Tom Engelhardt

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  7/18/19
  

  Tom Engelhardt Writes Personal and Historical Essay: Turning 75 in the Age of Trump

  by Tom Engelhardt

  "As I turn 75, there’s no simpler way to put it than this: I’m an old man on a new planet -- and, in case it isn’t instantly obvious, that’s not good news on either score."

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• The Secret History of G.I. Joe

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Credit: Wiki Commons.Originally posted in two parts on TomDispatch.com 1. The First Coming of G.I. JoeIt was 1964, and in Vietnam thousands of American “advisers” were already offering up their know-how from helicopter seats or gun sights. The United States was just a year short of sending its first large contingent of ground troops there, adolescents who would enter the battle zone dreaming of John Wayne and thinking of enemy-controlled territory as “Indian country.” Meanwhile, in that inaugural year of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, a new generation of children began to experience the American war story via the most popular toy warrior ever created.

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• Edward Snowden vs. Robert Seldon Lady

  by Tom Engelhardt

  This, then, is our world: a single megapower has, since September 2001, been in a financing and construction frenzy to create the first global surveillance state; its torturers run free; its kidnappers serve time at liberty in this country and are rescued if they venture abroad; and its whistleblowers -- those who would let the rest of us know what “our” government is doing in our name -- are pilloried.

• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  7-2-13
  

  Tom Engelhardt: The Dictionary of the Global War on You (GWOY)

  Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project and author of "The United States of Fear" as well as a history of the Cold War, "The End of Victory Culture" (just published in a Kindle edition), runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. His latest book, co-authored with Nick Turse, is "Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050."

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• The Information Age Has Given Birth to a Global Security State

  by Tom Engelhardt

  You may have secrets, but you are not a secret -- and you know it.

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• And Then There Was One

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Image via Shutterstock.Originally posted on TomDispatch.com

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• Filling the Empty Battlefield

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Federal Street in Boston, deserted during the manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on April 19, 2013. Credit: Flickr/Brian BirkeOriginally posted on TomDispatch.com

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• The Enemy-Industrial Complex

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Bush administration Cabinet meeting in 2001.

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• American Anniversaries from Hell

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Still frame from video of the July 12, 2007 air strike in Baghdad, leaked to the public by WikiLeaks in 2010.Originally posted on TomDispatch.com

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• Will Washington Ever Learn from Its Past Mistakes? Not Likely.

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Satellite image (from Bing) of what could be the two-year-old U.S. drone base in Saudi Arabia.Originally posted on TomDispatch.com

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• The American Lockdown State

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Protest in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Credit: Flickr/Madison Guy.Originally posted on TomDispatch.com

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• The Pentagon as a Global NRA

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Credit: Wiki Commons.