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Today’s remarkable tax-time look at what TomDispatch regular Rebecca Gordon calls “the non-profit industrial complex” reminded me of just how lucky I’ve been running this website all these years. As a start, I’ve had you, the readers of TomDispatch,
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No wonder I’m wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts today! After all, it’s exceedingly warm this July, with temperatures only recently hitting a startling 90 in New York City where I live.
Whoops! What was I thinking? I meant this April, as record spring heat
Good interview. No, I’m not actually in Toronto.
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In our present social media world, who even remembers that the Internet’s first “mothership,” as Ben Tarnoff put it at the Guardian years ago, was the U.S. military,
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In some ways, it’s still hard to take in. In 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush and crew invaded Afghanistan, the very country in which the Soviet Union’s military had
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, April 11, 2023
The New York Times routinely tells bigger lies than the clumsy nonsense it published about weapons in Iraq. Here’s an example. This package of lies is called “Liberals Have a Blind Spot on Defense” but mentions nothing related to defense. It simply pretends that militarism is defensive by applying that word and by lying that “we face simultaneous and growing military threats from Russia and China.” Seriously? Where?
The U.S. military budget
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In 2002, TomDispatch was launched as a no-name email list for one reason and one alone: the unnerving decision of President George W. Bush to respond to the disastrous terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by invading Afghanistan. (
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Despite fears of the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war — recently, Vladimir Putin ominously announced a plan to store some of Russia’s in neighboring Belarus — we are not (yet!) in a nuclear moment. In any case, the generation of young Americans growing up today seems far more focused on a different world-ending scenario: climate change.
Still,
For many years, a portion of the world public has sought to wall itself off from people abroad by hiding behind national borders.
In the United States, this tendency became an important element in American politics. During the 1920s and 1930s, the Republican Party embraced isolationism and spurned the new League of Nations. Indeed, for a time, President Warren G. Harding’s State Department