(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 […]
MACA or Making America Crueler Again: Targeting Refugees and the Helpless
(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 […]
America’s current Racism, Patriarchy and Fear of Immigrants Eerily look like 1919
1919 was the year Confederate General Stonewall Jackson’s statue was erected on a main thoroughfare in Richmond, Virginia
“Make America Cruel Again:” Trump’s War on Immigrants
The U.S. government “is allowing people who would otherwise qualify for resettlement to live under conditions that could kill them.”
Making America’s Wars Great Again: Caught in the Vietnam Time Loop
American military power has been less and less effective, but the rhetoric surrounding that power has grown more boastful
Trump: The Final Victory of the Big Lie?
(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 […]
The Fake “Facts” of the Anti-Muslim Bigots and Fear-Mongers
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 […]
Crackpot Anti-Muslim Bigotry takes over the US Government
The far-right project of mainstreaming Islamophobia has proven successful, at least in part due to media complicity
“Infinity War?” After 17 fruitless years in Afghanistan & elsewhere the US Military needs to Rethink
Decades of military adventurism have come at a great cost
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