Author: Tom Engelhardt

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Boy, Donald Trump couldn’t be more graphic in telegraphing the way he’s planning to treat detained illegal immigrants, could he?

A little background first: starting in 2002, the U.S. sent prisoners from the disastrous Global War on Terror it launched in response to the 9/11 attacks, some read more

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Yes, this January once again set a surprising global heat record (as did the read more

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Thanks to Donald Trump, North America’s tallest mountain, Alaska’s Mt. Denali, may soon become Mt. McKinley, renamed for a former president who, according to our present one, “was a natural businessman, read more

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Just recently, in an op-ed responding to his threatened 25% tariffs on Canadian goods (now postponed a month), the Toronto Star‘s editorial board labeled Donald Trump a “bully.” Indeed, there probably couldn’t be a more accurate descriptive word for him. Its concluding paragraph read this way:

“These Canadians understand what all of us must now grasp: No one has ever read more

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It couldn’t be stranger when you think about it. For better or worse, our brains have the ability to imagine ourselves somewhere we aren’t and might never be. And in whatever form, art can offer us a vision of our world, for the better or sometimes distinctly the worse, that brings it into a kind of cohesion we often don’t experience in our actual lives.

Only recently, read more

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Yes, some of us still remember that the now-famous (or do I mean infamous?) phrase “the military-industrial complex” actually came from the farewell address of former World War II read more

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All I can say is: thank heavens for Bernie Sanders. (If only he had been elected president instead of You Know Who!) Responding to Donald Trump’s recent decision to try to freeze trillions read more

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Yes, Donald Trump is distinctly focused on the border and immigration but, of course, he’s anything but focused on the issue that, more than any other in the years to come, will actually drive immigration. I’m thinking, of course, about climate change. Today, TomDispatch regular and read more

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Significant parts of the Middle East are now in deepening chaos. In some sense (including Great Britain’s establishment with its Palestinian “mandate” of what became Israel), the Middle East was long one of the major European colonial regions on this planet, whether it was the British in the Persian Gulf, the French in Lebanon and Syria, or somewhat later the Soviet Union read more

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Call Him Apocalyptic Don The Three Ultimates? By Tom Engelhardt

Let’s face it: Electing Donald Trump was nothing short of a suicidal act.

And that’s something we humans seem to have a genuine knack for these days. If you don’t believe me, just consider those record-setting read more