War Is A Crime

It’s oddly encouraging that the New York Post had to bring up its kookiest rightwing propagandist on Friday to argue that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives. It’s almost as read more

This is the August 6, 2025 show posted early.

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Your average person, school teacher, or Wikipedia editor will tell you that we’ve long known what killed the dinosaurs millions of years before humans came around: an asteroid smashing into what is now Mexico.

The reality is that many geologists and other scientists have seriously doubted that explanation since it was first proposed in 1980, and an intense debate has raged ever since, with many arguing that such an impact, or even a large number of such impacts, probably played at most a bit read more

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Bankruptcy Is Us The Personification of Decline By Tom Engelhardt

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Honestly, don’t expect this to end well. As TomDispatch regular Alfred McCoy, author of the classic book on an imperial planet To read more

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Honestly, I just never imagined it would actually hit a trillion — yes, a trillion! — dollars. I’m thinking, of course, about what’s still called the “defense” budget. It’s now read more

By David Swanson, Progressive Hub, July 26, 2025

Polluted with dangerous, human-made chemicals.

So writes Mariah Blake in the preface to her important book, They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals. The United States is the place where she writes that every child is born pre-polluted, but I think merely because she’s writing about the United States, not because it isn’t also true of everywhere else on Earth. In fact, Blake quotes Rachel Carson as having read more

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In its Big Beautiful Bill, the Trump administration is proudly cutting funds for “woke programs” ranging from the U.S. Program for International Development to the Environmental Protection read more

Is Donald Trump a strong leader? By what measure can his second term so far be deemed a success? Then there is the issue of America First. Trump hasn’t stopped foreign wars; he actually continues to fund them. And what about the Epstein files? Where is the transparency?

CrossTalking with David Swanson, Misty Winston, and Bryce Greene.