( Tomdispatch.com) – Hypersonic weapons close in on their targets at a minimum speed of Mach 5, five times the speed of sound or 3,836.4 miles an hour. They are among the latest entrants in an arms competition that has embroiled the United States for generations, first with the Soviet Union, today with China and […]
America’s Suicide Epidemic is Hitting Trump’s Base Hard
(Tomdispatch.com) – We hear a lot about suicide when celebrities like Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade die by their own hand. Otherwise, it seldom makes the headlines. That’s odd given the magnitude of the problem. In 2017, 47,173 Americans killed themselves. In that single year, in other words, the suicide count was nearly seven times […]
Our New Gilded Age and the Scandal of Constant Money Scandals
Then there are the dark money groups, which can receive financial contributions from any source, American or foreign.
Not at the Border: The Real Nat’l Emergency is People Dying of Opioids
Since 1999, 400,000 Americans have died from overdoses of opioids, including legally prescribed ones
Shattering Europe? The Debris of Trump’s Paris Fiasco
Even before Air Force One touched down in Paris, Trump took aim on Twitter at his host, French President Emmanuel Macron
Yemen’s Descent into Hell: A Saudi-American War of Terror
(Tomdispatch.com) – It’s the war from hell, the savage one that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, along with seven other Middle Eastern and North African states, have been waging in Yemen since March 2015, with fulsome support from the Pentagon and American weapons galore. It’s got everything. Dead children in the dozens, a […]
For 40 Million US Working Poor, Trillion-Dollar Foreign Military Adventures Don’t Bring Security
The greatest threat day-to-day threat for millions of Americans isn’t terrorism or North Korea, it’s economic insecurity
Dr. Strangelove in the 21st Century: Trump’s Pentagon lowers Nuclear Threshold
( Tomdispatch.com) – If you’re having trouble sleeping thanks to, well, you know who… you’re not alone. But don’t despair. A breakthrough remedy has just gone on the market. It has no chemically induced side effects and, best of all, will cost you nothing, thanks to the Department of Defense. It’s the new Nuclear Posture […]
A Second Korean War, this Time with Nukes?
( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Most people intuitively get it. An American preventive strike to wipe out North Korea’s nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles, or a commando raid launched with the same goal in mind, is likely to initiate a chain of events culminating in catastrophe. That would be true above all for the roughly […]
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