Best of TomDispatch: Engelhardt, The Biggest Criminal Enterprise in History
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Terracide and the Terrarists
Destroying the Planet for Record Profit
By Tom Engelhardt
We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment: ecocide. But we don’t have a word for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on, the world as humanity had known it until, historically
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Pandemic Living
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After six months away with my children and grandchildren, I’m soon heading back to one of the safer places in pandemic America. I know this will sound strange, given that it once was a hub
Unique New U.S. Genre Emerges: The War-Is-Good-for-You Book
The New York Times loves the latest war-is-good-for-you book, War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan. The book fits into the growing and exclusively U.S. genre that includes Ian Morris’s War: What Is It Good For? Conflict and Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots (Morris came to the U.S. from the U.K. decades ago) and Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military.
According to Morris, the only way to make
Blockading Cuba Serves No Purpose Beyond Sadism
Me in Cuba on trip with Code Pink in 2015.
Here’s a preview of a new, 3-part mini-series:
I’ve seen the first part. It’s only 12 minutes. The series was made in Cuban by Cubans and non-Cubans working together, and executive producers are Oliver Stone and Danny Glover. It’ll be on Youtube on Friday, October 9th on the Belly of the Beast channel. The series has the unfortunate title “The War on Cuba.”
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Of course, what the U.S. government does to Cuba is
Top U.S. Enemy Was Its Ally, the U.S.S.R.
U.S. poster from 1953.
Excerpted from Leaving World War II Behind
Hitler was clearly preparing for war long before he started it. Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland, annexed Austria, and threatened Czechoslovakia. High-ranking officials in the German military and “intelligence” plotted a coup. But Hitler gained popularity with every step he took, and the lack of any sort of opposition from Britain or France surprised and demoralized the coup plotters. The British government was aware of the
Tomgram: William Astore, America’s Dark Side in the Age of Trump
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History? This is history?
I mean, in this country it is historic when this president, in one of his classically chaotic “news” conferences, refuses in advance to accept the results
What Waging War Is Really Like
The vast majority of people who experience war directly, first-hand, rather than through Hollywood movies or politicians’ speeches, are the people who live where wars are waged. In wars involving distant wealthy nations on one-side, some 95% of those killed or injured or traumatized, and 100% of those bombed out of their homes are people against whom war is waged, most of them civilians and the rest of them people doing exactly what any Hollywood movie or politician would tell them — have
The Long History of the Nazi Salute and the USA
Photo by Jack Gilroy, Great Bend, Penn., September 28, 2020.
If you do a web search for images of “Nazi salute” you find old photos from Germany and recent photos from the United States. But if you search for images of “Bellamy salute” you find countless black-and-white photographs of U.S. children and adults with their right arms raised stiffly out in front of them in what will strike most people as a Nazi salute. From the early 1890s through 1942 the United States used the Bellamy salute
Prediction: Biden is Going to Win the Nov. 3 Election
By Dave Lindorff
Fishs Eddy – I’m going to make a bold prediction based (admittedly on a small sampling): Trump has lost the support of his non-college educated white base — or at least enough of it that he’s toast in a blue-collar working-class and rural state like Pennsylvania and probably Michigan and Ohio too.
I’ll admit that I haven’t been to those latter two states in ages, but there’s not much difference between a city like Flint, Michigan