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If We Had No Military Academies, Who Would Train the Sadists?
What do Donald “a whole civilization will die” Trump, Pete “kill all Muslims” Hegseth, Army Secretary who couldn’t be found on January 6 Ryan McCarthy, Trump supporters Douglas Macgregor and H.R. McMaster, former CIA Director Mike “we lied, we cheated, we stole” Pompeo and his aides Ulrich Brechbuhl and Brian Bulatao, Trump confidant David Urban, many U.S.-backed foreign dictators, private-sector mafiosi like John Gotti, and their ilk back through the ages have in common?
They were
Tomgram: Nick Turse, A Global War on Children
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Sometimes, Donald Trump just doesn’t get the credit he deserves. In so many ways, he is indeed a record-setting president. Here’s just one example, as reported by Dave DeCamp of Antiwar.com. In early May, the U.S. military bombed Somalia for the 63rd time this year, putting it on course to break last year’s record-setting 124 air attacks on that country.
I’ll bet you
The Regular Army
Trump is eager to steal a pile of government money and hand it out to people who tried to overthrow the U.S. government. In the first round of prosecutions of those people, 20% of them were in or had been in the U.S. military. And many of them were in neo-Nazi militias, which targeted veterans for recruitment precisely because they might be skillful in a coup (a concept hardly new to U.S. history). Matt Kennard, who warned about open Nazism in the
Tomgram: John Feffer, America’s Flight 93 Moment
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Hey, the news was already so good in 2025 that the Trump White House put up a “welcome to the Golden Age” post at its website, and things are so magnificent that it’s still there! It said, in part, “Under President Donald Trump’s
Talk World Radio: Abolish the Police
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Governments Love Secrecy, But the World’s Major Problems Are Not Secret
I’ve been reading Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance, and Hope. It’s a collections of things Daniel Ellsberg wrote and didn’t publish. I come to it having read what he did publish, having spoken with him about some of it, having debated him — publicly and privately — on some of it, and generally and extremely admiring what he had to offer and wishing the whole world would catch up to him. But, apart from some aspects of his personal story and
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Every Warship Launched Is a Local Disaster
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Hey, Donald Trump’s war with Iran is proving to be a genuine bargain! According to the Department of War (once upon a time the Department of Defense), it has cost us a mere $25 billion. (Or
Tomgram: Juan Cole, The Strait of Hormuz Oil Crisis of 2026 Is the Biggest Ever
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As the war in the Strait of Hormuz was going into its eighth week and a third U.S. aircraft carrier was heading into the region (part of a fleet of 19 U.S. naval vessels there and seven
Talk World Radio: Scott Langley on Abolishing the Death Penalty
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