ALL POSTS BY Tom Engelhardt
September 9, 2016We have our precision weaponry, and terrorist groups have theirs.
March 28, 2016In these first years of the 21st century, we may be witnessing a new world being born inside the hollowed-out shell of the American system.
February 26, 2016The last 15 years demonstrate that no matter the military strength at your command, war no longer translates into power.
November 16, 2015At $109 billion, the US reconstruction program in Afghanistan is already, in today's dollars, larger than the Marshall Plan, and still the country is in a shambles.
October 17, 2015The phrase “the fog of war” stands in for the inability of commanders to truly grasp what’s happening in the chaos of battle. Perhaps it’s time to introduce a companion phrase.
August 13, 2015Major producers continue to pump out record levels of crude and world demand remains essentially flat. Could we, in fact, be witnessing a fundamental shift in the energy industry?
June 22, 2015There were over 30,000 deaths by firearm in the United States in 2013 alone.
March 25, 2015Based on developments in our post-9/11 world, we could be watching the birth of a new American political system and way of governing for which, as yet, we have no name.
February 20, 2015There's no end in sight to mass surveillance, police militarization and our permanent state of war.
February 3, 2015Today, we're just cynical, which is why there is no massive antiwar movement.
