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I’ve written many times the Republican Party is in regression, their alleged politics, worldview and rhetoric have boxed themselves into a purely negative mental space that has nowhere to go but backwards. They endlessly get off by pissing off liberals...
by paradox
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 06:55 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. TomDispatch is distinctly a forever-war creation. When I began it almost 23 years ago, the U.S. had just invaded Afghanistan and,...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 07:09 AM PDT
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Democratic states tend to transform into authoritarian autocratic dictatorships in stages Political scientists and other political experts have been sounding the alarm bells that Donald Trump is a danger to democracy in the United States. But what...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 02:16 AM PDT
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There are grassroots movements in rural America today trying to reverse the effects of conservative groups who have been flooding rural America with conservative propaganda. One such group is Rural Americans United. Rural Americans United was born in...
by Uncle Tom
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 03:25 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. A Slow-Motion World War III? Imperial Decline (Up Close and Personal) in the Age of Climate Change By Tom Engelhardt I’ve been...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 06:27 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Americans have never liked to think of themselves as part of the West’s imperial history that began with the Roman empire and may...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 07:18 AM PDT
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U.S. Supreme Court rules Congress has the power to bar Trump from being on the ballot or create a process to do so, not state officials Former President Donald Trump achieved a decisive victory at the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week, as the Court...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 08:38 PM PST
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Forget Left v Right, Democrat v Republican, Conservative v Liberal, Evangelical v All Other Religion Forget Left v Right, Democrat v Republican, Conservative v Liberal, Evangelical v All Other Religions. It is the wealthy v the people and has been since mankind left the hunter-gatherer tribes and started farming. But it was after the early farmers...
by gntlbeast
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 06:13 PM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. These days, whenever you check out the news, it seems to be war, war, war — a focus today for TomDispatch regular Nan Levinson,...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 07:34 AM PST
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Yesterday at the The Moth in Chicago the theme was Chemistry. I got the highest score of the night. After the The Moth slam my buddy and great storyteller James Gordon told me that he wanted to hear what my story was about, so am going to share a...
by The Boss Gomez
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on Wed Feb 21, 2024 at 08:46 AM PST
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...he's running to stay out of jail" I know, I know, it isn't the first time you've heard that statement. But, listening to Andrew Weissman on MSNBC, former prosecutor on Mueller's Impeachment #1 team, describing the real-world consequences of TFG's...
by citixen
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on Sat Feb 17, 2024 at 08:06 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. The Last Superpower? And the Longest Paragraph By Tom Engelhardt I was born on July 20, 1944, almost two years after Joe Biden...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Feb 06, 2024 at 07:14 AM PST
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America has sunk to a low I do not recognize. We know what is wrong with Trump. He is a narcissistic nut. The real question is what is wrong with half of America? I don’t understand and people who are wanting to be under fascism and dictatorship? Many...
by Vetwife
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on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 08:32 AM PST
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Most individuals who believe Biden has cognitive decline or dementia likely have never watched him speak for more than two minutes straight, let alone an entire 45-minute interview Almost daily, right-wing outlets such as Fox News, Newsmax, and more...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 03:41 PM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yep, you guessed it! Donald Trump’s solution to the drug crisis in America is to institute a death penalty for drug dealers. Hey,...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 07:36 AM PST
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America’s position as the sole great power within the international system has come to an end. The future of the liberal world order has become precarious. Brief History & Theoretical Concepts in International Relations The balance of power within the...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 10:11 PM PST
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We all know what will happen if Trump wins. He has promised to be dictator — but “only one day” (riiight) — and his platform consists entirely of revenge, money, personal power, and escaping all accountability for his crimes. If he loses, he and far...
by Dan K
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on Wed Jan 10, 2024 at 09:17 AM PST
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I find it mindboggling that people are flooding the border to come here when what they are rushing to ….will soon be just as bad as what they have left. We have Fascists, racists, 600 mass shooting in 23, one today at High school. Killing...
by Vetwife
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on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 10:14 AM PST
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While We Fight the GOP We Need to Remember They have Been Working to Destroy America for a Long Time The GOP and their power backers have been creating the battlefield to destroy America for years. Many others have wrote about the vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. Here is two sites with articles from 2001 and 2005. It is the GOP plans in their own words...
by Ronald England
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on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 01:26 PM PST
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William Cooper is the author of How America Works … And Why it Doesn't. With over 90 percent market share in internet search, Google is a dominant way for Americans to seek and receive information about the world. Google Trends keeps track of all the...
by wcooper11
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on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 11:29 AM PST
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