Tomgram: William Astore, Military Strength Is Our National Religion
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After almost 18 years of the war (or rather wars) on (or perhaps of) terror, there’s some good news! The Washington Post reports
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Creating a Spectacle of Slaughter at the Movies
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[Note for TomDispatch Readers: Call it a summer whim or something about this grim moment of ours, but I had an urge to post at TomDispatch my very first piece of published writing. It appeared 48 years ago in what was, at the time, one of the more obscure journals on the face of the Earth, one I helped found as a then-antiwar-China-scholar-to-be:
Video: How to End All War Discussion in Vancouver, BC
David Swanson on How to End U.S. and Canadian Wars
Talk Nation Radio: Pat Elder on Military Bases Poisoning Ground Water
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, A Comic Stands Up to Racism
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When it comes to Donald Trump’s racism — whether his now-infamous “go back” tweet, his attack on Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and the city of Baltimore,
Long After Hiroshima
Remarks August 6, 2019, at Hiroshima to Hope in Seattle, Washington
How do we honor victims? We can remember them and appreciate who they were. But there were too many of them, and too many unknown to us. So, we can remember a sample of them, examples of them. And we can honor the living survivors, get to know and appreciate them while they are still alive.
We can remember the horrific way in which those killed were victimized, in hopes of manipulating ourselves into doing something serious about
Remembering Ted Hall and Klaus Fuchs Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Spies Who Prevented a Criminal US with a Nuclear Monopoly from Making More of Them
By Dave Lindorff
Cambridge, UK, Aug. 6 — Seventy-four years ago today, the US dropped the first ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred thousand, instantly vaporizing some 70,000 people, mostly civilians, and causing the painful, slower death of another 70,000 who died of burns and radioactive damage to their bodies over the next four months. Another 60,000 died later over the years of cancers caused by the bomb’s radioactive pulse and
Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, How the Green New Deal Is Changing America
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From time to time, to see the world as it truly is, our language needs to be updated. This may prove especially true when it comes to the grim heating of our planet. Few who have lived through this summer so far — July was the warmest month in history — haven’t