Tom Engelhardt

"To sum up, no one should ever claim that we Americans aren’t “at home” in the world. We’re everywhere, remarkably well funded and well armed and ready to face off against the aggressors and provocateu…"

"Addicted to war? Not us. Still, all in all, it’s quite a record and let’s not forget that looming on the horizon is another possible war, this time with Iran, a country that the men overseeing the inv…"

"The US military just can’t get enough of Somalia.... When it comes to the US military... It’s all of Africa. After all, this country’s military uniquely has a continent-wide Africa Command , founded i…"

"The Global War on Terror has become the Pentagon’s greatest tool in waging endless military campaigns. And now, on a planet of outrageous tweets and murderously angry white men, you probably didn’t ev…"

"The late Chalmers Johnson would have understood President Trump perfectly. The Donald clearly arrived on the scene as blowback — the CIA term of tradecraft Johnson first put into our everyday vocabula…"

"Now, I don’t mean to sell Donald Trump short in any way. Give that former reality TV star credit. Unlike either Hillary Clinton or any of his Republican opponents in the 2016 election campaign, he sen…"

"In the United States, such collusion with the destroyers of human life on Planet Earth is written all over their actions. It’s beyond evident in the appointment of former oil and gas lobbyists and fel…"