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Here’s the strange thing: With the recent bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president and his wife, all — according to “our” president — thanks, at least in part, to that country’s remarkable oil wealth, that source of energy has indeed been back in the headlines in a big-time fashion. As Trump read more

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Rebecca Gordon arrived at TomDispatch in 2014. The very first of the 98 pieces she’s produced for this site (with today’s, of course, being her 99th) was on — sigh — torture. As she grimly put it then, “In such a frightening new world, we were assured, our survival depended in part on brave men and women willing to break precedent and torture read more

A television writer named Annie Jacobsen recently tweeted that she’d been “prophetic” when she wrote a real CIA scheme of attacking Venezuela into a fictional program, after which the U.S. government actually attacked Venezuela. Another word would be “propagandistic” — not in the sense of the direct, immediate lie, but in the sense of the long con. While there have been societies that could not imagine murder, and read more

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These days, no kids in school are ducking and covering under their desks. American magazines don’t have stories about families (with the money) read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 6, 2026

We live in a world where feeding grain that could feed 10,000 people to captive animals in order to butcher those animals and eat their dead flesh, thereby feeding 1,000 people and devastating our ecosystems, is unquestionable, where grotesque levels of consumption based on climate and environmental destruction and human exploitation are just part of living, where locking huge numbers of people in cages is deemed a positive contribution to society, read more

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I don’t know why people (including Karen Greenberg today) get so down on Donald Trump about women when he’s such a pussycat of a guy. You remember, right? When he was discussing his failed attempt to seduce a married woman (“I did try and fuck her. She was married,” he read more

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What Planet Are We On? How Did I End Up Living in Donald Trump’s Suicidal America? By Tom Engelhardt

As 2026 begins, what a strange planet we find ourselves on. The two great empires of my youth, the Soviet Union (now Russia) and my own country, are clearly experiencing some version of imperial decline, even if Vladimir Putin is acting otherwise in Ukraine (as is Donald Trump in his own strange fashion in the read more

I discussed Venezuela with Santita Jackson: