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The World According to Tomdispatch: America In The New Age of Empire

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Since TomDispatch's beginnings as an e-mail newsletter TomDispatch.com editor and creator Tom Engelhardt sent to a few select friends in which he culled news stories and commentaries from throughout the world--stories that curiously weren't appearing in the American mainstream media--TomDispatch.com has acted as the definitive source of reporting and commentary on our post-9/11 world and the spread of American imperialism throughout the world.

TomDispatch published the stories that readers weren't finding in their daily newspapers and monthly magazines--stories that reported and commented on the possibility of spending $1 billion on a WTC memorial, on the anonymity of Iraqi victims as a result of the U.S.'s invasion and subsequent occupancy, on the rhetoric used by President Bush throughout the Iraq war, and on the largely-underreported refugee crisis in Iraq, to name just a few.

Although TomDispatch makes it home on the Internet, the site's essays--as seen in this collection--are not clipped news stories or blog posts; rather, they're finely edited, thorough, extensive and wonderfully written and reported pieces of journalism. And the names of those who've contributed to the site and who also appear in this book are quite notable as well. The likes of Noam Chomsky, Bill McKibben, Rebecca Solnit and Mark Danner, among many, many others, have penned essays for TomDispatch that have been collected here.

Like finally flipping on the lights in a dark room, reading this book opens one's eyes to a whole world of imperialism and corporatism and to a class of plutocrats and crooks that never made it into the pages of The New York Times or Newsweek. When looking to make sense of this post-9/11 world, this is book is the place to start.

This book is a must for all shelves! Where else could you in one book read the outstanding thinking, insight and prose from such writers as Rebecca Solnit, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Dahr Jamail, Nick Turse, Mike Davis and Michael Klare among so many others, including Tom Engelhardt himself?!

This book is eye-opening and thought provoking. It is also very heartening to read the type of journalism that is so lacking in our mainstream media today. At least there are some writers out there willing to look into the issues and provide perspective.

Sick of the mind-numbing propaganda and endless trivial brainwashing of TV and the rest of the Corporatist media? Do you want intelligent analysis based on fact and logic free from neo-con or any other sick corrupt ideology? TomDispatch is a good start. Read this book, and then subscribe to TomDispatch's emailed essays. Here's a link: http://www.tomdispatch.com/

I enjoyed this book. I am reading more and more about American empire from a number of viewpoints and that, along with global warming, has provided me with subjects of great interest and urgency.

There is something to be learned for everyone in this collection of writing by some of the brightest authors in America. It is a true learning experience and if you are not alittle upset with the way things are going now, this collection will cure that.

It certainly is contempory to our current situation & will help to direct you to the web site where one can continue readings from the same sources, & those that have been added since the book was first released! A four star event so read on!