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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, March 13, 2025
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, It Can't Happen Here (or Can It?) Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it's already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness and unconstitutional overreach while using everything in his power (and much that isn't), Donald Trump has served up a goulash of dubious orders with a slathering of venom on top[...]
Thursday, March 13, 2025Tomgram: Nan Levinson, It Can't Happen Here (or Can It?) Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it's already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness and unconstitutional overreach while using everything in his power (and much that isn't), Donald Trump has served up a goulash of dubious orders with a slathering of venom on top[...]
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, Setting Up the Machinery of Mass Deportation "Flights to Guanta'namo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our homeland." With those words the U.S. government announced the fate awaiting "criminal aliens" in its custody[...]
Tuesday, March 11, 2025Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, Setting Up the Machinery of Mass Deportation "Flights to Guanta'namo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our homeland." With those words the U.S. government announced the fate awaiting "criminal aliens" in its custody[...]
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Monday, March 10, 2025
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Living in Red-Card America "It is pretty wild how you can make someone mad by just holding a sign," my 18-year-old Ro told me, as an irate driver peeled out of the intersection, shaking both his middle fingers at us but managing not to hit us. Phew![...]
Monday, March 10, 2025Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Living in Red-Card America "It is pretty wild how you can make someone mad by just holding a sign," my 18-year-old Ro told me, as an irate driver peeled out of the intersection, shaking both his middle fingers at us but managing not to hit us. Phew![...]
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Did Science Fiction Prophesy Our Tech Broligarchy? The opening weeks of the second Trump administration have produced daily headlines that read -- no, this is not hyperbole! -- like science fiction. The spectacle of a South African tech billionaire and his cronies staging a twenty-first-century cybercoup with the acquiescence of an aging lunatic of a president beggars belief[...]
Thursday, March 6, 2025Tomgram: Juan Cole, Did Science Fiction Prophesy Our Tech Broligarchy? The opening weeks of the second Trump administration have produced daily headlines that read -- no, this is not hyperbole! -- like science fiction. The spectacle of a South African tech billionaire and his cronies staging a twenty-first-century cybercoup with the acquiescence of an aging lunatic of a president beggars belief[...]
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Which Century Are We In? In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from what might be called, to borrow the title of a famed William Butler Yeats's poem, "The Second Coming" of Donald J. Trump. But nobody expected this. Nobody at all[...]
Tuesday, March 4, 2025Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Which Century Are We In? In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from what might be called, to borrow the title of a famed William Butler Yeats's poem, "The Second Coming" of Donald J. Trump. But nobody expected this. Nobody at all[...]
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Monday, March 3, 2025
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Trump Administration's Christian Crusade Is Experiencing Pushback "There has almost always been an outright hostility that is shown towards people of the Christian faith," House Speaker Mike Johnson said on a podcast recently. He was talking with Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana lawmaker and president of the Family Research Council, about freedom of religion and the actions of the second Trump administration[...]
Monday, March 3, 2025Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Trump Administration's Christian Crusade Is Experiencing Pushback "There has almost always been an outright hostility that is shown towards people of the Christian faith," House Speaker Mike Johnson said on a podcast recently. He was talking with Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana lawmaker and president of the Family Research Council, about freedom of religion and the actions of the second Trump administration[...]
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Thursday, February 27, 2025
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Donald Trump and the Military-Industrial-Tech Complex Donald Trump's power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last quarter-century was a crucial factor in making President Trump possible, even if it goes virtually unmentioned in mainstream media and political discourse[...]
Thursday, February 27, 2025Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Donald Trump and the Military-Industrial-Tech Complex Donald Trump's power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last quarter-century was a crucial factor in making President Trump possible, even if it goes virtually unmentioned in mainstream media and political discourse[...]
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Tomgram: Douglas H. White, Bending The Arc of the Moral Universe Toward Justice Today, racism remains a poisonous force in America. Fascism and authoritarianism are on the rise and President Donald Trump is giving voice to such hate, making it state policy and central to his presidential agenda. Recently, he tried to ban birthright citizenship by executive order to limit the number of babies of color born in the United States, though such an act is clearly unconstitutional[...]
Tuesday, February 25, 2025Tomgram: Douglas H. White, Bending The Arc of the Moral Universe Toward Justice Today, racism remains a poisonous force in America. Fascism and authoritarianism are on the rise and President Donald Trump is giving voice to such hate, making it state policy and central to his presidential agenda. Recently, he tried to ban birthright citizenship by executive order to limit the number of babies of color born in the United States, though such an act is clearly unconstitutional[...]
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Monday, February 24, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, President Decline, Baby, Decline Count on one thing: in some almost unimaginable future, no American president (if we even have them anymore) is going to rename a mountain for Donald Trump as he's recently tried to do with North America's tallest peak[...]
Monday, February 24, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, President Decline, Baby, Decline Count on one thing: in some almost unimaginable future, no American president (if we even have them anymore) is going to rename a mountain for Donald Trump as he's recently tried to do with North America's tallest peak[...]
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Thursday, February 20, 2025
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Silence Is Deafening President Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for immigrants, particularly the non-white variety from south of our border. His statements that immigrants are "poisoning the blood" of our country," coupled with Fox News reports on Hispanic-appearing migrants who commit crimes, leave little doubt about what he and his allies think of (non-white) immigrants and their contributions to this country[...]
Thursday, February 20, 2025Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Silence Is Deafening President Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for immigrants, particularly the non-white variety from south of our border. His statements that immigrants are "poisoning the blood" of our country," coupled with Fox News reports on Hispanic-appearing migrants who commit crimes, leave little doubt about what he and his allies think of (non-white) immigrants and their contributions to this country[...]
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Donald Trump's Version of Eco-Colonialism In early January, Donald Trump Jr.'s private plane landed on a snowy airfield in Greenland. There was little fanfare upon his arrival, but his 14 million social-media fans were certainly tagging along[...]
Tuesday, February 18, 2025Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Donald Trump's Version of Eco-Colonialism In early January, Donald Trump Jr.'s private plane landed on a snowy airfield in Greenland. There was little fanfare upon his arrival, but his 14 million social-media fans were certainly tagging along[...]
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Monday, February 17, 2025
Tomgram: William Astore, Making Old-Style Imperialism Great Again A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: "Our New Possessions." Its cover featured the Statue of Liberty against stylized stars and stripes. What were those "new possessions"? The cover made it quite clear: Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico[...]
Monday, February 17, 2025Tomgram: William Astore, Making Old-Style Imperialism Great Again A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: "Our New Possessions." Its cover featured the Statue of Liberty against stylized stars and stripes. What were those "new possessions"? The cover made it quite clear: Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico[...]
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Thursday, February 13, 2025
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Beating the Bully In bad times -- and these are bad times -- I call up the spirit of Willie. Willie has seen me through cancer, divorce, and deaths in the family. His memory has given me the courage and strength to push on when I wanted to give up and hide. Willie reminds me that, even at 87, I can take it, get back up, survive, sometimes even win[...]
Thursday, February 13, 2025Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Beating the Bully In bad times -- and these are bad times -- I call up the spirit of Willie. Willie has seen me through cancer, divorce, and deaths in the family. His memory has given me the courage and strength to push on when I wanted to give up and hide. Willie reminds me that, even at 87, I can take it, get back up, survive, sometimes even win[...]
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Make Art, Not War The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, racial and economic inequality, war and the threat of more war, a rampaging climate crisis, and an accelerating nuclear arms race (and that's just for starters) -- all occurring in a climate of massive mis- and disinformation that makes it ever harder to build a consensus toward solutions[...]
Tuesday, February 11, 2025Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Make Art, Not War The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, racial and economic inequality, war and the threat of more war, a rampaging climate crisis, and an accelerating nuclear arms race (and that's just for starters) -- all occurring in a climate of massive mis- and disinformation that makes it ever harder to build a consensus toward solutions[...]
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Monday, February 10, 2025
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Droning Washington Last April, in a move generating scant media attention, the Air Force announced that it had chosen two little-known drone manufacturers -- Anduril Industries of Costa Mesa, California, and General Atomics of San Diego -- to build prototype versions of its proposed Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), a future unmanned plane intended to accompany piloted aircraft on high-risk combat missions. The lack of coverage was surprising
Monday, February 10, 2025Tomgram: Michael Klare, Droning Washington Last April, in a move generating scant media attention, the Air Force announced that it had chosen two little-known drone manufacturers -- Anduril Industries of Costa Mesa, California, and General Atomics of San Diego -- to build prototype versions of its proposed Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), a future unmanned plane intended to accompany piloted aircraft on high-risk combat missions. The lack of coverage was surprising
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Thursday, February 6, 2025
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, A Litany of Horrors in the New Age of Trump This past weekend my partner and I got together with a group of friends. We've been meeting every six weeks or so since 1982. Originally, this group of lesbians convened to talk about sex: what we were doing, what we wanted to do, what we fantasized about doing. But you know how it is with any relationship. Over time, it can come to embrace so many other things[...]
Thursday, February 6, 2025Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, A Litany of Horrors in the New Age of Trump This past weekend my partner and I got together with a group of friends. We've been meeting every six weeks or so since 1982. Originally, this group of lesbians convened to talk about sex: what we were doing, what we wanted to do, what we fantasized about doing. But you know how it is with any relationship. Over time, it can come to embrace so many other things[...]
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Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Tomgram: Todd Miller, Facing the Deportation Industry It didn't take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump's reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg News reported, stock prices shot up for two private prison companies, GEO Group and CoreCivic. "We expect the incoming Trump administration to take a much more aggressive approach regarding border security as well as interior enforcement,"[...]
Tuesday, February 4, 2025Tomgram: Todd Miller, Facing the Deportation Industry It didn't take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump's reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg News reported, stock prices shot up for two private prison companies, GEO Group and CoreCivic. "We expect the incoming Trump administration to take a much more aggressive approach regarding border security as well as interior enforcement,"[...]
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Monday, February 3, 2025
Tomgram: Helen Benedict, A New Future for Syrian Refugees? Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration's Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos to see how Europe was handling its own immigrants and refugees. Within a day, I met two Syrians, Eyad Awwadawnan and Hasan Majnan, who had fled Bashar al-Assad's brutal dictatorship only to end up in a filthy, overcrowded camp[...]
Monday, February 3, 2025Tomgram: Helen Benedict, A New Future for Syrian Refugees? Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration's Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos to see how Europe was handling its own immigrants and refugees. Within a day, I met two Syrians, Eyad Awwadawnan and Hasan Majnan, who had fled Bashar al-Assad's brutal dictatorship only to end up in a filthy, overcrowded camp[...]
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Friday, January 31, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Electing Donald Trump Was a Suicidal Act Let's face it: Electing Donald Trump was nothing short of a suicidal act[...]
Friday, January 31, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, Electing Donald Trump Was a Suicidal Act Let's face it: Electing Donald Trump was nothing short of a suicidal act[...]
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Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The True Cost of Guanta'namo On January 10th, one day before the 23rd anniversary of its opening, a much-anticipated hearing was set to take place at the Guanta'namo Bay Detention Facility on the island of Cuba. After nearly 17 years of pretrial litigation, the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the "mastermind" of the devastating attacks of September 11, 2001, seemed poised to achieve its ever-elusive goal of bringing his case to a conclusion.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The True Cost of Guanta'namo On January 10th, one day before the 23rd anniversary of its opening, a much-anticipated hearing was set to take place at the Guanta'namo Bay Detention Facility on the island of Cuba. After nearly 17 years of pretrial litigation, the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the "mastermind" of the devastating attacks of September 11, 2001, seemed poised to achieve its ever-elusive goal of bringing his case to a conclusion.
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