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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, March 16, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Singing the "Bourgeois Blues" In 1937, the American folklorist Alan Lomax invited Louisiana folksinger Huddie Ledbetter (better known as Lead Belly) to record some of his songs for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Lead Belly and his wife Martha searched in vain for a place to spend a few nights nearby. But they were Black and no hotel would give them shelter[...]
Thursday, March 16, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Singing the "Bourgeois Blues" In 1937, the American folklorist Alan Lomax invited Louisiana folksinger Huddie Ledbetter (better known as Lead Belly) to record some of his songs for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Lead Belly and his wife Martha searched in vain for a place to spend a few nights nearby. But they were Black and no hotel would give them shelter[...]
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Is War with China Inevitable? Is China really on the verge of invading the island of Taiwan, as so many top American officials seem to believe? If the answer is "yes" and the U.S. intervenes on Taiwan's side "" as President Biden has sworn it would "" we could find ourselves in a major-power conflict, possibly even a nuclear one, in the not-too-distant future[...]
Tuesday, March 14, 2023Tomgram: Michael Klare, Is War with China Inevitable? Is China really on the verge of invading the island of Taiwan, as so many top American officials seem to believe? If the answer is "yes" and the U.S. intervenes on Taiwan's side "" as President Biden has sworn it would "" we could find ourselves in a major-power conflict, possibly even a nuclear one, in the not-too-distant future[...]
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Sunday, March 12, 2023
Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, Hunger in America My long-dead father used to say, "Every human being deserves to taste a piece of cake." Though at the time his words meant little to me, as I grew older I realized both what they meant, symbolically speaking, and the grim reality they disguised so charmingly[...]
Sunday, March 12, 2023Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, Hunger in America My long-dead father used to say, "Every human being deserves to taste a piece of cake." Though at the time his words meant little to me, as I grew older I realized both what they meant, symbolically speaking, and the grim reality they disguised so charmingly[...]
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Thursday, March 9, 2023
Tomgram: Juan Cole, When We Were Vladimir Putin Who remembers anymore that, in 2003, we were Vladimir Putin? Today, our cable and social-media news feeds are blanketed with denunciations of the president of the Russian Federation for his lawless and brutal invasion of Ukraine. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken met briefly with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New Delhi on March 2nd, he told him in no uncertain terms, "End this war of aggression[...]"
Thursday, March 9, 2023Tomgram: Juan Cole, When We Were Vladimir Putin Who remembers anymore that, in 2003, we were Vladimir Putin? Today, our cable and social-media news feeds are blanketed with denunciations of the president of the Russian Federation for his lawless and brutal invasion of Ukraine. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken met briefly with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New Delhi on March 2nd, he told him in no uncertain terms, "End this war of aggression[...]"
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Tomgram: Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox, A Death in the Family So many crises "" from war to mass species die-offs to climate meltdown "" afflict our world that we often don't take time to draw insights from what generally passes for the small stuff, the things that happen all too close to home, including aging. Most of us don't relish the prospect of getting old, much less watching our parents approach their deaths, something that's even worse if you're dying poor[...]
Tuesday, March 7, 2023Tomgram: Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox, A Death in the Family So many crises "" from war to mass species die-offs to climate meltdown "" afflict our world that we often don't take time to draw insights from what generally passes for the small stuff, the things that happen all too close to home, including aging. Most of us don't relish the prospect of getting old, much less watching our parents approach their deaths, something that's even worse if you're dying poor[...]
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Monday, March 6, 2023
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Will Nikki Haley's Candidacy Flag? In 2015, according to the talking points being floated by former South Carolina governor and Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley and her team, she alone heroically removed the Confederate flag that flew on the grounds of the state capitol and so healed racial wounds. She implied as much right after it happened, again at the 2020 Republican National Convention, and in subsequent interviews[...]
Monday, March 6, 2023Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Will Nikki Haley's Candidacy Flag? In 2015, according to the talking points being floated by former South Carolina governor and Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley and her team, she alone heroically removed the Confederate flag that flew on the grounds of the state capitol and so healed racial wounds. She implied as much right after it happened, again at the 2020 Republican National Convention, and in subsequent interviews[...]
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Thursday, March 2, 2023
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The True Costs of War Over Taiwan While the world has been distracted, even amused, by the diplomatic tussle around China's recent high-altitude balloon flights across North America, there are signs that Beijing and Washington are preparing for something so much more serious: armed conflict over Taiwan[...]
Thursday, March 2, 2023Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The True Costs of War Over Taiwan While the world has been distracted, even amused, by the diplomatic tussle around China's recent high-altitude balloon flights across North America, there are signs that Beijing and Washington are preparing for something so much more serious: armed conflict over Taiwan[...]
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, How a Nuclear Power Plant Became a Tool of War In 1946, Albert Einstein shot off a telegram to several hundred American leaders and politicians warning that the "unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." Einstein's forecast remains prescient. Nuclear calamity still knocks[...]
Tuesday, February 28, 2023Tomgram: Joshua Frank, How a Nuclear Power Plant Became a Tool of War In 1946, Albert Einstein shot off a telegram to several hundred American leaders and politicians warning that the "unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." Einstein's forecast remains prescient. Nuclear calamity still knocks[...]
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Monday, February 27, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, "No Hunting Like the Hunting of Man" To residents of Memphis's resource-poor, predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, the Scorpions were easy to spot. The plainclothes patrols were known for driving their unmarked Dodge Chargers through the streets, often all too recklessly, sowing fear as they went, spitting venom from their windows, jumping out with guns drawn at the slightest sign of an infraction[...]
Monday, February 27, 2023Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, "No Hunting Like the Hunting of Man" To residents of Memphis's resource-poor, predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, the Scorpions were easy to spot. The plainclothes patrols were known for driving their unmarked Dodge Chargers through the streets, often all too recklessly, sowing fear as they went, spitting venom from their windows, jumping out with guns drawn at the slightest sign of an infraction[...]
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Thursday, February 23, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, War, American-Style, on the Homefront During a Veterans Day celebration in my small Maryland community, a teacher clicked through a slideshow of smiling men and women in military uniforms. "Girls and boys, can anyone tell me what courage is?" she asked the crowd, mostly children from local elementary schools, including my two young kids[...]
Thursday, February 23, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, War, American-Style, on the Homefront During a Veterans Day celebration in my small Maryland community, a teacher clicked through a slideshow of smiling men and women in military uniforms. "Girls and boys, can anyone tell me what courage is?" she asked the crowd, mostly children from local elementary schools, including my two young kids[...]
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Tomgram: Tom Engelhardt, Where Are You, Izzy? Can there be any question that we're in a mad "" and loud "" new age of McCarthyism? Thank you, Kevin! And don't forget the wildly over-the-top members of the so-called Freedom Caucus and their Republican associates, including that charmer, lyin' George Santos, Jewish-space-laser and white-balloon-carrying Marjorie Taylor Greene, and "" once again running for president "" the man who never lost, Donald Trump-em-all[...]
Tuesday, February 21, 2023Tomgram: Tom Engelhardt, Where Are You, Izzy? Can there be any question that we're in a mad "" and loud "" new age of McCarthyism? Thank you, Kevin! And don't forget the wildly over-the-top members of the so-called Freedom Caucus and their Republican associates, including that charmer, lyin' George Santos, Jewish-space-laser and white-balloon-carrying Marjorie Taylor Greene, and "" once again running for president "" the man who never lost, Donald Trump-em-all[...]
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Thursday, February 16, 2023
Tomgram: Steve Fraser, The Republicans Face Off Against... Yes, Communism! Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and perhaps the next president of the United States, is waging war against something he and many others on the right identify as "woke communism[...]"
Thursday, February 16, 2023Tomgram: Steve Fraser, The Republicans Face Off Against... Yes, Communism! Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and perhaps the next president of the United States, is waging war against something he and many others on the right identify as "woke communism[...]"
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Giving Whataboutism a Chance "To defend civilization, defeat Russia." Writing in the unfailingly bellicose Atlantic, an American academic of my acquaintance recently issued that dramatic call to arms. And lest there be any confusion about the stakes involved, the image accompanying his essay depicted Russian President Vladimir Putin with a Hitler mustache and haircut[...]
Tuesday, February 14, 2023Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Giving Whataboutism a Chance "To defend civilization, defeat Russia." Writing in the unfailingly bellicose Atlantic, an American academic of my acquaintance recently issued that dramatic call to arms. And lest there be any confusion about the stakes involved, the image accompanying his essay depicted Russian President Vladimir Putin with a Hitler mustache and haircut[...]
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Tomgram: Gledhill and Hartung, Wasting Away at the Pentagon It's early in the new Congress, but lawmakers are already hotly debating spending and debt levels. As they do so, they risk losing track of an important issue hiding in plain sight: massive Pentagon waste[...]
Tuesday, February 14, 2023Tomgram: Gledhill and Hartung, Wasting Away at the Pentagon It's early in the new Congress, but lawmakers are already hotly debating spending and debt levels. As they do so, they risk losing track of an important issue hiding in plain sight: massive Pentagon waste[...]
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Thursday, February 9, 2023
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Football's One to the Heart The echoes still linger from that national sigh of relief last month when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, slammed into cardiac arrest during a game on January 2nd, was declared out of danger. It was a justified sigh. A vibrant young life had been spared[...]
Thursday, February 9, 2023Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Football's One to the Heart The echoes still linger from that national sigh of relief last month when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, slammed into cardiac arrest during a game on January 2nd, was declared out of danger. It was a justified sigh. A vibrant young life had been spared[...]
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, Making It in a Poor World A few weeks ago, the world's power brokers "- politicians, CEOs, millionaires, billionaires "- met in Davos, the mountainous Swiss resort town, for the 2023 World Economic Forum. In an annual ritual that reads ever more like Orwellian farce, the global elite gathered "- their private jets lined up like gleaming sardines at a nearby private airport[...]
Tuesday, February 7, 2023Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, Making It in a Poor World A few weeks ago, the world's power brokers "- politicians, CEOs, millionaires, billionaires "- met in Davos, the mountainous Swiss resort town, for the 2023 World Economic Forum. In an annual ritual that reads ever more like Orwellian farce, the global elite gathered "- their private jets lined up like gleaming sardines at a nearby private airport[...]
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Monday, February 6, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, I Never Thought I'd Miss the Earthquakes It was January 1983 and raining in San Francisco. The summer before, I'd moved here from Portland, Oregon, a city known for its perpetual gray drizzles and, on the 60-odd days a year when the sun deigns to shine, dazzling displays of greenery. My girlfriend had spent a year convincing me that San Francisco had much more to offer me than Portland did for her[...]
Monday, February 6, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, I Never Thought I'd Miss the Earthquakes It was January 1983 and raining in San Francisco. The summer before, I'd moved here from Portland, Oregon, a city known for its perpetual gray drizzles and, on the 60-odd days a year when the sun deigns to shine, dazzling displays of greenery. My girlfriend had spent a year convincing me that San Francisco had much more to offer me than Portland did for her[...]
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Thursday, February 2, 2023
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, The Nightmare of Republican Voter Suppression The fundamental right to vote has been a core value of Black politics since the colonial era " and so has the effort to suppress that vote right up to the present moment. In fact, the history of the suppression of Black voters is a first-rate horror story that as yet shows no sign of ending[...]
Thursday, February 2, 2023Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, The Nightmare of Republican Voter Suppression The fundamental right to vote has been a core value of Black politics since the colonial era " and so has the effort to suppress that vote right up to the present moment. In fact, the history of the suppression of Black voters is a first-rate horror story that as yet shows no sign of ending[...]
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Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Tomgram: William Astore, War Racketeers Won't Reform Themselves My name is Bill Astore and I'm a card-carrying member of the military-industrial complex (MIC)[...]
Tuesday, January 31, 2023Tomgram: William Astore, War Racketeers Won't Reform Themselves My name is Bill Astore and I'm a card-carrying member of the military-industrial complex (MIC)[...]
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Monday, January 30, 2023
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Gallows Humor in Washington and Brazil Americans tuning into the television news on January 8th eyed a disturbingly recognizable scene. In an "eerily familiar" moment of "de'jà vu," just two years and two days after the January 6th Capitol insurrection in Washington, D.C., a mob of thousands stormed government buildings in the capital city of another country " Brazil[...]
Monday, January 30, 2023Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Gallows Humor in Washington and Brazil Americans tuning into the television news on January 8th eyed a disturbingly recognizable scene. In an "eerily familiar" moment of "de'jà vu," just two years and two days after the January 6th Capitol insurrection in Washington, D.C., a mob of thousands stormed government buildings in the capital city of another country " Brazil[...]
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