War Is A Crime

Candidates for the U.S. Congress usually have websites, and often those websites include some minimal platform (what they would do if elected). Sometimes there’s none at all. Sometimes there’s a great deal of substance on numerous topics. But the vast majority of Congressional candidates have no foreign policy whatsoever. They want to be given a job to oversee a discretionary budget of which some 60 percent goes to militarism, yet they make zero mention of war, peace, diplomacy, weapons sales, read more

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Once upon a time, the first thing I would have done on picking up the New York Times in the morning was turn to the sports page. And the last thing I would have done at night was watch or listen to a Mets or Knicks game as I was preparing for sleep. From the time I began going to Ebbets Field as a kid in the early 1950s to see the Brooklyn Dodgers, I was a fervent read more

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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