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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, February 8, 2024
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Everything at Risk Yes, the Doomsday Clock keeps ticking -- it's now at 90 seconds to midnight, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists -- but the ultimate time bomb never gets the attention that it deserves. Even as the possibility of nuclear annihilation looms, this century's many warning signs retain the status of Cassandras[...]
Thursday, February 8, 2024Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Everything at Risk Yes, the Doomsday Clock keeps ticking -- it's now at 90 seconds to midnight, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists -- but the ultimate time bomb never gets the attention that it deserves. Even as the possibility of nuclear annihilation looms, this century's many warning signs retain the status of Cassandras[...]
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Trumpian Bacchanalia in 2024? I was born on July 20, 1944, almost two years after Joe Biden arrived on this planet and almost a year before You Know Who, like me, landed in New York City. The United States was then nearing the end of the second global war of that century and things were about to look up. My dad had been the operations officer for the 1st Air Commandos fighting the Japanese in Burma and, by that July, the tide had distinctly turned[...]
Tuesday, February 6, 2024Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Trumpian Bacchanalia in 2024? I was born on July 20, 1944, almost two years after Joe Biden arrived on this planet and almost a year before You Know Who, like me, landed in New York City. The United States was then nearing the end of the second global war of that century and things were about to look up. My dad had been the operations officer for the 1st Air Commandos fighting the Japanese in Burma and, by that July, the tide had distinctly turned[...]
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Monday, February 5, 2024
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Against Forgetting What's in your basement? Mine is full of things I've mostly forgotten about -- tools I bought for projects I never completed, long abandoned sports equipment, furniture I planned on refinishing ages ago, and unused cans of paint I thought I wanted when someone was giving them away[...]
Monday, February 5, 2024Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Against Forgetting What's in your basement? Mine is full of things I've mostly forgotten about -- tools I bought for projects I never completed, long abandoned sports equipment, furniture I planned on refinishing ages ago, and unused cans of paint I thought I wanted when someone was giving them away[...]
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Thursday, February 1, 2024
Tomgram: Kramer and Fogler, "Solving" a Mental Health Crisis in America Amid ongoing emergencies, including a would-be autocrat on his way to possibly regaining the American presidency and Israel's war on Gaza (not to mention the flare-ups of global climate change), the U.S. has slipped quietly toward an assault on civil liberties as an answer to plummeting mental health. From coast to coast, state lawmakers of both parties are reaching for coercive treatment and involuntary commitment[...]
Thursday, February 1, 2024Tomgram: Kramer and Fogler, "Solving" a Mental Health Crisis in America Amid ongoing emergencies, including a would-be autocrat on his way to possibly regaining the American presidency and Israel's war on Gaza (not to mention the flare-ups of global climate change), the U.S. has slipped quietly toward an assault on civil liberties as an answer to plummeting mental health. From coast to coast, state lawmakers of both parties are reaching for coercive treatment and involuntary commitment[...]
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Sorry, But Not Sorry in Somalia In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the misfortune of being born in the wrong place -- Cambodia or Gaza, Afghanistan or Ukraine -- at the wrong time. They die due to happenstance, choosing to shelter indoors when they should have taken cover outside or because they ventured out into a hell-storm of destruction when they should have stayed put[...]
Tuesday, January 30, 2024Tomgram: Nick Turse, Sorry, But Not Sorry in Somalia In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the misfortune of being born in the wrong place -- Cambodia or Gaza, Afghanistan or Ukraine -- at the wrong time. They die due to happenstance, choosing to shelter indoors when they should have taken cover outside or because they ventured out into a hell-storm of destruction when they should have stayed put[...]
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Monday, January 29, 2024
Tomgram: Stan Cox, Solving Climate Change -- Or Else! In December, the New York Times reported that "Earth is finishing up its warmest year in the past 174 years and very likely the past 125,000[...]"
Monday, January 29, 2024Tomgram: Stan Cox, Solving Climate Change -- Or Else! In December, the New York Times reported that "Earth is finishing up its warmest year in the past 174 years and very likely the past 125,000[...]"
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Thursday, January 25, 2024
Tomgram: Maha Hilal, Cheerleading the War on Terror In a New Yorker piece published five days after the attacks of September 11, 2001, American critic and public intellectual Susan Sontag wrote, "Let's by all means grieve together. But let's not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen[...]"
Thursday, January 25, 2024Tomgram: Maha Hilal, Cheerleading the War on Terror In a New Yorker piece published five days after the attacks of September 11, 2001, American critic and public intellectual Susan Sontag wrote, "Let's by all means grieve together. But let's not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen[...]"
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Tomgram: John Feffer, The End of Europe? It would be funny if it weren't so potentially tragic -- and consequential. No, I'm not thinking about Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign but a related development: the latest decisions from the European Union (EU) about Ukraine[...]
Tuesday, January 23, 2024Tomgram: John Feffer, The End of Europe? It would be funny if it weren't so potentially tragic -- and consequential. No, I'm not thinking about Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign but a related development: the latest decisions from the European Union (EU) about Ukraine[...]
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Monday, January 22, 2024
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Trump Atop Us (Again)? Count on one thing: Donald Trump, who seems to gain Republican support with every new indictment, is not going away. He's managed to capitalize on his 2020 election loss, using his failed insurrection, a stream of violent threats and verbal attacks against political opponents and journalists, and the disinformation machine of Fox News and similar outlets to peddle his stories of white American victimhood[...]
Monday, January 22, 2024Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Trump Atop Us (Again)? Count on one thing: Donald Trump, who seems to gain Republican support with every new indictment, is not going away. He's managed to capitalize on his 2020 election loss, using his failed insurrection, a stream of violent threats and verbal attacks against political opponents and journalists, and the disinformation machine of Fox News and similar outlets to peddle his stories of white American victimhood[...]
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Thursday, January 18, 2024
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, Can the Kids Change Our World? "All Americans owe them a debt for -- if nothing else -- releasing the idealism locked so long inside a nation that has not recently tasted the drama of a social upheaval. And for making us look on the young people of the country with a new respect." That's how Howard Zinn opened his book The New Abolitionists about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of the 1960s[...]
Thursday, January 18, 2024Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, Can the Kids Change Our World? "All Americans owe them a debt for -- if nothing else -- releasing the idealism locked so long inside a nation that has not recently tasted the drama of a social upheaval. And for making us look on the young people of the country with a new respect." That's how Howard Zinn opened his book The New Abolitionists about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of the 1960s[...]
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Tomgram: William Hartung, Disarming You 2023 was a year marked by devastating conflicts from Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine to Hamas's horrific terror attacks on Israel, from that country's indiscriminate mass slaughter in Gaza to a devastating civil war in Sudan. And there's a distinct risk of even worse to come this year. Still, there was one clear winner in this avalanche of violence, suffering, and war: the U.S. military-industrial complex[...]
Tuesday, January 16, 2024Tomgram: William Hartung, Disarming You 2023 was a year marked by devastating conflicts from Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine to Hamas's horrific terror attacks on Israel, from that country's indiscriminate mass slaughter in Gaza to a devastating civil war in Sudan. And there's a distinct risk of even worse to come this year. Still, there was one clear winner in this avalanche of violence, suffering, and war: the U.S. military-industrial complex[...]
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Monday, January 15, 2024
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Ending the American Century? With recent polls giving Donald Trump a reasonable chance of defeating President Biden in the November elections, commentators have begun predicting what his second presidency might mean for domestic politics. In a dismally detailed Washington Post analysis, historian Robert Kagan argued that a second Trump term would feature his "deep thirst for vengeance"[...]
Monday, January 15, 2024Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Ending the American Century? With recent polls giving Donald Trump a reasonable chance of defeating President Biden in the November elections, commentators have begun predicting what his second presidency might mean for domestic politics. In a dismally detailed Washington Post analysis, historian Robert Kagan argued that a second Trump term would feature his "deep thirst for vengeance"[...]
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Thursday, January 11, 2024
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Making Gaza Unlivable On a picturesque beach in central Gaza, a mile north of the now-flattened Al-Shati refugee camp, long black pipes snake through hills of white sand before disappearing underground. An image released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shows dozens of soldiers laying pipelines and what appear to be mobile pumping stations that are to take water from the Mediterranean Sea and hose it into underground tunnels[...]
Thursday, January 11, 2024Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Making Gaza Unlivable On a picturesque beach in central Gaza, a mile north of the now-flattened Al-Shati refugee camp, long black pipes snake through hills of white sand before disappearing underground. An image released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shows dozens of soldiers laying pipelines and what appear to be mobile pumping stations that are to take water from the Mediterranean Sea and hose it into underground tunnels[...]
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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Tomgram: Karen J. Greenberg, Whose Power? Not Ours This week marks the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Guanta'namo Bay detention facility, the infamous prison on the island of Cuba designed to hold detainees from this country's Global War on Terror. It's an anniversary that's likely to go unnoticed, since these days you rarely hear about the war on terror -- and for good reason[...]
Tuesday, January 9, 2024Tomgram: Karen J. Greenberg, Whose Power? Not Ours This week marks the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Guanta'namo Bay detention facility, the infamous prison on the island of Cuba designed to hold detainees from this country's Global War on Terror. It's an anniversary that's likely to go unnoticed, since these days you rarely hear about the war on terror -- and for good reason[...]
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Monday, January 8, 2024
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Gimme Shelter Back in 1968, my father announced that, if Richard Nixon were elected president that November, he was going to move us all to Canada. I'm not sure who "us all" actually was, since my younger brother and I were then living with my mother and my parents had been divorced for years. Still, he was determined to protect us, should someone he considered a dangerous anti-Semite make it into the Oval Office[...]
Monday, January 8, 2024Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Gimme Shelter Back in 1968, my father announced that, if Richard Nixon were elected president that November, he was going to move us all to Canada. I'm not sure who "us all" actually was, since my younger brother and I were then living with my mother and my parents had been divorced for years. Still, he was determined to protect us, should someone he considered a dangerous anti-Semite make it into the Oval Office[...]
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Thursday, January 4, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Whose World Is This Anyway? Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? (And I'm not even thinking about the utter, ongoing devastation of Gaza.)[...]
Thursday, January 4, 2024Tomgram: Engelhardt, Whose World Is This Anyway? Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? (And I'm not even thinking about the utter, ongoing devastation of Gaza.)[...]
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Thursday, December 21, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Another Major War in 2024? This hasn't exactly been a year of good news when it comes to our war-torn, beleaguered planet, but on November 15th, U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping took one small step back from the precipice[...]
Thursday, December 21, 2023Tomgram: Michael Klare, Another Major War in 2024? This hasn't exactly been a year of good news when it comes to our war-torn, beleaguered planet, but on November 15th, U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping took one small step back from the precipice[...]
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Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Greenwashing the Planet A recent opinion poll rocked the world of the Big Oil lobbyists in their proverbial thousand-dollar suits and alligator shoes. The Pew Research Center found that 37% of Americans now feel that fighting the climate crisis should be the number one priority of President Joe Biden and Congress, and another 34% put it among their highest priorities, even if they didn't rank it first[...]
Tuesday, December 19, 2023Tomgram: Juan Cole, Greenwashing the Planet A recent opinion poll rocked the world of the Big Oil lobbyists in their proverbial thousand-dollar suits and alligator shoes. The Pew Research Center found that 37% of Americans now feel that fighting the climate crisis should be the number one priority of President Joe Biden and Congress, and another 34% put it among their highest priorities, even if they didn't rank it first[...]
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Monday, December 18, 2023
Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler, This Holiday Season, We're Lonely Consider two phenomena that might seem unrelated. This fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing a marked increase in overdose fatalities nationally. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, told CNN that she had expected overdose deaths to decline after a sharp spike during the pandemic. Instead, such fatalities have only gone up[...]
Monday, December 18, 2023Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler, This Holiday Season, We're Lonely Consider two phenomena that might seem unrelated. This fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing a marked increase in overdose fatalities nationally. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, told CNN that she had expected overdose deaths to decline after a sharp spike during the pandemic. Instead, such fatalities have only gone up[...]
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Thursday, December 14, 2023
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, What Daniel Ellsberg Knew About Doomsday Top American officials in the "national security" establishment are notably good at smooth rhetoric and convenient silences. Their scant regard for truth or human life has changed remarkably little since 1971 when Daniel Ellsberg risked decades in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers to the world. During the years between then and his death six months ago, he was a tireless writer, speaker, and activist[...]
Thursday, December 14, 2023Tomgram: Norman Solomon, What Daniel Ellsberg Knew About Doomsday Top American officials in the "national security" establishment are notably good at smooth rhetoric and convenient silences. Their scant regard for truth or human life has changed remarkably little since 1971 when Daniel Ellsberg risked decades in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers to the world. During the years between then and his death six months ago, he was a tireless writer, speaker, and activist[...]
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