Bibi: The Making of a Genocidaire

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 6, 2025

The documentary film The Bibi Files, begins with and is named for and for a long time focuses on leaked videos from the prosecution of Netanyahu for corruption. Through much of the film my thoughts were of Al Capone — of getting a killer on tax fraud. Do I really want to watch footage of an obnoxious sociopath when that’s the majority of U.S. news every day, and do read more

Tomgram: Todd Miller, Facing the Deportation Industry

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Yes, Donald Trump is distinctly focused on the border and immigration but, of course, he’s anything but focused on the issue that, more than any other in the years to come, will actually drive immigration. I’m thinking, of course, about climate change. Today, TomDispatch regular and read more

Listen Carefully to the Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

By David Swanson, February 4, 2025

A remarkable film called Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is up for a possible Oscar for best documentary this year. I’ve seen none of the other four nominees, but have intentionally avoided seeing one of them, which appears from the advertisements to be a disgusting piece of propaganda in support of war in Ukraine. In contrast, Soundtrack is an exposure read more

Tomgram: Helen Benedict, A New Future for Syrian Refugees?

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Significant parts of the Middle East are now in deepening chaos. In some sense (including Great Britain’s establishment with its Palestinian “mandate” of what became Israel), the Middle East was long one of the major European colonial regions on this planet, whether it was the British in the Persian Gulf, the French in Lebanon and Syria, or somewhat later the Soviet Union read more