Tom Engelhardt is a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The United States of Fear as well as a history of the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. He runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. His new book, Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World (Haymarket Books), has just been published.
Richard Krushnic is a former real estate loan asset manager and housing and business contract analyst at Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development. He is currently involved in community development in Latin America and can be reached at [email protected].
Jonathan Alan King is professor of molecular biology at MIT and chair of the Nuclear Abolition Committee of Massachusetts Peace Action. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe theology of American national securityClinging to policies that have manifestly failed is madness—but that is exactly what the US is doing in Iraq.
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Published in: HomeThe forgotten costs of war in the Middle EastAs the expelled inhabitants of Diego Garcia continue their campaign for justice, is Anglo-American policy finally...
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Published in: HomeThrough the looking glassThe planet currently seems to be on the cusp of a decidedly unharmonic convergence. Did ‘Market-Leninism’ win the Cold War?
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Published in: HomeWriting history before it happensNine surefire future headlines from a bizarro American world.
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Published in: HomeAFRICOM behaving badlyUnited States Africa Command likes to think that it is in the business of exporting ‘rule of law’. But it has been...
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Published in: HomeThe renewable revolutionFour reasons why the transition from fossil fuels to a green energy era is gaining traction.