One of my favorite blogs is that of Caitlin Johnstone. Why have I never written about how great it is? I’m not sure. I am too busy to write about most things. I have invited her on my radio show and had no reply. I do know that one of my favorite things to do is also one of hers: correct the mistakes of others. I like to correct my own mistakes too, of course, but it’s not as much fun, and only seems useful to write about when my mistake is shared
Tomgram: Hartung and Gledhill, How the Arms Industry Scams the Taxpayer
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Yep, you’ve read this before, haven’t you? Once again, heat records were set over Labor Day weekend from California to Colorado as the West, in a historic megadrought, continues to burn, with fierce fires bursting out and some areas experiencing temperatures 20 degrees above the norm for this season. Yawn…
And ho-hum as well: With Covid officially more or less over,
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Digital Soldiers in an Online Forever War
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Yes, we live in an ever more frightening country. During the pandemic years, Americans went wild buying guns, nearly 20 million of them yearly
Top 10 Reasons Sweden and Finland Will Regret Joining NATO
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, September 7, 2022
Friendly advice to my brothers and sisters in Finland and Sweden.
- There are people at the Pentagon and Lockheed
Talk World Radio: Susan Wind on the Tragic Corruption of the EPA
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Tomgram: Steve Fraser, The Rogue Court, Then and Now
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Try to take this in for a moment. Only recently, as ProPublica reported, a Chicago electronics mogul gave the largest political donation in American history, $1.6 billion. (Yes, you read that right!)
What I Learned About Governments by Reading Classified Documents
Donald Trump’s illegal retention of classified U.S. government records reminded me that I have been reading these kinds of sensitive official files after their declassification―and learning from them―for decades.
The reason is that I am a scholar of international history and, in this connection, have drawn upon such material in my research. Governments keep secrets, and to understand the full story of their behavior, it is often necessary to dig into the documentary evidence.
When I first
How to Oppose Both Sides of a War
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, September 4, 2022
It’s tricky to oppose both sides of a war, and rarer even than supporting both sides. The weapons dealers support both sides.
In obedience to their televisions, people all over the world spend a great deal of time expressing the opinions dished out by those televisions regarding a particular war that is far from the worst war at the moment. It is the war that creates the greatest risk of nuclear apocalypse, but that does not typically enter
Talk World Radio: Junaid Ahmad on Regime Change in Pakistan
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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Honestly, Donald Trump?
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Living in a Sci-fi World How the American Dream Became the American Scream ByHonestly, if you had described this America to me more than half a century ago, I would have laughed in your face.
Donald Trump becoming president? You must be kidding!
If you want a bizarre image, just imagine him in the company of Abraham Lincoln. I mean, really, what’s happened to us?
Not, of course, that we haven’t had bizarre politicians in Washington before. I