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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, January 16, 2025
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[...]
Thursday, January 16, 2025Tomgram: 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[...]
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
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[...]
Tuesday, January 14, 2025Tomgram: 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[...]
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Monday, January 13, 2025
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[...]
Monday, January 13, 2025Tomgram: 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[...]
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Thursday, January 9, 2025
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?[...]
Thursday, January 9, 2025Tomgram: 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?[...]
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Tuesday, January 7, 2025
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[...]"
Tuesday, January 7, 2025Tomgram: 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[...]"
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Monday, January 6, 2025
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[...]
Monday, January 6, 2025Tomgram: 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[...]
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Monday, December 23, 2024
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Trump and the Fall of Imperial America Some 2,000 years ago, an itinerant preacher, Saul of Tarsus, was writing to a wayward congregation in Corinth, Greece. Curiously enough, his words still capture the epochal change that may await us just over history's horizon. "For now we see in a glass, darkly," he wrote. "Now I know in part, but then shall I know fully[...]"
Monday, December 23, 2024Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Trump and the Fall of Imperial America Some 2,000 years ago, an itinerant preacher, Saul of Tarsus, was writing to a wayward congregation in Corinth, Greece. Curiously enough, his words still capture the epochal change that may await us just over history's horizon. "For now we see in a glass, darkly," he wrote. "Now I know in part, but then shall I know fully[...]"
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Thursday, December 19, 2024
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Never-ending Legacy of the War on Terror Post-election America finds itself in a panic. Voices from across a wide political spectrum warn that the country stands on the precipice of a potentially unprecedented and chaotic disregard for the laws, norms, and policies upon which its stability and security have traditionally relied. Some fear that the "new" president, Donald Trump, is likely to declare a national emergency and invoke the Insurrection Act[...]
Thursday, December 19, 2024Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Never-ending Legacy of the War on Terror Post-election America finds itself in a panic. Voices from across a wide political spectrum warn that the country stands on the precipice of a potentially unprecedented and chaotic disregard for the laws, norms, and policies upon which its stability and security have traditionally relied. Some fear that the "new" president, Donald Trump, is likely to declare a national emergency and invoke the Insurrection Act[...]
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Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Can Trump Trump China (or Vice Versa)? Gaza, Haiti, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Russia, Syria, Ukraine, and Venezuela: President-elect Donald Trump will face no shortage of foreign-policy challenges when he assumes office in January. None, however, comes close to China in scope, scale, or complexity[...]
Tuesday, December 17, 2024Tomgram: Michael Klare, Can Trump Trump China (or Vice Versa)? Gaza, Haiti, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Russia, Syria, Ukraine, and Venezuela: President-elect Donald Trump will face no shortage of foreign-policy challenges when he assumes office in January. None, however, comes close to China in scope, scale, or complexity[...]
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Sunday, December 15, 2024
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, An Unjust Transition? Like many roads that cut through Wyoming, the highway into the town of Rawlins is a long, winding one surrounded by rolling hills, barbed wire fences, and cattle ranches. I'd traveled this stretch of Wyoming many times. Once during a dangerous blizzard, another time during a car-rattling thunderstorm, the rain so heavy my windshield wipers couldn't keep pace with the deluge[...]
Sunday, December 15, 2024Tomgram: Joshua Frank, An Unjust Transition? Like many roads that cut through Wyoming, the highway into the town of Rawlins is a long, winding one surrounded by rolling hills, barbed wire fences, and cattle ranches. I'd traveled this stretch of Wyoming many times. Once during a dangerous blizzard, another time during a car-rattling thunderstorm, the rain so heavy my windshield wipers couldn't keep pace with the deluge[...]
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Thursday, December 12, 2024
Tomgram: John Feffer, Why Liberals Will Give Two Cheers for Trump Liberals hate Trump, no question about it. He's the definition of illiberal: authoritarian, racist, sexist, and downright nasty. Not only that, he's a living repudiation of the liberal delusion that America runs on meritocracy[...]
Thursday, December 12, 2024Tomgram: John Feffer, Why Liberals Will Give Two Cheers for Trump Liberals hate Trump, no question about it. He's the definition of illiberal: authoritarian, racist, sexist, and downright nasty. Not only that, he's a living repudiation of the liberal delusion that America runs on meritocracy[...]
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Broken Heart Syndrome in Trump's America In the early 1990s, doctors in Hiroshima, Japan, discovered a stress-induced syndrome they called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or "broken heart syndrome" -- a condition in which the heart's left ventricle, responsible for pumping blood, loses its capacity in response to extreme stressors like war, natural disaster, and the loss of loved ones. Prevalent among older women, that acute condition involves heart attack-like symptoms...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Broken Heart Syndrome in Trump's America In the early 1990s, doctors in Hiroshima, Japan, discovered a stress-induced syndrome they called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or "broken heart syndrome" -- a condition in which the heart's left ventricle, responsible for pumping blood, loses its capacity in response to extreme stressors like war, natural disaster, and the loss of loved ones. Prevalent among older women, that acute condition involves heart attack-like symptoms...
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
Tomgram: Ira Chernus, The Strongman Approach Count on one thing: the next four years are going to be tough. If you can muster the energy for political action while Donald Trump and his minions rule Washington, it will have to be channeled in two ways: first, resisting the worst excesses of him (and his party of billionaires); and second, keeping up the effort to make life truly better for everyone, especially the most vulnerable among us[...]
Thursday, December 5, 2024Tomgram: Ira Chernus, The Strongman Approach Count on one thing: the next four years are going to be tough. If you can muster the energy for political action while Donald Trump and his minions rule Washington, it will have to be channeled in two ways: first, resisting the worst excesses of him (and his party of billionaires); and second, keeping up the effort to make life truly better for everyone, especially the most vulnerable among us[...]
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Donald Trump's Last Bankruptcy (Us) Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn't fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like the rest of us, I've lived through it all, including his close loss in 2020). Still, twice? Him? A convicted felon, no less! And yes, I do think italics are all too appropriate under the circumstances[...]
Tuesday, December 3, 2024Tomgram: Engelhardt, Donald Trump's Last Bankruptcy (Us) Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn't fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like the rest of us, I've lived through it all, including his close loss in 2020). Still, twice? Him? A convicted felon, no less! And yes, I do think italics are all too appropriate under the circumstances[...]
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Monday, December 2, 2024
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Woman, Man, Fish, Bicycle "I never realized before that men hate us so much." That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers in Reno, Nevada, the morning after the 2024 general election. She'd turned 21 during the campaign, a three-month marathon she approached as a daily opportunity to learn as much as she could about everything she encountered. "Of course, they hate immigrants, too," she added, "and I'm both[...]"
Monday, December 2, 2024Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Woman, Man, Fish, Bicycle "I never realized before that men hate us so much." That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers in Reno, Nevada, the morning after the 2024 general election. She'd turned 21 during the campaign, a three-month marathon she approached as a daily opportunity to learn as much as she could about everything she encountered. "Of course, they hate immigrants, too," she added, "and I'm both[...]"
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, With Trump's Return, Truth Is in Deadly Danger During this year's presidential election campaign, I was puzzled and increasingly troubled that the issue of truth-telling -- and the spectacular lack of it from one candidate -- wasn't getting the sort of focus or emphasis in the news coverage it should have received. We heard or read about Donald Trump's specific false statements just about every day (because they happened just about every day)[...]
Tuesday, November 26, 2024Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, With Trump's Return, Truth Is in Deadly Danger During this year's presidential election campaign, I was puzzled and increasingly troubled that the issue of truth-telling -- and the spectacular lack of it from one candidate -- wasn't getting the sort of focus or emphasis in the news coverage it should have received. We heard or read about Donald Trump's specific false statements just about every day (because they happened just about every day)[...]
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Monday, November 25, 2024
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Shailly Barnes, Trump 2.0 "If they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?" (Luke 23:31) Before November 5th, millions of us were already struggling with poverty, extreme storms, immigration nightmares, anti-trans bills, criminalized reproductive health, the demolition of homeless encampments, the silencing of freedom of speech on campuses" and, of course, the list only goes on and on[...]
Monday, November 25, 2024Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Shailly Barnes, Trump 2.0 "If they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?" (Luke 23:31) Before November 5th, millions of us were already struggling with poverty, extreme storms, immigration nightmares, anti-trans bills, criminalized reproductive health, the demolition of homeless encampments, the silencing of freedom of speech on campuses" and, of course, the list only goes on and on[...]
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Thursday, November 21, 2024
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, One Last Thing, America! My inbox is full of lament (and encouragement). My Instagram feed is full of anger and "the arc of the moral universe bends slow but-- My Facebook brims with exhortations to focus on the positive, on what we can control, on the next fight[...]
Thursday, November 21, 2024Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, One Last Thing, America! My inbox is full of lament (and encouragement). My Instagram feed is full of anger and "the arc of the moral universe bends slow but-- My Facebook brims with exhortations to focus on the positive, on what we can control, on the next fight[...]
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The Rise of Trump, the Fall of Imperial America Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that U.S. global hegemony would persist to 2040 or 2050, he argued that "the demise of the United States as the global superpower could come" in 2025, just 15 years from now[...]"
Tuesday, November 19, 2024Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The Rise of Trump, the Fall of Imperial America Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that U.S. global hegemony would persist to 2040 or 2050, he argued that "the demise of the United States as the global superpower could come" in 2025, just 15 years from now[...]"
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Monday, November 18, 2024
Tomgram: William Hartung, The Trump Conundrum When the election results came in on November 4th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to what I experienced when Ronald Reagan rode to power in 1980, or with George W. Bush's tainted victory over Al Gore in 2000. After some grieving, the first question that came to my mind was: What will a Trump presidency mean for the movements for peace and social justice?[...]
Monday, November 18, 2024Tomgram: William Hartung, The Trump Conundrum When the election results came in on November 4th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to what I experienced when Ronald Reagan rode to power in 1980, or with George W. Bush's tainted victory over Al Gore in 2000. After some grieving, the first question that came to my mind was: What will a Trump presidency mean for the movements for peace and social justice?[...]
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