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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, 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[...]"
Thursday, February 29, 2024Tomgram: 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[...]"
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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[...]
Tuesday, February 27, 2024Tomgram: 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[...]
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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[...]
Monday, February 26, 2024Tomgram: 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[...]
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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[...]
Thursday, February 22, 2024Tomgram: 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[...]
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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[...]
Tuesday, February 20, 2024Tomgram: 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[...]
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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[...]
Monday, February 19, 2024Tomgram: 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[...]
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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[...]
Thursday, February 15, 2024Tomgram: 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[...]
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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[...]
Tuesday, February 13, 2024Tomgram: 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[...]
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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[...]
Monday, February 12, 2024Tomgram: 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[...]
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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[...]
Thursday, February 8, 2024Tomgram: 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[...]
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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[...]
Tuesday, February 6, 2024Tomgram: 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[...]
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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[...]
Monday, February 5, 2024Tomgram: 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[...]
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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[...]
Thursday, February 1, 2024Tomgram: 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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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Sorry, But Not Sorry in Somalia In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the misfortune of being born in the wrong place -- Cambodia or Gaza, Afghanistan or Ukraine -- at the wrong time. They die due to happenstance, choosing to shelter indoors when they should have taken cover outside or because they ventured out into a hell-storm of destruction when they should have stayed put[...]
Tuesday, January 30, 2024Tomgram: Nick Turse, Sorry, But Not Sorry in Somalia In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the misfortune of being born in the wrong place -- Cambodia or Gaza, Afghanistan or Ukraine -- at the wrong time. They die due to happenstance, choosing to shelter indoors when they should have taken cover outside or because they ventured out into a hell-storm of destruction when they should have stayed put[...]
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Monday, January 29, 2024
Tomgram: Stan Cox, Solving Climate Change -- Or Else! In December, the New York Times reported that "Earth is finishing up its warmest year in the past 174 years and very likely the past 125,000[...]"
Monday, January 29, 2024Tomgram: Stan Cox, Solving Climate Change -- Or Else! In December, the New York Times reported that "Earth is finishing up its warmest year in the past 174 years and very likely the past 125,000[...]"
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Thursday, January 25, 2024
Tomgram: Maha Hilal, Cheerleading the War on Terror In a New Yorker piece published five days after the attacks of September 11, 2001, American critic and public intellectual Susan Sontag wrote, "Let's by all means grieve together. But let's not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen[...]"
Thursday, January 25, 2024Tomgram: Maha Hilal, Cheerleading the War on Terror In a New Yorker piece published five days after the attacks of September 11, 2001, American critic and public intellectual Susan Sontag wrote, "Let's by all means grieve together. But let's not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen[...]"
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Tomgram: John Feffer, The End of Europe? It would be funny if it weren't so potentially tragic -- and consequential. No, I'm not thinking about Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign but a related development: the latest decisions from the European Union (EU) about Ukraine[...]
Tuesday, January 23, 2024Tomgram: John Feffer, The End of Europe? It would be funny if it weren't so potentially tragic -- and consequential. No, I'm not thinking about Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign but a related development: the latest decisions from the European Union (EU) about Ukraine[...]
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Monday, January 22, 2024
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Trump Atop Us (Again)? Count on one thing: Donald Trump, who seems to gain Republican support with every new indictment, is not going away. He's managed to capitalize on his 2020 election loss, using his failed insurrection, a stream of violent threats and verbal attacks against political opponents and journalists, and the disinformation machine of Fox News and similar outlets to peddle his stories of white American victimhood[...]
Monday, January 22, 2024Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Trump Atop Us (Again)? Count on one thing: Donald Trump, who seems to gain Republican support with every new indictment, is not going away. He's managed to capitalize on his 2020 election loss, using his failed insurrection, a stream of violent threats and verbal attacks against political opponents and journalists, and the disinformation machine of Fox News and similar outlets to peddle his stories of white American victimhood[...]
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Thursday, January 18, 2024
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, Can the Kids Change Our World? "All Americans owe them a debt for -- if nothing else -- releasing the idealism locked so long inside a nation that has not recently tasted the drama of a social upheaval. And for making us look on the young people of the country with a new respect." That's how Howard Zinn opened his book The New Abolitionists about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of the 1960s[...]
Thursday, January 18, 2024Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, Can the Kids Change Our World? "All Americans owe them a debt for -- if nothing else -- releasing the idealism locked so long inside a nation that has not recently tasted the drama of a social upheaval. And for making us look on the young people of the country with a new respect." That's how Howard Zinn opened his book The New Abolitionists about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of the 1960s[...]
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Tomgram: William Hartung, Disarming You 2023 was a year marked by devastating conflicts from Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine to Hamas's horrific terror attacks on Israel, from that country's indiscriminate mass slaughter in Gaza to a devastating civil war in Sudan. And there's a distinct risk of even worse to come this year. Still, there was one clear winner in this avalanche of violence, suffering, and war: the U.S. military-industrial complex[...]
Tuesday, January 16, 2024Tomgram: William Hartung, Disarming You 2023 was a year marked by devastating conflicts from Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine to Hamas's horrific terror attacks on Israel, from that country's indiscriminate mass slaughter in Gaza to a devastating civil war in Sudan. And there's a distinct risk of even worse to come this year. Still, there was one clear winner in this avalanche of violence, suffering, and war: the U.S. military-industrial complex[...]
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