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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 just express my concern about the war in Ukraine by wondering what “victory” might actually mean for the Ukrainians. Let’s...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Jun 01, 2023 at 08:15 AM PDT
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I was slightly amused and not at all puzzled at Mark Sumner’s recent article explaining Daily Kos’s consistent war coverage, one is not aware of the militarism of the Democratic Party and Daily Kos? Sweetie, you’re soaking in it. US Defense spending...
by paradox
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on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 07:41 AM PST
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The mass psychological strategy (MPS) of the Republicans has long been based on reactionary pandering to the white working class and lower middle class. A distorted and twisted brand of politics that exploits the resentments, biases and mistrust many...
by psychusa
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on Fri Nov 25, 2022 at 06:33 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. War is, to say the least, nothing new. In his memorable first book, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges began with...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Oct 25, 2022 at 07:12 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. It’s that moment again. Graduation time in high schools and colleges across the country. Because I’ve always thought that...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Jun 02, 2022 at 09:06 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. For more than 20 years, the civilian casualties of the Global War on Terror have, at best, been nameless, faceless victims to most...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue May 31, 2022 at 06:39 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 have to admit that, as I read the nightmarish front-page stories daily — and yes, I’m old enough to still read the New York...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Apr 14, 2022 at 07:24 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. For the first time in years, thanks to the Ukraine conflict, there’s been talk again of that nightmarish Cold War-era nuclear term...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Mar 28, 2022 at 07:00 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. When it comes to bravery in relation to the war in Ukraine, let me just tip my cap to all the antiwar protesters in Russia who...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Mar 15, 2022 at 07:24 AM PDT
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It’s no secret that many Americans are susceptible to the many outrageous lies being spread by the Republicans. They have invested years and billions of dollars in establishing them in the minds of voters. Some of those deceptions have been bipartisan...
by psychusa
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on Wed Feb 09, 2022 at 11:48 AM PST
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In 1954, Armistice Day became Veterans Day. The former commemorated the end of a great war, and thereby honored peace. The latter recognizes ex-warriors, and thereby honors war. The change seems to reflect our national preference. The creation of the...
by KCfromChi
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on Wed Nov 10, 2021 at 07:33 AM PST
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April 29, 1975 Dutch photojournalist Hugh Van Es took a photo of the evacuation of the US Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam (now Ho Chi Min City) that became an iconic symbol of the end of the Vietnam War. In his photo, we see Embassy workers climbing ladders...
by koNko
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on Thu Aug 12, 2021 at 08:42 PM PDT
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With armed militia groups trying to take down our democracy, from January 6th to invading state capitols, things seem bad, maybe even Civil War bad. But if they hook up with the Christian right — with one small change to their ideology — we could be...
by thomhartmann
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on Tue Aug 03, 2021 at 12:12 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. Strange, isn’t it? Our secretary of state emphatically claims that China has been acting “more aggressively abroad” and behaving...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue May 11, 2021 at 07:36 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. Here’s the strange thing: almost 20 years into a series of chaotic, staggeringly expensive, failing wars across significant parts...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon May 10, 2021 at 08:43 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. January 6th will long be remembered for bringing a version of age-of-Trump extremism into the open in a startling fashion. Since...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Apr 06, 2021 at 10:43 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. It’s ever more obvious that the forever wars the U.S. military has been fighting for almost two decades are coming home,...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Jan 28, 2021 at 09:41 AM PST
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It’s not brain surgery to note what can happen when the people are fed lie after lie by the thousands, for 4 years, by the president of their own country. Those not able to see though the lies will certainly fall victim to them, and that’s not just the...
by psychusa
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on Sat Jan 09, 2021 at 06:32 AM PST
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Stores are already being boarded up in anticipation of election week violence, as cops begin to take sides in spite of the rule of law.
by annieli
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on Sat Oct 31, 2020 at 04:38 PM PDT
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Although few Americans seem to have noticed, China and the United States are currently on a collision course—one that could easily lead to war. Their dispute, which has reached the level of military confrontation, concerns control of the South China...
by Lawrence S Wittner
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on Tue Aug 04, 2020 at 01:17 PM PDT
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