Dahr Jamail

Dahr Jamail, a TomDispatch regular, is a recipient of numerous honors, including the Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism for his work in Iraq and the Izzy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Media in 2018. He is the author, most recently, of The End of Ice (The New Press). He is also the author of Beyond the Green Zone and The Will to Resist.

2019: A Year in the Life of Our Escalating Climate Crisis

2019: A Year in the Life of Our Escalating Climate Crisis 2019: A Year in the Life of Our Escalating Climate Crisis

The climate news was not good this year—all the more reason to fight with renewed vigor in the next.

Dec 16, 2019 / Dahr Jamail

Welcome to the Era of Climate Change-Induced PTSD

Welcome to the Era of Climate Change-Induced PTSD Welcome to the Era of Climate Change-Induced PTSD

A writer reflects on the trauma of watching Alaska disappear in real time.

Dec 10, 2019 / Dahr Jamail

Margerie Glacier

Climate Disaster Is Upon Us Climate Disaster Is Upon Us

The question is no longer whether or not we are going to fail, but how are we going to comport ourselves in the era of failure?

Jan 15, 2019 / Dahr Jamail

Lituya Bay, Gulf of Alaska

Where Is America’s Next War? Alaska. Where Is America’s Next War? Alaska.

And the enemy is not who you’d expect.

Apr 10, 2017 / Dahr Jamail

Lituya Bay, Gulf of Alaska

Here Are the Navy’s Plans to Bomb the Arctic Here Are the Navy’s Plans to Bomb the Arctic

The waters of the Gulf of Alaska are some of the most pristine in the world. That will change next month.

May 21, 2015 / Dahr Jamail

The Iraq That Washington Built

The Iraq That Washington Built The Iraq That Washington Built

“Fear, arbitrary arrests, indiscriminate bombing, killing, an uncertain future—this is the new democratic Iraq.”

Jul 17, 2014 / Dahr Jamail

The Coming ‘Instant Planetary Emergency’

The Coming ‘Instant Planetary Emergency’ The Coming ‘Instant Planetary Emergency’

How will climate change affect the future of the planet? Scientists predict it will be nothing short of a nightmare.

Dec 17, 2013 / Dahr Jamail

Living With No Future: Iraq, Ten Years Later

Living With No Future: Iraq, Ten Years Later Living With No Future: Iraq, Ten Years Later

Conditions in Iraq, not surprisingly, bear little resemblance to the fantasyland touted by America’s recent presidents.

Mar 26, 2013 / Dahr Jamail

Preparing Undeployables for the Afghan Front Preparing Undeployables for the Afghan Front

Under the Ft. Hood headlines, a stressed-out Army pushes stressed-out soldiers back into the war zones.

Nov 9, 2009 / Feature / Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare

Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland

A single platoon lost in a military limbo is a measurement of the stress under which the US Army now operates.

Aug 10, 2009 / Feature / Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare

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