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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 8, 2025
Tomgram: William Astore, Too Much Bombing, Not Enough Brains Forty years ago this month, I was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. I would be part of America's all-volunteer force (AVF) for 20 years, hitting my marks and retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 2005. In my two decades of service, I met a lot of fine and dedicated officers, enlisted members, and civilians. I worked with the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps as well [...]
Thursday, May 8, 2025Tomgram: William Astore, Too Much Bombing, Not Enough Brains Forty years ago this month, I was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. I would be part of America's all-volunteer force (AVF) for 20 years, hitting my marks and retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 2005. In my two decades of service, I met a lot of fine and dedicated officers, enlisted members, and civilians. I worked with the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps as well [...]
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Eight Topics to Topple Trump If the overwhelming deluge from the Trumpian firehose of lies, threats, incompetency, illegal actions, and surreality is sweeping you off your feet, driving you to bedridden depression, leaving you passive and breathlessly unable to mount a response, much less resistance, please get into the huddle, take a time-out, and listen up to your Jock Culture coach. (That's me, of course!)[...]
Tuesday, May 6, 2025Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Eight Topics to Topple Trump If the overwhelming deluge from the Trumpian firehose of lies, threats, incompetency, illegal actions, and surreality is sweeping you off your feet, driving you to bedridden depression, leaving you passive and breathlessly unable to mount a response, much less resistance, please get into the huddle, take a time-out, and listen up to your Jock Culture coach. (That's me, of course!)[...]
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Thursday, May 1, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Apocalyptic Don? Yes, give us human beings credit. In our relatively brief history, it's no small thing to have come up with two different ways of thoroughly devastating Planet Earth and its inhabitants. One of them, of course, is the long-term, slow-motion version of planetary destruction that we've come to call climate change. And yes, we can already feel it[...]
Thursday, May 1, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, Apocalyptic Don? Yes, give us human beings credit. In our relatively brief history, it's no small thing to have come up with two different ways of thoroughly devastating Planet Earth and its inhabitants. One of them, of course, is the long-term, slow-motion version of planetary destruction that we've come to call climate change. And yes, we can already feel it[...]
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, How Trump Plays the Media It's not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism. Or, for that matter, even a skimmer of the headlines crawling across American phones[...]
Tuesday, April 29, 2025Tomgram: Nan Levinson, How Trump Plays the Media It's not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism. Or, for that matter, even a skimmer of the headlines crawling across American phones[...]
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Monday, April 28, 2025
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Top Democrats Have Been Enabling Trump America desperately needs a united front to restrain the wrecking ball of the Trump regime. While outraged opposition has been visible and vocal, it remains a far cry from developing a capacity to protect what's left of democracy in the United States[...]
Monday, April 28, 2025Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Top Democrats Have Been Enabling Trump America desperately needs a united front to restrain the wrecking ball of the Trump regime. While outraged opposition has been visible and vocal, it remains a far cry from developing a capacity to protect what's left of democracy in the United States[...]
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler, The Gutting of American Mental Health Care The United States has been in the throes of a mental health and overdose crisis so severe it has spanned five presidential administrations and been classified as an official state of emergency in three of them. No one knows exactly how this emergency will play out during the current Trumpian cocktail of uncertainty, fear, and cuts to social services[...]
Thursday, April 24, 2025Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler, The Gutting of American Mental Health Care The United States has been in the throes of a mental health and overdose crisis so severe it has spanned five presidential administrations and been classified as an official state of emergency in three of them. No one knows exactly how this emergency will play out during the current Trumpian cocktail of uncertainty, fear, and cuts to social services[...]
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Welcome to the Garrison State Under the guise of efficiency, the Trump administration is taking a sledgehammer to essential programs and agencies that are the backbone of America's civilian government. The virtual elimination of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and plans to shut down the Department of Education are just the most visible examples of a campaign that includes layoffs of budget experts, public health officials [...]
Tuesday, April 22, 2025Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Welcome to the Garrison State Under the guise of efficiency, the Trump administration is taking a sledgehammer to essential programs and agencies that are the backbone of America's civilian government. The virtual elimination of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and plans to shut down the Department of Education are just the most visible examples of a campaign that includes layoffs of budget experts, public health officials [...]
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Monday, April 21, 2025
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, It Didn't Start with Donald Trump In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to the CIA, who shipped him off to one of their "black sites[...]"
Monday, April 21, 2025Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, It Didn't Start with Donald Trump In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to the CIA, who shipped him off to one of their "black sites[...]"
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Thursday, April 17, 2025
Tomgram: Douglas H. White, Past is Prologue in the Trump Era Recently, in an executive order, President Trump directed the removal of "improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology" from the Smithsonian Institution. That order was, in essence, an attempt to rewrite history on race and gender. One-hundred-and-one-year-old Colonel James H. Harvey, one of the last of the famed Tuskegee airmen of World War II, blamed Trump, saying, "I'll tell him to his face. No problem[...]"
Thursday, April 17, 2025Tomgram: Douglas H. White, Past is Prologue in the Trump Era Recently, in an executive order, President Trump directed the removal of "improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology" from the Smithsonian Institution. That order was, in essence, an attempt to rewrite history on race and gender. One-hundred-and-one-year-old Colonel James H. Harvey, one of the last of the famed Tuskegee airmen of World War II, blamed Trump, saying, "I'll tell him to his face. No problem[...]"
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back, Trump's War on the Poor in a New Gilded Age The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the 10 richest people in the world -- including nine Americans -- expanded their wealth by nearly $64 billion, the greatest single-day increase in recorded history. Since then, an unholy marriage of billionaire investors, tech bros, Christian nationalists, and, of course, Donald Trump has staged an oligarchic assault on our democracy[...]
Tuesday, April 15, 2025Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back, Trump's War on the Poor in a New Gilded Age The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the 10 richest people in the world -- including nine Americans -- expanded their wealth by nearly $64 billion, the greatest single-day increase in recorded history. Since then, an unholy marriage of billionaire investors, tech bros, Christian nationalists, and, of course, Donald Trump has staged an oligarchic assault on our democracy[...]
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Monday, April 14, 2025
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Is 2025 the New 1984? Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the Ministry of Truth; or the ruling party's memorably grim slogans, "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery." But for me, the most disturbing image of all -- and I first read the book in high school -- was the "Two Minutes Hate,"[...]
Monday, April 14, 2025Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Is 2025 the New 1984? Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the Ministry of Truth; or the ruling party's memorably grim slogans, "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery." But for me, the most disturbing image of all -- and I first read the book in high school -- was the "Two Minutes Hate,"[...]
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Thursday, April 10, 2025
Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, Who Are the Barbarians on This Planet? In the colonial view of the world -- and, in its own strange fashion, Donald Trump's view couldn't be more colonial -- White European colonizers were embattled beacons of civilization, rationality, and progress, confronting dangerous barbaric hordes beyond (and even, sometimes, within) their own frontiers[...]
Thursday, April 10, 2025Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, Who Are the Barbarians on This Planet? In the colonial view of the world -- and, in its own strange fashion, Donald Trump's view couldn't be more colonial -- White European colonizers were embattled beacons of civilization, rationality, and progress, confronting dangerous barbaric hordes beyond (and even, sometimes, within) their own frontiers[...]
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Trumpworld, The Second Time Around (and Around and Around) From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by this country's Civil War. Among all my toy soldiers -- cowboys and Indians, British marching troops in red jackets, and plastic Army-green World War II soldiers [...]
Tuesday, April 8, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, Trumpworld, The Second Time Around (and Around and Around) From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by this country's Civil War. Among all my toy soldiers -- cowboys and Indians, British marching troops in red jackets, and plastic Army-green World War II soldiers [...]
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Monday, April 7, 2025
Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, A Look at USAID From the Inside What put the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with an annual budget hovering at just about 1% of federal spending, at the top of Elon Musk's budget-cutting target list? Was it just a political calculation that foreign aid is a safe target because it's unpopular with so many Americans and cutting those funds will only hurt foreigners, not U.S. voters?[...]
Monday, April 7, 2025Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, A Look at USAID From the Inside What put the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with an annual budget hovering at just about 1% of federal spending, at the top of Elon Musk's budget-cutting target list? Was it just a political calculation that foreign aid is a safe target because it's unpopular with so many Americans and cutting those funds will only hurt foreigners, not U.S. voters?[...]
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Thursday, April 3, 2025
Tomgram: William Astore, War Now, War Tomorrow, War Forever? I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man named Elon Musk. But he lost out on one thing: he didn't get a top secret briefing on Pentagon war plans for China. And the news people breathed a sigh of relief. With apologies to John Lennon and The Beatles, a day in the life is getting increasingly tough to take here in the land of the free[...]
Thursday, April 3, 2025Tomgram: William Astore, War Now, War Tomorrow, War Forever? I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man named Elon Musk. But he lost out on one thing: he didn't get a top secret briefing on Pentagon war plans for China. And the news people breathed a sigh of relief. With apologies to John Lennon and The Beatles, a day in the life is getting increasingly tough to take here in the land of the free[...]
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Goodbye to All That? The second administration of President Donald J. Trump has already started working its special magic across the Washington, D.C. capital region. Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have fired tens of thousands of federal workers, with more to come. Those who have lost their jobs include people who find housing and other support for veterans struggling with mental illness[...]
Tuesday, April 1, 2025Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Goodbye to All That? The second administration of President Donald J. Trump has already started working its special magic across the Washington, D.C. capital region. Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have fired tens of thousands of federal workers, with more to come. Those who have lost their jobs include people who find housing and other support for veterans struggling with mental illness[...]
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Monday, March 31, 2025
Tomgram: John Feffer, Can Europe Stop Trump and Putin? The news of Rodrigo Duterte's arrest surprised me. It's not that I doubted the former leader of the Philippines was guilty of the horrific crimes detailed in his International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant. Duterte himself boasted quite openly of the mass killings he's been accused of. But I always thought that the prospects of bringing that brutal, outspoken politician to justice were remote indeed[...]
Monday, March 31, 2025Tomgram: John Feffer, Can Europe Stop Trump and Putin? The news of Rodrigo Duterte's arrest surprised me. It's not that I doubted the former leader of the Philippines was guilty of the horrific crimes detailed in his International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant. Duterte himself boasted quite openly of the mass killings he's been accused of. But I always thought that the prospects of bringing that brutal, outspoken politician to justice were remote indeed[...]
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Thursday, March 27, 2025
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Trump Seeks to Overthrow the Advances of the Twentieth Century During the 2024 election campaign, candidate Donald Trump's most controversial rally occurred at New York's Madison Square Garden. A comedian on the program referred to the island of Puerto Rico -- and by implication Puerto Ricans -- as garbage. He and the Trump campaign were rightfully pilloried and called out for his disgusting bigotry[...]
Thursday, March 27, 2025Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Trump Seeks to Overthrow the Advances of the Twentieth Century During the 2024 election campaign, candidate Donald Trump's most controversial rally occurred at New York's Madison Square Garden. A comedian on the program referred to the island of Puerto Rico -- and by implication Puerto Ricans -- as garbage. He and the Trump campaign were rightfully pilloried and called out for his disgusting bigotry[...]
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The War on Terror Comes Home in the Trump Era Four years ago, I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror[...]
Tuesday, March 25, 2025Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The War on Terror Comes Home in the Trump Era Four years ago, I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror[...]
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Monday, March 24, 2025
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, On Not Going Gentle Allow me to stipulate that I do not wish to die. In fact, had anyone consulted me about the construction of the universe, I would have made my views on the subject quite clear: mortality is a terrible idea. I'm opposed to it in general[...]
Monday, March 24, 2025Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, On Not Going Gentle Allow me to stipulate that I do not wish to die. In fact, had anyone consulted me about the construction of the universe, I would have made my views on the subject quite clear: mortality is a terrible idea. I'm opposed to it in general[...]
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