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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, January 9, 2024
Tomgram: Karen J. Greenberg, Whose Power? Not Ours This week marks the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Guanta'namo Bay detention facility, the infamous prison on the island of Cuba designed to hold detainees from this country's Global War on Terror. It's an anniversary that's likely to go unnoticed, since these days you rarely hear about the war on terror -- and for good reason[...]
Tuesday, January 9, 2024Tomgram: Karen J. Greenberg, Whose Power? Not Ours This week marks the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Guanta'namo Bay detention facility, the infamous prison on the island of Cuba designed to hold detainees from this country's Global War on Terror. It's an anniversary that's likely to go unnoticed, since these days you rarely hear about the war on terror -- and for good reason[...]
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Monday, January 8, 2024
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Gimme Shelter Back in 1968, my father announced that, if Richard Nixon were elected president that November, he was going to move us all to Canada. I'm not sure who "us all" actually was, since my younger brother and I were then living with my mother and my parents had been divorced for years. Still, he was determined to protect us, should someone he considered a dangerous anti-Semite make it into the Oval Office[...]
Monday, January 8, 2024Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Gimme Shelter Back in 1968, my father announced that, if Richard Nixon were elected president that November, he was going to move us all to Canada. I'm not sure who "us all" actually was, since my younger brother and I were then living with my mother and my parents had been divorced for years. Still, he was determined to protect us, should someone he considered a dangerous anti-Semite make it into the Oval Office[...]
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Thursday, January 4, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Whose World Is This Anyway? Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? (And I'm not even thinking about the utter, ongoing devastation of Gaza.)[...]
Thursday, January 4, 2024Tomgram: Engelhardt, Whose World Is This Anyway? Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? (And I'm not even thinking about the utter, ongoing devastation of Gaza.)[...]
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Thursday, December 21, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Another Major War in 2024? This hasn't exactly been a year of good news when it comes to our war-torn, beleaguered planet, but on November 15th, U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping took one small step back from the precipice[...]
Thursday, December 21, 2023Tomgram: Michael Klare, Another Major War in 2024? This hasn't exactly been a year of good news when it comes to our war-torn, beleaguered planet, but on November 15th, U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping took one small step back from the precipice[...]
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Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Greenwashing the Planet A recent opinion poll rocked the world of the Big Oil lobbyists in their proverbial thousand-dollar suits and alligator shoes. The Pew Research Center found that 37% of Americans now feel that fighting the climate crisis should be the number one priority of President Joe Biden and Congress, and another 34% put it among their highest priorities, even if they didn't rank it first[...]
Tuesday, December 19, 2023Tomgram: Juan Cole, Greenwashing the Planet A recent opinion poll rocked the world of the Big Oil lobbyists in their proverbial thousand-dollar suits and alligator shoes. The Pew Research Center found that 37% of Americans now feel that fighting the climate crisis should be the number one priority of President Joe Biden and Congress, and another 34% put it among their highest priorities, even if they didn't rank it first[...]
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Monday, December 18, 2023
Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler, This Holiday Season, We're Lonely Consider two phenomena that might seem unrelated. This fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing a marked increase in overdose fatalities nationally. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, told CNN that she had expected overdose deaths to decline after a sharp spike during the pandemic. Instead, such fatalities have only gone up[...]
Monday, December 18, 2023Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler, This Holiday Season, We're Lonely Consider two phenomena that might seem unrelated. This fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing a marked increase in overdose fatalities nationally. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, told CNN that she had expected overdose deaths to decline after a sharp spike during the pandemic. Instead, such fatalities have only gone up[...]
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Thursday, December 14, 2023
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, What Daniel Ellsberg Knew About Doomsday Top American officials in the "national security" establishment are notably good at smooth rhetoric and convenient silences. Their scant regard for truth or human life has changed remarkably little since 1971 when Daniel Ellsberg risked decades in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers to the world. During the years between then and his death six months ago, he was a tireless writer, speaker, and activist[...]
Thursday, December 14, 2023Tomgram: Norman Solomon, What Daniel Ellsberg Knew About Doomsday Top American officials in the "national security" establishment are notably good at smooth rhetoric and convenient silences. Their scant regard for truth or human life has changed remarkably little since 1971 when Daniel Ellsberg risked decades in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers to the world. During the years between then and his death six months ago, he was a tireless writer, speaker, and activist[...]
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Peace When? What a world! For eight weeks now, events in Israel and Gaza have been the story of the hour, day, week. And what exactly are we to make of that?[...]
Tuesday, December 12, 2023Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Peace When? What a world! For eight weeks now, events in Israel and Gaza have been the story of the hour, day, week. And what exactly are we to make of that?[...]
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Monday, December 11, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Upending America? Recently, on a commuter train, I ran into an acquaintance who works for a government agency here in Washington, D.C. Soon after we started chatting, he indicated a desire to switch jobs in case Donald Trump was reelected president in 2024. "I'd like to be somewhere that Trump wouldn't be able to politicize," my buddy said[...]
Monday, December 11, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Upending America? Recently, on a commuter train, I ran into an acquaintance who works for a government agency here in Washington, D.C. Soon after we started chatting, he indicated a desire to switch jobs in case Donald Trump was reelected president in 2024. "I'd like to be somewhere that Trump wouldn't be able to politicize," my buddy said[...]
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Thursday, December 7, 2023
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, When Wars Converge One way of understanding the ongoing bloodbath pitting Israel against Hamas is to see it as just the latest chapter in an existential struggle dating back to the founding of the Jewish state in 1948. While the appalling scope, destructiveness, and duration of the fighting in Gaza may outstrip previous episodes[...]
Thursday, December 7, 2023Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, When Wars Converge One way of understanding the ongoing bloodbath pitting Israel against Hamas is to see it as just the latest chapter in an existential struggle dating back to the founding of the Jewish state in 1948. While the appalling scope, destructiveness, and duration of the fighting in Gaza may outstrip previous episodes[...]
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Don't Say You Weren't Warned On February 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. It initiated a Department of Defense program that resulted in the rounding up and incarceration of about 122,000 individuals of Japanese descent. They were to be placed in federal "relocation centers" that would popularly become known as "internment camps." As it happened, they were neither[...]
Tuesday, December 5, 2023Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Don't Say You Weren't Warned On February 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. It initiated a Department of Defense program that resulted in the rounding up and incarceration of about 122,000 individuals of Japanese descent. They were to be placed in federal "relocation centers" that would popularly become known as "internment camps." As it happened, they were neither[...]
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Monday, December 4, 2023
Tomgram: Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox, Three Nations Under God(s) In 1981, India's post office issued a stamp showing the flags of India and occupied Palestine flying side by side above the phrase "Solidarity with the Palestinian people." That now seems like ancient history. Today, Hindu nationalists are flying the flags of India and Israel side by side as a demonstration of their support for that country's catastrophic war on Gaza[...]
Monday, December 4, 2023Tomgram: Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox, Three Nations Under God(s) In 1981, India's post office issued a stamp showing the flags of India and occupied Palestine flying side by side above the phrase "Solidarity with the Palestinian people." That now seems like ancient history. Today, Hindu nationalists are flying the flags of India and Israel side by side as a demonstration of their support for that country's catastrophic war on Gaza[...]
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
Tomgram: Ariel Dorfman, The Donald (Duck, Not Trump) Chronicle This year marks the anniversaries of two drastically different events that loomed all too large in my life. The first occurred a century ago in Hollywood: on October 16, 1923, Walt Disney signed into being the corporation that bears his name. The second took place in Santiago, Chile, on September 11, 1973, when socialist President Salvador Allende died in a military coup that overthrew his democratically elected government[...
Thursday, November 30, 2023Tomgram: Ariel Dorfman, The Donald (Duck, Not Trump) Chronicle This year marks the anniversaries of two drastically different events that loomed all too large in my life. The first occurred a century ago in Hollywood: on October 16, 1923, Walt Disney signed into being the corporation that bears his name. The second took place in Santiago, Chile, on September 11, 1973, when socialist President Salvador Allende died in a military coup that overthrew his democratically elected government[...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The Hamster Wheel of War When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best friend genital herpes, which many health practitioners then believed was the agent responsible for causing cervical cancer in women. (It wasn't.)[...]
Tuesday, November 28, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The Hamster Wheel of War When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best friend genital herpes, which many health practitioners then believed was the agent responsible for causing cervical cancer in women. (It wasn't.)[...]
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Monday, November 27, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, World War III? Imagine this: humanity in its time on Earth has already come up with two distinct ways of destroying this planet and everything on it. The first is, of course, nuclear weapons, which once again surfaced in the ongoing nightmare in the Middle East[...]
Monday, November 27, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, World War III? Imagine this: humanity in its time on Earth has already come up with two distinct ways of destroying this planet and everything on it. The first is, of course, nuclear weapons, which once again surfaced in the ongoing nightmare in the Middle East[...]
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Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Goodbye to All That In the spring of 1957, in search of a summer job before heading west to graduate school, I answered a classified New York Times ad for an editorial assistant. The personnel clerk at the paper was condescending. Bachelor's degrees are a dime a dozen, she told me. For their newsroom, she said, they were looking for Ph.D. candidates and Rhodes scholars. Still, sighing at her own generosity, she let me fill out the paperwork[...]
Tuesday, November 21, 2023Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Goodbye to All That In the spring of 1957, in search of a summer job before heading west to graduate school, I answered a classified New York Times ad for an editorial assistant. The personnel clerk at the paper was condescending. Bachelor's degrees are a dime a dozen, she told me. For their newsroom, she said, they were looking for Ph.D. candidates and Rhodes scholars. Still, sighing at her own generosity, she let me fill out the paperwork[...]
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Monday, November 20, 2023
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, A Growing Middle Eastern Nightmare Israel's robust military, the fourth-strongest in the world, is ravaging Gaza and, along with armed settlers, terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank following the brutal Hamas massacres of October 7th. Like so many other colonial projects, Israel was born of terror and has necessitated the use of violence to occupy Arab territory and segregate Palestinians ever since[...]
Monday, November 20, 2023Tomgram: Joshua Frank, A Growing Middle Eastern Nightmare Israel's robust military, the fourth-strongest in the world, is ravaging Gaza and, along with armed settlers, terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank following the brutal Hamas massacres of October 7th. Like so many other colonial projects, Israel was born of terror and has necessitated the use of violence to occupy Arab territory and segregate Palestinians ever since[...]
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Epicenter of International Terrorism America's Global War on Terror has seen its share of stalemates, disasters, and outright defeats. During 20-plus years of armed interventions, the United States has watched its efforts implode in spectacular fashion, from Iraq in 2014 to Afghanistan in 2021. The greatest failure of its "Forever Wars," however, may not be in the Middle East, but in Africa[...]
Tuesday, November 14, 2023Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Epicenter of International Terrorism America's Global War on Terror has seen its share of stalemates, disasters, and outright defeats. During 20-plus years of armed interventions, the United States has watched its efforts implode in spectacular fashion, from Iraq in 2014 to Afghanistan in 2021. The greatest failure of its "Forever Wars," however, may not be in the Middle East, but in Africa[...]
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Monday, November 13, 2023
Tomgram: William Hartung, American Arms Makers, Cashing in on Conflict The New York Times headline said it all: "Middle East War Adds to Surge in International Arms Sales." The conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, and beyond may be causing immense and unconscionable human suffering, but they are also boosting the bottom lines of the world's arms manufacturers. There was a time when such weapons sales at least sparked talk of "the merchants of death" or of "war profiteers[...]"
Monday, November 13, 2023Tomgram: William Hartung, American Arms Makers, Cashing in on Conflict The New York Times headline said it all: "Middle East War Adds to Surge in International Arms Sales." The conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, and beyond may be causing immense and unconscionable human suffering, but they are also boosting the bottom lines of the world's arms manufacturers. There was a time when such weapons sales at least sparked talk of "the merchants of death" or of "war profiteers[...]"
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Thursday, November 9, 2023
Tomgram: Todd Miller, The "Open Border" Farce On September 23rd, at about 2:30 a.m., a Border Patrol surveillance camera captured two people crossing the international boundary between Mexico and the United States on the outskirts of Nogales, Arizona. A Border Patrol vehicle arrived quickly, but not before one of them had fled back into Mexico. When an armed agent stepped out, dressed in a forest-green uniform, he found a 16-year-old girl from Mexico softly crying[...]
Thursday, November 9, 2023Tomgram: Todd Miller, The "Open Border" Farce On September 23rd, at about 2:30 a.m., a Border Patrol surveillance camera captured two people crossing the international boundary between Mexico and the United States on the outskirts of Nogales, Arizona. A Border Patrol vehicle arrived quickly, but not before one of them had fled back into Mexico. When an armed agent stepped out, dressed in a forest-green uniform, he found a 16-year-old girl from Mexico softly crying[...]
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