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Tomgram: Michael Klare, Creating a Hypersonic Pentagon Budget
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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,
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Recruiting Children
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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
New York Times Is Now Telling Bigger Lies Than Iraq WMDs and More Effectively
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
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Wars to End All Wars?
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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. (
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Tick, Tock, TikTok, the Nuclear Conundrum Today
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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,
From Nationalist Isolation to Global Citizenship
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
Talk World Radio: Krishen Mehta on Why the Global South Does Not Support the War in Ukraine
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Tomgram: Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, When Lunatics Run the Asylum
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I’m proud to have lived through the last 20-odd years at TomDispatch with Noam Chomsky, now a remarkable 94. In the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks and the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, I stumbled into creating this site and, in October 2003, first posted a piece of
The Collapse of the War System Is Not Outpacing the Collapse of the Earth’s Climate and Ecosystems
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, April 5, 2023
The Collapse of the War System: Developments in the Philosophy of Peace in the Twentieth Century by John Jacob English, published in 2007, describes the collapse, or the beginning of the collapse, in Western culture, of the inevitability of war. In other words: the popularization of the idea that war might be ended. Unfortunately, we cannot yet recount the collapse of the practice of war, with war spending, weapons dealing, conflict between