Memorial Day: The Glorification of War, Not War’s Victims
Edward Curtin Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather, a day for promoting war. If it were…
The Founding Standard: Due Process, Declared War, and the Killings That Are Not Either
Jeffrey Wernick ScheerPost There is a principle the founders held that the contemporary American government has substantially abandoned. The principle is that the state cannot kill without due process. Due…
The President of Peace Makes War on the Planet
Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch Hey, I always suspected that Donald Trump and I, having both grown up in New York City in the 1950s and early 1960s, had something in common.…
Reining In The Pentagon
Can the Military-Industrial Beast Be Tamed? William D. Hartung Right at this moment, we are witnessing an unprecedented shift of resources from domestic investments in the United States to the…
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How the US Became an International Serial Killer
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war…
The U.S. Bombs Kids So Palmer Luckey Can Have Nice Things
Megan Russell Last week, we watched a U.S.-made Tomahawk missile murder more than 160+ Iranian school children. We watched in horror, helpless to stop the incoming massacres as the U.S.…
‘Iran Posed No Imminent Threat’: Trump’s Counterterrorism Director Resigns in Protest
Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent announced his resignation Tuesday, accusing President Donald Trump of being manipulated by Israel into launching a war on Iran.…
“It’s a Lawless World Led by Idiots”
Joshua Scheer As the U.S.–Israeli war on Iran enters its second week, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges delivers one of the most blistering indictments yet of the political class steering…
The United States Is On The Path To Fascism; How To Change Course
Posted by Joshua Scheer As the United States hurtles deeper into political, economic, and imperial crisis, the word “fascism” is no longer rhetorical—it’s descriptive. On this week’s Clearing the FOG,…
Why the Trump Administration Doesn’t Just Break the Law
By Maha Hilal for Tom Dispatch In response to his sentencing following his conviction on 34 felonies in May 2024, President Trump stated that he had “won the election in…
TRUMP’S WARS: THE POPULIST CRITIQUE
By Charles Derber Trump’s foreign policy is coming into clearer focus, as his attacks on Venezuela and his threats against Colombia, Mexico, Cuba and Greenland, as well as Iran, have…
Who’s the Real Outlaw at Sea? Trump’s Tanker Grab vs. the Houthis’ Anti-Genocide Blockade
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies for Codepink The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also…
How to topple Elliot Abrams’ delusion: A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela
By Michelle Ellner Elliott Abrams has resurfaced with familiar instructions on how to “fix” Venezuela, a country he neither understands nor respects, yet feels entitled to rearrange like a piece…