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Initiative-873 gives small flicker of hope: Seattle’s ‘Liberals’ Get Chance to Finally Start Addressing Police Brutality
By Jess Guh, MD
Seattle, WA -- Ever since moving to Seattle it’s become clear to me that though most of its inhabitants identify as liberals, the dominant white culture enables a culture of armchair liberals. When it comes to LGBT rights, Seattle will stand up, but when it comes to addressing issues that actually threaten the comfortable, largely white and privileged population of the Seattle, it’s another story.
Tomgram: William Astore, We Have Met the Alien and He Is Us
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Imagine a secret government facility buried deep in the bowels of a mountain; a deluxe bomb shelter -- encased within dense, almost fissure-less rock -- for top government officials to ride out doomsday.
I did. A lot.
On forgetting and forgiving: Killing and Our Current American Crisis
By John Grant
Kill one person, it’s called murder.
Kill 100,000, it’s called foreign policy.
- A popular bumper sticker
As Police Killings of Minorities Mount, Attacks on Police Like the One in Dallas, While Awful, Are Also Sadly Predictable
By Dave Lindorff
The tragedy that is America has deepened with the news that several people on Thursday organized a military-style sniper attack targeting police in Dallas during a protest march and rally against police brutality and killings of black people in that city.
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Where Did the American Century Go?
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Whose Century Is It?
Life on an Increasingly Improbable Planet
By Tom Engelhardt
Snared in a web of deceit: FBI Investigation Produces No Indictment, But Proves Hillary Clinton’s a Serial Liar
By Dave Lindorff
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Revolving Doors, Robust Rolodexes, and Runaway Generals
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Tomgram: Thomas Frank, Worshipping Money in D.C.
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[Note for TomDispatch Readers: Read today's piece and then get your hands on Thomas Frank's new book, Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? It's the political must-read of this season if you want to know where liberalism went in the last two and a half decades. The next TomDispatch post will be on Tuesday, July 5th. Tom]
Trashing Clinton in the Times: Is Sanders’ End Game to Sell Out His ‘Political Revolution’ or to Take It to November?
By Dave Lindorff
What is Bernie Sanders up to?
I sure don’t know, and I’m sure that Hillary Clinton and her campaign managers are wondering too.
Tomgram: Patrick Cockburn, An Endless Cycle of Indecisive Wars
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Tomgram: John Feffer, Donald Trump and America B
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What is the Big Lesson of the UK 'Brexit' Vote for Americans? It Was Done With Paper Ballots
By Dave Lindorff
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics... and U.S. Africa Command
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Internet divide issues persist: An Emancipation Proclamation for the Digital Age
By Alfredo Lopez and Jackie Smith
We just celebrated "Juneteenth" (the start of the end of slavery in the U.S.) amid tumultuous and sometimes confusing politics and what appears to be an increase in racist mobilization. For internet activists the situation begs the question: what, at this moment in our history, is the relationship between technology and black people?
Tomgram: William Astore, The End of Air Power?
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Barbarism, civilization and modern politics: PTSD as a Political Football in a Hobbesian Age
By John Grant
If our wars were to make killers of all combat soldiers, rather than men who have killed, civilian life would be endangered for generations or, in fact, made impossible.
Total Recall: New poem by ThisCantBeHappening! resident poet Gary Lindorff
(Prefacing remarks: My dealer writes to thank me
for letting them fix the airbag on my Suby Outback.
Apparently I was driving my car for many years with
a defective airbag that was a potentially lethal weapon.
A Critique of Human Society since the Neolithic Revolution
There is a long history of social critics and progressive thinkers offering critiques of human society.
What about cops?: Ban Assault Weapons, But for Police Too, Not Just Civilians
By Dave Lindorff
A few years ago, I contacted my local police department asking them to send an officer over to put down a doe that had been hit by a car on the street in front of my house. She had suffered a left front and right rear leg break but had somehow flopped herself well into the yard and was on the ground suffering. When a cop arrived, and began to approach her with his pistol I warned him off, saying the deer would hurt herself more trying to get away.
Supreme Hypocrisy in Pennsylvania: US High Court Opens Door to New Appeal by Mumia Abu-Jamal of His 1982 Conviction
By Linn Washington, Jr.
One unintended consequence of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a death penalty case that rebuked actions of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice and prosecutors in Philadelphia for conflict of interest was to open a new avenue for activist-journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal to appeal his own 1982 murder conviction in a trial that was tainted by the same exact type of conflict of interest.
A campaign death march? State Dept. IG Report on Private Server has Clinton Resembling Gen. MacArthur on Luzon
By Robert Nelson
Tomgram: Andrew Cockburn, Victory Assured on the Military's Main Battlefield -- Washington
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Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, Tick... Tick... Tick...
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NEWS FLASH!: With 5 Million Votes Still Uncounted in the Democratic Primary, Sanders Could Still Win California!
By Dave Lindorff
FLASH! The Los Angeles Times, actually a Hillary Clinton backer, reports that not 3.6 million votes, as reported on election night, but 8 million votes were actually cast in the California Democratic primary -- a turnout of 47%. According to the Times article, the Secretary of State of California, Alex Padilla, concedes that 2.5 million of those votes, mostly mail-in ballots from young people and hispanic voters, both backers of Sanders, have been counted, and another 2 million have yet to be counted by local county officials.
Tomgram: Mark Wilkerson, Batman in a Hospital Bed
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Open Letter to Sanders (please make this go viral!): Dear Bernie,
By Dave Lindorff
Republican presidential candidate’s true colors: Trump’s Bashing of Hispanic Judge Defines Bigotry
By Linn Washington, Jr.
When Donald Trump announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in June 2015 he unleashed a tirade against illegal immigrants from Mexico, libeling most of those immigrants as criminals and “rapists.”
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Justice for Torturers?
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