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The Flawed Moral Logic of the New York Times on the Flawed Moral Logic of Sending Cluster Munitions to Ukraine
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 10, 2023
On Monday the New York Times argued in favor of continuing the war and supplying weapons for the war in Ukraine but not cluster bombs:
“However compelling it may be to use any available weapon to protect one’s homeland, nations in the rules-based international order have increasingly sought to draw a red line against use of weapons of mass destruction or weapons that pose a severe and lingering risk to noncombatants. Cluster munitions clearly
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Invading Ourselves
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No, as TomDispatch regular Juan Cole, creator of the must-read Informed Comment website, points out today, you don’t want to be in the Iraq
J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Tragedy–and Ours
The July 21, 2023 theatrical release of the film Oppenheimer, focused on the life of a prominent American nuclear physicist, should help to remind us of how badly the development of modern weapons has played out for individuals and for all of humanity.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, American Prometheus, written by Kai Bird and the late Martin Sherwin, the film tells the story
A World for Eight-Spot Butterflies
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 7, 2023
What most excites me about Julian Aguon’s book No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is that (1) there is very little indication in the cover, the blurbs, the preface, the table of contents, etc., that it opposes war, militarism, or empire, (2) but it does, and (3) people are reading it. I’m aware that only small numbers of people read any books, but this is a short little book, and it’s clearly aimed at people who care about art,
Tomgram: Steve Fraser, Return of the Repressed
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Yes, as TomDispatch regular and historian Steve Fraser, author of Class Matters: The Strange Career of an
Talk World Radio: Ivana Nikolić Hughes on Nuclear Nutterism
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Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, What Is Possible?
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It’s reasonable to ask: What gets anyone involved in politics, American-style? What leads any of us to decide to protest anything? Today, TomDispatch regular (and my old friend) Beverly Gologorsky explores how a childhood in poverty prepared her to become “political” — to become, that is, an “activist against injustice” (as well as a superb novelist).
In comparison,
Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, State Terror in the Age of Counterterrorism
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Today’s author, TomDispatch regular Michael Gould-Wartofsky, has seen what he calls “far-right carnage” in an all too up close and personal fashion. In 2017, he
Tomgram: Stan Cox, Every Kind of Conflict, Everywhere, All at Once?
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It hardly matters whether you’re talking about the Canadian wildfires that continue to burn in an out-of-control fashion or the 120-degree temperatures in…