Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, Looting the Lives of the Poor Posted by Barbara Ehrenreich at 8:01am, May 17, 2012. Gordon Gekko, the infamously cutthroat capitalist and lead character in Oliver Stone‘s Wall Street, captured the heady years of the 1980s with a single, indelible line: Greed is good. Today, it is Edward Conard, a friend and [...]
at 7:42am, May 10, 2012. There has been much discussion recently about the Obama administration’s “pivot” from the Greater Middle East to Asia: the 250 Marines sent to Darwin, Australia, the littoral combat ships for Singapore, the support for Burmese “democracy,” war games in the Philippines (and a drone strikethere as well), and so on. The U.S. is definitely [...]
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Joining The Whistleblowers’ Club Posted by Peter Van Buren at 5:19pm, April 8, 2012. The world can be a luckless place, but every now and then serendipity just knocks you off a cliff. In what passed for my real life before TomDispatch intervened, I was (and remain, on a part-time basis) a [...]
Tomgram: John Feffer, Islamophobia, Obama, and the Art of Acting Muslim Posted by John Feffer at 9:24am, March 29, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: I’ll be handing you back off to Tom shortly. If you’d like to welcome him back with a donation -- which is how we keep this site afloat -- please consider [...]
Michael Klare, Why High Gas Prices Are Here to Stay Posted by Michael Klare at 8:43am, March 13, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: TD has an offer today that shouldn’t be missed. The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources, the new book of one of this site’s [...]
Noam Chomsky, Imperial Hegemony and Its Discontents Posted by Noam Chomsky at 9:16am, February 15, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Noam Chomsky’s latest TomDispatch post ends today, but TomDispatch, of course, goes on. In the coming weeks, expect new posts from Andrew Bacevich, Rebecca Solnit, Michael Klare, Nick Turse, Karen J. Greenberg, and [...]
Andrew Bacevich, Uncle Sam, Global Gangster Posted by Andrew Bacevich at 8:13am, February 19, 2012. If all goes as planned, it will be the happiest of wartimes in the U.S.A. Only the best of news, the killing of the baddest of the evildoers, will ever filter back to our world. After all, American [...]
We Can Now See the True Cost of Globalization The worldwide public realizes there is something deeply wrong with today’s world economic system Sunday Observer Editorial When Karl Marx called for the workers of the world to unite, it seems unlikely he had in mind an iPhone boycott. But suggestions for just such a campaign [...]
William Astore, Confessions of a Recovering Weapons Addict Posted by William Astore at 8:55am, January 24, 2012. The twenty-first century hasn’t exactly been America’s greatest moment. Still, there remain winners, along with all the losers you might care to mention. If, in fact, you were to sum up the [...]
Michael Klare, Energy Wars 2012 Posted by Michael Klare at 9:37am, January 10, 2012. Last week, the president made a rare appearance at the Pentagon to unveil a new strategic plan for U.S. military policy (and so spending) over the next decade. Let’s leave the specifics to a future TomDispatch post and focus instead on a historical footnote: [...]
Anthony Dickson/AFP/Getty ImagesA man wearing a mask of Steve Jobs pretending to present new iPads outside an Apple store in Hong Kong, in a protest against conditions at Foxconn factories in China where Apple products are made, May 2011 Within hours of the death of Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs, people began to show up at Apple [...]
Andy Kroll, Occupy Wall Street‘s Political Victory in Ohio Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, November 20, 2011. Twelve hours after Mayor Bloomberg’s cops evicted the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park, the space had been scrubbed down and repopulated with police and private-security types, up to 150 of them. In essence, since [...]
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Movie-Made Me Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 9:25am, November 17, 2011. [Note to TomDispatch Readers: Copies of my book, The United States of Fear, have just arrived. They will soon be winging their way toward those of you who have offered such generous support for TomDispatch by sending in $75 donations for personalized, signed [...]
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Passing of the Postwar Era Posted by Andrew Bacevich at 5:32pm, November 13, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Many thanks to those of you who sent in $75 contributions for a signed copy of my new book, The United States of Fear, or $140 for a signed two-pack, including my previous book, The [...]
Pepe Escobar, Will Asia Save Global Capitalism? Posted by Pepe Escobar at 5:33pm, September 25, 2011. Pepe Escobar, that ever-energetic, globetrotting correspondent for Asia Times, has long been on the Pipelinestan beat for TomDispatch, covering the skeletal geography of energy that girds the planet. Today, however, he leaves pipelines behind to consider the planet they service — or is it [...]
Tear Down the Freedom Tower Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 7:57am, September 8, 2011. [Note to TomDispatch Readers: The remarkable Timothy MacBain’s interview with me today marks the 100th he’s done for TomDispatch. He operates with little but his native intelligence, a great radio voice, and the most minimal of equipment. It’s a small miracle. To catch [...]
Mike Davis, The Coming Economic Disaster Posted by Mike Davis at 8:15am, July 26, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: A heartfelt thanks to all of you who, in these dog days of summer, contributed $100 or more for a personalized, signed copy of Christian Parenti’s cutting-edge new book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography [...]
Christian Parenti, Staff of Life, Bread of Death Posted by Christian Parenti at 9:55am, July 19, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: I have a special summer offer today. Christian Parenti is new to this site, but not to readers of the Nation and other magazines for his fine reporting, often from war zones. His new book, [...]
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Fog of (Robot) War Posted by Barbara Ehrenreich at 6:06pm, July 10, 2011. Last week, William Wan and Peter Finn of the Washington Post reported that at least 50 countries have now purchased or developed pilotless military drones. Recently, the Chinese had more than two dozen models in some stage of development on display at [...]
Piece by piece … Saudi Arabian women solve a jigsaw puzzle. Photograph: Jason Burke for the Guardian The Bridges bookshop and cafe, on Arafat Street in an upmarket residential area of the southern Saudi port city of Jeddah, is quiet this weekend afternoon. Three young women sit on the floor working on a 13,000-piece jigsaw. [...]
Commuters arrive by train into Waterloo Station, London. Photograph: Johnny Green/PA The government likes to recite the mantra that it “does not condone torture”, but have ministers never experienced the privatised railway system so casually and cruelly inflicted on us in the dying days of John Major’s administration? I’m not talking about the [...]
Jonathan Schell, The War on the Word “War” Posted by Jonathan Schell at 7:50am, June 21, 2011. [Absolute Last Chance for TomDispatch Readers: In 24 hours, your opportunity to get a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s bestselling To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, in return for a $100 contribution to this [...]
This is an article by Chip Ward. There are other articles by Ward on this site. They are usually very informative, althought they deal with US environmental issues, the matters discussed clearly have a planetary implication. There is a brief foreaord from Tom Engelhardt as well. Tomgram: Chip Ward, Fire’s Manifest Destiny Posted by Chip [...]
Tomgram: Michael Klare, How to Wreck a Planet 101 Posted by Michael Klare at 4:04pm, June 5, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Here’s a first for this site: Adam Hochschild’s new book,To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, now a New York Times bestseller, is also hitting other bestseller lists and getting fabulous [...]
