By Sam HusseiniJul 4, 2016
The radio host's decision to retire from his show "A Prairie Home Companion" on the Fourth of July weekend was likely calculated to extenuate his presumed ties to all things Americana, but it also highlighted his hypocrisies and contradictions. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchMay 13, 2016
It’s as if every time our representatives look into the closet marked “solutions,” the only thing they see is a hulking, over-armed soldier whom they obsessively let loose. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
By Noam Chomsky / TomDispatchMay 12, 2016
Returning to the opening question “Who rules the world?” we might also want to pose another question: “What principles and values rule the world?” Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
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By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchJan 6, 2016
As 2016 begins, terror remains the 800-pound gorilla (in reality, a marmoset) in the American room and just about the only national security issue that truly matters. So why shouldn’t I join the crowd? First, let's put Islamic State in perspective. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
By Andrew Bacevich / TomDispatchDec 3, 2015
Arguing that no alternative exists to open-ended war represents not hard-nosed realism, but the abdication of statecraft. The real problem is war itself and the conviction that only through war can America remain America. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )
By Nick Turse / TomDispatchNov 18, 2015
In the shadows of what was once called the “dark continent," a scramble has come and gone. Look hard enough and you’ll find the results of that effort: a network of bases, compounds and other sites whose sum total exceeds the number of nations on the continent. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )
By William J. Astore / TomDispatchOct 30, 2015
Overloaded with gadgets, ignorant of foreign cultures, spoiling for action, and never (individually) staying long, American troops have become the imperial equivalent of globetrotting tourists. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatchSep 30, 2015
If you look at the country that its top politicians hardly mention without defensively wielding the words “exceptional” or “indispensable,” the exceptional thing is this: As a great power, the United States still stands alone on planet earth, and Americans can exhibit all the paranoia they want in remarkable safety and security. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
By David Vine, TomDispatchSep 14, 2015
Our network of overseas bases have helped lock us inside a permanently militarized society that has made everyone on this planet less secure, damaging lives at home and abroad. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )
By Chalmers Johnson, TomDispatchAug 12, 2015
A vast network of American military bases on every continent except Antarctica actually constitutes a new form of empire not likely to be taught in any high school geography class. Without grasping the dimensions of this globe-girdling Baseworld, one can't begin to understand the size and nature of our imperial aspirations or the degree to which a new kind of militarism is undermining our constitutional order. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatchJul 22, 2015
In these decades, when we’ve gone from an American version of people’s war and national mobilization to peopleless wars and a demobilized populace, war has remained a constant, but we have not. Given that, I want to offer one small cheer, however belatedly, for my mother the caricaturist. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatchJul 2, 2015
The greatest power in history can’t build a single mile of high-speed rail? And its Congress is mired in an argument about whether funds can even be raised to keep its highways more or less pothole-free? Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
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