Author: Tom Engelhardt

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Yes, the Black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., was promptly fired as, on the very first day of the second age of Trump, was the read more

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It’s a distinctly strange — in fact, that’s far too mild a word for it — moment in these (dis-)United States of America. Donald Trump is in power (big time) and his buddy (until he’s not) Elon Musk is going wild, trying to fire government employees read more

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It’s rare for me to say that I could see it coming. Still, on Donald Trump’s decision to use the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in his mad campaign to take the very words “immigrant” and “immigration” out of the American lexicon, I must admit that I did exactly that. When TomDispatch read more

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Today, in dealing with Donald Trump’s horrific, increasingly militarized actions toward migrants in this country, TomDispatch read more

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As a boy, I can still remember going to the Donnell Library just off 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City and heading home with science fiction novels under my arm. Though in my young life I never traveled far, in my mind, thanks to those books, I was a planetary journeyman. Jules Verne took me read more

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How strange! It took our (“our”?) president to inform us, but now we know, right? Vladimir Putin never began the war in Ukraine by ordering an invasion of that country. He was just responding to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to attack Russia, or as President Trump read more

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Among so many other things, Donald Trump, whose record on religious persecution — of Muslims, of course — is anything but charming, is now openly supporting the one religious group in this country that experiences next to no persecution: Christians. read more

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Hey, it’s the MIC, right? I’m thinking, of course, about the military-industrial complex. In this century, it’s taken more taxpayer dollars than perhaps any other part of the government, with a Pentagon “budget” that’s now heading for $900 billion a year. At this moment, President Trump has read more

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Yes, Donald Trump intends to rid this country of untold hundreds of thousands (millions?) of immigrants of color, starting with the Venezuelans he’s begun dispatching to a U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, read more

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D Is for Donald (and Decline) The Big 3Ds (or Is It Four?) By Tom Engelhardt

Count on one thing: in some almost unimaginable future, no American president (if we even have them anymore) is going to rename a mountain for Donald Trump as he’s recently tried to do with North America’s read more