War Is A Crime

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TomDispatch authors don’t usually have much in common with Donald J. Trump, but here’s an exception. TomDispatch regular Liz Theoharis recently visited the Supreme Court to hear a case on immigrant asylum that her organization, the Kairos Center, was involved read more

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I have to admit that it couldn’t be stranger (or, given this country’s history in my lifetime, do I mean less strange?) to be facing yet another all-American war, this time in Iran, fiercely read more

By David Swanson, Progressive Hub, April 15, 2026

Nell Bernstein’s new book is called In Our Future We Are Free: The Dismantling of the Youth Prison. It tells us that in the United States in 2000 the number of young people held inside locked buildings was 108,800 and in 2022 it was 27,600. At least two-thirds of youth prisons and jails have been shut down. This is an enormous, dramatic, positive development in an era when most people imagine that the closest thing to good news out read more

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Just keep in mind, as a start, that the administration of Donald Trump has been attempting to restrict immigration to this country almost exclusively to — yes, read more

Do you like audio books? I do. What about peace, do you like that? I’m referring to peace here as the absence of war. I’m not intending to challenge everyone’s favorite aphorism that — chant it with me — “Peace Is More Than the Absence of War.” I’m just referring to that thing, whatever it is that includes the absence of war plus some other stuff.

If you search for “Peace” on mega-audio-book-supplier Audible (or at least if I do — perhaps everyone’s search results are unique, read more

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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