A New Cold War in Asia

Michael Klare, a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, a TomDispatch regular, and author most recently of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet, talks about the US military's expanding presence in the Pacific, and how it may lead to a new cold war in Asia.

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Thirst in the Southwest

William deBuys, an environmental activist and author most recently of A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest, talks about the politics of water in the southwestern United States.

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A Political Victory for OWS

Andy Kroll, the Washington D.C. correspondent for Mother Jones magazine and an associate editor for TomDispatch, talks about what he describes as the Occupy Wall Street movement's first political victory.

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The American Exceptionalism of My Childhood

TomDispatch founding editor Tom Engelhardt discusses his childhood in post–World War II America, and the propaganda of American exceptionalism.

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Big Change

Retired US Army Colonel and professor of History and International Relations at Boston University Andrew Bacevich discusses the changing influences in the lives of his students.





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A Poor Argument?

Frances Fox Piven, activist, educator, and author most recently of Who's Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?: The Essential Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate, talks about her book, her reaction to Occupy Wall Street, and Glenn Beck's unhealthy obsession with her work and that of her late husband Richard Cloward.

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From the Hudson to the Potomac

Lawrence Weschler discusses his latest book Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative.




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Hitting a Wall

TomDispatch founding editor Tom Engelhardt shares his reaction to the Occupy Wall Street movement and the unpredictability of popular protests.

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An Aural Occupation

This week we present a soundscape composed of clips from the protest in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, in the heart of the financial district. You will hear a range of voices and modes of expression. For the best listening experience, we recommend listening through a pair of quality headphones.

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The All-American Occupation

Historian Steve Fraser talks about the current demonstrations on Wall Street and their historical precedents.

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Allende's Words for Obama

Ariel Dorfman, Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist and human rights activist, talks about his latest book Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile, and his latest piece for TomDispatch, a poem in which Dorfman invokes the voice of former Chilean president Salvador Allende to offer words of advice to Barack Obama.

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Pacific Power or Pacific Partner?

John Feffer, the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about the US presence in the Pacific, the upcoming elections in East Asia, and what changes would have to take place for the United States to shift from a Pacific power to a pacific partner.



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What's in a Link?

Peter Van Buren, a long-time State Department employee, blogger, and author most recently of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People talks about how a link on his personal blog to a Wikileaks document led to him being interrogated by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, and might even cost him his job.




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The West and the Rest

Pepe Escobar, a correspondent for Asia Times, TomDispatch regular, and author most recently of Obama does Globalistan, shares his reflections on the state of the global economy and what future, if any, it might have in store.




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Burial Grounds

TomDispatch founding editor Tom Engelhardt joins us for our 100th TomCast episode and reflects on the origins of TomDispatch and where we are as a country 10 years after the events of September 11, 2001.

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Grace? Yeah, I know her.

Andrew Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University and author of Washinton Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, talks about the concept of cheap grace, military spectacle, and what it would mean to truly support our troops.

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Crashing the Party

Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear, among many others, and a creative writing professor at the University of California, Riverside, talks about the interaction of financial crises throughout the world, and the tenuous Chinese real estate market.

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Breaking Bread

Christian Parenti, a contributing editor at The Nation magazine, and author of Lockdown America, The Soft Cage, and The Freedom, talks about his latest book, Tropic of Chaos, and the role that climate change and the resulting crop shortages play in sparking violent conflict around the world.



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Bait Shop

Stephan Salisbury, cultural writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and author of Mohamed's Ghosts: An American Story of Love and Fear in the Homeland, speaks about the changing feelings within the general public regarding Muslim-Americans and the Islamic religion, and how that may play out in next year's election.




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War Without Humans

Barbara Ehrenreich, activist, essayist, and author of numerous books including Nickel and Dimed, Bright-sided, and Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War, talks about the history and nature of warfare, and what effect–if any–modern technology has had on the way humans conduct war.




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This Case Blows

Civil rights attorney Chase Madar discusses the case surrounding alleged Army whistleblower Bradley Manning, why and how he could be defended, and why Madar believes Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, not a prison cell.

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Coming to Our Senses

Andrew Bacevich, a retired US Army Colonel, professor of History and International Relations at Boston University, and author most recently of Washington Rules, talks about voices of dissent regarding national security policy, and how likely the US to change course.



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War Is No Longer War

Jonathan Schell, an acclaimed scholar and writer, has a conversation with TomDispatch founding editor Tom Engelhardt about Jonathan's latest TomDispatch article "Attacking Libya -- and the Dictionary: If Americans Don't Get Hurt, War Is No Longer War."

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Double Down

Karen Greenberg, director of the NYU Center on Law and Security and author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First One Hundred Days, talks about the so-called war on terror—now going on ten years—and the legal and policy implications that have accompanied it.




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Ward v. Ford

Chip Ward, a grassroots organizer and activist and author of Canaries on the Rim and Hope's Horizon talks about the complexities of our ecosystem and how our environment is slipping out of balance.

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Going Through Withdrawal (part 2 of 2)

Peter Van Buren, author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the War for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, shares a few of his personal experiences with private contractors in Iraq.



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Going Through Withdrawal (part 1 of 2)

Peter Van Buren, author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the War for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, talks about why the US went into—and continues to stay in—Iraq, and whether there are any success stories to take away.



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It Will Get Worse Before It Gets Worse

Michael T. Klare, a peace and world securities studies professor at Hampshire College and author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy, discusses the political and ecological consequences of an energy crisis that continues to worsen.

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Back-Asswards

Ira Chernus, a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, discusses president Obama's recent ultimatum that Israel return to its pre-1967 borders.



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We Meant Well

Peter Van Buren, author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the War for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, which comes out in September from Metropolitan Books, talks about his book and his observations on Western-style nation building.



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An Accidental Sportswriter

TomDispatch's senior Jock Culture correspondent Robert Lipsyte talks about the first time he met Muhammad Ali. The story is described in more detail in his new memoir, An Accidental Sportswriter, which is on bookshelves now.



For more, you can watch videos in which he declares Billie Jean King the most important sports figure of the 20th Century, and describes the moment he found out his father used to be a jock. You can purchase your own copy of Robert's memoir at Amazon.com, or at any quality bookstore near you.

Would You Like Jobs with That?

Andrew Kroll, a DC correspondent for Mother Jones magazine, talks about unemployment, America's barbell economy, and his recent TomDispatch article "How the McEconomy Bombed the American Worker."

Do You Want to Know a Secret?

TomDispatch founder and editor, and author of The American Way of War, Tom Engelhardt talks about the paradox of highly publicized covert warfare.



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To End All Wars

Adam Hochschild, a San Francisco-based author of seven books including 'King Leopold's Ghost,' talks about his latest book, 'To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918.'



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SubordiNations

Al McCoy, a professor of history at the University of Wisconson–Madison, and author most recently of the award-winning book 'Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines and the Rise of the Surveillance State,' talks about how empires are maintained, why the US empire is in decline, and what the consequences might be depending on how we respond to that decline.



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Myth Debunkers

Ira Chernus, a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, discusses some of the fallacies in the popular narrative regarding the State of Israel.

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Not Why, But How

Andrew Bacevich, a retired US Army Colonel and professor of History and International Relations at Boston University and author most recently of 'Washington Rules', talks about the current US involvement in Libya.

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The Beginning and the End

Andrew Kroll, a TomDispatch regular and D.C. correspondent for Mother Jones magazine, discusses his time in the halls of Wisconsin's capitol.

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War and the Words

Karen Greenberg, director of the NYU Center on Law and Security and author of 'The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First One Hundred Days,' talks about prison conditions in Guantanamo and the United States, prisoners' rights, and the significance of language in the practice of law.

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The Friendly Atom

Chip Ward, an environmental activist and author of "Canaries on the Rim" and "Hope's Horizon" discusses the long-term consequences of nuclear power.

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Don't Go There!

Tom Engelhardt, founder and editor of TomDispatch.com, tells a personal story related to his latest article on nuclear catastrophes.

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In the Moment

Rebecca Solnit, an award-winning author based in San Francisco, discusses the tragedy and the beauty that are found in moments of both revolution and disaster.

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Taking the War Out of Air War

Ralph Pochoda joins us again to read Tom Engelhardt's latest article on US aerial "warfare" and the civilians who suffer the consequences.

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The Empire's New Clothes

Yale professor David Bromwich talks about what he called in his latest TomDispatch article "the embarrassments of empire." He also discusses how President Obama's personality—measurably different from his predecessor's—affects how he responds to a crisis.

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A City (Or Two) on a Hill

James Carroll, award-winning author and columnist for The Boston Globe, talks about his new book 'Jerusalem, Jerusalem' and shares his fascinating perspective on history, war, religion and shifting perceptions of Islam.

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