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Engelhardt: Degrading Behavior
Znet Article, July, 28 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Barbarism seems an obvious enough category. Ordinarily in our world, the barbarians are them. They act in ways that seem unimaginably primitive and brutal to us. For instance, they kidnap or capture someone, American or Iraqi, and cut off his head...
Engelhardt: The Middle East Aflame and the Bush Administration Adrift
Znet Article, July, 17 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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So, as the world spins on a dime, where exactly are we? ...
Engelhardt: The Destabilization Game
Znet Article, July, 06 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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One of these days, some scholar will do a little history of the odd moments when microphones or recording systems were turned on or left on, whether on purpose or not, and so gave us a bit of history in the raw. We have plenty of American examples...
Engelhardt: Green Zoning It All the Way
Znet Article, June, 25 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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As every political junky in the country now knows, just before finding himself not indicted by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fit...
Engelhardt: On Not Packing Your Bag and Heading Home When Things Go Wrong
Znet Article, June, 23 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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On Not Packing Your Bag and Heading Home When Things Go Wrong
Engelhardt: Reading the Imperial Press Back to Front
Znet Article, June, 21 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Nick Turse stands at the door, a frizz of curly black hair, a fringe of beard, in a dark T-shirt and green cargo pants. Slung over his shoulder is a green backpack (a water bottle sticking out of a side pouch) so stuffed that he might well have be...
Engelhardt: War Porn
Znet Article, June, 14 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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The history of war-atrocity snapshots did not start with the Abu Ghraib screen-savers from hell. After all, photography itself came into being as the industrializing West was imposing its rule on much of the planet. That imposition meant wars of c...
Engelhardt: Zowie Zarqawi!
Znet Article, June, 12 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Zowie Zarqawi!
Engelhardt: Collateral Damage
Znet Article, June, 07 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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First news stories about the My Lai massacre (picked up from an army publicity release), March 1968: The New York Times labeled the operation a significant success: "American troops caught a N...
Engelhardt: Thirty Flew into the Cuckoo's Nest
Znet Article, May, 31 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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In recent months, among other uproars and scandals, Americans learned that the Defense Department has been collecting intelligence on and tracking domestic antiwar activists; t...
Bacevich: Drifting Down the Path to Perdition
Znet Article, May, 25 2006
Andrew j. Bacevich
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I'd like to turn to the issue of oil wars, energy wars. That seems to be what holds all this incoherent stuff together -- minds focused on a world of energy flows. Recently, I reread [President Jimmy] Carter's 1979 energy speech. Isn't it ironic t...
Bacevich: The Delusions of Global Hegemony
Znet Article, May, 23 2006
Andrew j. Bacevich
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I wait for him on a quiet, tree and wisteria-lined street of red-brick buildings. Students, some in short-sleeves on this still crisp spring morning, stream by. I'm seated on cold, stone steps next to a sign announcing the Boston University Depart...
Engelhardt: Iraq Progress
Znet Article, May, 18 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Iraq Progress
Engelhardt: The Billion-Dollar Gravestone
Znet Article, May, 16 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Recently, a number -- one billion -- in the New York Times stopped me in my tracks. According to a report commissioned by the...
Engelhardt: 'This Is Our Destiny'
Znet Article, May, 04 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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"We must perhaps reluctantly accept that we hav...
Engelhardt: 'I'm Already Against the Next War'
Znet Article, April, 30 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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It's the perfect day for a march. Sunny, crisp, clear, spring-like. The sort of day that just gives you hope for no reason at all, though my own hopes are not high for New York's latest antiwar demonstration. I haven't received a single email abou...
Engelhardt: In the Rubble
Znet Article, April, 17 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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In the Rubble
Engelhardt: The 'D' Word in Iraq
Znet Article, April, 07 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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It didn't take long after the invasion of Iraq began in March 2003 for one of the radioactive words of the Vietnam era to make its first appearance, even if in stunted, referential form. Media pundits, former military men, and others began frettin...
Engelhardt: Exporting Ruins
Znet Article, April, 03 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Just last week, a jury began to deliberate on the fate of Zacarias Moussaoui, who may or may not have been the missing 20th hijacker in ...
Engelhardt: Connecting the Dots, Bush-Style
Znet Article, March, 20 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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As readers flee news on the printed page for an on-line life and classified ads head out the door for Craigslist and points west, the Washington Post became just the latest major newspaper to announce significant staff cuts. With fourth-quarter re...
Engelhardt: Shark and Awe
Znet Article, March, 07 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Shark and Awe
Engelhardt: More Torture, Less Impact
Znet Article, March, 05 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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The other day on Jerry Agar's radio show, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld responded to accusations about American atrocities at our prison in Guant...
Engelhardt: George's Inferno
Znet Article, March, 03 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Look at the polls. When Gallup's pollsters go out to ask Americans about the Bush administration and Iraq, they frame their questions this way: "Do you think the United Sta...
Engelhardt: War of the Quailhawks
Znet Article, February, 21 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Over a week ago, Vice President Cheney managed to put a couple of hundred pellets of buckshot into 78 year-old friend and Texas Republican Party builder, Harry Whittington. As the event turned into a national joke, edged with anger, and a late nig...
Engelhardt: Can You Say 'Permanent Bases'?
Znet Article, February, 14 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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We're in a new period in the war in Iraq -- one that brings to mind the Nixonian era of "Vietnamization": A President presiding over an increasingly unpopular war that won't end; an election bearing down; the need to placate a restive American pub...
Engelhardt: Another Bush Administration Week
Znet Article, February, 06 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Another Bush Administration Week
Engelhardt: Gorilla Empire?
Znet Article, January, 29 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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This Tuesday, the presidential State of the Union Address rolls around yet again. Only four Januaries have passed since the President used a State of the Un...
Engelhardt: Grown Up Screen Warriors
Znet Article, January, 20 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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In the 1940s and 1950s, when the generation of men now ruling over us were growing up, boys could disappear into a form of war play -- barely noticed by adults and hardly recorded anywhere -- that was already perhaps a couple of hundred years old....
Engelhardt: The Year of Living Dangerously
Znet Article, January, 12 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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2006 is sure to be the year of living dangerously -- for the Bush administration and for the rest of us. In the wake of revelations of warrantless spying by the National Sec...
Engelhardt: The Unrestrained President
Znet Article, January, 07 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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As 2006 begins, we seem to be at a not-completely-unfamiliar crossroads in the long history of the American imperial presidency. It grew up, shedding presidential constraints, in the post-World War II years as part of the rise of the national secu...
