
The World According to Tomdispatch
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Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of American Power and the New Mandarins, Manufacturing Consent (with Ed Herman), Deterring Democracy, Year 501, World Orders Old and New, Powers and Prospects, Profit over People, The New Military Humanism and Rogue States.
Mark Danner is the author of The Massacre of El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War.
Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa'aloa, Hawaii.
Greg Grandin is the author of Empire's Workshop, The Last Colonial Massacre, Who is Rigoberta Mench¿?, the award-winning The Blood of Guatemala, and the 2009 National Book Awards finalist Fordlandia. A professor of history at New York University and a Guggenheim fellow, Grandin has served on the United Nations Truth Commission investigating the Guatemalan Civil War and has written for the Los Angeles Times, Nation, New Statesman, and New York Times.
Chalmers Johnson was President of the Japan Policy Research Institute and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He was the author of numerous books, including Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire and Japan: Who Governs?
Bill McKibben is the author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, among other titles; he is the founder of 350.org, which in 2010 organized what CNN called "the most widespread day of political action in the planet's history."
Jonathan Schell teaches at Wesleyan University and the New School University. A Fellow at the Nation Institute and co-founder of a recently formed citizen's initiative to negotiate the abolition of nuclear weapons, he is the author of nine books including Fate of the Earth, which was published in twenty countries.
Rebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Wanderlust, A Book of Migrations, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built In Hell. A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.
Nick Turse is an award-winning journalist, historian, essayist, and the associate editor of the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com. He is the author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday and has written for the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, In These Times and the Village Voice.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: "E" as in Expeditionary
- I. How it all Began
- 1. 9/11 in a Movie-made World
- 2. The Billion-dollar Gravestone
- II. Imperial Planet
- 3. The Empire That Fell as It Rose
- 4. No Longer the "Lone" Superpower
- 5. The Wide War: How Donald Rumsfeld Discovered the Wild West in Latin America
- 6. What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?
- 7. "Our Indian Wars Are Not Over Yet": Ten Ways to Interpret the War on Terror as a Frontier Conflict
- 8. A Pseudostate Is Born
- 9. Twenty-first-century Gunboat Diplomacy
- 10. The Sole Superpower in Decline: The Rise of a Multipolar World
- III. Invisible Victims of the "War on Terror"
- 11. The Smash of Civilizations
- 12. Unnamed and Unnoticed: Iraqi Casualties
- 13. The Hidden War on Women in Iraq
- 14. Not the Same as Being Equal: Women in Afghanistan
- 15. Guantánamo Is Not a Prison: Eleven Ways to Report on Gitmo without Upsetting the Pentagon
- 16. "I Am Now a Refugee": The Iraqi Crisis That Has No Name
- IV. Under the Bombs
- 17. Degrading Behavior: The Middle East and the Barbarism of War from the Air
- 18. Siege Notes
- 19. Will American Bombs Kill My Iranian Dreams?
- V. The Petro-Industrial Complex and its Discontents
- 20. The Prize of Iraqi Oil
- 21. The Pentagon vs Peak Oil: How Wars of the Future May Be Fought Just to Run the Machines That Fight Them
- 22. My Saudi Arabian Breakfast
- 23. The Other Hurricane: Has the Age of Chaos Begun?
- 24. Sucker's Bets for the New Century: The US after Katrina
- VI. Name that War
- 25. George Bush's War of the Words
- 26. Pitching the Imperial Republic: Bonaparte and Bush on Deck
- 27. Words in a Time of War: Taking the Measure of the First Rhetoric-Major President
- VII. Bringing it all Back Home
- 28. Corporations of the Whirlwind: The Reconstruction of New Oraq
- 29. The Chauffeur's Dilemma
- 30. Democratic Doublespeak on Iraq: Questions Unasked, Answers Never Volunteered
- 31. The Perfect Storm of Campaign 2008: War, Depression, and Turning-point Elections
- VIII. Back to the Future?
- 32. Katrina Started at Ground Zero
- 33. On Not Forgetting New Orleans
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Sourcing
- About Tom Engelhardt
- About Tomdispatch.com
- Contributors
- Index
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