Tom Engelhardt is a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The United States of Fear as well as a history of the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. He runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. His new book, Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World (Haymarket Books), has just been published.
Richard Krushnic is a former real estate loan asset manager and housing and business contract analyst at Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development. He is currently involved in community development in Latin America and can be reached at [email protected].
Jonathan Alan King is professor of molecular biology at MIT and chair of the Nuclear Abolition Committee of Massachusetts Peace Action. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Published in: Home: OpinionNature is a comfort under lockdown. But what will be left for our children?
The temporary fall in CO2 emissions due to coronavirus has been a respite for the planet – it should be a wake-up...
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Published in: HomeWatching the world burn: at the circus with Donald Trump
With every clownish gaffe, Trump strips back the façade of American imperalism, revealing in newly bumbling ways a...
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Published in: HomeMapping a world from hell: how 76 countries became embroiled in Washington’s war on terror
More than 16 years after the 'liberation' of Afghanistan, the war on terror remains a remarkably global phenomenon....
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Published in: HomeDonald Trump, unFounding Father
Keep on staring just like you’ve been doing, just like we’ve all been doing since he rode down that escalator into...
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Published in: HomeEmpire of madness: fiddling through the smoke in 2025
The year is 2025, and the war on terror rages on – as does the increasing extremity of the planet's weather.
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Published in: HomeVictory at last
In America’s wars, failure is the new success. Three generals stand alone, except for President Trump’s own family...