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
By Beverly Gologorsky | – (Tomdispatch.com ) – On this extremely hot summer day, the ear-splitting siren screaming through New York’s streets is coming from the ambulance I’m in — on a gurney on my way to the ER. That only makes the siren, loud as it is, all the more alarming. I fell. The […]
Will Technology Make America’s Forever Wars Permanent?
By Allegra Harpootlian and Emily Manna | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s a question worth asking about America’s seemingly endless global conflicts: if you kill somebody and there’s no one there (on our side anyway), is the United States still at war? That may prove to be the truly salient question when it comes to the […]
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
By Ann Jones | – Distracted daily by the bloviating POTUS? Here, then, is a small suggestion. Focus your mind for a moment on one simple (yet deeply complex) truth: we are living in a Veblen Moment. That’s Thorstein Veblen, the greatest American thinker you probably never heard of (or forgot). His working life — […]
12 Ways to Make Sense of the Border Mess
By William deBuys | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Borders are cruel. I know this because I’ve been studying the U.S.-Mexico border for more than 40 years. It features prominently in two of my books, written in different decades. It keeps pulling me back. Every time I cross that border, I say to myself that this is […]
Can Global Youth Revolt force the Trump Generation to tackle Climate Crisis?
By Frida Berrigan | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Kids are taking over the streets in other countries, rallying and chanting and refusing to go to school one day a week. Young people across the world are striking to draw attention to the ravages of climate change. They are demanding — with their bodies and their […]
School Shootings and Drone Wars: America’s Invisible Ways of Violence
By Allegra Harpootlian (Tomdispatch.com) – In the wake of the February 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 students and staff members, a teacher said the school looked “like a war zone.” And to many young Americans, that’s exactly what it felt like. But this shooting […]
Could Trump try to Save himself by Wagging the Dog with an Iran War?
By Bob Dreyfuss | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s the foreign policy question of questions in 2019: Are President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, all severely weakened at home and with few allies abroad, reckless enough to set off a war with Iran? Could military actions designed […]
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