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Tuesday, 09 October 2012 08:33 |
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By Tom Engelhardt http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175602/
Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the twentieth century. You could say that we experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism -- think of it as the real “American Century” -- from World War I to the end of the Cold War, with time off for a destructive stalemate in Korea and a defeat in Vietnam too shocking to absorb or shake off.
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Tuesday, 11 September 2012 09:39 |
The colours are retired during a ceremony marking the end of the U.S. mission in Iraq in Baghdad on Dec. 15, 2011. Credit: U.S. Defence Department photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo.
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 01:11 |
Why Are We in Afghanistan?
As Petraeus Takes Over, Could Success Be Worse Than Failure?
By Tom Engelhardt http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175272/ July 12, 2011, Washington, D.C. -- In triumphant testimony before a joint committee of Congress in which he was greeted on both sides of the aisle as a conquering hero, Gen. David Petraeus announced the withdrawal this month of the first 1,000 American troops from Afghanistan. “This is the beginning of the pledge the president made to the American people to draw down the surge troops sent in since 2009,” he said, adding, “and yet let me emphasize, as I did when I took this job, that our commitment to the Afghan government and people is an enduring one.”
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Thursday, 08 July 2010 01:34 |
Hope and Change Fade, Why We Can’t Stop Making War By William J. Astore http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175271/ If one quality characterizes our wars today, it’s their endurance. They never seem to end. Though war itself may not be an American inevitability, these days many factors combine to make constant war an American near certainty. Put metaphorically, our nation’s pursuit of war taps so many wellsprings of our behavior that a concerted effort to cap it would dwarf BP’s efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. |
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Tuesday, 06 April 2010 04:30 |
Believe It or Not (2010 Imperial Edition)
U.S. War-Fighting Numbers to Knock Your Socks Off
-Tom Engelhardt http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175228/ In my 1950s childhood, Ripley’s Believe It or Not was part of everyday life, a syndicated comics page feature where you could stumble upon such mind-boggling facts as: "If all the Chinese in the world were to march four abreast past a given point, they would never finish passing though they marched forever and forever.” Or if you were young and iconoclastic, you could chuckle over Mad magazine’s parody, “Ripup’s Believe It or Don’t!” |
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 08:29 |
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Beyond Nuclear Bulletin
March 25, 2010
With hasty stroke of a pen, Bush DOE transferred billions of dollars in radioactive waste liability onto taxpayers
Background: Between November 4, 2008 (the day Barack Obama was elected President) and January 22, 2009 (two days after he took the Oath of Office), the George W. Bush administration’s Department of Energy (DOE) hurriedly signed new irradiated nuclear fuel contracts with utilities proposing 21 new atomic reactors. |
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:25 |
The Pentagon Church Militant and Us The Top Five Questions We Should Ask the Pentagon Reposted from TomDispatch.com http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175219/- William J. Astore When it comes to our nation’s military affairs, ignorance is not bliss. What’s remarkable then, given the permanent state of war in which we find ourselves, is how many Americans seem content not to know. |
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Sunday, 31 January 2010 22:32 |
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Foreign News Channels Drawing U.S Viewers
- Haider Rizvi NEW YORK, Jan 31 (IPS)
Television viewers in the United States seeking international news are starting to switch over to foreign channels to learn what is happening in the outside world, media watchers here say. |
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Wednesday, 02 December 2009 11:22 |
Why Obama's Surge in Afghanistan?
PEJ News- Shamus Cooke- Tuesday |
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Friday, 30 October 2009 10:03 |
Obama signs bills for record Pentagon, Homeland Security spendingPEJ News-Patrick Martin- In a ceremony Wednesday, US President Barack Obama signed legislation authorizing the largest ever military budget, a gargantuan $680 billion for the Pentagon, including $130 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Thursday, he signed a spending bill funneling another $44 billion into the Department of Homeland Security, to strengthen the apparatus of state repression within the United States. www.wsws.org |
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