Tomgram: Michael Klare, Oil Wars on the Horizon Posted by Michael Klare at 7:42am, May 10, 2012 Tom Dispatch There has been much discussion recently about the Obama administration’s “pivot” from the Greater Middle East to Asia: the 250 Marines sent to Darwin, Australia, the littoral combat ships for Singapore, the support for Burmese “democracy,” war games in the Philippines (and a drone More
Tomgram, Tom Engelhardt> Juan Cole, The Iran Conundrum Posted by Juan Cole April 12, 2012 TomDispatch Juan Cole’s article, “Why Washington’s Iran Policy Could Lead to Global Disaster: What History Should Teach Us About Blockading Iran” is posted separately on WAMMToday. Negotiators for Iran, the U.S., Britain, China, France, Russia, and Germany are to meet in More
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Intelligence Bureaucracy That Ate Our World Posted by Tom Engelhardt April 3, 2012 TomDispatch [Note for TomDispatch Readers: To catch Timothy MacBain’s latest Tomcast audio interview in which I reflect on the unnatural growth of the U.S. national security state, click here, or download it to your iPod here. It’s a subject that lies More
Tomgram: Iran Through the Looking Glass By Tom Engelhardt January 29, 2012 Tom Dispatch Iranian Aircraft Carriers in the Gulf of Mexico It Can’t Happen Here Exclusive: New Iranian Commando Team Operating Near U.S. (Tehran, FNA) The Fars News Agency has confirmed with the Republican Guard’s North American Operations Command that a new elite Iranian More
The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation By Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch JUST PUBLISHED: 2007 second edition with a new preface and an afterword on how America’s “victory culture” returned in the George W. Bush era, only to crash and burn in Iraq. An updated analysis of the More
“We’re on a Destabilizing Planet”: Interview with Tom Engelhardt By David A. Walsh 1-16-12 History News Network David A. Walsh is an editor for the History News Network. Tom Engelhardt is the creator and editor of The Nation Institute’s TomDispatch.com, former Senior Editor at Pantheon Books, and the author of numerous works on American More
Tomgram: Chase Madar, Accusing WikiLeaks of Murder Tom Engelhardt January 19, 2012 TomDispatch Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta called it “utterly deplorable.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed “total dismay.” General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was “deeply disturbed” that the actions in question would “erode the reputation of our joint force.” More
Tomgram> Nick Turse, Did the Pentagon Help Strangle the Arab Spring? Tom Engelhardt December 13, 2011 Tom Dispatch Of all American military training programs around the world, the most publicized in recent years has been the one building up a local security force to replace U.S. (and NATO) troops as they ever More
The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's Tom Engelhardt, creator of the vital website TomDispatch.com, takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe. Tracing developments from 9/11 to late last night, this is an unforgettable anatomy of a disaster that is yet to end. Since 2001, Tom Engelhardt has More
