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By Nick Turse, TomDispatch —
A careful examination of the security situation in Africa suggests that it is in the process of becoming Ground Zero for a veritable terror diaspora set in motion in the wake of 9/11 that has only accelerated in the Obama years. U.S. “stability” operations in Africa have increased, militancy has spread, insurgent groups have proliferated and the continent has become more unsettled.
Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
The Edward Snowden revelations about NSA spying and just how far we’ve come in the building of a surveillance state have swept over us 24/7. When a flood sweeps you away, it’s always hard to find a little dry land to survey the extent and nature of the damage. Here’s my attempt to identify five urges essential to understanding the world Snowden has helped us glimpse.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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By Victoria Brittain, TomDispatch —
A four-month hunger strike, mass force-feedings, and widespread media coverage have brought Guantanamo back into American consciousness. Still unnoticed and out of the news, however, is a comparable situation in the U.S. itself, involving a pattern of controversial terrorism trials that result in devastating prison sentences involving the harshest forms of solitary confinement.
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
On this sun-dappled afternoon, class of 2013, I want to make a suggestion. Take out your iPhone. Text a friend at a graduation ceremony elsewhere. Chat with your relatives. Amuse yourself. In the meantime, let me address a group with far less time than you, but perhaps a longer attention span at this particular moment—my own cohort.
Posted on Jun 6, 2013
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By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch —
Did Washington just give Israel the green light for a future attack on Iran via an arms deal? Did Russia just signal its further support for Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime via an arms deal? Are the Russians, the Chinese, and the Americans all heightening regional tensions in Asia via arms deals?
Posted on May 30, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group, and one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment. But we don’t have one for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on. “Terracide,” from the Latin word for earth, has the right ring, given its similarity to the commonplace danger word of our era: terrorist.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch —
If you take the long view, you’ll see how startlingly, how unexpectedly but regularly things change. Not by magic, but by the incremental effect of countless acts of courage, love and commitment, the small drops that wear away stones and carve new landscapes, and sometimes by torrents of popular will that change the world suddenly.
Posted on May 21, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
To this day, we’ve never quite taken in the moment when Soviet imperial rot unexpectedly—above all, to Washington—became imperial crash-and-burn. Left standing, the United States—the Cold War’s victor—seemed like an empire of everything under the sun. It was as if humanity had always been traveling toward this spot.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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With his new book “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield,” Jeremy Scahill brings the last decade of the American government’s clandestine war making into the clearest possible focus.
Posted on Apr 27, 2013
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By Todd Gitlin, TomDispatch —
When you think about the crisis of journalism, including the loss of advertising and the shriveled newsrooms—there were fewer newsroom employees in 2010 than in 1978, when records were first kept—also think of anesthetized watchdogs snoring on Wall Street while the Arctic ice cap melts.
Posted on Apr 25, 2013
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By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch —
Two nightmare scenarios—a global scarcity of vital resources and the onset of extreme climate change—are already beginning to converge and in the coming decades are likely to produce a tidal wave of unrest, rebellion, competition and conflict.
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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By Alexander Reed Kelly — At least three times a week, there is one place online where readers can go for the most comprehensive coverage possible of the workings of American Empire.
Posted on Apr 20, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
If you opened the American door marked “Enemy,” what would you find? As a start, scattered hundreds or, as the years have gone by, thousands of jihadis, mostly in the poorest backlands of the planet and with little ability to do anything to the United States.
Posted on Apr 16, 2013
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By Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch —
If we had a government capable of honoring the collective desire for more jobs, smaller deficits, more education funding, reduced reliance on fossil fuels and Medicare and Social Security benefits preserved, our future could be guaranteed at tax time in no time.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch —
Why take a look at the history of gay rights in the context of the climate struggle? Because the hardest part of the Keystone pipeline fight has been figuring out what to do about the Democrats.
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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By Steve Fraser, TomDispatch —
We think of the financial crisis as a man-made calamity, and Hurricane Sandy as the malignant innocence of nature. But neither the notion of a man-made nor natural disaster quite captures how the power of a few and the vulnerability of the many determine what is really going on at ground level.
Posted on Apr 4, 2013
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By Dilip Hiro, TomDisaptch —
Washington has vociferously denounced Afghan corruption as a major obstacle to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. But none of the relevant documents refer to the single most relevant fact: that the fraud and misconduct originates in Washington itself.
Posted on Apr 3, 2013
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By Ira Chernus, TomDispatch —
To broker a great peace in the Middle East, the president will have to mollify both the center-left and the right in Israel, balance Israeli and Palestinian demands, march with Netanyahu up to the edge of war with Iran, calibrate the ratcheting up of sanctions on Iran, and prevent the Syrian civil war from spilling into Israel, all while maintaining order between the left and right at home.
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
Consider the plethora of blood-soaked little anniversaries that Americans could observe, if they cared to, from a decade-plus of the former Global War on Terror.
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
Two Sundays ago, I traveled to the nation’s capital to attend what was billed as “the largest climate rally in history” and I haven’t been able to get the experience—or a question that haunted me—out of my mind. Shouldn’t hundreds of thousands have been there?
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
Last week there was a perfect drone storm of a story, only a year or so late. The most striking thing is that it should have set everyone’s teeth on edge, yet next to nobody even noticed.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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By Jon Wiener, TomDispatch —
It couldn’t be a sadder thing to admit, given what happened during the Cold War, but—given what’s happened in recent years—who can doubt that the America of the 1950s and 1960s was, in some ways, simply a better place than the one we live in now?
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
While the Obama administration is pledging to try to curb the wholesale spread of ever more powerful weaponry at home, what is it doing about the same issue abroad where it has so much more power to pursue the agenda it prefers?
Posted on Jan 15, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
Every few years, the intelligence community’s “center for long-term strategic analysis” has been intent on producing a document it calls serially Global Trends [fill in the future year]. The latest edition, out just in time for Barack Obama’s second term, is Global Trends 2030.
Posted on Jan 3, 2013
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By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch —
Torture can’t be disappeared like the body of a political prisoner, or conveniently deep-sixed simply by wishing it elsewhere or pretending it never happened or closing our bureaucratic eyes. After the fact, it can be dealt with only by staring directly into the nightmare that changed us—that, like it or not, helped make us who we now are.
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
The Invisible Government, published by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross in 1964, was groundbreaking, shadow-removing, illuminating. It caused a fuss from its very first paragraph, which was then a shockeroo: “There are two governments in the United States today. One is visible. The other is invisible.”
Posted on Dec 18, 2012
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
When Barack Obama was first elected to the White House in 2008, Tom Engelhardt penned a piercing essay warning American liberals against believing the president-elect was the change he claimed to be.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
The U.S. is now the sole planetary Top Gun in a way that empire-builders once undoubtedly fantasized about: alone and essentially uncontested. By all the usual measuring sticks, it should be supreme in a historically unprecedented way. And yet it couldn’t be more obvious that it’s not.
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
After a series of dream-come-true gaffes and blunders from Mitt Romney in recent weeks, Obama and his savvy campaign staff should really be home free, having run political circles around their Republican opponent as he was running circles around himself. There’s only one problem: the world.
Posted on Sep 25, 2012
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
When my daughter was little and I read to her regularly, one illustrated book was a favorite of ours. In a series of scenes, a frustrated young girl booms out: “that makes me mad!” For our present national security moment, however, I might amend the book’s punch line slightly.
Posted on Jul 20, 2012
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
Be assured of one thing: Whichever candidate you choose at the polls in November, you aren’t just electing a president of the United States; you are also electing an assassin-in-chief.
Posted on Jun 5, 2012
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By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch —
“Murderers, tyrants and madmen.” It’s been a tough few weeks for the forces of climate-change denial.
Posted on Jun 4, 2012
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By Nick Turse, TomDispatch —
The entire episode involves a seamless integration of robots and troops working in tandem, of next-generation drones “wired” together and operating in teams, and of autonomous drones making their own decisions. But there’s a reason you’ve never read about it in the New York Times or the Washington Post. It won’t take place for 20 years.
Posted on May 31, 2012
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
This Memorial Day, there will undoubtedly be much cant in the form of tributes to “our heroes” and then, Tuesday morning, when the mangled cars have been towed away, the barbecue grills cleaned, and the “heroes” set aside, the forgetting will continue.
Posted on May 24, 2012
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By Chris Hellman and Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch —
With major wars winding down, has Washington already cut war spending so close to the bone that further reductions would be perilous to our safety?
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By Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch —
The poor provide a juicy target for anyone depraved enough to make a business of stealing from them. The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators.
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
The CIA’s global drone assassination campaign has turned much of the rest of the planet into what can only be considered an American free-fire zone.
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By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch —
After the first few years of the Great Depression there was a sense that “we’re gonna get out of it.” It’s quite different now. For many people in the United States, there’s a pervasive sense of hopelessness, sometimes despair. I think it’s quite new in American history. And it has an objective basis.
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch —
We have a new science fiction trilogy that’s perfect for our moment: Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games,” a dystopian vision set in a North America ruled by decadent, luxurious oligarchs who sacrifice young people in an annual televised Roman-style blood contest.
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
He has few constraints. No one can stop him or countermand his orders. He has a bevy of lawyers at his beck and call to explain the “legality” of his actions. And if he cares to, he can send a robot assassin to kill you, whoever you are, no matter where you may be on planet Earth.
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By Lewis Lapham, Lapham's Quarterly —
Why does it come to pass that the more data we collect—from Google, YouTube and Facebook—the less likely we are to know what it means?
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
Take off your hat. Taps is playing. Almost four decades late, the Vietnam War and its postwar spawn, the Vietnam Syndrome, are finally heading for their American grave.
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
I was out of the country only nine days, hardly a blink in time, but time enough, as it happened, for another small, airless room to be added to the American national security labyrinth.
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By Ann Jones, TomDispatch —
Since May 2007, 76 NATO soldiers have been killed and an undisclosed number wounded in 46 recorded “deliberate attacks” by members of the Afghan National Security Force. These figures suggest more than a recent “trend of Afghan treachery.”
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
If Apple made weapons, they would undoubtedly be drones, those remotely piloted planes getting such great press in the U.S.
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By Tom Engelhardt —
The defense cuts that will change the American way of war may mean little in monetary terms, but in imperial terms they will make a difference: They will offer a direct challenge to national sovereignty.
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By Steve Fraser — On Jan. 16, Martin Luther King Day, citizens from around the country should gather at the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street. Let’s call this macabre gathering—with luck and even worse times, it should be mammoth—“We Surrender” or “Restore Debtor’s Prisons” or “De-Fault Is Ours” or “Collateralize Us.” And plan on a mirthful day of mourning.
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Christian Parenti, who writes regularly for The Nation magazine, has published a book detailing some of the present and future social impacts of climate change. In an essay on Tom Dispatch.com, he connects the rising cost of bread to the revolutionary uprisings in the Middle East and Northern Africa. (more)
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By Bill McKibben —
The president is fond of compromises, but the terms of the climate change conundrum aren’t set by contending ideologies. In the case of global warming, chemistry rules, which means there are lines, hard and fast.
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By Chalmers Johnson — None of America’s problems are likely to be tackled in a serious or successful way as long as we continue to spend our wealth on armies, weapons, wars, global garrisons, and bribes for petty dictators.
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