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Tomgram: Michael Klare, Another Major War in 2024?
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Honestly, as 2021 ended, if I had predicted a Russian invasion of and unrelenting globalized war in Ukraine in 2022 and, in 2023, an explosion in the Middle East, beginning with a horrific Hamas incursion into Israel followed by the utter devastation of Gaza (while the Greater Middle East
Talk World Radio: Jeff Cohen on What’s Wrong with Corporate Media and What Kind of Media Would End All War
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Tomgram: Juan Cole, Greenwashing the Planet
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Yes, “the world” just gathered in the United Arab Emirates, a major oil producer, to decide the fate of our planet. And among those attending COP28 were at least 1,300 fossil-fuel lobbyists (three times the
Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler, This Holiday Season, We’re Lonely
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Today, TomDispatch regular Mattea Kramer and Doctor Sean Fogler offer a vivid, moving, and deeply personal look at addiction in America as 2023 ends. They focus above all on perhaps the most dangerous, even devastating, addiction around. I’m thinking, of course,
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, What Daniel Ellsberg Knew About Doomsday
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In my childhood, we at least acknowledged the ominous existence of nuclear weapons, no matter how weirdly. I’m thinking about those times we kids spent at school “ducking and covering” under our
How Can We Still Pretend to Be for Peace? Let Me Count the Ways
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 13, 2023
On December 13th the New York Times promoted 10 paths to peace in Gaza. I had been wondering where the pretense had gone. We teach our children to be
Talk World Radio: James Monroe Helps Bury the Monroe Doctrine
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Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Peace When?
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It’s now more than two months since Hamas savagely assaulted Israeli border settlements and this round of the war in Gaza began. As a matter of habit, I watch NBC Nightly News and the PBS NewsHour and, in those eight weeks, I don’t think there was a single night when both of those broadcasts didn’t start with the latest news from Israel and Gaza. Other
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Upending America?
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In her latest piece, TomDispatch regular Andrea Mazzarino peers into an ominously all(un?)-American future in which Donald Trump could emerge from his deep state of confusion to once again become president of the United States. And this time he could do so in a way that would make