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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, May 14, 2024
Tomgram: William Hartung, Democracy Versus Autocracy on America's Campuses I've spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I've been focused on promoting diplomacy over war and exposing the role of giant weapons companies like Lockheed Martin and its allies in Congress and at the Pentagon as they push for a "military-first" foreign policy[...]
Tuesday, May 14, 2024Tomgram: William Hartung, Democracy Versus Autocracy on America's Campuses I've spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I've been focused on promoting diplomacy over war and exposing the role of giant weapons companies like Lockheed Martin and its allies in Congress and at the Pentagon as they push for a "military-first" foreign policy[...]
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Monday, May 13, 2024
Tomgram: Jane Braxton Little, Reporting from a Burned-Out Main Street When wildfires began erupting in the Texas Panhandle in February, Laurie Ezzell Brown, the editor and publisher of the Canadian Record, was in Houston on a panel discussing ways in which losing local newspapers represents a danger to democracy. Running the once-a-week Record from the Panhandle town of Canadian, she certainly knew something about the rise of "news deserts" in this country[...]
Monday, May 13, 2024Tomgram: Jane Braxton Little, Reporting from a Burned-Out Main Street When wildfires began erupting in the Texas Panhandle in February, Laurie Ezzell Brown, the editor and publisher of the Canadian Record, was in Houston on a panel discussing ways in which losing local newspapers represents a danger to democracy. Running the once-a-week Record from the Panhandle town of Canadian, she certainly knew something about the rise of "news deserts" in this country[...]
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Thursday, May 9, 2024
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, When Students Are a Shock to the System Persisting in his support for an unpopular war, the Democrat in the White House has helped spark a rebellion close to home. Young people -- least inclined to deference, most inclined to moral outrage -- are leading public opposition to the ongoing slaughter in Gaza. The campus upheaval is a clash between accepting and resisting, while elites insist on doing maintenance work for the war machine[...]
Thursday, May 9, 2024Tomgram: Norman Solomon, When Students Are a Shock to the System Persisting in his support for an unpopular war, the Democrat in the White House has helped spark a rebellion close to home. Young people -- least inclined to deference, most inclined to moral outrage -- are leading public opposition to the ongoing slaughter in Gaza. The campus upheaval is a clash between accepting and resisting, while elites insist on doing maintenance work for the war machine[...]
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, America's Existential Trials It was the jokes about Trump's rumored flatulence in the courtroom that pushed me toward despair. And don't think it was disgust with the subject matter either. After all, I've lived with teenagers and I wasn't all that surprised by yet another Trump-inspired trivialization of a critical civic institution. What appalled me was the possibility that -- let's be clear here -- such stories would somehow humanize the monster [...]
Tuesday, May 7, 2024Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, America's Existential Trials It was the jokes about Trump's rumored flatulence in the courtroom that pushed me toward despair. And don't think it was disgust with the subject matter either. After all, I've lived with teenagers and I wasn't all that surprised by yet another Trump-inspired trivialization of a critical civic institution. What appalled me was the possibility that -- let's be clear here -- such stories would somehow humanize the monster [...]
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Friday, May 3, 2024
Tomgram: Helen Benedict, Students on the Right Side of History Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway[...]
Friday, May 3, 2024Tomgram: Helen Benedict, Students on the Right Side of History Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway[...]
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Birding in Gaza He's a funny little chap: a sharp dresser with a sleek grey jacket, a white waistcoat, red shorts, and a small grey crest for a hat. With his shiny black eyes and stubby black beak, he's quite the looker. Like the chihuahua of the bird world, the tufted titmouse has no idea he's tiny. He swaggers right up to the feeder, shouldering bigger birds out of the way[...]
Tuesday, April 30, 2024Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Birding in Gaza He's a funny little chap: a sharp dresser with a sleek grey jacket, a white waistcoat, red shorts, and a small grey crest for a hat. With his shiny black eyes and stubby black beak, he's quite the looker. Like the chihuahua of the bird world, the tufted titmouse has no idea he's tiny. He swaggers right up to the feeder, shouldering bigger birds out of the way[...]
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Monday, April 29, 2024
Tomgram: Stan Cox, No Excuses -- We've Been Warned Something must be up. Otherwise, why would scientists keep sending us those scary warnings? There has been a steady stream of them in the past few years, including "World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency"(signed by 15,000 of them),"Scientists' Warning Against the Society of Waste," "Scientists' Warning of an Imperiled Ocean," "Scientists' Warning on Technology," "Scientists' Warning on Affluence,"[...]
Monday, April 29, 2024Tomgram: Stan Cox, No Excuses -- We've Been Warned Something must be up. Otherwise, why would scientists keep sending us those scary warnings? There has been a steady stream of them in the past few years, including "World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency"(signed by 15,000 of them),"Scientists' Warning Against the Society of Waste," "Scientists' Warning of an Imperiled Ocean," "Scientists' Warning on Technology," "Scientists' Warning on Affluence,"[...]
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
Tomgram: Maha Hilal, The Torture That Just Won't End "To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me" The time I spent in Abu Ghraib -- it ended my life. I'm only half a human now." That's what Abu Ghraib survivor Talib al-Majli had to say about the 16 months he spent at that notorious prison in Iraq after being captured and detained by American troops on October 31, 2003. In the wake of his release, al-Majli has continued to suffer a myriad of difficulties[...]
Thursday, April 25, 2024Tomgram: Maha Hilal, The Torture That Just Won't End "To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me" The time I spent in Abu Ghraib -- it ended my life. I'm only half a human now." That's what Abu Ghraib survivor Talib al-Majli had to say about the 16 months he spent at that notorious prison in Iraq after being captured and detained by American troops on October 31, 2003. In the wake of his release, al-Majli has continued to suffer a myriad of difficulties[...]
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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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