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Engelhardt: Fly Me to the Moon
Znet Article, January, 26 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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I was one of those space kids of the 1950s. An only child, bored with my life, I spent an inordinate amount of time off in space in every sense. I still wonder where those little platforms with steering mechanisms powered by jetpacks are -- the on...
Engelhardt: Note on the Political Season
Znet Article, January, 26 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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At the Commondreams website there is a remarkable new poll to be published in Newsweek, 1/26. After two months of a polling wasteland w...
Engelhardt: Fly Me to the Moon
Znet Article, January, 26 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Fly Me to the Moon
Engelhardt: Words Must Be Credible
Znet Article, January, 22 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Picking up the New York Times, my hometown newspaper, the morning after the President delivered his State of the Union address, I immediately noted the half-page headline: "Bush, Somber and Determined, Stresses War Against Terror." Somber and De...
Engelhardt: Shock and Sham
Znet Article, January, 18 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Life in Bush's America, or more dead ducks: "Vice President Dick Cheney...
Engelhardt: Shock and Sham
Znet Article, January, 18 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Shock and Sham
Engelhardt: The opposite of Pax Americana is...
Znet Article, January, 13 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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The other day I wrote a dispatch in part about a new U.S. intelligence term, "extraordinary rendition," applied when our agents turn a "person of interest" (read: terrorist suspect) over to some friendly, or less than friendly, country ready to pu...
Engelhardt: My Hometown Paper
Znet Article, January, 11 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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This was no less evident at the Times in its week's end coverage of former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's revelations in The Price of Loyalty, a new book by Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind. O'Neill claimed that the president in meeting...
Engelhardt: My Hometown Paper
Znet Article, January, 11 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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My Hometown Paper
Engelhardt: Stealth Administration
Znet Article, January, 09 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Bill Berkowitz, columnist for the Working for Change website, recently began a piece, Whither America's homegrown terrorists, with a description of the last couple of weeks of panic a...
Engelhardt: Just Disconnect
Znet Article, January, 04 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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And if, perchance, you wanted to read an investigative report on -- ho-hum, another Vietnam-ish topic -- the way we may be setting up a mini-version of the CIA's infamous and murderous Vietnam-era Phoenix Program in Iraq, you would naturally turn ...
Engelhardt: Just Disconnect
Znet Article, January, 04 2004
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Just Disconnect
Engelhardt: The Empire Strikes Out
Znet Article, January, 02 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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I haven't checked my Chinese calendar but if 2003 wasn't the Year of the Rat, I don't know what it was. We would normally heave a collective sigh of relief to have left it even a day or two behind us -- if 2004 didn't lie ahead. Still, if the year...
Engelhardt: Marvelous tales from our new imperial age
Znet Article, December, 23 2003
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John Larner in his elegant micro-study, Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World, tells us that the "marvelous… was an essential element in medieval geography." On medieval maps and i...
Engelhardt: Marvelous tales from our new imperial age
Znet Article, December, 23 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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John Larner in his elegant micro-study, Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World, tells us that the "marvelous… was an essential element in medieval geography." On medieval maps and i...
Engelhardt: Justice goes offshore and is imprisoned
Znet Article, December, 21 2003
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Quote of the day: Timothy Noah of Slate writes: "[Vice-president Dick] Cheney violated the Bush administration's policy of never saying the e-word in a Christmas card he and his wife ...
Engelhardt: The Morning After
Znet Article, December, 16 2003
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"When told yesterday that [German Chancellor] Schroeder believed Mr. Bush's contract decision might violate international law, the president responded with a sarcastic gibe: 'International law? I better...
Engelhardt: This Sporting Life
Znet Article, December, 14 2003
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This Sporting Life
Engelhardt: Been There, Done That
Znet Article, December, 11 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Been There, Done That
Engelhardt: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Znet Article, December, 11 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Quote of the half-century: Captain Ted L. Shipman, American intelligence officer, "Only the fear of force gets results. It's the Asian mind. It's completely different than the Western mind… Look -- they're a thousand years behind us in...
