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Engelhardt: America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill
Znet Article, May, 14 2012
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What they can’t see in the haze of exceptional self-congratulation is this: they are transforming the promise of America into a promise of death
Engelhardt: The Obama Contradiction
Znet Article, April, 30 2012
Tom Engelhardt
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Obma can send his drone assassins and special ops troops just about anywhere to kill just about anyone he thinks should die
Engelhardt: The Afghan Syndrome
Znet Article, April, 11 2012
Tom Engelhardt
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Vietnam has left town, say hello to the new syndrome on the block
Engelhardt: The 0% Doctrine
Znet Article, March, 12 2012
Tom Engelhardt
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It is no longer a matter of “we,” but of a presidential “I” when it comes to unleashing attacks in what has become a global free fire zone for drones and special ops forces
Engelhardt: Blown Away
Znet Article, February, 29 2012
Tom Engelhardt
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How the U.S. fanned the flames In Afghanistan
Engelhardt: Remotely Piloted War
Znet Article, February, 24 2012
Tom Engelhardt
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we are moving toward an ever greater outsourcing of war to things that cannot protest, cannot vote with their feet (or wings), and for whom there is no “home front”
Engelhardt: Offshore Everywhere
Znet Article, February, 06 2012
Tom Engelhardt
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How drones, special operations forces, and the U.S. navy plan to end national sovereignty as we know it
Engelhardt: Iranian Aircraft Carriers in the Gulf of Mexico
Znet Article, January, 30 2012
Tom Engelhardt
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The kind of pressure the U.S. and its allies have been exerting creates the basis for madness -- or for terrible miscalculation followed by inevitable tragedy
Engelhardt: How Two Wars in the Greater Middle East Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower
Znet Article, January, 03 2012
Tom Engelhardt
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How two wars in the greater middle east revealed the weakness of the global superpower
Engelhardt: The Four Occupations of Planet Earth
Znet Article, December, 19 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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“We exist!” Think of it as a simple statement of fact, an implicit demand to be taken seriously
Engelhardt: ‘America is Exceptional.’ Repeat ad nauseam
Znet Article, December, 13 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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At whatever pace, our “warriors” and “heroes” are coming home to a distinctly unhappy, unheroic and insecure country, lacking in jobs
Engelhardt: Lessons From the Dead in a No-Learning-Curve World
Znet Article, December, 02 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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In what should be a think-outside-the-box moment, the sole lesson Washington seems capable of absorbing is that its failed policy is the only possible policy
Engelhardt: The Latest in Guarding the Empire
Znet Article, September, 30 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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Both at home and abroad, the American dream is turning into the American scream
Engelhardt: Exclusive Letters from the ScamiLeaks Archives
Znet Article, September, 21 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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A little parable about the fallout from our now decade-old set of wars in the Greater Middle East
Engelhardt: Bury the War State's Blank Check at Sea
Znet Article, September, 10 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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This country has become dependent on the dead of 9/11 as an all-purpose explanation for our own goodness and the horrors we’ve visited on others
Engelhardt: Could the Pentagon Be Responsible for Your Death?
Znet Article, August, 13 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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American specialists have become especially proficient at forging the onscreen cyber-trademarks used by Al Qaeda and posting confusing and contradictory orders
Engelhardt: Lowering America’s War Ceiling?
Znet Article, August, 03 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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Like some Roman god, it turns out that schizophrenic Washington has two faces, each reflecting a different aspect of American decline
Engelhardt: How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East
Znet Article, July, 22 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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The Pentagon is pouring an estimated $3.5 billion into its biometric programs
Engelhardt: Obama’s Bush-League World
Znet Article, July, 14 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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The Global War on Terror was the bastard spawn of the disorientation and soaring hubris of the days after 9/11
Engelhardt: Militarized Surrealism of Obama
Znet Article, July, 01 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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These days Obama can barely open his mouth without also bowing down before the U.S. military
Engelhardt: “Victory” Is the Verbal Equivalent of a Yeti
Znet Article, June, 24 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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Now that Washington has at least six wars cooking, Americans find themselves in a new world of war
Engelhardt: How the National Security Complex Grows on Terrorism Fears
Znet Article, June, 10 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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Since 9/11, terror attacks have ranked above shark attacks but below just about anything else that could possibly be dangerous to Americans
Engelhardt: Osama bin Laden’s American Legacy
Znet Article, May, 23 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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Unfortunately, in every way that matters for Americans, it’s an illusion that Osama bin Laden is dead
Engelhardt: Mating Déjà Vu with a Mobius Strip in the Graveyard of Empire
Znet Article, May, 21 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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You could easily believe that almost every breaking Afghan story in the last four weeks came from some previous year of the war
Engelhardt: China as Number One? Don’t Bet Your Bottom Dollar
Znet Article, May, 03 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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The specter of China as this country’s future enemy once again reared its ugly head
Engelhardt: The Women's Movement in the Middle East
Znet Article, April, 27 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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Women have been and often remain at the forefront of those protests
Engelhardt: The Women's Movement in the Middle East
Znet Article, April, 27 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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Women have been and often remain at the forefront of those protests
Engelhardt: Sleepwalking into the Imperial Dark
Znet Article, April, 20 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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This can’t end well. But then, how often do empires end well, really?
Engelhardt: Irradiated Zone: Don’t Go There!
Znet Article, March, 24 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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In mainstream news reports everywhere, you can feel the urge not to tumble into the irradiated zone of the nuclear imagination.
Engelhardt: Taking the “War” Out of Air War
Znet Article, March, 20 2011
Tom Engelhardt
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What U.S. air power actually does...


