Tomdispatch

Nine War Words That Define Our World

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Libya, Yemen, Language, Robert Gates, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tomdispatch, War, Hamid Karzai, Pentagon, National Security, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Tom Engelhardt

Go figure: today, our "covert" wars are front-page news. What follows are nine common terms associated with our present wars that probably don't mean what you think they mean.

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Dan Froomkin

Props To A Journalist Who Doesn't Get Distracted

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Military Bases, 9/11, Militarization, Fearmongering, The Nation, Tomdispatch, Tom Engelhardt, Politics News

(Crossposted from NiemanWatchdog.org.) The mainstream media have always been easily distracted and beguiled -- but never more than now, when the next...

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In Nightmares Begin Responsibilities: Why War Will Take No Holiday in 2010

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, 9/11, Cost of Afghanistan War, US Troops Afghanistan, Tomdispatch, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Tom Engelhardt

Here's my fantasy this holiday season: I'd like, that is, to obliterate TomDispatch, for without the Afghan war, my website would never have existed. Here's the saddest thing: I know full well that its future is assured as long as I care to do it.

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Who Are the Taliban?

Anand Gopal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kabul, Taliban, Sharia, Al Qaeda, Tomdispatch, Afghanistan War, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Politics News
Anand Gopal

If there is an exact location marking the West's failures in Afghanistan, it is the modest police checkpoint that sits on the main highway 20 minutes south of Kabul. Here, the American-backed government of Afghanistan no longer exists.

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The Burning Question

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drought, Forest Fires, Australia, Economic Crisis, Australia Fires, Global Warming, Water Crisis, Tomdispatch, World News
Tom Engelhardt

What if our lost decade lasts long enough to meet an environmental crisis involving extreme weather?

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Airport to Nowhere, Waltz with Bashir, Part 2

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Beirut, Lebanon, Gaza, Waltz With Bashir, Israel, Film, Ari Folman, Tomdispatch, Graphic Novels, Entertainment News
Tom Engelhardt

Part two of this exclusive excerpt from Waltz with Bashir takes up after Folman has managed to reconstruct his first days of the war in Lebanon.

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Waltz with Bashir: The Graphic Novel

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Beirut, Lebanon, Waltz With Bashir, Film, Ari Folman, Books, Graphic Novels, Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch, Entertainment News
Tom Engelhardt

Given the power and timeliness of this thoughtful, dreamlike memoir from a living hell, it's a particular honor to be releasing two long excerpts from the graphic novel version of Waltz with Bashir

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The Apology: How to Turn Over a New Inaugural Leaf

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Obama Speech, Inauguration, Obama Inauguration, Inauguration History, Barack Obama, Tomdispatch, Politics News
Tom Engelhardt

It's now well past time to leave behind the imperial fantasies of the Bush era and join a world in trouble -- and there's no better day to begin than on January 20, 2009.

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The Afghan Scam: The Untold Story of Why the U.S. Is Bound to Fail in Afghanistan

Ann Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Surge in Afghanistan, Obama Foreign Policy, Ann Jones, Bush Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, War Wire, Taliban, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Services, Obama Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, Tomdispatch, World News, Politics News
Ann Jones

It's hard to overstate the magnitude of the failure of American reconstruction in Afghanistan.

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The Axe, the Book, and the Ad

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Death of Print, Layoffs, Newspapers, Book Publishing, Publishing, Media, Tomdispatch, Media News
Tom Engelhardt

As with GM, it has been easier and far more immediately profitable for big publishers to just keep selling the "SUVs" of books until their business model went into the toilet rather than try to prepare for a new world.

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