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Entries by Tom Engelhardt from 07/2009

Will What We Don't Know (or Care to Know) Hurt Us?

| Posted 07.07.2009 | World
Read More: Media Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson, Afghanistan Weddings, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News

You'd have to make a desperate effort not to know that Jackson had died, and you'd have to make a similarly desperate effort to know that we've bombed multiple wedding parties in Afghanistan.

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Borrowed Time: The World at 65

| Posted 07.20.2009 | Healthy Living
Read More: Aging, Past, American History, Healthy Living News

Tomorrow, I turn 65, an age I simply never imagined for myself back in those youthful years. And the past, I must admit, now lurks somewhat closer to home -- as, of course, does the future: my future.

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Don't Turn the Page on History: Facing the American World We Created

| Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Read More: Bush Administration, Cia, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney Torture, CIA Assassination, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

Given the last eight years of disaster piled on catastrophe, who in would want to look backward? The urge to turn the page in this country is palpable, but -- just for a moment -- let's not.

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