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Engelhardt: Some Belated Acknowledgments
Znet Article, August, 05 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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The Chevron ad began: "It took us 125 years to use the first trillion barrels of oil. We'll use the next trillion in 30. Energy will be one of the defining issues of this century. One thing is clear: the ...
Engelhardt: Making Sense of the Plame Affair
Znet Article, July, 31 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Making Sense of the Plame Affair
Engelhardt: Stop, Thief!
Znet Article, July, 30 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Stop, Thief!
Engelhardt: The Spies Who Came In from the Hot Tub
Znet Article, July, 25 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Like so much else in our moment, it contravened laws the U.S. had once signed onto, pretzeled the English language, went directly to the darkside, was connected to various administration lies and manipulations that preceded the invasion of Iraq, a...
Engelhardt: Recruiting for Colonial Wars
Znet Article, July, 12 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Recruiting for Colonial Wars
Engelhardt: Boy President in a Failed World?
Znet Article, July, 10 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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On Thursday morning, with the London bombings monopolizing the TV set, I watched our President take that long, outdoor, photo-op walk from the G-8 summit meeting to the microphones to make a statement to reporters. Exploding subways, a blistered b...
Engelhardt: The President's Speech
Znet Article, June, 30 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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"In this time of testing, our troops can know: The American people are behind you. Next week, our nation has an opportunity to make sure that support is felt by every soldier, sailor, airman, Coast Guardsman, and Marine at every outpost across the...
Engelhardt: Immoral Relativism
Znet Article, June, 28 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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"At a breakfast meeting with reporters, Wolfowi...
Engelhardt: Saudi Oil Bombshell
Znet Article, June, 26 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Right now, the price of a barrel of crude oil is flirting with $60; a Chinese state-controlled oil company has made an $18....
Engelhardt: Withdrawal on the Agenda
Znet Article, June, 22 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Republican Congressman Walter B. Jones (famed for insisting that the Congressional cafeteria re-label French fries as "freedom fries" on its menu), a man who represents North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District, home to the Marine's Camp LeJeune...
Engelhardt: Smoking Signposts to Nowhere
Znet Article, June, 20 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Imagine that the Pentagon Papers or the Watergate scandal had broken out all over the press -- no, not in the New York Times or the Washington Post, but in newspapers in Australia or Canada. And that, facing their own terrible record of reportage,...
Engelhardt: Down the Iraqi Rabbit Hole
Znet Article, June, 16 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Welcome to Iraq... but call it Vietnam. If we haven't all gone down the rabbit hole in Baghdad and come out in the Saigon of another era, you can't prove it by recent news from catastrophic Iraq. Eerie doesn't do it justice. In Washington, our...
Engelhardt: Blurbing and Blurting
Znet Article, June, 04 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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In my non-Tomdispatch life as a book editor, I used to have a modest dream. Every season, editors like me send the galleys of books they're publishing off, en masse, to likely blurbees, who will, if all goes well, reach for their thesauruses, gath...
Engelhardt: Bases, Bases Everywhere
Znet Article, June, 01 2005
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Bases, Bases Everywhere
Engelhardt: Star Wars XXII
Znet Article, May, 26 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Star Wars XXII
Engelhardt: The Return of the Body Count
Znet Article, May, 23 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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On March 19th, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discussed the "metrics" of measuring success in Iraq with Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio's...
Engelhardt: Smoking-Gun Context
Znet Article, May, 16 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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In its June 9 issue (on sale this week), the New York Review of Books will be the first American print publication to publish the full British "smoking gun" document, the secret memorandum of the minutes of a meeting of Tony Blair's top advisors i...
Engelhardt: Laura Who?
Znet Article, May, 11 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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I once visited the "map room" of Philip II, King of Spain, and ruler of the (more or less known) world in the second half of the 16th century. Wandering this large chamber filled with maps from Philip's time in his grim, crusader palace-monastery,...
Engelhardt: Nuclear Illusions
Znet Article, May, 04 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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On August 6, 1945, the day that was to prove the blindingly bright dawn of the atomic age, Little Boy, a 9,700 pound baby with the look of "an elongated trash can with fins," had already been loaded into the specially prepared bomb bay of a B-29. ...
Engelhardt: Winners and Losers
Znet Article, May, 03 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Of the two superpowers that faced each other down in an almost half-century-long Cold War, one -- the United States -- emerged victorious, alone in the world, economically powerful, militarily dominant; the other, never the stronger of the two, li...
Engelhardt: Letting in the Draft?
Znet Article, April, 27 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Letting in the Draft?
Engelhardt: Iraq 'Uptick,' Superpower Downtick?
Znet Article, April, 25 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Iraq 'Uptick,' Superpower Downtick?
Engelhardt: George's Amazing Alphabet Book
Znet Article, April, 13 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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[Editor's note: It's unprecedented for any official -- high or low -- to leak information to Tomdispatch, but some weeks ago a Senior Official in one of our intelligence agencies -- and since we have so many, that's a little like saying none-of-yo...
Engelhardt: Drugs, Bases, and Jails
Znet Article, April, 05 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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If Iraq has been the disaster zone of Bush foreign policy, Afghanistan is still generally thought of as its success story -- to the extent that anyone i...
Engelhardt: More Buck for the Bang
Znet Article, April, 02 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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There's that classic line of career advice to the confused young hero of the 1967 film The Graduate: "I want to say one word to you. Just one word... plastics." With t...
Engelhardt: Entries for a Devil's Dictionary of the Bush Era
Znet Article, March, 28 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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For the last few years we have been ruled by lexicographers. Never has an administration spent so much time creating, defining, or redefining terms, perhaps because no one (since George Orwell) has grasped the power and possibility that lay hidden...
Engelhardt: One-Way Planet
Znet Article, March, 25 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Quote of the day: "I don't think that the world gives us the luxury of picking areas," [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas] Feith said. "We have interests all over the world. I dare ...
Engelhardt: Oil and Iraq
Znet Article, March, 23 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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With prices peaking (and peaking... and peaking...), the world looks a tad more peaked than it did not so many months ago and "peak oil" -- the possibility that the limits of fossil fuel resources on this globe of ours might in our lifetime, even ...
Engelhardt: Deconstructing Iraq: Year Three Begins
Znet Article, March, 19 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Deconstructing Iraq: Year Three Begins
Engelhardt: Pandora's Box
Znet Article, March, 17 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Pandora's Box
