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Today, in dealing with Donald Trump’s horrific, increasingly militarized actions toward migrants in this country, TomDispatch
Columbia University’s Nazi Tradition
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 8, 2025
According to Columbia Magazine, published by Columbia University’s Office of Alumni and Development, but ultimately named for a brutal imperialist mercenary, in 1933 while Nazis in Germany were burning books by Jews, Columbia’s president — and future Nobel Peace Prize recipient — Nicholas Murray Butler “welcomed Hans Luther, the German
Letter to Europe from an American
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 7, 2025
It’s with a very heavy heart that I watch Europe imitate the militarism of the United States, moving massive resources from human and environmental needs to weapons, celebrating proposals from good liberal civic groups to steal money from Russia and dump it into more weapons, cutting deals to have the ingredients for more weapons dug out of your soil by a distant empire that routinely spits on your head, moving nuclear weapons around and across
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Did Science Fiction Prophesy Our Tech Broligarchy?
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As a boy, I can still remember going to the Donnell Library just off 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City and heading home with science fiction novels under my arm. Though in my young life I never traveled far, in my mind, thanks to those books, I was a planetary journeyman. Jules Verne took me
The Five Excuses for Genocide
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 4, 2025
On Monday I interviewed a member of the Executive Committee of AIPAC. I asked him how he could defend and promote apartheid and genocide. He was not a legal witness; I could not order him not to change the subject. Still, he provided pretty clear (if very weak) excuses for genocide, which I think can be broken up into five types.
- Others have done it.
The U.S. killed Native Americans, he pointed out. The U.S. starved Germans and Japanese. Israel labels half
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Which Century Are We In?
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How strange! It took our (“our”?) president to inform us, but now we know, right? Vladimir Putin never began the war in Ukraine by ordering an invasion of that country. He was just responding to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to attack Russia, or as President Trump
Trump Buyers’ Remorse Is Just a Miniature Model
You voted for Trump and are being deported, or losing your job, or paying more for eggs. Now you’re the subject of so-called journalism about your “buyer’s remorse.” This is an extremely weak version of the sort of transformation that is needed — the sort of Saul-to-Paul awakening, forehead-slapping, I’ve-been-an-idiot, redemption-seeking metamorphosizing needed from millions of people, Trump voters and otherwise. For one thing it’s all still selfish and short-sighted. For another
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The Arrogance of Power Revived
In April 1966, Senator J.W. Fulbright, Chair of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gave a remarkable and highly-publicized speech at Johns Hopkins University, condemning the U.S. role in the Vietnam War. Warning of “the arrogance of power,” Fulbright argued that “we are not living up to our capacity and promise as a civilized power for the world.” It turned out to be a momentous speech, enraging President Lyndon
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Trump Administration’s Christian Crusade Is Experiencing Pushback
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Among so many other things, Donald Trump, whose record on religious persecution — of Muslims, of course — is anything but charming, is now openly supporting the one religious group in this country that experiences next to no persecution: Christians.