(Tomdispatch.com) – Let us stipulate at the outset that Donald Trump is a vulgar and dishonest fraud without a principled bone in his corpulent frame. Yet history is nothing if not a tale overflowing with irony. Despite his massive shortcomings, President Trump appears intent on recalibrating America’s role in the world. Initiating a long-overdue process […]
High Crimes and Misdemeanors of the Fading American Century
(Tomdispatch.com ) – There is blood in the water and frenzied sharks are closing in for the kill. Or so they think. From the time of Donald Trump’s election, American elites have hungered for this moment. At long last, they have the 45th president of the United States cornered. In typically ham-handed fashion, Trump has […]
Reflections on “Peace” in Afghanistan; Leaving a Misguided War and Choosing Not to Look Back
( Tomdispatch.com) – When the conflict that the Vietnamese refer to as the American War ended in April 1975, I was a U.S. Army captain attending a course at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In those days, the student body at any of our Army’s myriad schools typically included officers from the Army of the Republic of […]
From Concentration Camps to Environmental Collapse: How America became a Dystopian Nightmare
( Tomdispatch.com ) – [Editorial note: This remnant of a manuscript, discovered in a vault near the coastal town of Walpole, Massachusetts, appears to have been part of a larger project, probablyenvisioned as an interpretive history of the United States since the year 2000. Only a single chapter, probably written near the midpoint of the […]
No, Neocons, it Isn’t Always 1939, and WW II wasn’t such a ‘Good War’
(Tomdispatch.com) – How best to describe the recently completed allied commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France? Two words come immediately to mind: heartfelt and poignant. The aged D-Day veterans gathering for what was probably the last time richly deserved every bit of praise bestowed on them. Yet one particular refrain […]
Our ~8,000 Military Dead in US Mideast Wars: ‘Words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain’
(Tomdispatch.com) – Earlier this month, I spent a day visiting Marseilles to videotape a documentary about recent American military history, specifically the ongoing wars that most of us prefer not to think about. Lest there be any confusion, let me be more specific. I am not referring to Marseilles (mar-SAY), France, that nation’s largest port […]
Top 7 Illusions about Government that Trump Demolished
Irony, paradox, contradiction, consternation — these define the times in which we live.
America’s Endless Wars on Autopilot in our Endless Trumpworld
Still, I find myself wondering: If a proposed troop drawdown in Afghanistan qualifies as a “mistake”
Into the Maws of the Lost “Long War”: Trump sends Abizaid to Saudi Arabia
The Long War has now lasted twice as long as the average length of marriages in the US
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