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Blog Entries by Tom Engelhardt from 06/2010

Living in the 51st State (of Denial)

| Posted 06.01.2010 | Politics
Read More: Iraq War, Graduating Class of 2010, Vietnam Draft, American Foreign Policy, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Who can deny that our American world is in trouble? I was born in a country that thought it could rebuild anything. You're living in one lacking recuperative powers.

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From the Gulf to Gaza and Afghanistan, the Familiar Way Proves the Wrong Way

| Posted 06.04.2010 | Politics
Read More: BP Oil Spill 2010, Gaza Blockade, Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama Oil Spill Response, Obama Oil Spill, Politics News

History, or the future (however you want to look at it), has a funny way of rearing up and biting leaders who think they know what they're doing. Take Barack Obama.

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Entering the Soviet Era in America

| Posted 06.15.2010 | Politics
Read More: Ussr US, US Military Spending, Ussr Afghanistan, US Afghanistan, Military Spending, Ussr, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Drunk on war as Washington may be, the U.S. is still not the Soviet Union in 1991 -- not yet. But it's not the triumphant "sole superpower" anymore either.

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America Detached from War: Bush's Pilotless Dream, Smoking Drones, and Other Strange Tales From the Crypt

| Posted 06.24.2010 | Politics
Read More: Iraq War, Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles, US Drone Missiles, Drones, Afghanistan War, Pakistan Drone Attacks, Politics News

The drone is our latest wonder weapon and a bragging point in a set of wars where there has been little enough to brag about.

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