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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, September 26, 2023
Tomgram: Tamar Sarai, From Education to Incarceration Not long after moving to Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1980s, community organizer Curtis Pitts learned about a hidden slice of that city's history that would come to shape his life's work over the next four decades. He was introduced to the Kansas Technical Institute, or KTI, a Black vocational college that had prospered throughout the early twentieth century, only to close in the mid-1950s[...]
Tuesday, September 26, 2023Tomgram: Tamar Sarai, From Education to Incarceration Not long after moving to Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1980s, community organizer Curtis Pitts learned about a hidden slice of that city's history that would come to shape his life's work over the next four decades. He was introduced to the Kansas Technical Institute, or KTI, a Black vocational college that had prospered throughout the early twentieth century, only to close in the mid-1950s[...]
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Monday, September 25, 2023
Tomgram: William Astore, Imagining a Progressive Pentagon A progressive Pentagon? Talk about an oxymoron! The Pentagon continues to grow and surge with ever larger budgets, ever more expansive missions (for example, a Space Force to dominate the heavens and yet more bases in the Pacific to encircle China), and ever greater ambitions to dominate everywhere, including if necessary through global thermonuclear warfare[...]
Monday, September 25, 2023Tomgram: William Astore, Imagining a Progressive Pentagon A progressive Pentagon? Talk about an oxymoron! The Pentagon continues to grow and surge with ever larger budgets, ever more expansive missions (for example, a Space Force to dominate the heavens and yet more bases in the Pacific to encircle China), and ever greater ambitions to dominate everywhere, including if necessary through global thermonuclear warfare[...]
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Thursday, September 21, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Consider the Alternative For twelve years starting in 1982, my partner and I in San Francisco joined with two friends in Seattle to produce Lesbian Contradiction: A Journal of Irreverent Feminism, or LesCon for short. We started out typing four-inch columns of text and laying out what was to become a quarterly tabloid on a homemade light table[...]
Thursday, September 21, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Consider the Alternative For twelve years starting in 1982, my partner and I in San Francisco joined with two friends in Seattle to produce Lesbian Contradiction: A Journal of Irreverent Feminism, or LesCon for short. We started out typing four-inch columns of text and laying out what was to become a quarterly tabloid on a homemade light table[...]
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Tomgram: John Feffer, More Butterflies, Fewer Billionaires Unrigging the Global Economy In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you've enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell some products, sign up some friends, make some phone calls. Follow that simple formula and you'll soon be pulling in tens of thousands of dollars a month or so you've been promised anyway. And if you sell enough products, you'll be invited into the Golden Circle[...]
Tuesday, September 19, 2023Tomgram: John Feffer, More Butterflies, Fewer Billionaires Unrigging the Global Economy In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you've enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell some products, sign up some friends, make some phone calls. Follow that simple formula and you'll soon be pulling in tens of thousands of dollars a month or so you've been promised anyway. And if you sell enough products, you'll be invited into the Golden Circle[...]
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Monday, September 18, 2023
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, White Nationalism and Donald Trump In 2020, The Daily Show ran a segment in which statements by Republican leaders, including Donald Trump, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and various Fox News personalities were juxtaposed with those made by Ku Klux Klan leaders like former Grand Wizard David Duke and former Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkerson[...]
Monday, September 18, 2023Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, White Nationalism and Donald Trump In 2020, The Daily Show ran a segment in which statements by Republican leaders, including Donald Trump, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and various Fox News personalities were juxtaposed with those made by Ku Klux Klan leaders like former Grand Wizard David Duke and former Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkerson[...]
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Thursday, September 14, 2023
Tomgram: Stan Cox, A Big Climate Win in Big Sky Country The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana's constitution couldn't be clearer: "The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations." Accordingly, in April, a district court judge in Yellowstone County voided a permit for a natural-gas-fired power plant under construction there[...]
Thursday, September 14, 2023Tomgram: Stan Cox, A Big Climate Win in Big Sky Country The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana's constitution couldn't be clearer: "The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations." Accordingly, in April, a district court judge in Yellowstone County voided a permit for a natural-gas-fired power plant under construction there[...]
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, The U.S. and China Face Off Over -- Yes! -- Climate Change It's an ocean of conflict and ecological decline. Despite its vast size 1.3 million square miles the South China Sea has become a microcosm of the geopolitical tensions between East and West, where territorial struggles over abundant natural resources may one day lead to environmental collapse[...]
Tuesday, September 12, 2023Tomgram: Joshua Frank, The U.S. and China Face Off Over -- Yes! -- Climate Change It's an ocean of conflict and ecological decline. Despite its vast size 1.3 million square miles the South China Sea has become a microcosm of the geopolitical tensions between East and West, where territorial struggles over abundant natural resources may one day lead to environmental collapse[...]
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Monday, September 11, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Global War of Terror, or the Decline and Fall of Just About Everything From the earliest kingdoms to late last night, history has been the story not just of the rise of great powers but of their decline and fall. So, normally, there would be nothing particularly out of the ordinary about the aging America of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, a classic imperial power distinctly in decline and threatening to split into pieces[...]
Monday, September 11, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Global War of Terror, or the Decline and Fall of Just About Everything From the earliest kingdoms to late last night, history has been the story not just of the rise of great powers but of their decline and fall. So, normally, there would be nothing particularly out of the ordinary about the aging America of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, a classic imperial power distinctly in decline and threatening to split into pieces[...]
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Thursday, September 7, 2023
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Venture Militarism on Autopilot [Today's piece is adapted from the introduction to Norman Solomon's book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine (The New Press, 2023).] The day after the U.S. government began routinely bombing faraway places, the lead editorial in the New York Times expressed some gratification[...]
Thursday, September 7, 2023Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Venture Militarism on Autopilot [Today's piece is adapted from the introduction to Norman Solomon's book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine (The New Press, 2023).] The day after the U.S. government began routinely bombing faraway places, the lead editorial in the New York Times expressed some gratification[...]
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Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Tomgram: Maha Hilal, "Unavoidable Collateral Damage" "I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are gray." That's what a young Pakistani boy named Zubair told members of Congress at a hearing on drones in October 2013. That hearing was during the Obama years at a time when the government had barely even acknowledged that an American drone warfare program existed[...]
Tuesday, September 5, 2023Tomgram: Maha Hilal, "Unavoidable Collateral Damage" "I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are gray." That's what a young Pakistani boy named Zubair told members of Congress at a hearing on drones in October 2013. That hearing was during the Obama years at a time when the government had barely even acknowledged that an American drone warfare program existed[...]
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Tomgram: David Bromwich, The Everlasting Alibi A new war, a new alibi. When we think about our latest war the one that began with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, just six months after our Afghan War ended so catastrophically there is a hidden benefit. As long as American minds are on Ukraine, we are not thinking about planetary climate disruption. This technique of distraction obeys the familiar mechanism that psychologists have called displacement[...]
Tuesday, August 29, 2023Tomgram: David Bromwich, The Everlasting Alibi A new war, a new alibi. When we think about our latest war the one that began with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, just six months after our Afghan War ended so catastrophically there is a hidden benefit. As long as American minds are on Ukraine, we are not thinking about planetary climate disruption. This technique of distraction obeys the familiar mechanism that psychologists have called displacement[...]
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Thursday, August 24, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Kissinger at 100 Henry Alfred Kissinger turned 100 on May 27th of this year. Once a teenage refugee from Nazi Germany, for many decades an adviser to presidents, and an avatar of American realpolitik, he's managed to reach the century mark while still evidently retaining all his marbles. That those marbles remain hard and cold is no surprise[...]
Thursday, August 24, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Kissinger at 100 Henry Alfred Kissinger turned 100 on May 27th of this year. Once a teenage refugee from Nazi Germany, for many decades an adviser to presidents, and an avatar of American realpolitik, he's managed to reach the century mark while still evidently retaining all his marbles. That those marbles remain hard and cold is no surprise[...]
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Violent American Century Blame Donald Trump and all too many of his followers, but don't just blame him or them. Yes, he was indeed responsible for the nightmare of January 6, 2021, and, in his own fashion, for the incitement of right-wing militia (terror!) groups like the Proud Boys. ("Stand back and stand by!") But in this country, in this century, violence has become as all-American as apple pie[...]
Tuesday, August 22, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Violent American Century Blame Donald Trump and all too many of his followers, but don't just blame him or them. Yes, he was indeed responsible for the nightmare of January 6, 2021, and, in his own fashion, for the incitement of right-wing militia (terror!) groups like the Proud Boys. ("Stand back and stand by!") But in this country, in this century, violence has become as all-American as apple pie[...]
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Thursday, August 17, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Klare, A World on the Edge of... Collapse? In his 2005 bestseller Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, geographer Jared Diamond focused on past civilizations that confronted severe climate shocks, either adapting and surviving or failing to adapt and disintegrating. Among those were the Puebloan culture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, the ancient Mayan civilization of Mesoamerica, and the Viking settlers of Greenland[...]
Thursday, August 17, 2023Tomgram: Michael Klare, A World on the Edge of... Collapse? In his 2005 bestseller Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, geographer Jared Diamond focused on past civilizations that confronted severe climate shocks, either adapting and surviving or failing to adapt and disintegrating. Among those were the Puebloan culture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, the ancient Mayan civilization of Mesoamerica, and the Viking settlers of Greenland[...]
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Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, The Enemy Is Us Too hot. Too dry. Too many weapons. This world needs changing. But that's too vague. After all, this world is already changing, just not in ways that are good for you and me[...]
Tuesday, August 15, 2023Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, The Enemy Is Us Too hot. Too dry. Too many weapons. This world needs changing. But that's too vague. After all, this world is already changing, just not in ways that are good for you and me[...]
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Thursday, August 10, 2023
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Israel's Crisis Is Not about Democracy but Occupation On July 24th, the Israeli Knesset passed a measure forbidding the country's High Court of Justice from in any way checking the power of the government, whether in making cabinet decisions or appointments, based on what's known as the "reasonability" standard. In the Israeli context, this was an extreme act[...]
Thursday, August 10, 2023Tomgram: Juan Cole, Israel's Crisis Is Not about Democracy but Occupation On July 24th, the Israeli Knesset passed a measure forbidding the country's High Court of Justice from in any way checking the power of the government, whether in making cabinet decisions or appointments, based on what's known as the "reasonability" standard. In the Israeli context, this was an extreme act[...]
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Tomgram: William Astore, An Exceptional Military for the Exceptional Nation In his message to the troops prior to the July 4th weekend, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin offered high praise indeed. "We have the greatest fighting force in human history," he tweeted, connecting that claim to the U.S. having patriots of all colors, creeds, and backgrounds "who bravely volunteer to defend our country and our values[...]"
Tuesday, August 8, 2023Tomgram: William Astore, An Exceptional Military for the Exceptional Nation In his message to the troops prior to the July 4th weekend, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin offered high praise indeed. "We have the greatest fighting force in human history," he tweeted, connecting that claim to the U.S. having patriots of all colors, creeds, and backgrounds "who bravely volunteer to defend our country and our values[...]"
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Thursday, August 3, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Extremely Extreme Hey, who knows? It could be the Gulf Stream collapsing or the planet eternally breaking heat records. But whatever the specifics, we're living it right now, not in the next century, the next decade, or even next year. You couldn't miss it at least so you might think if you were living in the sweltering Southwest[...]
Thursday, August 3, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, Extremely Extreme Hey, who knows? It could be the Gulf Stream collapsing or the planet eternally breaking heat records. But whatever the specifics, we're living it right now, not in the next century, the next decade, or even next year. You couldn't miss it at least so you might think if you were living in the sweltering Southwest[...]
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Guanta'namo 21 Years Later There can be little question that the grim prison at Guanta'namo Bay, Cuba, which still shows no sign of closing anytime soon, is a key legacy in the worst sense imaginable of America's post-9/11 forever wars. I've been covering the subject for decades now and that shameful legacy has never diminished[...]
Tuesday, August 1, 2023Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Guanta'namo 21 Years Later There can be little question that the grim prison at Guanta'namo Bay, Cuba, which still shows no sign of closing anytime soon, is a key legacy in the worst sense imaginable of America's post-9/11 forever wars. I've been covering the subject for decades now and that shameful legacy has never diminished[...]
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Monday, July 31, 2023
Tomgram: William Hartung, Cashing in on a Perpetual Nuclear Arms Race Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past few months, you're undoubtedly aware that award-winning director Christopher Nolan has released a new film about Robert Oppenheimer, known as the "father of the atomic bomb" for leading the group of scientists who created that deadly weapon as part of America's World War II-era Manhattan Project[...]
Monday, July 31, 2023Tomgram: William Hartung, Cashing in on a Perpetual Nuclear Arms Race Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past few months, you're undoubtedly aware that award-winning director Christopher Nolan has released a new film about Robert Oppenheimer, known as the "father of the atomic bomb" for leading the group of scientists who created that deadly weapon as part of America's World War II-era Manhattan Project[...]
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