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Hey, here’s a question for you: What American president ever said publicly that this country was going to “bomb the shit” out of another...
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We vow—with your help—to keep fighting like hell for it.
Honestly, you couldn’t make this world up, could you? Before 2016, in what grim fantasy (or comedy) would Donald Trump ever have appeared as...
Hey, Donald Trump couldn’t have made it clearer that he wanted to go to war with Iran, could he? You would think that even he wouldn’t have been...
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There should be screaming headlines about it every day! Yes, every day! Our planet, the only one we live on (despite Elon Musk’s urge to go to...
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Talk about unjust, unfair, or just plain not right: Here I am at 82 years old with children, grandchildren, and old (and I mean old!) friends, and...
It wasn’t so very long ago that there were three great powers reasonably ascendant on planet Earth. I’m thinking, of course, about the greatest...
Yes, I’m on the fly when it comes to — or do I mean I’m a fly on the wall of? — our most recent history. I’m not sure which, but whatever...
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Trump’s latest war is wrapped up in his egocentric narcissism and his me, me, me world.
Yes, it’s happening and by “it” I distinctly mean climate change. No question about it, this planet is simply getting hotter (and hotter, and...
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Before I truly begin, let me say one thing: It’s eternally unnerving to find myself writing so often about “our” president and so facing the...
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Tom Engelhardt
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Iran, Iraq, Irate. What a world! It couldn’t be much stranger, could it? And by the way, what is it about the Middle East? Since the Gulf War of...
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A very special guest post from Tom Engelhardt.
know, I know. Recently, Donald Trump has been obsessed with water, at least the algae-green water in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that he...
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That title of mine is certainly repetitive of me (me, me), but how can you not be repetitive in the distinctly repeated world of Donald J. Trump...
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Yes, I’ve written about it before (and before that, too), but it still strikes me whenever… oh, sorry, this almost 82-year-old just nodded off...
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I must admit that if, when I was 16 and John F. Kennedy won the presidency, you had tried to tell me about President (!!) Donald Trump (twice!!!), I...
What a planet! I only wish I could tell my grandfather about it. He arrived in this country, an immigrant from what’s now Ukraine, in March 1888 —...
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Let me try to tell you what an old man I really am. As a start, imagine this: I still read the New York Times every day on paper. Yes, the paper New...
The greatest military power in history hasn't managed to win a war since 1945. Doesn't that tell us something?
Historically speaking, consider it strange beyond compare. There may, in fact, be nothing like it in the imperial history of this planet. The United...
In his farewell column, Tom Engelhardt outlines how US imperialism came home in the form of Donald Trump.
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Hey, I always suspected that Donald Trump and I, having both grown up in New York City in the 1950s and early 1960s, had something in common. Now, I...
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Unlike every other TomDispatch piece, this one won’t be broken up with section titles for a simple reason. It’s all about Donald J. Trump and when...
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When he’s on full blast, Donald Trump (not so long ago the “drill, baby, drill” candidate for president) is distinctly a furnace. And he seems...
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Honestly, I can’t believe I’m in this world of ours (or do I mean His?). Yes, this very one and no other! Almost a quarter of a century after, in...
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I grew up with a vision of a possible instant apocalypse, inspired (if, under the circumstances, such a word can even be used) by the nuclear...
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