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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, April 23, 2024
Tomgram: Bob Dreyfuss, Going to Hell in a Handbasket in Iran One, erratic and often unhinged, blew up the U.S.-Iran accord that was the landmark foreign policy achievement of President Obama's second term. He then ordered the assassination of a top Iranian general visiting Iraq, dramatically raising tensions in the region. The other is a traditional advocate of American exceptionalism, a supporter of the U.S.-Iran agreement who promised to restore it upon taking office[...]
Tuesday, April 23, 2024Tomgram: Bob Dreyfuss, Going to Hell in a Handbasket in Iran One, erratic and often unhinged, blew up the U.S.-Iran accord that was the landmark foreign policy achievement of President Obama's second term. He then ordered the assassination of a top Iranian general visiting Iraq, dramatically raising tensions in the region. The other is a traditional advocate of American exceptionalism, a supporter of the U.S.-Iran agreement who promised to restore it upon taking office[...]
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Monday, April 22, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Story of the Decline and Fall of It All Let one old man deal with two others. I turn 80 in July, which makes me just over a year-and-a-half younger than Joe Biden and almost two years older than Donald Trump. And, honestly, I know my limits. Yes, I still walk -- no small thing -- six miles a day. And I work constantly. But I'm also aware that, on my second walk of the day and then as night approaches, I feel significantly more tired than I once did[...]
Monday, April 22, 2024Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Story of the Decline and Fall of It All Let one old man deal with two others. I turn 80 in July, which makes me just over a year-and-a-half younger than Joe Biden and almost two years older than Donald Trump. And, honestly, I know my limits. Yes, I still walk -- no small thing -- six miles a day. And I work constantly. But I'm also aware that, on my second walk of the day and then as night approaches, I feel significantly more tired than I once did[...]
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Thursday, April 18, 2024
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Gang's All Here Haiti has descended into chaos. It's had no president or parliament -- and no elections either -for eight long years. Its unelected prime minister Ariel Henry resigned recently when gang violence at the airport in Port-au-Prince made it impossible for him to return to the country after a trip to Guyana[...]
Thursday, April 18, 2024Tomgram: John Feffer, The Gang's All Here Haiti has descended into chaos. It's had no president or parliament -- and no elections either -for eight long years. Its unelected prime minister Ariel Henry resigned recently when gang violence at the airport in Port-au-Prince made it impossible for him to return to the country after a trip to Guyana[...]
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Playing Russian Roulette with Middle Eastern Oil Last September witnessed what used to be a truly rare weather phenomenon: a Mediterranean hurricane, or "medicane." Once upon a time, the Mediterranean Sea simply didn't get hot enough to produce hurricanes more than every few hundred (yes, few hundred!) years. In this case, however, Storm Daniel assaulted Libya with a biblical-style deluge for four straight days[...]
Tuesday, April 16, 2024Tomgram: Juan Cole, Playing Russian Roulette with Middle Eastern Oil Last September witnessed what used to be a truly rare weather phenomenon: a Mediterranean hurricane, or "medicane." Once upon a time, the Mediterranean Sea simply didn't get hot enough to produce hurricanes more than every few hundred (yes, few hundred!) years. In this case, however, Storm Daniel assaulted Libya with a biblical-style deluge for four straight days[...]
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Monday, April 15, 2024
Tomgram: Ellen Cantarow, A Shrapnel-Faced World Words can't express the horrors of Israel's genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a safe place that doesn't exist; seeing building after building destroyed; treading through blood in one of the few, only partially standing hospitals; and witnessing children and other patients sprawled on hospital floors[...]
Monday, April 15, 2024Tomgram: Ellen Cantarow, A Shrapnel-Faced World Words can't express the horrors of Israel's genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a safe place that doesn't exist; seeing building after building destroyed; treading through blood in one of the few, only partially standing hospitals; and witnessing children and other patients sprawled on hospital floors[...]
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Thursday, April 11, 2024
Tomgram: William Astore, "Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds" When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only the dead have seen the end of war. Its persistence through history to this very moment should indeed be sobering. What would it take for us humans to stop killing each other with such vigor and in such numbers?[...]
Thursday, April 11, 2024Tomgram: William Astore, "Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds" When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only the dead have seen the end of war. Its persistence through history to this very moment should indeed be sobering. What would it take for us humans to stop killing each other with such vigor and in such numbers?[...]
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Class Warfare Will Be on the Ballot This November Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat. In fact, each of the last nine months -- May 2023 through February 2024 -- set a world record for heat. As I'm writing this, March still has a couple of days to go, but likely as not, it, too, will set a record[...]
Wednesday, April 10, 2024Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Class Warfare Will Be on the Ballot This November Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat. In fact, each of the last nine months -- May 2023 through February 2024 -- set a world record for heat. As I'm writing this, March still has a couple of days to go, but likely as not, it, too, will set a record[...]
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Monday, April 8, 2024
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Guanta'namo Forever (Yet Forgotten)? Last weekend my father, Larry Greenberg, passed away at the age of 93. Several days later, I received an email from the French film director Phillippe Diaz who sent me a link to his soon-to-be-released I am Gitmo, a feature movie about the now-infamous Guanta'namo Bay detention facility. As I was soon to discover, those two disparate events in my life spoke to one another with cosmic overtones[...]
Monday, April 8, 2024Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Guanta'namo Forever (Yet Forgotten)? Last weekend my father, Larry Greenberg, passed away at the age of 93. Several days later, I received an email from the French film director Phillippe Diaz who sent me a link to his soon-to-be-released I am Gitmo, a feature movie about the now-infamous Guanta'namo Bay detention facility. As I was soon to discover, those two disparate events in my life spoke to one another with cosmic overtones[...]
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Thursday, April 4, 2024
Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, Playing Politics with Tragedy "Say her name!" Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted from the House floor during President Biden's State of the Union Address. The same slogan was on the T-shirt she wore under her red jacket, which had a pin with a picture of the person whose name she was referring to -- a pin she'd also handed out to colleagues before that session as well as to the president as he passed her on his way to the rostrum[...]
Thursday, April 4, 2024Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, Playing Politics with Tragedy "Say her name!" Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted from the House floor during President Biden's State of the Union Address. The same slogan was on the T-shirt she wore under her red jacket, which had a pin with a picture of the person whose name she was referring to -- a pin she'd also handed out to colleagues before that session as well as to the president as he passed her on his way to the rostrum[...]
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Forever Failure of America's Failed Forever Wars Dressed in green military fatigues and a blue garrison cap, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for Niger's ruling junta, took to local television last month to criticize the United States and sever the long-standing military partnership between the two countries[...]
Tuesday, April 2, 2024Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Forever Failure of America's Failed Forever Wars Dressed in green military fatigues and a blue garrison cap, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for Niger's ruling junta, took to local television last month to criticize the United States and sever the long-standing military partnership between the two countries[...]
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Thursday, March 28, 2024
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, As the Rich Speed Off in Their Teslas With his perfect tan and slicked-back hair, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood at a podium at Sacramento's Cal Expo in late September 2020 and announced an executive order requiring all new passenger vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emissions by 2035[...]
Thursday, March 28, 2024Tomgram: Joshua Frank, As the Rich Speed Off in Their Teslas With his perfect tan and slicked-back hair, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood at a podium at Sacramento's Cal Expo in late September 2020 and announced an executive order requiring all new passenger vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emissions by 2035[...]
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Tomgram: Julia Gledhill and William Hartung, Failure as the Pentagon's Ultimate Success Story The White House released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 on March 11th, and the news was depressingly familiar: $895 billion for the Pentagon and work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy. After adjusting for inflation, that's only slightly less than last year's proposal, but far higher than the levels reached during either the Korean or Vietnam wars or at the height of the Cold War[...]
Tuesday, March 26, 2024Tomgram: Julia Gledhill and William Hartung, Failure as the Pentagon's Ultimate Success Story The White House released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 on March 11th, and the news was depressingly familiar: $895 billion for the Pentagon and work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy. After adjusting for inflation, that's only slightly less than last year's proposal, but far higher than the levels reached during either the Korean or Vietnam wars or at the height of the Cold War[...]
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Monday, March 25, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, "War" as Humanity's Middle Name I've been describing this world of ours, such as it is, for almost 23 years at TomDispatch. I've written my way through three-and-a-half presidencies -- god save us, it could be four in November! I've viewed from a grave (and I mean that word!) distance America's endlessly disastrous wars of this century[...]
Monday, March 25, 2024Tomgram: Engelhardt, "War" as Humanity's Middle Name I've been describing this world of ours, such as it is, for almost 23 years at TomDispatch. I've written my way through three-and-a-half presidencies -- god save us, it could be four in November! I've viewed from a grave (and I mean that word!) distance America's endlessly disastrous wars of this century[...]
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Thursday, March 21, 2024
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, A "Dictatorship" on Day One? We should already be talking about what it would be like, if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, to live under a developing autocracy. Beyond the publicized plans of those around him to gut the federal civil service system and consolidate power in the hands of You Know Who, under Trump 2.0, so much else would change for the worse[...]
Thursday, March 21, 2024Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, A "Dictatorship" on Day One? We should already be talking about what it would be like, if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, to live under a developing autocracy. Beyond the publicized plans of those around him to gut the federal civil service system and consolidate power in the hands of You Know Who, under Trump 2.0, so much else would change for the worse[...]
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Tomgram: Stan and Priti Gulati Cox, Blocking the Aid Trucks, Letting the Tanks Roll It's been almost two months since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop killing Gazans and destroying their means of subsistence. So let's look back and ask (1) how Israel has responded to its "orders," and (2) how hard the Biden administration has pushed Israel to abide by those orders. Spoiler alert: the short answers are (1) not well and (2) not very[...]
Tuesday, March 19, 2024Tomgram: Stan and Priti Gulati Cox, Blocking the Aid Trucks, Letting the Tanks Roll It's been almost two months since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop killing Gazans and destroying their means of subsistence. So let's look back and ask (1) how Israel has responded to its "orders," and (2) how hard the Biden administration has pushed Israel to abide by those orders. Spoiler alert: the short answers are (1) not well and (2) not very[...]
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Monday, March 18, 2024
Tomgram: William Astore, Cutting the Pentagon Down to Size In an age when American presidents routinely boast of having the world's finest military, where nearly trillion-dollar war budgets are now a new version of routine, let me bring up one vitally important but seldom mentioned fact: making major cuts to military spending would increase U.S. national security[...]
Monday, March 18, 2024Tomgram: William Astore, Cutting the Pentagon Down to Size In an age when American presidents routinely boast of having the world's finest military, where nearly trillion-dollar war budgets are now a new version of routine, let me bring up one vitally important but seldom mentioned fact: making major cuts to military spending would increase U.S. national security[...]
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Thursday, March 14, 2024
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, My "Children" Say They Won't Vote for Biden Recently my partner and I had brunch with some old comrades, folks I first met in the 1996 fight to stop the state of California from outlawing affirmative action. Sadly, we lost that one and, almost three decades later, we continue to lose affirmative action programs thanks to a Supreme Court rearranged or, more accurately, deranged by one Donald J. Trump[...]
Thursday, March 14, 2024Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, My "Children" Say They Won't Vote for Biden Recently my partner and I had brunch with some old comrades, folks I first met in the 1996 fight to stop the state of California from outlawing affirmative action. Sadly, we lost that one and, almost three decades later, we continue to lose affirmative action programs thanks to a Supreme Court rearranged or, more accurately, deranged by one Donald J. Trump[...]
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Living in a Quagmire World Empires don't just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial America[...]
Tuesday, March 12, 2024Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Living in a Quagmire World Empires don't just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial America[...]
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Monday, March 11, 2024
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, This Can't Be as "Good" as It Gets The slang definition of "unwinding" means "to chill." Other definitions include: to relax, disentangle, undo -- all words that, on the surface, appear both passive and peaceful. And yet in Google searches involving such seemingly harmless definitions of decompressing and resting, news articles abound about the end of pandemic-era Medicaid expansion programs[...]
Monday, March 11, 2024Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, This Can't Be as "Good" as It Gets The slang definition of "unwinding" means "to chill." Other definitions include: to relax, disentangle, undo -- all words that, on the surface, appear both passive and peaceful. And yet in Google searches involving such seemingly harmless definitions of decompressing and resting, news articles abound about the end of pandemic-era Medicaid expansion programs[...]
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Thursday, March 7, 2024
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, The Enticements of War (and Peace) War, what is it good for? Well, the media for starters. Shortly after the Biden administration responded to the killing of three American soldiers in a drone attack on a base in Jordan by bombing 85 Iran-connected targets in Iraq and Syria, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) asked in a headline: "Is the press dragging America to war again?" Again? I thought. Shouldn't that be "still"?[...]
Thursday, March 7, 2024Tomgram: Nan Levinson, The Enticements of War (and Peace) War, what is it good for? Well, the media for starters. Shortly after the Biden administration responded to the killing of three American soldiers in a drone attack on a base in Jordan by bombing 85 Iran-connected targets in Iraq and Syria, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) asked in a headline: "Is the press dragging America to war again?" Again? I thought. Shouldn't that be "still"?[...]
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