Tom Engelhardt runs the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com (a regular antidote to the mainstream media), is the co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The End of Victory Culture, a historyof American triumphalism in the Cold War.

His article "Moving out of the Superpower Orbit" is available at

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GE04Aa01.html