War Is A Crime

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Going, Going, Gone!
The World According to Donald Trump

By Tom Engelhardt

I remember the phrase from my boyhood, listening to baseball games on the old wooden radio by my bed. A major hitter would be up and — bang! — he’d connect with the ball in a big-time fashion. The announcer in a rising voice would then say dramatically: “It’s going, going, gone!” It was a phrase connected to read more

By Transnational Institute, May 13, 2025

David Swanson, peace activist from World BEYOND War, argues that NATO is not a defensive alliance but the most powerful war-making and weapons-dealing machine in history. Far from protecting democracy, NATO has backed colonial powers and dictatorships, waged illegal wars, and acted as a read more

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Here’s a tough and obscure question that recently proved challenging for President Donald J. Trump: when asked during an NBC News “Meet the Press” interview whether he believed read more

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I’ll bet you didn’t even know that this country built not only the Panama Canal, which we certainly deserve back for the effort, but the Suez Canal, too! Certainly, the least we deserve — the very least! — is free read more

People sometimes get away with a certain kind of evil action precisely because most of us have a hard time imagining the levels of cruelty or cynicism involved.

Rahm Emanuel, booster of militarization in Japan as U.S. Ambassador, apologist for racist police violence and closer of schools in Chicago as Mayor, and Democratic Caucus Chairman in the U.S. House of so-called Representatives from 2007 to 2009, did something evil in January 2007. This was just after antiwar voters had handed his Democratic read more

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Washington’s latest war (now on pause) — the one in Yemen against the Houthis — was hardly noticeable here. Or rather it would have been barely noticeable if Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth read more

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As some TomDispatch readers undoubtedly remember, I was once a typical all-American sports fan. I began as a kid. My dad came from Brooklyn, so (of course!) I rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers and loved going out to Ebbets Field to see them in person? I think read more

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Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter?
The Dangers on Planet Earth in the Age of Donald Trump

By Tom Engelhardt

Yes, give us human beings credit. In our relatively brief history, it’s no small thing to have come up with two different ways of thoroughly devastating Planet Earth and its inhabitants. One of them, of course, is the long-term, slow-motion version of planetary destruction that read more