Section: AlterNet (USA)
Big Oil Is Collapsing: The Dangers of the Resulting Political Shake-Up
The longer such price levels persist, the more devastating the consequences are likely to be. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.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, restoring...
Flaunting Our Ignorance: We’re Looking at You, GOP Candidates
It’s more than good ole American anti-intellectualism — we celebrate our ignorance and wear it as a badge of pride. “When did ignorance become a point of view?” the cartoon character Dilbert once asked. It’s a question that has become increasingly resonant these days—especially in our public life, and especially in our political...
The Obama Report Card: The Good, the Bad and the Incomplete
Forget hope and change. Let’s look at the record. When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008 and 2012, he didn’t just run on hope and change. He made hundreds of promises, everything from changing the way CEOs are taxed to allowing Americans to buy prescription drugs abroad. Those and scores more didn’t happen. And he...
Seymour Hersh: Hillary’s Plans for Syria Would Create Even More Disasters
‘Getting rid of Gaddafi has proven to be a horrible event…and we seem not to have learned enough from it.’ At Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate, front-runner Hillary Clinton rejected what she called a “false choice” between defeating the Islamic State and overthrowing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad....
A Dystopian Visit to the Dark Future of Splinterland: Where Nationalism Is King, and Humanity Is Truly Suffering
The view from 2050. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.Let me start with a confession. I’m old-fashioned and I have an old-fashioned profession. I’m a geo-paleontologist. That means I dig around in archives to exhume the extinct: all the empires and...
8 Lies, Distortions and Misrepresentations From the Third GOP Debate
The debates took place in an alternate reality, where facts are made up on the spot. On Wednesday night, there were two rounds of GOP presidential debates. First, candidates polling at around one percent nationally had a shorter debate, followed by the frontrunners in a second debate. Both debates took place in an alternate reality, where facts...
Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ Is a Total Fraud
There’s been little discussion of how Trump might be influenced by the billionaire backing him: himself. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.The 2016 election campaign is certainly a billionaire’s playground when it comes to “establishment candidates” like...
Trumpocrisy: The Ultimate .00001% Candidate Casts Himself as the Everyman
There’s been little discussion of how Trump might be influenced by the billionaire backing him: himself. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.The 2016 election campaign is certainly a billionaire’s playground when it comes to “establishment candidates” like...
3 Reasons America Is Totally Paranoid Despite Being the Only Superpower on Earth
Boogiemen lurk around every corner, as do high crimes and dark conspiracies. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.Given the cluttered landscape of the last 14 years, can you even faintly remember the moment when the Berlin Wall came down, the Cold War ended in a stunned...
What People Around the World Think of America After Trump’s Bewildering Rise
‘Trump represents the America we love to hate.’ Americans are no strangers to embarrassing exports (sorry for “Grey’s Anatomy” and Papa John’s pizza, Planet Earth!). And our political nutbaggery is no exception. But when it comes to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, we may have outdone...
