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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Guantánamo? Remind me, what’s that? Oh, wait, how could I have forgotten? It’s that all-American offshore prison of injustice,...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Apr 08, 2024 at 07:24 AM PDT
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Kissinger Massacres and Genocide are a topic of discussion, too often personalized, too often being parsed and debated. They are a horror. It’s always a group, a conspiracy, a government, ...
by stargaze
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 03:00 PM PST
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I recommend everyone take a few minutes to read this sobering essay by historian Patrick Wyman, called Ordinary People Do Terrible Things: There are two people I think about from time to time. Thanks to the machinations of history, we only know one of...
by AChris
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on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 05:56 PM PST
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Following the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in early 1904, exiled anti-Russian Polish revolutionary Jozef Pilsudski traveled to Tokyo with a bold proposal — in exchange for diplomatic and/or covert military assistance from Japan, he was offering...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu Dec 28, 2023 at 07:34 PM PST
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Sorry to harsh the holiday vibe. Violence, climate change, consumption, and racism are accelerating. The gods may move slow, but when they do move, they move inexorably. We feel like we have control over climate collapse but we don’t. This change has been a long time coming and we just happen to be here when it plays out. It’s like being on the beach...
by Pakalolo
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 04:05 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. I began TomDispatch a century or so ago (just kidding!) in response to a piece I read in the mainstream media soon after the Bush...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 07:31 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. Imperial powers — and so empires — have always been with us. They’ve been part and parcel of history forever and a day. However,...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Oct 17, 2023 at 09:17 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. Let me offer you a little summary of NBC Nightly News on October 4th. The top story that evening, you won’t be surprised to learn,...
by TomDispatch
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on Fri Oct 13, 2023 at 09:33 AM PDT
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Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are escalating their anti-immigrant diatribes in efforts to win support among the most rabid and extreme elements of the rightwing electorate. They are both calling for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed Oct 04, 2023 at 02:37 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. It’s strange to try to come to grips with this increasing wreck of a planet. When you’re my age, you have to wonder about the...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 07:46 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. A Global Maui Moment Ready, Aim, Fire! By Tom Engelhardt From the earliest kingdoms to late last night, history has been the story...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Sep 11, 2023 at 07:53 AM PDT
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Outside of the USA, the name Salvador Allende invokes strong feelings. Even those who opposed the policies of his administration, many are quite adamant about their opposition to his illegitimate ...
by Alex Morales
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on Sat Sep 09, 2023 at 08:00 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. I only hope I’ll be around in 2123 for Henry Kissinger’s 200th birthday celebration. (I’d be a mere 179 then.) Still, at least I...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Aug 24, 2023 at 07:17 AM PDT
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I first posted an abbreviated version of this essay on Independence Day in 2007. As the years go by, it seems to me that we should be paying more attention to the writings of brilliant authors like George Orwell and Howard Zinn. They force us to...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Tue Jul 04, 2023 at 03:13 PM PDT
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Although supporters of the Russian invasion, occupation, and annexation of Ukraine blame “U.S. imperialism” for the Ukraine War, the U.S. role has been relatively minor. The major actors have been Ukrainians, striving for independence, and Russians,...
by Lawrence S Wittner
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on Mon Apr 24, 2023 at 12:32 PM PDT
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Despite the Republican Party’s infantile obsession with violating the sovereign territory of�México, it is not unprecedented —�even by a U.S. President who’s foreign policy reputation has ...
by Alex Morales
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on Fri Apr 21, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
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I am overjoyed that you have rescinded the so called “Discovery Doctrine” that a previous Pope promulgated. Of course, now it is also forms a part of International Law as well, but that will be a much more difficult task to repeal and is beyond...
by Robpos
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on Thu Apr 06, 2023 at 06:44 AM PDT
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For those who have been avoiding the news, people are freaking out about things suddenly being detected in the skies. Ross Douthat of all people had to weigh in, and of course he put a very Douthatian spin on it. Sometime very soon, one hopes, the...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Feb 15, 2023 at 10:11 PM PST
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Although all wars are not imperialist wars, it is remarkable how many imperial conquests have occurred over past centuries. Mobilizing their military forces, powerful states and, later, nations carved out vast empires at the expense of weaker or less...
by Lawrence S Wittner
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on Sun Dec 04, 2022 at 10:17 AM PST
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by Ray Levy Uyeda This article was originally published at Prism Most days, La‘a PoePoe rides his bike a quarter of a mile from his home in Moloka‘i, Hawai‘i, to the nearby Kupeke loko i��
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Sun Oct 09, 2022 at 08:15 AM PDT
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