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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, August 24, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Kissinger at 100 Henry Alfred Kissinger turned 100 on May 27th of this year. Once a teenage refugee from Nazi Germany, for many decades an adviser to presidents, and an avatar of American realpolitik, he's managed to reach the century mark while still evidently retaining all his marbles. That those marbles remain hard and cold is no surprise[...]
Thursday, August 24, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Kissinger at 100 Henry Alfred Kissinger turned 100 on May 27th of this year. Once a teenage refugee from Nazi Germany, for many decades an adviser to presidents, and an avatar of American realpolitik, he's managed to reach the century mark while still evidently retaining all his marbles. That those marbles remain hard and cold is no surprise[...]
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Violent American Century Blame Donald Trump and all too many of his followers, but don't just blame him or them. Yes, he was indeed responsible for the nightmare of January 6, 2021, and, in his own fashion, for the incitement of right-wing militia (terror!) groups like the Proud Boys. ("Stand back and stand by!") But in this country, in this century, violence has become as all-American as apple pie[...]
Tuesday, August 22, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Violent American Century Blame Donald Trump and all too many of his followers, but don't just blame him or them. Yes, he was indeed responsible for the nightmare of January 6, 2021, and, in his own fashion, for the incitement of right-wing militia (terror!) groups like the Proud Boys. ("Stand back and stand by!") But in this country, in this century, violence has become as all-American as apple pie[...]
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Thursday, August 17, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Klare, A World on the Edge of... Collapse? In his 2005 bestseller Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, geographer Jared Diamond focused on past civilizations that confronted severe climate shocks, either adapting and surviving or failing to adapt and disintegrating. Among those were the Puebloan culture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, the ancient Mayan civilization of Mesoamerica, and the Viking settlers of Greenland[...]
Thursday, August 17, 2023Tomgram: Michael Klare, A World on the Edge of... Collapse? In his 2005 bestseller Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, geographer Jared Diamond focused on past civilizations that confronted severe climate shocks, either adapting and surviving or failing to adapt and disintegrating. Among those were the Puebloan culture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, the ancient Mayan civilization of Mesoamerica, and the Viking settlers of Greenland[...]
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Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, The Enemy Is Us Too hot. Too dry. Too many weapons. This world needs changing. But that's too vague. After all, this world is already changing, just not in ways that are good for you and me[...]
Tuesday, August 15, 2023Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, The Enemy Is Us Too hot. Too dry. Too many weapons. This world needs changing. But that's too vague. After all, this world is already changing, just not in ways that are good for you and me[...]
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Thursday, August 10, 2023
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Israel's Crisis Is Not about Democracy but Occupation On July 24th, the Israeli Knesset passed a measure forbidding the country's High Court of Justice from in any way checking the power of the government, whether in making cabinet decisions or appointments, based on what's known as the "reasonability" standard. In the Israeli context, this was an extreme act[...]
Thursday, August 10, 2023Tomgram: Juan Cole, Israel's Crisis Is Not about Democracy but Occupation On July 24th, the Israeli Knesset passed a measure forbidding the country's High Court of Justice from in any way checking the power of the government, whether in making cabinet decisions or appointments, based on what's known as the "reasonability" standard. In the Israeli context, this was an extreme act[...]
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Tomgram: William Astore, An Exceptional Military for the Exceptional Nation In his message to the troops prior to the July 4th weekend, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin offered high praise indeed. "We have the greatest fighting force in human history," he tweeted, connecting that claim to the U.S. having patriots of all colors, creeds, and backgrounds "who bravely volunteer to defend our country and our values[...]"
Tuesday, August 8, 2023Tomgram: William Astore, An Exceptional Military for the Exceptional Nation In his message to the troops prior to the July 4th weekend, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin offered high praise indeed. "We have the greatest fighting force in human history," he tweeted, connecting that claim to the U.S. having patriots of all colors, creeds, and backgrounds "who bravely volunteer to defend our country and our values[...]"
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Thursday, August 3, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Extremely Extreme Hey, who knows? It could be the Gulf Stream collapsing or the planet eternally breaking heat records. But whatever the specifics, we're living it right now, not in the next century, the next decade, or even next year. You couldn't miss it at least so you might think if you were living in the sweltering Southwest[...]
Thursday, August 3, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, Extremely Extreme Hey, who knows? It could be the Gulf Stream collapsing or the planet eternally breaking heat records. But whatever the specifics, we're living it right now, not in the next century, the next decade, or even next year. You couldn't miss it at least so you might think if you were living in the sweltering Southwest[...]
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Guanta'namo 21 Years Later There can be little question that the grim prison at Guanta'namo Bay, Cuba, which still shows no sign of closing anytime soon, is a key legacy in the worst sense imaginable of America's post-9/11 forever wars. I've been covering the subject for decades now and that shameful legacy has never diminished[...]
Tuesday, August 1, 2023Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Guanta'namo 21 Years Later There can be little question that the grim prison at Guanta'namo Bay, Cuba, which still shows no sign of closing anytime soon, is a key legacy in the worst sense imaginable of America's post-9/11 forever wars. I've been covering the subject for decades now and that shameful legacy has never diminished[...]
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Monday, July 31, 2023
Tomgram: William Hartung, Cashing in on a Perpetual Nuclear Arms Race Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past few months, you're undoubtedly aware that award-winning director Christopher Nolan has released a new film about Robert Oppenheimer, known as the "father of the atomic bomb" for leading the group of scientists who created that deadly weapon as part of America's World War II-era Manhattan Project[...]
Monday, July 31, 2023Tomgram: William Hartung, Cashing in on a Perpetual Nuclear Arms Race Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past few months, you're undoubtedly aware that award-winning director Christopher Nolan has released a new film about Robert Oppenheimer, known as the "father of the atomic bomb" for leading the group of scientists who created that deadly weapon as part of America's World War II-era Manhattan Project[...]
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Thursday, July 27, 2023
Tomgram: Cox, The War You're Not Reading About It's been devastating, even if no one's paying attention[...]
Thursday, July 27, 2023Tomgram: Cox, The War You're Not Reading About It's been devastating, even if no one's paying attention[...]
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Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Outlaw Superpower In 1963, the summer I turned 11, my mother had a gig evaluating Peace Corps programs in Egypt and Ethiopia. My younger brother and I spent most of that summer in France. We were first in Paris with my mother before she left for North Africa, then with my father and his girlfriend in a tiny town on the Mediterranean[...]
Tuesday, July 25, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Outlaw Superpower In 1963, the summer I turned 11, my mother had a gig evaluating Peace Corps programs in Egypt and Ethiopia. My younger brother and I spent most of that summer in France. We were first in Paris with my mother before she left for North Africa, then with my father and his girlfriend in a tiny town on the Mediterranean[...]
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Thursday, July 20, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Whose War Was That Anyway? Seeking news coverage about the Adriana, the boat crowded with some 700 people migrating to Europe to seek a better life that sank in mid-June off the coast of Greece, I googled "migrant ship" and got 483,000 search results in one second. Most of the people aboard the Adriana had drowned in the Mediterranean, among them about 100 children[...]
Thursday, July 20, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Whose War Was That Anyway? Seeking news coverage about the Adriana, the boat crowded with some 700 people migrating to Europe to seek a better life that sank in mid-June off the coast of Greece, I googled "migrant ship" and got 483,000 search results in one second. Most of the people aboard the Adriana had drowned in the Mediterranean, among them about 100 children[...]
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Nuking Us All If you didn't know better, you'd think Lloyd Marbet was a dairy farmer or maybe a retired shop teacher. His beard is thick, soft, and gray, his hair pulled back in a small ponytail. In his mid-seventies, he still towers over nearly everyone. His handshake is firm, but there's nothing menacing about him[...]
Tuesday, July 18, 2023Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Nuking Us All If you didn't know better, you'd think Lloyd Marbet was a dairy farmer or maybe a retired shop teacher. His beard is thick, soft, and gray, his hair pulled back in a small ponytail. In his mid-seventies, he still towers over nearly everyone. His handshake is firm, but there's nothing menacing about him[...]
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Monday, July 17, 2023
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, How Extreme Can You Get? In April, when Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman with a top-secret clearance, was arrested for posting a trove of classified documents about the Russia-Ukraine war online, the question most often asked was: How did such a young, inexperienced, low-level technician have access to such sensitive material?[...]
Monday, July 17, 2023Tomgram: Nan Levinson, How Extreme Can You Get? In April, when Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman with a top-secret clearance, was arrested for posting a trove of classified documents about the Russia-Ukraine war online, the question most often asked was: How did such a young, inexperienced, low-level technician have access to such sensitive material?[...]
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Thursday, July 13, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Fallout from Humanity In case you hadn't noticed "" and how could you not? "" there have been more than 500 (yes, 500-plus!) wildfires burning across the vast reaches of Canada, an unheard-of number, and more than half of them completely out of (human) control in a record-shattering fire season. That's been true for seemingly endless weeks now with no end in sight[...]
Thursday, July 13, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, Fallout from Humanity In case you hadn't noticed "" and how could you not? "" there have been more than 500 (yes, 500-plus!) wildfires burning across the vast reaches of Canada, an unheard-of number, and more than half of them completely out of (human) control in a record-shattering fire season. That's been true for seemingly endless weeks now with no end in sight[...]
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Military Dangers of AI Are Not Hallucinations A world in which machines governed by artificial intelligence (AI) systematically replace human beings in most business, industrial, and professional functions is horrifying to imagine. After all, as prominent computer scientists have been warning us, AI-governed systems are prone to critical errors and inexplicable "hallucinations," resulting in potentially catastrophic outcomes[...]
Tuesday, July 11, 2023Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Military Dangers of AI Are Not Hallucinations A world in which machines governed by artificial intelligence (AI) systematically replace human beings in most business, industrial, and professional functions is horrifying to imagine. After all, as prominent computer scientists have been warning us, AI-governed systems are prone to critical errors and inexplicable "hallucinations," resulting in potentially catastrophic outcomes[...]
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Monday, July 10, 2023
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Invading Ourselves It was one of the fabled rivers of history and the Marines needed to cross it[...]
Monday, July 10, 2023Tomgram: Juan Cole, Invading Ourselves It was one of the fabled rivers of history and the Marines needed to cross it[...]
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Thursday, July 6, 2023
Tomgram: Steve Fraser, Return of the Repressed An aged Native-American chieftain was visiting New York City for the first time in 1906. He was curious about the city and the city was curious about him. A magazine reporter asked the chief what most surprised him in his travels around town. "Little children working," the visitor replied[...]
Thursday, July 6, 2023Tomgram: Steve Fraser, Return of the Repressed An aged Native-American chieftain was visiting New York City for the first time in 1906. He was curious about the city and the city was curious about him. A magazine reporter asked the chief what most surprised him in his travels around town. "Little children working," the visitor replied[...]
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Monday, July 3, 2023
Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, What Is Possible? Looking into the long reflecting pool of the past, I find myself wondering what it was that made me an activist against injustice. I was born in New York City's poor, rundown, and at times dangerous South Bronx, where blacks, whites, and Latinos (as well as recent immigrants from Ireland, Italy, and Eastern Europe) lived side by side or, perhaps more accurately, crowded together[...]
Monday, July 3, 2023Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, What Is Possible? Looking into the long reflecting pool of the past, I find myself wondering what it was that made me an activist against injustice. I was born in New York City's poor, rundown, and at times dangerous South Bronx, where blacks, whites, and Latinos (as well as recent immigrants from Ireland, Italy, and Eastern Europe) lived side by side or, perhaps more accurately, crowded together[...]
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Thursday, June 29, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, State Terror in the Age of Counterterrorism "There must be some kind of way out of here..." As night fell over the South River Forest, the music festival was in full swing. Young and old swayed to the sounds of Suede Cassidy. Families gathered around the grill. Little ones frolicked in an inflatable bouncy house bedecked with a banner that read: "Stop Cop City[...]"
Thursday, June 29, 2023Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, State Terror in the Age of Counterterrorism "There must be some kind of way out of here..." As night fell over the South River Forest, the music festival was in full swing. Young and old swayed to the sounds of Suede Cassidy. Families gathered around the grill. Little ones frolicked in an inflatable bouncy house bedecked with a banner that read: "Stop Cop City[...]"
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