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Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Did Mark Twain Imagine Donald Trump?
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Honestly, don’t expect this to end well. As TomDispatch regular Alfred McCoy, author of the classic book on an imperial planet To
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Easy Money for the Merchants of Death
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Honestly, I just never imagined it would actually hit a trillion — yes, a trillion! — dollars. I’m thinking, of course, about what’s still called the “defense” budget. It’s now
Every Child Is Born Pre-Polluted
By David Swanson, Progressive Hub, July 26, 2025
Polluted with dangerous, human-made chemicals.
So writes Mariah Blake in the preface to her important book, They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals. The United States is the place where she writes that every child is born pre-polluted, but I think merely because she’s writing about the United States, not because it isn’t also true of everywhere else on Earth. In fact, Blake quotes Rachel Carson as having
Tomgram: Juan Cole, No Kings and No Sheikhs Either
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In its Big Beautiful Bill, the Trump administration is proudly cutting funds for “woke programs” ranging from the U.S. Program for International Development to the Environmental Protection
CrossTalk | TACO President?
Is Donald Trump a strong leader? By what measure can his second term so far be deemed a success? Then there is the issue of America First. Trump hasn’t stopped foreign wars; he actually continues to fund them. And what about the Epstein files? Where is the transparency?
CrossTalking with David Swanson, Misty Winston, and Bryce Greene.
Tomgram: Theoharis and Sandweiss-Back, Whose Country Is This Anyway?
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Being in Donald Trump’s America — and yes, in these years, it’s all too often seemed to be his — has, in its own strange way, been a distinctly religious experience. Or so it’s seemed anyway. If you believed in him, whatever he did or planned to do, he still had your trust and vote in 2024, and whatever he now does, he can still do no wrong, not truly. If,
Tomgram: Eric Ross, The Atomic Nightmare, Then and Now
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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