Author: Tom Engelhardt

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I began TomDispatch in November 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on my city, New York, and on Washington, D.C., and soon after, the Bush administration decided to essentially invade Afghanistan. read more

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Consider it something of a human miracle that, 80 years after the United States atomically obliterated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II, with eight other countries now possessing such weaponry (and my country and Israel read more

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Hey, the clip was “erroneously” posted at Donald Trump’s Truth Social website, right? You know, the one I mean, the 62-second video clip (to the tune of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”) read more

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Honestly, I can barely believe that I’m living through it again. After all, I began TomDispatch in the wake — a distinctly appropriate word — of an American president (George W. Bush) ordering the invasion of Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks and, remind me, how did that turn out? Now, here I am, 24 years later, with an American president — and the read more

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Once again, the “President of Peace” Donald Trump who, while running for office in 2016, read more

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Donald Trump’s urges couldn’t be stranger, more destructive, or more violent. The most recent example has, of course, been his decision to attack Iran, where, on the very first day of his attack (and Israel’s), read more

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Yes, he used the American war machine to seize Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, with a naval armada off that country’s coast and special operations forces flown into its capital to capture its leader. And once Maduro was in a prison in Brooklyn, New York, he turned his attention read more

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Count on this: a hospital ship isn’t the only thing Donald Trump wants to send to Greenland. In fact, from the Caribbean to Nigeria to Iran, he seems ever more intent on (dis)organizing the world into a Trumpian nightmare. And by the time he’s done (whatever “done” might even mean on this planet of ours at this moment), it’s not going to be pretty.

Count on this as read more

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I’ve only shot a gun once in my life. When I went to camp as a kid, there was a rifle range and, at age 12 or 13, I shot 22s at a target. And I’ve only had a gun in an apartment I lived in once. When my father, a World War II veteran, died in 1983, I spent time in the New York apartment my parents had moved to after I went off to college. I began cleaning out his closet read more

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Trumped!
The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

By Tom Engelhardt

I grew up with a vision of a possible instant apocalypse, inspired (if, under the circumstances, such a word can even be used) by the nuclear obliteration of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II. It could happen at any moment, even if you were “ read more