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"At a time when the mainstream media leave out half of what the public needs to know, while at the same time purveying oceans of official nonsense, the public needs an alternative source of news. For years now, Tom Engelhardt's Tomdispatch has been that for me. He is my mainstream. Now he presents a series of brilliant interviews he has done for the site, and they, taken as a whole, themselves form a searching chronicle of our time." --Jonathan Schell

We're very proud of our BuzzFlash interviews, but we've got to admit that nobody does it better than Tom Engelhardt.

Engelhardt is the master of the interview with noted experts which give a contextual overview to the public policy issues facing our nation and our world.

If the mainstream media news coverage is basically an ongoing surf wave of headlines, Engelhardt lays out the whole ocean in his ever-probing website Tomdispatch.com. If the MSM gives us all factoids and no perspective, Tomdispatch envelops us in context, history and relevance.

His interviews, as illustrated in the "Mission Unaccomplished" collection, help us to connect the dots.

Engelhardt, an editor by profession, is ever-curious and ever-probing. And as with BuzzFlash, his interviews are revelatory conversations that never seem contrived, because they aren't.

From the Nation Institute:

"Tom Engelhardt created and runs the Tomdispatch.com website, a project of The Nation Institute of which he is a Fellow. He is also consulting editor for Metropolitan Books and the co-founder of its American Empire Project series. He is the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of American triumphalism in the cold war, and of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing, about a world he inhabited for thirty years. Each spring he is a Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tomdispatch.com began in November 2001 as Tom Engelhardt’s unnamed e-list of commentary and collected articles from the world press. In December 2002, it gained its name, became a project of The Nation Institute, and went online as “a regular antidote to the mainstream media.” It now posts Tom Engelhardt’s regular commentaries and the original work of authors ranging from Rebecca Solnit and Mike Davis to Chalmers Johnson, Michael Klare, and Elizabeth de la Vega. Nick Turse (who also writes for the site) is its part-time associate editor and research director.

Tomdispatch is intended to introduce readers to voices and perspectives from elsewhere (even when the elsewhere is here). Its mission is to connect some of the global dots regularly left unconnected by the mainstream media and to offer a clearer sense of how this imperial globe of ours actually works. It also has regular interviews with thinkers and doers Engelhardt admires. These are now collected in Mission Unaccomplished: Tomdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters (Nation Books, October, 2006)"


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