TomDispatch.com

I know what Snowden’s feeling right now

When I blew the whistle on the State Department, I knew my life would never be the same. The fear was overwhelming

Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch.com Monday, Jul 1, 2013 11:36 AM UTC
Politics TomDispatch.com, NSA

Who will stop Google?

Snowden revealed what many of us already suspected: Google completely controls the web

Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch.com Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 6:45 PM UTC 37
Technology TomDispatch.com, Google

Can conservation biology save the planet’s biodiversity?

A new school of thought argues that wildlife needs land to roam -- and that preserving isolated parks isn't enough

Chip Ward, TomDispatch.com Monday, Jun 24, 2013 4:52 PM UTC
Sustain TomDispatch.com

How Snowden empowers China

New NSA revelations could give the Asian superpower bargaining leverage in future negotiations with the US

Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch.com Thursday, Jun 20, 2013 3:22 PM UTC
Politics TomDispatch.com, China

Has the US lost Africa to terrorism?

Qaddafi's overthrow has empowered a host of new militant Islamist groups in Mali and other parts of the continent

Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 2:54 PM UTC 42
Politics TomDispatch.com, Africa, Mali

5 key takeaways from the NSA scandal

In one fell swoop, Edward Snowden has laid bare the wants and desires of our surveillance state

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com Monday, Jun 17, 2013 12:48 PM UTC 12
Technology TomDispatch.com, Edward Snowden

Leaks actually improve U.S. security

Whistleblowers like Bradley Manning prevent government from waging deadly warfare based on faulty intelligence

Chase Madar, TomDispatch.com Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 3:06 PM UTC
Politics TomDispatch.com

U.S. Muslims guilty until proven innocent

Support of any kind for a group on the State Department's list is now grounds for a trial on charges of terrorism

Victoria Brittain, TomDispatch.com Monday, Jun 10, 2013 1:14 PM UTC
Politics TomDispatch.com

Millennials alone can’t save us

We've left our children a crumbling economy -- and planet. It's a burden they shouldn't shoulder by themselves

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com Thursday, Jun 6, 2013 1:22 PM UTC
Business TomDispatch.com, Barack Obama

Noam Chomsky: America is accelerating the apocalypse

Global warming and nuclear arms conflicts threaten the planet, thanks in no small part to U.S. policy failures

Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com Tuesday, Jun 4, 2013 2:16 PM UTC 93
Politics TomDispatch.com, Global Warming

I lost my virginity in a waterfront brothel

As an Ivy League student in the '50s, I longed for adventure. I found it in the National Maritime Union

Lewis Lapham Monday, Jun 3, 2013 3:32 PM UTC
Life TomDispatch.com, joseph conrad

America’s newest Cold War

Russia, China and the U.S. are all heightening regional tensions in Asia via arms deals

Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:39 PM UTC
Politics TomDispatch.com, China, Cold War

Destroying the planet for record profits

Despite reports of historically high CO2 levels, it's business as usual for companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:34 PM UTC 22
Business TomDispatch.com, Carbon Dioxide

When America became a third-world country

Public investment has been a key to U.S. prosperity for the past century. Sequestration will undo all that

Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford, TomDispatch.com Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:33 PM UTC 57
Business TomDispatch.com, Education

There’s hope for progressivism yet

Ten years after America invaded Iraq, we're finally emerging from the dark shadow cast by the neocon movement

Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch.com Monday, May 20, 2013 1:00 PM UTC 13
Politics TomDispatch.com, Barack Obama

Billionaires now own American politics

Unless Citizens United is overturned, 1-percenters will forever determine who we can elect to office

Andy Kroll, TomDispatch.com Thursday, May 16, 2013 5:47 PM UTC 35
Business TomDispatch.com

Where does all our military spending go?

As much as $385 billion is being doled out to private companies like KBR, the former subsidiary of Halliburton

David Vine, TomDispatch.com Tuesday, May 14, 2013 3:13 PM UTC
Business TomDispatch.com, Halliburton

Could Tehran be the next Hiroshima?

A new study examines the devastating consequences of a possible nuclear war between Israel and Iran

Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com Monday, May 13, 2013 1:05 PM UTC 21
Politics TomDispatch.com, Tehran

The government whistleblower who wouldn’t be silenced

Seven years after publicly blasting the TSA, a former air marshal might finally be getting his job back

Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch.com Thursday, May 9, 2013 3:11 PM UTC
Politics TomDispatch.com, TSA, FAMS

Is America the last empire?

How global warming could spell the end of the global superpower -- and the planet itself

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com Tuesday, May 7, 2013 2:50 PM UTC 29
Politics TomDispatch.com, Global Warming

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