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If I were a religious man (which I’m not), I’d say that it was little short of a miracle. After all, from the spear to the crossbow, the flintlock rifle to the fighter-bomber, humanity has been known, historically, for quickly adopting and using any new weaponry created. Nuclear arms should be considered the miraculous exception. Yes, at the end of World War II, the U.S.
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Here’s a question for you: Can you rely on this country? Or have we, at least enough of us, gone stark raving mad in these last years? At the moment only 32% of Republican voters believe that election 2020 was
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As I started writing an initial draft of this introduction to TomDispatch jock culture correspondent Robert Lipsyte’s piece on this weekend’s Super Bowl, I put down the Miami Dolphins as one of the teams playing. (No, you dope, it’s the Tampa Bay Buccaneers!) This tells me everything I need to know about sports and me in 2021 and, believe me, it couldn’t be stranger.
From
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Once upon a time, the Europeans had the copyright on naming lengthy wars: the Hundred Years’ War, the Eighty
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Been There, Done That (Not!)
The Imperial Presidency Comes Home to Roost
Joe Biden’s got a problem — and so do I. And so, in fact, do we.
At 76 years old, you’d think I’d experienced it all when it comes to this country and its presidencies. Or most of it, anyway. I’ve been around since Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. Born on July 20, 1944, I’m a little “young”
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It’s ever more obvious that the forever wars the U.S. military has been fighting for almost two decades are coming home, especially in the wake of the creation of a Baghdad-style “Green Zone” in
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I’m 76 years old, so I have at least a modest feeling for what it must mean, at the age of 78, to enter the White House to preside over a disturbed, deeply divided, and unnerved country. Speaking personally, considering just my own energy levels and the information that my still-quite-functional brain regularly tosses out, I think it should be illegal for anyone to become
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Perhaps the strangest thing about America’s “forever wars” is how little obvious impact they’ve had here. A country — an imperial power, in fact, that liked to think of itself as the planet’s last or “lone” superpower — goes to war for so long (and with so little evident
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More than 19 years ago, the U.S. launched the air war that would become the ground invasion and “liberation” of Afghanistan. More than 17 years ago, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared “major combat” over in that
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In 1998, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright first referred to the U.S. as “the indispensable nation.” That, of course, was seven years after the Soviet Union had