ALL POSTS BY Tom Engelhardt
- January 9, 2015They would think Washington has invented a system so dumb, so extreme and so fundamentalist that changing it will surely prove a stunningly difficult task.
- October 21, 2014An interview with Laura Poitras on her latest film, Citizenfour, a journey to the revelation of government mass surveillance and the Snowden era.
- October 9, 2014Amid continual headlines of terror plots, we have been relegated to the role of so many frightened spectators when it comes to our government and its actions.
- October 1, 2014Having a labyrinth of 17 overlapping, paramilitarized, deeply secretive agencies doing versions of the same thing is the definition of counterproductive madness.
- July 14, 2014By many measures, the US may be the wealthiest, most powerful nation, but its ability to accomplish anything has shrunk drastically.
- June 22, 2014More than two trillion dollars later — without figuring in post-war costs still to come — Iraq is a catastrophe. And the cost of the war for Iraqis is beyond calculation.
- June 12, 2014No matter how often you cite the use of military force to “stabilize” or “protect” or “liberate” countries or regions, it is a destabilizing force.
- May 23, 2014Climate change is a WMD on a particularly long fuse, already lit and there for any of us to see.
- March 4, 2014An imperial era is on the wane, war is in absentia and there are no rising great power contenders on the horizon. That’s a remarkable scorecard in an otherwise appalling world.
- December 9, 2013In another sign of over-policing throughout our society, many law enforcement departments are stocking up on surplus military tanks, grenade launchers and assault rifles.