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Talk World Radio: Jared Olson on Honduras and the U.S.
Why Not Another Half Trillion Dollars for War?
Normally, when one develops all the symptoms of a disease, the response ought not to be exacerbating the disease, but seeking to cure it. Approaches to healthcare in the United States have gone off the rails, of course, but think about the disease of military spending.
What are some of the symptoms we’ve suffered recently? Wars, bombings, threats of wars, kidnappings of foreign presidents, arming of distant genocides, attempts to take over or control various countries, hatred, resentment, terrorism,
Tomgram: William Astore, America’s Teflon Pentagon
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At the moment I began writing this introduction, ICE agents had just shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old White man — an intensive care unit nurse, in fact — in Minneapolis. He was carrying in his hand — no, not a gun, but a phone. In a sense, Minneapolis is, for ICE, if not the U.S. military, the Afghanistan of this moment. In the Trump era, there’s no need to go thousands
Speaking Truth to Empire
Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Gloria La Riva, a socialist activist who has run for political offices multiple times on the platforms of the Workers World Party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Peace and Freedom Party.
They discuss Trump’s attack on Venezuela and its aftermath; the Cuban and Bolivarian Revolutions.
On the Road to Nuclear War
On January 27, 2026, the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight―the closest setting, since the appearance of the clock in 1946, to nuclear annihilation.
This grim appraisal has impressive evidence to support it.
The New Start Treaty, the last of the major nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties between the United States and Russia,
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Sam Theoharis, Why We Need Young Organizers Now
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How strange and deeply uncomfortable to think that, should he last, we will have (at least) three (3!) more years of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Honestly, I can barely imagine what that might mean. After all, every extra day of him — or rather him — is eye-blinkingly strange. For instance, it’s true that, while at the World Economic Forum
Talk World Radio: Mouin Rabbani on What’s Happening Now in Palestine
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Tomgram: Juan Cole, Shooting Protesters from Minneapolis to Tehran
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At almost 82, I still walk six miles a day without fail. And sometimes now, when I’m walking in my city, New York, I imagine ICE agents arriving here in the hundreds or even thousands as they have in other cities across this country to cause distinctly Trumpian chaos.
And no one should be surprised. As Amnesty International has
Democrats and Republicans–the differences are enormous
Amid widespread revulsion at the behavior of the second Trump administration and its Republican loyalists, there is a curious tendency to blame Democrats for the slide of the United States toward fascism. As one enraged commentator put it recently, “the Democrats” have “let us down day by day by day.”
But, in fact, “the Democrats”―at the grassroots and at the federal government level―have repeatedly displayed overwhelming opposition to the rightwing Republican onslaught. By
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Obituary for an Autocrat
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Reading Obituaries
And Murdering Time in the Age of Donald Trump
Having reached a certain age and long been fascinated by obituaries, I sometimes think about both Donald Trump’s and my own. At 79, he’s just slightly less than two years younger than me, though of course I wasn’t the 45th president of the United States or the 47th one either. And eight chaotic years (or