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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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Monday, December 6, 2021
Tomgram: John Feffer, Anti-Globalists Unite to Take Over the World What alt-right guru Steve Bannon failed to create, German taxpayers have just stepped in to revive: a Nationalist International. Thanks to the German government, the far right is about to get its own well-heeled global think tank, complete with the sort of political academy that was so dear to Bannon's plan for world domination[...]
Monday, December 6, 2021Tomgram: John Feffer, Anti-Globalists Unite to Take Over the World What alt-right guru Steve Bannon failed to create, German taxpayers have just stepped in to revive: a Nationalist International. Thanks to the German government, the far right is about to get its own well-heeled global think tank, complete with the sort of political academy that was so dear to Bannon's plan for world domination[...]
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Tomgram: Michael Klare, War With China in 2027? When the Department of Defense released its annual report on Chinese military strength in early November, one claim generated headlines around the world. By 2030, it suggested, China would probably have 1,000 nuclear warheads three times more than at present and enough to pose a substantial threat to the United States[...]
Thursday, December 2, 2021Tomgram: Michael Klare, War With China in 2027? When the Department of Defense released its annual report on Chinese military strength in early November, one claim generated headlines around the world. By 2030, it suggested, China would probably have 1,000 nuclear warheads three times more than at present and enough to pose a substantial threat to the United States[...]
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Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Why Do We Need a 24/7 Economy? In mid-October, President Biden announced that the Port of Los Angeles would begin operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, joining the nearby Port of Long Beach, which had been doing so since September. The move followed weeks of White House negotiations with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, as well as shippers like UPS and FedEx, and major retailers like Walmart and Target[...]
Tuesday, November 30, 2021Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Why Do We Need a 24/7 Economy? In mid-October, President Biden announced that the Port of Los Angeles would begin operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, joining the nearby Port of Long Beach, which had been doing so since September. The move followed weeks of White House negotiations with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, as well as shippers like UPS and FedEx, and major retailers like Walmart and Target[...]
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Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Trumptopia? Who knew that Martians, inside monstrous tripodal machines taller than many buildings, actually ululated, that they made eerily haunting "ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla" sounds? Well, let me tell you that they do or rather did when they were devastating London[...]
Tuesday, November 23, 2021Tomgram: Engelhardt, Trumptopia? Who knew that Martians, inside monstrous tripodal machines taller than many buildings, actually ululated, that they made eerily haunting "ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla" sounds? Well, let me tell you that they do or rather did when they were devastating London[...]
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Monday, November 22, 2021
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Our Needs Versus the Pentagon's As a Navy spouse of 10 years and counting, my life offers an up-close view of our country's priorities when it comes to infrastructure and government spending[...]
Monday, November 22, 2021Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Our Needs Versus the Pentagon's As a Navy spouse of 10 years and counting, my life offers an up-close view of our country's priorities when it comes to infrastructure and government spending[...]
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Thursday, November 18, 2021
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Are Imperial World Orders Heading for Extinction? When the leaders of more than 100 nations gathered in Glasgow for the U.N. climate conference last week, there was much discussion about the disastrous effect of climate change on the global environment. There was, however, little awareness of its likely political impact on the current world order that made such an international gathering possible[...]
Thursday, November 18, 2021Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Are Imperial World Orders Heading for Extinction? When the leaders of more than 100 nations gathered in Glasgow for the U.N. climate conference last week, there was much discussion about the disastrous effect of climate change on the global environment. There was, however, little awareness of its likely political impact on the current world order that made such an international gathering possible[...]
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Tomgram: William Astore, Prefabricated War Who is America's god? The Christian god of the beatitudes, the one who healed the sick, helped the poor, and preached love of neighbor? Not in these (dis)United States. In the Pledge of Allegiance, we speak proudly of One Nation under God, but in the aggregate, this country doesn't serve or worship Jesus Christ, or Allah, or any other god of justice and mercy[...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2021Tomgram: William Astore, Prefabricated War Who is America's god? The Christian god of the beatitudes, the one who healed the sick, helped the poor, and preached love of neighbor? Not in these (dis)United States. In the Pledge of Allegiance, we speak proudly of One Nation under God, but in the aggregate, this country doesn't serve or worship Jesus Christ, or Allah, or any other god of justice and mercy[...]
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Monday, November 15, 2021
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, American Politics Hits the Wall In a provocative recent essay in the New York Times, the political historian Jon Grinspan places the distemper currently afflicting American politics in a broader context. In essence, he contends that we've been here before[...]
Monday, November 15, 2021Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, American Politics Hits the Wall In a provocative recent essay in the New York Times, the political historian Jon Grinspan places the distemper currently afflicting American politics in a broader context. In essence, he contends that we've been here before[...]
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Thursday, November 11, 2021
Tomgram: Rajan Menon, America Has a Drinking Problem Think of it this way: what we don't know will hurt us. And water yes, water is an example of just that. Even at a time of such angry political disputes, you might imagine that, in a wealthy country like the United States, it would still be possible to agree that clean water should be not just a right, but a given. Well, welcome to America 2021[...]
Thursday, November 11, 2021Tomgram: Rajan Menon, America Has a Drinking Problem Think of it this way: what we don't know will hurt us. And water yes, water is an example of just that. Even at a time of such angry political disputes, you might imagine that, in a wealthy country like the United States, it would still be possible to agree that clean water should be not just a right, but a given. Well, welcome to America 2021[...]
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Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Tomgram: Hartung and Smithberger, The Pentagon's Yearly Blank Check Even as Congress moves to increase the Pentagon budget well beyond the astronomical levels proposed by the Biden administration, a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has outlined three different ways to cut $1 trillion in Department of Defense spending over the next decade[...]
Tuesday, November 9, 2021Tomgram: Hartung and Smithberger, The Pentagon's Yearly Blank Check Even as Congress moves to increase the Pentagon budget well beyond the astronomical levels proposed by the Biden administration, a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has outlined three different ways to cut $1 trillion in Department of Defense spending over the next decade[...]
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Monday, November 8, 2021
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Politics of the Poor in an America on Edge When President Biden first unveiled the Build Back Better agenda, it appeared that this country was on the path to a new war on poverty. In April, he told Congress that "trickle-down economics have never worked" and that it was time to build the economy "from the bottom-up[...]"
Monday, November 8, 2021Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Politics of the Poor in an America on Edge When President Biden first unveiled the Build Back Better agenda, it appeared that this country was on the path to a new war on poverty. In April, he told Congress that "trickle-down economics have never worked" and that it was time to build the economy "from the bottom-up[...]"
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Thursday, November 4, 2021
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Thanks for Nothing I waited almost three months for some acknowledgement, but it never came. Not a bottle of champagne. Not a congratulatory note. Not an email of acknowledgement. Not one media request. Authors wait their whole lives for I-told-you-so moments like these. But mine passed without accolades, awards, or adulation. Being way ahead of the pack is supposed to bring honors and rewards, isn't it?[...]
Thursday, November 4, 2021Tomgram: Nick Turse, Thanks for Nothing I waited almost three months for some acknowledgement, but it never came. Not a bottle of champagne. Not a congratulatory note. Not an email of acknowledgement. Not one media request. Authors wait their whole lives for I-told-you-so moments like these. But mine passed without accolades, awards, or adulation. Being way ahead of the pack is supposed to bring honors and rewards, isn't it?[...]
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Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The World We Made, The Enemy We Need On February 17, 1941, less than 10 months before the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor and the U.S. found itself in a global war, Henry Luce, in an editorial in Life magazine (which he founded along with Time and Fortune), declared the years to come "the American Century." He then urged this country's leaders to "exert upon the world the full impact of our influence, for such purposes as we see fit[...]"
Tuesday, November 2, 2021Tomgram: Engelhardt, The World We Made, The Enemy We Need On February 17, 1941, less than 10 months before the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor and the U.S. found itself in a global war, Henry Luce, in an editorial in Life magazine (which he founded along with Time and Fortune), declared the years to come "the American Century." He then urged this country's leaders to "exert upon the world the full impact of our influence, for such purposes as we see fit[...]"
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Monday, November 1, 2021
Tomgram: Ann Jones, Afghanistan (Again) I know, I know. It's the last thing you want to hear about. Twenty years of American carnage in Afghanistan was plenty for you, I'm sure, and there are so many other things to worry about in an America at the edge of" well, who knows what? But for me, it's different. I went to Afghanistan in 2002, already angry about this country's misbegotten war on that poor land, to offer what help I could to Afghan women[...]
Monday, November 1, 2021Tomgram: Ann Jones, Afghanistan (Again) I know, I know. It's the last thing you want to hear about. Twenty years of American carnage in Afghanistan was plenty for you, I'm sure, and there are so many other things to worry about in an America at the edge of" well, who knows what? But for me, it's different. I went to Afghanistan in 2002, already angry about this country's misbegotten war on that poor land, to offer what help I could to Afghan women[...]
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Thursday, October 28, 2021
Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, All Empire Is Local Robin Rue Simmons had been very curious about the truth of American life as a young person. But it was only after she finished high school, left her native Evanston, Illinois, and returned as an adult ready to buy a house in the historically Black neighborhood in which she grew up that she delved deep into her city's history and fully understood the policies that had kept Black residents poor[...]
Thursday, October 28, 2021Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, All Empire Is Local Robin Rue Simmons had been very curious about the truth of American life as a young person. But it was only after she finished high school, left her native Evanston, Illinois, and returned as an adult ready to buy a house in the historically Black neighborhood in which she grew up that she delved deep into her city's history and fully understood the policies that had kept Black residents poor[...]
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Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The Next Coup? As an eyewitness, I can recall the events of January 6th in Washington as if they were yesterday. The crowds of angry loyalists storming the building while overwhelmed security guards gave way. The slavishly loyal vice-president who would, the president hoped, restore him to power. The crush of media that seemed confused, almost overwhelmed, by the crowd's fury[...]
Tuesday, October 26, 2021Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The Next Coup? As an eyewitness, I can recall the events of January 6th in Washington as if they were yesterday. The crowds of angry loyalists storming the building while overwhelmed security guards gave way. The slavishly loyal vice-president who would, the president hoped, restore him to power. The crush of media that seemed confused, almost overwhelmed, by the crowd's fury[...]
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Monday, October 25, 2021
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox, Before It's Too Late This month will mark a critical juncture in the struggle to avoid climate catastrophe. At the COP26 global climate summit kicking off next week in Glasgow, Scotland, negotiators will be faced with the urgent need to get the world economy off the business-as-usual track that will take the Earth up to and beyond 3 degrees Celsius of excess heating before this century's end,[...]
Monday, October 25, 2021Tomgram: Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox, Before It's Too Late This month will mark a critical juncture in the struggle to avoid climate catastrophe. At the COP26 global climate summit kicking off next week in Glasgow, Scotland, negotiators will be faced with the urgent need to get the world economy off the business-as-usual track that will take the Earth up to and beyond 3 degrees Celsius of excess heating before this century's end,[...]
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Thursday, October 21, 2021
Tomgram: David Vine, Biden Builds Back Worse (When It Comes to China) Before it's too late, we need to ask ourselves a crucial question: Do we really I mean truly want a new Cold War with China?[...]
Thursday, October 21, 2021Tomgram: David Vine, Biden Builds Back Worse (When It Comes to China) Before it's too late, we need to ask ourselves a crucial question: Do we really I mean truly want a new Cold War with China?[...]
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Tomgram: William deBuys, A Long Walk into an Imperiled Future Thirteen thousand feet high on the far side of the Himalaya mountains, we have entered the past and the future at the same time. We are a medical expedition and also a pilgrimage, consisting of doctors, nurses, Buddhist clerics, supernumeraries like me, and a large staff of guides, muleteers, and camp tenders. We are bound for the isolated villages of Upper Dolpo, a remote region of northwestern Nepal[...]
Tuesday, October 19, 2021Tomgram: William deBuys, A Long Walk into an Imperiled Future Thirteen thousand feet high on the far side of the Himalaya mountains, we have entered the past and the future at the same time. We are a medical expedition and also a pilgrimage, consisting of doctors, nurses, Buddhist clerics, supernumeraries like me, and a large staff of guides, muleteers, and camp tenders. We are bound for the isolated villages of Upper Dolpo, a remote region of northwestern Nepal[...]
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Monday, October 18, 2021
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The Curse of Cassandra For decades, I kept a poster on my wall that I'd saved from the year I turned 16. In its upper left-hand corner was a black-and-white photo of a white man in a grey suit. Before him spread a cobblestone plaza. All you could see were the man and the stones. Its caption read, "He stood up alone and something happened[...]"
Monday, October 18, 2021Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The Curse of Cassandra For decades, I kept a poster on my wall that I'd saved from the year I turned 16. In its upper left-hand corner was a black-and-white photo of a white man in a grey suit. Before him spread a cobblestone plaza. All you could see were the man and the stones. Its caption read, "He stood up alone and something happened[...]"
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