An event revealing a great deal about the kind of government Americans want occurred this March, when members of the U.S. Congress voted on the American Rescue Plan. This legislation, staunchly supported by the Democrats, provided federal funding for the provision of life-saving vaccines, the re-opening of public schools, expanded benefits to the unemployed, a direct payment to millions
The biggest threat to US security is here at home: Let’s Stop Pretending Russia and China are Military Threats
By Dave Lindorff
Someone needs to say this, and it looks like it’s gotta be me: China and Russia are not our enemies.
Somehow, the opinion-makers in the media, the bloated military brass with all their ribbons and stars and with little to do but worry about how to keep their massively overbuilt operation afloat with ever more taxpayer money, and the members of Congress who like to gin up fears among the voters so they’ll keep voting for them have gotten everyone
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The History of the Present
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Assassination has not exactly been a foreign concept to American presidents. After all, there were those CIA-backed plots during the presidency of John F. Kennedy (who was himself assassinated) aimed at killing foreign leaders ranging from the Congo’s
Brazil in the World
Next only to the worst destroyers of the earth’s climate slowing their destructive activities, one of the best steps that could be taken for this planet might be for the destroyers of the Amazon rain forests to knock it off. They’re led by one of the world’s leading buffoonish fascist demagogues, who goes by the name Bolsonaro. His leading opponent in Brazilian politics is the man against whom all criminal charges were just dropped — criminal charges that were ginned up
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, What Makes a “Good Job” Good?
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Long ago, I first worked as a printer and, after that, a journalist for a small West Coast news service. In the years that followed, I’ve been a freelance editor and writer and would, for decades, be an editor at two publishing houses, Pantheon Books and
Talk World Radio: Todd Miller on the Border Industry
Talk Nation Radio has become Talk World Radio and can now be found at https://talkworldradio.org
Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm. Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.
Todd Miller is the author of the books Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (2019), Storming the Wall (2017), and Border Patrol Nation (2014). He is co-author of the recent report for the Transnational Institute “
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Will the Four Horsemen of the Media Continue to Trample Us?
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Only recently Donald Trump had his Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) moment. He promptly announced that, despite
Top 6 Reasons Not to Give Biden Any New AUMF
Feel free to find five of these reasons crazy. Any one of them should be sufficient alone.
John Mueller’s Strange Take on “The Stupidity of War”
How can you not love a book called The Stupidity of War? I’m tempted to count the ways. John Mueller’s new book is an odd one, for which I hope there is a perfect audience out there — though I’m not sure who it is.
The book is virtually free of any contemplation of how it might be wiser to settle disputes nonviolently, of any analysis of the rising power and success of nonviolent action, of any discussion of the growth and potential of international institutions and laws, of any criticism
Tomgram: William Astore, Military Cancel Culture
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Here’s the strange thing. In 2020, America was indeed invaded. Its national security was smashed to bits. Hundreds of thousands of its citizens were slaughtered on the battlefields of the conflict that followed. And yet the Pentagon and the rest