"It’s estimated that, in the decades to come, more than 1,700 U.S. military installations worldwide may be impacted by sea-level rise. Future rounds of base closings, both domestic and global, should be planned now with the impact of climate change in mind."
On Seeing America’s Wars Whole: Six Questions for A.G. Sulzberger
Time magazine passed over the president as its “person of the year” to name instead the “Silence Breakers” -- the brave, outspoken women who inspired the #MeToo campaign.
Time magazine passed over the president as its “person of the year” to name instead the “Silence Breakers” -- the brave, outspoken women who inspired the #MeToo campaign.
Despite the estimated $26 billion the U.S. spent training and equipping that military between 2003 and 2011, whole units broke, shed their uniforms, ditched their American equipment, and fled when faced with relatively small numbers of ISIS militants in June 2014, abandoning four northern cities, including Mosul. This, of course, created the need for yet more training, the ostensible role of many of the U.S. troops now in Iraq.
Finishing School for Pickets By Howard Zinn (August 6, 1960) By Howard Zinn and Paula Giddings TomDispatch.com March 24, 2015 [The excerpt from a longer 1960 piece by Howard Zinn and Paula Giddings posted at TomDispatch.com are from the Nation magazine’s 150th Anniversary Special Issue on newsstands in April. They appear here with the kind permission of the editors of that magazine.] One afternoon More
if you are an American, you are statistically in less danger of dying from a terrorist attack in this country than from a toddler shooting you. And by the way, you’re 2,059 times more likely to die by your own hand with a weapon of your choosing than in a terrorist attack anywhere on Earth. You’re also more than nine times as likely to be killed by a police officer as by a terrorist.
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Escalation Follies and America's own record of terror... By Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch.com September 2, 2014 Whatever your politics, you’re not likely to feel great about America right now. After all, there’s Ferguson (the whole world was watching!), an increasingly unpopular president, a Congress whose approval ratings make the president look like a More
Don’t Walk Away from War It’s Not the American Way By Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch.com June 10, 2014 The United States has been at war -- major boots-on-the-ground conflicts and minor interventions, firefights, air strikes, drone assassination campaigns, occupations, special ops raids, proxy conflicts, and covert actions -- nearly nonstop since the Vietnam War began. That’s more More
The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Tomgram, Nick Turse: The Pentagon Makes History the First Casualty Click here to read Tom Engelhardt's introduction. By Nick Turse TomDispatch.com February 18, 2014 It’s 2053 — 20 years since you needed a computer, tablet, or smart phone to go online. At least, that’s More
And were a wedding party to be obliterated on a highway anywhere in America on the way to, say, a rehearsal dinner, whatever the cause, it would be a 24/7 tragedy. Our lives would be filled with news of it. Count on that. By Tom Engelhardt December 21, 2013 truthdig.com This piece first appeared at TomDispatch. More
The future is bigger than our imaginations. It’s unimaginable, and then it comes anyway. To meet it we need to keep going, to walk past what we can imagine. We need to be unstoppable. By Rebecca Solnit May 19, 2013 TomDispatch.com Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. Ten years ago, my part of the world was full More
