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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, June 30, 2015
Michael Klare, The Coming of Cold War 2.0 In a world that, from Washington's point of view, is only getting darker, Nixon-era enemies are also returning to the fray, and so Washington's new, twenty-first century "enemies list" is the focus of TomDispatch regular Michael Klare's latest offering. As the 2016 election campaign ramps up, get ready to hear far more about the grave, even existential threats posed by two oldies but goodies: Russia and China.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015Michael Klare, The Coming of Cold War 2.0 In a world that, from Washington's point of view, is only getting darker, Nixon-era enemies are also returning to the fray, and so Washington's new, twenty-first century "enemies list" is the focus of TomDispatch regular Michael Klare's latest offering. As the 2016 election campaign ramps up, get ready to hear far more about the grave, even existential threats posed by two oldies but goodies: Russia and China.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Tomgram: William Hartung, Are Military-Funded Jobs a Key to Election 2020? Donald Trump likes to posture as a tough guy and part of that tough-guy persona involves bragging about how much he's spent on the U.S. military. This tendency was on full display in a tweet he posted three days after an American drone killed Iranian Major General Qassem Suleimani in Baghdad: "The United States just spent Two Trillion Dollars on Military Equipment. We are the biggest and by far the BEST in the World! ..."
Tuesday, February 11, 2020Tomgram: William Hartung, Are Military-Funded Jobs a Key to Election 2020? Donald Trump likes to posture as a tough guy and part of that tough-guy persona involves bragging about how much he's spent on the U.S. military. This tendency was on full display in a tweet he posted three days after an American drone killed Iranian Major General Qassem Suleimani in Baghdad: "The United States just spent Two Trillion Dollars on Military Equipment. We are the biggest and by far the BEST in the World! ..."
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Monday, July 10, 2023
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Invading Ourselves It was one of the fabled rivers of history and the Marines needed to cross it[...]
Monday, July 10, 2023Tomgram: Juan Cole, Invading Ourselves It was one of the fabled rivers of history and the Marines needed to cross it[...]
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Monday, June 12, 2023
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Wound of the War on Terror, Up Close and Personal America's War on Terror, launched in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, has had a staggering impact on our world. The Costs of War Project at Brown University, which I helped found, paints as full a picture as possible of the toll of those "forever wars" both in human lives and in dollars. The wars, we estimate, have killed nearly one million people[...]
Monday, June 12, 2023Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Wound of the War on Terror, Up Close and Personal America's War on Terror, launched in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, has had a staggering impact on our world. The Costs of War Project at Brown University, which I helped found, paints as full a picture as possible of the toll of those "forever wars" both in human lives and in dollars. The wars, we estimate, have killed nearly one million people[...]
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Michael Klare: Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Becomes Everyday Reality Wherever you look, the heat, the drought, and the fires stagger the imagination. Now, it's Oklahoma at the heart of the American firestorm, with "18 straight days of 100-plus degree temperatures and persistent drought" and so many fires in neighboring states that extra help is unavailable.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012Michael Klare: Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Becomes Everyday Reality Wherever you look, the heat, the drought, and the fires stagger the imagination. Now, it's Oklahoma at the heart of the American firestorm, with "18 straight days of 100-plus degree temperatures and persistent drought" and so many fires in neighboring states that extra help is unavailable.
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Monday, March 23, 2015
Rebecca Gordon: It Didn't Work in Afghanistan, So Let's Do It In Mexico If there was an official beginning to Mexico's war on drugs, it would have to be considered the election of Felipe Calderón as the country's president in 2006. The candidate of the right-wing Partido Acción Nacional, the National Action Party (PAN), Calderón was only the second Mexican president in 70 years who did not come from the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Monday, March 23, 2015Rebecca Gordon: It Didn't Work in Afghanistan, So Let's Do It In Mexico If there was an official beginning to Mexico's war on drugs, it would have to be considered the election of Felipe Calderón as the country's president in 2006. The candidate of the right-wing Partido Acción Nacional, the National Action Party (PAN), Calderón was only the second Mexican president in 70 years who did not come from the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
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Monday, May 4, 2015
Engelhardt: Counting Bodies, Then and Now In the twenty-first-century world of drone warfare, one question with two aspects reigns supreme: Who counts? In Washington, the answers are the same: We don't count and they don't count.
Monday, May 4, 2015Engelhardt: Counting Bodies, Then and Now In the twenty-first-century world of drone warfare, one question with two aspects reigns supreme: Who counts? In Washington, the answers are the same: We don't count and they don't count.
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Monday, November 11, 2019
Tomgram: Naomi Oreskes, Why Science Failed to Stop Climate Change It's a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time.
Monday, November 11, 2019Tomgram: Naomi Oreskes, Why Science Failed to Stop Climate Change It's a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time.
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Thursday, January 16, 2020
Tomgram: William deBuys, Creating Steelhenge on the Border A new Wild West has taken root not far from Tombstone, Arizona, known to many for its faux-historical reenactments of the old West. We're talking about a long, skinny territory - a geographic gerrymander - that stretches east across New Mexico and down the Texan Rio Grande to the Gulf of Mexico. It also runs west across hundreds of miles of desert to California and the Pacific Ocean. Like the old Wild West, this one is lawless
Thursday, January 16, 2020Tomgram: William deBuys, Creating Steelhenge on the Border A new Wild West has taken root not far from Tombstone, Arizona, known to many for its faux-historical reenactments of the old West. We're talking about a long, skinny territory - a geographic gerrymander - that stretches east across New Mexico and down the Texan Rio Grande to the Gulf of Mexico. It also runs west across hundreds of miles of desert to California and the Pacific Ocean. Like the old Wild West, this one is lawless
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Thursday, June 29, 2023
Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, State Terror in the Age of Counterterrorism "There must be some kind of way out of here..." As night fell over the South River Forest, the music festival was in full swing. Young and old swayed to the sounds of Suede Cassidy. Families gathered around the grill. Little ones frolicked in an inflatable bouncy house bedecked with a banner that read: "Stop Cop City[...]"
Thursday, June 29, 2023Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, State Terror in the Age of Counterterrorism "There must be some kind of way out of here..." As night fell over the South River Forest, the music festival was in full swing. Young and old swayed to the sounds of Suede Cassidy. Families gathered around the grill. Little ones frolicked in an inflatable bouncy house bedecked with a banner that read: "Stop Cop City[...]"
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Bill McKibben, The Enthusiasm Gap in the White House
Thursday, September 16, 2010Bill McKibben, The Enthusiasm Gap in the White House
I got to see the now-famous enthusiasm gap up close and personal last week, and it wasn't a pretty sight.
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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, 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, March 16, 2015
William deBuys: A Global War on Nature Maybe baby steps will help, but the world needs a lot more than either the United States or China is offering to combat the illegal traffic in wildlife, a nearly $20-billion-a-year business that adds up to a global war against nature. As the headlines tell us, the trade has pushed various rhinoceros species to the point of extinction and motivated poachers to kill more than 100,000 elephants since 2010.
Monday, March 16, 2015William deBuys: A Global War on Nature Maybe baby steps will help, but the world needs a lot more than either the United States or China is offering to combat the illegal traffic in wildlife, a nearly $20-billion-a-year business that adds up to a global war against nature. As the headlines tell us, the trade has pushed various rhinoceros species to the point of extinction and motivated poachers to kill more than 100,000 elephants since 2010.
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Monday, June 22, 2015
Armed Violence in the Homeland In the rest of the piece, I offer a kind of tabulation of the overwhelming annual carnage-by-weapon in America that, most of the time, is remarkably little attended to and that no national security state promotes as "the greatest threat" of our time. It's a piece meant to put violence in our American world in some kind of perspective. I hope you'll find it provocative!
Monday, June 22, 2015Armed Violence in the Homeland In the rest of the piece, I offer a kind of tabulation of the overwhelming annual carnage-by-weapon in America that, most of the time, is remarkably little attended to and that no national security state promotes as "the greatest threat" of our time. It's a piece meant to put violence in our American world in some kind of perspective. I hope you'll find it provocative!
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Thursday, October 31, 2019
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Why Those "Endless Wars" Must Never End Let us stipulate at the outset that Donald Trump is a vulgar and dishonest fraud without a principled bone in his corpulent frame. Yet history is nothing if not a tale overflowing with irony. Despite his massive shortcomings, President Trump appears intent on recalibrating America's role in the world.
Thursday, October 31, 2019Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Why Those "Endless Wars" Must Never End Let us stipulate at the outset that Donald Trump is a vulgar and dishonest fraud without a principled bone in his corpulent frame. Yet history is nothing if not a tale overflowing with irony. Despite his massive shortcomings, President Trump appears intent on recalibrating America's role in the world.
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Thursday, November 21, 2019
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Making Alphabet Soup in Washington These days, witnessing the administration's never-ending cruelty at the border, the shenanigans of a White House caught red-handed in attempted bribery in Ukraine, and the disarray of this country's foreign policy, I feel like I'm seeing a much-scarier remake of a familiar old movie.
Thursday, November 21, 2019Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Making Alphabet Soup in Washington These days, witnessing the administration's never-ending cruelty at the border, the shenanigans of a White House caught red-handed in attempted bribery in Ukraine, and the disarray of this country's foreign policy, I feel like I'm seeing a much-scarier remake of a familiar old movie.
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Thursday, May 8, 2014
Ann Jones, How to Lose Friends and Influence No One (The State Department Way) Now, writes Ann Jones, TomDispatch regular and author of They Were Soldiers, ignorance is again on the march in Washington, with a helping hand from the State Department. Herself a Fulbright fellow, she offers a scathing report on how State plans to eviscerate its Fulbright international scholarly exchange program in 2015, helping make government-sponsored ignorance not just a national but a global concern.
Thursday, May 8, 2014Ann Jones, How to Lose Friends and Influence No One (The State Department Way) Now, writes Ann Jones, TomDispatch regular and author of They Were Soldiers, ignorance is again on the march in Washington, with a helping hand from the State Department. Herself a Fulbright fellow, she offers a scathing report on how State plans to eviscerate its Fulbright international scholarly exchange program in 2015, helping make government-sponsored ignorance not just a national but a global concern.
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Tomgram: Hartung and Gledhill, Throwing More Money at the Pentagon On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government's debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was "" surprise, surprise! "" the Pentagon[...]
Tuesday, June 20, 2023Tomgram: Hartung and Gledhill, Throwing More Money at the Pentagon On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government's debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was "" surprise, surprise! "" the Pentagon[...]
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Monday, March 2, 2015
Engelhardt: The Ten Commandments for a Better American World I wish I knew your name. I've been thinking about you, about all of us actually and our country, and meaning to write for a while to explain myself. Let me start this way: you should feel free to call me an American nationalist. It may sound ugly as hell, but it's one way I do think of myself.
Monday, March 2, 2015Engelhardt: The Ten Commandments for a Better American World I wish I knew your name. I've been thinking about you, about all of us actually and our country, and meaning to write for a while to explain myself. Let me start this way: you should feel free to call me an American nationalist. It may sound ugly as hell, but it's one way I do think of myself.
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