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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, May 4, 2023
Tomgram: Hartung and Freeman, The Twenty-First Century of (Profitable) War The military-industrial complex (MIC) that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about more than 60 years ago is still alive and well. In fact, it's consuming many more tax dollars and feeding far larger weapons producers than when Ike raised the alarm about the "unwarranted influence" it wielded in his 1961 farewell address to the nation[...]
Thursday, May 4, 2023Tomgram: Hartung and Freeman, The Twenty-First Century of (Profitable) War The military-industrial complex (MIC) that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about more than 60 years ago is still alive and well. In fact, it's consuming many more tax dollars and feeding far larger weapons producers than when Ike raised the alarm about the "unwarranted influence" it wielded in his 1961 farewell address to the nation[...]
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, Whose World Is This Anyway? "In order to fully recover, we must first recover the society that has made us sick[...]"
Tuesday, May 2, 2023Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, Whose World Is This Anyway? "In order to fully recover, we must first recover the society that has made us sick[...]"
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Thursday, April 27, 2023
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Whose Continent Is This Anyway? From the ashes of a world war that killed 80 million people and reduced great cities to smoking rubble, America rose like a Titan of Greek legend, unharmed and armed with extraordinary military and economic power, to govern the globe[...]
Thursday, April 27, 2023Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Whose Continent Is This Anyway? From the ashes of a world war that killed 80 million people and reduced great cities to smoking rubble, America rose like a Titan of Greek legend, unharmed and armed with extraordinary military and economic power, to govern the globe[...]
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Tomgram: Stan Cox, Spreading Hate and Bullets It's not often that conservative lobbyists beat the drum for increased environmental oversight and regulation. But that's what happened this month when the far-right Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), through its legal arm, filed a brief in federal court demanding that the Department of Homeland Security conduct an extensive environmental impact study examining, of all things, immigration policy[...]
Tuesday, April 25, 2023Tomgram: Stan Cox, Spreading Hate and Bullets It's not often that conservative lobbyists beat the drum for increased environmental oversight and regulation. But that's what happened this month when the far-right Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), through its legal arm, filed a brief in federal court demanding that the Department of Homeland Security conduct an extensive environmental impact study examining, of all things, immigration policy[...]
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Monday, April 24, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, This Little War of Mine (and Yours and Ours and Theirs) I was born on July 20, 1944, amid a vast global conflict already known as World War II. Though it ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 before I could say much more than "Mama" or "Dada," in some strange fashion, I grew up at war[...]
Monday, April 24, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, This Little War of Mine (and Yours and Ours and Theirs) I was born on July 20, 1944, amid a vast global conflict already known as World War II. Though it ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 before I could say much more than "Mama" or "Dada," in some strange fashion, I grew up at war[...]
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Thursday, April 20, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Do You Really Want That Tax Deduction? We've just passed through tax time again. (Unless, like me, you live in one of several states ravaged by recent extreme weather events brought on by climate change. In that case, you can wait until October.) It's also that moment when the War Resisters League "" slogan: "If you work for peace, stop paying for war" "" publishes its invaluable annual "Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes" pie chart[...]
Thursday, April 20, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Do You Really Want That Tax Deduction? We've just passed through tax time again. (Unless, like me, you live in one of several states ravaged by recent extreme weather events brought on by climate change. In that case, you can wait until October.) It's also that moment when the War Resisters League "" slogan: "If you work for peace, stop paying for war" "" publishes its invaluable annual "Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes" pie chart[...]
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, The Unnoticed Atomic War It's sure to be a blood-soaked spring in Ukraine. Russia's winter offensive fell far short of Vladimir Putin's objectives, leaving little doubt that the West's conveyor belt of weaponry has aided Ukraine's defenses. Cease-fire negotiations have never truly begun, while NATO has only strengthened its forces thanks to Finland's new membership (with Sweden soon likely to follow)[...]
Tuesday, April 18, 2023Tomgram: Joshua Frank, The Unnoticed Atomic War It's sure to be a blood-soaked spring in Ukraine. Russia's winter offensive fell far short of Vladimir Putin's objectives, leaving little doubt that the West's conveyor belt of weaponry has aided Ukraine's defenses. Cease-fire negotiations have never truly begun, while NATO has only strengthened its forces thanks to Finland's new membership (with Sweden soon likely to follow)[...]
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Monday, April 17, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Creating a Hypersonic Pentagon Budget On March 13th, the Biden administration unveiled its $842 billion military budget request for 2024, the largest ask (in today's dollars) since the peaks of the Afghan and Iraq wars. And mind you, that's before the hawks in Congress get their hands on it. Last year, they added $35 billion to the administration's request and, this year, their add-on is likely to prove at least that big[...]
Monday, April 17, 2023Tomgram: Michael Klare, Creating a Hypersonic Pentagon Budget On March 13th, the Biden administration unveiled its $842 billion military budget request for 2024, the largest ask (in today's dollars) since the peaks of the Afghan and Iraq wars. And mind you, that's before the hawks in Congress get their hands on it. Last year, they added $35 billion to the administration's request and, this year, their add-on is likely to prove at least that big[...]
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Thursday, April 13, 2023
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Recruiting Children After more than 20 years of losing wars, recruiting for the U.S. Army is now officially a mess. Last year, that service fell short of its goal by 15,000 recruits, or a quarter of its target. Despite reports of better numbers in the first months of this year, Army officials doubt they will achieve their objective this time around either[...]
Thursday, April 13, 2023Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Recruiting Children After more than 20 years of losing wars, recruiting for the U.S. Army is now officially a mess. Last year, that service fell short of its goal by 15,000 recruits, or a quarter of its target. Despite reports of better numbers in the first months of this year, Army officials doubt they will achieve their objective this time around either[...]
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Wars to End All Wars? "It is time," President Biden announced in April 2021, "to end the forever war" that started with the invasion of Afghanistan soon after the tragic terror attacks on this country on September 11, 2001. Indeed, that August, amid chaos and disaster, the president did finally pull the last remaining U.S. forces out of that country[...]
Tuesday, April 11, 2023Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Wars to End All Wars? "It is time," President Biden announced in April 2021, "to end the forever war" that started with the invasion of Afghanistan soon after the tragic terror attacks on this country on September 11, 2001. Indeed, that August, amid chaos and disaster, the president did finally pull the last remaining U.S. forces out of that country[...]
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Monday, April 10, 2023
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Tick, Tock, TikTok, the Nuclear Conundrum Today I'm not a TikTok person. I'm too old. But when I finally ventured onto that popular but much-maligned app, which traffics in short videos and hot takes, I was surprised to find many videos about the Doomsday Clock. It's nothing like a conventional timepiece, of course. It's meant to show how close humanity has come to nuclear Armageddon "" to the proverbial "midnight[...]"
Monday, April 10, 2023Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Tick, Tock, TikTok, the Nuclear Conundrum Today I'm not a TikTok person. I'm too old. But when I finally ventured onto that popular but much-maligned app, which traffics in short videos and hot takes, I was surprised to find many videos about the Doomsday Clock. It's nothing like a conventional timepiece, of course. It's meant to show how close humanity has come to nuclear Armageddon "" to the proverbial "midnight[...]"
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Thursday, April 6, 2023
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, When Lunatics Run the Asylum [The following is excerpted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.[...]]
Thursday, April 6, 2023Tomgram: Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, When Lunatics Run the Asylum [The following is excerpted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.[...]]
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Tomgram: John Feffer, If You're in a Hole, Stop Digging Gustavo Petro doesn't just want to transform his own country; he wants to change the world. The new leader of Colombia, who took office last August, is targeting what he calls his nation's "economy of death." That means pivoting away from oil, natural gas, coal, and narcotics toward more sustainable economic activities. Given that oil and coal make up half his country's exports [...]
Tuesday, April 4, 2023Tomgram: John Feffer, If You're in a Hole, Stop Digging Gustavo Petro doesn't just want to transform his own country; he wants to change the world. The new leader of Colombia, who took office last August, is targeting what he calls his nation's "economy of death." That means pivoting away from oil, natural gas, coal, and narcotics toward more sustainable economic activities. Given that oil and coal make up half his country's exports [...]
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Monday, April 3, 2023
Tomgram: Stan Cox, Before It's Too Late The demise of Silicon Valley Bank last month triggered plenty of angst among solar energy developers. Before it collapsed, SBV claimed it had "financed or helped finance 62 percent of community solar projects in America," according to Washington Post business reporter Evan Halper. At first, it wasn't clear who might fill that gap[...]
Monday, April 3, 2023Tomgram: Stan Cox, Before It's Too Late The demise of Silicon Valley Bank last month triggered plenty of angst among solar energy developers. Before it collapsed, SBV claimed it had "financed or helped finance 62 percent of community solar projects in America," according to Washington Post business reporter Evan Halper. At first, it wasn't clear who might fill that gap[...]
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Thursday, March 30, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Former Soldiers Without a Future Here's something we seldom focus on when it comes to war, American-style, even during the just-passed 20th anniversary of our disastrous invasion of Iraq: many more soldiers survive armed conflict than die from it. This has been especially so during this country's twenty-first-century War on Terror, which is still playing out in all too many lands globally[...]
Thursday, March 30, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Former Soldiers Without a Future Here's something we seldom focus on when it comes to war, American-style, even during the just-passed 20th anniversary of our disastrous invasion of Iraq: many more soldiers survive armed conflict than die from it. This has been especially so during this country's twenty-first-century War on Terror, which is still playing out in all too many lands globally[...]
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Tomgram: Rajan Menon, A War for the Record Books Some wars acquire names that stick. The Lancaster and York clans fought the War of the Roses from 1455-1485 to claim the British throne. The Hundred Years' War pitted England against France from 1337-1453. In the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, many European countries clashed, while Britain and France waged the Seven Years' War, 1756-63, across significant parts of the globe[...]
Tuesday, March 28, 2023Tomgram: Rajan Menon, A War for the Record Books Some wars acquire names that stick. The Lancaster and York clans fought the War of the Roses from 1455-1485 to claim the British throne. The Hundred Years' War pitted England against France from 1337-1453. In the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, many European countries clashed, while Britain and France waged the Seven Years' War, 1756-63, across significant parts of the globe[...]
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Monday, March 27, 2023
Tomgram: William Hartung, The Pentagon's Budget from Hell On March 13th, the Pentagon rolled out its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The results were "" or at least should have been "" stunning, even by the standards of a department that's used to getting what it wants when it wants it[...]
Monday, March 27, 2023Tomgram: William Hartung, The Pentagon's Budget from Hell On March 13th, the Pentagon rolled out its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The results were "" or at least should have been "" stunning, even by the standards of a department that's used to getting what it wants when it wants it[...]
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The End? (Not Yet!) Indulge me for a moment. This is how "The Prophecy" in my 1962 high school yearbook began. It was written by some of my classmates in the year we graduated from Friends Seminary in New York City[...]
Thursday, March 23, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, The End? (Not Yet!) Indulge me for a moment. This is how "The Prophecy" in my 1962 high school yearbook began. It was written by some of my classmates in the year we graduated from Friends Seminary in New York City[...]
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Tomgram: William Astore, America Hangs from a Cross of Iron In April 1953, newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a retired five-star Army general who had led the landings on D-Day in France in June 1944, gave his most powerful speech. It would become known as his "Cross of Iron" address. In it, Ike warned of the cost humanity would pay if Cold War competition led to a world dominated by wars and weaponry that couldn't be reined in[...]
Tuesday, March 21, 2023Tomgram: William Astore, America Hangs from a Cross of Iron In April 1953, newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a retired five-star Army general who had led the landings on D-Day in France in June 1944, gave his most powerful speech. It would become known as his "Cross of Iron" address. In it, Ike warned of the cost humanity would pay if Cold War competition led to a world dominated by wars and weaponry that couldn't be reined in[...]
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Monday, March 20, 2023
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Duck and (Re)Cover? Bosley Crowther, chief film critic for the New York Times, didn't quite know what to make of Dr. Strangelove at the time of its release in January 1964. Stanley Kubrick's dark antiwar satire was "beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I've ever come across," he wrote. But if the film had its hilarious moments, Crowther found its overall effect distinctly unnerving. What exactly was Kubrick's point?[..]
Monday, March 20, 2023Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Duck and (Re)Cover? Bosley Crowther, chief film critic for the New York Times, didn't quite know what to make of Dr. Strangelove at the time of its release in January 1964. Stanley Kubrick's dark antiwar satire was "beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I've ever come across," he wrote. But if the film had its hilarious moments, Crowther found its overall effect distinctly unnerving. What exactly was Kubrick's point?[..]
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