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Significant parts of the Middle East are now in deepening chaos. In some sense (including Great Britain’s establishment with its Palestinian “mandate” of what became Israel), the Middle East was long one of the major European colonial regions on this planet, whether it was the British in the Persian Gulf, the French in Lebanon and Syria, or somewhat later the Soviet Union read more

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Head of NATO Tells European Union to Move Money from Healthcare and Retirement to War:

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Call Him Apocalyptic Don The Three Ultimates? By Tom Engelhardt

Let’s face it: Electing Donald Trump was nothing short of a suicidal act.

And that’s something we humans seem to have a genuine knack for these days. If you don’t believe me, just consider those record-setting read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 30, 2025

Remarks at the Sixth International Conference for World Balance in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 30, 2025

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Before I start I want to express sympathy for the people who have died in a plane crash in Washington, and I want to condemn Trump’s disgusting proposal to kidnap people and lock them up in Guantanamo.

I’m very happy to be in Cuba. I feel closer to Cuba than I do to people in the United States with red hats reading MAGA. Cuba is, read more

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Give Karen Greenberg credit. Back in September 2007, writing her second piece for TomDispatch, she entitled it “Guantánamo Forever.” Well, here we are, 17 years later, and that nightmare prison, first established by the administration of President George W. Bush read more

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Honestly, when I first became a book editor an eon ago, if you had told me that the pen and the typewriter would go the way of the dinosaurs and that, almost 50 years later, I would be sitting at a computer able to dispatch (yes, as in TomDispatch) things I had written or edited almost instantaneously more or less everywhere on Earth, I would have said you were delusional.

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Honestly, for at least some of us, it’s hard to imagine that Donald Trump is once again president — yes, president! — of the United States, no less that he was sworn into office the second time on — can you believe it? — Martin Luther King Jr. Day. That gives irony a bad name. Tell me it doesn’t feel like someone’s bizarre fantasy or the ad for a truly bad (or read more

By World BEYOND War, January 22, 2025

What’s wrong with military bases and what can be done about them?

The Earth is coated in military bases, spreading like a pandemic, foriegn ones, domestic ones, famous ones, secret ones,  part of a growing and disastrous global increase in spending on wars and preparations for wars that makes wars more, not less, likely. And prime targets in wars are bases and anything near them.

Bases are many of the worst environmental disaster sites, polluting air, read more