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By David Swanson, Progressive Hub
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Our society doesn’t always stand out for its values, but damn well does for its production values. There may be nothing more powerful in the world than a film — or even a commercial — with high production values. So I’m deeply appreciative when a well-made movie actually says something that needed saying, when you can watch the closing credits feeling wiser, rather
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As TomDispatch regular Juan Cole (whose Informed Comment website is a daily must-read) reminds us, wherever Donald Trump lands — in this country or just about
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In the age of Donald Trump, the very phrase “human rights” no longer seems to make sense and obviously needs to be changed. My own suggestion — given everything the Trump administration is doing when it comes to migrants, no less Americans who don’t happen to be White or male — might
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If we aren’t in a new Gilded Age, what are we in? After all, we now have an administration with no less than 13 billionaires in it, including the richest man on planet Earth (as well, of course, as President Donald J. Trump)! Together, they
In recent years, Donald Trump has frequently billed himself as a bringer of peace. During 2023 and 2024, as he campaigned for re-election, he declared at least 53 times that he would end the Ukraine War within 24 hours of taking office or even before that. Referring to peace for Ukraine before a gathering in Council Bluffs, Iowa in July 2023, he insisted: “I’ll get that done within 24 hours. Everyone says, ‘Oh, no, you can’t.’ Absolutely, I can. Absolutely I can.”
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By World BEYOND War, May 24, 2025
World BEYOND War & Fashioning for Social Environmental Justice on Saturday, May 24 displayed the Global Peace Flag Project at The Ellipse in front of the White House in Washington, D.C.
The Global Peace Flag consists of canvases displaying artwork and messages of peace from around the world, including from the U.S., Cuba, Nepal, India, Congo, Egypt, Sri Lanka, and
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, May 22, 2025
World BEYOND War has just released its 2025 edition of Mapping Militarism, which uses 24 interactive maps to highlight the state of war and peace on our planet. Each map allows the viewer to spin the globe, zoom in and out, scroll the timeline back through the years, or switch from map view to list view. Try it.
In 2024, unbeknownst to many people living in luckier parts of the world, there were not just two or three wars happening, but
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Hey, this doesn’t happen every day at TomDispatch! In my introduction to TD pieces, I usually focus on developing events on this strange planet of ours, but today let me focus instead on Greg Grandin’s latest book, America,