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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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Monday, April 22, 2013
Michael Klare: The Coming Global Explosion In his pathbreaking 2001 book Resource Wars, Michael Klare wrote: "Natural resources are the building blocks of civilization and an essential requirement of daily existence. The inhabitants of planet Earth have been blessed with a vast supply of most basic materials.
Monday, April 22, 2013Michael Klare: The Coming Global Explosion In his pathbreaking 2001 book Resource Wars, Michael Klare wrote: "Natural resources are the building blocks of civilization and an essential requirement of daily existence. The inhabitants of planet Earth have been blessed with a vast supply of most basic materials.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Tomgram: William Astore, Taking Selfies in Iraq and Afghanistan The United States is a peculiar sort of empire. As a start, Americans have been in what might be called imperial denial since the Spanish-American War of 1898, if not before.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015Tomgram: William Astore, Taking Selfies in Iraq and Afghanistan The United States is a peculiar sort of empire. As a start, Americans have been in what might be called imperial denial since the Spanish-American War of 1898, if not before.
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Friday, December 20, 2013
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Washington's Wedding Album From Hell The headline -- "Bride and Boom!" -- was spectacular, if you think killing people in distant lands is a blast and a half. Of course, you have to imagine that smirk line in giant black letters with a monstrous exclamation point covering most of the bottom third of the front page of the Murdoch-owned New York Post.
Friday, December 20, 2013Tomgram: Engelhardt, Washington's Wedding Album From Hell The headline -- "Bride and Boom!" -- was spectacular, if you think killing people in distant lands is a blast and a half. Of course, you have to imagine that smirk line in giant black letters with a monstrous exclamation point covering most of the bottom third of the front page of the Murdoch-owned New York Post.
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Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Neither Law, Nor Order for You Know Who When the Civil War ended in 1865, the 76-year-old Constitution needed an upgrading and those leading the country did indeed dramatically transform it with the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, known collectively as the Reconstruction Era amendments. The 13th (1865) abolished slavery, while the 15th (1870) gave voting rights to newly freed Black men[...]
Tuesday, February 13, 2024Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Neither Law, Nor Order for You Know Who When the Civil War ended in 1865, the 76-year-old Constitution needed an upgrading and those leading the country did indeed dramatically transform it with the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, known collectively as the Reconstruction Era amendments. The 13th (1865) abolished slavery, while the 15th (1870) gave voting rights to newly freed Black men[...]
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Manhunters, Inc. From TomDispatch tonight: How the U.S. military got into the "manhunting" business in Afghanistan in a big way -- Pratap Chatterjee, "The Secret Killers, Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373"
Thursday, August 19, 2010Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Manhunters, Inc. From TomDispatch tonight: How the U.S. military got into the "manhunting" business in Afghanistan in a big way -- Pratap Chatterjee, "The Secret Killers, Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373"
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The President's Military Mantra It's already gone, having barely outlasted its moment -- just long enough for the media to suggest that no one thought it added up to much. Okay, it was a little more than the military wanted, something less than Joe Biden would have liked, not enough for the growing crew of anti-war congressional types, but way too much for John McCain, Lindsey Graham, & Co.
Thursday, June 30, 2011Tomgram: Engelhardt, The President's Military Mantra It's already gone, having barely outlasted its moment -- just long enough for the media to suggest that no one thought it added up to much. Okay, it was a little more than the military wanted, something less than Joe Biden would have liked, not enough for the growing crew of anti-war congressional types, but way too much for John McCain, Lindsey Graham, & Co.
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Monday, February 3, 2014
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The End of History? Whatever you do, don’t think of my latest post as counter-programming to the Super Bowl. Consider it instead a piece for your post-game Monday morning recaps; this being a look back at why climate change and before it the nuclear issue fit so poorly with our idea of “the news†and why, raising as they do, the possibility of the end of history, they are so difficult for us to respond to as we should.
Monday, February 3, 2014Tomgram: Engelhardt, The End of History? Whatever you do, don’t think of my latest post as counter-programming to the Super Bowl. Consider it instead a piece for your post-game Monday morning recaps; this being a look back at why climate change and before it the nuclear issue fit so poorly with our idea of “the news†and why, raising as they do, the possibility of the end of history, they are so difficult for us to respond to as we should.
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Thursday, September 10, 2020
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Have They (and We) Learned? It's only mid-afternoon and Army Lieutenant General Victor Constant has already had a bad day.1 Soon after he arrived at the office at 0700, the Chief2 had called. "Come see me. We need to talk."
Thursday, September 10, 2020Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Have They (and We) Learned? It's only mid-afternoon and Army Lieutenant General Victor Constant has already had a bad day.1 Soon after he arrived at the office at 0700, the Chief2 had called. "Come see me. We need to talk."
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Victoria Brittain: Fighting a Global War of Terror The Global War on Terror has had many victims since it was launched by President George W. Bush soon after September 11, 2001. In his "crusade," a word he used publicly before he thought better of it ("This crusade," he said, "this war on terrorism"), the history of kidnappings and renditions, torture and abuse, imprisonment without charges or trial, drone assassinations and the killing of civilians is by now well known.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013Victoria Brittain: Fighting a Global War of Terror The Global War on Terror has had many victims since it was launched by President George W. Bush soon after September 11, 2001. In his "crusade," a word he used publicly before he thought better of it ("This crusade," he said, "this war on terrorism"), the history of kidnappings and renditions, torture and abuse, imprisonment without charges or trial, drone assassinations and the killing of civilians is by now well known.
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Monday, February 9, 2015
Christian Appy: "Honor" the Vietnam Veteran, Forget the War The 1960s -- that extraordinary decade -- is celebrating its 50th birthday one year at a time. Happy birthday, 1965! How, though, do you commemorate the Vietnam War, the era's signature catastrophe?
Monday, February 9, 2015Christian Appy: "Honor" the Vietnam Veteran, Forget the War The 1960s -- that extraordinary decade -- is celebrating its 50th birthday one year at a time. Happy birthday, 1965! How, though, do you commemorate the Vietnam War, the era's signature catastrophe?
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Mummies and Models in the New Middle East This is a tour de force exploration of Egypt's situation -- and of possible models for a transition from military rule to future Egyptian democracy, models that range from Turkey's conservative Islamic and democratic government to prominently Muslim Indonesia's functioning democracy -- "the world's third largest" and the freest in Southeast Asia, with a secular government, a booming economy, and the military out of politics."
Sunday, March 13, 2011Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Mummies and Models in the New Middle East This is a tour de force exploration of Egypt's situation -- and of possible models for a transition from military rule to future Egyptian democracy, models that range from Turkey's conservative Islamic and democratic government to prominently Muslim Indonesia's functioning democracy -- "the world's third largest" and the freest in Southeast Asia, with a secular government, a booming economy, and the military out of politics."
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Tomgram: Lewis Lapham, Laughing into Darkness Not being Navajo, there were no "first laugh" ceremonies in my household. But who could forget their child's first laugh? It's like having one of the mysteries of life presented to you out of nowhere, right in your own house.
Thursday, December 19, 2013Tomgram: Lewis Lapham, Laughing into Darkness Not being Navajo, there were no "first laugh" ceremonies in my household. But who could forget their child's first laugh? It's like having one of the mysteries of life presented to you out of nowhere, right in your own house.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Has The American Age of Decline Begun? Donald Trump has stepped across many lines in these last months, and they've been endlessly analyzed, but there's one that hasn't and that's too bad, because it matters.
Tuesday, April 26, 2016Tomgram: Engelhardt, Has The American Age of Decline Begun? Donald Trump has stepped across many lines in these last months, and they've been endlessly analyzed, but there's one that hasn't and that's too bad, because it matters.
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Monday, February 1, 2016
Nomi Prins, The Big Money and What It Means in Election 2016 Here's the perfect piece for the day of the first official primary of the year -- a rundown not on the vote in Iowa but on a far more important matter: the money. This is the latest in the coverage that Nomi Prins, author of All the Presidents' Bankers, is offering at TomDispatch this election season on the money behind the spectacle.
Monday, February 1, 2016Nomi Prins, The Big Money and What It Means in Election 2016 Here's the perfect piece for the day of the first official primary of the year -- a rundown not on the vote in Iowa but on a far more important matter: the money. This is the latest in the coverage that Nomi Prins, author of All the Presidents' Bankers, is offering at TomDispatch this election season on the money behind the spectacle.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Tomgram: Adam Hochschild, War Redux rize-winning author Adam Hochschild is intimately knowledgeable when it comes to war's folly in the twentieth century, having spent years working on his latest book, To End All Wars. As a historian, he's had the strange experience not of looking back, but of looking forward into our own unnerving, unending world of war.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011Tomgram: Adam Hochschild, War Redux rize-winning author Adam Hochschild is intimately knowledgeable when it comes to war's folly in the twentieth century, having spent years working on his latest book, To End All Wars. As a historian, he's had the strange experience not of looking back, but of looking forward into our own unnerving, unending world of war.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Mattea Kramer: Spinning Ourselves Into a Deficit Panic You couldn't make this stuff up: thanks to Harold Rogers, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and the power of "earmarks," the Army has bought $6.5 million worth of "leakproof" drip pans "to catch transmission fluid on Black Hawk helicopters," reports the New York Times.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012Mattea Kramer: Spinning Ourselves Into a Deficit Panic You couldn't make this stuff up: thanks to Harold Rogers, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and the power of "earmarks," the Army has bought $6.5 million worth of "leakproof" drip pans "to catch transmission fluid on Black Hawk helicopters," reports the New York Times.
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Tom Engelhardt, Luck Was a Lady Last Week He came and he went: that was the joke that circulated in 1979 when 70-year-old former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had a heart attack and died in his Manhattan townhouse in the presence of his evening-gown-clad 25-year-old assistant. In a sense, the same might be said of retired CIA operative Robert Seldon Lady. Recently, Lady proved a one-day wonder.
Monday, July 29, 2013Tom Engelhardt, Luck Was a Lady Last Week He came and he went: that was the joke that circulated in 1979 when 70-year-old former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had a heart attack and died in his Manhattan townhouse in the presence of his evening-gown-clad 25-year-old assistant. In a sense, the same might be said of retired CIA operative Robert Seldon Lady. Recently, Lady proved a one-day wonder.
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Secret Wars and Black Ops Blowback These days, when I check out the latest news on Washington's global war-making, I regularly find at least one story that fits a new category in my mind that I call: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Thursday, January 16, 2014Tomgram: Nick Turse, Secret Wars and Black Ops Blowback These days, when I check out the latest news on Washington's global war-making, I regularly find at least one story that fits a new category in my mind that I call: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Sorry, But Not Sorry in Somalia In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the misfortune of being born in the wrong place -- Cambodia or Gaza, Afghanistan or Ukraine -- at the wrong time. They die due to happenstance, choosing to shelter indoors when they should have taken cover outside or because they ventured out into a hell-storm of destruction when they should have stayed put[...]
Tuesday, January 30, 2024Tomgram: Nick Turse, Sorry, But Not Sorry in Somalia In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the misfortune of being born in the wrong place -- Cambodia or Gaza, Afghanistan or Ukraine -- at the wrong time. They die due to happenstance, choosing to shelter indoors when they should have taken cover outside or because they ventured out into a hell-storm of destruction when they should have stayed put[...]
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Thursday, July 31, 2014
Nick Turse, An East-West Showdown in the Heart of Africa? For the last two years, TomDispatch Managing Editor Nick Turse has been following the Pentagon and the latest U.S. global command, AFRICOM, as they oversaw the expanding operations of the American military across that continent: drones, a special ops surge, interventions, training missions, bases (even if not called bases), proxy wars. Short of a major conflict, you name it and it's probably happening.
Thursday, July 31, 2014Nick Turse, An East-West Showdown in the Heart of Africa? For the last two years, TomDispatch Managing Editor Nick Turse has been following the Pentagon and the latest U.S. global command, AFRICOM, as they oversaw the expanding operations of the American military across that continent: drones, a special ops surge, interventions, training missions, bases (even if not called bases), proxy wars. Short of a major conflict, you name it and it's probably happening.
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