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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, October 1, 2024
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Forever Prison and the Forever Wars September marked the 23rd anniversary of al-Qaeda's 2001 attacks on the United States, which left nearly 3,000 people dead. For the two decades since then, I've been writing, often for TomDispatch, about the ways the American response to 9/11, which quickly came to be known as the Global War on Terror, or GWOT, changed this country[...]
Tuesday, October 1, 2024Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Forever Prison and the Forever Wars September marked the 23rd anniversary of al-Qaeda's 2001 attacks on the United States, which left nearly 3,000 people dead. For the two decades since then, I've been writing, often for TomDispatch, about the ways the American response to 9/11, which quickly came to be known as the Global War on Terror, or GWOT, changed this country[...]
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Monday, September 30, 2024
Tomgram: William Hartung, Bringing the Militarization of University Research Back to Earth The divestment campaigns launched last spring by students protesting Israel's mass slaughter in Gaza brought the issue of the militarization of American higher education back into the spotlight[...]
Monday, September 30, 2024Tomgram: William Hartung, Bringing the Militarization of University Research Back to Earth The divestment campaigns launched last spring by students protesting Israel's mass slaughter in Gaza brought the issue of the militarization of American higher education back into the spotlight[...]
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Thursday, September 26, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, An All-American Satan? Imagine yourself in space, looking down on our world and yet unable to return any time soon. Consider it our bad luck, in fact, that Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita Williams were the two Americans sent to the International Space Station, 250 miles above this planet, for a few days in June and now find themselves stuck there until perhaps next February. If only it had been Donald Trump and J.D. Vance[...]
Thursday, September 26, 2024Tomgram: Engelhardt, An All-American Satan? Imagine yourself in space, looking down on our world and yet unable to return any time soon. Consider it our bad luck, in fact, that Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita Williams were the two Americans sent to the International Space Station, 250 miles above this planet, for a few days in June and now find themselves stuck there until perhaps next February. If only it had been Donald Trump and J.D. Vance[...]
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, The MADness of It All My name is Frida and my community is military dependent. (I feel, by the way, like I'm introducing myself at a very strange AA-like meeting with lousy coffee.) As with people who have substance abuse disorders, I'm part of a very large club. After all, there are weapons manufacturers and subcontractors in just about every congressional district in the country[...]
Tuesday, September 24, 2024Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, The MADness of It All My name is Frida and my community is military dependent. (I feel, by the way, like I'm introducing myself at a very strange AA-like meeting with lousy coffee.) As with people who have substance abuse disorders, I'm part of a very large club. After all, there are weapons manufacturers and subcontractors in just about every congressional district in the country[...]
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Monday, September 23, 2024
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, War Doesn't End When It "Ends" Count on one thing: armed conflict lasts for decades after battles end and its effects ripple thousands of miles beyond actual battlefields. This has been true of America's post-9/11 forever wars that, in some minimalist fashion, continue in all too many countries around the world. Yet those wars, which we ignited in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, are hardly the first to offer such lessons[...
Monday, September 23, 2024Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, War Doesn't End When It "Ends" Count on one thing: armed conflict lasts for decades after battles end and its effects ripple thousands of miles beyond actual battlefields. This has been true of America's post-9/11 forever wars that, in some minimalist fashion, continue in all too many countries around the world. Yet those wars, which we ignited in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, are hardly the first to offer such lessons[...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Tomgram: Juan Cole, A Centrist Muslim Alliance Against an Extremist Israel? At least one thing is now obvious in the Middle East: the Biden administration has failed abjectly in its objectives there, leaving the region in dangerous disarray. Its primary stated foreign policy goal has been to rally its partners in the region to cooperate with the extremist Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu while upholding a "rules-based" international order and blocking Iran and its allies in their policies[...]
Tuesday, September 17, 2024Tomgram: Juan Cole, A Centrist Muslim Alliance Against an Extremist Israel? At least one thing is now obvious in the Middle East: the Biden administration has failed abjectly in its objectives there, leaving the region in dangerous disarray. Its primary stated foreign policy goal has been to rally its partners in the region to cooperate with the extremist Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu while upholding a "rules-based" international order and blocking Iran and its allies in their policies[...]
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Monday, September 16, 2024
Tomgram: Stan Cox, It's Not Music to Our Ears (or Our World) The most pressing environmental crisis of these times, our heating of the Earth through carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollution, is closely connected to our excessive energy consumption. And with many of the ways we use that energy, we're also producing another less widely discussed pollutant: industrial noise. Like greenhouse-gas pollution, noise pollution is degrading our world[...]
Monday, September 16, 2024Tomgram: Stan Cox, It's Not Music to Our Ears (or Our World) The most pressing environmental crisis of these times, our heating of the Earth through carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollution, is closely connected to our excessive energy consumption. And with many of the ways we use that energy, we're also producing another less widely discussed pollutant: industrial noise. Like greenhouse-gas pollution, noise pollution is degrading our world[...]
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Friday, September 13, 2024
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Ensuring the Collapse of Civilization? The next president of the United States, whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, will face many contentious domestic issues that have long divided this country, including abortion rights, immigration, racial discord, and economic inequality. In the foreign policy realm, she or he will face vexing decisions over Ukraine, Israel/Gaza, and China/Taiwan[...]
Friday, September 13, 2024Tomgram: Michael Klare, Ensuring the Collapse of Civilization? The next president of the United States, whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, will face many contentious domestic issues that have long divided this country, including abortion rights, immigration, racial discord, and economic inequality. In the foreign policy realm, she or he will face vexing decisions over Ukraine, Israel/Gaza, and China/Taiwan[...]
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Passing the Torch? The Washington Post headline reads: "A big problem for young workers: 70- and 80-year-olds who won't retire." For the first time in history, reports Aden Barton, five generations are competing in the same workforce. His article laments a "demographic traffic jam" at the apexes of various employment pyramids, making it ever harder for young people "to launch their careers and get promoted" in their chosen professions[...]
Tuesday, September 10, 2024Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Passing the Torch? The Washington Post headline reads: "A big problem for young workers: 70- and 80-year-olds who won't retire." For the first time in history, reports Aden Barton, five generations are competing in the same workforce. His article laments a "demographic traffic jam" at the apexes of various employment pyramids, making it ever harder for young people "to launch their careers and get promoted" in their chosen professions[...]
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Cedar Monroe, The (Im)moral Treatment of the Poor and Unhoused In 2019, a group of homeless folks were living on a deserted piece of land along the Chehalis River, a drainage basin that empties into Grays Harbor, an estuary of the Pacific Ocean, on the coast of the state of Washington. When the city of Aberdeen ordered the homeless encampment cleared out, some of those unhoused residents took the city to court, because they had nowhere else to go[...]
Tuesday, September 10, 2024Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Cedar Monroe, The (Im)moral Treatment of the Poor and Unhoused In 2019, a group of homeless folks were living on a deserted piece of land along the Chehalis River, a drainage basin that empties into Grays Harbor, an estuary of the Pacific Ocean, on the coast of the state of Washington. When the city of Aberdeen ordered the homeless encampment cleared out, some of those unhoused residents took the city to court, because they had nowhere else to go[...]
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Thursday, September 5, 2024
Tomgram: William Astore, Making America Sane Again During World War II, American leaders proudly proclaimed this country the "arsenal of democracy," supplying weapons and related materiel to allies like Great Britain and the Soviet Union. To cite just one example, I recall reading about Soviet armored units equipped with U.S. Sherman tanks, though the Soviets had an even better tank of their own in the T-34 and its many variants[...]
Thursday, September 5, 2024Tomgram: William Astore, Making America Sane Again During World War II, American leaders proudly proclaimed this country the "arsenal of democracy," supplying weapons and related materiel to allies like Great Britain and the Soviet Union. To cite just one example, I recall reading about Soviet armored units equipped with U.S. Sherman tanks, though the Soviets had an even better tank of their own in the T-34 and its many variants[...]
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Distinctly [You Fill This In]-Topian World Yes, long ago, I dreamt of being a novelist. Two ancient manuscripts packed away in a distant corner of my closet attest to that (ir)reality, as does one novel focused on the world of publishing (in which I'd been an editor) that made it into print, even if it was barely noticed. Still, from time to time, I've thought about trying to write fiction again[...]
Tuesday, September 3, 2024Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Distinctly [You Fill This In]-Topian World Yes, long ago, I dreamt of being a novelist. Two ancient manuscripts packed away in a distant corner of my closet attest to that (ir)reality, as does one novel focused on the world of publishing (in which I'd been an editor) that made it into print, even if it was barely noticed. Still, from time to time, I've thought about trying to write fiction again[...]
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Thursday, August 22, 2024
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Facing a Smart, Confident Younger Black Woman Trump Is Running Scared One of the nation's best-known Black Republicans is former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In the twenty-first century (and perhaps ever), no African American woman rose higher in Republican politics than Rice, who served as President George W. Bush's national security adviser and then his secretary of state, both firsts[...]
Thursday, August 22, 2024Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Facing a Smart, Confident Younger Black Woman Trump Is Running Scared One of the nation's best-known Black Republicans is former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In the twenty-first century (and perhaps ever), no African American woman rose higher in Republican politics than Rice, who served as President George W. Bush's national security adviser and then his secretary of state, both firsts[...]
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Deep Corporate America One thing our government doesn't like doing is challenging the greed of health insurance companies. I can speak with some authority about holes in the ever-fraying safety net of our healthcare system, including Tricare, the military health insurance plan used by most troops, veterans, and their families, other employer-sponsored health insurance, state-sponsored care like Medicare and Medicaid, and individually purchased plans
Tuesday, August 20, 2024Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Deep Corporate America One thing our government doesn't like doing is challenging the greed of health insurance companies. I can speak with some authority about holes in the ever-fraying safety net of our healthcare system, including Tricare, the military health insurance plan used by most troops, veterans, and their families, other employer-sponsored health insurance, state-sponsored care like Medicare and Medicaid, and individually purchased plans
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Thursday, August 15, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Why Voting for Donald Trump Is a Suicidal Act Donald Trump is all too literally the candidate from hell and, yes, he's threatening to take the United States and the world to -- no place else! -- hell and back. He's the greatest danger to this planet imaginable[...]
Thursday, August 15, 2024Tomgram: Engelhardt, Why Voting for Donald Trump Is a Suicidal Act Donald Trump is all too literally the candidate from hell and, yes, he's threatening to take the United States and the world to -- no place else! -- hell and back. He's the greatest danger to this planet imaginable[...]
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Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, What (Not) to Do in a Tinder-Box World California Governor Gavin Newsom appears to be taking climate change seriously, at least when he's in front of a microphone and flashing cameras. His talk then is direct and tough. He repeatedly points out that the planet is in danger and appears ready to act. He's been called a "climate-change crusader" and a leader of America's clean energy revolution[...]
Tuesday, August 13, 2024Tomgram: Joshua Frank, What (Not) to Do in a Tinder-Box World California Governor Gavin Newsom appears to be taking climate change seriously, at least when he's in front of a microphone and flashing cameras. His talk then is direct and tough. He repeatedly points out that the planet is in danger and appears ready to act. He's been called a "climate-change crusader" and a leader of America's clean energy revolution[...]
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Friday, August 9, 2024
Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, A Modern Fossil-Fuelized Version of Colonialism? On August 9, 2001, in Colombia, riot police and private security forces from the Cerrejón coal mine -- one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world -- surrounded the remote community of Tabaco. They then dragged residents out of their homes and bulldozed what remained of that town's structures. There was, after all, coal under the town and the mine's owner, Exxon Mobil Corporation, wanted to access it[...]
Friday, August 9, 2024Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, A Modern Fossil-Fuelized Version of Colonialism? On August 9, 2001, in Colombia, riot police and private security forces from the Cerrejón coal mine -- one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world -- surrounded the remote community of Tabaco. They then dragged residents out of their homes and bulldozed what remained of that town's structures. There was, after all, coal under the town and the mine's owner, Exxon Mobil Corporation, wanted to access it[...]
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Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Tomgram: William Hartung and Hekmat Aboukhater, Cashing in on Nukes The Pentagon is in the midst of a massive $2 trillion multiyear plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines. A large chunk of that funding will go to major nuclear weapons contractors like Bechtel, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. And they will do everything in their power to keep that money flowing[...]
Wednesday, August 7, 2024Tomgram: William Hartung and Hekmat Aboukhater, Cashing in on Nukes The Pentagon is in the midst of a massive $2 trillion multiyear plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines. A large chunk of that funding will go to major nuclear weapons contractors like Bechtel, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. And they will do everything in their power to keep that money flowing[...]
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Monday, August 5, 2024
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Will Election 2024 Traumatize Us? Imagine my surprise when, nearly eight months ago, commenting on the state of the country as it approached the 2024 presidential election, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg noted that "Biden has set himself the task of trying to jolt the country out of its learned helplessness in the face of Trump's exhausting provocations[...]"
Monday, August 5, 2024Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Will Election 2024 Traumatize Us? Imagine my surprise when, nearly eight months ago, commenting on the state of the country as it approached the 2024 presidential election, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg noted that "Biden has set himself the task of trying to jolt the country out of its learned helplessness in the face of Trump's exhausting provocations[...]"
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Thursday, August 1, 2024
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Global Backlash Against Globalization They were all buddy-buddy for the cameras, going for a joy ride in a deluxe limo and toasting each other at a gala dinner. In June, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was determined to welcome Russian President Vladimir Putin in grand style on his first visit to Pyongyang in 24 years. A red carpet, flowers, and champagne: it was a veritable romance of rogues[...]
Thursday, August 1, 2024Tomgram: John Feffer, The Global Backlash Against Globalization They were all buddy-buddy for the cameras, going for a joy ride in a deluxe limo and toasting each other at a gala dinner. In June, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was determined to welcome Russian President Vladimir Putin in grand style on his first visit to Pyongyang in 24 years. A red carpet, flowers, and champagne: it was a veritable romance of rogues[...]
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