(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