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Talk World Radio: Bolivia and People Who Don’t Sit Back and Take It
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Endings and Beginnings
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From torture to wars of so many kinds, cruelty seems to have been an essential trait of American ruling groups in this century and Donald Trump has been anything but an exception. He’s
Around the World, Global Solidarity and Cooperation are Remarkably Popular
One of the curious ironies of our time is that, although many politicians spout heated nationalist rhetoric, rail against foreign nations, and belittle international cooperation, this approach to international affairs is not at all what most people want.
The climate of aggressive nationalism is clear enough. In nations around the globe, demagogues (usually of a rightwing variety) whip up xenophobia, preach superpatriotism, demand vast military buildups, and―if holding public office―often
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Raging Against the Machine
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Imagine this: as the Costs of War Project recently reported, Donald Trump’s bizarre war in Iran, in part by closing the Strait of Hormuz, has already cost every American family on average more than $300 (and those
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, To Understand Where America Is Heading, Read Sports
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Consider it strange. As a boy, I couldn’t have been more of a sports fan and the Brooklyn Dodgers were my special baseball team. (I could probably still tell you, position by position, the starting lineup of the 1956 Dodgers.) I remained a fervent fan when they left for Los Angeles and, a few years later in 1962, my first year in college, the New York Mets came to town. And
Tomgram: Jasper Craven, A Hell of a Secretary of War
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Hey, at a moment when Donald Trump has gone to war with Iran, this country has a secretary of defense — oops, my mistake! — of war who, in the past, has called for nothing
Talk World Radio: Stephen Zunes on Iran
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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