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The Ugly Origins of Trump’s “America First” Policy
People’s choice of words can be revealing. That’s certainly the case with respect to one of Donald Trump’s favorite slogans, “America First.”
In April 2016, Trump initially used the term in a campaign speech, proclaiming that “America First” would be “the major and overriding theme of my administration.” The following year, in his inaugural
Tomgram: Stan and Priti Gulati Cox, Blocking the Aid Trucks, Letting the Tanks Roll
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As I write this, more than 31,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and, as Aya Batrawy
Charlottesville City Council Refuses to Oppose Genocide for Disturbing Reasons
Monday night (video here), three of five City Council Members in Charlottesville, Virginia, voted No on a resolution (in agenda packet here) in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.
Council Members Michael Payne and Natalie Oschrin put the resolution on the agenda and spoke well in support of it.
But Council Members Lloyd Snook, Brian Pinkston, and Juandiego Wade voted No.
Snook claimed to have no competence in foreign policy, spreading what is a pernicious idea in a supposedly self-governing land, namely
Tomgram: William Astore, Cutting the Pentagon Down to Size
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It’s one of the stranger phenomena on this planet. By 2023, the U.S. was estimated to spend more money on its “defense budget” than the next 10 countries combined.
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, My “Children” Say They Won’t Vote for Biden
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Let me start with my own news. At almost 80, I’ve decided not to run for president. I know it’s a shock and, if the presidency were largely a morning or even an afternoon job, I might actually consider it. But 24 hours a day, with crises endlessly multiplying in a world truly on edge (and seemingly
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Living in a Quagmire World
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Americans have never liked to think of themselves as part of the West’s imperial history that began with the Roman empire and may now quite literally be ending, as historian and TomDispatch regular Alfred McCoy suggests, in a distinctly un-American moment. The author of a classic
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, This Can’t Be as “Good” as It Gets
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It’s not complicated. This country, as TomDispatch regular and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign Liz Theoharis makes clear today, is simply
Corporate Media Can’t Undertand Biden’s Unpopularity
A New York Times columnist on Saturday expressed bewilderment as to Biden’s unpopularity, finally concluding that it must be because borrowing money for homes or cars is expensive.
I’m not saying that’s entirely wrong, but here are some additional possibilities.
There’s the ever-worsening inequality, but also the ever-worsening healthcare system, and the ever-worsening climate collapse. In the absence of radical change, many crises will go on getting worse, and each new occupant of the White
The Soundbyte That Abolishes War
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 7, 2024
It’s been a long and ciruitous search to find the handful of words that can end all warfare on Earth.
Living in the United States I was long tripped up by the “Excuse me, but WHAT ABOUT HITLER?” question.
I tried pointing out that the U.S. and British governments refused to rescue Nazis’ victims because they simply didn’t want them as immigrants, that the war could have been avoided, that Nazism could have been avoided, that the U.S. didn’t