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Politics Social Issues

The Two Phenomena Transforming the Climate Conversation

by Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch and Tom Engelhardt on Jan 27, 2020

We finally see a spark of global acknowledgement about the urgency of the crisis, thanks to Greta Thunberg and Australia's fires.

Politics Social Issues

Humanity Is Committing Collective Suicide

by Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch and Tom Engelhardt on Apr 28, 2019

Even for an old man like me, it’s a terrifying thing to watch humanity make a decision to commit self-harm on a mass scale.

Opinion Politics

The American War Machine Is Out of Control

by Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch and Tom Engelhardt on Apr 15, 2019

From Somalia to Syria, U.S. wars are off the charts. With the 2020 election around the corner, there might be yet another war on the horizon.

Opinion Politics

Solving the Border and China Problems in One Swell Foop

by Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch and Tom Engelhardt on Mar 05, 2019

We have two intractable issues, one intractable president and an intractable world, but what if that weren’t so?

Politics Social Issues

The U.S. Is Paying for What It Did to Russia in Afghanistan

by Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch and Tom Engelhardt on Jan 27, 2019

Trump is right: Russia’s Afghan misadventure is a remarkably logical place to start when considering the present U.S. debacle there.

Bio

Tom Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com, is the co-founder of the American Empire Project at Metropolitan Books. His book, "The End of Victory Culture" (University of Massachusetts Press), deals with victory culture's crash-and-burn sequel in Iraq. In June 2008, the first Tomdispatch collection, "The World According to Tomdispatch; America in the New Age of Empire" (Verso Books) was published and his newest book is "Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World." Engelhardt is a Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.