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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, June 27, 2023
Tomgram: Stan Cox, Every Kind of Conflict, Everywhere, All at Once? Several times in recent weeks I've heard people suggest that Mother Nature has been speaking to us through that smoke endlessly drifting south from the still-raging Canadian wildfires. She's saying that she wants the coal, oil, and gas left in the ground, but I fear her message will have little more influence on climate policy than her previous ones did[...]
Tuesday, June 27, 2023Tomgram: Stan Cox, Every Kind of Conflict, Everywhere, All at Once? Several times in recent weeks I've heard people suggest that Mother Nature has been speaking to us through that smoke endlessly drifting south from the still-raging Canadian wildfires. She's saying that she wants the coal, oil, and gas left in the ground, but I fear her message will have little more influence on climate policy than her previous ones did[...]
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Monday, June 26, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Murderous Intentions One day when I was about six, I was walking with my dad in New York City. We noticed that someone had stuck little folded squares of paper under the windshield wipers of the cars parked on the street beside us. My father picked one up and read it. I saw his face grow dark with anger[...]
Monday, June 26, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Murderous Intentions One day when I was about six, I was walking with my dad in New York City. We noticed that someone had stuck little folded squares of paper under the windshield wipers of the cars parked on the street beside us. My father picked one up and read it. I saw his face grow dark with anger[...]
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Thursday, June 22, 2023
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, RIP Jim Brown, Hero and Monster Jim Brown was a monster, not only as a wrecking-ball running back on the football field but also as a prime example of an ever more popular obsession with people (mostly men) whose admirable achievements are shaded by despicable behavior (mostly directed at women). He died last month at 87 and his obituaries, along with various appraisals of his life[...]
Thursday, June 22, 2023Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, RIP Jim Brown, Hero and Monster Jim Brown was a monster, not only as a wrecking-ball running back on the football field but also as a prime example of an ever more popular obsession with people (mostly men) whose admirable achievements are shaded by despicable behavior (mostly directed at women). He died last month at 87 and his obituaries, along with various appraisals of his life[...]
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Tomgram: Hartung and Gledhill, Throwing More Money at the Pentagon On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government's debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was "" surprise, surprise! "" the Pentagon[...]
Tuesday, June 20, 2023Tomgram: Hartung and Gledhill, Throwing More Money at the Pentagon On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government's debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was "" surprise, surprise! "" the Pentagon[...]
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Thursday, June 15, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes As it turns out, it's never too late. I mention that only because last week, at nearly 79, I managed to visit Mars for the first time. You know, the red planet, or rather "" so it seemed to me "" the orange planet. And take my word for it, it was eerie as hell[...]
Thursday, June 15, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes As it turns out, it's never too late. I mention that only because last week, at nearly 79, I managed to visit Mars for the first time. You know, the red planet, or rather "" so it seemed to me "" the orange planet. And take my word for it, it was eerie as hell[...]
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Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Ending Putin's Forever War in Ukraine All wars do end, usually thanks to a negotiated peace agreement. Consider that a fundamental historical fact, even if it seems to have been forgotten in Brussels, Moscow, and above all, Washington, D.C.[...]
Tuesday, June 13, 2023Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Ending Putin's Forever War in Ukraine All wars do end, usually thanks to a negotiated peace agreement. Consider that a fundamental historical fact, even if it seems to have been forgotten in Brussels, Moscow, and above all, Washington, D.C.[...]
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Monday, June 12, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Wound of the War on Terror, Up Close and Personal America's War on Terror, launched in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, has had a staggering impact on our world. The Costs of War Project at Brown University, which I helped found, paints as full a picture as possible of the toll of those "forever wars" both in human lives and in dollars. The wars, we estimate, have killed nearly one million people[...]
Monday, June 12, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Wound of the War on Terror, Up Close and Personal America's War on Terror, launched in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, has had a staggering impact on our world. The Costs of War Project at Brown University, which I helped found, paints as full a picture as possible of the toll of those "forever wars" both in human lives and in dollars. The wars, we estimate, have killed nearly one million people[...]
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Thursday, June 8, 2023
Tomgram: Todd Miller, Out-Trumping Trump at the Border On May 11th, I was with a group of people at the bottom of the Paso del Norte bridge in Ciudad Jua'rez, Mexico. Suddenly, I realized that I didn't have the small change needed to cross the bridge and return to El Paso, Texas, where I was attending the 16th annual Border Security Expo[...]
Thursday, June 8, 2023Tomgram: Todd Miller, Out-Trumping Trump at the Border On May 11th, I was with a group of people at the bottom of the Paso del Norte bridge in Ciudad Jua'rez, Mexico. Suddenly, I realized that I didn't have the small change needed to cross the bridge and return to El Paso, Texas, where I was attending the 16th annual Border Security Expo[...]
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Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Tomgram: William Astore, An Iron Curtain Has Descended on America All around us things are falling apart. Collectively, Americans are experiencing national and imperial decline. Can America save itself? Is this country, as presently constituted, even worth saving?[...]
Tuesday, June 6, 2023Tomgram: William Astore, An Iron Curtain Has Descended on America All around us things are falling apart. Collectively, Americans are experiencing national and imperial decline. Can America save itself? Is this country, as presently constituted, even worth saving?[...]
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Monday, June 5, 2023
Tomgram: Jane Braxton Little, Climate Migrants in a Hell on Earth Greenville, CA "" Pines and firs parched by a three-year drought had been burning for days on a ridge 1,000 feet above my remote mountain town. On August 4, 2021, the flames suddenly flared into a heat so intense it formed a molten cloud the color of bruised flesh. As that sinister cumulus rose above an oval-shaped reservoir, it collapsed, sending red-hot embers down the steep slopes toward Greenville[...]
Monday, June 5, 2023Tomgram: Jane Braxton Little, Climate Migrants in a Hell on Earth Greenville, CA "" Pines and firs parched by a three-year drought had been burning for days on a ridge 1,000 feet above my remote mountain town. On August 4, 2021, the flames suddenly flared into a heat so intense it formed a molten cloud the color of bruised flesh. As that sinister cumulus rose above an oval-shaped reservoir, it collapsed, sending red-hot embers down the steep slopes toward Greenville[...]
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Thursday, June 1, 2023
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Seduced by War -- Yet Again Allow me to come clean: I worry every time Max Boot vents enthusiastically about a prospective military action. Whenever that Washington Post columnist professes optimism about some upcoming bloodletting, misfortune tends to follow. And as it happens, he's positively bullish about the prospect of Ukraine handing Russia a decisive defeat in its upcoming, widely anticipated, sure-to-happen-any-day-now spring counteroffensive[...
Thursday, June 1, 2023Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Seduced by War -- Yet Again Allow me to come clean: I worry every time Max Boot vents enthusiastically about a prospective military action. Whenever that Washington Post columnist professes optimism about some upcoming bloodletting, misfortune tends to follow. And as it happens, he's positively bullish about the prospect of Ukraine handing Russia a decisive defeat in its upcoming, widely anticipated, sure-to-happen-any-day-now spring counteroffensive[...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Tomgram: Norman Solomon and David Barsamian, Living in a Warfare State [The following is excerpted and adapted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Norman Solomon at AlternativeRadio.org.]
Tuesday, May 30, 2023Tomgram: Norman Solomon and David Barsamian, Living in a Warfare State [The following is excerpted and adapted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Norman Solomon at AlternativeRadio.org.]
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Thursday, May 25, 2023
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Crimes Against Humanity, American-Style In the Blindman's Buff variation of tag, a child designated as "It" is tasked with tapping another child while wearing a blindfold. The sightless child knows the other children, all able to see, are there but is left to stumble around, using sounds and knowledge of the space they're in as guides. Finally, that child does succeed, either by bumping into someone, peeking, or thanks to sheer dumb luck[...]
Thursday, May 25, 2023Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Crimes Against Humanity, American-Style In the Blindman's Buff variation of tag, a child designated as "It" is tasked with tapping another child while wearing a blindfold. The sightless child knows the other children, all able to see, are there but is left to stumble around, using sounds and knowledge of the space they're in as guides. Finally, that child does succeed, either by bumping into someone, peeking, or thanks to sheer dumb luck[...]
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Tomgram: Priti and Stan Cox, Two Great Powers, Too Much Violence Are you worried about the rising political power of violent white nationalists in America? Well, you've got plenty of company, including U.S. national security and counterterrorism officials. And we're worried, too "" worried enough, in fact, to feel that it's time to take a look at the experience of India, where Hindu supremacist dogma has increasingly been enforced through violent means[...]
Tuesday, May 23, 2023Tomgram: Priti and Stan Cox, Two Great Powers, Too Much Violence Are you worried about the rising political power of violent white nationalists in America? Well, you've got plenty of company, including U.S. national security and counterterrorism officials. And we're worried, too "" worried enough, in fact, to feel that it's time to take a look at the experience of India, where Hindu supremacist dogma has increasingly been enforced through violent means[...]
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Monday, May 22, 2023
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, For Trump and DeSantis, Different Paths, the Same Destination He appointed three conservative Supreme Court justices who shocked the nation with rulings that dramatically took away rights. He sided with the racists who used "states' rights" to push through undemocratic policies locally. And he's the only American president who lost a reelection bid but returned to office in the following election[...]
Monday, May 22, 2023Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, For Trump and DeSantis, Different Paths, the Same Destination He appointed three conservative Supreme Court justices who shocked the nation with rulings that dramatically took away rights. He sided with the racists who used "states' rights" to push through undemocratic policies locally. And he's the only American president who lost a reelection bid but returned to office in the following election[...]
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Thursday, May 18, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The G-3 and the Post-Ukraine World Not so long ago, political analysts were speaking of the "G-2" "" that is, of a potential working alliance between the United States and China aimed at managing global problems for their mutual benefit. Such a collaborative twosome was seen as potentially even more powerful than the G-7 group of leading Western economies[...]
Thursday, May 18, 2023Tomgram: Michael Klare, The G-3 and the Post-Ukraine World Not so long ago, political analysts were speaking of the "G-2" "" that is, of a potential working alliance between the United States and China aimed at managing global problems for their mutual benefit. Such a collaborative twosome was seen as potentially even more powerful than the G-7 group of leading Western economies[...]
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Tomgram: Juan Cole, China Hangs Washington Out to Dry in the Middle East A photo Beijing released on March 6th of Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a seismic shock in Washington. There was the Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party standing between Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's National Security Council, and Saudi National Security Adviser Musaad bin Mohammed al-Aiban. They were awkwardly shaking hands on an agreement to reestablish mutual diplomatic ties[...]
Tuesday, May 16, 2023Tomgram: Juan Cole, China Hangs Washington Out to Dry in the Middle East A photo Beijing released on March 6th of Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a seismic shock in Washington. There was the Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party standing between Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's National Security Council, and Saudi National Security Adviser Musaad bin Mohammed al-Aiban. They were awkwardly shaking hands on an agreement to reestablish mutual diplomatic ties[...]
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Thursday, May 11, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Future Beyond My Imagination After almost 79 years on this beleaguered planet, let me say one thing: this can't end well. Really, it can't. And no, I'm not talking about the most obvious issues ranging from the war in Ukraine to the climate disaster. What I have in mind is that latest, greatest human invention: artificial intelligence[...]
Thursday, May 11, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Future Beyond My Imagination After almost 79 years on this beleaguered planet, let me say one thing: this can't end well. Really, it can't. And no, I'm not talking about the most obvious issues ranging from the war in Ukraine to the climate disaster. What I have in mind is that latest, greatest human invention: artificial intelligence[...]
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Privatization of War, American-Style The way mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his private army have been waging a significant part of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has been well covered in the American media, not least of all because his firm, the Wagner Group, draws most of its men from Russia's prison system. Wagner offers "freedom" from Putin's labor camps only to send those released convicts to the front lines of the conflict[...]
Tuesday, May 9, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Privatization of War, American-Style The way mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his private army have been waging a significant part of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has been well covered in the American media, not least of all because his firm, the Wagner Group, draws most of its men from Russia's prison system. Wagner offers "freedom" from Putin's labor camps only to send those released convicts to the front lines of the conflict[...]
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Monday, May 8, 2023
Tomgram: William Astore, Nuking the Promise of America I turn 60 this year. My health is generally good, though I have aches and pains from a form of arthritis. I'm not optimistic enough to believe that the best years of my life are ahead of me, nor so pessimistic as to assume that the best years are behind me. But I do know this, however sad it may be to say: the best years of my country are behind me[...]
Monday, May 8, 2023Tomgram: William Astore, Nuking the Promise of America I turn 60 this year. My health is generally good, though I have aches and pains from a form of arthritis. I'm not optimistic enough to believe that the best years of my life are ahead of me, nor so pessimistic as to assume that the best years are behind me. But I do know this, however sad it may be to say: the best years of my country are behind me[...]
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