War Is A Crime

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Hey, if he hadn’t become president, maybe he could have been a famous baseball player, right? Certainly, if you listen to what Donald Trump had to say about his high school baseball “career,” he was definitely a truly great one. In fact, in read more

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The man who is the least predictable president (as he was a presidential candidate) in American history and who has denounced mail-in voting as “mail-in cheating,” while read more

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As someone born in 1944, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, who lived through 12 other presidencies before Donald Trump took — and that word has a different meaning with him — office in 2016, the truth is that I’ve simply never experienced anything quite like this (and I know that I’m in good company). Yes, I’ve certainly lived through other wars, from the read more

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Let’s not kid ourselves. We really are on an increasingly different planet, even if it is still called Earth. In case you hadn’t noticed, it recently was summer read more

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I began TomDispatch in response to President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Afghanistan in the (all too literal) wake of the 9/11 attacks on my city, New York, and on Washington, D.C. Now, here we are, almost a quarter of a century later, with another American president — and you know just who I mean — having launched yet another war in the Greater Middle read more

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Can you even remember when the U.S. went to war with Iraq in 2003, when President George W. Bush announced that, “at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations read more

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The World’s Most Unbelievable Science Fiction Novel
Or Living on a Dump-Truck (Oops, I Meant Trump) Planet

By Tom Engelhardt

Honestly, I can’t believe I’m in this world of ours (or do I mean His?). Yes, this very one and no other!

Almost a quarter of a century after, in response to the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. launched its war in Afghanistan that would last a mere 20 years until Donald Trump read more

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Once upon a time in what now seems to me like another universe, I took to the streets protesting the disastrous American war in Vietnam and, since I was then of an age to be drafted into the army (before it became an all-volunteer force), I even turned in my draft card in protest at a rally on read more