Author: Tom Engelhardt

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The True Catastrophe of Our Times Or How to Be Destructive Beyond Compare By Tom Engelhardt

I’ve been writing about climate change for so many years now but, in truth, it was always something I read about and took in globally. It was happening out there, often in horrific ways, but not what I felt I was living through myself. (It’s true that, in past winters, read more

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What do you do when the thief’s position is to “stop the steal“? (“We need to watch the vote. We need to guard the vote. We need to stop the steal.”) Yes, of course, I’m thinking about “our” former read more

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Hey, electric cars? It’s obvious that they’ve come into their own now that Tesla’s Elon Musk has once again been granted his (no, this is not a misprint!) $44.9 billion pay package by read more

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I still remember going to New York’s Museum of Modern Art as a kid and seeing Pablo Picasso’s famed painting Guernica — 11.5 feet tall by 25.5 read more

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In case you hadn’t noticed, we’re now distinctly on another planet. Only recently, two weeks before summer officially starts, the temperature hit 113 degrees in Phoenix, Arizona (and read more

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Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse, might the ongoing disaster in Gaza prove the boxing equivalent of a preliminary bout? Imagine that, as Israel continues to use U.S.-supplied read more

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Wow! Be impressed, very impressed!

One thing we humans certainly value is setting records. Sports, for instance, would be almost meaningless without them. And as it happens, we’re now on a record-setting streak when it comes to the weather. Globally, the month of May just came in as the Babe Ruth of all Mays, the hottest ever and that means we can now experience the full power read more

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Recently, glancing at one of my bookshelves, I noticed an old book I had been involved in creating and, almost 15 years after its publication, had basically forgotten. Back in 2010, at the moment when President Barack Obama was dispatching thousands more American troops to Afghanistan and expanding that war in a myriad of ways, Nick Turse put together a bluntly entitled volume, read more

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Strange to think that, without Daniel Ellsberg, Watergate might never have happened, Richard Nixon might have remained president, and the war in Vietnam might have taken even longer to end. So many decades later, it’s easy to forget how, in June 1971, when Ellsberg released those secret government documents that came to be known as read more

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It was truly another world.

I’m thinking of my childhood years when to “duck and cover” under our school desks, imagining that those modest structures might somehow protect us from an atomic blast, was a normal read more