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I was recently at a demonstration in New York City (my second in these weeks), part of the latest set of national protests against Donald Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, and crew and, among so many other things, their urge (in climate-change terms) to devastate this planet. That rally was once again simply huge, and I stood for 45 minutes or so watching my co-demonstrators march
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Although the statement that “power grows out of the barrel of a gun” was made by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, it’s an idea that, in one form or another, has motivated a great many people, from the members of teenage street gangs to the statesmen of major nations.
The rising spiral of world military spending provides a striking example of how highly national governments value armed forces. In 2024, the
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Back in 2016, I was convinced that, had Bernie Sanders won the Democratic presidential nomination, he would have beaten Donald Trump because he would have taken some of Trump’s White working-class voters.
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In the age of Donald Trump, as TomDispatch regulars Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler suggest today, among the endlessly unfolding tariffs (including ones likely to
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In the age of Donald Trump, like every era before his in my lifetime, the military-industrial complex that President Dwight D. Eisenhower first warned us about in his 1961 farewell address
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Best guess: If you don’t happen to love golf or imagine the world as a golf course, you’re on the wrong planet these days. And that’s true in so many different ways. Okay, it’s also true that, unlike
On “Speaking Truth to Empire” at KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated in Fresno since 1975, Dan Yaseen interviews William J. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) and professor of history. He has written extensively for TomDispatch.com, Antiwar.com, Truthout, History News Network, AlterNet, Salon, and Huffington Post among other sites. He is the author or co-author of three books, his latest book is, American Militarism on Steroids: The Military-Industrial Complex,