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The Guardian on how, in Gaza, despite all the talk about truces, ceasefires, and the like, the Israelis are continuing to kill an unnerving number of Gazans (especially children) in an increasingly partitioned region!
‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on
The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ for Palestinians squeezed into the remaining 42% of their land behind Israel’s ‘yellow line’
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The Guardian on how, in Gaza, despite all the talk about truces, ceasefires, and the like, the Israelis are continuing to kill an unnerving number of Gazans (especially children) in an increasingly partitioned region!
A look at the latest case in which the Supreme Court conservative majority will likely give President Trump yet more authority and power. (It never ends, does it?).
Justices Seem Ready to Give Trump More Power to Fire Independent Government Officials
A ruling in the president’s favor in the case, which deals with his attempt to remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission, would be a major expansion of presidential authority.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A look at the latest case in which the Supreme Court conservative majority will likely give President Trump yet more authority and power. (It never ends, does it?).
Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch today: Thought of a certain way, our planet is indeed experiencing the slow-motion, climate-change equivalent of nuclear war and yet it’s hardly even news.
Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter?
Yes, give us human beings credit. In our relatively brief history, it's no small thing to have come up with two different ways of thoroughly devastating Planet Earth and its inhabitants. One of them, of
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December 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch today: Thought of a certain way, our planet is indeed experiencing the slow-motion, climate-change equivalent of nuclear war and yet it’s hardly even news.
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. and historian Bill Astore at his substack on "our" president (from hell). —Tom
Petty, Spiteful, Vindictive
The Trump Administration Strikes Again
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December 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. and historian Bill Astore at his substack on "our" president (from hell). —Tom
No Ducking and Covering for Us
by Tom Engelhardt
by Tom Engelhardt
Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter?
Yes, give us human beings credit. In our relatively brief history, it's no small thing to have come up with two different ways of thoroughly devastating Planet Earth and its inhabitants. One of them, of
tomdispatch.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
No Ducking and Covering for Us
by Tom Engelhardt
by Tom Engelhardt
Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter? A Child Today Is Being Born into the Slow-Motion Equivalent of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
by Tom Engelhardt
by Tom Engelhardt
Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter?
Yes, give us human beings credit. In our relatively brief history, it's no small thing to have come up with two different ways of thoroughly devastating Planet Earth and its inhabitants. One of them, of
tomdispatch.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter? A Child Today Is Being Born into the Slow-Motion Equivalent of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
by Tom Engelhardt
by Tom Engelhardt
From TomDispatch this morning: Tom Engelhardt, "Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter? A Child Today Is Being Born into the Slow-Motion Equivalent of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" tomdispatch.com/climate-chan...
Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter?
Yes, give us human beings credit. In our relatively brief history, it's no small thing to have come up with two different ways of thoroughly devastating Planet Earth and its inhabitants. One of them, ...
tomdispatch.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
From TomDispatch this morning: Tom Engelhardt, "Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter? A Child Today Is Being Born into the Slow-Motion Equivalent of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" tomdispatch.com/climate-chan...
The Trump Corollary: U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro
by Eric Ross
by Eric Ross
The Trump Corollary
In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people. The renewed, intensifying threats of regime change, justified through false or inflated claims that Nicolás Maduro, its president,
tomdispatch.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The Trump Corollary: U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro
by Eric Ross
by Eric Ross
Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the U.S. Empire in Latin America
by Eric Ross
by Eric Ross
The Trump Corollary
In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people. The renewed, intensifying threats of regime change, justified through false or inflated claims that Nicolás Maduro, its president,
tomdispatch.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the U.S. Empire in Latin America
by Eric Ross
by Eric Ross
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A Thermonuclear Hair Trigger
by William J. Astore and @tomdispatch.bsky.social
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by William J. Astore and @tomdispatch.bsky.social
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A Thermonuclear Hair Trigger - Antiwar.com
From TomDispatch: Once in the previous century, I actually visited the city of Hiroshima. I was an editor at Pantheon Books and had published a translation of a Japanese volume, Unforgettable Fire: Pi...
original.antiwar.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A Thermonuclear Hair Trigger
by William J. Astore and @tomdispatch.bsky.social
original.antiwar.com/william_asto...
by William J. Astore and @tomdispatch.bsky.social
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Eric Ross at TomDispatch today: To fully understand Washington’s current warpath in the Caribbean & Latin America, it’s necessary to revisit earlier episodes in which the U.S. intervened to shape the political destinies of countries in this hemisphere.
The Trump Corollary
In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people. The renewed, intensifying threats of regime change, justified through false or inflated claims that Nicolás Maduro, its president,
tomdispatch.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Eric Ross at TomDispatch today: To fully understand Washington’s current warpath in the Caribbean & Latin America, it’s necessary to revisit earlier episodes in which the U.S. intervened to shape the political destinies of countries in this hemisphere.
From TomDispatch last evening: Eric Ross, "The Trump Corollary: U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro" tomdispatch.com/the-trump-co...
The Trump Corollary
In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people. The renewed, intensifying threats of regime change, justified through fal...
tomdispatch.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
From TomDispatch last evening: Eric Ross, "The Trump Corollary: U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro" tomdispatch.com/the-trump-co...
Victory (or Defeat?) Gardens in the Age of Trump
by Frida Berrigan
by Frida Berrigan
Giving a Fig
Do you have a silver card? I do. I live in New London, Connecticut, and while I don’t get EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfers) anymore, I still carry the card as a talisman. It's nestled in
tomdispatch.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Victory (or Defeat?) Gardens in the Age of Trump
by Frida Berrigan
by Frida Berrigan
Frida Berrigan today: How can major companies continue to make insane profits w/ plenty of money left over for stock buybacks and CEO bonuses, while people in my world are digging through their pantries to find cans of food to share with their neighbors?
Giving a Fig
Do you have a silver card? I do. I live in New London, Connecticut, and while I don’t get EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfers) anymore, I still carry the card as a talisman. It's nestled in
tomdispatch.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Frida Berrigan today: How can major companies continue to make insane profits w/ plenty of money left over for stock buybacks and CEO bonuses, while people in my world are digging through their pantries to find cans of food to share with their neighbors?
Giving a Fig: Getting By, Up Close and Personal, in the World of Donald Trump
by Frida Berrigan
by Frida Berrigan
Giving a Fig
Do you have a silver card? I do. I live in New London, Connecticut, and while I don’t get EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfers) anymore, I still carry the card as a talisman. It's nestled in
tomdispatch.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Giving a Fig: Getting By, Up Close and Personal, in the World of Donald Trump
by Frida Berrigan
by Frida Berrigan
Companies continue to make insane profits with money left over for stock buybacks and bonuses, while people are struggling to find cans of food to share with their neighbors? -- Berrigan,"Giving a Fig, Getting By, Up Close and Personal, in the World of Donald Trump"
tomdispatch.com/giving-a-fig/
tomdispatch.com/giving-a-fig/
Giving a Fig
Do you have a silver card? I do. I live in New London, Connecticut, and while I don’t get EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfers) anymore, I still carry the card as a talisman. It's nestled in
tomdispatch.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Companies continue to make insane profits with money left over for stock buybacks and bonuses, while people are struggling to find cans of food to share with their neighbors? -- Berrigan,"Giving a Fig, Getting By, Up Close and Personal, in the World of Donald Trump"
tomdispatch.com/giving-a-fig/
tomdispatch.com/giving-a-fig/
William Astore at TomDispatch today on the U.S. spending another $1.7 trillion “recapitalizing” its nuclear triad in a world guaranteed to remain haunted forever by a possible future doomsday.
Apocalypse Soon?
It’s been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, America’s nuclear redoubt at the southern end of the Front Range that includes Pikes Peak
tomdispatch.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
William Astore at TomDispatch today on the U.S. spending another $1.7 trillion “recapitalizing” its nuclear triad in a world guaranteed to remain haunted forever by a possible future doomsday.
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Apocalypse Soon? Returning a Final Time to Cheyenne Mountain
by William Astore
by William Astore
Apocalypse Soon?
It’s been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, America’s nuclear redoubt at the southern end of the Front Range that includes Pikes Peak
tomdispatch.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Apocalypse Soon? Returning a Final Time to Cheyenne Mountain
by William Astore
by William Astore
On the U.S. spending another $1.7 trillion “recapitalizing” its nuclear triad in a world guaranteed to remain haunted forever by a possible future doomsday -- William Astore, "Apocalypse Soon? Returning a Final Time to Cheyenne Mountain" tomdispatch.com/apocalypse-s...
Apocalypse Soon?
It’s been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, America’s nuclear redoubt at the southern end of the Front Range that includes Pikes Peak
tomdispatch.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
On the U.S. spending another $1.7 trillion “recapitalizing” its nuclear triad in a world guaranteed to remain haunted forever by a possible future doomsday -- William Astore, "Apocalypse Soon? Returning a Final Time to Cheyenne Mountain" tomdispatch.com/apocalypse-s...
@commondreams.org on the emergence of "the fight club" -- Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and crew -- challenging the leadership of Chuck Schumer and his lack of vision for a future Democratic party and the 2026 elections.
Sanders, Warren Help Form Senate Democratic ‘Fight Club’ Challenging Schumer’s Leadership | Common Dreams
"So glad there are some Senate Dems willing to fight back," said one progressive strategist.
www.commondreams.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
@commondreams.org on the emergence of "the fight club" -- Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and crew -- challenging the leadership of Chuck Schumer and his lack of vision for a future Democratic party and the 2026 elections.
The Russification of America
Welcome to Donald Trump's U.S.A.
It's strange so many years later, in the United States of America, to feel as if I'm living in a country threatening to become like the Russia of Vladimir Putin that I spent years experiencing
tomdispatch.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The Russification of America
@mazzarino_a on being female in a potentially fascist country
Welcome to Donald Trump's U.S.A.
It's strange so many years later, in the United States of America, to feel as if I'm living in a country threatening to become like the Russia of Vladimir Putin that I spent years experiencing
tomdispatch.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
@mazzarino_a on being female in a potentially fascist country
At my age, I'm a reader of obituaries (but I've been so for a long, long time). Here's a moving one on the oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Fletcher, who just died at age 111. -Tom
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
At 7, she bore witness to one of American history’s most violent spasms of racial violence. She was 106 when the nation reckoned with the crime.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
At my age, I'm a reader of obituaries (but I've been so for a long, long time). Here's a moving one on the oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Fletcher, who just died at age 111. -Tom
Water, who needs it? Not Southern Europe (let's hope) -- since climate change is cutting down on water reserves in significant parts of that continent.
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Water, who needs it? Not Southern Europe (let's hope) -- since climate change is cutting down on water reserves in significant parts of that continent.