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American Wars Are off the Charts Under Donald Trump

April 18, 2019

American Wars Are off the Charts Under Donald Trump He’s failed to deliver his promised withdrawals from Afghanistan and Syria, vetoed an order to get out of Yemen, and expanded the U.S. bombing of Somalia, all while eyeing Iran. Here’s a statement it might be hard to disagree with: American war is off the charts. […]

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Living on a Quagmire Planet: This Could Get a Lot Uglier

January 9, 2019

Living on a Quagmire Planet: This Could Get a Lot Uglier Sixty-six million years ago, so the scientists tell us, an asteroid slammed into this planet. Landing on what’s now Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, it gouged out a crater 150 kilometers wide and put so much soot and sulfur into the atmosphere that it created what […]

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How the last superpower was unchained

June 19, 2018

How the last superpower was unchained Think of it as the all-American version of the human comedy: a great power that eternally knows what the world needs and offers copious advice with a tone deafness that would be humorous, if it weren’t so grim. If you look, you can find examples of this just about […]

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Tomgram: Making Sense of America’s Empire of Chaos

May 29, 2018

Tomgram: Making Sense of America’s Empire of Chaos [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Every week Truthout chooses a book, a “progressive pick,” to highlight (and sell). This coming week, it’s my new book, A Nation Unmade by War. As part of the process, I did an interview about the book’s themes with Truthout’s Mark Karlin who […]

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A Tale of American Hubris: Or Five Lessons in the History of American Defeat

April 16, 2018

A Tale of American Hubris: Or Five Lessons in the History of American Defeat The lessons of history? Who needs them? Certainly not Washington’s present cast of characters, a crew in flight from history, the past, or knowledge of more or less any sort. Still, just for the hell of it, let’s take a few moments […]

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Disappointments of War in a World of Unintended Consequences

February 26, 2016

Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Disappointments of War in a World of Unintended Consequences War, What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing.  And No Kidding, That’s the Literal Truth When It Comes to War, American-Style  It may be hard to believe now, but in 1970 the protest song “War,” sung by Edwin Starr, hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. […]

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