Submitted by: ButtCracker — Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions. Ask people to name the key minds that have shaped America’s burst of radical right-wing attacks on working conditions, consumer rights…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a product…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Two new studies from Europe show that the number of birds in agricultural areas of France has crashed by a third in just 15 years, with some species being almost eradicated. The collapse in the bird…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — As I was putting the finishing touches on my new book, the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute published an estimate of the taxpayer dollars that will have gone into America’s war on…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — As the U.S. moves closer toward all out war in Syria, a lot of what our government seems to base its intelligence on, especially claims of chemical weapon use by they Syrian government, is from an…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — t was a sad spectacle to see U.S. brass rubbishing the Constitution and trying to silence critics of the U.S. strike on Syria, says Ray McGovern in this commentary. The U.S. Constitution and international law suffered…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — US media outlets are recklessly promoting war with help from neocons, including Arab American right-wingers who do not represent the views of the region they are demanding Trump bomb. American media outlets can’t help themselves. They…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — On Sunday, President Trump announced his intention to make those responsible for an alleged chemical weapons attack on Douma, including the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian allies, pay a “big price” for their continued disregard for…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — [Note for TomDispatch Readers: This is your last chance to get your own signed, personalized copy of James Carroll’s moving new novel, The Cloister, his vivid retelling of the medieval love story of Abelard and Héloïse,…
“All our lauded technological progress – our very civilization – is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.” – Albert Einstein Submitted by: ButtCracker
