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Only recently, the Trump administration released its 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS), its look at global “security” at this very moment. As it happens, that document’s view of our planet right now was missing
On “Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated in Fresno since 1975, Dan Yaseen interviews Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego and a former president of the National Lawyers Guild. She lectures throughout the world on international human rights and U.S. foreign policy. She also provides legal and political commentary on CBS, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR and Pacifica Radio. Her articles appear on www.truthout.com
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,
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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
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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
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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
Pundits frequently remark on the warm and friendly relationship between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. In explanation, some suggest that Putin possesses compromising material on Trump. Others point to their autocratic style and their rightwing agendas.
But another factor plays a role in the Putin-Trump bromance: their embrace of great power imperialism.
For example, their aggressive policies toward Ukraine and Venezuela are remarkably similar. Putin began his takeover of Ukraine by charging
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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
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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 ByWhat 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
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