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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Why Not Another Half Trillion Dollars for War? Normally, when one develops all the symptoms of a disease, the response ought not to be exacerbating the disease, but seeking to cure it. Approaches to healthcare in the United States have gone off the rails, of course, but think about the disease of military spending.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026Why Not Another Half Trillion Dollars for War? Normally, when one develops all the symptoms of a disease, the response ought not to be exacerbating the disease, but seeking to cure it. Approaches to healthcare in the United States have gone off the rails, of course, but think about the disease of military spending.
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Friday, January 16, 2026
Our Computers and Televisions Spray Toxic Sludge A television writer named Annie Jacobsen recently tweeted that she'd been "prophetic" when she wrote a real CIA scheme of attacking Venezuela into a fictional program, after which the U.S. government actually attacked Venezuela. Another word would be "propagandistic" -- not in the sense of the direct, immediate lie, but in the sense of the long con. While there have been societies that could not imagine murder, and in which ..
Friday, January 16, 2026Our Computers and Televisions Spray Toxic Sludge A television writer named Annie Jacobsen recently tweeted that she'd been "prophetic" when she wrote a real CIA scheme of attacking Venezuela into a fictional program, after which the U.S. government actually attacked Venezuela. Another word would be "propagandistic" -- not in the sense of the direct, immediate lie, but in the sense of the long con. While there have been societies that could not imagine murder, and in which ..
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Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Basic Sanity is Now Radicalism, and That's a Good Thing We live in a world where feeding grain that could feed 10,000 people to captive animals in order to butcher those animals and eat their dead flesh, thereby feeding 1,000 people and devastating our ecosystems, is unquestionable, where grotesque levels of consumption based on climate and environmental destruction and human exploitation are just part of living, where locking huge numbers of people in cages is deemed a positive...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026Basic Sanity is Now Radicalism, and That's a Good Thing We live in a world where feeding grain that could feed 10,000 people to captive animals in order to butcher those animals and eat their dead flesh, thereby feeding 1,000 people and devastating our ecosystems, is unquestionable, where grotesque levels of consumption based on climate and environmental destruction and human exploitation are just part of living, where locking huge numbers of people in cages is deemed a positive...
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Sunday, December 21, 2025
Model Campaign Platform This is what I think a decent and humane foreign policy section of a congressional campaign website would look like:
Sunday, December 21, 2025Model Campaign Platform This is what I think a decent and humane foreign policy section of a congressional campaign website would look like:
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Friday, December 5, 2025
Top 10 Reasons to Pretend It's Unusual for the U.S. Government to Blow People Up But maybe there are good, or not-so-good, reasons to behave as if Pete Hegseth is the first U.S. government employee to order murders. Maybe these reasons explain the strange silences surrounding us. Here are ten possibilities...
Friday, December 5, 2025Top 10 Reasons to Pretend It's Unusual for the U.S. Government to Blow People Up But maybe there are good, or not-so-good, reasons to behave as if Pete Hegseth is the first U.S. government employee to order murders. Maybe these reasons explain the strange silences surrounding us. Here are ten possibilities...
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Monday, December 1, 2025
War on Venezuela Is A Lie What about the things we are being told right now to try to get a war started (which will likely mostly be forgotten in the future)? Well, first of all, what we're being told is not working. Polling shows the U.S. public strongly opposed to a war on Venezuela. That fact will vanish from future tellings whether the war happens or not. Consider, though, what it says about the need to bring democracy to Venezuela through a war.
Monday, December 1, 2025War on Venezuela Is A Lie What about the things we are being told right now to try to get a war started (which will likely mostly be forgotten in the future)? Well, first of all, what we're being told is not working. Polling shows the U.S. public strongly opposed to a war on Venezuela. That fact will vanish from future tellings whether the war happens or not. Consider, though, what it says about the need to bring democracy to Venezuela through a war.
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Monday, November 24, 2025
Disobey an Order that is Illegal or from Trump (But I Repeat Myself) If Trump is ordering you to use force or the threat of force, you can tell whether it's an illegal order simply by checking whether his mouth is moving.
Monday, November 24, 2025Disobey an Order that is Illegal or from Trump (But I Repeat Myself) If Trump is ordering you to use force or the threat of force, you can tell whether it's an illegal order simply by checking whether his mouth is moving.
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Saturday, November 22, 2025
The UN has Voted to Put the Occupation of Iraq in Charge of Gaza Ah, those were the days. The UN had been blocked by a worldwide popular movement from approving of a war on Iraq. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had dragged the UK along after secretly demanding that George W. Bush first attack Afghanistan, because Blair believed he would be better able to sell a war on Iraq once there was a war on Afghanistan. And once the destruction of Iraq was well underway, the UN crept out . . .
Saturday, November 22, 2025The UN has Voted to Put the Occupation of Iraq in Charge of Gaza Ah, those were the days. The UN had been blocked by a worldwide popular movement from approving of a war on Iraq. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had dragged the UK along after secretly demanding that George W. Bush first attack Afghanistan, because Blair believed he would be better able to sell a war on Iraq once there was a war on Afghanistan. And once the destruction of Iraq was well underway, the UN crept out . . .
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Saturday, October 25, 2025
Dismantle the House of Dynamite This film depicts the outrageous absurdity, not only of launching a nuclear first-strike, but also of launching a nuclear second-strike.
Saturday, October 25, 2025Dismantle the House of Dynamite This film depicts the outrageous absurdity, not only of launching a nuclear first-strike, but also of launching a nuclear second-strike.
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Friday, October 24, 2025
The Murdering of Boaters is Public, Not Secret Trump is murdering the occupants of boats in distant waters. The problem is not that any memos his flacks may have written about it are secret, as Jameel Jaffer wrote in Thursday's New York Times. Ever since Rosa Brooks told a congressional committee that Obama was either murdering lots of people or doing something perfectly acceptable, depending on the words in memos he was keeping secret, lawyers have been arguing that...
Friday, October 24, 2025The Murdering of Boaters is Public, Not Secret Trump is murdering the occupants of boats in distant waters. The problem is not that any memos his flacks may have written about it are secret, as Jameel Jaffer wrote in Thursday's New York Times. Ever since Rosa Brooks told a congressional committee that Obama was either murdering lots of people or doing something perfectly acceptable, depending on the words in memos he was keeping secret, lawyers have been arguing that...
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Saturday, October 11, 2025
Nobel Committee Tried Its Best to Give Trump a Peace Prize But the Nobel Committee did the next best thing, and must be hoping in vain that Trump manages to understand that.
Saturday, October 11, 2025Nobel Committee Tried Its Best to Give Trump a Peace Prize But the Nobel Committee did the next best thing, and must be hoping in vain that Trump manages to understand that.
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Sunday, October 5, 2025
What Abolishing Militaries Includes Abolition isnt just a fun word to say. I want to abolish prisons, doesnt just mean that you think there are too many prisons and they are too horrible. Abolish the police isnt just a hip way to say Im angry at abuse by police. Abolishing something means eliminating it entirely, which often also means creating very different institutions that do things very differently. Entirely means every last speck.
Sunday, October 5, 2025What Abolishing Militaries Includes Abolition isnt just a fun word to say. I want to abolish prisons, doesnt just mean that you think there are too many prisons and they are too horrible. Abolish the police isnt just a hip way to say Im angry at abuse by police. Abolishing something means eliminating it entirely, which often also means creating very different institutions that do things very differently. Entirely means every last speck.
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Friday, October 3, 2025
32% of Mass Shooters Are Veterans. 0% of Media Outlets Will Say So. Two U.S. military veterans allegedly shot and killed at least three people each this past weekend, Thomas Jacob Sanford in Michigan, and Nigel Max Edge in North Carolina. So, it is a safe bet that they will both be added (with, almost certainly, no mention of their status as veterans) to the database maintained by Mother Jones that I have for years been using as a starting point to track statistics on mass shootings.
Friday, October 3, 202532% of Mass Shooters Are Veterans. 0% of Media Outlets Will Say So. Two U.S. military veterans allegedly shot and killed at least three people each this past weekend, Thomas Jacob Sanford in Michigan, and Nigel Max Edge in North Carolina. So, it is a safe bet that they will both be added (with, almost certainly, no mention of their status as veterans) to the database maintained by Mother Jones that I have for years been using as a starting point to track statistics on mass shootings.
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Monday, September 29, 2025
How Not to Halt a Genocide All those courageous United Nation delegates triumphantly walking out (gasp!) on a Netanyahu speech on Friday actually had a legal obligation to arrest him and deliver him to the International Criminal Court that has long since issued a warrant for his arrest.
Monday, September 29, 2025How Not to Halt a Genocide All those courageous United Nation delegates triumphantly walking out (gasp!) on a Netanyahu speech on Friday actually had a legal obligation to arrest him and deliver him to the International Criminal Court that has long since issued a warrant for his arrest.
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Sunday, September 21, 2025
House Speaker Mike Johnson is a Leading War Criminal It's a crowded field, I know. Soldiers are proudly publishing videos of their own gruesome crimes. Prime Ministers are touring the world in defiance of arrest warrants. But I want to make sure we're aware of one prominent member of the list of individuals responsible for the crime of war: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (Republican from the state of total submission to Trump).
Sunday, September 21, 2025House Speaker Mike Johnson is a Leading War Criminal It's a crowded field, I know. Soldiers are proudly publishing videos of their own gruesome crimes. Prime Ministers are touring the world in defiance of arrest warrants. But I want to make sure we're aware of one prominent member of the list of individuals responsible for the crime of war: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (Republican from the state of total submission to Trump).
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Friday, September 19, 2025
The Shooter's Ideology The hunt for the political ideology driving each murder that makes the news obscures some key points.
Friday, September 19, 2025The Shooter's Ideology The hunt for the political ideology driving each murder that makes the news obscures some key points.
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Sunday, September 14, 2025
There Was a Boat. That Was the Only True Part. This was what the President of the United States initially lied: Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro . . .
Sunday, September 14, 2025There Was a Boat. That Was the Only True Part. This was what the President of the United States initially lied: Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro . . .
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Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Europe Does Opposite of Restoring Names to Departments of War The European Commission, far from eager to restore the non-Orwellian name to departments of war -- long since rebranded as departments of "defense" -- is pushing to get deadly weapons categorized as especially ethical "investments" meeting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria. Specifically, the tools of war, according to the European Commission, advance the cause of peace.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025Europe Does Opposite of Restoring Names to Departments of War The European Commission, far from eager to restore the non-Orwellian name to departments of war -- long since rebranded as departments of "defense" -- is pushing to get deadly weapons categorized as especially ethical "investments" meeting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria. Specifically, the tools of war, according to the European Commission, advance the cause of peace.
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Saturday, August 30, 2025
LA, DC, Chicago and Mass Nonviolent Uprisings There's already a long string of successful creative actions being employed nonviolently.
Saturday, August 30, 2025LA, DC, Chicago and Mass Nonviolent Uprisings There's already a long string of successful creative actions being employed nonviolently.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Democratic National Committee Deserves More Credit on Gaza The Democratic National Committee, the people who run the least popular political party in recorded U.S. polling, do not get the respect they deserve especially when they take a bold, principled stand for a genocide, as they did on Tuesday, voting down a resolution for an arms embargo on Israel.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025Democratic National Committee Deserves More Credit on Gaza The Democratic National Committee, the people who run the least popular political party in recorded U.S. polling, do not get the respect they deserve especially when they take a bold, principled stand for a genocide, as they did on Tuesday, voting down a resolution for an arms embargo on Israel.
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