Tom Engelhardt launched Tomdispatch in November 2001 as an e-mail publication offering commentary and collected articles from the world press. In December 2002, it gained its name, became a project of The Nation Institute, and went online as "a regular antidote to the mainstream media." The site now features Tom Engelhardt's regular commentaries and the original work of authors ranging from Rebecca Solnit, Bill McKibben, and Mike Davis to Chalmers Johnson, Michael Klare, Adam Hochschild, Robert Lipsyte, and Elizabeth de la Vega. Nick Turse, who also writes for the site, is associate editor and research director.
Tomdispatch is intended to introduce readers to voices and perspectives from elsewhere (even when the elsewhere is here). Its mission is to connect some of the global dots regularly left unconnected by the mainstream media and to offer a clearer sense of how this imperial globe of ours actually works.
As discussed earlier today, Germany's economy is slowly but surely sinking, whether or not Mario Draghi's proposal to flood Europe in new debt is eventually…
Pity the poor petro-states. Once so wealthy from oil sales that they could finance wars, mega-projects, and domestic social peace simultaneously, some of them are…
As 2015 drew to a close, many in the global energy industry were praying that the price of oil would bounce back from the abyss,…
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Why an Oil Glut May Lead to a New World of Energy The plunge of global oil prices began in June 2014, when benchmark Brent…
November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang province, 300…
Is the Conflict in South Sudan the Opening Salvo in the Battle for a Continent? [This story was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund…
Why Fossil Fuels Can’t Solve the Problems Created by Fossil FuelsAlbert Einstein is rumored to have said that one cannot solve a problem with the…
Events in Iraq are headline news everywhere, and once again, there is no mention of the issue that underlies much of the violence: control of…
Among the big energy stories of 2013, “peak oil” -- the once-popular notion that worldwide oil production would soon reach a maximum level and begin…
I grew up planning for my future, wondering which college I would attend, what to study, and later on, where to work, which articles to…
Apocalyptic climate change is upon us. For shorthand, let’s call it a slow-motion apocalypse to distinguish it from an intergalactic attack out of the blue…
As the battle over the Keystone XL pipeline has worn on -- and it’s now well over two years old -- it’s illuminated the Obama…
What sort of fabulous new energy systems will the world possess in 2040? Which fuels will supply the bulk of our energy needs? And how…
Published with permission by Tom DispatchWhat is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species…
Published with premission by TomDispatchWe have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the conscious destruction of…