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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, the U.S. military, as TomDispatch regular Michael Klare informs us today, has had a brilliant idea — robot generals (!) — into which to sink yet more
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He was in more of a rush than you could have imagined. He was obviously far too monumental a figure to wait until he was dead. After all, he would look so damn good as the fifth face on Mt. Rushmore, where he recently gave a July 4th speech backed by fireworks and introduced by Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota. According
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Perhaps you won’t be surprised to learn that President Trump’s newest healthcare policy expert, Scott Atlas, believes that opposition to reopening America’s schools this fall is “ludicrous” and nothing but “hysteria.” Meanwhile, across this country,
Gar Alperovitz on “Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 FM in Fresno, California.
Dan Yaseen interviews Gar Alperovitz, a historian, political economist, activist, writer, and a government official. He served as Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, and is a former Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University; Harvard’s Institute of Politics; the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of critically acclaimed
Dave Lindorff
Fishs Eddy, 13774 -– Over the last 15 or so years, I’ve had two post offices vanish from towns I live in.
The first was in Maple Glen, PA, a small town we moved to when we left Hong Kong in 1997.
The town center, where the post office was located, is basically a triangle of shops, including a gas station, a car wash, a Supermarket and strip mall, and another small strip mall, as well as four banks.
For the first eight years we lived here, it was
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Forget those negotiations with China spearheaded by the man who boasted that he was the maestro of “the art of the deal.” Recently, it’s been an all-hands-on-deck assault on that country: from deploying
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[Note for TomDispatch Readers: At the moment, Americans are dying en masse from a still-spreading virus — the latest estimate: nearly 300,000 dead by December 1, 2020 — thanks significantly
By Dave Lindorff
As the first and hopefully only presidential term of Donald Trump nears its November 3 moment of truth, the accusations of fascist or even Nazi tendencies and actions by him and his administration have multiplied.
But this latest one I’m calling out is particularly horrific: The use of a powerful “for industrial use only” disinfectant called HDQ Neutral on captive immigrants at the Adelanto ICE
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Give the president, his administration, and his party credit. They’re doing their damnedest to undermine this election and elections to come: from voter suppression to selling doubt about the most basic aspects of American democracy (including voting
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History’s a joke, right? We know that from our president who creates laughable moments of history daily — as when, reading from a script recently, he pronounced America’s famed Yosemite National Park “Yo-Semite.” In that context, let me bring