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Blog Entries by Tom Engelhardt from 11/2011

An All-American Nightmare

| Posted 11.08.2011 | Politics
Read More: Iraq Troop Withdrawal, American Nightmare, Saddam Hussein, War on Terror, War in Iraq, American Dream, George W. Bush, Politics News

How about a moment of silence for the passing of the American Dream? No, I'm not talking about the old dream of opportunity. I'm talking about a far more recent dream. I'm talking about George W. Bush's American Dream.

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How the Movies Saved My Life

| Posted 11.17.2011 | Huffington Post
Read More: The Sixties, Plaza Hotel, 1950s Nyc, Hiroshima, Growing Up in the 50s, Fifties, Mccarthyism, World War II, John Wayne, Huffington Post News

I now write about our American wars without ever having visited a war zone. There, in the '50s and early '60s, I advanced with the marines and the Russians, bombed Tokyo but also experienced (however briefly) Hiroshima after it was atomized.

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