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The Democratic National Committee, the people who run the least popular political party in recorded U.S. polling, do not get the respect they deserve — especially when they take a bold, principled stand for a genocide, as they did on Tuesday, voting down a resolution for an arms embargo on Israel.

For one thing, a full 8 percent of Democrats in the United States support the war on Gaza, and I have yet to read a single piece of commentary addressing the remarkable job that the DNC is doing of read more

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Yes, the National Guard is already in the streets of Washington, D.C., and count on one thing: that’s surely only the beginning. Donald Trump declared a “public safety emergency” there (think martial law) while announcing “a read more

By Paul Haeder, August 23, 2025

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This is a wide-ranging discussion of matters of peace and war.

Have you read “The Case for Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide“? I don’t mind promoting it to you, since I agree with most of it (and also consider most of it to do absolutely nothing to advance any case for military intervention to stop the Gaza genocide).

The enormous problem we face is not the people who care enough and are desperate enough to make this misguided proposal. The enormous problem is the usual one: corrupt, evil, malfunctioning, and sadistic governments abetted read more

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The Ultimate Caricature Donald Trump, My Parents, and the Potential Last Act (and What an Act!) of Human History By Tom Engelhardt

Sometimes I dream — in the sense of a nightmare — about bringing my parents back to this all too strange world of ours to tell them about… yes, of course, Donald J. Trump. They died long before The Apprentice even made it onto TV early in this century, so — best guess — though they also lived in New York, they undoubtedly had never heard of him.

My mother read more

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Sometimes it does seem as if the past were indeed the present or even the future. I’m thinking most recently of photos of the destruction of Gaza. When you look at them, you read more

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When it comes to history, consider Donald Trump, the second time around, the distraction president. As a start, out of the blue he suddenly released a vast swath of documents, tens of thousands of pages, about President John F. Kennedy that, while they taught us little or nothing new about his assassination, did tell us something about how deeply and widely the Central Intelligence read more

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Hey, it’s a veritable bargain for Donald Trump! How could the businessman president (six of whose firms read more