Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Making Alphabet Soup in Washington

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Oh, for the good old days of an earlier age of impeachment! Tell me honestly, wouldn’t you like to return to the moment when our worst language crisis was parsing what “is is”? If you remember, in his classic explanation of the slippery issue of tense and intent, President read more

Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, The Opioid Crisis in Perspective

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As a website, TomDispatch has long focused on one great twenty-first-century American addiction: our endless wars. Eighteen years after the 9/11 attacks, from Afghanistan to Syria, Yemen to Somalia, those conflicts only continue. In the process, ever more people die or are displaced; the world becomes more unsettled; read more

Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Inauspicious Futures in the U.S. Army

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What a strange world we’re in! Imagine that only recently Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of the remaining 1,000 U.S. military personnel from Syria (launching a bloodbath in Kurdish-controlled areas on its northern border in the process). He was, if you remember, bringing read more

Tomgram: Nick Turse, Bases, Bases, Everywhere, and Not a Base in Sight

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In January 2004, Chalmers Johnson wrote this about what he called America’s “empire of bases” or its “Baseworld”:

“As distinct from other peoples, most Americans do not recognize — or do not want to recognize — that the United States dominates the world through its military power. Due to government secrecy, our citizens are often ignorant of the fact read more

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Why Those “Endless Wars” Must Never End

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Here’s the strange thing for the self-proclaimed greatest power in history, the very one that, in this century, has been fighting a series of unending wars across significant parts of the planet: if you exclude Operation Urgent Fury, the triumphant invasion of the island Grenada in 1983, and read more