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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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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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Thursday, March 20, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Trump First, America Last Yes, "shock and awe" is back in the second age of Donald Trump. His border czar, Tom Homan, used that very phrase to describe border policy from day one of the new administration and, whether the president has actually said it or not, it's now regularly in headlines, op-eds, and so much else. If you remember, it was the phrase used, in all its glory, to describe America's massive bombing and invasion of Iraq in 2003[...]
Thursday, March 20, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, Trump First, America Last Yes, "shock and awe" is back in the second age of Donald Trump. His border czar, Tom Homan, used that very phrase to describe border policy from day one of the new administration and, whether the president has actually said it or not, it's now regularly in headlines, op-eds, and so much else. If you remember, it was the phrase used, in all its glory, to describe America's massive bombing and invasion of Iraq in 2003[...]
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, A Manhattan Project for AI Weaponry? Alex Karp, the CEO of the controversial military tech firm Palantir, is the coauthor of a new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. In it, he calls for a renewed sense of national purpose and even greater cooperation between government and the tech sector. His book is, in fact, not just an account of how to spur technological innovation, but a distinctly ideological tract[...]
Tuesday, March 18, 2025Tomgram: William D. Hartung, A Manhattan Project for AI Weaponry? Alex Karp, the CEO of the controversial military tech firm Palantir, is the coauthor of a new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. In it, he calls for a renewed sense of national purpose and even greater cooperation between government and the tech sector. His book is, in fact, not just an account of how to spur technological innovation, but a distinctly ideological tract[...]
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, It Can't Happen Here (or Can It?) Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it's already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness and unconstitutional overreach while using everything in his power (and much that isn't), Donald Trump has served up a goulash of dubious orders with a slathering of venom on top[...]
Thursday, March 13, 2025Tomgram: Nan Levinson, It Can't Happen Here (or Can It?) Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it's already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness and unconstitutional overreach while using everything in his power (and much that isn't), Donald Trump has served up a goulash of dubious orders with a slathering of venom on top[...]
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, Setting Up the Machinery of Mass Deportation "Flights to Guanta'namo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our homeland." With those words the U.S. government announced the fate awaiting "criminal aliens" in its custody[...]
Tuesday, March 11, 2025Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, Setting Up the Machinery of Mass Deportation "Flights to Guanta'namo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our homeland." With those words the U.S. government announced the fate awaiting "criminal aliens" in its custody[...]
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Monday, March 10, 2025
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Living in Red-Card America "It is pretty wild how you can make someone mad by just holding a sign," my 18-year-old Ro told me, as an irate driver peeled out of the intersection, shaking both his middle fingers at us but managing not to hit us. Phew![...]
Monday, March 10, 2025Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Living in Red-Card America "It is pretty wild how you can make someone mad by just holding a sign," my 18-year-old Ro told me, as an irate driver peeled out of the intersection, shaking both his middle fingers at us but managing not to hit us. Phew![...]
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Did Science Fiction Prophesy Our Tech Broligarchy? The opening weeks of the second Trump administration have produced daily headlines that read -- no, this is not hyperbole! -- like science fiction. The spectacle of a South African tech billionaire and his cronies staging a twenty-first-century cybercoup with the acquiescence of an aging lunatic of a president beggars belief[...]
Thursday, March 6, 2025Tomgram: Juan Cole, Did Science Fiction Prophesy Our Tech Broligarchy? The opening weeks of the second Trump administration have produced daily headlines that read -- no, this is not hyperbole! -- like science fiction. The spectacle of a South African tech billionaire and his cronies staging a twenty-first-century cybercoup with the acquiescence of an aging lunatic of a president beggars belief[...]
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Which Century Are We In? In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from what might be called, to borrow the title of a famed William Butler Yeats's poem, "The Second Coming" of Donald J. Trump. But nobody expected this. Nobody at all[...]
Tuesday, March 4, 2025Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Which Century Are We In? In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from what might be called, to borrow the title of a famed William Butler Yeats's poem, "The Second Coming" of Donald J. Trump. But nobody expected this. Nobody at all[...]
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Monday, March 3, 2025
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Trump Administration's Christian Crusade Is Experiencing Pushback "There has almost always been an outright hostility that is shown towards people of the Christian faith," House Speaker Mike Johnson said on a podcast recently. He was talking with Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana lawmaker and president of the Family Research Council, about freedom of religion and the actions of the second Trump administration[...]
Monday, March 3, 2025Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Trump Administration's Christian Crusade Is Experiencing Pushback "There has almost always been an outright hostility that is shown towards people of the Christian faith," House Speaker Mike Johnson said on a podcast recently. He was talking with Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana lawmaker and president of the Family Research Council, about freedom of religion and the actions of the second Trump administration[...]
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Thursday, February 27, 2025
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Donald Trump and the Military-Industrial-Tech Complex Donald Trump's power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last quarter-century was a crucial factor in making President Trump possible, even if it goes virtually unmentioned in mainstream media and political discourse[...]
Thursday, February 27, 2025Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Donald Trump and the Military-Industrial-Tech Complex Donald Trump's power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last quarter-century was a crucial factor in making President Trump possible, even if it goes virtually unmentioned in mainstream media and political discourse[...]
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Tomgram: Douglas H. White, Bending The Arc of the Moral Universe Toward Justice Today, racism remains a poisonous force in America. Fascism and authoritarianism are on the rise and President Donald Trump is giving voice to such hate, making it state policy and central to his presidential agenda. Recently, he tried to ban birthright citizenship by executive order to limit the number of babies of color born in the United States, though such an act is clearly unconstitutional[...]
Tuesday, February 25, 2025Tomgram: Douglas H. White, Bending The Arc of the Moral Universe Toward Justice Today, racism remains a poisonous force in America. Fascism and authoritarianism are on the rise and President Donald Trump is giving voice to such hate, making it state policy and central to his presidential agenda. Recently, he tried to ban birthright citizenship by executive order to limit the number of babies of color born in the United States, though such an act is clearly unconstitutional[...]
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