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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...
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Yes, I’ve written about it before (and before that, too), but it still strikes me whenever… oh, sorry, this almost 82-year-old just nodded off...
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I must admit that if, when I was 16 and John F. Kennedy won the presidency, you had tried to tell me about President (!!) Donald Trump (twice!!!), I...
What a planet! I only wish I could tell my grandfather about it. He arrived in this country, an immigrant from what’s now Ukraine, in March 1888 —...
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Let me try to tell you what an old man I really am. As a start, imagine this: I still read the New York Times every day on paper. Yes, the paper New...
The greatest military power in history hasn't managed to win a war since 1945. Doesn't that tell us something?
Historically speaking, consider it strange beyond compare. There may, in fact, be nothing like it in the imperial history of this planet. The United...
In his farewell column, Tom Engelhardt outlines how US imperialism came home in the form of Donald Trump.
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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. Now, I...
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Unlike every other TomDispatch piece, this one won’t be broken up with section titles for a simple reason. It’s all about Donald J. Trump and when...
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When he’s on full blast, Donald Trump (not so long ago the “drill, baby, drill” candidate for president) is distinctly a furnace. And he seems...
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Honestly, I can’t believe I’m in this world of ours (or do I mean His?). Yes, this very one and no other! Almost a quarter of a century after, in...
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I grew up with a vision of a possible instant apocalypse, inspired (if, under the circumstances, such a word can even be used) by the nuclear...
Once upon a time, if you had described Donald Trump’s America to me (the second time around), I would have thought you mad as Alice in...
We’re witnessing a full-scale collapse in the journalism industry at the very moment accountability is needed most. Common Dreams remains one of the...
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...
Imagine for a moment a nuclear weapon exploding over… well, you name it: Pakistan, India or, for that matter, Ukraine, Russia, or the United...
Yes, he’s done quite a job so far and, in a way, it couldn’t be simpler to describe. Somehow, he’s managed to take the greatest looming threat...
I remember the phrase from my boyhood, listening to baseball games on the old wooden radio by my bed. A major hitter would be up and — bang! —...
Yes, give us human beings credit. In our relatively brief history, it’s no small thing to have come up with two different ways of thoroughly...
Donald Trump is not only President Bankrupt, but President Decline
From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by...