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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, October 17, 2023
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, A Major Empire Falls Unnoticed One of modern history's major empires is falling apart right now, right before our eyes. Yet precious few in the media have reported on this extraordinary event, much less offered any analysis of its implications for the fast-changing shape of global power[...]
Tuesday, October 17, 2023Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, A Major Empire Falls Unnoticed One of modern history's major empires is falling apart right now, right before our eyes. Yet precious few in the media have reported on this extraordinary event, much less offered any analysis of its implications for the fast-changing shape of global power[...]
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Monday, October 16, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Drone Warfare in the Nuclear Age A war with China may not be inevitable, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks observed recently, but it's a genuine possibility and so this country must be prepared to fight and win. But victory in such a conflict will not, she suggested, come easily[...]
Monday, October 16, 2023Tomgram: Michael Klare, Drone Warfare in the Nuclear Age A war with China may not be inevitable, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks observed recently, but it's a genuine possibility and so this country must be prepared to fight and win. But victory in such a conflict will not, she suggested, come easily[...]
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Friday, October 13, 2023
Tomgram: Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox, Global Outcasts Various versions of the aphorism "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" have been making the rounds ever since the rise of U.S. imperialism in the late 1800s. The quip (which, despite legend, appears not to be attributable to Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, or any other famous person) has proven all too accurate when the war in question directly involves American troops[...]
Friday, October 13, 2023Tomgram: Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox, Global Outcasts Various versions of the aphorism "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" have been making the rounds ever since the rise of U.S. imperialism in the late 1800s. The quip (which, despite legend, appears not to be attributable to Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, or any other famous person) has proven all too accurate when the war in question directly involves American troops[...]
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Tomgram: Juan Cole, An Inflection Point in the Battle over Climate Change? The depths of depravity into which unvarnished capitalism can plunge mortal souls is incalculable. It should come as no surprise then that oil company executives and the officials of petrostates like Saudi Arabia have so assiduously lied to us about the catastrophic effects of climate change[...]
Tuesday, October 10, 2023Tomgram: Juan Cole, An Inflection Point in the Battle over Climate Change? The depths of depravity into which unvarnished capitalism can plunge mortal souls is incalculable. It should come as no surprise then that oil company executives and the officials of petrostates like Saudi Arabia have so assiduously lied to us about the catastrophic effects of climate change[...]
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Monday, October 9, 2023
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Shadow of Those Empty Apartments On the island of Manhattan, where I live, skyscrapers multiply like metal weeds, a vertical invasion of seemingly unstoppable force. For more than a century, they have risen as symbols of wealth and the promise of progress for a city and a nation. In movies and TV shows, those buildings churn with activity, offices full of important people doing work of global significance[...]
Monday, October 9, 2023Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Shadow of Those Empty Apartments On the island of Manhattan, where I live, skyscrapers multiply like metal weeds, a vertical invasion of seemingly unstoppable force. For more than a century, they have risen as symbols of wealth and the promise of progress for a city and a nation. In movies and TV shows, those buildings churn with activity, offices full of important people doing work of global significance[...]
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Thursday, October 5, 2023
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Last Prisoners? For 18 years, I've been writing articles for TomDispatch on the never-ending story of the Guanta'namo Bay Detention Facility. And here's my ultimate takeaway (for the moment): 21 years after that grim offshore prison of injustice was set up in Cuba in response to the 9/11 attacks and the capture of figures supposedly linked to them[...]
Thursday, October 5, 2023Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Last Prisoners? For 18 years, I've been writing articles for TomDispatch on the never-ending story of the Guanta'namo Bay Detention Facility. And here's my ultimate takeaway (for the moment): 21 years after that grim offshore prison of injustice was set up in Cuba in response to the 9/11 attacks and the capture of figures supposedly linked to them[...]
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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Tomgram: William Hartung, The Future of Techno-War On August 28th, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks chose the occasion of a three-day conference organized by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), the arms industry's biggest trade group, to announce the "Replicator Initiative." Among other things, it would involve producing "swarms of drones" that could hit thousands of targets in China on short notice. Call it the full-scale launching of techno-war[...]
Tuesday, October 3, 2023Tomgram: William Hartung, The Future of Techno-War On August 28th, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks chose the occasion of a three-day conference organized by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), the arms industry's biggest trade group, to announce the "Replicator Initiative." Among other things, it would involve producing "swarms of drones" that could hit thousands of targets in China on short notice. Call it the full-scale launching of techno-war[...]
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Monday, October 2, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Whose Planet Are We On? Tell me, what planet are we actually on? All these decades later, are we really involved in a "second" or "new" Cold War? It's certainly true that, as late as the 1980s, the superpowers (or so they then liked to think of themselves), the United States and the Soviet Union, were still engaged in just such a Cold War, something that might have seemed almost positive at the time[...]
Monday, October 2, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, Whose Planet Are We On? Tell me, what planet are we actually on? All these decades later, are we really involved in a "second" or "new" Cold War? It's certainly true that, as late as the 1980s, the superpowers (or so they then liked to think of themselves), the United States and the Soviet Union, were still engaged in just such a Cold War, something that might have seemed almost positive at the time[...]
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Thursday, September 28, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Nuclear Deterrence, Really? Despite Russian hints about the use of nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, consider it strange amid other world-endangering possibilities how little attention nuclear destruction gets anymore. And that's despite the fact that there are now nine (yes, nine!) nuclear powers on this planet, ranging from the United States, Russia, and China to Israel and North Korea[...]
Thursday, September 28, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Nuclear Deterrence, Really? Despite Russian hints about the use of nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, consider it strange amid other world-endangering possibilities how little attention nuclear destruction gets anymore. And that's despite the fact that there are now nine (yes, nine!) nuclear powers on this planet, ranging from the United States, Russia, and China to Israel and North Korea[...]
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Tomgram: Tamar Sarai, From Education to Incarceration Not long after moving to Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1980s, community organizer Curtis Pitts learned about a hidden slice of that city's history that would come to shape his life's work over the next four decades. He was introduced to the Kansas Technical Institute, or KTI, a Black vocational college that had prospered throughout the early twentieth century, only to close in the mid-1950s[...]
Tuesday, September 26, 2023Tomgram: Tamar Sarai, From Education to Incarceration Not long after moving to Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1980s, community organizer Curtis Pitts learned about a hidden slice of that city's history that would come to shape his life's work over the next four decades. He was introduced to the Kansas Technical Institute, or KTI, a Black vocational college that had prospered throughout the early twentieth century, only to close in the mid-1950s[...]
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Monday, September 25, 2023
Tomgram: William Astore, Imagining a Progressive Pentagon A progressive Pentagon? Talk about an oxymoron! The Pentagon continues to grow and surge with ever larger budgets, ever more expansive missions (for example, a Space Force to dominate the heavens and yet more bases in the Pacific to encircle China), and ever greater ambitions to dominate everywhere, including if necessary through global thermonuclear warfare[...]
Monday, September 25, 2023Tomgram: William Astore, Imagining a Progressive Pentagon A progressive Pentagon? Talk about an oxymoron! The Pentagon continues to grow and surge with ever larger budgets, ever more expansive missions (for example, a Space Force to dominate the heavens and yet more bases in the Pacific to encircle China), and ever greater ambitions to dominate everywhere, including if necessary through global thermonuclear warfare[...]
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Thursday, September 21, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Consider the Alternative For twelve years starting in 1982, my partner and I in San Francisco joined with two friends in Seattle to produce Lesbian Contradiction: A Journal of Irreverent Feminism, or LesCon for short. We started out typing four-inch columns of text and laying out what was to become a quarterly tabloid on a homemade light table[...]
Thursday, September 21, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Consider the Alternative For twelve years starting in 1982, my partner and I in San Francisco joined with two friends in Seattle to produce Lesbian Contradiction: A Journal of Irreverent Feminism, or LesCon for short. We started out typing four-inch columns of text and laying out what was to become a quarterly tabloid on a homemade light table[...]
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Tomgram: John Feffer, More Butterflies, Fewer Billionaires Unrigging the Global Economy In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you've enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell some products, sign up some friends, make some phone calls. Follow that simple formula and you'll soon be pulling in tens of thousands of dollars a month or so you've been promised anyway. And if you sell enough products, you'll be invited into the Golden Circle[...]
Tuesday, September 19, 2023Tomgram: John Feffer, More Butterflies, Fewer Billionaires Unrigging the Global Economy In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you've enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell some products, sign up some friends, make some phone calls. Follow that simple formula and you'll soon be pulling in tens of thousands of dollars a month or so you've been promised anyway. And if you sell enough products, you'll be invited into the Golden Circle[...]
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Monday, September 18, 2023
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, White Nationalism and Donald Trump In 2020, The Daily Show ran a segment in which statements by Republican leaders, including Donald Trump, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and various Fox News personalities were juxtaposed with those made by Ku Klux Klan leaders like former Grand Wizard David Duke and former Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkerson[...]
Monday, September 18, 2023Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, White Nationalism and Donald Trump In 2020, The Daily Show ran a segment in which statements by Republican leaders, including Donald Trump, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and various Fox News personalities were juxtaposed with those made by Ku Klux Klan leaders like former Grand Wizard David Duke and former Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkerson[...]
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Thursday, September 14, 2023
Tomgram: Stan Cox, A Big Climate Win in Big Sky Country The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana's constitution couldn't be clearer: "The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations." Accordingly, in April, a district court judge in Yellowstone County voided a permit for a natural-gas-fired power plant under construction there[...]
Thursday, September 14, 2023Tomgram: Stan Cox, A Big Climate Win in Big Sky Country The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana's constitution couldn't be clearer: "The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations." Accordingly, in April, a district court judge in Yellowstone County voided a permit for a natural-gas-fired power plant under construction there[...]
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, The U.S. and China Face Off Over -- Yes! -- Climate Change It's an ocean of conflict and ecological decline. Despite its vast size 1.3 million square miles the South China Sea has become a microcosm of the geopolitical tensions between East and West, where territorial struggles over abundant natural resources may one day lead to environmental collapse[...]
Tuesday, September 12, 2023Tomgram: Joshua Frank, The U.S. and China Face Off Over -- Yes! -- Climate Change It's an ocean of conflict and ecological decline. Despite its vast size 1.3 million square miles the South China Sea has become a microcosm of the geopolitical tensions between East and West, where territorial struggles over abundant natural resources may one day lead to environmental collapse[...]
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Monday, September 11, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Global War of Terror, or the Decline and Fall of Just About Everything From the earliest kingdoms to late last night, history has been the story not just of the rise of great powers but of their decline and fall. So, normally, there would be nothing particularly out of the ordinary about the aging America of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, a classic imperial power distinctly in decline and threatening to split into pieces[...]
Monday, September 11, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Global War of Terror, or the Decline and Fall of Just About Everything From the earliest kingdoms to late last night, history has been the story not just of the rise of great powers but of their decline and fall. So, normally, there would be nothing particularly out of the ordinary about the aging America of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, a classic imperial power distinctly in decline and threatening to split into pieces[...]
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Thursday, September 7, 2023
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Venture Militarism on Autopilot [Today's piece is adapted from the introduction to Norman Solomon's book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine (The New Press, 2023).] The day after the U.S. government began routinely bombing faraway places, the lead editorial in the New York Times expressed some gratification[...]
Thursday, September 7, 2023Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Venture Militarism on Autopilot [Today's piece is adapted from the introduction to Norman Solomon's book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine (The New Press, 2023).] The day after the U.S. government began routinely bombing faraway places, the lead editorial in the New York Times expressed some gratification[...]
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Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Tomgram: Maha Hilal, "Unavoidable Collateral Damage" "I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are gray." That's what a young Pakistani boy named Zubair told members of Congress at a hearing on drones in October 2013. That hearing was during the Obama years at a time when the government had barely even acknowledged that an American drone warfare program existed[...]
Tuesday, September 5, 2023Tomgram: Maha Hilal, "Unavoidable Collateral Damage" "I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are gray." That's what a young Pakistani boy named Zubair told members of Congress at a hearing on drones in October 2013. That hearing was during the Obama years at a time when the government had barely even acknowledged that an American drone warfare program existed[...]
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Tomgram: David Bromwich, The Everlasting Alibi A new war, a new alibi. When we think about our latest war the one that began with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, just six months after our Afghan War ended so catastrophically there is a hidden benefit. As long as American minds are on Ukraine, we are not thinking about planetary climate disruption. This technique of distraction obeys the familiar mechanism that psychologists have called displacement[...]
Tuesday, August 29, 2023Tomgram: David Bromwich, The Everlasting Alibi A new war, a new alibi. When we think about our latest war the one that began with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, just six months after our Afghan War ended so catastrophically there is a hidden benefit. As long as American minds are on Ukraine, we are not thinking about planetary climate disruption. This technique of distraction obeys the familiar mechanism that psychologists have called displacement[...]
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