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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, February 18, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Donald Trump's Version of Eco-Colonialism
In early January, Donald Trump Jr.'s private plane landed on a snowy airfield in Greenland. There was little fanfare upon his arrival, but his 14 million social-media fans were certainly tagging along[...]
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Donald Trump's Version of Eco-Colonialism
In early January, Donald Trump Jr.'s private plane landed on a snowy airfield in Greenland. There was little fanfare upon his arrival, but his 14 million social-media fans were certainly tagging along[...]
Monday, February 17, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: William Astore, Making Old-Style Imperialism Great Again
A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: "Our New Possessions." Its cover featured the Statue of Liberty against stylized stars and stripes. What were those "new possessions"? The cover made it quite clear: Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico[...]
Tomgram: William Astore, Making Old-Style Imperialism Great Again
A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: "Our New Possessions." Its cover featured the Statue of Liberty against stylized stars and stripes. What were those "new possessions"? The cover made it quite clear: Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico[...]
Thursday, February 13, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Beating the Bully
In bad times -- and these are bad times -- I call up the spirit of Willie.
Willie has seen me through cancer, divorce, and deaths in the family. His memory has given me the courage and strength to push on when I wanted to give up and hide. Willie reminds me that, even at 87, I can take it, get back up, survive, sometimes even win[...]
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Beating the Bully
In bad times -- and these are bad times -- I call up the spirit of Willie.
Willie has seen me through cancer, divorce, and deaths in the family. His memory has given me the courage and strength to push on when I wanted to give up and hide. Willie reminds me that, even at 87, I can take it, get back up, survive, sometimes even win[...]
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Make Art, Not War
The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, racial and economic inequality, war and the threat of more war, a rampaging climate crisis, and an accelerating nuclear arms race (and that's just for starters) -- all occurring in a climate of massive mis- and disinformation that makes it ever harder to build a consensus toward solutions[...]
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Make Art, Not War
The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, racial and economic inequality, war and the threat of more war, a rampaging climate crisis, and an accelerating nuclear arms race (and that's just for starters) -- all occurring in a climate of massive mis- and disinformation that makes it ever harder to build a consensus toward solutions[...]
Monday, February 10, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Droning Washington
Last April, in a move generating scant media attention, the Air Force announced that it had chosen two little-known drone manufacturers -- Anduril Industries of Costa Mesa, California, and General Atomics of San Diego -- to build prototype versions of its proposed Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), a future unmanned plane intended to accompany piloted aircraft on high-risk combat missions. The lack of coverage was surprising
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Droning Washington
Last April, in a move generating scant media attention, the Air Force announced that it had chosen two little-known drone manufacturers -- Anduril Industries of Costa Mesa, California, and General Atomics of San Diego -- to build prototype versions of its proposed Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), a future unmanned plane intended to accompany piloted aircraft on high-risk combat missions. The lack of coverage was surprising
Thursday, February 6, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, A Litany of Horrors in the New Age of Trump
This past weekend my partner and I got together with a group of friends. We've been meeting every six weeks or so since 1982. Originally, this group of lesbians convened to talk about sex: what we were doing, what we wanted to do, what we fantasized about doing. But you know how it is with any relationship. Over time, it can come to embrace so many other things[...]
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, A Litany of Horrors in the New Age of Trump
This past weekend my partner and I got together with a group of friends. We've been meeting every six weeks or so since 1982. Originally, this group of lesbians convened to talk about sex: what we were doing, what we wanted to do, what we fantasized about doing. But you know how it is with any relationship. Over time, it can come to embrace so many other things[...]
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Todd Miller, Facing the Deportation Industry
It didn't take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump's reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg News reported, stock prices shot up for two private prison companies, GEO Group and CoreCivic. "We expect the incoming Trump administration to take a much more aggressive approach regarding border security as well as interior enforcement,"[...]
Tomgram: Todd Miller, Facing the Deportation Industry
It didn't take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump's reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg News reported, stock prices shot up for two private prison companies, GEO Group and CoreCivic. "We expect the incoming Trump administration to take a much more aggressive approach regarding border security as well as interior enforcement,"[...]
Monday, February 3, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Helen Benedict, A New Future for Syrian Refugees?
Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration's Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos to see how Europe was handling its own immigrants and refugees. Within a day, I met two Syrians, Eyad Awwadawnan and Hasan Majnan, who had fled Bashar al-Assad's brutal dictatorship only to end up in a filthy, overcrowded camp[...]
Tomgram: Helen Benedict, A New Future for Syrian Refugees?
Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration's Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos to see how Europe was handling its own immigrants and refugees. Within a day, I met two Syrians, Eyad Awwadawnan and Hasan Majnan, who had fled Bashar al-Assad's brutal dictatorship only to end up in a filthy, overcrowded camp[...]
Friday, January 31, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Electing Donald Trump Was a Suicidal Act
Let's face it: Electing Donald Trump was nothing short of a suicidal act[...]
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Electing Donald Trump Was a Suicidal Act
Let's face it: Electing Donald Trump was nothing short of a suicidal act[...]
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The True Cost of Guanta'namo
On January 10th, one day before the 23rd anniversary of its opening, a much-anticipated hearing was set to take place at the Guanta'namo Bay Detention Facility on the island of Cuba. After nearly 17 years of pretrial litigation, the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the "mastermind" of the devastating attacks of September 11, 2001, seemed poised to achieve its ever-elusive goal of bringing his case to a conclusion.
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The True Cost of Guanta'namo
On January 10th, one day before the 23rd anniversary of its opening, a much-anticipated hearing was set to take place at the Guanta'namo Bay Detention Facility on the island of Cuba. After nearly 17 years of pretrial litigation, the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the "mastermind" of the devastating attacks of September 11, 2001, seemed poised to achieve its ever-elusive goal of bringing his case to a conclusion.
Monday, January 27, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Carmageddon?
It came upon a midnight clear, a vision both complete and quite specific -- not from any of those "angels bending near the earth to touch their harps of gold," as in the Christmas carol, but from a long line of trucks on the Indiana Toll Road[...]
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Carmageddon?
It came upon a midnight clear, a vision both complete and quite specific -- not from any of those "angels bending near the earth to touch their harps of gold," as in the Christmas carol, but from a long line of trucks on the Indiana Toll Road[...]
Thursday, January 23, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Theoharis and Hartung, Turning the Tide
With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, advocates for peace, social justice, racial and economic equality, fair immigration policies, climate renewal, trans rights, and other movements for change are bracing for hard times. The new administration will be doggedly opposed to so many of the values we hold dear, as well as programs that have helped keep millions of Americans above the poverty line[...]
Tomgram: Theoharis and Hartung, Turning the Tide
With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, advocates for peace, social justice, racial and economic equality, fair immigration policies, climate renewal, trans rights, and other movements for change are bracing for hard times. The new administration will be doggedly opposed to so many of the values we hold dear, as well as programs that have helped keep millions of Americans above the poverty line[...]
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Trumpocalypse
My name isn't important, only what I have to say. I'm writing with a pencil because I need to conserve my batteries tonight. It's Year 24 of Our Trump (though he himself, of course, is no longer with us, just his kids who are running things). I feel like I should try to explain our era to whoever opens this time capsule a century from now, though you may need scuba gear to get at it. A lot of records could be lost by then[...]
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Trumpocalypse
My name isn't important, only what I have to say. I'm writing with a pencil because I need to conserve my batteries tonight. It's Year 24 of Our Trump (though he himself, of course, is no longer with us, just his kids who are running things). I feel like I should try to explain our era to whoever opens this time capsule a century from now, though you may need scuba gear to get at it. A lot of records could be lost by then[...]
Monday, January 20, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Donald Trump's War on Migrants
This country, once a haven for immigrants, is now on the verge of turning into a first-class nightmare for them. President Donald Trump often speaks of his plan to deport some 11.7 million undocumented immigrants from the United States as "the largest domestic deportation operation in American history[...]"
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Donald Trump's War on Migrants
This country, once a haven for immigrants, is now on the verge of turning into a first-class nightmare for them. President Donald Trump often speaks of his plan to deport some 11.7 million undocumented immigrants from the United States as "the largest domestic deportation operation in American history[...]"
Thursday, January 16, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." So declared Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ah, if only it had proved to be so.
Although my respect for MLK is enduring, when it comes to that upward-trending curve connecting past to present, his view of human history has proven to be all too hopeful. At best, history's actual course remains exceedingly difficult to decipher[...]
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." So declared Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ah, if only it had proved to be so.
Although my respect for MLK is enduring, when it comes to that upward-trending curve connecting past to present, his view of human history has proven to be all too hopeful. At best, history's actual course remains exceedingly difficult to decipher[...]
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: William Hartung, A Strategy of Global Collective Suicide?
A primary responsibility of the government is, of course, to keep us safe. Given that obligation, you might think that the Washington establishment would be hard at work trying to prevent the ultimate catastrophe -- a nuclear war. But you would be wrong[...]
Tomgram: William Hartung, A Strategy of Global Collective Suicide?
A primary responsibility of the government is, of course, to keep us safe. Given that obligation, you might think that the Washington establishment would be hard at work trying to prevent the ultimate catastrophe -- a nuclear war. But you would be wrong[...]
Monday, January 13, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Stan Cox, Washington Doubles Down on Arming Israel
In recent weeks, political soothsayers have speculated about a wide variety of odious new policies the incoming Trump administration and its allies in Congress may or may not pursue. No one can predict with certainty which of those measures they will inflict on us and which they'll forget about. But we can make one prediction with utter confidence[...]
Tomgram: Stan Cox, Washington Doubles Down on Arming Israel
In recent weeks, political soothsayers have speculated about a wide variety of odious new policies the incoming Trump administration and its allies in Congress may or may not pursue. No one can predict with certainty which of those measures they will inflict on us and which they'll forget about. But we can make one prediction with utter confidence[...]
Thursday, January 9, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: William Astore, The American Military Under Trump and the DOGE
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take America back (again!) to greatness, there's been much talk of Elon Musk's new DOGE, or Department of Government Efficiency, and whether it will dare tackle Pentagon spending in useful ways. Could it curb rampant fraud, waste, and abuse within military contracting? Will the Pentagon finally pass a financial audit after seven consecutive failed attempts?[...]
Tomgram: William Astore, The American Military Under Trump and the DOGE
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take America back (again!) to greatness, there's been much talk of Elon Musk's new DOGE, or Department of Government Efficiency, and whether it will dare tackle Pentagon spending in useful ways. Could it curb rampant fraud, waste, and abuse within military contracting? Will the Pentagon finally pass a financial audit after seven consecutive failed attempts?[...]
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Punch-Drunk But Still on Our Feet
The expression "punch-drunk," Google informs me, means "stupefied by or as if by a series of heavy blows to the head." Google's Oxford Language entry then offers a not-terribly-illuminating example of the term's use: "I feel a little punch-drunk today." Right now, a better one might be something like: "After November 5, 2024, a lot of people have been feeling more than a little punch-drunk[...]"
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Punch-Drunk But Still on Our Feet
The expression "punch-drunk," Google informs me, means "stupefied by or as if by a series of heavy blows to the head." Google's Oxford Language entry then offers a not-terribly-illuminating example of the term's use: "I feel a little punch-drunk today." Right now, a better one might be something like: "After November 5, 2024, a lot of people have been feeling more than a little punch-drunk[...]"
Monday, January 6, 2025 SHARE
Tomgram: Engelhardt, President Chaos
Honestly, as 2025 begins, isn't it finally time to reimagine American history? So, what do you think of this: George Trump, Abraham Trump, Ulysses S. Trump, Franklin D. Trump, Dwight D. Trump, John F. Trump, Lyndon B. Trump, and even Richard M. and George W. Trump. And yes, of course, on January 20th, Donald J. Trump (of all people) will once again be president of these distinctly (dis-)United States of America[...]
Tomgram: Engelhardt, President Chaos
Honestly, as 2025 begins, isn't it finally time to reimagine American history? So, what do you think of this: George Trump, Abraham Trump, Ulysses S. Trump, Franklin D. Trump, Dwight D. Trump, John F. Trump, Lyndon B. Trump, and even Richard M. and George W. Trump. And yes, of course, on January 20th, Donald J. Trump (of all people) will once again be president of these distinctly (dis-)United States of America[...]
