Blog Entries by Tom Engelhardt
The Ponzi Scheme Presidency
Cross-posted from TomDispatch.com
It may finally be 2009, but in some ways, given these last years, it might as well be 800 BCE.
From the ninth to the seventh centuries BCE, the palace walls of the kings who ruled the Assyrian Empire...
The Axe, the Book, and the Ad
11 Comments | Posted December 19, 2008 | 05:13 PM (EST)
Cross-posted from TomDispatch.com
Worlds shudder and collapse all the time. There's no news in that. Just ask the Assyrians, the last emperor of the Han Dynasty, the final Romanoff, Napoleon, or that Ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff. But when it seems to be happening to your world, well, that's a...
The Imperial Transition
6 Comments | Posted December 8, 2008 | 02:59 PM (EST)
Reposted from TomDispatch.
Did you know that the IBM Center for the Business of Government hosts a "Presidential Transition" blog; that the Council on Foreign Relations has its own "Transition Blog: The New Administration"; and that the American University School of Communication has a "Transition...
Stuff Happens: The Pentagon's Argument of Last Resort on Iraq
69 Comments | Posted November 20, 2008 | 05:21 PM (EST)
Reposted from TomDispatch.
It's the ultimate argument, the final bastion against withdrawal, and over these last years, the Bush administration has made sure it would have plenty of heft. Ironically, its strength lies in the fact that it has nothing to do with the vicissitudes of Iraqi politics,...
FINAL Update Wednesday 8:45 AM: Coulter appeared in the 7...
If you think people laugh at your skiing skills then think again. A man was a...
The Anchorage Daily News reports that Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin's...
Barack Obama is not the only one being inaugurated on...
As January 20 grows larger in the window, I've been thinking more often about the...
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UPDATE: On Tuesday's "The View"...
Greta Van Susteren has taken to her blog, GretaWire, to again hit CNN — this...
Are nude animal rights protests old hat? We got word of a...
An article in next month's Atlantic asks, "Is porn...
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The Internet is awash with rumors over the cause of the tragic death of actor John Travolta's...
Posted January 6, 2009 | 03:22 PM (EST)