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No kid is under a desk anymore — and isn’t that strange when you think about it? After all, when I “ducked and covered” like
Can International Organizations Survive the Rightwing, Nationalist Onslaught?
At a time when international cooperation provides the key to preventing a variety of global calamities―including nuclear war, climate catastrophe, and massive starvation―it’s tragic that major nations, ruled by nationalist, rightwing parties, are on a collision course with the organizations that represent the international community.
Chief among these international organizations is the United Nations, with a Charter that bans
The Hague Group and How Far We Are from the Rule of Law
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Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Torture Redux
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Sometimes it seems as though nothing ever really ends in this world of ours. As I read Rebecca Gordon’s latest grim piece for TomDispatch on the return of torture in the age of Trump, the all-American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the one that, in the years of the Global War on Terror, held so many tortured prisoners offshore of American justice, popped back into
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Rootless in an Increasingly Foreign Land
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Hey, you remember that guy, right? You know, the candidate who, in his third campaign for president in 2024 insisted that he was the one who would remove this country’s “warmongers and America-last globalists” and that returning him to the White House would “turn the page forever on those foolish, stupid days of never-ending war. They never ended.”
Yes, indeed, America’s
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Checks and Balances? Dream on in the Age of Trump!
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These days, don’t you sometimes feel like you’re no longer in the world you always knew, but in a science-fiction version of it? Once upon a time, it was hard even to imagine the president of the United States employing military troops on our soil, despite the wishes of state officials. Yes, 60 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson did indeed
Greed: The Survival of a Primitive Emotion
Congressional passage of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” provides the latest evidence that human greed, despite its primitive nature, remains alive and well.
Perhaps most noticeably, the legislation provides for over $3 trillion in tax cuts that disproportionately help the wealthy and their corporations. This largesse is facilitated by slashing over $1.4 trillion in healthcare and food assistance for low-income
Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, Airbrushing History, Today and Yesterday
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Hey, if you want a curse word — or do I mean a curse acronym? — DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) should work perfectly for you in the second era of DT (and no, I don’t mean DDT!). Honestly, could we live in a stranger world? I have my doubts.
Just consider this, for instance: In April, as the Washington Post
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, The Military-Industrial Complex Is Riding High
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While Donald Trump and crew have been altering so much and changing our world in so many ways — if you doubt that, wave a Mexican flag and say goodbye to democracy — there’s one place where they