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Sometimes it seems as though nothing ever really ends in this world of ours. As I read Rebecca Gordon’s latest grim piece for TomDispatch on the return of torture in the age of Trump, the all-American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the one that, in the years of the Global War on Terror, held so many tortured prisoners offshore of American justice, popped back into
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Hey, you remember that guy, right? You know, the candidate who, in his third campaign for president in 2024 insisted that he was the one who would remove this country’s “warmongers and America-last globalists” and that returning him to the White House would “turn the page forever on those foolish, stupid days of never-ending war. They never ended.”
Yes, indeed, America’s
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These days, don’t you sometimes feel like you’re no longer in the world you always knew, but in a science-fiction version of it? Once upon a time, it was hard even to imagine the president of the United States employing military troops on our soil, despite the wishes of state officials. Yes, 60 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson did indeed
Congressional passage of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” provides the latest evidence that human greed, despite its primitive nature, remains alive and well.
Perhaps most noticeably, the legislation provides for over $3 trillion in tax cuts that disproportionately help the wealthy and their corporations. This largesse is facilitated by slashing over $1.4 trillion in healthcare and food assistance for low-income
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Hey, if you want a curse word — or do I mean a curse acronym? — DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) should work perfectly for you in the second era of DT (and no, I don’t mean DDT!). Honestly, could we live in a stranger world? I have my doubts.
Just consider this, for instance: In April, as the Washington Post
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While Donald Trump and crew have been altering so much and changing our world in so many ways — if you doubt that, wave a Mexican flag and say goodbye to democracy — there’s one place where they
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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 28, 2025
Remarks at demonstration near Ramstein Air Base in Germany, June 28, 2025.
Where I live in the United States, if you watch a sports game on television, the announcers will sometimes thank the U.S. military for watching from 175 countries. But few people watching will stop and ask themselves what in the name of the holy dollar is one military doing in 175 countries. Almost all countries that have militaries have them in 1 country.
In fact the U.S.
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Hey, give Donald Trump and crew credit when it comes to climate change. You know, the phenomenon that the president once called a “Chinese hoax.” Only recently, in fact, his administration
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 26, 2025
I grew up in a town in the United States that was built from nothing in the 1960s around an artificial lake with — in the lake — a fountain modeled on the fountain in Geneva. Yesterday I saw the fountain in Geneva for the first time, and felt at home.
I also feel at home with neutrality.
I think another