( Tomdispatch.com ) – Earlier this month, President Donald Trump threatened to unleash the armed forces on more American cities during a rambling address to top military brass. He told the hundreds of generals and admirals gathered to hear him that some of them would be called upon to take a primary role at a […]
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“You Cannot fight the World:” The Hidden Meaning behind Trump’s Warning to Israel
( Middle East Monitor ) – A single, candid statement by US President Donald Trump during a Fox News interview on 9 October may illuminate the true calculus behind Israel’s decision for a ceasefire in Gaza, following a relentless, two-year genocidal campaign that has tragically killed and wounded nearly a quarter of a million Palestinians. […]
Terror from the Skies in the Middle East: Israel and the Ghost of Bomber Harris
Here is my essay for this week’s Tomdispatch.com . Check out the great Tom Engelhardt’s introduction at that site, where he reminds us of the eerie similarity of today’s Washington strategy toward the Middle East, of intensive bombardment, to that of Nixon-Kissinger in Southeast Asia. For people of my generation, it raises the sad question […]
Why Trump is not a Death Knell for global Climate Action
By Matt McDonald, The University of Queensland (The Conversation) – In his rambling speech to the United Nations last month, United States President Donald Trump described climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”. Of course, this claim was unfounded, ignoring the overwhelming scientific evidence that climate change is occurring. It […]
Never in a Million Years: 10 Reasons why Trump should never be Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Who doesn’t know that President Donald Trump desperately wants a Nobel Peace Prize and said bitterly, “They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me”? And for once, he’s right. He won’t get one, but wrong, of […]
A Case for Nonviolent Resistance: MAGA Men and Rage
( Tomdispatch.com ) – One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was eerie. It captured the mood in the days after a national election that no one in my little community yet knew exactly how to respond to. In […]
How Trump is Demolishing U. S. Global Power and its World Order
( Tomdispatch.com ) – In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat “discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth, [and] […]
How Donald Trump Surrendered on Greentech to China Abroad and to Big Oil at Home
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Ours would be the normal story of imperial powers rising and falling on Planet Earth — nothing new there, of course — if it weren’t for one thing: the fact that this world, too, is now falling. Unfortunately, nothing is truly normal about this planet of ours anymore, as the slow-motion equivalent […]
As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note
Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – During some of the large anti-war demonstrations during the 1960’s some of the protesters gave flowers to the troops faced off against them. In the 1967 March on the Pentagon it was the 503rd Military Police Battalion, and elsewhere the National Guard was deployed. An iconic photo from 1967 […]
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