San Francisco ( Tomdispatch.com) – Sometimes the good guys do win. That’s what happened on August 8th in San Francisco when the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association (APA) decided to extend a policy keeping its members out of the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The APA’s decision is important — […]
US War on the Weak: Trump in Mideast helps Crush Palestinians, Yemenis
In the Trump era, Washington’s alliance with Israel has only grown tighter
Nicaragua’s People Power at the Barricades again, this Time against Ortega
If Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega refuses to leave office we may see more killings, beatings, and jailings
Should Trump Have the Discretion to Murder at Will? His Drones Are at It
The post-9/11 Authorization for the Use of Military Force is still used as justification for an expanding drone program
Will it be the Accountants who bring down Trump and his Cronies?
San Francisco ( Tomdispatch.com) – They call people like us “bean counters” — the soulless ones beavering away in some windowless accounting department, the living calculators who don’t care about desperation or aspirations, who just want you to turn in your expense report on time and explain those perfectly legitimate charges on the company credit […]
Trump’s Fascination with appointing War Criminals to High Office
San Francisco (Tomdispatch.com) – A barely noticed anniversary slid by on March 20th. It’s been 15 years since the United States committed the greatest war crime of the twenty-first century: the unprovoked, aggressive invasion of Iraq. The New York Times, which didn’t exactly cover itself in glory in the run-up to that invasion, recently ran […]
Generational Wars and Short Memories: The 9/11 Hijackers Were Iraqis, Right?
San Francisco (Tomdispatch.com) | – I was teaching the day the airplanes hit the World Trade Center. It was the second meeting of “The Communist Manifesto for Seminarians,” a course for my fellow graduate students. By the time I got to class, both towers had collapsed. A few hours later, Building 7 came down as […]
Trump Year 2: We refuse to be Terrorized
San Francisco (Tomdispatch.com) | – A little over a year ago at TomDispatch I wrote about the bloody nightmares rupturing my sleep and the night terrors gripping my little household in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. That piece was reposted by a wide range of publications. And then, in what at first seemed like […]
Our Pyromaniac President in a Flammable World
San Francisco (Tomdispatch.com) | – “I’ve just heard that my family home near Carpenteria is literally in flames at this moment,” a friend told me recently. She was particularly worried, she said, because “my mom has MS. She and my dad got the call to evacuate after midnight last night. They were able to grab […]