going to last we're earlier from our new york studio i caught up with tom engelhardt editor of tom dispatch and co-founder of the american empire project and author of the american way of war how bush's wars became obama's now i first asked him what he made of the fact the general that are currently leading our wars have become the main media actors making strategies public leaking documents and speaking out more than our president. yes it's an extraordinary a new development i would say and it's and it's been a long time in coming if you remember with the first gulf war we had our our the war was narrated basically on t.v. on the news by retired generals who were often. telling the the story of how the generals they had worked with were the younger generals who were fighting so you knew you had the development of retired generals but the with this with the afghan war in particular in the later stages of the iraq war you have something new which is which is the actual commanding generals of the war begin to narrate the war in more or less real time and they do it as david petraeus and ray o

sites from macro to micro but in their count they don't include anything in a war zone and at tom dispatch you know we've done some reporting for instance on the afghan war or the present afghan war zone where we have upwards of four hundred bases again from tiny combat outposts to enormous basically american towns with boardwalks with fast food joints and whatever that we just built more or less from scratch and there are certain countries where the countries are embarrassed that their military bases there it's really hard to say i mean eight hundred to a thousand maybe more depending on what you're counting it's an awful lot it's an imperial presence of a kind i don't think we've ever seen in history and it's particularly strange because the bases traditionally bases more or less where the way you kept colonies but for us bases are actually the thing when you see global it's a frightening word it sounds like every single country throughout just globe has some form of military presence from the united states that i can't swear that it's every city probably isn't every single country but a

or to sitting down with tom engelhardt tom dispatch dot com a blog described as a regular antidote to the mainstream media and author of the american way of war how bush's wars became obama's sir thank you for sitting down with us to be here i'd like us to start off by taking a look at the extent of the u.s. military presence throughout the world right now it's global.

or sites from macro to micro but in their count they don't include anything in a war zone and tom dispatch you know we've done some reporting for instance on the afghan war at the present afghan war zone where we have upwards of four hundred bases again from tiny combat outposts to a normal basically american towns with boardwalks with fast food joints and whatever that we just built more or less from scratch it's an awful lot it's an imperial presence of a kind i don't think we've ever seen in history and it's particularly strange because the base is traditionally base is more or less where the way you kept colonies now it's very interesting that to draw that dividing line between declared war is an undeclared wars which you raise this point in your work often most americans are aware of declared wars. there are but afghanistan over the last several years what about the un declared wars how come nobody really talks about bad wars skirmishes whatever you know it's hard to know in this country what people know i mean i mean even the wars the afghan war for instance has disappeared more or l

sitting down with tom engelhardt tom dispatch dot com a blog described as a regular antidote to the mainstream media and author of the american way of war how bush's wars became obama's sir thank you for sitting down with us today. but let us just start off by taking a look.

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and the richmond times dispatch looking at some of the key house races in virginia, including tom peerlo in virginia's fifth congressional district, rick boucher and jerry connelly, all democrats, and how those returns come in. we'll give you a good indication of how the night will be going. and from the pittsburgh post gazette, yesterday's restore sant -- sanity. how are you determining who you are going to vote for? caller: i'm an independent, and the politicians are not happy with a lot of them. they're not saying the things i want to hear. host: what do you want to hear? you're the second or third person who has made that point. caller: what i want to hear, i want our money spent policing the world -- don't want. i'm also tired of exporting all the jobs out. if you want to sell it here, build it here. ok? even our energy crisis, all the energy things should be built here and i'm tired of our borders being open. i'm tired of the way they spend money. i'm tired of the politicians taking all the -- host: the front page of the detroit free press says that the next governor will be facing

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up the organization, including "the little blade," "the columbus dispatch," "the cincinnati enquirer," among others. our panelists are tom troy from "the toledo blade." , how it is from -- thank you all for being here. each candidate will have two minutes to respond. the other will have one minute of rebuttal. mr. fisher will begin with a two-minute opening statement. >> ohio, washington, main street, wall street, export goods, export jobs -- and begin this way tonight because this is a very clear chores between someone who has traveled ohio, fighting for the people of ohio, and someone who has spent the last 20 years fighting for the special interest. as attorney general, i opposed -- i helped struggling families get to their feet. i have been in every corner of the state in the middle of this unprecedented economic storm, working to save and create jobs. what about congressman portman? he would never know it by listening to him tonight, but here is who he is. he was a lobbyist for a foreign country. he was a congressman who supported the deregulation of wall street. he was bush's trade adviser. "the washington post" ha

from the richmond times dispatch, as returns, and on election night, you can take a look at these races including the fifth congressional district. tomerriello will have barack obama campaigning. gerry, is seeking a second term being challenged in the 11 to keith fimian and these are among the rations -- the race is that if the democrats win, it will be closer and that they lose it will give you a sense of what will happen around the country. a caller from mesa, ariz., on the democrats' line, good morning. caller: good morning, how are you? host: our u.s. caller:? i am happy but i will get over it. i am amazed that people will vote for republicans who have done nothing over the time that obama has been in office and they are concentrating on getting them out of office and he has done more than any president in recent knowledge. we're going to be at war as we are with republicans. the deficit will be deeper. we will lose. we are going back in the ditch and probably will not get out this time. they thrive on hate and making people hate each other and that throws us in a situation where we can't make any gaynor progress. we're so busy a