Tom Engelhardt: The American Way of War Tom Engelhardt argues that most of the American public is oblivious to how the US government is garrisoning the planet, how we have long been in a perpetual ...
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Think of the above as part of what’s come down, metaphorically speaking, since those towers in New York fell 18 years ago.
The next version of 9/11 is guaranteed to make Osama and his 19 hijackers look like so pikers. Depending on what tipping points are reached and what happens after that on our rapidly warming planet, so much could come down around humanity’s ears. That moment in 2015 when Donald Trump rode an escalator down into the presidential contest to the tune of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” will look very different — because it will be far clearer than it is even now that he was carrying a blowtorch with him.
Tom Engelhardt is a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of a history of the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. He runs TomDispatch.com and is a fellow of the Type Media Center. His sixth and latest book is A Nation Unmade by War
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