Tomgram: Norman Solomon, The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

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The one thing you can say about Donald Trump in his second term in office is that, whatever he may be doing at home, he’s not fighting any wars abroad, right? Well, actually, wrong! Yes, American ground troops are no longer actively fighting wars around the world, but when it comes to air power, think again. And I don’t just have in mind his brief but devastating recent read more

Democratic National Committee Deserves More Credit on Gaza

The Democratic National Committee, the people who run the least popular political party in recorded U.S. polling, do not get the respect they deserve — especially when they take a bold, principled stand for a genocide, as they did on Tuesday, voting down a resolution for an arms embargo on Israel.

For one thing, a full 8 percent of Democrats in the United States support the war on Gaza, and I have yet to read a single piece of commentary addressing the remarkable job that the DNC is doing of read more

Speaking Truth to Empire

On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews John Whitehead, an attorney and author who established The Rutherford Institute in 1982, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization. He is a frequent commentator on a variety of legal and cultural issues in the national media and writes a weekly opinion column, which is distributed nationwide. His books include, Battlefield America: The War on the American read more

The Case Against a Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide

Have you read “The Case for Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide“? I don’t mind promoting it to you, since I agree with most of it (and also consider most of it to do absolutely nothing to advance any case for military intervention to stop the Gaza genocide).

The enormous problem we face is not the people who care enough and are desperate enough to make this misguided proposal. The enormous problem is the usual one: corrupt, evil, malfunctioning, and sadistic governments abetted read more

Tomgram: Engelhardt, We’re in Trumple Deep

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The Ultimate Caricature Donald Trump, My Parents, and the Potential Last Act (and What an Act!) of Human History By

Sometimes I dream — in the sense of a nightmare — about bringing my parents back to this all too strange world of ours to tell them about… yes, of course, Donald J. Trump. They died long before The Apprentice even made it onto TV early in this century, so — best guess — though they also lived in New York, they undoubtedly had never heard of him.

My mother read more