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I began TomDispatch a century or so ago (just kidding!) in response to a piece I read in the mainstream media soon after the Bush administration launched its post-9/11 invasion of Afghanistan. The reporter — and I no longer remember who it was — pointed out that U.S. air power was starting to bomb places the Russians had turned into rubble in their Afghan War late
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It’s strange to have your past life called up out of the blue, but that’s what TomDispatch regular Kelly Denton-Borhaug did for me in her piece today. After all, she focuses in part on
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Consider it no small accomplishment. Donald Trump is now an all-(un)American institution. Even when you don’t see him in the headlines, for instance, he still has his own little niche for news at the New York Times and,
In the United States, only a very small percentage of men under 60 are military veterans.
In the United States, at least 31% of male mass shooters under 60 (which is almost all mass shooters) are military veterans.
That’s 40 out of 127 mass shooters in Mother Jones’ database whom I’ve been
Chair: Rita Payne, President Emeritus, Commonwealth Journalists Association
Speakers:
Vijay Mehta, Chair, Uniting for Peace, Author, How Not To Go To War, Board Member, GAMIP (Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace) (UK)
Medea Benjamin, Political Activist, Co-Founder of CodePink, Author, War in Ukraine (USA)
Tony Robinson, Editor, Pressenza – An International News Agency and Author, Coffee with Silo and the quest for meaning in life (UK)
Joseph Gerson, Peace
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As I was writing this introduction, the nightmare in the Middle East, the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, Israeli preparations to invade Gaza, the Biden administration’s decision to move a
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 24, 2023
I don’t recall getting to vote on sending more weapons to four wars at a time in the name of democracy, do you?
Has anybody asked you whether you agree with the media’s universal consensus that having a House Speaker who could facilitate the prolongation, escalation, and creation of numerous wars would be obviously better than not having a House Speaker?
Has a single member of the House even agreed to shut up and stop speaking during what should
In December 1934, Arthur Henderson, a leader of the British Labour Party, declared in his speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize that the immense human suffering caused by World War I “led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.”
Unfortunately, that realization did not go very far or very deep. Although, since that time, international law has been refined, nations remain far from adhering to its provisions or accepting its