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Tom Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com ("a regular antidote to the mainstream media"), is the co-founder of the American Empire Project and, most recently, the author of Mission Unaccomplished: Tomdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters (Nation Books), the first collection of Tomdispatch interviews.
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Thursday, January 26, 2023
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, The Newest Tool of War? I awoke on December 13th to news about what could be the most significant scientific breakthrough since the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first Covid vaccine for emergency use two years ago. This time, however, the achievement had nothing to do with that ongoing public health crisis[...]
Thursday, January 26, 2023Tomgram: Joshua Frank, The Newest Tool of War? I awoke on December 13th to news about what could be the most significant scientific breakthrough since the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first Covid vaccine for emergency use two years ago. This time, however, the achievement had nothing to do with that ongoing public health crisis[...]
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Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Tomgram: Ira Chernus, Tear Down the Gender Dam What makes a good society? Is it a guaranteed right to pursue happiness, as our Declaration of Independence proclaimed? Perhaps, as Gandhi said, it's providing the poorest and most vulnerable among us with the means to control their own lives. But what happens when it's the pursuit of happiness that makes someone most vulnerable?[...]
Tuesday, January 24, 2023Tomgram: Ira Chernus, Tear Down the Gender Dam What makes a good society? Is it a guaranteed right to pursue happiness, as our Declaration of Independence proclaimed? Perhaps, as Gandhi said, it's providing the poorest and most vulnerable among us with the means to control their own lives. But what happens when it's the pursuit of happiness that makes someone most vulnerable?[...]
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Monday, January 23, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Pentagon's Version of the World Is Not the World Given the secrecy typically accorded to the military and the inclination of government officials to skew data to satisfy the preferences of those in power, intelligence failures are anything but unusual in this country's security affairs[...]
Monday, January 23, 2023Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Pentagon's Version of the World Is Not the World Given the secrecy typically accorded to the military and the inclination of government officials to skew data to satisfy the preferences of those in power, intelligence failures are anything but unusual in this country's security affairs[...]
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Thursday, January 19, 2023
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream I like to sing and what I like best is to do so at the top of my lungs when I'm all alone. Last summer, taking a walk through the corn fields in New York's Hudson River Valley with no one around but the barn swallows, I found myself belting out a medley of tunes about peace from my long-ago, summer-camp years[...]
Thursday, January 19, 2023Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream I like to sing and what I like best is to do so at the top of my lungs when I'm all alone. Last summer, taking a walk through the corn fields in New York's Hudson River Valley with no one around but the barn swallows, I found myself belting out a medley of tunes about peace from my long-ago, summer-camp years[...]
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Tomgram: William Hartung, Going Down the Military Drain Late last month, President Biden signed a bill that clears the way for $858 billion in Pentagon spending and nuclear weapons work at the Department of Energy in 2023. That's far more than Washington anted up for military purposes at the height of the Korean or Vietnam wars or even during the peak years of the Cold War[...]
Tuesday, January 17, 2023Tomgram: William Hartung, Going Down the Military Drain Late last month, President Biden signed a bill that clears the way for $858 billion in Pentagon spending and nuclear weapons work at the Department of Energy in 2023. That's far more than Washington anted up for military purposes at the height of the Korean or Vietnam wars or even during the peak years of the Cold War[...]
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Monday, January 16, 2023
Tomgram: William Astore, Humanity's Worst Pastime More than two millennia ago, in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides recounted a disastrous conflict Athens waged against Sparta. A masterwork on strategy and war, the book is still taught at the U.S. Army War College and many other military institutions across the world[...]
Monday, January 16, 2023Tomgram: William Astore, Humanity's Worst Pastime More than two millennia ago, in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides recounted a disastrous conflict Athens waged against Sparta. A masterwork on strategy and war, the book is still taught at the U.S. Army War College and many other military institutions across the world[...]
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Thursday, January 12, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Hunger Wars? By any standard, the money the United States government pours into its military is simply overwhelming. Take the $858-billion defense spending authorization that President Biden signed into law last month. Not only did that bill pass in an otherwise riven Senate by a bipartisan majority of 83-11, but this year's budget increase of 4.3% is the second highest in inflation-adjusted terms since World War II[...]
Thursday, January 12, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Hunger Wars? By any standard, the money the United States government pours into its military is simply overwhelming. Take the $858-billion defense spending authorization that President Biden signed into law last month. Not only did that bill pass in an otherwise riven Senate by a bipartisan majority of 83-11, but this year's budget increase of 4.3% is the second highest in inflation-adjusted terms since World War II[...]
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Toward a More Perfect North American Union? A few recent headlines reveal the painfully inhumane, dangerously volatile state of U.S. relations with its own home region, the continent of North America. A record-breaking 2.76 million border crossings from Mexico filled homeless shelters to the bursting point in cities nationwide in 2022[...]
Tuesday, January 10, 2023Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Toward a More Perfect North American Union? A few recent headlines reveal the painfully inhumane, dangerously volatile state of U.S. relations with its own home region, the continent of North America. A record-breaking 2.76 million border crossings from Mexico filled homeless shelters to the bursting point in cities nationwide in 2022[...]
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Monday, January 9, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Another Exceptional Year? Let me start with a confession: I no longer read all the way through newspaper stories about the war in Ukraine. After years of writing about war and torture, I've reached my limit. These days, I just can't pore through the details of the ongoing nightmare there. It's shameful, but I don't want to know the names of the dead or examine images caught by brave photographers of half-exploded buildings[...]
Monday, January 9, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Another Exceptional Year? Let me start with a confession: I no longer read all the way through newspaper stories about the war in Ukraine. After years of writing about war and torture, I've reached my limit. These days, I just can't pore through the details of the ongoing nightmare there. It's shameful, but I don't want to know the names of the dead or examine images caught by brave photographers of half-exploded buildings[...]
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Thursday, January 5, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Greatest Depression of All? Let me start 2023 with a glance back at a December news moment that caught my eye. To do so, however, I have to offer a bit of explanation. First, the obvious: I'm an old guy and, though I spend significant parts of any day scrolling through endless websites covering aspects of our ever-changing world, I have a subscription "yes, it's still possible!" to the New York Times. That's the paper New York Times[...]
Thursday, January 5, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Greatest Depression of All? Let me start 2023 with a glance back at a December news moment that caught my eye. To do so, however, I have to offer a bit of explanation. First, the obvious: I'm an old guy and, though I spend significant parts of any day scrolling through endless websites covering aspects of our ever-changing world, I have a subscription "yes, it's still possible!" to the New York Times. That's the paper New York Times[...]
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Thursday, December 22, 2022
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Weapons of Mass Disinformation We all do it. Make little snap judgments about everyday strangers as we go about our lives. Without giving it a second's thought, we sketch minibiographies of the people we pass on the sidewalk, the guy seated across from us on the train, or the woman in line in front of us at the grocery store. We wonder: Who are they? Where are they from? How do they make a living?[...]
Thursday, December 22, 2022Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Weapons of Mass Disinformation We all do it. Make little snap judgments about everyday strangers as we go about our lives. Without giving it a second's thought, we sketch minibiographies of the people we pass on the sidewalk, the guy seated across from us on the train, or the woman in line in front of us at the grocery store. We wonder: Who are they? Where are they from? How do they make a living?[...]
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Sleeping Giant of American Life Last week, I was in Washington, D.C.'s Union Station. The weather had turned cold and I couldn't help noticing what an inhospitable place it had become for the city's homeless and dispossessed. Once upon a time, anyone was allowed to be in the train station at any hour. Now, there were signs everywhere announcing that you needed a ticket to be there[...]
Tuesday, December 20, 2022Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Sleeping Giant of American Life Last week, I was in Washington, D.C.'s Union Station. The weather had turned cold and I couldn't help noticing what an inhospitable place it had become for the city's homeless and dispossessed. Once upon a time, anyone was allowed to be in the train station at any hour. Now, there were signs everywhere announcing that you needed a ticket to be there[...]
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Monday, December 19, 2022
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Far Right Is Crazy -- Like a Fox Arizona is ground zero for the wackiest theories and craziest political candidates[...]
Monday, December 19, 2022Tomgram: John Feffer, The Far Right Is Crazy -- Like a Fox Arizona is ground zero for the wackiest theories and craziest political candidates[...]
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Thursday, December 15, 2022
Tomgram: William Astore, Going Nuclear (Again) Hey, cheer up because it truly is a beauty! I'm talking about this country's latest "stealth bomber," the B-21 Raider, just revealed by Northrop Grumman, the company that makes it, in all its glory. With its striking bat-winged shape and its ability to deliver a very big bang (as in nuclear weapons), it's our very own "bomber of the future[...]"
Thursday, December 15, 2022Tomgram: William Astore, Going Nuclear (Again) Hey, cheer up because it truly is a beauty! I'm talking about this country's latest "stealth bomber," the B-21 Raider, just revealed by Northrop Grumman, the company that makes it, in all its glory. With its striking bat-winged shape and its ability to deliver a very big bang (as in nuclear weapons), it's our very own "bomber of the future[...]"
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Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Tomgram: Jane Braxton Little, A Global Four-Alarm Blaze Mike Savala's boots scuffed the edge of a singed patch of forest littered with skinny fingers of burnt ponderosa pine needles. Nearby, an oak seedling sizzled as a yellow-shirted firefighter hit it with a stream of water. Spurts of smoke rose from blackened ground the size of a hockey rink. A 100-foot Ponderosa pine towered overhead[...]
Tuesday, December 13, 2022Tomgram: Jane Braxton Little, A Global Four-Alarm Blaze Mike Savala's boots scuffed the edge of a singed patch of forest littered with skinny fingers of burnt ponderosa pine needles. Nearby, an oak seedling sizzled as a yellow-shirted firefighter hit it with a stream of water. Spurts of smoke rose from blackened ground the size of a hockey rink. A 100-foot Ponderosa pine towered overhead[...]
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Thursday, December 8, 2022
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Confronting America's Forever Prison As of December 8, 2022, Guanta'namo Bay detention facility "a prison offshore of American justice and built for those detained in this country's never-ending Global War on Terror" has been open for nearly 21 years (or, to be precise, 7,627 days). Thirteen years ago, I published a book, The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days[...]
Thursday, December 8, 2022Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Confronting America's Forever Prison As of December 8, 2022, Guanta'namo Bay detention facility "a prison offshore of American justice and built for those detained in this country's never-ending Global War on Terror" has been open for nearly 21 years (or, to be precise, 7,627 days). Thirteen years ago, I published a book, The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days[...]
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Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Three Conversations about Politics "Welcome back!" read my friend Allan's email. "So happy to have you back and seeing that hard work paid off. Thank you for all that you do. Please don't cook this evening. I am bringing you a Honduran dinner " tacos hondureños and baleadas, plus a bottle of wine." The tacos were tasty indeed, but even more pleasing was my friend's evident admiration for my recent political activities[...]
Tuesday, December 6, 2022Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Three Conversations about Politics "Welcome back!" read my friend Allan's email. "So happy to have you back and seeing that hard work paid off. Thank you for all that you do. Please don't cook this evening. I am bringing you a Honduran dinner " tacos hondureños and baleadas, plus a bottle of wine." The tacos were tasty indeed, but even more pleasing was my friend's evident admiration for my recent political activities[...]
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Monday, December 5, 2022
Tomgram: Helen Benedict, The Increasing Persecution of Refugees Almost anyone would agree that war is horrifying and peaceful countries should do their best to help its victims. The widespread eagerness to welcome fleeing Ukrainians after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded their country last February is a heartening example of such aid. But behind that altruism lies an ugly truth[...]
Monday, December 5, 2022Tomgram: Helen Benedict, The Increasing Persecution of Refugees Almost anyone would agree that war is horrifying and peaceful countries should do their best to help its victims. The widespread eagerness to welcome fleeing Ukrainians after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded their country last February is a heartening example of such aid. But behind that altruism lies an ugly truth[...]
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Thursday, December 1, 2022
Tomgram: Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox, "We Have Not Yet Been Defeated" On October 29th, 75-year-old Saifullah Paracha, Guanta'namo Bay's oldest detainee, was finally released by U.S. authorities and flown home to his family in Karachi, Pakistan. He had been incarcerated for nearly two decades without either charges or a trial. His plane touched down in a land still reeling from this year's cataclysmic monsoon floods that, in July, had covered an unparalleled one-third of that country[...]
Thursday, December 1, 2022Tomgram: Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox, "We Have Not Yet Been Defeated" On October 29th, 75-year-old Saifullah Paracha, Guanta'namo Bay's oldest detainee, was finally released by U.S. authorities and flown home to his family in Karachi, Pakistan. He had been incarcerated for nearly two decades without either charges or a trial. His plane touched down in a land still reeling from this year's cataclysmic monsoon floods that, in July, had covered an unparalleled one-third of that country[...]
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, The Decline of Democracy Just in case you didn't notice, authoritarianism was on the ballot in the 2022 midterm elections. An unprecedented majority of candidates from one of the nation's two major political parties were committed to undemocratic policies and outcomes. You would have to go back to the Democratic Party-dominated segregationist South of the 1950s to find such a sweeping array of authoritarian proclivities in an American election[...]
Wednesday, November 30, 2022Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, The Decline of Democracy Just in case you didn't notice, authoritarianism was on the ballot in the 2022 midterm elections. An unprecedented majority of candidates from one of the nation's two major political parties were committed to undemocratic policies and outcomes. You would have to go back to the Democratic Party-dominated segregationist South of the 1950s to find such a sweeping array of authoritarian proclivities in an American election[...]
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