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Tomdispatch

Tomdispatch is intended to introduce readers to voices and perspectives from elsewhere (even when the elsewhere is here). Its mission is to connect some of the global dots regularly left unconnected by the mainstream media and to offer a clearer sense of how this imperial globe of ours actually works. www.tomdispatch.com

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Food
As SNAP Benefits are Cut:  How it Feels to Be Hungry

As SNAP Benefits are Cut: How it Feels to Be Hungry

Tomdispatch

By Beverly Gologorsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – My long-dead father used to say, “Every human being deserves to taste a piece of cake.” Though at the time his words meant little to me, as I grew older I realized both what they meant, symbolically speaking, and the grim reality they disguised so charmingly. […]

Health Care
Two Mothers: Dying with Dignity and What Makes that Possible

Two Mothers: Dying with Dignity and What Makes that Possible

Tomdispatch

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – So many crises — from war to mass species die-offs to climate meltdown — afflict our world that we often don’t take time to draw insights from what generally passes for the small stuff, the things that happen all too close to home, […]

Donald Trump
Can a Republican Politician Succeed at being MAGA-Lite?  Nikki Haley’s Dilemma

Can a Republican Politician Succeed at being MAGA-Lite? Nikki Haley’s Dilemma

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By Clarence Lusane | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In 2015, according to the talking points being floated by former South Carolina governor and Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley and her team, she alone heroically removed the Confederate flag that flew on the grounds of the state capitol and so healed racial wounds. She implied […]

military
How a Nuclear Power Plant Became a Tool of War:  Nuclear Armageddon Games in Ukraine

How a Nuclear Power Plant Became a Tool of War: Nuclear Armageddon Games in Ukraine

Tomdispatch

By Joshua Frank | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – In 1946, Albert Einstein shot off a telegram to several hundred American leaders and politicians warning that the “unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” Einstein’s forecast remains prescient. Nuclear calamity still knocks. Even […]

Bill of Rights
Police gone Wild: When the Scorpions on the Corner Just Might Kill You

Police gone Wild: When the Scorpions on the Corner Just Might Kill You

Tomdispatch

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – To residents of Memphis’s resource-poor, predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, the Scorpions were easy to spot. The plainclothes patrols were known for driving their unmarked Dodge Chargers through the streets, often all too recklessly, sowing fear as they went, spitting venom from their windows, jumping out with guns […]

Corporations
The Specter of “Woke Communism:” How Corporate America became the Bogeyman of Today’s Anti-Communist Crusaders

The Specter of “Woke Communism:” How Corporate America became the Bogeyman of Today’s Anti-Communist Crusaders

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By Steve Fraser | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and perhaps the next president of the United States, is waging war against something he and many others on the right identify as “woke communism.” DeSantis even persuaded the Florida legislature to pass a Victims of Communism law, mandating that every […]

Arms Sales
Merger Mania in the Military-Industrial Complex:  Tackling Pentagon Waste Means Battling the Big Weapons Makers and Asking More of Congress

Merger Mania in the Military-Industrial Complex: Tackling Pentagon Waste Means Battling the Big Weapons Makers and Asking More of Congress

Tomdispatch

By Julia Gledhill and William D. Hartung | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s early in the new Congress, but lawmakers are already hotly debating spending and debt levels. As they do so, they risk losing track of an important issue hiding in plain sight: massive Pentagon waste. At least in theory, combating such excess […]

Health
Football’s One to the Heart:  How Safe is the Superbowl for Players?

Football’s One to the Heart: How Safe is the Superbowl for Players?

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By Robert Lipsyte | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The echoes still linger from that national sigh of relief last month when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, slammed into cardiac arrest during a game on January 2nd, was declared out of danger. It was a justified sigh. A vibrant young life had been spared. But […]

Republican Party
The Nightmare of Republican Voter Suppression

The Nightmare of Republican Voter Suppression

Tomdispatch

By Clarence Lusane | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The fundamental right to vote has been a core value of Black politics since the colonial era — and so has the effort to suppress that vote right up to the present moment. In fact, the history of the suppression of Black voters is a first-rate […]

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