engelhardt: From Woodward to Woodward
Znet Article, November, 22 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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From Woodward to Woodward
Engelhardt: Losing the Fear Factor
Znet Article, November, 21 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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It's finally Wizard of Oz time in America. You know -- that moment when the curtains are pulled back, the fearsome-looking wizard wreathed in all that billowing smoke turns out to be some pitiful little guy, and everybody looks around sheepishly, ...
Engelhardt: Woodward-gate
Znet Article, November, 17 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Two presiding deities -- and lively ghosts they are -- continue to hover over the present administration: Vietnam and Watergate. Though the competition between them is fierce, this week Watergate suddenly surged to the fore as the Washington Post'...
Engelhardt: The White House Ethics Lesson
Znet Article, November, 09 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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[Note: We are in such an age of extremity that perfectly sane people can mistake satire for reality. I've run into this before in my modest attempts at humor (with angry or confused letters to follow), and yet the absurd bubble-extremity of the Bu...
