The American Way of War, War, War
Tom Engelhardt That title of mine is certainly repetitive of me (me, me), but how can you not be repetitive in the distinctly repeated world of Donald J. Trump (Trumped,…
The President of Peace Makes War on the Planet
Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch Hey, I always suspected that Donald Trump and I, having both grown up in New York City in the 1950s and early 1960s, had something in common.…
A World in Trumple Deep
(And We Are All His Apprentices Now) Tom Engelhardt Unlike every other TomDispatch piece, this one won’t be broken up with section titles for a simple reason. It’s all about…
Will Trump Take the Planet Down With Him?
The former “president of PEACE” has undoubtedly, even proudly, taken possession of the label: the most dangerous man on Earth. And believe me, on this planet of ours right now,…
Juan Cole, Trump and the Return of the White Man’s Burden
Intro by Tom Engelhardt, Article by Juan Cole Once again, the “President of Peace” Donald Trump who, while running for office in 2016, announced that “regime change is a proven,…
The Apocalyptic President
By Tom Engelhardt The Apocalyptic President: The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline Once upon a time, if you had described Donald Trump’s America to me (the…
Eight Decades Later, It Remains One World or None
Intro by Tom Engelhardt for TomDispatch Consider me an A-bomb baby. I was just a year old when, in the war my father had been part of, my country dropped…
Why Trump’s Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Ring Fatally Hollow
Intro by Tom Engelhardt for Tom Dispatch At almost 82, I still walk six miles a day without fail. And sometimes now, when I’m walking in my city, New York,…
Plunging Toward Armageddon: U.S. and Russia on the Brink of a New Nuclear Arms Race
From Tom Dispatch Tomgram: Michael Klare, Edging Closer to Armageddon? These days, no kids in school are ducking and covering under their desks. American magazines don’t have stories about families…
No Kings, the Second Time Around
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch Yes, in the ever more ominously unsettled (dis-)United States of Donald J. Trump, I recently went to the “hate America” rally in New York City.…
A Potentially World-Ending President
(Though Who Even Notices?)
Remembrance of Wars Past
Why There Is No Massive Antiwar Movement in America.
Making War on Planet Earth: The Enemy Is Us
Can we humans stop making war on each other or preparing for yet more of the same and begin dealing with a planet heading to hell in a proverbial handbasket?