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For those seeking a deeper understanding of our post-9/11 world & a clear sense of how our imperial globe actually works. https://tomdispatch.com/
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@normansolomon.bsky.social at TomDispatch: How militarism has been integral to the rise of the billionaire tech barons now teaming up with Donald Trump to create an autocracy. tomdispatch.com/how-...

Donald Trump and the Military-Industrial-Tech Complex by @normansolomon.bsky.social tomdispatch.com/how-...

How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy: A True Cost of War by @normansolomon.bsky.social tomdispatch.com/how-...

@normansolomon at TomDispatch: How militarism has been integral to the rise of the billionaire tech barons now teaming up with Donald Trump to create an autocracy. tomdispatch.com/how-...

"Let’s assume that Trump’s fascination w Greenland is unrelated to fossil fuels or military installations.That leaves one other obvious possibility: Greenland’s expansive reservoir of minerals, deposits crucial to making the gadgets we use & producing the green technologies that T appears to oppose"

Four more years of Donald Trump should worry anyone, whether your fears have to do with the dismantling of this country or the taking down of our world, writes @tomdispatch.bsky.social www.commondreams.org/opinion/nami...

Alfred McCoy joins us to discuss his recent article at @tomdispatch.bsky.social, “The Old World Order Is Dying. What New World Order Is Struggling to Be Born?” soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

Bending The Arc of the Moral Universe Toward Justice by Douglas H. White tomdispatch.com/surv...

Douglas H. White at TomDispatch today: A member of the last generation of Black Americans to live under Jim Crow and the culture of racism puts Donald Trump in the grim context of this country's racist past in a striking fashion. tomdispatch.com/surv...

Surviving Hard Times: The Last Generation of Black Americans Under Jim Crow and the Culture of Racism in America by Douglas H. White tomdispatch.com/surv...

Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch today: On a planet itself beginning to come apart at the seams, a president focused all too wildly on himself above all else, is no small disaster. tomdispatch.com/d-is...

D Is for Donald and Decline by Tom Engelhardt tomdispatch.com/d-is...

Decline, Baby, Decline by Tom Engelhardt tomdispatch.com/d-is...

Andrea Mazzarino at TomDispatch today: How the war on terror is coming home in the second Trump era. tomdispatch.com/the-...

"With the Internal Revenue Service in effect transformed into a shell corporation laundering the money of the ultra-rich, why should we pay taxes?" www.theguardian.com/...

"And if people have bad experiences with the government...if bridges collapse because the funds to repair them are cut off – well, there’s proof that the government can’t do anything right, and deserves to be destroyed." www.theguardian.com/...

Donald Trump's 'Immigrant Problem,' and the Rest of Us by Andrea Mazzarino tomdispatch.com/the-...

The War on Terror Turns Inward by Andrea Mazzarino tomdispatch.com/the-...

The Heart (or Graphite) of Greed: Why Donald Trump's Obsession with Greenland Is All About China by @joshuafrank.bsky.social tomdispatch.com/the-...

@joshuafrank.bsky.social at TomDispatch today: Greenland as the latest potential casualty of Trump’s quest for global domination and his fear of China’s economic power. tomdispatch.com/the-...

Donald Trump's Version of Eco-Colonialism by @joshuafrank.bsky.social tomdispatch.com/the-...

Making Old-School Imperialism Great Again by William Astore tomdispatch.com/gree...

Guantanamo has never solved a problem, only repeatedly created new ones and, it's now about to do so again. www.theguardian.com/...

Greenland! Canada! The Panama Canal! The Gulf of America! Gaza! Manifest Destiny Gets a Reboot Under President Donald Trump by William Astore tomdispatch.com/gree...

William Hartung on the nightmare of the latest generation of nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles being developed by the Pentagon. Just what we need, of course. responsiblestatecraf...

Will it be Donald Trump's and Elon Musk's "manifest destiny" to turn space over to the Chinese (despite Space X)? www.juancole.com/202...

The NYT on just how unchecked Donald Trump is the second time around. www.nytimes.com/2025...

William Astore at TomDispatch today: Donald Trump as America's retro president from 1898. tomdispatch.com/gree...

"It is no accident that Trump is coming for the arts, similar to other fascists in history." www.theguardian.com/...

"Donald Trump’s re-election is the greatest, most successful propaganda op in history." www.theguardian.com/...

Trump has empowered what's called "the God squad" to override the Endangered Species Act even if it results in the extinction of a species, in order to drill yet more oil and natural gas. In short, the bald eagle is going to get ever balder. www.theguardian.com/...

A look at the fantasy of "the great replacement theory" and immigration and how Donald Trump is now applying it to Gaza (all too literally). fpif.org/trump-to-ga...

“The mainstream American media has failed. What is happening is not a normal transition; it’s a constitutional crisis. That’s the way the American media should be covering this and they’re not." www.theguardian.com/...

"With external communications cut off, extensive work-stop orders and dramatic changes in the federal workforce, the ability of any health agency is severely limited and ultimately will serve no one but those who choose to profit off the suffering." www.theguardian.com/...

Robert Lipsyte, Beating the Bully tomdispatch.com/how-...

How to Bump, Lump, Crumple, and Eventually Dump Donald Trump by Robert Lipsyte tomdispatch.com/how-...

Robert Lipsyte at TomDispatch today: How to deal with an all-American world of bullies. tomdispatch.com/how-...

William Hartung at TomDispatch today: Music, theater, painting, and other forms of artistic expression have, in fact, been part of every major movement for change in recent memory. tomdispatch.com/in-s...

In Stunningly Bright Colors: A Cry for Common Sense and Common Humanity by William Hartung tomdispatch.com/in-s...

Make Art, Not War by William Hartung tomdispatch.com/in-s...

This scarily prescient article by @tomdispatch.bsky.social from 2020 is more relevant than ever

The Secret War Within the Pentagon by Michael Klare tomdispatch.com/a-ne...

Michael Klare at TomDispatch today: A new version of the Military-Industrial Complex grows in wealth and power. tomdispatch.com/a-ne...

A New Military-Industrial Complex Arises by Michael Klare tomdispatch.com/a-ne...

“At that point, the constitution falls apart.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

King Donald: Facing the Rise of Fascism Like Fools for Freedom by Rebecca Gordon tomdispatch.com/king...

Rebecca Gordon, A Litany of Horrors in the New Age of Trump tomdispatch.com/king...

Rebecca Gordon at TomDispatch today: How to sustain hope in the ever-grimmer Age of Trump tomdispatch.com/king...

@memomiller.bsky.social at TomDispatch today: What if, in reality, there weren’t two distinctly opposed and bickering visions of border security in the Biden and Trump eras, but two allied versions of it? tomdispatch.com/the-...

The Mass Deportation Handoff: Biden to Trump, and the Booming Border-Industrial Complex by Todd Miller tomdispatch.com/the-...