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Honestly, who could believe it, if — that is — we weren’t actually living through it? And maybe even then?
I mean, once upon a time, Donald Trump would have been unimaginable as president (or do I mean king, emperor, or simply madman?) of the United States. Hey, you know, the guy who can
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No Kings, the Second Time Around
Or Golfing While Rome Burns
Yes, in the ever more ominously unsettled (dis-)United States of Donald J. Trump, I recently went to the “hate America” rally in New York City. Or at least that’s what Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives
Opening remarks of #NoWar2025
Good morning, afternoon, and evening. Thank you to everyone who is here and to all of the wonderful speakers and participants we are about to hear from over the next three days and to all of our staff and volunteers, especially Greta Zarro our Organizing Director, who have planned this conference. We expect over 500 registrants from at least 42 countries to hear from at least 33 speakers. We have 22 endorsers and 10 sponsors. Those sponsors include our top or War Abolisher
Kathryn Bigelow once worked with the CIA to make a movie widely criticized for dishonestly promoting torture and glorifying killing (Zero Dark Thirty). (She has also explicitly advocated for war making.) Now she has made a movie highlighting the danger of nuclear apocalypse (A House of Dynamite). I know which film I would prefer for you to see. It’s on Netflix.
Netflix has a show called The Diplomat that supports false flag attacks, destructive fossil fuel extraction, government secrecy,
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As readers of TomDispatch may remember, my mother, Irma Selz, was a professional caricaturist who drew for many of the newspapers and magazines of her time, ranging from
Trump is murdering the occupants of boats in distant waters. The problem is not that any memos his flacks may have written about it are secret, as Jameel Jaffer wrote in Thursday’s New York Times. Ever since Rosa
Early this year, legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the U.S. Senate introduced resolutions that call upon the U.S. government to lead a global effort to halt and reverse the nuclear arms race. Co-sponsored by 36 members of the House and 5 members of the Senate, H. Res. 317 and S. Res. 323 urge
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Let me quote Ari Shapiro of NPR interviewing the New Yorker‘s David Kirkpatrick, who
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He couldn’t have been blunter, could he? When President Donald Trump recently addressed the U.N. General Assembly for 15 minutes (whoops! I mean almost an hour!), he dismissed climate change as the “greatest