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Engelhardt: The Old Switcheroo
Znet Article, April, 02 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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If anything can be called "amusing" any more, the most amusing political headline of the week certainly appeared on the front page of the Wednesday New York Daily News: "Bush Serves Up Rice." It also captured the focus of media coverage ever since...
Engelhardt: Twenty-first Century Gunboat Diplomacy
Znet Article, March, 30 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Imperial quote of the week (or: you don't keep the New Rome waiting in the New Spain): "A senior administration official traveling with [Secretary of State Colin] Powell described the meeting [after the funeral service for the Madrid bombing victi...
Engelhardt: Fathers and Sons
Znet Article, March, 23 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Quote of the day: As Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism "tsar," tells it in his new book Against All Enemies, on September 12, 2001, he returned to the White House to find Iraq, not al-Qaeda, the subject of the day: "I realized ...
Engelhardt: One year later than what?
Znet Article, March, 21 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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One year later than what?
Engelhardt: Coalition Pains
Znet Article, March, 17 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Coalition Pains
Engelhardt: After November...?
Znet Article, March, 14 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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"We are heroes in error... What was said before is not important." (Ahmad Chalabi on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction) The papers and the television news are all but convulsed with the onrushing presidential campaign: the Bush 9/11 ads and t...
Engelhardt: A Failed Globe
Znet Article, March, 11 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Here we are one year later. Forget that fruitless search for missing weapons of mass destruction or the way our leaders inadvertently cemented in place a connection between Islamist terrorists and Iraqi resistance groups that, twelve months ago, e...
Engelhardt: The Luck of the Draw
Znet Article, March, 07 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Traffic jam on the Beltway Here's a little rundown of various developments of the last week, not a single one of which adds up to good news for the Bush administration as it launches itself into eight months of mortal combat with not-quite-Democra...
Engelhardt: The (Big) Cheese Stands Alone
Znet Article, March, 01 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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When the wrong people say the right things Hosni Mubarak of Egypt is hardly a paragon of virtue, though, to the tune of multibillions in aid, his corrupt and oppressive government has long been supported by the United States as a regional bulwark....
Engelhardt: How to Build a Wall
Znet Article, February, 27 2004
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How to Build a Wall
Engelhardt: And now for something really dangerous
Znet Article, February, 24 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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And now for something really dangerous
Engelhardt: Quagmire World
Znet Article, February, 23 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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The Washington Consensus (of one) "The Bush administration makes no secret that it sees the Iraq war as the prototype for future conflicts... Pre-emption remains the Bush doctrine. Witness D...
Engelhardt: Iraqnophobia
Znet Article, February, 15 2004
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Quote of the day: "Michael O'Hanlon, a military specialist at the Brookings Institution, said the discretionary funds readily available to fill any financing gap could be exhausted by February or March. 'The military doesn't want to feel like it's...
Engelhardt: The President enters Credibility Gap
Znet Article, February, 11 2004
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The President enters Credibility Gap
Engelhardt: Conservative Freak Out
Znet Article, February, 11 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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It's not just the President's obvious critics to his left who are lining up to have a go at him. Conservatives of various stripes are beginning to freak out as well. Of course, a lie of a budget, a nation seemingly saddled with ...
Engelhardt: A Cheney APB
Znet Article, February, 08 2004
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A Cheney APB
Engelhardt: Daddy's Boys
Znet Article, February, 04 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Daddy's Boys
Engelhardt: Strange sightings and eerie quotes from our ridiculous planet
Znet Article, February, 01 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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What a week! Strange quotes, strange events, strange sightings. It was the sort of workaday week that makes you wonder whether the planet got itself trademarked by Ripley's Believe It or Not while we weren't looking, or maybe it was just entered i...
Engelhardt: Strange sightings and eerie quotes from our ridiculous planet
Znet Article, February, 01 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Strange sightings and eerie quotes from our ridiculous planet
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
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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...
