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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, August 28, 2025
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, The Detached Cruelty of Air Power Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground cant match. Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity. And yet, as the monk Thomas Merton concluded in a poem, using the voice of a Nazi commandant, Do not think yourself better because you burn up friends and enemies with long-range missiles without ever seeing what you have done[...]
Thursday, August 28, 2025Tomgram: Norman Solomon, The Detached Cruelty of Air Power Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground cant match. Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity. And yet, as the monk Thomas Merton concluded in a poem, using the voice of a Nazi commandant, Do not think yourself better because you burn up friends and enemies with long-range missiles without ever seeing what you have done[...]
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Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Where Is There to Run To? President Trump, his cabinet, and those who have profited from his rise seem to revel in public displays of cruelty. Take former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, holding a chainsaw at a televised event to celebrate the firing of civil servants. Or Trumps White House sharing a video featuring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers marching handcuffed immigrants onto a deportation flight[...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Where Is There to Run To? President Trump, his cabinet, and those who have profited from his rise seem to revel in public displays of cruelty. Take former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, holding a chainsaw at a televised event to celebrate the firing of civil servants. Or Trumps White House sharing a video featuring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers marching handcuffed immigrants onto a deportation flight[...
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Thursday, August 21, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, We're in Trumple Deep Sometimes I dream in the sense of a nightmare about bringing my parents back to this all too strange world of ours to tell them about yes, of course, Donald J. Trump. They died long before The Apprentice even made it onto TV early in this century, so best guess though they also lived in New York, they undoubtedly had never heard of him[...]
Thursday, August 21, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, We're in Trumple Deep Sometimes I dream in the sense of a nightmare about bringing my parents back to this all too strange world of ours to tell them about yes, of course, Donald J. Trump. They died long before The Apprentice even made it onto TV early in this century, so best guess though they also lived in New York, they undoubtedly had never heard of him[...]
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, On Seeing the Future Too Clearly I spent the summer of 1965 arguing about the Vietnam War. I was 13, and my interlocutor was my 18-year-old camp counselor in Vermont. She was headed for U.C. Berkeley in the fall, where she would, as she later described it, major in history and minor in rioting. Meanwhile, I was headed back to junior high school. I was already convinced that our government was lying about why we were fighting in Vietnam[...]
Tuesday, August 19, 2025Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, On Seeing the Future Too Clearly I spent the summer of 1965 arguing about the Vietnam War. I was 13, and my interlocutor was my 18-year-old camp counselor in Vermont. She was headed for U.C. Berkeley in the fall, where she would, as she later described it, major in history and minor in rioting. Meanwhile, I was headed back to junior high school. I was already convinced that our government was lying about why we were fighting in Vietnam[...]
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Monday, August 18, 2025
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, On MAGA (Mis)Using Martin Luther King Jr. On January 20th, Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office with at least in his mind an aura of invincibility. A fully compliant Congress was controlled by Republicans who were, in turn, controlled by him. Conservative justices, three of whom he had appointed, dominated the Supreme Court. The defeated opposition, the Democratic Party, seemed distinctly befuddled and weak[...]
Monday, August 18, 2025Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, On MAGA (Mis)Using Martin Luther King Jr. On January 20th, Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office with at least in his mind an aura of invincibility. A fully compliant Congress was controlled by Republicans who were, in turn, controlled by him. Conservative justices, three of whom he had appointed, dominated the Supreme Court. The defeated opposition, the Democratic Party, seemed distinctly befuddled and weak[...]
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Thursday, August 14, 2025
Tomgram: William deBuys, The Ultimate Impact of the Destruction of USAID The totalitarian playbook that Donald Trump seems to follow lacks a chapter. Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power. Wise military and diplomatic minds understand it well. George C. Marshall, the nations top general through World War II and later secretary of state and secretary of defense, lent his name and his energies to the greatest exercise of soft power in American history[...]
Thursday, August 14, 2025Tomgram: William deBuys, The Ultimate Impact of the Destruction of USAID The totalitarian playbook that Donald Trump seems to follow lacks a chapter. Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power. Wise military and diplomatic minds understand it well. George C. Marshall, the nations top general through World War II and later secretary of state and secretary of defense, lent his name and his energies to the greatest exercise of soft power in American history[...]
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Tomgram: Eric Ross, Hiroshima Remains an Open Wound in Our Imperiled World On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, Hiroshima Day served to honor the first victims of atomic warfare and to reaffirm the enduring promise that their suffering would not be in vain, that they and the residents of Nagasaki, devastated three days later in 1945, would be the last places to endure such a fate[...]
Tuesday, August 12, 2025Tomgram: Eric Ross, Hiroshima Remains an Open Wound in Our Imperiled World On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, Hiroshima Day served to honor the first victims of atomic warfare and to reaffirm the enduring promise that their suffering would not be in vain, that they and the residents of Nagasaki, devastated three days later in 1945, would be the last places to endure such a fate[...]
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Tomgram: William Astore, Reclaiming and Restoring America As a retired U.S. Air Force officer, I firmly believe in civilian control of our military. This country should be a nation of laws -- not of special interests, oligarchs, or kings. Before committing our forces to battle, Congress should always declare war in the name of the people. Our military should indeed be a citizen-soldier force, not an isolated caste driven by a warrior ethos[...]
Tuesday, August 5, 2025Tomgram: William Astore, Reclaiming and Restoring America As a retired U.S. Air Force officer, I firmly believe in civilian control of our military. This country should be a nation of laws -- not of special interests, oligarchs, or kings. Before committing our forces to battle, Congress should always declare war in the name of the people. Our military should indeed be a citizen-soldier force, not an isolated caste driven by a warrior ethos[...]
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Monday, August 4, 2025
Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, On Creating a Cover for Genocide In July 2025, the Massachusetts legislature's Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill to make it the 38th state to follow the federal government, 45 other countries (almost all of them in the global North), and more than 50 U.S. local governments in adopting a strange definition of antisemitism[...]
Monday, August 4, 2025Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, On Creating a Cover for Genocide In July 2025, the Massachusetts legislature's Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill to make it the 38th state to follow the federal government, 45 other countries (almost all of them in the global North), and more than 50 U.S. local governments in adopting a strange definition of antisemitism[...]
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Thursday, July 31, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Trumped (Red Tie) Once upon a time, nothing in this world could have convinced me that I would be living through this moment in this America on this planet. As a start, once upon an increasingly distant time, Donald J. Trump as president of the United States would have been inconceivable. Literally beyond conception, even in some wildly dystopian satiric novel about an all-too(un)-American future[...]
Thursday, July 31, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, Trumped (Red Tie) Once upon a time, nothing in this world could have convinced me that I would be living through this moment in this America on this planet. As a start, once upon an increasingly distant time, Donald J. Trump as president of the United States would have been inconceivable. Literally beyond conception, even in some wildly dystopian satiric novel about an all-too(un)-American future[...]
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Did Mark Twain Imagine Donald Trump? Count on one thing: if Mark Twain, the famed American author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, were alive today, he would certainly have written a novel about Donald Trump. After all, his 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, distinctly caught a nineteenth-century version of our Trumpian moment, tariffs and all[...]
Tuesday, July 29, 2025Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Did Mark Twain Imagine Donald Trump? Count on one thing: if Mark Twain, the famed American author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, were alive today, he would certainly have written a novel about Donald Trump. After all, his 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, distinctly caught a nineteenth-century version of our Trumpian moment, tariffs and all[...]
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Monday, July 28, 2025
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Easy Money for the Merchants of Death When, in his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the unwarranted influence wielded by a partnership between the military and a growing cohort of U.S. weapons contractors and came up with the ominous term "military-industrial complex," he could never have imagined quite how large and powerful that complex would become[...]
Monday, July 28, 2025Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Easy Money for the Merchants of Death When, in his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the unwarranted influence wielded by a partnership between the military and a growing cohort of U.S. weapons contractors and came up with the ominous term "military-industrial complex," he could never have imagined quite how large and powerful that complex would become[...]
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Thursday, July 24, 2025
Tomgram: Juan Cole, No Kings and No Sheikhs Either The United States has focused on the Middle East since World War II, seeking its oil, gas, and other mineral resources and coveting control of its strategic waterways. The old colonial powers and the superpowers of the Cold War era most often backed dictatorial regimes there, because they were easier to control than democracies[...]
Thursday, July 24, 2025Tomgram: Juan Cole, No Kings and No Sheikhs Either The United States has focused on the Middle East since World War II, seeking its oil, gas, and other mineral resources and coveting control of its strategic waterways. The old colonial powers and the superpowers of the Cold War era most often backed dictatorial regimes there, because they were easier to control than democracies[...]
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Monday, July 21, 2025
Tomgram: Theoharis and Sandweiss-Back, Whose Country Is This Anyway? Most days, in the heart of Pennsylvania's Bible Belt, the old sanctuary at Christ Lutheran Church sits empty. Decades ago, it was home to a congregation of 3,000 people. By the late 1990s, that number had dwindled to seven. At the turn of the millennium, Jody Silliker, a young minister fresh out of seminary, was sent to shutter the downtown church, a mile from the state legislature in Harrisburg[...]
Monday, July 21, 2025Tomgram: Theoharis and Sandweiss-Back, Whose Country Is This Anyway? Most days, in the heart of Pennsylvania's Bible Belt, the old sanctuary at Christ Lutheran Church sits empty. Decades ago, it was home to a congregation of 3,000 people. By the late 1990s, that number had dwindled to seven. At the turn of the millennium, Jody Silliker, a young minister fresh out of seminary, was sent to shutter the downtown church, a mile from the state legislature in Harrisburg[...]
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Thursday, July 17, 2025
Tomgram: Eric Ross, The Atomic Nightmare, Then and Now In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an extinction-level event, with the potential to claim up to two billion lives worldwide[...]
Thursday, July 17, 2025Tomgram: Eric Ross, The Atomic Nightmare, Then and Now In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an extinction-level event, with the potential to claim up to two billion lives worldwide[...]
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Trump as a Terrorist Yes, he's done quite a job so far and, in a way, it couldn't be simpler to describe. Somehow he's managed to take the greatest looming threat to humanity and put it (excuse the all-too-appropriate image) on the back burner. I'm thinking, of course, about climate change[...]
Tuesday, July 15, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, Trump as a Terrorist Yes, he's done quite a job so far and, in a way, it couldn't be simpler to describe. Somehow he's managed to take the greatest looming threat to humanity and put it (excuse the all-too-appropriate image) on the back burner. I'm thinking, of course, about climate change[...]
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Monday, July 14, 2025
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Torture Redux I didn't want to write this article. In fact, I had something relatively uplifting planned: an Independence Day piece about the rich implications for the present moment to be found in the Declaration of Independence. But other excellent writers beat me to that one[...]
Monday, July 14, 2025Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Torture Redux I didn't want to write this article. In fact, I had something relatively uplifting planned: an Independence Day piece about the rich implications for the present moment to be found in the Declaration of Independence. But other excellent writers beat me to that one[...]
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Rootless in an Increasingly Foreign Land War kills in so many ways. These days, Americans are bombarded with images from Gaza and elsewhere of people or broken bodies being ferried on stretchers from the rubble of homes and hospitals, by rescue workers whose thin bodies and stricken faces suggest they are barely better off than those they're helping. Social media and journalists make us eyewitnesses to emaciated children too weak to cry[...]
Tuesday, July 8, 2025Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Rootless in an Increasingly Foreign Land War kills in so many ways. These days, Americans are bombarded with images from Gaza and elsewhere of people or broken bodies being ferried on stretchers from the rubble of homes and hospitals, by rescue workers whose thin bodies and stricken faces suggest they are barely better off than those they're helping. Social media and journalists make us eyewitnesses to emaciated children too weak to cry[...]
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Monday, July 7, 2025
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Checks and Balances? Dream on in the Age of Trump! "I must say," Donald Trump commented, "I wish we had an occupying force." It was June 1, 2020. The president, then in his first term in office, was having a phone call with the nation's governors to discuss the ongoing Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests taking place nationwide in response to the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis policeman[...]
Monday, July 7, 2025Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Checks and Balances? Dream on in the Age of Trump! "I must say," Donald Trump commented, "I wish we had an occupying force." It was June 1, 2020. The president, then in his first term in office, was having a phone call with the nation's governors to discuss the ongoing Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests taking place nationwide in response to the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis policeman[...]
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Thursday, July 3, 2025
Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, Airbrushing History, Today and Yesterday In early June, the Washington Post published a follow-up to earlier stories on a Trump administration plan to remove thousands of photographs from Defense Department websites because of "DEI-related content[...]"
Thursday, July 3, 2025Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, Airbrushing History, Today and Yesterday In early June, the Washington Post published a follow-up to earlier stories on a Trump administration plan to remove thousands of photographs from Defense Department websites because of "DEI-related content[...]"
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