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Calls for a general strike in the US are growing. It’s important to understand how to organize one, given their key role in overcoming tyrants around the world. Something is in the air: A perception that American democracy and livable conditions for working people may only be saved by the …

Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, economic austerity, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, police violence, Al Qaeda, ISIS, media disinformation, racism, war propaganda  weapons of mass destruction, the derogation of international law, the criminalization of politics, the CIA, the FBI, climate change,  nuclear war, Fukushima, nuclear radiation, …

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 …

“They’re dismantling our country. They’re looting our government. And they think we’ll just watch.” In communities across the United States and also overseas, coordinated “Hands Off” protests are taking place far and wide Saturday in the largest public rebuke yet to President Donald Trump and top henchman Elon Musk’s assault on the …

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 …