Tom Engelhardt - RISE UP TIMES

Tomgram: Engelhardt, What Planet Are We On? Why Washington Can’t Stop — The Coming Era of Tiny Wars and Micro-Conflicts

Today, with the latest scientific estimate of invasion- and war-caused Iraqi deaths at a staggering 461,000, thousands more a year still dying there, and with Syria in flames, it seems something of an understatement. By Tom Engelhardt October 22, 2013 TomDispatch.com [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Thought I might recommend a new little book series from the Nation magazine (everyone’s publishing these More

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The Etiquette of War and Surveillance: Letters to Colonel Manners (Ret.)

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Advice from the Colonel By Tom Engelhardt October 10, 2013 tomdispatch.com [Tom Dispatch Editor’s Note: In the sequester and government-shutdown era, the classic military newspaper Stars and Stripes is facing some of the problems of its civilian brethren and sodownsizing its print edition. Among the features to go: Dear Abby. As it happens, TomDispatch is ready to step into More

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Tom Englehardt> Welcome Home From the Wars, Drones!

Drones? You can rant about them, write about them, organize against them, try to stop them from flying over your hometown. And still, like the implacable Terminators of film fame, they will arrive in “the homeland.” by Tom Engelhardt Published on Saturday, July 13, 2013 by Common Dreams I mean, come on. You knew it had to happen, didn’t you? In a 2010 More

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Tom Englehardt> Welcome Home From the Wars, Drones!

Drones? You can rant about them, write about them, organize against them, try to stop them from flying over your hometown. And still, like the implacable Terminators of film fame, they will arrive in “the homeland.” by Tom Engelhardt Published on Saturday, July 13, 2013 by Common Dreams I mean, come on. You knew it had to happen, didn’t you? In a 2010 More

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Rebecca Solnit> Welcome to the (Don’t Be) Evil Empire: Google Eats the World

So we know what you may not yet: they are not your friends and their vision is not your vision, but your data is their data, and your communications are in their hands, and they seem to be rising to become an arm of or a part-owner of the government or a law unto themselves, More

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Rebecca Solnit> Welcome to the (Don’t Be) Evil Empire: Google Eats the World

So we know what you may not yet: they are not your friends and their vision is not your vision, but your data is their data, and your communications are in their hands, and they seem to be rising to become an arm of or a part-owner of the government or a law unto themselves, More

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Peter Van Buren> Homeland Insecurity> Seven Years, Untold Dollars to Silence One Man

Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, If the Government Does It, It's "Legal" Posted by Peter Van Buren at 8:22am, May 9, 2013 Indefinite detention of the innocent and guilty alike, without any hope of charges, trial, or release: this is now the American way. Most Americans, however, may not care to take that in, not even when the indefinitely More

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Peter Van Buren> Homeland Insecurity> Seven Years, Untold Dollars to Silence One Man

Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, If the Government Does It, It's "Legal" Posted by Peter Van Buren at 8:22am, May 9, 2013 Indefinite detention of the innocent and guilty alike, without any hope of charges, trial, or release: this is now the American way. Most Americans, however, may not care to take that in, not even when the indefinitely More

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Tomgram: Jeremiah Goulka, Shell Shock Lite> It Doesn’t Take Much> On Almost Getting PTSD in Iraq

Tomgram: Jeremiah Goulka, Shell Shock Lite "I was one nightmare short of PTSD." Posted by Jeremiah Goulka April 16, 2013 TomDispatch.com “Shell shock,” the psychological scourge of World War I, occurred after “a man has been buried, lifted, or otherwise subjected to the physical effects of a bursting shell or other similar explosive.” So wrote Charles Myers, More

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Tomgram: Jeremiah Goulka, Shell Shock Lite> It Doesn't Take Much> On Almost Getting PTSD in Iraq

Tomgram: Jeremiah Goulka, Shell Shock Lite "I was one nightmare short of PTSD." Posted by Jeremiah Goulka April 16, 2013 TomDispatch.com “Shell shock,” the psychological scourge of World War I, occurred after “a man has been buried, lifted, or otherwise subjected to the physical effects of a bursting shell or other similar explosive.” So wrote Charles Myers, More

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Cathedral of the Enemy> The Enemy-Industrial Complex

"And don’t forget a media that was ready to pound the drums of war and emphasize what dangerous enemies lurked in our world with remarkably few second thoughts." Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 5:01pm, April 14, 2013. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Today’s post is part one of a two-parter. Part two will focus on the must-read new book More

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Cathedral of the Enemy> The Enemy-Industrial Complex

"And don’t forget a media that was ready to pound the drums of war and emphasize what dangerous enemies lurked in our world with remarkably few second thoughts." Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 5:01pm, April 14, 2013. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Today’s post is part one of a two-parter. Part two will focus on the must-read new book More

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