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Tomgram: Ariel Dorfman, Martin Luther King and the Two 9/11s 27 Aug 2013 | 05:07 pm
So much has changed since that hot day in August 1963 when Martin Luther King delivered his famous words from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial...
Best of TomDispatch: Ernest Callenbach, Last Words to an America in Decline 26 Aug 2013 | 01:19 am
As I survey my life, which is coming near its end, I want to set down a few thoughts that might be useful to those coming after. It will soon be time for me to give back to Gaia the nutrients that I h...
Best of TomDispatch: Chalmers Johnson, Dismantling the Empire 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
However ambitious President Barack Obama's domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch...
Tomgram: Barbara Garson, How to Become a Part-Time Worker Without Really Trying 20 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Watch closely: I’m about to demystify the sleight-of-hand by which good jobs were transformed into bad jobs, full-time workers with benefits into freelancers with nothing, during the dark days of the ...
Tomgram: Bill McKibben: A Movement for a New Planet 19 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality -- it’s hard to shake...
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Putting War Back in Children's Culture 15 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
Now that Darth Vader’s breathy techno-voice is a staple of our culture, it’s hard to remember how empty was the particular sector of space Star Wars blasted into...
Tomgram: Engelhardt, War Games 13 Aug 2013 | 05:33 pm
It was 1964, and in Vietnam thousands of American “advisers” were already offering up their know-how from helicopter seats or gun sights...
Tomgram: Michael Klare, How to Fry a Planet 8 Aug 2013 | 05:17 pm
Humanity is not entering a period that will be dominated by renewables. Instead, it is pioneering the third great carbon era, the Age of Unconventional Oil and Gas...
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Spying for Us 6 Aug 2013 | 05:19 pm
Hey, let’s talk spying! In Surveillance America, this land of spookery we all now inhabit, what else is there to talk about?
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, The Manning Trial Began on 9/11 4 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
Days after the verdict, with sentencing hearings in which Manning could receive 136 years of prison time ongoing, the pundits have had their say. The problem is that they missed the most chilling aspe...
