Tom Engelhardt

Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project, runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. The World According to TomDispatch: America in the New Age of Empire (Verso, 2008), a collection of some of the best pieces from his site, has just been published. Focusing on what the mainstream media hasn't covered, it is an alternative history of the mad Bush years. Engelhardt is also the author of The End of Victory Culture, recently updated in a newly issued edition that covers victory culture's crash-and-burn sequel in Iraq.

The Wedding Crashers

July 14, 2008

In Bush's wars, the singer dies, the bride does not get a chance to run away, and the event might be relabeled my big, fat, collateral damage wedding.
No Blood For ...er, um...

June 23, 2008

More than five years after the invasion of Iraq--just in case you were still waiting--the oil giants finally hit the front page.
The Little Administration That Couldn't

March 28, 2008

At the hour of our latest and greatest crisis, don't expect anything of this bunch but the usual heck of a job.
Iraq: The View from Year Six

March 19, 2008

In March 2009, no matter who is president, Iraq will still be hell on Earth.
Potshots in Space

February 20, 2008

From the heaving deck of the USS Lake Erie, the Bush Administration takes shaky aim at a rogue satellite hurtling to Earh, carrying unknown secrets. The missile attack is purely humanitarian, they assure us.
From Guernica to Iraq

February 7, 2008

There's an escalating air war in Iraq; why don't American media consider it serious news?
Exit Poll

February 5, 2008

American voters, stuck in the world that Bush and Cheney have crafted, are sensing doom--and they want out.
CSI: Iraq

January 18, 2008

Despite the cosmetic acts of President Bush, his undertakers and enablers, America's Iraq is still a corpse.
The Bush Legacy: Journey to the Dark Side

January 8, 2008

We have not come to grips with how centrally the Bush Administration has planted torture, abuse, kidnapping, and illegal imprisonment at the heart of governmental practice, the news, and everyday life.

2007

As the World Burns

November 17, 2007

Uncomfortable questions nobody wants to raise about the worldwide drought.
Who Lost Pakistan?

November 6, 2007

How often can the Bush Administration be caught off guard by the consequences of its own actions? Endlessly, it seems.
We Count, They Don't

October 4, 2007

The Bush Administration once professed there were no body counts in its war on terror. But in the metrics-driven post-surge accounting in Iraq, it turns out it's been counting everything.
Order 17

September 24, 2007

A closer look at the US rule that gives military contractors like Blackwater a free pass to murder, terrorize and pillage their way through Iraq.
Iraq Progress: By the Numbers

September 10, 2007

As General David Petraeus makes his case for continuing the war, here's an accounting of the real costs.
What 'Progress' in Iraq Really Means

August 13, 2007

The cost of deploying a soldier, the number of bullets fired for each insurgent killed, the percentage of Iraqi babies born underweight. A portrait-by-numbers of the Iraq catastrophe.
Red Zone, Green Zone

August 1, 2007

Pundits speculate the US can win stability if not victory in Iraq, but beyond the philosophical Green Zone they inhabit, life becomes ever more desperate for Iraqi civilians.
Why the US Military Loves Ron Paul

July 23, 2007

The anti-war Texas Republican is pulling more campaign contributions from the military than John McCain. That says a lot about the mindset of the troops.
Iraq, By the Numbers

July 2, 2007

No need to wait until September to see if the surge is working. Just look at the numbers.
A Permanent Military Empire

June 8, 2007

To mainstream media, the Bush Administration's full-scale garrisoning of Planet Earth is simply not a news story. But in Iraq beyond, America's empire of permanent bases grows at an alarming pace.
Colossus of Baghdad

May 29, 2007

As conditions worsen inside Baghdad's embattled Green Zone, construction continues on a grandiose US Embassy complex that mirrors Bush Administration delusions of a reordered Middle East. Take a virtual tour.
Graduates, Close Your Eyes

May 21, 2007

A passionate critic of the Iraq War has this advice for the Class of 2007: Be afraid. And look within for answers to all the problems you have inherited.
The Price of a Life

May 14, 2007

Sure, the US government values the lives of innocents killed in combat. Just how much depends on whether they died in New York, Afghanistan or Iraq.
Thelma and Louise Imperialism

February 14, 2007

Are Bush and Cheney so wedded to their delusions that they might gun the car and head directly over the cliff in a confrontation with Iran?

2006

9/11 in a Movie-Made World

September 10, 2006

What if the Twin Towers hadn't collapsed? Would the Bush Administration have so easily advanced its fear-inspired "war on terror" without the images that played on a culture's secret fears?
Can You Say 'Permanent Bases'?

March 9, 2006

Despite recent press visits, the building of bases in Iraq has not come under much scrutiny. If Congress and opposition Democrats continue to ignore the issue, there will be no withdrawal from Iraq.