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Arnold R. Isaacs

Arnold R. Isaacs is a journalist and writer based in Maryland. He has written widely on refugee and immigration issues and is the author of From Troubled Lands: Listening to Pakistani and Afghan Americans in post-9/11 America and two books relating to the Vietnam war.

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Veterans
A Different Kind of War Wound Afflicts America

A Different Kind of War Wound Afflicts America

Arnold R. Isaacs

(Tomdispatch.com) – When an announcement of a “Moral Injury Symposium” turned up in my email, I was a bit startled to see that it came from the U.S. Special Operations Command. That was a surprise because many military professionals have strongly resisted the term “moral injury” and rejected the suggestion that soldiers fighting America’s wars […]

Donald Trump
MACA or Making America Crueler Again: Targeting Refugees and the Helpless

MACA or Making America Crueler Again: Targeting Refugees and the Helpless

Arnold R. Isaacs

(Tomdispatch.com) – On September 26th, President Donald Trump’s White House announced that, in 2020, refugee admissions to the United States will be limited to 18,000, drastically lower than any yearly ceiling over the past 40 years. Along with that announcement, the White House released a separate executive order intended to upend many years of precedent […]

Donald Trump
America’s current Racism, Patriarchy and Fear of Immigrants Eerily look like 1919

America’s current Racism, Patriarchy and Fear of Immigrants Eerily look like 1919

Arnold R. Isaacs

1919 was the year Confederate General Stonewall Jackson’s statue was erected on a main thoroughfare in Richmond, Virginia

Immigration
“Make America Cruel Again:” Trump’s War on Immigrants

“Make America Cruel Again:” Trump’s War on Immigrants

Arnold R. Isaacs

The U.S. government “is allowing people who would otherwise qualify for resettlement to live under conditions that could kill them.”

Pentagon
Making America’s Wars Great Again: Caught in the Vietnam Time Loop

Making America’s Wars Great Again: Caught in the Vietnam Time Loop

Arnold R. Isaacs

American military power has been less and less effective, but the rhetoric surrounding that power has grown more boastful

Donald Trump
Trump:  The Final Victory of the Big Lie?

Trump: The Final Victory of the Big Lie?

Arnold R. Isaacs

(Tomdispatch.com) – It’s easy — and not wrong — to think that truth is in dire danger in the era of Donald Trump. His own record of issuing breathtaking falsehoods from the exalted platform of the White House is unprecedented in American history. So is his consistent refusal to back down when a statement is […]

Islamophobia
The Fake “Facts” of the Anti-Muslim Bigots and Fear-Mongers

The Fake “Facts” of the Anti-Muslim Bigots and Fear-Mongers

Arnold R. Isaacs

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Anti-Muslim activists in the United States were operating in a “post-truth era” and putting out “alternative facts” long before those phrases entered the language. For the last decade they have been spreading provable falsehoods through their well-organized network of publications and websites. A major theme of those falsehoods is telling the […]

Islamophobia
Crackpot Anti-Muslim Bigotry takes over the US Government

Crackpot Anti-Muslim Bigotry takes over the US Government

Arnold R. Isaacs

The far-right project of mainstreaming Islamophobia has proven successful, at least in part due to media complicity

Militarization
“Infinity War?” After 17 fruitless years in Afghanistan &  elsewhere the US Military needs to Rethink

“Infinity War?” After 17 fruitless years in Afghanistan & elsewhere the US Military needs to Rethink

Arnold R. Isaacs

Decades of military adventurism have come at a great cost

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