War Is A Crime

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President Bankrupt And a Country (and World) Coming Apart at the Seams By Tom Engelhardt

From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by this country’s Civil War. Among all my toy soldiers — cowboys and Indians, British marching troops in red jackets, and plastic Army-green World War II soldiers (from my father’s war) — and those read more

Thomas A. Bass’s new book, Return to Fukushima, makes an overwhelming case for the absolute idiocy of pursuing nuclear energy, reveals the disaster at Fukushima to be worse than you’ve probably heard, and disturbingly establishes the likelihood that many of us will eventually be living in Fukushimas if humanity doesn’t get rid of the nukes.

The case against nuclear energy that is made here can be roughly divided into six points.

One, “What today are called civilian reactors began — like read more

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Let’s just say that, in America, whoever the president may be, war is a given. Only the other week, the media was filled with shocked tales of how the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine read more

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By Medea Benjamin and David Swanson, April 4, 2025

We are passionate supporters of all but one of the items on the Hands Off agenda for the April 5 rallies. We couldn’t agree more that the corrupt U.S. government should stop destroying, privatizing, firing, and read more

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In September 2007, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and historian William Astore emailed me out of the blue. He’d been reading articles at TomDispatch, the website I set up soon after the 9/11 attacks to deal with this country’s Global War on Terror, especially the invasions of, and then never-ending conflicts in Afghanistan and later Iraq. As a former military read more

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What, I wonder, would Jackie Robinson have thought of an all-American world in which his story — essentially all trace of him — would be briefly wiped out at the Department of Defense read more

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NATO? What’s that? If you were to ask in Washington these days, you shouldn’t be surprised to hear that it’s actually the North American Treaty Organization or even the North American Trump Organization. Certainly, many in Europe who, not so very long ago, imagined the United States as their prime protector and benefactor are now facing a distinctly new world. Hey, there read more

Some cities and towns have a venue where activists organizing for peace and justice can, on short notice, and at little or no expense, hold an event with one or more speakers or performers. Some have nothing of the sort, but many have a church basement or an old warehouse. Some of these spaces have microphones and sound systems. Very few have food.

Washington D.C. is, for obvious reasons, one of the most important places in the United States and world in which to build activist movements, and yet read more