Author: Tom Engelhardt

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Just in case you think that, since January 6, 2021, the trials and tribulations of the American democratic system have been unique or even (to use an all-American word) exceptional, think again. In a recent read more

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I continue to find it strange beyond words that the Pentagon is now in the midst of “modernizing” the American nuclear arsenal to the tune of perhaps $2 trillion in the coming read more

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In all these years, one of the good things about TomDispatch for me is that it’s so often proved a learning experience. Today is a perfect example. Longtime TomDispatch regular Ira Chernus, who last wrote for this site five-and-a-half read more

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Maybe since Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with Joe Biden in the midst of his growing document brouhaha, you noticed, at least in passing, the news read more

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Consider just one long-gone date in the world of give-peace-(not-war)-a-chance: January 27, 1973. On that day, the United States, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the South Vietnamese rebel forces signed read more

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Think of the F-35 jet fighter as the nightmare of the Pentagon budget in miniature. Manufactured by Lockheed Martin, it was to be the next F-16, a workhorse for the Air Force, the Marines, and the Navy. It’s now read more

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Imagine this scenario for a moment: a “great power” watches another major power fight a war in a nearby nation for 10 years before its army read more

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Sometimes a little history is just what the doctor ordered.

It was April 16, 1953, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, the former supreme commander of allied forces in Europe in World War II, had been president for just 12 weeks. That first great Cold War conflict, the Korean War, was still months away from ending when he read more

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In case you hadn’t noticed — and if you’re part of the Biden administration foreign-policy team, you probably haven’t — this country is in decline, globally as well as domestically, and increasingly pugnacious about it. If you want evidence of that reality (and it read more

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Originally, he was an America Firster, a phrase from the pre-World War II era deeply associated with anti-Semitism. (Yep, he arrived there years before Ye ever made it on the scene!) As an America read more