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A Government of Trump, by Trump, and for Trump
https://theintercept.com/2026/07/09/tomdispatch-trump-america-250/
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A Government of Trump, by Trump, and for Trump
https://theintercept.com/2026/07/09/tomdispatch-trump-america-250/
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The Horrifying Lessons of 250 Years of American History
https://theintercept.com/2026/07/04/july-4-america-250-trump/
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The Horrifying Lessons of 250 Years of American History
https://theintercept.com/2026/07/04/july-4-america-250-trump/
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Tom Engelhardt has spent decades at TomDispatch documenting the absurdities and delusions behind America’s foreign policy since 9/11. Now he’s stepping down and took a moment to honor the writers who helped shape the website:
"I only wish I could still thank Mike Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Eduardo Galeano, Todd Gitlin, Chalmers Johnson, David Rosner, Jonathan Schell, and Howard Zinn, who are now gone from this world of ours, not to speak of so many TD authors (far too many to name) who are still deeply alive and kicking on this all-too-strange Trumpian planet and many of whom, I hope, will continue to write for this site under Nick Turse."
#TomDispatch
https://tomdispatch.com/once-upon-a-time-and-not-any-time-either/ -
Tom Engelhardt has spent decades at TomDispatch documenting the absurdities and delusions behind America’s foreign policy since 9/11. Now he’s stepping down and took a moment to honor the writers who helped shape the website:
"I only wish I could still thank Mike Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Eduardo Galeano, Todd Gitlin, Chalmers Johnson, David Rosner, Jonathan Schell, and Howard Zinn, who are now gone from this world of ours, not to speak of so many TD authors (far too many to name) who are still deeply alive and kicking on this all-too-strange Trumpian planet and many of whom, I hope, will continue to write for this site under Nick Turse."
#TomDispatch
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Trump’s war: the kind of military misadventure that ends empires. #Block1 #CommonDreams #DonaldTrump #HormuzBlockades #IranWar #Opinion #SuezCanalCrisis #TomDispatch
https://iwpost.com/trumps-war-the-kind-of-military-misadventure-that-ends-empires/?fsp_sid=8978 -
.> The #MediterraneanSea is experiencing its hottest temperatures on record, more than 9F hotter than average in some places. Off the coast of #Newfoundland, waters are as much as 18F above normal. South of #Miami, waters reached 101F (38.3C). You’re supposed to find temperatures like that in a hot tub, not the ocean.
.> It’s winter right now in #SouthAmerica, but that hasn’t stopped temperatures from exceeding 100F (37.7C) in some places, a heating event a climate historian labeled “one of the extreme events the world has ever seen”.
.> In #Maui, #Hawaii, rapidly moving fires destroyed 2,700 structures in historic #Lahaina and took more than 100 lives, making it the deadliest wildfire in the US in more than a century.
#BernieSanders in #TheGuardian with this earh-spanning list of disasters makes me think of #TomDispatch articles of the last decade or two... You had to go to the site of a #NewJunkie and professional publisher to get a sensible run-down of our predicament like this... #TomEngelhardt
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The New American Oligarchy
... The origins of oligarchy lay in the late 1970s and in the unlikely figure of Jimmy Carter, a Democratic president presiding over a Congress controlled by Democrats. It was Carter’s successes and failures, they argue, that kicked off what economist Paul Krugman has labeled “the Great Divergence.”
In 1978, the Carter administration and Congress took a red pen to the tax code, slashing the top rate of the capital gains tax from 48% to 28% — an enormous boon for wealthy Americans. At the same time, the most ambitious effort in decades to reform American labor law in order to make it easer to unionize died in the Senate, despite a 61-vote Democratic supermajority.
- TomDispatch with Andy Kroll: New American Oligarchy
#Carter #JimmyCarter #PresidentCarter #PresidentJimmyCarter #Oligarchy #AndyKroll #TomDispatch -
The Pentagon: A Global Oil-Protection Service
The most significant expression of this trend has been the transformation of the U.S. military into a global oil-protection service whose primary function is the guarding of overseas energy supplies as well as their global delivery systems (pipelines, tanker ships, and supply routes). This overarching mission was first articulated by President Jimmy Carter in January 1980, when he described the oil flow from the Persian Gulf as a “vital interest” of the United States, and affirmed that this country would employ “any means necessary, including military force” to overcome an attempt by a hostile power to block that flow.
When President Carter issued this edict, quickly dubbed the Carter Doctrine, the United States did not actually possess any forces capable of performing this role in the Gulf. To fill this gap, Carter created a new entity, the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF), an ad hoc assortment of U.S-based forces designated for possible employment in the Middle East. In 1983, President Reagan transformed the RDJTF into the Central Command (Centcom), the name it bears today. Centcom exercises command authority over all U.S. combat forces deployed in the greater Persian Gulf area including Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa.
- [Michael T. Klare: Carter Doctrine, Pentagon as Oil Protection Racket](https://tomdispatch.com/klare-the-pentagon-as-an-energy-protection-racket/
#Carter #JimmyCarter #PresidentCarter #PresidentJimmyCarter #FossilFuels #USA #USAMilitary #ThePentagon #TomDispatch #MichaelTKlare #MichaelKlare #Klare #CentralCommand #PersianGulf #Iraq #Afghanistan -
This!
"Believe me, you recognize sanity when it stares you in the face; you recognize the kind of impurity that makes a decent world possible, that makes life worth the bother."
#TomDispatch, 2004
https://tomdispatch.com/ariel-dorfman-on-the-struggle-for-america-s-soul/