The Fog of Intelligence
October 16, 2015
With a massive intelligence program, the US is still caught off guard
Tom Engelhardt
Praying at the Church of St. Drone
June 6, 2012
An unprecedented expansion of authority has created a new role for the president: Assassin-in-Chief.
Superpower Adrift in an Alien World
January 12, 2012
It's time for us to realize that none of the crucial problems on this planet are amenable to military solutions, not even by a country willing to pour its treasure into previously unheard of national security expenditures.
Lessons from Lost Wars in 2012
January 3, 2012
Over the last decade, the U.S. has been taught a repetitive lesson when it comes to ground wars on the Eurasian mainland: don’t launch them.
The 1% Election: Their Bread, Our Circus
December 12, 2011
How to turn election year into election life.
Into the Whirlwind
December 1, 2011
After almost nine years of war and occupation, what does Washington have to show for itself?
How the Movies Saved My Life
November 17, 2011
Seeing the world in black and white (with subtitles).
Wall Street by the Book
October 31, 2011
A (self-)graduation speech for the occupiers of Zuccotti Park.
Washington’s Field of Screams
September 29, 2011
In the last decade, there has been only one definition that truly matters: the almost instantaneous post-9/11 insistence that we are “at war,” and not even in a specific war or set of wars, but in an all-encompassing one.
Scamming Washington: Exclusive Letters from the ScamiLeaks Archives
September 20, 2011
Who knew that the highest officials in Washington receive scam “Nigerian” letters as well?
Let’s Cancel 9/11: Bury the War State’s Blank Check at Sea
September 8, 2011
Our “ceremonies of hubris” have for the last decade provided a blank check to the war state, so isn’t it time to start talking about how to end them? A call to end our 9/11 ceremonies and rip the Band-Aid off the wound.
How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East: Washington’s Singular Accomplishment
July 22, 2011
| Be proud, America! In the name of security, the U.S. is spreading fear & hate. |
Obama’s Bush-League World: Is the Obama National Security Team a Pilotless Drone?
July 13, 2011
| How George W. Bush’s Global War on Terror fantasies and delusions were embedded in our world and have now become the humdrum norm of Obama policy. |
Nine War Words That Define Our World: “Victory” Is the Verbal Equivalent of a Yeti
June 23, 2011
| Nine common terms associated with our present wars that probably don’t mean what you think they mean. |