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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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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Tomgram: Julia Gledhill and William Hartung, Failure as the Pentagon's Ultimate Success Story The White House released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 on March 11th, and the news was depressingly familiar: $895 billion for the Pentagon and work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy. After adjusting for inflation, that's only slightly less than last year's proposal, but far higher than the levels reached during either the Korean or Vietnam wars or at the height of the Cold War[...]
Tuesday, March 26, 2024Tomgram: Julia Gledhill and William Hartung, Failure as the Pentagon's Ultimate Success Story The White House released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 on March 11th, and the news was depressingly familiar: $895 billion for the Pentagon and work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy. After adjusting for inflation, that's only slightly less than last year's proposal, but far higher than the levels reached during either the Korean or Vietnam wars or at the height of the Cold War[...]
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Monday, March 25, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, "War" as Humanity's Middle Name I've been describing this world of ours, such as it is, for almost 23 years at TomDispatch. I've written my way through three-and-a-half presidencies -- god save us, it could be four in November! I've viewed from a grave (and I mean that word!) distance America's endlessly disastrous wars of this century[...]
Monday, March 25, 2024Tomgram: Engelhardt, "War" as Humanity's Middle Name I've been describing this world of ours, such as it is, for almost 23 years at TomDispatch. I've written my way through three-and-a-half presidencies -- god save us, it could be four in November! I've viewed from a grave (and I mean that word!) distance America's endlessly disastrous wars of this century[...]
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Thursday, March 21, 2024
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, A "Dictatorship" on Day One? We should already be talking about what it would be like, if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, to live under a developing autocracy. Beyond the publicized plans of those around him to gut the federal civil service system and consolidate power in the hands of You Know Who, under Trump 2.0, so much else would change for the worse[...]
Thursday, March 21, 2024Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, A "Dictatorship" on Day One? We should already be talking about what it would be like, if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, to live under a developing autocracy. Beyond the publicized plans of those around him to gut the federal civil service system and consolidate power in the hands of You Know Who, under Trump 2.0, so much else would change for the worse[...]
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Tomgram: Stan and Priti Gulati Cox, Blocking the Aid Trucks, Letting the Tanks Roll It's been almost two months since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop killing Gazans and destroying their means of subsistence. So let's look back and ask (1) how Israel has responded to its "orders," and (2) how hard the Biden administration has pushed Israel to abide by those orders. Spoiler alert: the short answers are (1) not well and (2) not very[...]
Tuesday, March 19, 2024Tomgram: Stan and Priti Gulati Cox, Blocking the Aid Trucks, Letting the Tanks Roll It's been almost two months since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop killing Gazans and destroying their means of subsistence. So let's look back and ask (1) how Israel has responded to its "orders," and (2) how hard the Biden administration has pushed Israel to abide by those orders. Spoiler alert: the short answers are (1) not well and (2) not very[...]
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Monday, March 18, 2024
Tomgram: William Astore, Cutting the Pentagon Down to Size In an age when American presidents routinely boast of having the world's finest military, where nearly trillion-dollar war budgets are now a new version of routine, let me bring up one vitally important but seldom mentioned fact: making major cuts to military spending would increase U.S. national security[...]
Monday, March 18, 2024Tomgram: William Astore, Cutting the Pentagon Down to Size In an age when American presidents routinely boast of having the world's finest military, where nearly trillion-dollar war budgets are now a new version of routine, let me bring up one vitally important but seldom mentioned fact: making major cuts to military spending would increase U.S. national security[...]
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Thursday, March 14, 2024
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, My "Children" Say They Won't Vote for Biden Recently my partner and I had brunch with some old comrades, folks I first met in the 1996 fight to stop the state of California from outlawing affirmative action. Sadly, we lost that one and, almost three decades later, we continue to lose affirmative action programs thanks to a Supreme Court rearranged or, more accurately, deranged by one Donald J. Trump[...]
Thursday, March 14, 2024Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, My "Children" Say They Won't Vote for Biden Recently my partner and I had brunch with some old comrades, folks I first met in the 1996 fight to stop the state of California from outlawing affirmative action. Sadly, we lost that one and, almost three decades later, we continue to lose affirmative action programs thanks to a Supreme Court rearranged or, more accurately, deranged by one Donald J. Trump[...]
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Living in a Quagmire World Empires don't just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial America[...]
Tuesday, March 12, 2024Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Living in a Quagmire World Empires don't just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial America[...]
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Monday, March 11, 2024
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, This Can't Be as "Good" as It Gets The slang definition of "unwinding" means "to chill." Other definitions include: to relax, disentangle, undo -- all words that, on the surface, appear both passive and peaceful. And yet in Google searches involving such seemingly harmless definitions of decompressing and resting, news articles abound about the end of pandemic-era Medicaid expansion programs[...]
Monday, March 11, 2024Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, This Can't Be as "Good" as It Gets The slang definition of "unwinding" means "to chill." Other definitions include: to relax, disentangle, undo -- all words that, on the surface, appear both passive and peaceful. And yet in Google searches involving such seemingly harmless definitions of decompressing and resting, news articles abound about the end of pandemic-era Medicaid expansion programs[...]
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Thursday, March 7, 2024
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, The Enticements of War (and Peace) War, what is it good for? Well, the media for starters. Shortly after the Biden administration responded to the killing of three American soldiers in a drone attack on a base in Jordan by bombing 85 Iran-connected targets in Iraq and Syria, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) asked in a headline: "Is the press dragging America to war again?" Again? I thought. Shouldn't that be "still"?[...]
Thursday, March 7, 2024Tomgram: Nan Levinson, The Enticements of War (and Peace) War, what is it good for? Well, the media for starters. Shortly after the Biden administration responded to the killing of three American soldiers in a drone attack on a base in Jordan by bombing 85 Iran-connected targets in Iraq and Syria, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) asked in a headline: "Is the press dragging America to war again?" Again? I thought. Shouldn't that be "still"?[...]
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Big-Time War of Terror On this planet of ours, it almost doesn't matter who's right and who's wrong when it comes to our wars[...]
Tuesday, March 5, 2024Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Big-Time War of Terror On this planet of ours, it almost doesn't matter who's right and who's wrong when it comes to our wars[...]
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Monday, March 4, 2024
Tomgram: Juan Cole, How Washington's Anti-Iranian Campaign Failed, Big Time In the midst of Israel's ongoing devastation of Gaza, one major piece of Middle Eastern news has yet to hit the headlines. In a face-off that, in a sense, has lasted since the pro-American Shah of Iran was overthrown by theocratic clerics in 1979, Iran finally seems to be besting the United States in a significant fashion across the region. It's a story that needs to be told[...]
Monday, March 4, 2024Tomgram: Juan Cole, How Washington's Anti-Iranian Campaign Failed, Big Time In the midst of Israel's ongoing devastation of Gaza, one major piece of Middle Eastern news has yet to hit the headlines. In a face-off that, in a sense, has lasted since the pro-American Shah of Iran was overthrown by theocratic clerics in 1979, Iran finally seems to be besting the United States in a significant fashion across the region. It's a story that needs to be told[...]
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Thursday, February 29, 2024
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, On Trial (Never?) In 1868, British Prime Minister William Gladstone famously said, "Justice delayed is justice denied." The phrase has often been repeated here in the United States, most famously by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., who echoed it in his 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail": "Justice too long delayed is justice denied[...]"
Thursday, February 29, 2024Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, On Trial (Never?) In 1868, British Prime Minister William Gladstone famously said, "Justice delayed is justice denied." The phrase has often been repeated here in the United States, most famously by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., who echoed it in his 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail": "Justice too long delayed is justice denied[...]"
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, War's Cost Is Unfathomable We Americans have been at war now since October 7th, 2001. That was when our military first launched air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to al-Qaeda's September 11th terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. That's 22 years and counting. The "war on terror" that began then would forever change what it meant to be an Arab-American here at home[...]
Tuesday, February 27, 2024Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, War's Cost Is Unfathomable We Americans have been at war now since October 7th, 2001. That was when our military first launched air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to al-Qaeda's September 11th terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. That's 22 years and counting. The "war on terror" that began then would forever change what it meant to be an Arab-American here at home[...]
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Monday, February 26, 2024
Tomgram: William Hartung, False Job Claims Fuel Massive Pentagon Budgets Joe Biden wants you to believe that spending money on weapons is good for the economy. That tired old myth -- regularly repeated by the political leaders of both parties -- could help create an even more militarized economy that could threaten our peace and prosperity for decades to come[...]
Monday, February 26, 2024Tomgram: William Hartung, False Job Claims Fuel Massive Pentagon Budgets Joe Biden wants you to believe that spending money on weapons is good for the economy. That tired old myth -- regularly repeated by the political leaders of both parties -- could help create an even more militarized economy that could threaten our peace and prosperity for decades to come[...]
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Thursday, February 22, 2024
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, What Kind of Jew Am I? Long ago, I came to believe that being a Jew, even a secular one like me, entailed certain responsibilities. A people who had suffered so much yet survived were obligated, if not honored, to serve as witnesses and supporters of other oppressed people and to live in the public interest, to model ethical lives[...]
Thursday, February 22, 2024Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, What Kind of Jew Am I? Long ago, I came to believe that being a Jew, even a secular one like me, entailed certain responsibilities. A people who had suffered so much yet survived were obligated, if not honored, to serve as witnesses and supporters of other oppressed people and to live in the public interest, to model ethical lives[...]
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Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Swarming Our World Yes, it's already time to be worried -- very worried. As the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have shown, the earliest drone equivalents of "killer robots" have made it onto the battlefield and proved to be devastating weapons. But at least they remain largely under human control[...]
Tuesday, February 20, 2024Tomgram: Michael Klare, Swarming Our World Yes, it's already time to be worried -- very worried. As the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have shown, the earliest drone equivalents of "killer robots" have made it onto the battlefield and proved to be devastating weapons. But at least they remain largely under human control[...]
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Monday, February 19, 2024
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Waters of Conflict We live in a world of dangerous, deadly extremes. Record-breaking heat waves, intense drought, stronger hurricanes, unprecedented flash flooding. No corner of the planet will be spared the wrath of human-caused climate change and the earth's fresh water is already feeling the heat of this new reality[...]
Monday, February 19, 2024Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Waters of Conflict We live in a world of dangerous, deadly extremes. Record-breaking heat waves, intense drought, stronger hurricanes, unprecedented flash flooding. No corner of the planet will be spared the wrath of human-caused climate change and the earth's fresh water is already feeling the heat of this new reality[...]
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Thursday, February 15, 2024
Tomgram: William Astore, Forever War in the Middle East Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played "war" with those old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke our great victory over the Nazis and "the Japs" during World War II. At age 10, I also kept a scrapbook of the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and its various Arab enemies in the Middle East[...]
Thursday, February 15, 2024Tomgram: William Astore, Forever War in the Middle East Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played "war" with those old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke our great victory over the Nazis and "the Japs" during World War II. At age 10, I also kept a scrapbook of the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and its various Arab enemies in the Middle East[...]
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Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Neither Law, Nor Order for You Know Who When the Civil War ended in 1865, the 76-year-old Constitution needed an upgrading and those leading the country did indeed dramatically transform it with the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, known collectively as the Reconstruction Era amendments. The 13th (1865) abolished slavery, while the 15th (1870) gave voting rights to newly freed Black men[...]
Tuesday, February 13, 2024Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Neither Law, Nor Order for You Know Who When the Civil War ended in 1865, the 76-year-old Constitution needed an upgrading and those leading the country did indeed dramatically transform it with the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, known collectively as the Reconstruction Era amendments. The 13th (1865) abolished slavery, while the 15th (1870) gave voting rights to newly freed Black men[...]
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Monday, February 12, 2024
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Protecting the Most Benign Institution When my mother died in 2000, I inherited all her books. Sadly, after several moves and downsizings over the decades, her collection had shrunk. Still, it remains considerable and impressive in its own way. Her legacy to me included some special volumes like a first edition of Frederick W. Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management, a famed codification of time-management practices[...]
Monday, February 12, 2024Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Protecting the Most Benign Institution When my mother died in 2000, I inherited all her books. Sadly, after several moves and downsizings over the decades, her collection had shrunk. Still, it remains considerable and impressive in its own way. Her legacy to me included some special volumes like a first edition of Frederick W. Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management, a famed codification of time-management practices[...]
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