Frequent Antiwar.com contributor Tom Engelhardt recently spoke to Bill Moyers about the election, drones, and the military-industrial complex.
Tom Engelhardt on Supersized Politics in the 2012 Election
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Weakness
90 Days, 90 Reasons is a project conceived by author Dave Eggers to rekindle young(ish) America's romance with Barack Obama. Each day features a post by someone you might have seen in movies or heard on NPR. Today's post is by Reza Aslan, "an internationally acclaimed...
Gore Vidal, 1925-2012
Gore Vidal, a longtime critic of American imperialism, died Tuesday. He was 86. Jesse Walker and John Nichols have posted notable obituaries, and Salon.com has compiled several of Vidal's memorable television appearances. For those interested in exploring Vidal's...
Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead
In an otherwise OK report on the attorney general's assassination address, Adam Serwer of Mother Jones quips, "There won't be any drone strikes in Denver anytime soon." I say, "Wanna bet?" I mean it. I assume that "Denver" is a synecdoche, so Serwer just needs to...
Liberal Demands Assassination Orders Be Filed in Triplicate
On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder finally explained why it's legal for him to annihilate you on a hunch. The nation's liberals arose as one to condemn this brazen attack on American principles of... Hehe, just kidding. The nation's liberals were all listening to...
Jeff Huber, RIP
Yesterday, Daily Kos posted the sad news that Jeff Huber died. Huber, a retired Navy commander, loved to skewer the powerful and the pretentious, but he never let outrage diminish his wit. If you have never sampled his inimitable blend of humor and insight, take a...
Prospect of Putin Presidency Gives Pundit the Vapors
I read a lot of opinion pieces so that you don’t have to. Some are good enough to make our Viewpoints section. Some are… special: [P]olitical events in Russia will become more important in the coming years, and Americans should prepare for the leverage Russia will...
Our Language Cops Are
a Bunch of Barney Fifes
Andrew Sullivan: I've touched slightly on the term 'Israel-Firster' - a shorthand that has an ugly neo-Nazi provenance, which is why I don't use it… As Justin Raimondo pointed out Monday, that etymology is false: the term was first used no later than 1953 by Alfred M....
Fool-Throated
I yearn for the day when "I was a full-throated supporter of the Iraq War" is understood — by writer and reader alike — to be a more damning admission than "I took Ecstasy once in college."
F***ing Chronology, How Does It Work?
As often happens, one brilliant post at The American Spectator's blog (via Larison) led me to another. Behold: When I arrived late at the town hall event in Meredith, he [Ron Paul] was prefacing an answer to a question about Israel by expressing admiration for Zionist...
