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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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SHARE More Sharing        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[...]
SHARE More Sharing        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[...]
SHARE More Sharing        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[...]
SHARE More Sharing        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[...]
SHARE More Sharing        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"?[...]
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Big-Time War of Terror On this planet of ours, it almost doesn't matter who's right and who's wrong when it comes to our wars[...]
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 4, 2024
Tomgram: Juan Cole, How Washington's Anti-Iranian Campaign Failed, Big Time In the midst of Israel's ongoing devastation of Gaza, one major piece of Middle Eastern news has yet to hit the headlines. In a face-off that, in a sense, has lasted since the pro-American Shah of Iran was overthrown by theocratic clerics in 1979, Iran finally seems to be besting the United States in a significant fashion across the region. It's a story that needs to be told[...]
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 29, 2024
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, On Trial (Never?) In 1868, British Prime Minister William Gladstone famously said, "Justice delayed is justice denied." The phrase has often been repeated here in the United States, most famously by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., who echoed it in his 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail": "Justice too long delayed is justice denied[...]"
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, War's Cost Is Unfathomable We Americans have been at war now since October 7th, 2001. That was when our military first launched air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to al-Qaeda's September 11th terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. That's 22 years and counting. The "war on terror" that began then would forever change what it meant to be an Arab-American here at home[...]
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 26, 2024
Tomgram: William Hartung, False Job Claims Fuel Massive Pentagon Budgets Joe Biden wants you to believe that spending money on weapons is good for the economy. That tired old myth -- regularly repeated by the political leaders of both parties -- could help create an even more militarized economy that could threaten our peace and prosperity for decades to come[...]
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 22, 2024
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, What Kind of Jew Am I? Long ago, I came to believe that being a Jew, even a secular one like me, entailed certain responsibilities. A people who had suffered so much yet survived were obligated, if not honored, to serve as witnesses and supporters of other oppressed people and to live in the public interest, to model ethical lives[...]
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Swarming Our World Yes, it's already time to be worried -- very worried. As the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have shown, the earliest drone equivalents of "killer robots" have made it onto the battlefield and proved to be devastating weapons. But at least they remain largely under human control[...]
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 19, 2024
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Waters of Conflict We live in a world of dangerous, deadly extremes. Record-breaking heat waves, intense drought, stronger hurricanes, unprecedented flash flooding. No corner of the planet will be spared the wrath of human-caused climate change and the earth's fresh water is already feeling the heat of this new reality[...]
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 15, 2024
Tomgram: William Astore, Forever War in the Middle East Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played "war" with those old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke our great victory over the Nazis and "the Japs" during World War II. At age 10, I also kept a scrapbook of the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and its various Arab enemies in the Middle East[...]
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Neither Law, Nor Order for You Know Who When the Civil War ended in 1865, the 76-year-old Constitution needed an upgrading and those leading the country did indeed dramatically transform it with the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, known collectively as the Reconstruction Era amendments. The 13th (1865) abolished slavery, while the 15th (1870) gave voting rights to newly freed Black men[...]
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 12, 2024
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Protecting the Most Benign Institution When my mother died in 2000, I inherited all her books. Sadly, after several moves and downsizings over the decades, her collection had shrunk. Still, it remains considerable and impressive in its own way. Her legacy to me included some special volumes like a first edition of Frederick W. Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management, a famed codification of time-management practices[...]
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 8, 2024
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Everything at Risk Yes, the Doomsday Clock keeps ticking -- it's now at 90 seconds to midnight, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists -- but the ultimate time bomb never gets the attention that it deserves. Even as the possibility of nuclear annihilation looms, this century's many warning signs retain the status of Cassandras[...]
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Trumpian Bacchanalia in 2024? I was born on July 20, 1944, almost two years after Joe Biden arrived on this planet and almost a year before You Know Who, like me, landed in New York City. The United States was then nearing the end of the second global war of that century and things were about to look up. My dad had been the operations officer for the 1st Air Commandos fighting the Japanese in Burma and, by that July, the tide had distinctly turned[...]
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 5, 2024
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Against Forgetting What's in your basement? Mine is full of things I've mostly forgotten about -- tools I bought for projects I never completed, long abandoned sports equipment, furniture I planned on refinishing ages ago, and unused cans of paint I thought I wanted when someone was giving them away[...]
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 1, 2024
Tomgram: Kramer and Fogler, "Solving" a Mental Health Crisis in America Amid ongoing emergencies, including a would-be autocrat on his way to possibly regaining the American presidency and Israel's war on Gaza (not to mention the flare-ups of global climate change), the U.S. has slipped quietly toward an assault on civil liberties as an answer to plummeting mental health. From coast to coast, state lawmakers of both parties are reaching for coercive treatment and involuntary commitment[...]

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