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Tomgram: John Feffer, The Far Right Is Crazy — Like a Fox
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They couldn’t have been madder or potentially more dangerous — and yes, sadly enough, I’m talking about two different events. I have in mind both the January 6, 2021, attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol with its
Tomgram: William Astore, Going Nuclear (Again)
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It was a backlit wonder of a plane on what looked like a Hollywood set — though the location was actually a Northrop Grumman plant in California. The workers from that giant weapons
German Peace Activist Under Criminal Investigation for Speaking Against War
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 14, 2022
Berlin antiwar activist Heinrich Buecker is facing a fine or up to three years in prison for making a public speech against Germany’s support for the war in Ukraine.
Here is a video on Youtube of the speech in German. A transcript translated to English and provided by Buecker is below.
Tomgram: Jane Braxton Little, A Global Four-Alarm Blaze
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Just over a year ago, my old friend Jane Braxton Little experienced climate change up close and personal. Greenville, California, the Gold Rush-era town she’d lived in since the 1970s (when I used to visit her there) was burned down in the raging Dixie Fire. She wrote about it
Talk World Radio: Daniel Akst on the Pacifists of the Greatest Generation
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Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Confronting America’s Forever Prison
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In March 2007, Karen Greenberg reported on a visit she had made to the war-on-terror prison camp at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and what it felt like to be distinctly offshore of American justice. She began that piece this way: “Several weeks ago, I took the infamous
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Three Conversations about Politics
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Since I turned 18, I doubt I’ve ever missed a vote. Certainly, though, I never missed a presidential election. In 1968, at age 24, for instance, already swept away by the anti-Vietnam War movement, I voted for antiwar Democrat Eugene
Tomgram: Helen Benedict, The Increasing Persecution of Refugees
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There’s a reason — beyond all the obvious ones — that we should be more focused on refugees. Sadly enough, as journalist, novelist, and Columbia University Professor Helen Benedict makes clear in her first TomDispatch piece, such
Imperialist Wars–and What Could Be Done About Them
Although all wars are not imperialist wars, it is remarkable how many imperial conquests have occurred over past centuries.
Mobilizing their military forces, powerful states and, later, nations carved out vast empires at the expense of weaker or less warlike societies. Some of the largest and best-known empires to emerge over the millennia were the Persian, the Chinese, the Mongol, the Ottoman, the Russian, the Spanish, and the British.
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