War Is A Crime

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Let me quote Ari Shapiro of NPR interviewing the New Yorker‘s David Kirkpatrick, who read more

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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 read more

I want to share a few photos of Saturday’s No Kings event in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Yes, to the critics, I share your concerns. These things are full of more U.S. flags than a Trump rally, and stacks and stacks of signs promoting patriotism, and a whole forest of signs telling people to do nothing for years and then “Vote!” — an absurdity that I don’t think you could find in any other country.

Yes, you’re right, there is no plan for escalation or disruption or strategic direct action read more

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Let me do something I seldom do and briefly predict the future in an up-close-and-personal fashion. Count on this: on November 4th, Zohran Mamdani will indeed be elected mayor of New York City. (I’ll vote for him and I have no doubt that I’ll be anything but alone.) And count on this, too: as his opponent, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, read more

Monday was Indigenous People’s Day, when much of the United States celebrates a murdering, enslaving, profiteering, imperialist Italian sailor mercenary and missionary who couldn’t tell one continent from another, wisdom from ignorance, or value from waste.

I was born and raised and have mostly lived in the eastern United States, and yet when I hear someone here refer to “how people lived several hundred years ago,” they almost always mean how people lived in Europe several read more

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We never seem to learn, do we? Certainly not when it comes to air power. After all, as Dave de Camp has reported at Antiwar.com, the Trump read more

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