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The July 21, 2023 theatrical release of the film Oppenheimer, focused on the life of a prominent American nuclear physicist, should help to remind us of how badly the development of modern weapons has played out for individuals and for all of humanity.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, American Prometheus, written by Kai Bird and the late Martin Sherwin, the film tells the story
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 7, 2023
What most excites me about Julian Aguon’s book No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is that (1) there is very little indication in the cover, the blurbs, the preface, the table of contents, etc., that it opposes war, militarism, or empire, (2) but it does, and (3) people are reading it. I’m aware that only small numbers of people read any books, but this is a short little book, and it’s clearly aimed at people who care about art,
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Yes, as TomDispatch regular and historian Steve Fraser, author of Class Matters: The Strange Career of an
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It’s reasonable to ask: What gets anyone involved in politics, American-style? What leads any of us to decide to protest anything? Today, TomDispatch regular (and my old friend) Beverly Gologorsky explores how a childhood in poverty prepared her to become “political” — to become, that is, an “activist against injustice” (as well as a superb novelist).
In comparison,
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Today’s author, TomDispatch regular Michael Gould-Wartofsky, has seen what he calls “far-right carnage” in an all too up close and personal fashion. In 2017, he
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It hardly matters whether you’re talking about the Canadian wildfires that continue to burn in an out-of-control fashion or the 120-degree temperatures in…
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the immensely destructive Ukraine War lies in the fact that it could have been averted.
The most obvious way was for the Russian government to abandon its plan for the military conquest of Ukraine.
The problem on this score, though, was that Vladimir Putin was determined to revive Russia’s “great power” status. Although his predecessors had signed the UN Charter (which prohibits the “use of
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The language should seem familiar: “I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.” That, of course, is — and in our moment in America, could
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As a teenager, I certainly watched the remarkable Cleveland Browns fullback Jim Brown run amuck on a football field and I’m sure I wasn’t happy about it, since he was doing so against “my” team, the New York Giants. But he was a great