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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, July 18, 2023
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Nuking Us All If you didn't know better, you'd think Lloyd Marbet was a dairy farmer or maybe a retired shop teacher. His beard is thick, soft, and gray, his hair pulled back in a small ponytail. In his mid-seventies, he still towers over nearly everyone. His handshake is firm, but there's nothing menacing about him[...]
Tuesday, July 18, 2023Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Nuking Us All If you didn't know better, you'd think Lloyd Marbet was a dairy farmer or maybe a retired shop teacher. His beard is thick, soft, and gray, his hair pulled back in a small ponytail. In his mid-seventies, he still towers over nearly everyone. His handshake is firm, but there's nothing menacing about him[...]
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Monday, July 17, 2023
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, How Extreme Can You Get? In April, when Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman with a top-secret clearance, was arrested for posting a trove of classified documents about the Russia-Ukraine war online, the question most often asked was: How did such a young, inexperienced, low-level technician have access to such sensitive material?[...]
Monday, July 17, 2023Tomgram: Nan Levinson, How Extreme Can You Get? In April, when Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman with a top-secret clearance, was arrested for posting a trove of classified documents about the Russia-Ukraine war online, the question most often asked was: How did such a young, inexperienced, low-level technician have access to such sensitive material?[...]
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Thursday, July 13, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Fallout from Humanity In case you hadn't noticed "" and how could you not? "" there have been more than 500 (yes, 500-plus!) wildfires burning across the vast reaches of Canada, an unheard-of number, and more than half of them completely out of (human) control in a record-shattering fire season. That's been true for seemingly endless weeks now with no end in sight[...]
Thursday, July 13, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, Fallout from Humanity In case you hadn't noticed "" and how could you not? "" there have been more than 500 (yes, 500-plus!) wildfires burning across the vast reaches of Canada, an unheard-of number, and more than half of them completely out of (human) control in a record-shattering fire season. That's been true for seemingly endless weeks now with no end in sight[...]
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Military Dangers of AI Are Not Hallucinations A world in which machines governed by artificial intelligence (AI) systematically replace human beings in most business, industrial, and professional functions is horrifying to imagine. After all, as prominent computer scientists have been warning us, AI-governed systems are prone to critical errors and inexplicable "hallucinations," resulting in potentially catastrophic outcomes[...]
Tuesday, July 11, 2023Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Military Dangers of AI Are Not Hallucinations A world in which machines governed by artificial intelligence (AI) systematically replace human beings in most business, industrial, and professional functions is horrifying to imagine. After all, as prominent computer scientists have been warning us, AI-governed systems are prone to critical errors and inexplicable "hallucinations," resulting in potentially catastrophic outcomes[...]
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Monday, July 10, 2023
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Invading Ourselves It was one of the fabled rivers of history and the Marines needed to cross it[...]
Monday, July 10, 2023Tomgram: Juan Cole, Invading Ourselves It was one of the fabled rivers of history and the Marines needed to cross it[...]
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Thursday, July 6, 2023
Tomgram: Steve Fraser, Return of the Repressed An aged Native-American chieftain was visiting New York City for the first time in 1906. He was curious about the city and the city was curious about him. A magazine reporter asked the chief what most surprised him in his travels around town. "Little children working," the visitor replied[...]
Thursday, July 6, 2023Tomgram: Steve Fraser, Return of the Repressed An aged Native-American chieftain was visiting New York City for the first time in 1906. He was curious about the city and the city was curious about him. A magazine reporter asked the chief what most surprised him in his travels around town. "Little children working," the visitor replied[...]
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Monday, July 3, 2023
Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, What Is Possible? Looking into the long reflecting pool of the past, I find myself wondering what it was that made me an activist against injustice. I was born in New York City's poor, rundown, and at times dangerous South Bronx, where blacks, whites, and Latinos (as well as recent immigrants from Ireland, Italy, and Eastern Europe) lived side by side or, perhaps more accurately, crowded together[...]
Monday, July 3, 2023Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, What Is Possible? Looking into the long reflecting pool of the past, I find myself wondering what it was that made me an activist against injustice. I was born in New York City's poor, rundown, and at times dangerous South Bronx, where blacks, whites, and Latinos (as well as recent immigrants from Ireland, Italy, and Eastern Europe) lived side by side or, perhaps more accurately, crowded together[...]
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Thursday, June 29, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, State Terror in the Age of Counterterrorism "There must be some kind of way out of here..." As night fell over the South River Forest, the music festival was in full swing. Young and old swayed to the sounds of Suede Cassidy. Families gathered around the grill. Little ones frolicked in an inflatable bouncy house bedecked with a banner that read: "Stop Cop City[...]"
Thursday, June 29, 2023Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, State Terror in the Age of Counterterrorism "There must be some kind of way out of here..." As night fell over the South River Forest, the music festival was in full swing. Young and old swayed to the sounds of Suede Cassidy. Families gathered around the grill. Little ones frolicked in an inflatable bouncy house bedecked with a banner that read: "Stop Cop City[...]"
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Tomgram: Stan Cox, Every Kind of Conflict, Everywhere, All at Once? Several times in recent weeks I've heard people suggest that Mother Nature has been speaking to us through that smoke endlessly drifting south from the still-raging Canadian wildfires. She's saying that she wants the coal, oil, and gas left in the ground, but I fear her message will have little more influence on climate policy than her previous ones did[...]
Tuesday, June 27, 2023Tomgram: Stan Cox, Every Kind of Conflict, Everywhere, All at Once? Several times in recent weeks I've heard people suggest that Mother Nature has been speaking to us through that smoke endlessly drifting south from the still-raging Canadian wildfires. She's saying that she wants the coal, oil, and gas left in the ground, but I fear her message will have little more influence on climate policy than her previous ones did[...]
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Monday, June 26, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Murderous Intentions One day when I was about six, I was walking with my dad in New York City. We noticed that someone had stuck little folded squares of paper under the windshield wipers of the cars parked on the street beside us. My father picked one up and read it. I saw his face grow dark with anger[...]
Monday, June 26, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Murderous Intentions One day when I was about six, I was walking with my dad in New York City. We noticed that someone had stuck little folded squares of paper under the windshield wipers of the cars parked on the street beside us. My father picked one up and read it. I saw his face grow dark with anger[...]
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Thursday, June 22, 2023
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, RIP Jim Brown, Hero and Monster Jim Brown was a monster, not only as a wrecking-ball running back on the football field but also as a prime example of an ever more popular obsession with people (mostly men) whose admirable achievements are shaded by despicable behavior (mostly directed at women). He died last month at 87 and his obituaries, along with various appraisals of his life[...]
Thursday, June 22, 2023Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, RIP Jim Brown, Hero and Monster Jim Brown was a monster, not only as a wrecking-ball running back on the football field but also as a prime example of an ever more popular obsession with people (mostly men) whose admirable achievements are shaded by despicable behavior (mostly directed at women). He died last month at 87 and his obituaries, along with various appraisals of his life[...]
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Tomgram: Hartung and Gledhill, Throwing More Money at the Pentagon On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government's debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was "" surprise, surprise! "" the Pentagon[...]
Tuesday, June 20, 2023Tomgram: Hartung and Gledhill, Throwing More Money at the Pentagon On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government's debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was "" surprise, surprise! "" the Pentagon[...]
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Thursday, June 15, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes As it turns out, it's never too late. I mention that only because last week, at nearly 79, I managed to visit Mars for the first time. You know, the red planet, or rather "" so it seemed to me "" the orange planet. And take my word for it, it was eerie as hell[...]
Thursday, June 15, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes As it turns out, it's never too late. I mention that only because last week, at nearly 79, I managed to visit Mars for the first time. You know, the red planet, or rather "" so it seemed to me "" the orange planet. And take my word for it, it was eerie as hell[...]
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Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Ending Putin's Forever War in Ukraine All wars do end, usually thanks to a negotiated peace agreement. Consider that a fundamental historical fact, even if it seems to have been forgotten in Brussels, Moscow, and above all, Washington, D.C.[...]
Tuesday, June 13, 2023Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Ending Putin's Forever War in Ukraine All wars do end, usually thanks to a negotiated peace agreement. Consider that a fundamental historical fact, even if it seems to have been forgotten in Brussels, Moscow, and above all, Washington, D.C.[...]
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Monday, June 12, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Wound of the War on Terror, Up Close and Personal America's War on Terror, launched in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, has had a staggering impact on our world. The Costs of War Project at Brown University, which I helped found, paints as full a picture as possible of the toll of those "forever wars" both in human lives and in dollars. The wars, we estimate, have killed nearly one million people[...]
Monday, June 12, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Wound of the War on Terror, Up Close and Personal America's War on Terror, launched in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, has had a staggering impact on our world. The Costs of War Project at Brown University, which I helped found, paints as full a picture as possible of the toll of those "forever wars" both in human lives and in dollars. The wars, we estimate, have killed nearly one million people[...]
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Thursday, June 8, 2023
Tomgram: Todd Miller, Out-Trumping Trump at the Border On May 11th, I was with a group of people at the bottom of the Paso del Norte bridge in Ciudad Jua'rez, Mexico. Suddenly, I realized that I didn't have the small change needed to cross the bridge and return to El Paso, Texas, where I was attending the 16th annual Border Security Expo[...]
Thursday, June 8, 2023Tomgram: Todd Miller, Out-Trumping Trump at the Border On May 11th, I was with a group of people at the bottom of the Paso del Norte bridge in Ciudad Jua'rez, Mexico. Suddenly, I realized that I didn't have the small change needed to cross the bridge and return to El Paso, Texas, where I was attending the 16th annual Border Security Expo[...]
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Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Tomgram: William Astore, An Iron Curtain Has Descended on America All around us things are falling apart. Collectively, Americans are experiencing national and imperial decline. Can America save itself? Is this country, as presently constituted, even worth saving?[...]
Tuesday, June 6, 2023Tomgram: William Astore, An Iron Curtain Has Descended on America All around us things are falling apart. Collectively, Americans are experiencing national and imperial decline. Can America save itself? Is this country, as presently constituted, even worth saving?[...]
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Monday, June 5, 2023
Tomgram: Jane Braxton Little, Climate Migrants in a Hell on Earth Greenville, CA "" Pines and firs parched by a three-year drought had been burning for days on a ridge 1,000 feet above my remote mountain town. On August 4, 2021, the flames suddenly flared into a heat so intense it formed a molten cloud the color of bruised flesh. As that sinister cumulus rose above an oval-shaped reservoir, it collapsed, sending red-hot embers down the steep slopes toward Greenville[...]
Monday, June 5, 2023Tomgram: Jane Braxton Little, Climate Migrants in a Hell on Earth Greenville, CA "" Pines and firs parched by a three-year drought had been burning for days on a ridge 1,000 feet above my remote mountain town. On August 4, 2021, the flames suddenly flared into a heat so intense it formed a molten cloud the color of bruised flesh. As that sinister cumulus rose above an oval-shaped reservoir, it collapsed, sending red-hot embers down the steep slopes toward Greenville[...]
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Thursday, June 1, 2023
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Seduced by War -- Yet Again Allow me to come clean: I worry every time Max Boot vents enthusiastically about a prospective military action. Whenever that Washington Post columnist professes optimism about some upcoming bloodletting, misfortune tends to follow. And as it happens, he's positively bullish about the prospect of Ukraine handing Russia a decisive defeat in its upcoming, widely anticipated, sure-to-happen-any-day-now spring counteroffensive[...
Thursday, June 1, 2023Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Seduced by War -- Yet Again Allow me to come clean: I worry every time Max Boot vents enthusiastically about a prospective military action. Whenever that Washington Post columnist professes optimism about some upcoming bloodletting, misfortune tends to follow. And as it happens, he's positively bullish about the prospect of Ukraine handing Russia a decisive defeat in its upcoming, widely anticipated, sure-to-happen-any-day-now spring counteroffensive[...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Tomgram: Norman Solomon and David Barsamian, Living in a Warfare State [The following is excerpted and adapted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Norman Solomon at AlternativeRadio.org.]
Tuesday, May 30, 2023Tomgram: Norman Solomon and David Barsamian, Living in a Warfare State [The following is excerpted and adapted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Norman Solomon at AlternativeRadio.org.]
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