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As the war in the Strait of Hormuz was going into its eighth week and a third U.S. aircraft carrier was heading into the region (part of a fleet of 19 U.S. naval vessels there and seven
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If you want a photo that perfectly catches this moment in what TomDispatch regular Karen Greenberg now calls Trumpland, try
Should it bother us how much our official comment-on-aliens guy does to normalize war? Is it overly nostalgic to suggest that I wouldn’t have so much minded aliens encountering Carl Sagan when he was that guy?
The latest from Neil deGrasse Tyson in the New York Times, suggests that aliens might show up on Earth without having observed it, choosing as their point of arrival of course the capital
By CrossTalk, May 6, 2026
Can You please oppose the war on Iran for one of the following 47 reasons? By oppose I do not mean that you claim you oppose it, as if you were a Democrat in Congress hoping to drive down Trump’s approval ratings by keeping the war going while claiming to supposedly oppose it. By oppose I mean try to stop: pressure the media and Congress, educate the public, hold a rally, make a phone call, join a flotilla, sign a petition, start an organization, create a work of art, hand out flyers or
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Honestly, you couldn’t have made it up, could you? I’m thinking about an American president intent on ensuring that Planet Earth will indeed burn to a crisp. And, of course, you know exactly who I mean and he’s made no secret of it, has he? After all, he ran for a second term in office by
My name is David Swanson. I’m recording this at the request of the Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism, an Iranian NGO.
The word terrorism in the corporate media where I live in the United States means violence by someone against whom violence should be used. In other words the very concept of terrorism is an appeal to the use of terrorism while deluding oneself that one is opposing terrorism. Another word for terrorism is war, something most governments prepare for, threaten,
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A World in Trumple Deep
(And We Are All His Apprentices Now)
Unlike every other TomDispatch piece, this one won’t be broken up with section titles for a simple reason. It’s all about Donald J. Trump and when it comes to him, in this strange world of ours, no one ever really gets a break.
In that context, here’s my advice to you: Don’t get old. For years, I managed not
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