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Pentagon
More Money, Fewer Jobs: Why Lavishing Billions on the Pentagon won’t Help Employment

More Money, Fewer Jobs: Why Lavishing Billions on the Pentagon won’t Help Employment

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By Nia Harris, Cassandra Stimpson, and Ben Freeman | – (Tomdispatch.com ) – A Marilyn has once again seduced a president. This time, though, it’s not a movie star; it’s Marillyn Hewson, the head of Lockheed Martin, the nation’s top defense contractor and the largest weapons producer in the world. In the last month, Donald […]

Donald Trump
1917: The Racist, Right Wing Age of Delirium that Trump Resurrected

1917: The Racist, Right Wing Age of Delirium that Trump Resurrected

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By Adam Hochschild | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Along rivers prone to overflowing, people sometimes talk of preparing for a 100-year flood — a dangerous surge of muddy, debris-filled water so overwhelming it appears only once a century. In our political world, we are now seeing a 100-year flood of toxic debris. The sludge washing ashore […]

Nonviolence
Can the Anti-War Movement of the Silent Majority stop Trump's Warmongers?

Can the Anti-War Movement of the Silent Majority stop Trump’s Warmongers?

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By Allegra Harpootlian | – (Tomdispatch.com) – When Donald Trump entered the Oval Office in January 2017, Americans took to the streets all across the country to protest their instantly endangered rights. Conspicuously absent from the newfound civic engagement, despite more than a decade and a half of this country’s fruitless, destructive wars across the […]

Iraq
As Trump heads for Another gotten-up Mideast War, Iraqi Youth stage a 20K-Strong Peace Festival

As Trump heads for Another gotten-up Mideast War, Iraqi Youth stage a 20K-Strong Peace Festival

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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 […]

Climate Change
You have an Earth, Madame, if you Can Keep It:  Politics of Planetary Destruction

You have an Earth, Madame, if you Can Keep It: Politics of Planetary Destruction

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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 […]

Uncategorized
B-52s over Iran?  Our Nation's Past Trauma from "Carpet Bombing"

B-52s over Iran? Our Nation’s Past Trauma from “Carpet Bombing”

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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 […]

Yemen
The Death Lobby in Washington and the Yemen War from Hell

The Death Lobby in Washington and the Yemen War from Hell

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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 […]

Health Care
America's Sick Health Care System: Even if you Survive the Malady, the Co-Pays will Kill You

America’s Sick Health Care System: Even if you Survive the Malady, the Co-Pays will Kill You

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Persistent growth of income inequality to Gilded Age levels has had a decided effect on the health of many Americans

Pentagon
Will Technology Make America's Forever Wars Permanent?

Will Technology Make America’s Forever Wars Permanent?

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The U.S. and its coalition will continue its airstrikes and coordinated attacks on Syria until the “enduring defeat of ISIS.”

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