US politics

( Tomdispatch.com ) – My inbox is full of lament (and encouragement). My Instagram feed is full of anger and “the arc of the moral universe bends slow but…” My Facebook brims with exhortations to focus on the positive, on what we can control, on the next fight. I live in a poor Democratic stronghold […]

Donald Trump

Pyromaniac-in-Chief – America goes MAGA to Burn it all Down

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Reelecting the Insurrectionist who provoked the January 6 attack is a monumental dereliction of civic duty by the American people. Trump was provided a plurality mandate — enough of a match for him to burn America down. The electorate affirmed that the worst human being to hold the presidency deserves […]

Donald Trump

Requiem for an Empire: How America’s Strongman will hasten the Decline of U.S. Global Power

Alfred W. McCoy

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that U.S. global hegemony would persist to 2040 or 2050, he argued that “the demise of the United States as the global superpower could […]

Republican Party

Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Code Pink ) – Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in Washington, and the most certain to provide continuity with all that is wrong with U.S. foreign policy, from Cuba to the Middle East to China. The only area where […]

Afghanistan

How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan

Marc Martorell Junyent

Review of Amin Saikal, “How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– More than three years have passed since US troops left Afghanistan in August 2021, putting an end to an occupation that lasted two […]

Donald Trump

Seeds of Resistance: Reviving the Peace Movement in the Age of Trump

William D. Hartung

( Tomdispatch.com ) – When the election results came in on November 5th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to what I experienced when Ronald Reagan rode to power in 1980, or with George W. Bush’s tainted victory over Al Gore in 2000. After some grieving, the first question that […]

Donald Trump

Project Esther: A Trumpian Blueprint to Crush anticolonial Resistance

Yoav Litvin

The Heritage Foundation strategy named after the biblical Jewish queen offers insights into the persecution those who oppose Zionism and white-supremacy will likely face in Trump’s America. ( Al Jazeera English ) – Donald Trump’s re-election as president of the United States marks a shift in US policy – from the Joe Biden administration’s hypocritical […]

Donald Trump

Netanyahu and Trump: The Tag Team from a Fascist Hell

Yoav Litvin

Both Trump and Netanyahu rely on a violent cult of tradition to advance their nationalist agendas and push a global system of apartheid, argues Yoav Litvin. ( The New Arab ) – In what war criminal and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called “history’s greatest comeback,” sexual predator, game show host and former Wrestlemania idol […]

Bill of Rights

A Democracy of Voices, If we can Keep It: Threats to Free Expression in the Trump Era

Tomdispatch

By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) – I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, about controversies over it. I even sang “I Like to Be in America” at the top of my lungs […]