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Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter? / By Tom Engelhardt, Tom Dispatch A Child Today Is Being Born into the Slow-Motion Equivalent of Hiroshima and Nagasaki tomdispatch.com/climate-chan… via @TomDisPatch
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A child born today is, in truth, being delivered into the slow-motion climate equivalent of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and, for such a kid, there’s unlikely to be any ducking and covering, says @TomDispatch. commondreams.org/opinion/tru…

Trump, Faced With Global Armageddon, Does Everything He Can to Bring It On | Common Dreams

​From opening 1.3 billion acres of coastline to oil and gas drilling to promising to resume nuclear testing, Trump invites us to pick our own apocalypse.

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No Ducking and Covering for Us f.mtr.cool/kxwpyxdiyd Consider it truly strange that we humans have come up with not one but two ways to potentially do ourselves and this planet in @tomdispatch
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An Unexpected Con To End Free Speech How Trump Uses Jews by @MatteaKramer and @TomDispatch original.antiwar.com/Mattea_…

An Unexpected Con To End Free Speech

Rooting out terrorism and antisemitism was the supposed reason that plainclothed ICE agents arrested doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, after she coauthored a

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A Thermonuclear Hair Trigger by William J. Astore @TomDispatch #nuclearweapons original.antiwar.com/William…
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Escalating the Escalation: A Murder Incorporated Tale of the Drug Wars by Greg Grandin and Tom Engelhardt @GregGrandin @TomDispatch #WaronDrugs #LatinAmerica #Venezuela original.antiwar.com/Greg_Gr…

Escalating the Escalation: A Murder Incorporated Tale of the Drug Wars

Reprinted from TomDispatch: There’s one rule in the age of Donald Trump. When it comes to him, you simply can’t rule anything out. It’s true that, only recently, when asked about the possibility

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He’s clearly right that heaven will indeed be a problem for him, since he’s so intent on sending us all, himself included, to hell in a handbasket, says @TomDispatch commondreams.org/opinion/tru…

Trump: A Symptom of the End of the World? | Common Dreams

​The president of the United States is deeply involved in dealing with the two ways we human beings have figured out how to destroy ourselves (and potentially so much else on this planet): nuclear...

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Trump’s Greatest Skill f.mtr.cool/awcybmmykq Tom Engelhardt: Creating a new East Wing of Heaven, while sending the rest of us to hell in a handbasket. @tomdispatch #trummp
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More than 200,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the wake of the post-9/11 wars writes @ishaantharoor, citing our research. washingtonpost.com/world/202…

Column | Dick Cheney’s Iraq War legacy lives on

The former vice president is outlived by the cascading consequences of a war he defended to the last, even as Republican politics shifted.

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The average monthly SNAP benefit is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit is up to $550 a person/mo. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. Working people want leaders whose word means something.
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This Veteran’s Day, we’re remembering the 7,053 service members killed in the so-called “War on Terror,” and the estimated 30,177 service members and veterans that died by suicide in the 20 years that followed Sept. 11, 2001.
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NEWS: Airlines whose profits were threatened by Trump’s flight reductions funneled huge cash to the Senate Democrats who voted to help the GOP end the shutdown without preventing huge cuts to Americans’ health care.
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What Wider War in Venezuela Would Bring Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity #Venezuela original.antiwar.com/Veteran…

What Wider War in Venezuela Would Bring

Reprinted from Consortium News: ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: What Wider War in Venezuela Would Bring Dear President Trump: We

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H.R. 1 diminishes transparency around Pentagon and military-related spending and increases it beyond the $1 trillion mark in FY 2026.
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People fought and died to defend our democracy. We need a government and an economy that work for all of us, not just a handful of wealthy campaign donors. That's the nationalism I believe in.
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“If Trump had any shred of humanity in him, he would do whatever was necessary to prevent hunger and suffering in the country he claims to love," said one critic. commondreams.org/news/trump-…

'Illegal, Immoral, and Absolutely Cruel': Trump Says He'll Defy Court Order on SNAP Payments |...

“If Trump had any shred of humanity in him, he would do whatever was necessary to prevent hunger and suffering in the country he claims to love," said one critic.

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Dick Cheney, one of the key architects of the post-9/11 war era, has died.  An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people have died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting.
In this June 1, 2009 file photo, former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

ALT In this June 1, 2009 file photo, former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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No Kings, Second Time Around f.mtr.cool/fdfgfdlqcj I suddenly thought of someone who wasn’t there. Oops, let me take that back. He was there, he just didn’t know it. @tomdispatch
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No Kings, Second Time Around f.mtr.cool/qhgjciljgm I suddenly thought of someone who wasn’t there. Oops, let me take that back. He was there, he just didn’t know it. @tomdispatch instagr.am/p/DQXGFYskZeu/We have great deals...
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No Kings, Second Time Around f.mtr.cool/qhgjciljgm I suddenly thought of someone who wasn’t there. Oops, let me take that back. He was there, he just didn’t know it. @tomdispatch instagr.am/p/DQXGFYskZeu/
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