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Tomgram: 'This Administration Ended, Rather Than Extended, Two Wars'
— tomdispatch.com — [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: On Friday evening, TomDispatch will be switching to an updated version of this site. It's possible that you might not be able to reach TD for some hours. If so, we expect to be back up on Saturday morning. Tom ]  ... (more) Tomgram: 'This Administration Ended, Rather Than ...

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tomdispatch.com - 5 days ago
Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Afghanistan as a Patronage Machine
— tomdispatch.com — It's now a commonplace of the Afghan War. Western leaders in London , Berlin, Amsterdam , and Washington , as well as on flying visits to Kabul or even Kandahar , excoriate Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the "corruption" of his government. In ... (more) Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Afghanistan as a Patronage ...

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tomdispatch.com - 7 days ago
Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, How Palin Became a Rogue
— tomdispatch.com — It can't get better than this, can it? A first printing of 1.5 million copies sent out into an otherwise dead book market. Possibly as much as $7 million dollars going to the author, who already has interviews lined up with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara ... (more) Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, How Palin Became a Rogue

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tomdispatch.com - 9 days ago
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.
— tomdispatch.com — Wars come home in strange, unnerving ways -- as Americans have just discovered at Fort Hood. Even before Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on his killing spree, that base, a major military embarkation point for our war zones, was already experiencing the ... (more) Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.

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Tomgram: Droning On

Published 12 days ago by Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch

[ Note for TomDispatch Readers : A number of you have recently written in for clarification on contributing to this site through your purchases at Amazon.com. Here's my best shot at a useful explanation: If you click on any book image at this site -- like the book-cover image of The End of ...
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Tomgram: Jamail and Lazare, Who Will Be Sent to Afghanistan?

Published 14 days ago by Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch

In a grim November 3rd Wall Street Journal piece (buried inside the paper), Yochi Dreazen reported record suicide rates for a stressed-out U.S. Army. Sixteen soldiers killed themselves in October alone, 134 so far this year, essentially ensuring that last year's "record" of 140 suicides will ...
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Tomgram: Nick Turse, In Afghanistan, the Pentagon Digs in

Published 17 days ago by Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch

In our day, the American way of war, especially against lightly armed guerrillas, insurgents, and terrorists, has proved remarkably heavy. Elephantine might be the appropriate word. The Pentagon likes to talk about its "footprint" on the geopolitical landscape. In terms of the infrastructure ...
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Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, Why Your Child May Not Get a Swine Flu Shot Soon

Published 19 days ago by Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch

This week, the Obama White House released a very partial record of those who had visited since January 20, 2009. This it hailed as "transparency like you've never seen it before" and as the beginning of a new White House visitor transparency policy. Unfortunately, the policy applies mainly to ...
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tomdispatch.com - 21 days ago
Tomgram: Afghanistan as a Bailout State
— tomdispatch.com — [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: Last week, at an event in Santa Fe sponsored by the Lannan Foundation , I interviewed TomDispatch regular Rebecca Solnit. You can catch the audio by clicking here . The event was, in part, in honor of her superb new ... (more) Tomgram: Afghanistan as a Bailout State

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Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Is Obama's Iran Policy Doomed to Fail?

Published 24 days ago by Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch

[ Note to TomDispatch Readers: Recently, I launched one of this website's little campaigns to get more subscribers. Thanks to so many of you who, in response to my pleas, urged others to sign up for the email notice that goes out every time TD posts a piece, we got hundreds of new ...
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Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Great Superpower Meltdown

Published 27 days ago by Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch

Think of us as just having passed through the failed era of "must" in Washington. For almost eight years, George W. Bush made speeches and appearances in which he hectored this or that country, or enemy, or people about what they "must" do. Never, I suspect, has an American president lectured ...
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