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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
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Where Is There to Run To?
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Yes, the National Guard is already in the streets of Washington, D.C., and count on one thing: that’s surely only the beginning. Donald Trump declared a “public safety emergency” there (think martial law) while announcing “a
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
AUDIO: David Swanson and Paul Haeder Discuss Peace and War
By Paul Haeder, August 23, 2025
This is a wide-ranging discussion of matters of peace and war.
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
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 BySometimes 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.
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, On Seeing the Future Too Clearly
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Sometimes it does seem as if the past were indeed the present or even the future. I’m thinking most recently of photos of the destruction of Gaza. When you look at them, you
Talk World Radio: Gerta Keller on What Really Killed the Dinosaurs
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VIDEO: David Swanson and Santita Jackson on Ukraine
I was happy to discuss Ukraine for an hour with Santita Jackson: