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Mainstream, alternative, and conspiracy media have basically got the whole tariff war wrong, and done so on purpose. Basically, all of the mainstream media, and most of the alternative media, and even the conspiracy media, is getting the whole tariff war story completely wrong, and doing so intentionally. There is …

“Spending $1 trillion on the Pentagon while hollowing out resources for diplomacy and launching a global trade war is a recipe for international conflict and American decline,” warned one analyst. President Donald Trump on Monday publicly backed an annual budget of roughly $1 trillion for the U.S. military as his administration rushed …

Taking on the MICIMATT(SH) – (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank) In September 2007, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and historian William Astore emailed me out of the blue. He’d been reading articles at TomDispatch, the website I set up soon after the 9/11 attacks to deal with this country’s Global War on Terror, especially the invasions …

President Donald Trump’s latest executive order titled “RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY” replicates a tactic used by all authoritarian regimes. In the name of countering bias, they distort the nation’s history into self-serving mythology. History will be used to justify the power of the ruling elites in the present by …

The Rising Danger of the Global Submarine Nuclear Arms Race. Right now, beneath the world’s oceans, approximately 30 nuclear-armed submarines patrol silently, virtually undetectable. These submarines represent humanity’s deadliest doomsday machines: stealthy, always on alert, and capable of launching thousands of nuclear warheads at a moment’s notice. At any given time, …

Google is part of a Customs and Border Protection plan to use machine learning for surveillance, documents reviewed by The Intercept reveal. Five years after Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian assured employees that the company was “not working on any projects associated with immigration enforcement at the southern border,” federal contract documents reviewed …

A lot has happened in the first three months of 2025. For many leading countries this short period would be recorded in history as a time of big changes. Although the origin of many big changes may be traced to the USA, other leading countries were impacted in a big …

How Europe Can Run an Alliance Designed for U.S. Control During its 76-year history, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has faced its share of crises, but none have been as grave as what it confronts today. Since returning to office, U.S. President Donald Trump has questioned the two core principles …

Any conflict risks going nuclear if one of the belligerent parties choses to use their ultimate weapon rather than accept the possibility of defeat. Nations engaged in wars with conventional weapons are not likely to hold back from using their most powerful weapons if they believe they are losing the …

U.S. President Donald Trump may, or may not, have been joking when he promised to be dictator for a day or when he called himself “the king” or when he asserted that he is above the law or even when he has teased about seeking a third term. But in his first weeks in the White House, a contest …