Author: Tom Engelhardt

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This country is increasingly unmasked in hell. After all, the wealthiest nation on Earth has just hit one million deaths from Covid-19 (and the real number read more

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The proof is in the pudding, as they say. In this case, the pudding was very distinctly mixed up by Donald Trump with a nice little hand from read more

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Count on one thing: a Congress that can agree on next to nothing Americans might actually want or need will undoubtedly usher through with all due speed President Biden’s recent $33 billion request for arms read more

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For most Americans these days, our southern border with Mexico means just one thing: a political battlefield of the first order, Republicans versus Democrats, Us versus Them. After all, immigration — the nightmare of them invading us — has been a winner for the Trumpist Republican Party for years now. I’m sure you remember the Donald’s “ read more

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I can’t help wondering: Did Joe Biden send his secretaries of defense and state to Kyiv recently to show just how totally “into” the war in Ukraine his administration read more

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Let me offer a piece of advice to anyone whose parents are still alive: don’t wait. Think about the questions you want to ask them when it comes to themselves, their lives, their past, and then do it! Not tomorrow, not next week, but today.

I didn’t and I suspect I was pretty typical in that. Honestly, what did I care then about my parents’ lives or their past? All I wanted read more

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The United States is a war state of the strangest sort. Your taxes go to war — in this century, losing wars — in ever more extravagant amounts. There’s simply no end to it. In fact, it’s safe to say that investing yet greater sums in the military-industrial complex is about the only subject read more

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My father was in the U.S. Air Force in World War II when it was still the Army Air Corps. He was operations officer for the First Air Commandos in Burma. Years later, when I was boy, I can still remember sitting in the back seat of our car with our big black poodle, while my father drove us somewhere, read more

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A Duck-and-Cover World? Welcome to the Ukraine Moment By Tom Engelhardt

Face it, we’re living in a world that, while anything but exceptional, is increasingly the exception to every rule.  Only the other day, 93-year-old Noam Chomsky had something to say about that. Mind you, he’s seen a bit of our world since, in 1939, he wrote his first article for his elementary school newspaper on the fall of the Spanish city of Barcelona amid a “grim read more

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You could say metaphorically that the poor in America have long lived under pandemic conditions. In the last two-plus years, however, that metaphorical reality became all too literal, as indicated in a recent pandemic report read more