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President Chaos Presiding Over Hell on Earth

President Chaos Presiding Over Hell on Earth

Donald Trump is guaranteed to make this not only the hottest planet around but a planet of billionaires living in a new golden age (both of their...

06.01.2025 4

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

[Un]Happy New Year

Honestly, as 2025 begins, isn’t it finally time to reimagine American history? So, what do you think of this: George Trump, Abraham Trump, Ulysses...

06.01.2025 4

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Going to Hell in a “Drill, Baby, Drill” Handbasket

Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn’t fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like...

04.12.2024 10

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Donald Trump's Final Spectacular Bankruptcy Will Be... All of Us

It’s a rather straightforward fact that this country is now visibly going down in a potentially big-time fashion and that, domestically speaking,...

03.12.2024 4

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Creating a Genuine Hell on Earth?

Honestly, what would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into...

14.11.2024 7

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

2084: Creating a Dystopian Hell on Earth That Even Orwell Could Not Imagine

Honestly, who would have guessed that we humans might prove capable of making1984 seem like an upbeat fantasy?

12.11.2024 6

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

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 1

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Donald Trump Is the Greatest Sign of US Imperial Decline Imaginable

Trump’s very victory in 2016 should have instantly been seen as a crucial sign of the weakening and potential collapse of this country’s position...

21.10.2024 2

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 8

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

As president, he would undoubtedly prove to be a first-class global heat machine and voting for him would be the slow-motion equivalent of putting...

15.08.2024 3

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 2

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt