War Is A Crime

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After reading today’s piece by TomDispatch regular Alfred McCoy, I searched the bookshelf in my hallway where I knew I had some old cartoon and comic books from my distant past and found Ariel Dorfman’s classic read more

Associated Press reports: “‘Shockingly, our “brilliant” NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER,’ [Trump] said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social. ‘There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness.’

“‘The UK giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY, and is another read more

This was a headline in the New York Times on Tuesday: “With Threats to Greenland, Trump Sets America on the Road to Conquest: After a century of defending other countries against foreign aggression, the United States is now positioned as an imperial power trying to seize another nation’s land.” Here is a sentence from the article that followed: “Never in the past century has America gone forth to seize other countries’ land and subjugate its citizens against their will.”

Setting aside read more

Of course it would take millions of images to convey the full story of the harm done by military bases, foreign and domestic, but a key point is, I think, conveyed by the map above. The countries colored blue or purple have U.S. military bases in them. The countries colored red or purple have been threatened with war by the United States or actually attacked or invaded by the U.S. military within the past year.

The blue countries tell a story of global empire, of a nation seeking to dominate the read more

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TomDispatch regular Clarence Lusane reminds us today that, once upon a time in a distant universe, long before Venezuela and Greenland became key to the well-being of the United States, JD Vance was anything but a Trumpist. In fact, in 2016, in a read more

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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