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After Loneliness All the way back in 2023, the surgeon general diagnosed Americans as suffering from an epidemic of loneliness. More recently, amid the rise of American fascism, I started to notice that people were no...

From TomDispatch this morning: How to begin to pierce the loneliness of Donald Trump's America -- Mattea Kramer, "After Loneliness: Left for Dead in Donald Trump's America, Communal Life Stirs" tomdispatch.com/after-loneli...

The Brave New War Machine “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us,” said Alex Karp, the CEO of the emerging military tech firm Palantir. Far from

From TomDispatch this evening: Janet Abou-Elias and William D. Hartung, "The Brave New War Machine, How a Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk"

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The Brave New War Machine “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us,” said Alex Karp, the CEO of the emerging military tech firm Palantir. Far from

From TomDispatch last evening: Janet Abou-Elias and William D. Hartung, "The Brave New War Machine, How a Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk"

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Why the Trump Administration Doesn't Just Break the Law In response to his sentencing following his conviction on 34 felonies in May 2024, President Trump stated that he had “won the election in a massive landslide, and the people of this country understan...

Outright violations of the law have been a signature characteristic of the second Trump administration writ large -- Maha Hilal, "Why the Trump Administration Doesn't Just Break the Law, But Uses Legality (in a Distinctly Lawless Fashion) tomdispatch.com/why-the-trum...

Why the Trump Administration Doesn't Just Break the Law In response to his sentencing following his conviction on 34 felonies in May 2024, President Trump stated that he had “won the election in a massive landslide, and the people of this country understan...

Outright violations of the law have been a signature characteristic of the second Trump administration writ large -- Maha Hilal, "Why the Trump Administration Doesn't Just Break the Law, But Uses Legality (in a Distinctly Lawless Fashion) tomdispatch.com/why-the-trum...

Why Guns? Power is felt, attributed, invisible, all-important, descriptive, without shape, and so much more. There is personal power, governmental power, and the collective power of the people. Power can be bou...

The Trump administration's attempt to militarize this country goes beyond the Dept. of War and it's potentially opening a road leading to authoritarian rule -- Beverly Gologorsky, "Why Guns? From Personal Power to Autocracy in Donald Trump's America" tomdispatch.com/why-guns/

Why Guns? Power is felt, attributed, invisible, all-important, descriptive, without shape, and so much more. There is personal power, governmental power, and the collective power of the people. Power can be bou...

The Trump administration's attempt to militarize this country goes beyond the Dept. of War and it's potentially opening a road leading to authoritarian rule -- Beverly Gologorsky, "Why Guns? From Personal Power to Autocracy in Donald Trump's America" tomdispatch.com/why-guns/

Trumped! I grew up with a vision of a possible instant apocalypse, inspired (if, under the circumstances, such a word can even be used) by the nuclear obliteration of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagas...

Though too few of us say so, in this already overheating moment of ours, Trump as president of the US should distinctly be considered the nightmare of our age, or possibly of any age - Tom Engelhardt, "Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet" tomdispatch.com/trumped-2/

Trumped Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn't fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like the rest of us,

Though too few of us say so, in this already overheating moment of ours, Trump as president of the United States should distinctly be considered the nightmare of our age, or possibly of any age -- Tom Engelhardt, "Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet" tomdispatch.com/trumped/

85 Seconds to My Own Midnight? “I’m not scared, you’re scared!” is the repeated line in a children's story we recently read to the kids at the Unitarian Universalist version of Sunday school I attend with my children. In that story...

Why we must keep talking about, writing about, and organizing against nuclear weapons to preserve at least those 85 seconds for our children and grandchildren - Frida Berrigan, "85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?, Or Our Nuclear World, Up Close and Personal" shorturl.fm/7Yr5M

Nate Cohn of the New York Times at his The Tilt column on whether the coming midterm elections this year will prove to be a potentially devastating referendum on the president. shorturl.fm/fhVmu

85 Seconds to My Own Midnight? “I’m not scared, you’re scared!” is the repeated line in a children's story we recently read to the kids at the Unitarian Universalist version of Sunday school I attend with my children. In that story...

Why we must keep talking about, writing about, and organizing against nuclear weapons to preserve at least those 85 seconds for our children and grandchildren - Frida Berrigan, "85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?, Or Our Nuclear World, Up Close and Personal" tomdispatch.com/85-seconds-t...

Trump ‘Murder Spree’ Continues With 11 More People Killed in US Boat Strikes | Common Dreams The Trump administration's killing spree in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean is unjustifiable. No evidence of drug trafficking, just innocent lives lost. How can we allow this to continue? ...

Julia Conley of Common Dreams on the never-ending Trump administration blasting of boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean that indeed is a first-class murder spree. shorturl.fm/Q6kd6

85 Seconds to My Own Midnight? “I’m not scared, you’re scared!” is the repeated line in a children's story we recently read to the kids at the Unitarian Universalist version of Sunday school I attend with my children. In that story...

Why we must keep talking about, writing about, and organizing against nuclear weapons to preserve at least those 85 seconds for our children and grandchildren - Frida Berrigan, "85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?, Or Our Nuclear World, Up Close and Personal" tomdispatch.com/85-seconds-t...

The Apocalyptic President Once upon a time, if you had described Donald Trump's America to me (the second time around), I would have thought you mad as Alice in Wonderland's proverbial hatter -- or, if you were a

From TomDispatch this evening: Donald Trump in the White House a second time around is the all-too-literal personification of imperial decline -- Tom Engelhardt, "The Apocalyptic President, The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline" tomdispatch.com/the-apocalyp...

The Apocalyptic President Once upon a time, if you had described Donald Trump's America to me (the second time around), I would have thought you mad as Alice in Wonderland's proverbial hatter -- or, if you were a

From TomDispatch this evening: Donald Trump in the White House a second time around is the all-too-literal personification of imperial decline -- Tom Engelhardt, "The Apocalyptic President, The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline" tomdispatch.com/the-apocalyp...

The Empire Crumbles: The Big Picture | Common Dreams Systems scientists have been warning for decades that the current growth-based world economic order is unsustainable, and that it will inevitably become smaller and more simplified. What is surprising...

Richard Heinberg at Common Dreams on how the unraveling of the old order globally is accelerating so suddenly—and doing so largely thanks to just one man (and you know exactly who that is! shorturl.fm/v2yEX

MAGA Outgrows Isolationism A mere 15 years ago, during an epoch that now seems as distant as the Paleozoic era, an American president attempted to use military power to prevent a dictator from slaughtering his own citizens. Bar...

From TomDispatch this morning: Donald Trump may be the first American president to treat international law as if it were as fictional as intergalactic law -- John Feffer, "MAGA Outgrows Isolationism, And Yet America First Means America Alone"
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MAGA Outgrows Isolationism A mere 15 years ago, during an epoch that now seems as distant as the Paleozoic era, an American president attempted to use military power to prevent a dictator from slaughtering his own citizens. Bar...

From TomDispatch this morning: Donald Trump may be the first American president to treat international law as if it were as fictional as intergalactic law -- John Feffer, "MAGA Outgrows Isolationism, And Yet America First Means America Alone" tomdispatch.com/maga-outgrow...

Eight Decades Later, It Remains One World or None On February 5th, with the expiration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, the only bilateral arms control treaty left between the United States and Russia, we are guaranteed to fi...

The grim but predictable culmination of a truth that has haunted us for nearly 80 years: humanity has long been living on borrowed time - Eric Ross,"Eight Decades Later, It Remains One World or None, The End of New START and the Enduring Nuclear Nightmare"
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Michigan accuses big oil of being ‘cartel’ that fuels climate crisis and high energy costs In first-of-its-kind complaint, state accused four fossil fuel majors and US oil lobbying group of climate disinformation

The Guardian's Dharna Noor reports on Michigan taking the big oil companies to court over climate change. How appropriate! shorturl.fm/vcB2r

Nick Corasaniti of the New York Times offers a scary look at Donald Trump's urge to "nationalize" (or perhaps Trumpify) our future elections. shorturl.fm/qsXyy

The grim but predictable culmination of a truth that has haunted us for nearly 80 years: humanity has long been living on borrowed time - Eric Ross,"Eight Decades Later, It Remains One World or None, The End of New START and the Enduring Nuclear Nightmare" tomdispatch.com/eight-decade...

Where is the outrage over five-year-old Liam Ramos’s detention? | Francine Prose Do the people imprisoning kids like Liam Ramos have no children of their own? Do they have no decency, compassion or basic humanity?

Francine Prose at the Guardian on the Trumpian nightmare of five year-old Liam Ramos. What a genuine horror -- and, as she points out, there are all too many other Liam Ramoses. shorturl.fm/tWUfE

Trump’s $1.5 Trillion “Dream Military” What constitutes national security and how is it best achieved? Does massive military spending really make a country more secure, and what perils to democracy and liberty are posed by vast military es...

From TomDispatch this morning: William J. Astore, "Trump's $1.5 Trillion 'Dream Military,' Or What National Nightmares Are Made Of"

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Trump’s $1.5 Trillion “Dream Military” What constitutes national security and how is it best achieved? Does massive military spending really make a country more secure, and what perils to democracy and liberty are posed by vast military es...

From TomDispatch this morning: William J. Astore, "Trump's $1.5 Trillion 'Dream Military,' Or What National Nightmares Are Made Of" tomdispatch.com/trumps-1-5-t...

Could Trump Really “Take Over” the Midterm Elections? The short answer is no, but he will try. Here’s his strategy.

Robert Reich has a grim column on how Donald Trump (and crew) could screw with our election system before this November to get something more like the vote he wants. shorturl.fm/Wl8s3

How Trump Became the Biggest Crook in the History of Democracy The penny-ante bribes of his first term have given way to billions in graft.

The Nation's Jeet Heer suggests that Trump is corrupt on a scale that dwarfs anything ever seen in an advanced democracy and if he goes unpunished, it could be the epitaph of American democracy. shorturl.fm/Gpv1z

The US Bombed Somalia 25 Times in January - News From Antiwar.com Update: US Africa Command told Antiwar.com on February 2 that its forces have launched 26 airstrikes in Somalia so far this year US forces launched at least 25 airstrikes in Somalia in January as the ...

The missing war -- essentially covered only by Dave DeCamp: to start the new year, the U.S. launched 26 airstrikes in Somalia in January and, if not for DeCamp, who would even know? shorturl.fm/QF4wt

Is Trump winning or losing his war on offshore wind power? The US president tried to kill offshore wind projects – now four are back under construction

As Hilary Beaumont reports in the Guardian, Trump has lost a series of court battles to stop East coast offshore wind projects, but he's still harming future wind power in this country, big time. shorturl.fm/w11Vt