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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, April 13, 2023
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Recruiting Children After more than 20 years of losing wars, recruiting for the U.S. Army is now officially a mess. Last year, that service fell short of its goal by 15,000 recruits, or a quarter of its target. Despite reports of better numbers in the first months of this year, Army officials doubt they will achieve their objective this time around either[...]
Thursday, April 13, 2023Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Recruiting Children After more than 20 years of losing wars, recruiting for the U.S. Army is now officially a mess. Last year, that service fell short of its goal by 15,000 recruits, or a quarter of its target. Despite reports of better numbers in the first months of this year, Army officials doubt they will achieve their objective this time around either[...]
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Wars to End All Wars? "It is time," President Biden announced in April 2021, "to end the forever war" that started with the invasion of Afghanistan soon after the tragic terror attacks on this country on September 11, 2001. Indeed, that August, amid chaos and disaster, the president did finally pull the last remaining U.S. forces out of that country[...]
Tuesday, April 11, 2023Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Wars to End All Wars? "It is time," President Biden announced in April 2021, "to end the forever war" that started with the invasion of Afghanistan soon after the tragic terror attacks on this country on September 11, 2001. Indeed, that August, amid chaos and disaster, the president did finally pull the last remaining U.S. forces out of that country[...]
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Monday, April 10, 2023
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Tick, Tock, TikTok, the Nuclear Conundrum Today I'm not a TikTok person. I'm too old. But when I finally ventured onto that popular but much-maligned app, which traffics in short videos and hot takes, I was surprised to find many videos about the Doomsday Clock. It's nothing like a conventional timepiece, of course. It's meant to show how close humanity has come to nuclear Armageddon "" to the proverbial "midnight[...]"
Monday, April 10, 2023Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Tick, Tock, TikTok, the Nuclear Conundrum Today I'm not a TikTok person. I'm too old. But when I finally ventured onto that popular but much-maligned app, which traffics in short videos and hot takes, I was surprised to find many videos about the Doomsday Clock. It's nothing like a conventional timepiece, of course. It's meant to show how close humanity has come to nuclear Armageddon "" to the proverbial "midnight[...]"
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Thursday, April 6, 2023
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, When Lunatics Run the Asylum [The following is excerpted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.[...]]
Thursday, April 6, 2023Tomgram: Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, When Lunatics Run the Asylum [The following is excerpted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.[...]]
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Tomgram: John Feffer, If You're in a Hole, Stop Digging Gustavo Petro doesn't just want to transform his own country; he wants to change the world. The new leader of Colombia, who took office last August, is targeting what he calls his nation's "economy of death." That means pivoting away from oil, natural gas, coal, and narcotics toward more sustainable economic activities. Given that oil and coal make up half his country's exports [...]
Tuesday, April 4, 2023Tomgram: John Feffer, If You're in a Hole, Stop Digging Gustavo Petro doesn't just want to transform his own country; he wants to change the world. The new leader of Colombia, who took office last August, is targeting what he calls his nation's "economy of death." That means pivoting away from oil, natural gas, coal, and narcotics toward more sustainable economic activities. Given that oil and coal make up half his country's exports [...]
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Monday, April 3, 2023
Tomgram: Stan Cox, Before It's Too Late The demise of Silicon Valley Bank last month triggered plenty of angst among solar energy developers. Before it collapsed, SBV claimed it had "financed or helped finance 62 percent of community solar projects in America," according to Washington Post business reporter Evan Halper. At first, it wasn't clear who might fill that gap[...]
Monday, April 3, 2023Tomgram: Stan Cox, Before It's Too Late The demise of Silicon Valley Bank last month triggered plenty of angst among solar energy developers. Before it collapsed, SBV claimed it had "financed or helped finance 62 percent of community solar projects in America," according to Washington Post business reporter Evan Halper. At first, it wasn't clear who might fill that gap[...]
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Thursday, March 30, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Former Soldiers Without a Future Here's something we seldom focus on when it comes to war, American-style, even during the just-passed 20th anniversary of our disastrous invasion of Iraq: many more soldiers survive armed conflict than die from it. This has been especially so during this country's twenty-first-century War on Terror, which is still playing out in all too many lands globally[...]
Thursday, March 30, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Former Soldiers Without a Future Here's something we seldom focus on when it comes to war, American-style, even during the just-passed 20th anniversary of our disastrous invasion of Iraq: many more soldiers survive armed conflict than die from it. This has been especially so during this country's twenty-first-century War on Terror, which is still playing out in all too many lands globally[...]
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Tomgram: Rajan Menon, A War for the Record Books Some wars acquire names that stick. The Lancaster and York clans fought the War of the Roses from 1455-1485 to claim the British throne. The Hundred Years' War pitted England against France from 1337-1453. In the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, many European countries clashed, while Britain and France waged the Seven Years' War, 1756-63, across significant parts of the globe[...]
Tuesday, March 28, 2023Tomgram: Rajan Menon, A War for the Record Books Some wars acquire names that stick. The Lancaster and York clans fought the War of the Roses from 1455-1485 to claim the British throne. The Hundred Years' War pitted England against France from 1337-1453. In the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, many European countries clashed, while Britain and France waged the Seven Years' War, 1756-63, across significant parts of the globe[...]
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Monday, March 27, 2023
Tomgram: William Hartung, The Pentagon's Budget from Hell On March 13th, the Pentagon rolled out its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The results were "" or at least should have been "" stunning, even by the standards of a department that's used to getting what it wants when it wants it[...]
Monday, March 27, 2023Tomgram: William Hartung, The Pentagon's Budget from Hell On March 13th, the Pentagon rolled out its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The results were "" or at least should have been "" stunning, even by the standards of a department that's used to getting what it wants when it wants it[...]
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The End? (Not Yet!) Indulge me for a moment. This is how "The Prophecy" in my 1962 high school yearbook began. It was written by some of my classmates in the year we graduated from Friends Seminary in New York City[...]
Thursday, March 23, 2023Tomgram: Engelhardt, The End? (Not Yet!) Indulge me for a moment. This is how "The Prophecy" in my 1962 high school yearbook began. It was written by some of my classmates in the year we graduated from Friends Seminary in New York City[...]
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Tomgram: William Astore, America Hangs from a Cross of Iron In April 1953, newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a retired five-star Army general who had led the landings on D-Day in France in June 1944, gave his most powerful speech. It would become known as his "Cross of Iron" address. In it, Ike warned of the cost humanity would pay if Cold War competition led to a world dominated by wars and weaponry that couldn't be reined in[...]
Tuesday, March 21, 2023Tomgram: William Astore, America Hangs from a Cross of Iron In April 1953, newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a retired five-star Army general who had led the landings on D-Day in France in June 1944, gave his most powerful speech. It would become known as his "Cross of Iron" address. In it, Ike warned of the cost humanity would pay if Cold War competition led to a world dominated by wars and weaponry that couldn't be reined in[...]
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Monday, March 20, 2023
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Duck and (Re)Cover? Bosley Crowther, chief film critic for the New York Times, didn't quite know what to make of Dr. Strangelove at the time of its release in January 1964. Stanley Kubrick's dark antiwar satire was "beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I've ever come across," he wrote. But if the film had its hilarious moments, Crowther found its overall effect distinctly unnerving. What exactly was Kubrick's point?[..]
Monday, March 20, 2023Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Duck and (Re)Cover? Bosley Crowther, chief film critic for the New York Times, didn't quite know what to make of Dr. Strangelove at the time of its release in January 1964. Stanley Kubrick's dark antiwar satire was "beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I've ever come across," he wrote. But if the film had its hilarious moments, Crowther found its overall effect distinctly unnerving. What exactly was Kubrick's point?[..]
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Singing the "Bourgeois Blues" In 1937, the American folklorist Alan Lomax invited Louisiana folksinger Huddie Ledbetter (better known as Lead Belly) to record some of his songs for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Lead Belly and his wife Martha searched in vain for a place to spend a few nights nearby. But they were Black and no hotel would give them shelter[...]
Thursday, March 16, 2023Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Singing the "Bourgeois Blues" In 1937, the American folklorist Alan Lomax invited Louisiana folksinger Huddie Ledbetter (better known as Lead Belly) to record some of his songs for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Lead Belly and his wife Martha searched in vain for a place to spend a few nights nearby. But they were Black and no hotel would give them shelter[...]
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Is War with China Inevitable? Is China really on the verge of invading the island of Taiwan, as so many top American officials seem to believe? If the answer is "yes" and the U.S. intervenes on Taiwan's side "" as President Biden has sworn it would "" we could find ourselves in a major-power conflict, possibly even a nuclear one, in the not-too-distant future[...]
Tuesday, March 14, 2023Tomgram: Michael Klare, Is War with China Inevitable? Is China really on the verge of invading the island of Taiwan, as so many top American officials seem to believe? If the answer is "yes" and the U.S. intervenes on Taiwan's side "" as President Biden has sworn it would "" we could find ourselves in a major-power conflict, possibly even a nuclear one, in the not-too-distant future[...]
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Sunday, March 12, 2023
Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, Hunger in America My long-dead father used to say, "Every human being deserves to taste a piece of cake." Though at the time his words meant little to me, as I grew older I realized both what they meant, symbolically speaking, and the grim reality they disguised so charmingly[...]
Sunday, March 12, 2023Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, Hunger in America My long-dead father used to say, "Every human being deserves to taste a piece of cake." Though at the time his words meant little to me, as I grew older I realized both what they meant, symbolically speaking, and the grim reality they disguised so charmingly[...]
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Thursday, March 9, 2023
Tomgram: Juan Cole, When We Were Vladimir Putin Who remembers anymore that, in 2003, we were Vladimir Putin? Today, our cable and social-media news feeds are blanketed with denunciations of the president of the Russian Federation for his lawless and brutal invasion of Ukraine. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken met briefly with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New Delhi on March 2nd, he told him in no uncertain terms, "End this war of aggression[...]"
Thursday, March 9, 2023Tomgram: Juan Cole, When We Were Vladimir Putin Who remembers anymore that, in 2003, we were Vladimir Putin? Today, our cable and social-media news feeds are blanketed with denunciations of the president of the Russian Federation for his lawless and brutal invasion of Ukraine. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken met briefly with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New Delhi on March 2nd, he told him in no uncertain terms, "End this war of aggression[...]"
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Tomgram: Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox, A Death in the Family So many crises "" from war to mass species die-offs to climate meltdown "" afflict our world that we often don't take time to draw insights from what generally passes for the small stuff, the things that happen all too close to home, including aging. Most of us don't relish the prospect of getting old, much less watching our parents approach their deaths, something that's even worse if you're dying poor[...]
Tuesday, March 7, 2023Tomgram: Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox, A Death in the Family So many crises "" from war to mass species die-offs to climate meltdown "" afflict our world that we often don't take time to draw insights from what generally passes for the small stuff, the things that happen all too close to home, including aging. Most of us don't relish the prospect of getting old, much less watching our parents approach their deaths, something that's even worse if you're dying poor[...]
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Monday, March 6, 2023
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Will Nikki Haley's Candidacy Flag? In 2015, according to the talking points being floated by former South Carolina governor and Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley and her team, she alone heroically removed the Confederate flag that flew on the grounds of the state capitol and so healed racial wounds. She implied as much right after it happened, again at the 2020 Republican National Convention, and in subsequent interviews[...]
Monday, March 6, 2023Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Will Nikki Haley's Candidacy Flag? In 2015, according to the talking points being floated by former South Carolina governor and Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley and her team, she alone heroically removed the Confederate flag that flew on the grounds of the state capitol and so healed racial wounds. She implied as much right after it happened, again at the 2020 Republican National Convention, and in subsequent interviews[...]
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Thursday, March 2, 2023
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The True Costs of War Over Taiwan While the world has been distracted, even amused, by the diplomatic tussle around China's recent high-altitude balloon flights across North America, there are signs that Beijing and Washington are preparing for something so much more serious: armed conflict over Taiwan[...]
Thursday, March 2, 2023Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The True Costs of War Over Taiwan While the world has been distracted, even amused, by the diplomatic tussle around China's recent high-altitude balloon flights across North America, there are signs that Beijing and Washington are preparing for something so much more serious: armed conflict over Taiwan[...]
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, How a Nuclear Power Plant Became a Tool of War In 1946, Albert Einstein shot off a telegram to several hundred American leaders and politicians warning that the "unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." Einstein's forecast remains prescient. Nuclear calamity still knocks[...]
Tuesday, February 28, 2023Tomgram: Joshua Frank, How a Nuclear Power Plant Became a Tool of War In 1946, Albert Einstein shot off a telegram to several hundred American leaders and politicians warning that the "unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." Einstein's forecast remains prescient. Nuclear calamity still knocks[...]
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