Just Try to Find a Book About Peace on Audible or Amazon

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

Tomgram: Nan Levinson, The War in Iran as International Terrorism

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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

Tomgram: Eric Ross, Forever War (Yet Again!)

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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

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Will Donald Trump Take the Planet Down With Him?

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

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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