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.
With every clownish gaffe, Trump strips back the façade of American imperalism, revealing in newly bumbling ways a far older tale – one of empire, bloodshed and destruction. It's no laughing matter.
More than 16 years after the 'liberation' of Afghanistan, the war on terror remains a remarkably global phenomenon. This complex set of intertwined conflicts is not over – not by a long shot.
Keep on staring just like you’ve been doing, just like we’ve all been doing since he rode down that escalator into the presidential race in June 2015 and, while you have your eyes on him, I’ll tell you exactly why you shouldn’t stop.
In America’s wars, failure is the new success. Three generals stand alone, except for President Trump’s own family members, at the pinnacle of power in Washington.
96 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Might Donald Trump, by dismantling a system of "soft power," preside over the most precipitous decline of a truly dominant power in history, one only recently considered at the height of its glory?
Precisely because there are no US economic or military interests in Yemen, could it be the first arena in Washington’s endless war on terror to abandon ?
15 years after the global war on terror was launched, America faces a deeply embedded (remarkably unsuccessful) version of militarism, and a seldom recognized crisis in civil-military relations.
The revival of the Silk Road is an escape route for the Chinese from the Washington Consensus and dollar-centered global financial system. While guns are being drawn, for the Chinese leaders, the 'battlefied' of the future is essentially a global economic one.
