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It couldn’t be stranger when you think about it. For better or worse, our brains have the ability to imagine ourselves somewhere we aren’t and might never be. And in whatever form, art can offer us a vision of our world, for the better or sometimes distinctly the worse, that brings it into a kind of cohesion we often don’t experience in our actual lives.
Only recently,
By David Swanson, February 10, 2025
Remarks following airing of President John Kennedy’s speech at American University.
It’s an honor to be asked to speak following a great speech, probably the greatest speech ever by a U.S. president while they were the U.S. president. Many U.S. presidents, possibly all of them, made speeches against war prior to becoming president. Some issued hypocritical warnings included in bad speeches on their last day in office. Some spoke and even worked for
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Yes, some of us still remember that the now-famous (or do I mean infamous?) phrase “the military-industrial complex” actually came from the farewell address of former World War II
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The recent whirlwind of Trump administration foreign policy measures―many reversing those of the Biden administration―illustrates the fact that Americans have sharply different opinions about their relationship to other nations.
The Trump approach―which he has labeled “America First”―is clear enough. He has blocked U.S. humanitarian assistance abroad by shutting down
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
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All I can say is: thank heavens for Bernie Sanders. (If only he had been elected president instead of You Know Who!) Responding to Donald Trump’s recent decision to try to freeze trillions
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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
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
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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