War Is A Crime

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Speak of the devil! Or do I mean give Pete Hegseth credit? Once upon a distant time, today’s secretary of defense — sorry, my mistake! Secretary of war (and more and more read more

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Hold on a minute! I’ll get to this introduction to TomDispatch regular Rebecca Gordon’s latest superb piece as soon as I take the garbage down to the basement. Oh, wait, I can’t carry a Somali (no less congressional representative Ilhan Omar!) even to the elevator read more

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How inconvenient! What in the world was the New York Times thinking about when it assigned a man, Dylan Freedman, to help reporter Katie Rogers write a piece about the aging Donald Trump read more

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Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter? A Child Today Is Being Born into the Slow-Motion Equivalent of Hiroshima and Nagasaki By Tom Engelhardt

What self-destructive creatures we turn out to be!

Can you even believe it? Only recently, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, met in Brazil for two weeks. While 194 countries were represented there, the historically greatest fossil-fuelizer on the planet, Donald Trump’s United States, was, of course, missing in action (for the read more

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Give the New York Post full credit. That paper seems to have invented the term “the Donroe Doctrine” for a front-page story it ran last January, based, of course, on that classic phrase for the historic expansion of U.S. power read more

Trump has declared his support for the Monroe Doctrine in a document called “National Security Strategy of the United States of America – November 2025,” and labeled that expression of support his “corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine. This amounts basically to slapping the Trump name on what has long been understood as the (Theodore) Roosevelt Corollary of the Monroe read more

Lately I’ve been on shows with other guests who’ve expressed outrage and amazement that the U.S. government would blow up people on boats, exclaiming that they never could have imagined such a thing until this moment. A U.S. senator has said he finds video of one particular missile-murder the most disturbing thing he’s ever seen.

A couple of months into these boat killings, could anyone have imagined that corporate media outlets and Congress Members and boatloads of lawyers would read more

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It’s strange. I take long walks to keep this 81-year-old body of mine in some kind of half-decent shape, and the truth is that you simply can’t walk for long in my neighborhood of New York City without passing some poor soul wrapped in a blanket, sleeping on the street or huddled in a doorway with seemingly nothing more to his — and yes, they usually are men — name read more