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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
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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
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
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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
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.
On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Alice Slater, she is on the boards of World BEYOND War and the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. As a member of the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, she travelled to Russia and China on numerous delegations engaged in ending the arms race and banning the bomb. The topics of discussion include, how the ongoing war in Ukraine and US/Israeli
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Being in Donald Trump’s America — and yes, in these years, it’s all too often seemed to be his — has, in its own strange way, been a distinctly religious experience. Or so it’s seemed anyway. If you believed in him, whatever he did or planned to do, he still had your trust and vote in 2024, and whatever he now does, he can still do no wrong, not truly. If,
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No kid is under a desk anymore — and isn’t that strange when you think about it? After all, when I “ducked and covered” like
At a time when international cooperation provides the key to preventing a variety of global calamities―including nuclear war, climate catastrophe, and massive starvation―it’s tragic that major nations, ruled by nationalist, rightwing parties, are on a collision course with the organizations that represent the international community.
Chief among these international organizations is the United Nations, with a Charter that bans