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Compassion Is Our New Currency : Notes on 2011’s Preoccupied Hearts and Minds Rebecca Solnit TomDispatch.com, December 22, 2011. Usually at year’s end, we’re supposed to look back at events just passed — and forward, in prediction mode, to the year to come. But just look around you! This moment is so extraordinary that it …
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Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project, runs the Nation Institute’s TomDispatch.com. His latest book, just published, is The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s (Haymarket Books). Watch a Timothy MacBain TomCast video of him discussing the American way of war by clicking here. Dumb Question of the Twenty-first Century: Is …
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Tom Engelhardt Editor of TomDispatch.com Posted: November 15, 2010 03:23 PM The Stimulus Package in Kabul (I Was Delusional — I Thought One Monster ‘Embassy’ Was the End of It) You must have had a moment when you thought to yourself: It really isn’t going to end, is it? Not ever. Rationally, you know perfectly …
Tomdispatch.com is for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of our post-9/11 world and a clear sense of how our imperial globe actually works. The site’s founder and editor Tom Engelhardt. Chalmers Johnson is among the contributors. Here is a link to an older but still relevant entry by the author of Blowback, Sorrows of Empire, …
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The essay by Andrew Bacevich (Colonel USA ret.) portrays one of the very worst aspects of the imperial court of Versailles on the Potomac — collective amnesia that opens the door to the grotesque… Chuck Spinney The Washington Gossip Machine Posted By Tom Engelhardt On September 26, 2010 Prisoners of War Bob Woodward and all …
Below and at the link is a comprehensive discussion of the emerging grand strategy that is shaping Turkey’s foreign initiatives. It deserves careful reading. Stealth Superpower: How Turkey is chasing China to become the next big thing by John Feffer John Feffer is the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, …
… because, even though Obama may think he is weighing his policy “options,” the Pentagon is busily politically engineering the the flow of infrastructure funds needed to lock in the constituent support for its Long War. 2014 or Bust: The Pentagon’s Afghan Building Boom Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt, November 06, 2009 In our day, …
