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Peace
The Intolerable Price You Pay:  A Civilian Addresses American Veterans on Veterans Day

The Intolerable Price You Pay: A Civilian Addresses American Veterans on Veterans Day

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By Kelly Denton-Borhaug | – [Denton-Borhaug will give a version of this talk virtually to Veterans for Peace Chapter 102 at a Reclaim Armistice Day meeting at the Milwaukee City Hall Rotunda this Veteran’s Day.] Dear Veterans, ( Tomdispatch.com) – I’m a civilian who, like many Americans, has strong ties to the U.S. Armed Forces. […]

Conspiracy Theories
The Courts have been the Last Bastion of Sanity in Polarized America, but what if they Go MAGA too?

The Courts have been the Last Bastion of Sanity in Polarized America, but what if they Go MAGA too?

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By Andy Kroll | – ( Tomdispatch.cm ) – For about a week in the summer of 2018, I caught an early-morning train from Washington, D.C., to the Albert V. Bryan federal courthouse in the suburb of Alexandria. Located a short drive from George Washington’s estate at Mount Vernon, that courthouse serves the Eastern District […]

journalism
My War Never Ends

My War Never Ends

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By Chris Hedges | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – As this century began, I was writing War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, my reflections on two decades as a war correspondent, 15 of them with the New York Times, in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, Bosnia, and Kosovo. I worked in a […]

Russia
Is it Time to Ban Nuclear Weapons?  and Home Runs?

Is it Time to Ban Nuclear Weapons? and Home Runs?

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By Robert Lipsyte | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The time has come to ban The Bomb. Of course, all those nuclear ones in the arsenals of the “great” powers, but — since I’m a sportswriter by trade — let’s start with the home run. Call it a four-bagger, a dinger, a moon shot, or […]

Authoritarianism
From the College Debt Crisis to Poor Health Insurance, America’s Pathologies are Rooted in the Right Wing Crackdown of WW I and After

From the College Debt Crisis to Poor Health Insurance, America’s Pathologies are Rooted in the Right Wing Crackdown of WW I and After

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By Adam Hochschild | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Donald Trump has had the urge to crush many things, including the last election. So I must admit I found it eerily amusing that, when the FBI entered his estate at Mar-a-Lago recently, they did so under a warrant authorized by the Espionage Act of 1917. […]

Corporations
Optimism of the Will: Noam Chomsky on Organizing, Labor and taking on the Corporations

Optimism of the Will: Noam Chomsky on Organizing, Labor and taking on the Corporations

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By David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – [The following is excerpted in shortened form from Chapter 9 of Notes on Resistance by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, published by Haymarket Books.] David Barsamian: What we are facing is often described as unprecedented — a pandemic, climate catastrophe and, always lurking off […]

Climate Crisis
The Nightmare of Military Spending on an Overheating Planet:  A Big Carbon Bootprint and a Giant Sucking Sound in the National Budget

The Nightmare of Military Spending on an Overheating Planet: A Big Carbon Bootprint and a Giant Sucking Sound in the National Budget

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By Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – On October 1st, the U.S. military will start spending the more than $800 billion Congress is going to provide it with in fiscal year 2023. And that whopping sum will just be the beginning. According to the calculations of Pentagon expert William Hartung, funding for various intelligence […]

Arms Sales
Spending Unlimited: Contractors Cash in as Congress Adds Billions to the Pentagon Budget

Spending Unlimited: Contractors Cash in as Congress Adds Billions to the Pentagon Budget

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By Julia Gledhill and William D. Hartung | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Congress has spoken when it comes to next year’s Pentagon budget and the results, if they weren’t so in line with past practices, should astonish us all. The House of Representatives voted to add $37 billion and the Senate $45 billion to the […]

Government surveillance
America’s Digital Soldiers in an Online Forever War

America’s Digital Soldiers in an Online Forever War

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By Andy Kroll | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The three men and three women stood with their right arms raised. Behind them the remains of the daylight hued the sky a bluish gray. As a fire danced at their feet, they gazed straight ahead at a camera recording their words. The square-jawed man in […]

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