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Engelhardt: Exit Poll
Znet Article, February, 05 2008
Tom Engelhardt
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"I swear that I will not 'handicap' any primary race, nor predict who is going to win Super Tuesday in either party. I will not handicap the race to the conventions. I will not speculate on who will be the vice-presidential candidate for whom in t...
Engelhardt: Looking Up
Znet Article, January, 30 2008
Tom Engelhardt
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The neglected but growing air war in Iraq.
Engelhardt: The Corpse on the Gurney
Znet Article, January, 17 2008
Tom Engelhardt
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A critique of U.S. claims of success in Iraq.
Engelhardt: The $100 Barrel of Oil vs. the Global War on Terror
Znet Article, January, 11 2008
Tom Engelhardt
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Consider the debate among four Democratic presidential candidates on ABC News last Saturday night. In the previous week, the price of a barrel of oil briefly touched $100, unemployment hit 5%, the stock market had the worst three-day start since t...
Engelhardt: Journey to the Dark Side: The Bush Legacy
Znet Article, January, 03 2008
Tom Engelhardt
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If you don't mind thinking about the Bush legacy a year early, there are worse places to begin than with the case of Erla Ósk Arnardóttir Lilliendahl. Admittedly, she isn't an ideal "tempest-tost" candidate for Emma Lazarus' famous lines engraved ...
Engelhardt: Advice to a Young Builder in Tough Times
Znet Article, December, 12 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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I know. Times are tough. Here, in the United States, the bottom's threatening to blow out of the housing market. Here, construction companies are laying off employees and builders are wondering where their next jobs are likely to come from. But th...
Engelhardt: The Bureaucracy, the March, and the War
Znet Article, December, 12 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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As I was heading out into a dark, drippingly wet, appropriately dispiriting New York City day, on my way to the "Fall Out Against the War" march -- one of 11 regional antiwar demonstrations held this Saturday -- I was thinking: then and now, Vietn...
Engelhardt: Iraq as a Pentagon Construction Site
Znet Article, December, 09 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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The title of the agreement, signed by President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki in a "video conference" last week, and carefully labeled as a "non-binding" set of principles for further negotiations, was a mouthful: a "Declaration of Principl...
Engelhardt: Bush's Pentagon Papers
Znet Article, October, 23 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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They can't help themselves. They want to confess. How else to explain the torture memorandums that continue to flow out of the inner sancta of this administration, the most recent of which were evidently leaked to the New York Times. Those...
Engelhardt: Freedom as Theft
Znet Article, September, 24 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Freedom as Theft
Engelhardt: Why Bush Shed His GI Joe Gear
Znet Article, September, 21 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Why Bush Shed His GI Joe Gear
Engelhardt: Imperial Autism
Znet Article, September, 13 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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The former Cockney flower-girl turned elegant-English-speaker Eliza Doolittle caught something of our moment in these lyrics from My Fair Lady: "Oh, words, words, words, I'm so sick of words.... Is that all you blighters can do?" Of course, all sh...
Engelhardt: 'Progress' by the Numbers
Znet Article, September, 10 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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[Note: This is the third in Tomdispatch's "by the numbers" series, leading up to this week's White House "Progress Report" from the U.S. commander in Iraq, General David P...
Engelhardt: Seven Years in Hell
Znet Article, September, 05 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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On August 22nd, breaking into his Crawford vacation, the President addressed the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, giving what ...
Engelhardt: Escalation by the Numbers
Znet Article, August, 13 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Someday, we will undoubtedly discover that, in the term "surge" -- as in the President's "surge" plan (or "new way forward") announced to the nation in January -- was the urge to avoid the language (and experience) of the Vietnam era. As there wer...
Engelhardt: The Withdrawal Follies
Znet Article, July, 27 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Withdrawal is now so mainstream. Last week, debate about it led to a sleep-in protest in the Senate and, this week, it's hit the cover of ...
Engelhardt: Wrong Again!
Znet Article, July, 17 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Okay, it's another lemon, the second you've bought from the same used-car lot -- and for $1,000 more than the first. The transmission is a mess; the muffler's clunking; smoke's seeping out of the dashboard; and you've only had it a week. You took ...
Engelhardt: 'Accidents' of War
Znet Article, July, 10 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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The first news stories about the most notorious massacre of the Vietnam War were picked up the morning after from an Army publicity release. These proved fairly typical for the war. On its front page, the New York Times labeled the operation in an...
Engelhardt: Iraq by the Numbers
Znet Article, June, 28 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Iraq by the Numbers
Engelhardt: The Great American Disconnect
Znet Article, June, 09 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Finally, the great American disconnect may be ending. Only four years after the invasion of Iraq, the crucial facts-on-the-ground might finally be coming into sight in this country -- not the carnage or the mayhem; not the suicide car bombs or the...
Engelhardt: The Colossus of Baghdad: Wonders of the Imperial World
Znet Article, May, 29 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Of the seven wonders of the ancient Mediterranean world, including the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Colossus of Rhodes, four were destroyed by earth...
Engelhardt: Close Your Eyes
Znet Article, May, 18 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Close Your Eyes
Engelhardt: What Price Slaughter?
Znet Article, May, 14 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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What Price Slaughter?
Engelhardt: Bush's Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Znet Article, May, 01 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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It had taken much thought and planning that wartime May Day four years ago when George W. Bush co-piloted an S-3B Viking sub reconnaissance Naval jet onto the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln. Scott Sforza, a former ABC producer, had "embedded" him...
Engelhardt: Iraq: The Language of War
Znet Article, April, 17 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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My aunt Hilda, whose very name came from some other century, once told me her earliest memory: She was a little girl standing under a large tree in the backyard of her house in Brooklyn, New York, and she cried out for help. Her mother (my grandmo...
Engelhardt: Six Crises in Search of an Author
Znet Article, April, 09 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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One night when I was in my teens, I found myself at a production of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. I had never heard of the playwright or the play, nor had I seen a play performed in the round. The actors were dramatically ent...
Engelhardt: The President's Global War of Terror
Znet Article, April, 05 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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On Tuesday, meeting with the press in the White House Rose Garden, the President responded to a question about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to...
Engelhardt: Demobilizing America
Znet Article, March, 25 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Excuse me if, at 62, and well into my second era of protest against yet another distant, disastrous, and disabling American war, I express a little confusion. Was it actually like this in Rome while the legions were off fighting on the German fron...
Engelhardt: The Seymour Hersh Mystery
Znet Article, March, 14 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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The Seymour Hersh Mystery
Engelhardt: Hostages to Policy
Znet Article, March, 07 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Hostages to Policy
