By Judith Coburn | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Now that we know we are surveilled 24/7 by the National Security Agency, the FBI, local police, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, hackers, the Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, data brokers, private spyware groups like Black Cube, and companies from which we’ve ordered swag on the Internet, is there […]
Could Trump’s War on Black NFL Players awaken a Sleeping Giant?
By Robert Lipsyte | – New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Snatching immigrant babies may have scored some points for President Trump with his base, but it was never going to light up the scoreboard like tackling black jocks. That one really played to the grandstands. The complicated combination of adoration and resentment so many white males […]
The only Infrastructure Rebuilding Trump is doing is $700 Bn for the Pentagon
By William D. Hartung | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Other than shouting about building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, one of Donald Trump’s most frequently proclaimed promises on the 2016 campaign trail was the launching of a half-trillion-dollar plan to repair America’s crumbling infrastructure (employing large numbers of workers in the process). Eighteen months into […]
Arms and Manipulation: How the Saudis and UAE took Trump for a Ride
By William Hartung and Ben Freeman It’s another Trump affair — this time without the allegations of sexual harassment (and worse), the charges and counter-charges, the lawsuits, and all the rest. So it hasn’t gotten the sort of headlines that Stormy Daniels has garnered, but when it comes to influence, American foreign policy, and issues […]



