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Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, What Is Possible?
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It’s reasonable to ask: What gets anyone involved in politics, American-style? What leads any of us to decide to protest anything? Today, TomDispatch regular (and my old friend) Beverly Gologorsky explores how a childhood in poverty prepared her to become “political” — to become, that is, an “activist against injustice” (as well as a superb novelist).
In comparison,
Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, State Terror in the Age of Counterterrorism
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Today’s author, TomDispatch regular Michael Gould-Wartofsky, has seen what he calls “far-right carnage” in an all too up close and personal fashion. In 2017, he
Tomgram: Stan Cox, Every Kind of Conflict, Everywhere, All at Once?
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It hardly matters whether you’re talking about the Canadian wildfires that continue to burn in an out-of-control fashion or the 120-degree temperatures in…
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Murderous Intentions
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The language should seem familiar: “I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.” That, of course, is — and in our moment in America, could
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, RIP Jim Brown, Hero and Monster
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As a teenager, I certainly watched the remarkable Cleveland Browns fullback Jim Brown run amuck on a football field and I’m sure I wasn’t happy about it, since he was doing so against “my” team, the New York Giants. But he was a great
Tomgram: Hartung and Gledhill, Throwing More Money at the Pentagon
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Recently, a new word burst into our political world. I’m thinking, of course, of “weaponization.” In response to the charges Special Counsel Jack Smith recently lodged against Donald Trump for misusing and abusing classified documents, Republicans
Cruelty to Immigrants Is Cruelty to Children
Some books shouldn’t have to exist, but you’re glad they do. This one describes a whole field of work — using art-creation to help kids in Arizona and Southern California deal with trauma created by anti-immigrant policies and attitudes — which shouldn’t have to exist, but you’re glad it does. The book is called Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance Among Immigrant Children by Sylvia Rodriguez Vega. The author has worked with kids in school classes, helping them to create
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
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Living on a Smoke-Bomb of a Planet September 11th, Climate-Change-Style ByAs it turns out, it’s never too late. I mention that only because last week, at nearly 79, I managed to visit Mars for the first time. You know, the red planet, or rather — so it seemed to me — the orange
New Report Highlights Military Background in Mass Killers
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 14, 2023
A new report from the University of Maryland, somewhat misleadingly reported on here, draws on a database