By Laura Gottesdiener | – (Tomdispatch.com) – There’s a dark joke going around Baghdad these days. Noof Assi, a 30-year-old Iraqi peace activist and humanitarian worker, told it to me by phone. Our conversation takes place in late May just after the Trump administration has announced that it would add 1,500 additional U.S. troops to […]
You have an Earth, Madame, if you Can Keep It: Politics of Planetary Destruction
By David Bromwich | – (Tomdispatch.com) – More and more, we look into our screens and gizmos. And this helps us — almost as if they were made for that purpose — not to think about the weather outside. Kept busy “curating” our own lives, we are regularly spared evidence of the coming catastrophe. Long […]
B-52s over Iran? Our Nation’s Past Trauma from “Carpet Bombing”
By James Carroll | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Earlier this month, the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group — the massive aircraft carrier itself with its dozens of warplanes and thousands of sailors and marines, a guided missile cruiser, and four destroyers — suddenly began to make its way from the Mediterranean Sea into the Persian […]
The Death Lobby in Washington and the Yemen War from Hell
By Mashal Hashem and James Allen | – (Tomdispatch.com) – A springtime wedding in Northern Yemen’s Al-Raqah village took place in April 2018, a moment of reprieve from the turmoil and devastation of that war-torn country, a moment to celebrate life, love, and the birth of a new family. From the tents constructed for the […]
America’s Sick Health Care System: Even if you Survive the Malady, the Co-Pays will Kill You
Persistent growth of income inequality to Gilded Age levels has had a decided effect on the health of many Americans
Will Technology Make America’s Forever Wars Permanent?
The U.S. and its coalition will continue its airstrikes and coordinated attacks on Syria until the “enduring defeat of ISIS.”
The Palestine Marathon: A Window Into Occupation and Survival in a Less Than Holy Land
By Jen Marlowe | – (Tomdispatch.com) – I never intended to run a marathon, but when I realized that I would be on hand for the 2019 Palestine Marathon, I registered. I did so in solidarity with the goals of the aptly named Right to Movement, the global running community founded in 2013 to organize […]
Trump and our Second Gilded Age– Even more Disgusting than the First
Why, then, when Veblen saw America’s plutocratic bent so clearly, is he now neglected?
12 Ways to Make Sense of the Border Mess
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service calculates that planned wall segments will negatively affect 60%-75% of the LRGV’s lands
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