A blog about a criminal enterprise
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.
Give the New York Post full credit. That paper seems to have invented the term “the Donroe Doctrine” for a front-page story it ran last January, based, of course, on that classic phrase for the historic expansion of U.S. power
Trump has declared his support for the Monroe Doctrine in a document called “National Security Strategy of the United States of America – November 2025,” and labeled that expression of support his “corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine. This amounts basically to slapping the Trump name on what has long been understood as the (Theodore) Roosevelt Corollary of the Monroe
Lately I’ve been on shows with other guests who’ve expressed outrage and amazement that the U.S. government would blow up people on boats, exclaiming that they never could have imagined such a thing until this moment. A U.S. senator has said he finds video of one particular missile-murder the most disturbing thing he’s ever seen.
A couple of months into these boat killings, could anyone have imagined that corporate media outlets and Congress Members and boatloads of lawyers would
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.
It’s strange. I take long walks to keep this 81-year-old body of mine in some kind of half-decent shape, and the truth is that you simply can’t walk for long in my neighborhood of New York City without passing some poor soul wrapped in a blanket, sleeping on the street or huddled in a doorway with seemingly nothing more to his — and yes, they usually are men — name
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.
Yes, once in the previous century, I actually visited the city of Hiroshima. I was an editor at Pantheon Books and had published a translation of a Japanese volume, Unforgettable Fire: Pictures Drawn by Atomic
https://www.facebook.com/100047083612208/videos/1747502965918417
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.
Yes, earlier this year, Donald Trump suggested that he might indeed run for a third term in office. “There are methods which you could do it,” he said, and when it came to considering the possibility, insisted he “was not joking.”
Trump is openly threatening war on Venezuela in blatant violation of the United Nations Charter, and has already for nearly three months been openly murdering everyone aboard numerous boats — a crime whether it’s murder or whether it’s war. The utter absence of the most basic morality from U.S. journalism is to be found in the worries over whether these murders are war, whether the possible war is approved by Congress, and whether a double-tap murder of two out of eleven people
Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor unions.
The most flagrant Trump action along these lines occurred in March 2025, when he issued an
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.
Donald Trump’s America was absent in every way imaginable. I’m thinking of this year’s crucial U.N. Climate Change Conference in Brazil that hosted dozens of world leaders to discuss the global climate and the energy crisis, but not, of course, Donald Trump (or