> ..begin.. by giving less attention to Trump’s executive orders —.. defined by a law professor as “just press releases with nicer stationery” — and more attention to the effects of his policies that get enacted. And while his ruminations may bear noting, they could appear, not in headlines, but.. page 11 (or its.. equivalent), which is where the #BostonGlobe relegated its report of the local 100,000-strong #HandsOff! protest.
https://tomdispatch.com/seven-and-a-half-propositions-for-journalism-in-the-age-of-trump/
#TomDispatch #uspol #usmedia #NanLevinson

> “No ICE, no fear, immigrants are welcome here!” I also copied down some of the homemade signs they were carrying. (Making such signs definitely seems to be a sign of the times.)
> Here are just a few that caught my eye: “Resist like it’s 1938 Germany”; “Deport Trump, not Students”; “Trump to planet: Drop Dead”.. “Turd Reich”; “MAGA is a death cult”; “Think while it’s still legal”; “Is there a vaccine for stupidity?”; “3rd term, Sing-Sing”; “No more Dogey Business”;
https://tomdispatch.com/seven-and-a-half-propositions-for-journalism-in-the-age-of-trump/
#TomDispatch #ProtestPosters #uspol #usmedia

1Q84 ?Q0Q4? 村上春樹はまだ米国にいるかな？最近の状況について何か発言、　何か書いているのかな？
> "[We].. remember.. scenes from.. Orwell’s.. 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the Ministry of Truth; or the ruling party’s memorably grim slogans, “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery.” But for me, the most disturbing image of all — and I first read the book in high school — was the “Two Minutes Hate,”
https://tomdispatch.com/fortress-america/
#AlfredMcCoy #TomDispatch #TwoMinutesHate #Orwell

> “It is exactly what gives you hope when you see this happen–when you see how hungry people are for the truth. When it is offered to them, they seize it.” Truth has been at least as important as law in the shift of status of indigenous Americans, for even the legal gains seem to be built on a foundation of changed imagination and rewritten history. Columbus Day became an occasion to rethink the past, and rethinking the past opened the way to a different future.
https://tomdispatch.com/rebecca-solnit-on-hope-and-history/
#TheHopeLady #RebeccaSolnit #TomDispatch #uspol #ColombusDay

When I learned to love The Hope Lady.
> This resurgence also demonstrates the sidelong ways of change: from an argument in Geneva to a land mass in northern Canada, from a critique of the past to a new path into the future, from ideas and words to land and power. This is how history is made, out of such unlikely materials, and of hope.
https://tomdispatch.com/rebecca-solnit-on-hope-and-history/
#RebeccaSolnit #TheHopeLady #TomDispatch #uspol #WorldPol #AnotherWorld

One thing probably won't change with the "stupid coup"(Rebecca Solnit) ...
> One-hundred days later and it’s remarkable how little has changed when it comes to pouring money into this country’s vast military infrastructure and the wars, ongoing or imagined, that accompany it.
https://tomdispatch.com/why-the-pentagon-budget-never-goes-down/
#MandySmithberger #TomDispatch #PentagonBudget #uspol

> Let me then mention a coincidence that helped create a network. ( You decide if it’s a conspiracy. )...

https://tomdispatch.com/solnit-on-coincidences-networks-and-conspiracies/
#ConspiracyTheory #TomDispatch #RebeccaSolnit #AdamHochschild

> The use of the car, the burning of fossil fuels, the making of war, the arrogance of empire — few institutions or ways of life were more “human,” more essential to our nature, than slavery. In the piece that follows, Adam Hochschild takes us back to the first great human-rights campaign in history — the movement to end slavery in the British Empire.

https://tomdispatch.com/adam-hochschild-history-to-the-rescue/

#AdamHochschild #BuryTheChains #TomDispatch

"With the thoughts that I'd be thinkin'
I could be another Lincoln,
If I only had a brain..." -- Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz
> Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_Union_speech
/HT #WilliamAstore at #TomDispatch #Lincoln
@bsmall2@writing.exchange

> ... you can’t do a wrong thing the right way..
> I want an effective American foreign (and military) policy where, to cite Abraham Lincoln, right makes might..
> Color this retired Air Force officer red, as in angry and scared..
> .. In truth, America’s real political party is a warbird with two right wings...
> .. business-speak.. might appeal to Musk and Trump, isn’t it time to seek win-win scenarios rather than war-war ones?
https://tomdispatch.com/end-warness-not-wokeness/
#WilliamAstore at #TomDispatch #uspol

> Today’s crisis has been evolving for so many years now. In fact, much (though admittedly, not all) of what we’re witnessing today might simply be considered an escalation of the dire turn that this country took after the attacks of September 11, 2001, nearly a quarter of a century ago...
https://tomdispatch.com/once-upon-a-time-a-nation-of-laws/
#KarenGreenberg #KarenJGreenberg at #TomDispatch on #PresidentAuthority

> We often think about nuclear weapons as a future security threat: bombs that could be detonated now or later, altering the fate of our world.
> Yet nuclear weapons have already seeped into our waters and tapped into our soils. Since its invention, it has and continues to harm all of life — humans and non-humans alike.
https://www.bombshelltoe.com/atomicterrain/
#BombShellToe #LovelyUmayam
via #WilliamHartung #WilliamDHartung at #TomDispatch #NuclearWeapons #NuclearSeepage

> ... during President Biden’s four years in office, he gave 40 contracts worth more than $2 billion to the same GEO Group (and its associated companies) whose stocks spiked with Trump’s election. Under those contracts, the company was to maintain and expand the U.S. immigrant detention system, while providing ankle bracelets for monitoring people on house arrest.
https://tomdispatch.com/the-mass-deportation-handoff-biden-to-trump/
#ToddMiller at #TomDispatch #uspol #Immigration #BorderIndustrialComplex #PresidentBiden

> “We aren’t foolish enough to believe that hope alone carries the day or soothes the soul. No, we believe it’s the other way around; we believe that actions driven by justice, solidarity, and compassion are what sustain hope. Small gusts of good will are acts driven by justice and compassion and solidarity, and they are what soothes our broken hearts.”
https://tomdispatch.com/king-donald/
#RebeccaGordon at #TomDispatch with #FaithfulFools #uspol

> I can’t help thinking of that classic line attributed to King Louis XV of France: “Après moi, le déluge” (“After me, the flood”).

https://tomdispatch.com/king-donald/

#TomDispatch #KingLouisXV #AfterMeTheFlood

> voters who say they’re undecided have largely tuned out politics in these years. Maybe that’s because they’ve long come to believe that all politicians are corrupt or feckless; or maybe it’s because they’ve been around long enough to have concluded that “things never change” and that their own lives are only marginally affected by whoever’s in office; maybe it’s...
https://tomdispatch.com/pennsylvanias-undecideds/
#TomDispatch #BobDreyfuss #uspol #UndecidedVoters

From the Arsenal of Democracy to an Arsenal of Genocide https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/06/from-the-arsenal-of-democracy-to-an-arsenal-of-genocide/ #Israel, #Palestine, #RobertScheer, #Scheerpost, #Tomdispatch, #WilliamJ.Astore

> Boeing.. building military aircraft... aerial refueling tanker, meant to replace the Air Force’s aging fleet.. It.. doesn’t work. At.. a genuine fortune, it’s years behind schedule, plagued by major deficiencies, way over cost, and still not.. ready for use.
https://tomdispatch.com/war-is-bad-for-you-and-the-economy/
#Boeing #BoeingAircraft #BoeingMilitaryAircraft #AerialRefuelingTanker #TomDispatch #TomEngelhardt

Following up on the graphics from #DavidVine's book, #UnitedStatesOfWar and notices the "sources" notes under the graphics. The #CostsOfWar site from #BrownUniversity , #WatsonInstitute of Internation & Public Affairs looks interesting. The site links to articles from #WIlliamHartung and #TomDispatch
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/

Is Tehran Winning the Middle East 🤔

“In the midst of Israel’s ongoing devastation of Gaza, one major piece of Middle Eastern news has yet to hit the headlines.

In a face-off that, in a sense, has lasted since the pro-American Shah of #Iran was overthrown by theocratic clerics in 1979, Iran finally seems to be besting the United States in a significant fashion across the region. It’s a story that needs to be told.”

#Israel #Gaza #Hamas #tomdispatch
https://tomdispatch.com/is-tehran-winning-the-middle-east/