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The Empire Is Going Down

He’s the man of the hour (and you can choose your hour), win, lose, or draw. I mean, who can deny it? Certainly not the crowd at his debate with...

22.10.2024 9

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Donald Trump Is the Greatest Sign of US Imperial Decline Imaginable

21.10.2024 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

A Vote for Trump Is a Vote for Hell on Earth

A Trump victory could, in every sense, put us in a lost universe, floating not just in space but in a space growing hotter by the year.

27.09.2024 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Trump Promises a Dystopia in Which Even Reality Becomes a Fiction

Our world has become mega-dystopian in so many ways it’s almost hard to fathom.

03.09.2024 40

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Candidate From Hell: Why Voting for Donald Trump Is a Suicidal Act

15.08.2024 4

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

The 2024 Election and the End of the American Century

It would be hard to get a more striking sense of just how deeply the century has aged than by watching two elderly men once again running for...

18.07.2024 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Give Us Credit: Humanity Has Discovered 2 Ways of Destroying the Earth

Nuclear war between great (or even lesser) powers could quickly produce an apocalyptic scenario, while climate change offers us that apocalypse in...

02.07.2024 8

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Can We Humans Stop Making War on a Planet This Hot?

In some sense, you could say that, 3,000 years later, we’re all still in Troy. But in this telling, we are both the soldiers behind the walls and...

05.06.2024 20

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

The Trump-Biden Rematch Is a Stunning Image of the Decline and Fall of the USA

With those two old men, one of whom is also bizarre beyond compare, wrestling each other for the presidency, this country is threatening in its own...

23.04.2024 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Another world war? We are already there

I’ve been describing this world of ours, such as it is, for almost 23 years at TomDispatch. I’ve written my way through three-and-a-half...

25.03.2024 10

Salon

Tom Engelhardt

Dead Planet Walking: From Trump's Blood Bath to War World III

If you thought what was once proudly dubbed "the American Century" couldn't get any worse, you clearly haven't been paying...

25.03.2024 7

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Planetary Cease-Fire Now!

Isn’t it strange that, after all these millennia, we humans can’t seem to truly face, no less truly deal with, who and what we are and what we...

06.03.2024 40

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

America is the last global superpower — but the ride's almost over

I was born on July 20, 1944, almost two years after Joe Biden arrived on this planet and almost a year before You Know Who, like me, landed in New...

18.02.2024 50

Salon

Tom Engelhardt

The US: No Longer the Ultimate Superpower

08.02.2024 10

The Nation

Tom Engelhardt

On Turning 80 in the Age of Biden and Trump

Who would believe me decades ago if I tried to explain to them where the United States now finds itself. On the precipice of American fascism,...

06.02.2024 20

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

The Terrible Twosome of 2024: Nukes and the Climate Emergency

On the not-so-small human achievement of total annihilation. In just a few thousand years, we've learned to do it in more than one way.

04.01.2024 20

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

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