Mission Unaccomplished : Tomdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters

by Engelhardt, Tom

• ISBN13: 9781560259381
• ISBN10: 1560259388
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-28
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group
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Summary

Profiles in Dissent is a collection of remarkably fresh and provocative interviews with some of the iconoclastic thinkers and activists of our time. These candid conversations ranging from Howard Zinn to Chalmers Johnson, Cindy Sheehan to Mike Davis, Ann Wright, who retired from the State Department to protest the Iraqi invasion and became "a felon for peace," to Boston Globe columnist James Carroll focus on the Bush administration's imperial dreams and ham-handed acts. They suggest new ways to frame American global policy, while catching something of the white heat of our moment, and offer a chronicle and original perspectives on our troubling times. Tom Engelhardt, creator of the website TomDispatch.com who has been called "the I.F. Stone of the internet" brings the immediacy of the moment to his introductions and his questions. His daily Tomgrams contain his parsing of contemporary news events, as well as his posting of original content from some of America's leading progressive thinkers. A quarter million readers a month visit his website (and hundreds of thousands more read his dispatches posted elsewhere on the Internet).

Author Biography

An editor in publishing for the last 25 years, Engelhardt is the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of American triumphalism in the Cold War era. He is at present consulting editor for Metropolitan Books, a fellow of The Nation Institute, and a teaching fellow at the journalism school of the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Mission Unaccomplished	ix
1. The Outer Limits of Empire	1	(12)
HOWARD ZINN
2. The Mosquito and the Hammer	13	(15)
JAMES CARROLL
3. Katrina Will Be Bush's Monica	28	(14)
CINDY SHEEHAN
4. "No Iraqis Left Me on a Roof to Die"	42	(19)
VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINES OF PROTEST
5. "A Felon for Peace"	61	(21)
ANN WRIGHT
6. The Treasure, the Strongbox, and the Crowbar	82	(24)
JUAN COLE
7. You Can Do Anything with a Bayonet Except Sit on It	106	(23)
MARK DANNER
8. Cold Warrior in a Strange Land	129	(27)
CHALMERS JOHNSON
9. A World at 36/7 Speed	156	(19)
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL
10. Humanity's Ground Zero	175	(25)
MIKE DAVIS
11. The Delusions of Global Hegemony	200	(24)
ANDREW BACEVICH
12. A Guided Tour of Class in America	224	(21)
BARBARA EHRENREICH
13. Reading the Imperial Press Back to Front	245	(24)
TOM ENGELHARDT (Interview by Nick Turse)
Acknowledgments	269	(2)
About the Author	271	(1)
About Tomdispatch.com	272