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Nick Turse began covering what might be thought of as the secret history of American war in this century — the rise and spread of American Special Operations forces — for TomDispatch in 2011. That was the year when he first revealed
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When “Fake News” Was Banned
An America Trump Might Have Loved
By Adam Hochschild
Every month, it seems, brings a new act in the Trump administration’s war on the media. In January, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo exploded at
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In 2017, the news came in that three men — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett — were wealthier than the bottom half of American society or 160 million people. In fact, from 2013-2018, the number of billionaires globally
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And here’s a little story from the Neolithic age we now call “the Sixties” about that moment when the U.S. military was still a citizen’s army with a draft (even if plenty of people figured out how to get exemptions). At a large demonstration, I turned in my draft card to protest the war. Not long after, my draft board summoned me. I knew when I got there that I had
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He was horrified and angry — and who wouldn’t be? A recent Fox News — Fox News!!! — poll showed that, if the 2020 election were held tomorrow, any Democratic candidate worth mentioning would beat Donald Trump
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I know Rudy Giuliani more intimately than many Americans. I watched him for years on the local morning and nightly news, saw his rise from tough-talking United States attorney to failed mayoral
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Pardon Me?
Donald Trump is the Fakest (and Realest) News of All
By Tom Engelhardt
Here’s the truth of it: I’d like a presidential pardon. Really, I would. And I think I deserve it more than Michael Milken or Rod
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Who doesn’t remember, as a child, making that Christmas wish list for Santa and his elves? As it happens, in this century — and in the post-Christmas season, no less — a Pentagon already sporting the highest budget ever is still making such wish lists, officially known as “unfunded requirements lists,” for the orange-haired Santa in the White House and especially
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You should know that things are already not going well in your country when a majority of the Electoral College, if not of Americans, elects a con man as president, a “businessman” whose greatest success was landing on his feet, money in hand, after his five casinos went up in flames.
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Here’s a word that essentially dropped out of Washington’s dictionary in this century: peace. It used to be part of the rhetoric, at least, of politicians there, but in the era of the war on terror it’s barely made an appearance. In election year 2020, however, it’s back, not as a global phenomenon or as a general term, but very specifically connected to the more than