War Is A Crime

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

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

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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 read more

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When it comes to history, consider Donald Trump, the second time around, the distraction president. As a start, out of the blue he suddenly released a vast swath of documents, tens of thousands of pages, about President John F. Kennedy that, while they taught us little or nothing new about his assassination, did tell us something about how deeply and widely the Central Intelligence read more

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Hey, it’s a veritable bargain for Donald Trump! How could the businessman president (six of whose firms read more

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I was barely a year old when two atom bombs were used to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just before my birth, my father, then a U.S. Air Force major, had returned from fighting the Japanese in Burma. I never asked him what he felt when he heard the news of the devastation of those two cities and the war-ending moment that followed. Now, of course, I’ll read more

I hate to say I told you so. It’s obnoxious really. But sometimes it is an important point. In this case the point is this: the people who are always right about wars were right about the war in Ukraine, whereas the “experts” who are always on television and in government were, as usual, wrong.

Which of the following statements about the war with Russia comes closest to your personal views?

• Ukraine should continue fighting until it wins the war
• Ukraine should seek to negotiate an ending to the war as soon as possible

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Gallup asked read more