Tag: American history

Truth to tell, the word historic does get tossed around rather loosely these days.

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Today, Americans are forgetting.

We tend to believe that plots to overthrow the government are totally foreign to our national character. But we do do coups.

Or five lessons in the history of American defeat.

Have we been living in a futuristic science fiction novel through the most bizarre American century yet? Tom Engelhardt discusses the demobilization of the American people and the spectacle of the 2016 elections.

David Talbot, author of "The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government," re-investigates John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas in 1963. Did CIA officials have a possible role in Kennedy’s death?

With an emphasis on the U.S. national security state and its follies, Tom Engelhardt explores nine repeat headlines, each a "surefire" news story guaranteed to appear sometime in the U.S. news stream between June 2015 and the unknown future.