The dark side of the empire
Amerikans need to begin acting like Americans again, and say NO to empire and YES to saving our towns, cities and states from the predators who now run things.
‘A message that America will tolerate war crimes’: Trump poised to pardon war criminals
“It was important that the perpetrators of those horrific offenses were brought to justice. Now Trump, in a twisted, grotesque ‘celebration’ of Memorial Day, wants to pardon these and other murderers?!
“Meltdown”: Trump defends Syria withdrawal as house votes 354 to 60 to condemn his...
As the displacement of 300,000 civilians over Turkey’s assault on Kurdish-controlled areas continues in northern Syria, the House of Representatives voted Wednesday...
A just ceasefire or just a ceasefire?
The war in Ukraine must end with a defeat of Putinism.
The dangerous assumption that violence keeps us safe
A romanticized belief in violence renders people irrational to the point of hurting ourselves, over and over again.
Guantánamo’s last 100 days
The story that never was.
The high stakes of the US-Russia confrontation over Ukraine
The U.S. must step back from the brink of a U.S.-Russia war, and then from the larger Cold War with China and Russia that they have so blindly and foolishly stumbled into.
Why ending the Afghan war won’t end the killing
The imperial debris of war.
The Anti-Empire Report #148
Ironically, very ironically, Donald Trump may well be less of a war monger than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
Mantra for 9/11
Fourteen years later and we are still living in an improbable world. Tom Engelhardt discusses the wars, interventions, assassinations, tortures, kidnappings, the growth of the American national security state and the spread of Islamic extremism.