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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, December 12, 2023
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Peace When? What a world! For eight weeks now, events in Israel and Gaza have been the story of the hour, day, week. And what exactly are we to make of that?[...]
Tuesday, December 12, 2023Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Peace When? What a world! For eight weeks now, events in Israel and Gaza have been the story of the hour, day, week. And what exactly are we to make of that?[...]
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Monday, December 11, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Upending America? Recently, on a commuter train, I ran into an acquaintance who works for a government agency here in Washington, D.C. Soon after we started chatting, he indicated a desire to switch jobs in case Donald Trump was reelected president in 2024. "I'd like to be somewhere that Trump wouldn't be able to politicize," my buddy said[...]
Monday, December 11, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Upending America? Recently, on a commuter train, I ran into an acquaintance who works for a government agency here in Washington, D.C. Soon after we started chatting, he indicated a desire to switch jobs in case Donald Trump was reelected president in 2024. "I'd like to be somewhere that Trump wouldn't be able to politicize," my buddy said[...]
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Thursday, December 7, 2023
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, When Wars Converge One way of understanding the ongoing bloodbath pitting Israel against Hamas is to see it as just the latest chapter in an existential struggle dating back to the founding of the Jewish state in 1948. While the appalling scope, destructiveness, and duration of the fighting in Gaza may outstrip previous episodes[...]
Thursday, December 7, 2023Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, When Wars Converge One way of understanding the ongoing bloodbath pitting Israel against Hamas is to see it as just the latest chapter in an existential struggle dating back to the founding of the Jewish state in 1948. While the appalling scope, destructiveness, and duration of the fighting in Gaza may outstrip previous episodes[...]
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Don't Say You Weren't Warned On February 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. It initiated a Department of Defense program that resulted in the rounding up and incarceration of about 122,000 individuals of Japanese descent. They were to be placed in federal "relocation centers" that would popularly become known as "internment camps." As it happened, they were neither[...]
Tuesday, December 5, 2023Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Don't Say You Weren't Warned On February 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. It initiated a Department of Defense program that resulted in the rounding up and incarceration of about 122,000 individuals of Japanese descent. They were to be placed in federal "relocation centers" that would popularly become known as "internment camps." As it happened, they were neither[...]
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Monday, December 4, 2023
Tomgram: Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox, Three Nations Under God(s) In 1981, India's post office issued a stamp showing the flags of India and occupied Palestine flying side by side above the phrase "Solidarity with the Palestinian people." That now seems like ancient history. Today, Hindu nationalists are flying the flags of India and Israel side by side as a demonstration of their support for that country's catastrophic war on Gaza[...]
Monday, December 4, 2023Tomgram: Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox, Three Nations Under God(s) In 1981, India's post office issued a stamp showing the flags of India and occupied Palestine flying side by side above the phrase "Solidarity with the Palestinian people." That now seems like ancient history. Today, Hindu nationalists are flying the flags of India and Israel side by side as a demonstration of their support for that country's catastrophic war on Gaza[...]
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
Tomgram: Ariel Dorfman, The Donald (Duck, Not Trump) Chronicle This year marks the anniversaries of two drastically different events that loomed all too large in my life. The first occurred a century ago in Hollywood: on October 16, 1923, Walt Disney signed into being the corporation that bears his name. The second took place in Santiago, Chile, on September 11, 1973, when socialist President Salvador Allende died in a military coup that overthrew his democratically elected government[...
Thursday, November 30, 2023Tomgram: Ariel Dorfman, The Donald (Duck, Not Trump) Chronicle This year marks the anniversaries of two drastically different events that loomed all too large in my life. The first occurred a century ago in Hollywood: on October 16, 1923, Walt Disney signed into being the corporation that bears his name. The second took place in Santiago, Chile, on September 11, 1973, when socialist President Salvador Allende died in a military coup that overthrew his democratically elected government[...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The Hamster Wheel of War When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best friend genital herpes, which many health practitioners then believed was the agent responsible for causing cervical cancer in women. (It wasn't.)[...]
Tuesday, November 28, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The Hamster Wheel of War When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best friend genital herpes, which many health practitioners then believed was the agent responsible for causing cervical cancer in women. (It wasn't.)[...]
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Monday, November 27, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, World War III? Imagine this: humanity in its time on Earth has already come up with two distinct ways of destroying this planet and everything on it. The first is, of course, nuclear weapons, which once again surfaced in the ongoing nightmare in the Middle East[...]
Monday, November 27, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, World War III? Imagine this: humanity in its time on Earth has already come up with two distinct ways of destroying this planet and everything on it. The first is, of course, nuclear weapons, which once again surfaced in the ongoing nightmare in the Middle East[...]
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Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Goodbye to All That In the spring of 1957, in search of a summer job before heading west to graduate school, I answered a classified New York Times ad for an editorial assistant. The personnel clerk at the paper was condescending. Bachelor's degrees are a dime a dozen, she told me. For their newsroom, she said, they were looking for Ph.D. candidates and Rhodes scholars. Still, sighing at her own generosity, she let me fill out the paperwork[...]
Tuesday, November 21, 2023Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Goodbye to All That In the spring of 1957, in search of a summer job before heading west to graduate school, I answered a classified New York Times ad for an editorial assistant. The personnel clerk at the paper was condescending. Bachelor's degrees are a dime a dozen, she told me. For their newsroom, she said, they were looking for Ph.D. candidates and Rhodes scholars. Still, sighing at her own generosity, she let me fill out the paperwork[...]
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Monday, November 20, 2023
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, A Growing Middle Eastern Nightmare Israel's robust military, the fourth-strongest in the world, is ravaging Gaza and, along with armed settlers, terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank following the brutal Hamas massacres of October 7th. Like so many other colonial projects, Israel was born of terror and has necessitated the use of violence to occupy Arab territory and segregate Palestinians ever since[...]
Monday, November 20, 2023Tomgram: Joshua Frank, A Growing Middle Eastern Nightmare Israel's robust military, the fourth-strongest in the world, is ravaging Gaza and, along with armed settlers, terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank following the brutal Hamas massacres of October 7th. Like so many other colonial projects, Israel was born of terror and has necessitated the use of violence to occupy Arab territory and segregate Palestinians ever since[...]
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Epicenter of International Terrorism America's Global War on Terror has seen its share of stalemates, disasters, and outright defeats. During 20-plus years of armed interventions, the United States has watched its efforts implode in spectacular fashion, from Iraq in 2014 to Afghanistan in 2021. The greatest failure of its "Forever Wars," however, may not be in the Middle East, but in Africa[...]
Tuesday, November 14, 2023Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Epicenter of International Terrorism America's Global War on Terror has seen its share of stalemates, disasters, and outright defeats. During 20-plus years of armed interventions, the United States has watched its efforts implode in spectacular fashion, from Iraq in 2014 to Afghanistan in 2021. The greatest failure of its "Forever Wars," however, may not be in the Middle East, but in Africa[...]
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Monday, November 13, 2023
Tomgram: William Hartung, American Arms Makers, Cashing in on Conflict The New York Times headline said it all: "Middle East War Adds to Surge in International Arms Sales." The conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, and beyond may be causing immense and unconscionable human suffering, but they are also boosting the bottom lines of the world's arms manufacturers. There was a time when such weapons sales at least sparked talk of "the merchants of death" or of "war profiteers[...]"
Monday, November 13, 2023Tomgram: William Hartung, American Arms Makers, Cashing in on Conflict The New York Times headline said it all: "Middle East War Adds to Surge in International Arms Sales." The conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, and beyond may be causing immense and unconscionable human suffering, but they are also boosting the bottom lines of the world's arms manufacturers. There was a time when such weapons sales at least sparked talk of "the merchants of death" or of "war profiteers[...]"
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Thursday, November 9, 2023
Tomgram: Todd Miller, The "Open Border" Farce On September 23rd, at about 2:30 a.m., a Border Patrol surveillance camera captured two people crossing the international boundary between Mexico and the United States on the outskirts of Nogales, Arizona. A Border Patrol vehicle arrived quickly, but not before one of them had fled back into Mexico. When an armed agent stepped out, dressed in a forest-green uniform, he found a 16-year-old girl from Mexico softly crying[...]
Thursday, November 9, 2023Tomgram: Todd Miller, The "Open Border" Farce On September 23rd, at about 2:30 a.m., a Border Patrol surveillance camera captured two people crossing the international boundary between Mexico and the United States on the outskirts of Nogales, Arizona. A Border Patrol vehicle arrived quickly, but not before one of them had fled back into Mexico. When an armed agent stepped out, dressed in a forest-green uniform, he found a 16-year-old girl from Mexico softly crying[...]
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Monday, November 6, 2023
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, A Cycle of Escalating Violence On September 19, 2001, eight days after 9/11, as the leaders of both parties were already pounding a frenzied drumbeat of war, a diverse group of concerned Americans released a warning about the long-term consequences of a military response. Among them were veteran civil rights activists, faith leaders, and public intellectuals, including Rosa Parks, Harry Belafonte, and Palestinian-American Edward Said[...]
Monday, November 6, 2023Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, A Cycle of Escalating Violence On September 19, 2001, eight days after 9/11, as the leaders of both parties were already pounding a frenzied drumbeat of war, a diverse group of concerned Americans released a warning about the long-term consequences of a military response. Among them were veteran civil rights activists, faith leaders, and public intellectuals, including Rosa Parks, Harry Belafonte, and Palestinian-American Edward Said[...]
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Thursday, November 2, 2023
Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, War in a Post-Fact World This month's catastrophic violence in Israel and Gaza specifically, the contradictory statements from each side on the other's war crimes has taken me back to a revealing personal moment almost exactly 18 years ago, recalling a different war in a different part of the world[...]
Thursday, November 2, 2023Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, War in a Post-Fact World This month's catastrophic violence in Israel and Gaza specifically, the contradictory statements from each side on the other's war crimes has taken me back to a revealing personal moment almost exactly 18 years ago, recalling a different war in a different part of the world[...]
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Russian Nightmare and Us Reacting to the terrorist attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas that killed more than 1,400 Israelis, Americans have been remarkably focused on whether we should support Israel or the residents of Gaza. In either case, we act as if Israel's only possible decision was whether or not to launch a war against Gaza[...]
Tuesday, October 31, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Russian Nightmare and Us Reacting to the terrorist attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas that killed more than 1,400 Israelis, Americans have been remarkably focused on whether we should support Israel or the residents of Gaza. In either case, we act as if Israel's only possible decision was whether or not to launch a war against Gaza[...]
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Monday, October 30, 2023
Tomgram: Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Please Don't Kill the Children When humans embrace the dehumanization of others, we release our ugliest, most destructive selves. Dehumanization is a perverse force that propagates violence and justifies the lust for war and its atrocities[...]
Monday, October 30, 2023Tomgram: Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Please Don't Kill the Children When humans embrace the dehumanization of others, we release our ugliest, most destructive selves. Dehumanization is a perverse force that propagates violence and justifies the lust for war and its atrocities[...]
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Creating Trumpworld? If he becomes the official nominee of the Republican Party in next year's presidential race, Donald Trump will receive tens of millions of votes in the general election. He may get less than the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. He may get more. Regardless, tens of millions of GOP, conservative, and extremist voters will cast their ballots for him[...]
Thursday, October 26, 2023Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Creating Trumpworld? If he becomes the official nominee of the Republican Party in next year's presidential race, Donald Trump will receive tens of millions of votes in the general election. He may get less than the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. He may get more. Regardless, tens of millions of GOP, conservative, and extremist voters will cast their ballots for him[...]
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Trump's Schedule F (for "Failed State") Sometimes the right wing in this country seems like a riddle wrapped in an enigma encased in a conundrum. Do they want to strengthen the government in line with the once-fringe doctrine of the "unitary executive," concentrating most official power in the hands of a president who would then rule more or less by fiat? That's the fascist position[...]
Tuesday, October 24, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Trump's Schedule F (for "Failed State") Sometimes the right wing in this country seems like a riddle wrapped in an enigma encased in a conundrum. Do they want to strengthen the government in line with the once-fringe doctrine of the "unitary executive," concentrating most official power in the hands of a president who would then rule more or less by fiat? That's the fascist position[...]
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Thursday, October 19, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Our Asteroid Is Us Let's admit it: We are indeed mad creatures. This should truly have been the time of our discontent. The northern hemisphere just experienced the hottest summer in recorded history, including month by month the warmest June, July, August, and (by a country mile) September ever. Staggering heat records were set in place after place globally. Fires from Canada to Hawaii to Europe broke all records[...]
Thursday, October 19, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, Our Asteroid Is Us Let's admit it: We are indeed mad creatures. This should truly have been the time of our discontent. The northern hemisphere just experienced the hottest summer in recorded history, including month by month the warmest June, July, August, and (by a country mile) September ever. Staggering heat records were set in place after place globally. Fires from Canada to Hawaii to Europe broke all records[...]
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